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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-04
STATE OF FREMONT, |

WABs E OF GoTE14 49, G TS the d aSn
next to be held at Woodstock in and for the
County of Windsor on the fourth Tuesday of
May, a. D. 1877.
Hosea Paddleford. libollant, resident of
Hartford, IN said County, that on the 4th day
of April, A. d. 1865, at Lebanon, in the State
of New Hampshire, he was lawfully married
to Sophia W. Willard. Of said Hartford, by
Silas Qumby. minister of the gospel there
resident-that from and after that date they
lived together as husband and wife, at Hart
land in said County, till on or about the LIST
dav of April, A. d. 1874, when they removed
to the State of Nevada-that they there con-
tinued to live together till on or about Sep
TENDER, 1915. when, without sufficient cause,
she deserted and refused to live with him
again, and afterwards took up her residence
at Mining Camp, called Steptoe Valley, in
Nevada. where he believes she now is, living
in adulterous relations with the miners
that he then returned to said Hartford. ar
irving In December, 1875, and where he has
since resided that since his said return he is
informed and believes his said wife had at
divers times during their said residence at
Hartford. and before their said removal to
Nevada. committed adultery with divers per-
sons whose names are to your Ibelant I'M
known. He therefore prays a divorce may be
granted him in this behalf and so will ever
pray.
Hartford, March 70, 1877.
The foregoing libel having been filed in
Court this 18th day of March, 1877, and it APP
pearing therein that the said Sophia Paddle
ford. resides without this State, so that per-
sonal service of the same cannot be made up
on her. it is ordered that the said libel to-
gather with this order be published for three
consecutive weeks in the Spirit of the Age, a
newspaper printed at Woodstock, in said
county, the last publication to be at least six
weeks before the Term Of the County Court
next TO BIO held at said Woodstock on the
fourth Tuesday of May. A. D. 1877, and that
the said Sophia therein be notified to appear
at said Court, and answer the said libel
Therefore, you, the said Sophia Paddleford
are hereby notified to appear at said last men
toned Term OF said Court ond make answer
to the foregoing petition, and further, to abide
such orders and decree as the Court shall
make therein.
Dated at said Woodstock this 18th day of
March, A. d. 1877.
GEO. B. FRENCH, Clerk.
| GEO TENNEY
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This story comes from Westfield,

This story comes from Westfeld,
Mass. A man of considerable means
entered jewelers. store the other day
and asked the proprietor if he would
buy some gold. He was answered in
the affirmative, and produced a small
package carefully done up in a paper,
which had the appearance OF gold fiji
ings, and which was found to be worth
twenty-five cents. After receiving il
the man said: "Perhaps you'd like
to know where got the gold. Wei
I'll tell you. Twenty years ago | hao
tooth filled, and yesterday had the
same tooth pulled, but I saved it
pounded it up and washed out the
gold. Made twenty-five cents by the
operation, didn't 2"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-04

The everyday cares and duties
which men call drudgery, are the
weights and counterpoises of the
clock of time giving its pendulum
true vibration, and its hands regular
motion sand when they cease to hang
upon the wheels, the pendulum nc
longer swings. the hands no longer
move, the clock stands STILL
LOnqfellOw.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-04

objects close to the eye shut out
much larger objects on the horizon ;
and splendors born only OF the earth
eclipses the stars. So q man some
times covers up the entire disk OF
eternity with dollar, and quenches
transcendent glories with little shin
ing dust. Re. II. Chaplin.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-04
Authors, popularity supposed to

