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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-10-17

AN Irishman, being annoyed by howl.
ing dog in the night, jumped ont OF bed to
dislodge the offender 1t was in the month
of January, when the snow was three feet
deep. Not returning, his wife ran out to see
what was the natter There she found her
husband, his teeth chattering aud his whole
body almost paralyzed with cold, holding
the struggling dog 10y the tail. Anah,
Pat" said she, "what wud We be afther
doin' Z" Hush I" said he. "Dont ye see
I'm thrying TO fraze the baste 2"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-10-17

OLD lady at the procession" Now which
be the President 2" Daughter" The man
with no hat on" LA fine man But
where's his cabinet :" "Why, in them
coaches behind don't you see p LA, uoi
don't see nothing like cabinet. see
men, but no chest o drawers, nor nothin' !"
That is the same old lady that couldn't find
the Freedmen's Bureau.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-10-17

For the Vermont watchman.
FAREWELL.

For the Vermont watchman
FAREWELL.
ny S. MINERVA ROYCE.
The summer Ia over,
And faded and gone;
Now silently muslng
I ait here alone.
The leaves Of the forest
Are tlnged DER with red;
The flowers. once lovely.
Lie withered and dead.
The sun smiles but coldiy
Day after day;
The north winds tell boldly
OF fields bare and grey.
The robin chirps sadly,
with beak all a-staln
From thelast purple Wild grape
Left on the plain.
The brook huns a requiem
While hasiing along;
My heart responds sadly
In unbroken song.
For friends that were loving
Have gone far away,
And with them the sunshine
Has gone ont OF day.
Yet memory will brighten
Our life as Of yore.
For days that were happy
Daturulr., a.. 49,.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-10-17
PURCHASES, WANTED, For the Dyer 10,
IyROM FAIR MOUNT NURSERY AND
FRUIT FARM.

Mr.. II. " saer, Of Barre, will canvass Barre, Williams
town and East Montpelier and Mr, Edmund Loons, Of
Nohhell, will canvass Northheld. BToOkhed and Brain
tree for the sale of Andrews Favore Apple Trees. Each
Will have specimen Of fruit from the old original tree with
them, which will speak tor itself e. y their fruits shah
know tem,l All trees OF this fancy variety other
reiies sold by these agents will he warranted true
history OF the old tree (seveniy years old which
stands Is sure gnrantee OF the hardness OF both her and
her p0sieIy. H. y, ANDREWS.
Berlin, VI, October 8, 1877. Os-05
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-10-17

SusToIoN.-There is no surer way TO re-
move all pride of character from child, to
harden his heart against all the pronptings
Of his better nature, than to establish in his
mind the belief that he is generally regarded
with suspicion, and that no one expects him
To do anything worthy of praise.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-10-17

and Wagons These goods all Of their manufac-
ture and warranted 10 be every respect
NJ we AK 4 an examination OF our stock and prices.
with twenty-five OF the most sNful workmen, whose
vices we n secure, prepared 10 furnish the very best
article ir the very least money. our stock the very
best ana these goods Nce bong for cash In December
reasonably low prces-and have no high rents OF
salaries TO pay we can offer our goods at reasonable
rates than our competitors. We have also for sale
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-10-17

"ToM, you seem TO gain flesh every day.
The grocery business must agree with you.
What did you weigh last p Well, Jim, |
really forget now but 1t strikes me it was
a pound OF butter"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-10-17
Railroad Time gable.
CENTRAL VERMONT RAILROAD LINEi
SUMMER ARRANGEMENT.
Commencing on Monday, Sept. nth, 1877.


