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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-12-12
Temperance.
A POLICEMAN's STORY.

TEMPERANCE PLEA.
am a policeman i2,ooi;
Been on the force for years n score.
Lots Of stories have to tell,
Queer, sad, terrible, funny and-wel
III stop TO tell you little thing
That happened year ago last spring,
Weary, but watchful, I paced my beat
Up and down, through q well-known street
when, block away, saw throng.
And hastened TO see what was wrong;
There found a wee, wee girl,
Dainty and pretty, fair hair in curl.
Weeping, her hands In air she tossed,
Crying, oh, mamma, oh, papa, Ia lostl"
One moment she wept. another she smiled
And thought of my own pet darling child
At home and safe In her mothers arms;
So tried to quiet this ones alarms;
And fret her sunny head caress'd,
Then lifted her up to my beating breast.
And carried her sobblng, sweet little fay,
To the statlon-house, only two blocks away
Captain Caffry then in command.
lie took the lost baby girl by the hand
And, setting herup on the desk by hs aide,
Pleasantly talked I'LL no longer she cried
hut dried up her tears. and soon, smiling and gay
Was earnestly lisping and prattling away;
And told OF her beautiful mamma, her joys
Her big bearded papa. her home and her toys;
How she heard a wandering German band play;
And listening, followed them on their way;
soppd when they soppd and crossed when they
Grew tired cried for home and then found she was LOST
The door Of the station opened inst then,
Admitting n drunk between two Of our men;
Not dirty and ragged. and spelling for fight.
But what you might term respectable tight"
Led up to the desk, he just lifted his eyes,
Started back. nearly fell. with a cry OF surprise.
OF terror, or shame "My Gracei Can itbe2"
heinstant had made him rs sober as she.
MY papa Dear papa" They kissed and caressed,
Both weeping as she nestled close to his breast
"Quite scene" said the captain, his face in glow;
"T think you've been punished enough. You may gog'
The father bowed low-the little one smiled
And he passed through the door the care Of hi. child
10 you know that feel he made great vow
Just then, against liquor? And Tia unbtoken now.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-12-12
agricultural Department
t. II. HosKINs. Editor.
For the Vermont Waterman
A FARMERS DITTY.

We farmers awake At the break Of the morn,
when the thrush the top from brambe thorn
whine oungers lie snoring our labor goes on,
with our bright cattle moving brisk over the lawn.
In the days Of our sires but short time ago
II was deemed dishonor to pillow and to hoe,
But now it's the pride Of our greatest Of men
To tend the green corn-heds and the glen.
Time when the pillow with haggle and jog
Just turned up the turf like the snout Of hog,
But modern Improvement in pow and In team
the depth Of the soil though reaches the beam.
Our lowlands, once covered with bushes and fern,
A lair for the rabbit and home for the tern.
Reclaimed by our industry. plainly disclose
That toll makes the wilderness bloom like the rose.
But bark what forebodings heard on the street,
4" Hard times Ia the by-word from all that we meet;
Still the breast OF the farmer cheering hope fills
while his crops the valleysand ock crown the hills
Some Wanting ambitions with purse growing iank,
To nl up their Golfers resort TO the bank;
Bat wealth the most lasting ia purchased by toll,
Aud the farmers best bank Ia u bank Of rich soil.
John Glover he married the sweet Mary VIM,
Who learned Of her mother to knit and to spin,
To wash and to mop. to make butter and such
They managed with prudence and hrove like the Dutch
Would mother and daughter and father and son,
Here take good lesson from Mary and John
And let their expenses and notions be less
Then health and abundance their labor would bless.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-12-12

The Lexington (Ky) Gazette gives the
following practical illustrations OF the adj
vantages OF abstinence from Intoxicating
liquors Three old, long and lean drinkers
OF this city joined the Murphy movement
just one month ago, and were weighed day
or two ago. One, the longest and leanest
had gained exactly ten pounds, the Others
eight aud one-half pounds each. The first
figured up his account with the temperance
cause about thus Cash saved, s75; flesh
gained (s5 pound) $780, in feeling, $500
TO his family, $4,000; total, Sl0,625."
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-12-12

A GENTLEMAN, taking an evening walk,
saw two men supporting third who APP
peared to be unable to walk. "What is the
matter?" he inquired. "Why," was the
reply, the poor man has been sadly bitten
by the brewers dog" Indeed |" said he,
feeling concerned at the disaster. AYES,
sir; and he is not the first by a good many
that dog has done mischief to-" "Why
is the dog not made away with, then ~
All sir, he ought to have been long ago,
but he is protected by law" +" How is that p"
"Why, it is strong drink that is the brewers
dog, and he has license TO bite"
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WISTAR'S BALSAM
WISTAR'S BALSAM
WISTAR'S BALSAM
Bleeding at the Lungs.