Authors, popularity supposed to
write only when they lfeel like it, are
thought to have easy times. 1t is
true that he who only writes when in
the mind for composition has great
leisure which he can employ in
starving. But even the masters arc
like children teethlng, and accomplish
their end only through pain and diff
Guilty. Dickens, when engaged on Il
story would shut himselfup Tor weeks
and come out looking as haggard as
his own remorse-tormented villains
Balzac wandered about the streets
collecting the material for one Of his
romapces, and then would shut him
self up and be seen no more until the
book went press. When he appear
ed again he looked, says his publisher,
like his own ghost. His manuscript
once got into type was altered many
times. The beginning of Platos Gre
public it is said, was found in his
tablet written over and over a variety
of ways. Addison, we are told, wore
out the patience of bis printer ; FIRE
quently, when nearly a whole i'm,
preston of the Spectator was worked
off, he would stop the press to insert
some new proposition. Lambs most
sportive essays were the result Of
most intense brain labor he used to
spend week at a time in celebrating
a single humorous letter to friend
Tennyson is reported to have written
"Come into the Garden, Maud" more
than fifty times over before it pleased
him and "Locksley Hail. the first
draft of which was written in two days
he spent the better part of six weeks,
for eight hours a day, in altering and
polishing. Moore thought it quick
work if he wrote seventy lines Of
"Lalla Rookh" in week. King
lakes "Eothen," we are told, was re
written five or six times, and was
kept in the authors writing desk al
most as long as Wordsworth kept the
'White Doe of Rylstone,' and kept
like that, to be taken out for review
and correction, almost every day
Buttons "Studies of Nature cost hin
fifty years of labor before he sent it t(
the printer ale composed in
singular manner, writing on large
sized paper, in which, as in ledger
five distinct columns were ruled. Ii
the first column he wrote down thu
first thoughts in the second he cor
rected, enlarged and prllned it F.; an'
so on, until no reached the tittl
column, within which he finally wrote
the result of his labor. But even afte
this he would recompose a sentenc
twenty times, and once devoted four
teen hours to finding tho proper wor(
with which to round off a period. -
Foster often spent hours on single
sentence. Ten years elapsed between
the first sketch of "Goldsmith'
"Traveler" and its completion. Ut
Rochefoucauld spent fifteen years il
preparing his little book of maxims
altering some of them, Segrais says
nearly thirty times. Rogers shovel
Crabb Robinson note to his "ltaly,
which. he said, took him two week
to write. 1t consists of a very few
lines Portland Press.
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Harper's Magazine.
ILLUSTRATED.
Notices of the Press.

.NVItCto " Utt T TVoo'
The Magazine has attained in its one quar-
ter century and more Of existence to that
point where it may be said of it, in the words
of DR.. johnson, at is vain to blame and USE
less to praise" The lustre Of its long-ago-
alta ned reputation has increased as the years
have passed, and its future seems as bright il
not brighter than at any time since the gold
en- hue of prosperity settled around its later
and best years Brooklyn Eagle.
Harpers Monthlyis imarked by the same
characteristics which gave it circulation from
the first with the better class of readers. 1t
combines reading matter with illustrations in
way to make clear and vivid the facts pre-
scented. Pictures merely designed to catch
the eye of the ignorant are never inserted.--
Chicago Journal.
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Present, Hon. John Porter, Judge.

DISTRICT OF HARTFORD sS. SOurb nelu IL
Woodstock within and for said District on
the twenty-seventh day of February, A. D..
1877.
Present, Hon. John Porter, Judge.
Sarah p. Deans Estate, Barnard, intestate.
Whereas, Augustus W. Bigelow, Admins.
traitor of said estate, has presented to said
Court his petition in writing, making APP
phcation fol license to sell certain real estate
of the said intestatc, situate Ill this State and
described in said petition, together with all
other real estate Of the said intestate, if any
such thore be within this State for the
reason that the personal estate OF the SAID m
testate is insufficient to pay the debts due
from the said deceased and the expenses OF
administration, and part OF said real estate
cannot be sold without injury to those in
terested in the remainder
Thereupon, the Court appoints tho first
Wednesday Fourth day. Of April next as
time and the Probate Office in Woodstock
aforesaid as place Of hearing and deciding on
said application and orders that notice of said
application be given to all persons interested!
the reason for the same and the time and
place of hearing, by publishing a copy OF the
record of this order three weeks successfully
in the Spirit of the Age a newspaper printed
at Woodstock in this State, which circuiates IN
the neghborhood of those Interested (al
which publications shall be previous to said
time Of hearing) copy of the record Of
this order that they may appear before
said Court and be heard in the. matter OF SAFE
application, if they see cause.
| A true record.
| HENRY 8 DANA, Register.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-04
For the Last Time.