Trains Going South and East.
Leave Montpelier at 800 A. NJ, Las +. NJ, 80 +.
NJ, and 9t5 r. NJ
Mai-Leaves st. Abans at 100 A. NJ Montpelier at 900
M for noston, New London Springfield, New York and
intermediate points,
Day Express Leaves Rouses Point at lO10A NJ, Mon
real at 800 A. M ST. Adams at l55 A. NJ Burlington at
Mixed Train-feves ST. Albans at $40 p NJ arriving al
Montpelier at I.5S y. N.
Night Express ogdenshury. Montreal st. Al
bans and Burlington leaves Montpelier at 9.l5 p. M.,
for Boston via Lowell Fitchburg, Springfield, New
York and intermediate points,
Trains GoinD North and West.
Leave Montpelier at 800 A. NJ, 610 A. NJ, 3.35 p.
M, and 5.17 p. NJ.
Express MaII-Leaves Boston via Fitchburg at 80 A. NJ
Via Lowell at 500 A. NJ, New London at SEQ A. NJ,
Springfield at 500 A. NJ Montpelier at 3.35 p. NJ for
Burlington st. Albans, Montreal and Ogdensburg.
Accommodation Train-Leaves Northneld at 500 A.
NJ, Montpelier at bl0 A. NJ, for Burlington, ST. Abans
Rlchfcrd st. Johns. Rouses Point and Montreal.
Mixed-Leaves W. H. Junction ut 80 A. M Northheld at
ll0O A. NJ. Arrive at Montpelier at 1900 NJ
Accommodation Train-Leaves white River June
ton at IS T. NJ, Montpelier at 57 p. M for Burling-
ton and 81. Albans,
Night Express Leaves Boston via Lowell at $50 P. NJ
via fhchhnrg at 500 p. NJ, New York nt 3.u1 p NJ.
Springfield NJ 500 r NJ Montpelier at 800 4. NJ, for Bur
lngton, ST. Ahans. Montreal and Ogdhg and the West
Trains leave Montpelier for Barre at 632 A. and 2l5
and35 r. Returning leave Barre at 1lO A. Mand LOO
Pm, and i4j Pm
Trains leave s. Albans for sheldon and chford at 800
A. NJ, and 2.l5 p. NJ
Sleeping cars are attached to Night Express trains running
between Montreal and Boston, and Montreal and SPRING
field, and ST. Albans and Troy
Drawing Room ears on Day Express trains between Mon
Through tickets for Chicago and the West for sale at the
principal stations.
Jw. HOBART. General supt.
81. Albans, w., September Is. 1871
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-10-17

81 THOUGHT you told me that Johns fever
had gone of, /" said gentleman. | did SC"
said his companion, " bat forgot TO mention
that he went off along with it,"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-10-17

PLEASANT fresides will keep the children
under good influences; unpleasant ones will
drive them into bad company.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-10-17
Six Fine Horses.

including Mare eight years old who trois easily In
We have also full stock Of HARNESSES Of every de
sorptiOn aie Ouf stock In every department very
extensive, and we invite the inspection of ALL
Our Carriage Repository In Montpelier Is In
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-10-17

liz is the greatest who comes to do right
at all times.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-10-17
CORINTHIAN White Bronze MONUMENTS.
Superior to Marble or Granite

For cemetery purposes moulded and from refined zinc
equal In thickness and strength to bronze stauary styles
and prices 10 meet the various tastes
p"ople; y special process every monument Is trans
formed into sparkling and changeess beauty resembling
yet superior IN tone to- the finest granite Warranted
absorb the green from trees become green
retain their beauty for samples be full
particulars given, By calling At our residence Berlin
AARON BANCROFT, I A,.n,s
CHARLES 1. MARSH, Ne'i'S'
Montpelier, August "a, 1871. 9s-2l
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-10-17
The Law our SchOOlmaster.

We may observe, again, in the words of
the text the use of all law to the human
soul. 1t should teach man to know some
thing of his own weakness, and to throw
himself upon a higher power for pardon
The action of the moral law upon the
heather did this--it made them look up for
traces of the great awgiver, it made them
dissatisfied with their own efforts it made
them yearn for pardon and strength to be
received at the hands of an unseen friend
SO is it with the rules which Christians
make. No prudent Christian lives without
some rule of life about his reading and med
itation, his communion, his personal ex-
penditure, the employment of his time, the
study of Scripture, the management of his
thoughts and feelings, and knowledge and
will such rules are meant to be kept, and
in the church of Jesus Christ, with its SUI
pernatural powers, they can be kept. But,
practically, with the majority rule acts as
the law did with the majority of the Jews
it is the tutor to bring the people again
and again to the feet of the Great Master.
1t was made, perhaps, and accepted in mo-
ment of penitence and fervor, and that mo
ment has passed away. Since it has gone
there has come time of darkness, enfeebled
resolution, shattered hopes, if nothing worse,
and so, with the broken rule of lite in our
hand, we turn to HIM in whose strength we
had hoped to keep it, and say unto him,
Lord, lift thou up the light of thy counte-
nance upon us :"
Nothing in my hand bring
Simply TO thy cross cling
Could my tears forever flow
Could my zeal no languor know,
All for sin could not atone,
Thou must save, and thou alone.
Our rule of life itself, like the Jewish law of
old, has thus done good service-it has
brought us as a private tutor down to the
school of the cross and of Christ.-Canon
Liddon.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-10-17
Carriages, PhaGtOOS, BuggiGS