PUTNAM, Conn. March ~, 1869.
Gentlemen - avail myself OF this opportunity to say
word IN behalf OF DR. WlSTARS BALSAM OF WILD
CHERRY which have made use Of In family for
er years and always with the most beneficial results NJ
VIE being Of delicate habits has always been troubled with
hard. dry, hacking cough whenever taking little cold
and has employed various specifics without obtaining any
relief until prevailed upon to test the virtues OF W1STARS
BALsAM the effect Of which has been truly astonishing.
More than year since young belonging in This
place was taken with bleeding at the lungs connection
WIN most severn cough and was finally given die
by our best ply scians and evident all that
sumption was claiming him victim. Learning these
facts, my wife sent him bottle of the BALSAM which he
took and In due time to the great astonshment Of his
friends. wa at his accustomed occupation snachel. 1t
were, from the very Jaws of DEATH In other
we have administered the BALSAM to the consumpive,
and always with the best Of These statements
simply facts which be vouched for By call
ing on me at my store. remain truly yours,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-12-12

The nor Plant, like the tobacco plant, is
a heavy feeder. Chemical analysis shows
that twenty-five hundred pounds of hops
contain hfty-six pounds of nitrogen in the
hops, and seventy-three pounds in the vine
and leaves. This is equal to the nitrogen
of half ton of Peruvian guano, costing
thirty dollars. The same nitrogen in sui
phate of ammonia, or in nitrate of soda,
would cost not less than twenty-five dollars.
This shows the Importance of composing
the hop vines and returning the compost to
the soil To burn them is to waste all their
ammonia.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-12-12

WHEN every pastor and every church
shall do the temperance work faithfully as
regular part OF the Christian work of each
year by year, continually, the good era OF
success for the cause will dawn
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-12-12

Mr.. REYNoLDs, the temperance lecturer,
says that six hundred of the ablest physi,
clans OF the land testify that since they have
stopped giving alcohol as a medicine they
have had much better success with their pa,
tients than before.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-12-12

TRuTH AND FALsEHoop.-l once asked a
deaf aud dumb boy, What is truth 2" lie
replied by thrusting his finger forward in a
straight line. | then asked him, "What is
falsehood p when he made a zigzag with
his finger.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-12-12

THE statistics of the New York Sabbath.
school committee show that public liquor.
selling on Sunday has been the most fruit
Jul source of pauprrism, disorder, misery
and crime, known IN that city or state.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-12-12

ALI other reforms combined can scarcely
confer so great blessings upon mankind as
that which weans them from intoxicating
drinks.-Richard Golden.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-12-12

The farmer has his fall work nearly fin.
ished, and will soon have nothing to do but
sit on the fence and shoot wandering tree
agents.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-12-12
9or hr Nonng.
BABY's EYES.

who can tell baby's skies2
Baby's skies are mamnas eyes.
Mammals eyes and smiles together
Make the baby's pleasant weather.
Mother keep your eyes from tears,
Keep your heart from foolish fears,
Keep your lips from dun complaining,
Lest The baby think It's raining. -Scribner,.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-12-12
THROAT, LUNGS and CHEST,
CONSUMPTION.
WISTAR'S BALSAM
WISTAR'S BALSAM
WISTAR'S BALSAM
A Case of CONSUMPTION,

CHESTERFIELD. y. H. March %, 1857.
Mssrs. seth W. Foried Son! Gentiemen-I feel In duty
called upon vonta lily oyive testimony favor Of DR.
WlsrAR'S BALsAM or WILD CHERRY. I was taken
SICK last October with lung complaint ACCOMPANIED with
very serious cough and after having treated num-
her Of weeks by the best physicians they gave
an incurable Of consumption.
my friends expected that might die day, having en-
tfrly deSnnired OF my recovery At Tits time read the
advertisements and certificates Of the WILD CHERRY
BALSAM, and was induced to try It myself have taken
hve bottles and from the commencement have been gradu
All recovering My cough has now entirely ceased. have
reganed flesh and strength and feeling Qnite well
attribute the cure To DIR. wisTAR's BAIsAM OF WILD
CHERRY, as have taken no ther medicine since COM
menced taking that. Very respectfully yours,
MRS. MlLA g. SMITH.
. htstrs. F0uie & Som GeniieneH-Mis Smith gives
the foregoing certificate Of the efficacy Of medicine In
her rnse She ia an acquaintance OF mine, and took the
BASAM on the strength Of my certificate which she
In the papers Her storys literally Yours truly
W. II. JONES,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-12-12