There is n touch of pathos about
doing even the simplest thing "for
the last time" 1t is not alone kissing
the dead that gives you this strange
pain. You feel it when you have
looked your last time upon some
scene you have loyed-when you
stand in some quiet city street, where
you know that you will never stand
again the singer whose voice is
cracked hopelcssly, and who, after this
once, will never stand before the sea
OF upturned faces, disputing the plau-
dts with iresher voices add 1airer
forms the minister who has preached
his last sermon-these all know the
hidden bitterness of the two words
"never again" How they come to us
on our birthdays as we grow Older
Never again young always nearer
and nealer to the very last-the end
which is universal, "the last thing
which shall follow all last things, and
turn them, let us hope, from pain to
joys. We put way our boylsh toys.
We were too old to walk any longer
on our stills too tall to play marbles
on the sidewalk. Yet thee was 4
pang when we thought we had play
ed with our merry thoughts for the
last time, and life's serious, grown up
work was waiting for US. Now we
do not want the lost toys back Life
has other and larger playthings for us.
May it not be that these, too, shall
seem in the light of some far off day
as tho boyish games seem to our mali
hood, and we shall learn that death is
but the opening of the gate into the
new land Of promise ?
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-04

The Cincinnati Commercial says :
"Why is it that editors never commit
suicide?" The Burlington Hawk-Eyo
has investigated this subject little,
and thinks it is because the druggists
wont sell strychnine on long time.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-04
"A pretty echoolmarm, to proven

"A pretty ach0olmarm, to prevent
scholars from being tardy, promised to
kiss the first scholar who made his
first appearance at the schoolhouse.
All went we'll for a few days and the
19.year- boys, anxious to participate
in the fun, actually got to roosting on
the fence all night in order to be at
school first in the morning. This be-
came monotonous after a time, and the
teacher had to give up the idea.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-04

Blue papes were put in Roches
ter window, and the happy father" was
put to the expense of purchasing a
double-barrelled cradle. Worcester
Press.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-04

TRIUMPH OF APPLCATGoN.-Few
things are impracticable in themselves
and it is for want of application,
rather then of means, that men fail OF
success. - TRochefoucault.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-04

Pretty girls, according 20 Mr..
Moody, should not permit themselves
to be kissed at church fairs for rs
cents, and we think ourselves that in
these hard times the price is too high.
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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-04
Errors of Youth.

A GENTLEMAN who suffered for years
from Nervous Debility, Premature Decay,
and all the effects of youthful indscretion
will, for the sake of suffering humanity, send
free to all who need it. the recipe and direc-
ton for making the simple remedy by which
he was cured. Sufferers wishing to profit by
the advertisers experience can do so by adj
dressing in perfect confidence. l705m6l
JOHN Il. OGDEN. ~ Cedar St., New York
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-04
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represents the largest and most reliable
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i. D. SABINE, Agent,
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TO CONSERVATIVES.

The advertiser, having been permanently
cured of that dread disease, Consumption, by
a simple remedy, IS anxious to make known
to his fellow sufferers the means Of cure
TO all who desire it, he will send q copy OF
prescription used, Gree of CHARGE, with the
directions for preparing and using the same
which they will find SURE CURE for Con-
sumption, Asthma, Bronchitis, &c.
Parties wishing the prescription will please
address, Rev. +. A. WILSON,
l34ln6l 1874 Penn St., Williamsburgh, n.
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,caM the gloss and freshness Of youth.
Thin hair is thickened, falling hair
checked, and badness often, though
not always, cured by its use. Moth
ing can restore the hair where the
follicles are destroyed, Or the glands
atrophied and decayed. But such a,
remain can be saved for usefulness
by this application. Instead of foul
ing the hair with a pasty sediment, it
will keep it clean and vigorous. Its
occasional use will prevent the hair
from turning gray or falling off, and
consequently prevent badness. Free
from those deleterious substances
which make some preparations dan
gerous, and injurious to the hair, the
Vigor can only benefit but not harm
it. If wanted merely for
HAIR DRESSING,
nothing else can be found so desir-
able. Containing neither oil nor
dye, it does not soil white cambria,
and yet lasts long on the hair, giving
it a rich, glossy lustro and grateful
perfume.
Prepared by Dr.. J. C. Aver & Co.,
Practical and Analytical Chemists,
LOWELL, MASS.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-04
Ayers
Hair V3:!gor,
For restoring Gray Hair 10
its natural Vitality and Color.