he Cabot Carriage Company are prepared to MI ord
for their extensive line Of
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-10-17
HabituaI COstiveness

and Its results Wis Piles Indigestion, Headache Dizziness
Languor, Oppression of Food, Heartburn Fntuence Bad
Taste in the Mouth, Torpid Liver, etc, etc.
Females who cannot endure strong pnrgavcs fnd these
Lo1enges admirably suited to the many complaints incident
To their by restoring nature and preventing periodical
pains and distinctions They also just the thing
children suffering with worms being a sure cure and
agreeable to take rs the most pleasant confcctlon.
Travellers find the Lozcnge Just what they need they
compact and nodoruus that they may be carried in
the vest pocket and aperivnt laxative they
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-10-17
SprriaI e3lnfrrs.
H1RRI,SON',S
Perista|tic Lozenges! !
A POSITIVE CURE FOR
COSTIVENESS, DYSPEPSIA,
PILES,

Oppression after Eating, Headache and Dizziness.
of the Medical Profession and the public generally, spite
all competitors or imitaors They are the effecua
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-10-17

ErNE CARRIAGES FINE CARRIAGES
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-10-17
Nothing in my hand ! bring,
Simply TO thy cross cling;
Could my tears forever flow,
Could my zeal no languor know,
All for sin could not atone,
Thou must save, and thou alone.

Our rule of life itself, like the Jewish law of
old, has thus done good service--it has
brought us as private tutor down to the
school of the cross and of Christ.-Canon
Ii.LIn..
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-15
A Certain Headache cure.

If you suffer from sick or nervous
headache, morning sickness or neu-
ralgia, go to your druggist and get a
ten cent trial pack of DR.. Heisley's
Victor Headache Powers, or j.. r.
Heisley & Co., Salem, N. j., will mail
them postpaid. A single powder &C.
tually cures the most distressing cases
IN ten minutes. 1t is purely vegetable,
entirely harmless, physicians dis
covery, and we guarantee it to do all
we claim. You can get the so cent.
packs or the 10 cent. trial size at Nor
ley Bros, in Austin, and at all other
frst-class druggists everywhere. Con-
vince yourself.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-15
A Lady Speaks.

Editors Democratic Statesman - Can it
be possible that one single lady in Aus
tin would oppose temperance and give
her influence to that greatest curse of
society, ''alcohol 2" Don't they see
enough, day after day, upon our
streets to make the heart sick, and to
stimulate them to go forth as good
Semaritans and snatch these brands
from the eternal burning. Where are
their husbands, fathers, brothers, sons,
and lovers Are they all sober men
And has the taneful influence of intern
perance never entered the sacred por-
tails of their households? If this be
so, then they are thrice blessed and
home is their Eden. But how many
are thus favored 2 How many of our
influential citizens are seen day after
day with bloated faces, swollen eyes
and distorted cOuntenances? These
are they who were made in the image
of God, and but little lower than the
angels. But how have they fallen?
They have given vent to the vile pas
sions of the human heart and are on
the broad road to destruction. And
one and all! If you have any sympa-
thy for mankind, beg item to relent
and save them from destruction if pos
sible; and urge them to shun liquor as
the greatest enemy of mankind. But
it IS said that those who should be
angels of mercy have encouraged man
IN dissipation. and have even seemed
to glory in his weakness by presenting
to him the maddened, though sweetcned
cupl Man! Remember Delilah! and
fly from her company! They cannot
be your friends who seek your destruc-
ton. Woman's influence is felt every
where, either for veal or woe, and she
will be held responsible for the intlu-
ence she exerts in forming the charac-
ter of men. And how can she feel, to
know that her influence has wrecked
some of the brightest Intellects that
God ever made! Men who, to-day,
would have been stars of. the first mag
nitude, and whose elcquence and NOR
al influence would have been felt ev-
erywhere. But, where are they now ?
Echo answers, "where are they?" The
Austin graveyard can tell of some.
Man is our protector. He it is who
provides for our wants and upon whose
strong arm we are to lean for support.
And will we dare to seek his destruc-
ton Better never to have been born
Born in a large city, educated and
reared in Texas, and having travelled a
good deal, mingling with the rich and
poor and knowing what the society of
the present day is, feel constrained
to use my little influence in behalf of
temperance, and I think if you could
get the real sentiment of the Austin
ladies, there would be very few, if
any, who would not heartily give their
influence to this good cause.
MPs
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4 samnlr no,lIe for trial.