=" BOsTos October ~. 1870.
r. II. EDDY, EsQ.-Dedr STR on procuredfor me,
IN 1870 my nrst patent Since then you have acted for and
advised me In hundreds of and procured many
patents reissues and extensions have occasionally EN-
ppyed the best agencies In New York Philadelphia and
Washington, bat still give almost the whole my
business In your line and advise Others employ YOU
Yours truly, GEORGE DRAPER"
Boston, January !, 1877. b5-b
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-12-12

ALL-WOOL BLACK CASHMERES, for
ty-eight inches wide, very fair quality,
only SIxTY-FTvE CENTS PER YARD.
ALL-WOOL BLACK CASHMERES, for
ty-eight inches wide, splendid quality,
SEvENTY.FIvE CENTS PER YARD.
ALL-WOOL BLACK CASHMERES, for.
ty inches wide, for only FIFTY CENTS
per yard.
COLORED AND BLACK CASHMERES,
forty inches wide, for only TnIRrY-FIvE
CENTS PER YARD.
Also fine line of MERINOS, POPLINS.
ALPACAS, MOHAIRS, BRILLIAN-
TINES, SERGES, DEBEIGES, &c, &c,
all very cheap.
We have just received large stock of Ladies'
Misses and Children's
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-12-12
Carriages, PhaetQ0S, BuggieS

The Cabot Carriage Company prepared NIL orders
fort e Ytens ivai ipan
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-12
HORSES, CARRIAGES, &C.

"A. A CONSIGNMENT FROM THE EAST.
MR. BAkkkK takes great pleasure ~ announcing g tno
public OF New York aud vicinity the rlri e 49,
TRorrERS in America. to take place on v ednesaay,
next. August u.s. at II ococs. a. BAkhE , soM 2
Kew York Tatteryas corner Broadway ana Sth 81 ana
comprising EI0HrEEN HEAD of extraordinary promise;
conssing Of sorre Gcding AMADoR on nsn ior,sa ,
HOLLYWOOD i5k HIGH ioalcd 1873 ny tiooirey's Patch
en-; the best colt of his age and handling - the country
in KsniacSv. issl hish, oaled 1870 -. by
Ohm Dillsra; the most superb combined all gated
wherever shown. chestnut Mare LADY koLr Icte nEh:
foaed 1870 by Danei Lambert can beat ID Cheatnnt
sorrel Geding DEIrU. 1914 high ioaled iS!Z ~ Dsnei
Lnmbcrt trot IN 40. Brown afe = IA hhDt
and promisin Black Geidng CLAYTON l5s high ios cd
1871 BY Draco EN- trot IN 3Io SPLENDID inm,,y horse
Bay Mare MAliASkA, 1914 high foaed 1871, BY ihil sner-
dan fast and finely gated Brown Gelding LION. lo1s
nu. Gliding cnARrHs nAfc i5a high ieaied 1870.
~ Mare General IrL6 Ss9A MAD ne Is h iS;s
a,e son Bay t seians ss1ERRaAcR rS%
ls Gedfeys PIehen ss can s 5' sy B b.
can trot in minutes. Bay Gcldng BRONSON lo4 hgn,
toaed 1870, by General Knox; can tro. IN :io binck
Colt FRAeK HICKS. 141 him. oaed e7S by Jules i9r
gensen trot in minutes Chestnut Geidng JAN
trottsa in 40 blood bay Geidine San MATEo, I51s
high foaled 1870 by Ethan Allen can trot IN 90 ana Is
very handsome Also other Above are MI warranted
sound kind. will arrive NJ the Mart Tor exhi-
hition and rRIAL ThIs tsnnday1 MoENINu: when
with ul description. now ready. Sale perempiofy NO
postponement
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Life Rescue.