A d re s i n g
which is at once
a gre G q b ! e,
healthy, and eff
fectual for pre-
s serving the
hair. Faded or
gray lair as soon
restored to ats
criminal color.
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GEO. P. ROWELL & CO.,
Al PARK ROW, n, Y,

They have the satisfaction of controlling
the most extensive and complete advertising
connection which has ever been secured, and
one which would be hardly possible in any
other country but this. They have succeeded
in working down a complex business into so
thoroughly systematic method that no
change in the newspaper system of America
can escape notice. while the widest iniormn-
ton upon all topics interesting to advertisers
is placed readily at the disposal of the public,
--Ertract from Ne,o York Times Jnne IA, IS.
Send for a Circular.
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NURES N0LDS,
| URES OUGHS,
|, uRES ,ATARRH,
LURES U0NSUMPTION.

De. WM. NJ. LADD, q leading Druggist Of
Clarcmont, certitics as follows:
For many years have known DIR. A. j.
Fiagg as a successful! pTactcing ply sician,
and can assure the public that his represent
tatons relative to the Cough and Lung Syr-
up can be strictly relied upon. 1t has been
used in his extended practice with marvel
lous success, and know it to be all that he
claims for it.
VIM. NJ. LADD, NJ, d.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-04
EDR Ago.
By VIM. d. MCMASTER.

TERMS-$1.5O in aduance; after three
months Sits; at the end Of the gear, $2.OO.
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
One SQUARE. one inch. one neck, $l.00
each additional aueek, 70
Business cards, A lines this type, per year 3.eo
The simple announcement of marriages ana
deaths inserted free.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-04

"Unquestionably the best sustained
work of the kind in the World"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-04

CLAREMoNT, N. H., September, 1875.
DR.. FLAGG-My Dear Sir: Your Congh
and Lung Syrup has proved great benefit to
me, giving relief from severe Coughs and
Soreness the Lungs, when all other rene
dies and physicians had failed. have never
taken medicine more pleasant to the taste
or more satisfactory in its results.
Mrs. LYDIA WILEY.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-04
Il Will Cure a Common Cold

In few hours, not by drying it mp, but byre
moving it from the system. TRY IT.
IL VIII CuiEE "a Chronic Cough, by
soothing the irritated parts, and strengthen
ing the system.
II VIII Cure Consumption,
Even after all other remedies have failed. In
the earlier stages Of this disease ii will effect
speedy and certain cure; and in many Ca
ses of advanced Consumption its effect has
seemed almost miraculous, restoring to full
strength and perfect health those whom ply
sicians had given up as incurablc. TRY IT.
TT WILL CURE CATARRH
More effectually than any other remedy. by
simply removing the cause. TRY IT.
II will Cure Bronchitis, by allayug all
irritation OF the Throat. TRY IL.
II will Cure Asthma. ailording immcd-
late relief and 4 perfect cure. TRY IT.
1t Will Cure liberated Sore Throat.
TRY III.
IT WILL CURE los. OF Voice, Night
Swcats, Hectic Fever, AND ALL Symp-
toms of Consumption. TRY IT.
every affection of the Threat
and Lungs it only needs IL trial to convince
the most skeptical Of its wonderful curative
properties.
Il ILl,t
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-04
Dr.. a. J. F'lagg's
A Safe and Sure Remedy.