st. Nicholal for July

st. Ncholal for July.
The true plan to follow, when safety is
the call, is to swim with everything below
the chin we'll down under water, the head
we'll back and resting centrally on the
floating power Of eS-langs:~as-But. what
will yourdo when your comrade is, tired
out and ~drowning2s That depends. If
he is cool and reliable, get in front Of him
let him place hisahands on your hips mot
your shoulders aud you can carry him
quite distance.S That supposes the par
ties, rescued and rescuer, understand fair
play. The weaker party is the one that
ought to drown, if he shows any dispe.
sition to drown his friend by q miserable,
cowardly death-clutch of the only float
ing thing around him. In the case of
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The DethrOned Sultan.
From the Philadelphia Press.

from inc In11auolpnl6 Press.
CoNsTANTNoPLE, June, 18T.-What-
ever the English may think of Midhat
Pasha, he does not here rank very high
for scrupulousness of purpose. The mys-
ferrous death of Abdul Aziz has clouded
his reputation, and no lapse of time will
restore its lustre. The Sultan is kindly
disposed toward his dethroned brother
Murad, and would willingly give him
his freedom, but he fears that a party
might be formed, to place him at the
head of power again. He never was as
incapable as he was said to be. He had
still brains enough left, and with little
repOse could have resumed the reins Ct
government. This was not permitted
for he saw himself surrounded by his
uncle's assassins. The spectre of his
tragical death was ever present to his
imagination, and he recoiled with horror
from men who might betray him as they
had done Abdul Aziz.
Poor Murad! He now lies really a
prisoner of state, in the gloomy palace of
Top-Kapou, on the Seraglio Point, a res
idence haunted by blood and crime
throughout the Byzantine and Ottoman
annals. He lives, but he knows not at
what moment his chamber may be entered
and he may be strangled, or what he
would regard as equally bad, be dragged
forth to be again placed on the throne
to serve the purpose of his conspirators,
who, whenever it suited them, would tu1n
their swords against him. His mother is
constantly by his side. She tastes his
food before it touches his lips, and she al
lows no one to approach him unless she
knows the object of his visit. His beau
tiful daughter, Blanche, the Circassian,
whom he had reared up to an European
education in the family of his private
physician, is with him also. As soon as
he was called to the throne, he had part
of the harem fitted up for her exclusive
use, in style of the most luxurious
splendor and expense. Her apartment
whose embellishments cost nearly 100000
francs, was just finished as Murad was
forced to abdicate. With her refined
and cultivated mind, she must keenly
feel the solitude to which she is now
condemned, unless she finds consolation
in sympathizing with the SORROWS of her
father. ,.. : .; s...... ....
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the death clutch 60 to the bottom with
your man and leave him there. There
may be an unpleasant wrestle, but the
real drowning man is ready to quit his
prey when he strikes bottom. The bet
ter man has his right to come to surface
and swim to shore.
But in considerable swimming expe-
ricnce, and some rescucs, there comes one
absolute rule: Never face a drowning
man. lie welcomes rescue 80 eagerly that
he will lug you around the neck and take
you downI The safest and best thing to
do isato set behind him, and, unless you
are left handed, put your left hand under
his arm pit. The lift you give him will
be enough in ordinary water He can be
coaxed to help himself, and if he is rea-
sonable being you can bring him to shore
If he is insane with fright, recollect that
you are to be both prudent and heroic.
Get away from him, clutch his ankle with
one hand and tow him ashore. If the
bank is near, he is not likely to drown on
the way. If he does, it is not your fault.
But brave swimmer is master of his ell
ement.
l once saw two young fellows rescue a
drowning comrade in way that was re-
1narkable for its neatness. The poor fell
low was in mid-stream, cramped and ex-
h&nsted, andsbarely able to keep af1oat.
Which was first was never decided, but in
the critical moment both were behind him,
each with hand under an arm-pit; he
was almost a dead weight on their hands,
and they swan him ashore, more dead
than alive: 1t was struggle, but they
were masters of the situation.
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Italian Child Slavery