The Cough and Lung syrup
Is the remedy that during the past fifteen
years has won for DIR. FLAGG an extended
reputation as SPECIALIST for THROAT
and LUNG Diseases. After so many years
trial it can be truthfully said that it has
NEVER FAILED, even in the WORST CASES.
1t is purely Vegetable, and its effect upon the
sYslem is at once SO0thimg and E0MiC.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1877-03-17
How it Happened.

She led him to sofa, and in a
deep bass voice called him her souI's
idol, and inquired what his monthly
income was. Seeing his gaze fixed
on her hoa-constrictor-lik mouth,
she exclaimed: Darling, | see you
notice my large and beautiful potato
trap; let me explain to you the reason
of its unusual size. Wren | was
quite child was playing on papa's
cellar door; it gave way; was pre-
cipitated down into the basement,
and caught by the mouth IN pro-
iecting meat hook. which ripped up
my face and extended my mouth sew
eral inches.' With his eyes full OF
sympathetic tears, he rose from the
sofa and replied, as he made toward
the door, my angel, you are perhaps
mistaken. Probably, in the excite
ment of that awful m ,ment, you left
your mouth down in the basement
and &C Mentally brought up the eel
lar. We shall meet again in better
world. Adieu."
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1877-03-17
SHERIFF's SALE.

10y VIRTUE OF EXECUTIONS ISSUED
ID out of the Justices Court in and for Day
ton township county OF lyon. State of Nevada.
and to me directed ana delivered. for judg-
ments rendered in said Court on the oath day
of February, A. ID. 1877, in favor of the State
of Nevada, plaintiff. and against the follow
ing named defendants ana the real estate AID
improvements hereinafter described. to-wit:
THOMAS GRACY and the following de-
scribed real estate, to wit: Lot No. In block
No. 1913, town of Sutro said Lyon coui ty,
State of Nevada. Tax, delinquency and costs
S24 SO.
DANIEL McLARREN and the following de-
8 ribed real estate and impro sements, to-wit:
Lot with corsls. blacksmith shop and
saloon at Drytown near the town of wnds-
worth Lyon county. State of Nevada. Tax,
delinquency and costs S65.50.
JAMES DUFFEY and the real estate de-
scribed as follows. to-wit; One hundred and
sixty acres of salt mine with cabin tn ereon,
situated in Msson's Valley. said Lyon County
State OF Nevada. Tax, delinquency and costs
1914.
Notice is hereby given that ON the It'll day
of April, A. D. 1877, between the hours of 9
O'Clock A. NJ and o'clock p NJ. namely. at
II o'clock NJ. of said day. will sell all the
right, title and interest of the above named
defendants for the smount of tax. delinquen.
cy, costs and cost that may accrue upon the
property set opposite their respective names,
at the court house door In Dayton, Lyon
county. Nevada, at public auction, for cash in
hand, to the highest and best bidder who
will take the least portion of said property
and pay the amount of said tax. delinque. cy
X. A. COOKE, Sheriff
OF Lyon Co, Nevada.
Dayton, March I'd, 1877.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1877-03-17
STATE NEWS.

Duck shooting on the Truckee
Meadows is said to be very fine.
The Baptist revival at Reno con-
tinues of much interest. Tins Is the
tenth week of its duration.
A tailor named F. Schultz IS under
arrest in Reno for brutality beating
his daughter, girl 10 years OF age,
John Quinlan has been sentenced to
forty days in the Washoe county
Jail for selling liquors to Indians.
The Powniug libel case comes up
in the April term Of the Washoe
Court. 1t promises to be long and
interesting.
The examination at Eureka OF
Jimmy Ticket. for the shooting o'
Hugh Kelly has been postponed IN
til Monday next, Kelly being unable
to be in court to testify.
The Phoebe Record learns that Ed
ward O'Dougherty and Hope. who
were reported killed in Arizona, had
arrived at Camp Boyd safe, escaping
from the ApacIes, who the day be.
fore had killed ten men.
At Phoebe the Alps Companys
mills are running regularly - The
Phoebe mill on custom ore and the
Condor on concentrations. The Su.
perintendent has been notified of a
large shipment of Leeds ore.