From the Tonawanda Enterprise.
Last Monday. Tuesday, and Wednesday
our citizens had their attention attracted
by the sound Of a hand organ managed
by representative of sunny Italy. Ac-
companying him was bright, attractive
little girl of eight summers, whose shin
ing black eyes and long black curls were
admired by all. Her beauty and lady
like manners were so different from the
ugly appearing, gruff, old Italian, that it
was commented upon, and penny after
penny dropped into her tambourine
Last Wednesday forenoon, shortly after
10 o'clock, the old Italian was grinding
out the "Last Rose of Summer - on South
Canal street when a man with foreign
air took place among the little knot as
sembled. BY way of change from grave
to gay, lively Irish jig was struck up,
and the little girl began to dance and
drum savagely on her tambourinc. This
appeared to offend the man with the for
eign air very much, and he gave vent to
his indignation by frown. The music
stops, the little girl collects her pennies,
and the pair move off little way, and the
Mulligan Guards y come squeaking from
the organ, and the little street Arab keeps
time with her tambourine. Again the
man with the foreign air appears on the
ground, shows signs of familiarity. and
when the tambourinc is proffered to
to him for his donation, he exclaims some
thing in the Italian language The little
girl gives shrek Of Joy and falls into
the arms of the addresser.
The organ grinder, noticing this, ap
proaches the man, and in an insulting
manner demands that he release the girl,
to which the man retorts by giving the
organ grinder blow that fells him to the
ground. Officer Schneider, who was in
the vicinity at the time, was called up,
and took the trio over to the lookup,
where they were kept the most of the
day, and were then allowed to depart.
During the course of the day reporter
was given permission to see the man with
the foreign air, and from his own lips
jotted down the following story: He said
that his name was Bozana, that he he came
from Italy, and that the child was his
daughter. Two years ago, while she was
playing in front of the house one day, a
travelling band of musicians stole her,
After searching the whole Of Italy for
her, he came to New York, and visited
the different italian haunts of the place,
where he obtained information that
prompted him to come to Buffalo where
he arrived last Monday.
On going to building occupied by the
people of his country on Peacock street,
in Buffalo, he ascertained on Tuesday
night that his daughter was in the posses
sion of the organ grinder, whose name is
Mathesca, and that he had come to Tona-
wanda with her.
Mathesca said that the child was adopt
ed by him in New York, and that he took
her on shares-that is, he to have half of
what she made, and the man he got her
from the other half. Some days, Mathes-
ca said, the child collected as high as Sc.
AS he was perfectly willing that the
child should 60 with her father, no legal
proceedings we're commenced, and the
two left for Buffalo on the evening train.
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A Desperate Ruffian Attempts to Kill a
Justice in Court.

A recent dispatch from Utica, n. Y,
gave the following: "I1l fix you'll" ex-
claimed Tony Lucot with an oath as he
was arraigned before Justice Edward T.
Marston, of Marcy, yesterday on charge
of burglary, and pulling pistol from
his pocket fired at the justice. The
weapon was loaded with shot, nails and
similar stuff, and part of it lodged in
Marston's side. Lcuot was secured at
once.
Tony Lrcot has long been notorious
ly bad character hereabouts. BE is farm
er, and keeps small hotel three miles
from the city. He has threatened to kill
MIR. Marston for several years, and recent
difficulties with that gentleman doubtless
led him to the attempt he made on his
life. Seven or eight years ago Lucot's
mother, who was widow, owning farm
near her sons, became insane, it is said
from ill-treatment by Tony. He tried to
get the custody of his mother, for the pur-
pose of controlling the property.
was appointed committee to take charge
of her and the property. Mrs. Lucot
went TO live with married daughter in
Utica. Tony twice stole her from his
sisters house, once securing her in
piece of woods, where he kept and ILL
treated her for several days. She was
discovered and returned to her daughters
care. Not long ago Lucot presented to
Justice Marston bill for boarding, the
old lady, amounting to quite sum. Mr..
Marston refused to pay it.
Lucot brought suit and got a judgment
Mr.. Marston appealed, and before Judge
Bliss last week obtained Judgment
against Lucot The latter then openly
declared he would kill Mr. Marston at
the first opportunity. Lucot's wife con-
vcycd a warning to the justice that her
husband had armed himself and was de-
termined to put his threat into execution.
Mr.. Marston, however, paid no attention
to the matter, and to collect the judgment
he had against Lucot had an officer at
tach sleigh belonging to Lucot.
The officer took the property and
locked it in barn. Lucot broke open
the barn and teok the sleigh away. He
was arrested yesterday on a charge of
burglary and arraigned before Squire
Marston, when he attempted to take the
life Of the magistrate. Mr.. Marston was
not dangerously hurt although the shock
rendered him unconscious for a short
time. Lucot will be tried on the charge
of attempted murder.