II you are troubled with headache,
dizziness, incapacitY to keep the mind
on any subject, dizzy, sleepy, or ners
vous feelings, gloomy forebodings, ir-
ritahility of temper, or bad taste in
the mouth, unsteady appetite, choking
sensation in the throat, pain in the side
or about the shoulders, coldness OF ex-
tremities, ETC., or in fact any symtons
of liver complaint, biliousness, con-
stipation of the bowels, or dyspepsia,
60 to your druggists, Morley Bros. and
get bottle of DR.. Sherman's Prickly
Ash Bitters. No spirit is used in their
manufacture except pure article of
Holland Gin. Ladies, in particular,
will find them peculiarly adapted to
their wants in all ages and conditions
Of life. The label tells all they con-
tain, consequently physicians do not
hesitate to prescribe them. Sample
bottles for trial free. Regular size 81.
6md
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-15

DIED.-At the family residence, one
and half miles northeast of the City
of Austin. on the evening of March 2,
in the seventy year of her age.
Mrs. N. III. Nowlin, wife of P. w.
Nowlln, ESQ. This estimable lady died
as she had lived, a conscientious mem
Der of the Christian Church, ever con-
scious of the glorious hope that she
should live hereafter clothed in that
heavenly body promised to all who be-
lieve in the glorious Redeemer. Sur
rounded by her husband, children and
friends, she passed away peacefully,
A one who wraps the drApery of his couch
And lies down TO pleasant dreams.
Mrs Nowlin and her husband, whose
calm and peaceful lives, as husband
and wife have extended over o period
Of nearly half q century, arrived in
Travis county with their family in an
early day, and there is not one of our
old citizens who does not remember
them with feelings of veneration and
respect The aged husband of the de-
ceased, whose name has ever been q
synonym of honor in this community,
while he mourns the loss in his life of
his beloved consort, has the happy re-
Election thst they will be reunited in
that house not made with hands
eternal in the heavens. To the dear
children who loved her so dearly and
contributed so much to make her last
days on earth bright and happy, she
has bequeathed the richest legacy that
. parent can bestow, pure and spot
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-15

Murray's spiritualism is not all
ghost.y. He sees 'em; but often
through glass darkly. He docs not
like statistics and facts and figures.
They are harder than the liquid and
ethereal substances in which he deals.
But Murray is a good man, and loves
Denison more than lac loves whisky,
and since Denison's life is a matter of
whisky, and thus of death, Murray
delights in the slaughter of souls and
bodies that float down to perdition
through Denison standing on river of
whisky. Whisky Is the towns sexton
and whisky is the undertaken, and
whisky drives the hearse and whisky
is the only mourner at half the
graves dug in the village cen-
etery, and Murray, when inditing
simple, touching funeral eulogies
and pretty little obituaries, signs as he
writes one story, and is conscious Of
another, and mutters TO himself with
fearful eyes, ''Alas! poor devil he
died of whisky" 1t is the experience
OF newspaper men, as of preachers,
that, accepting the maxim, nil nisi 10
mum de nlOrtuis, we write of the virtues
and never of the vices OF those who 20
down to the grave, and the mighty null
titude, who drown out their lives with
their whisky-begottOn, grief, in whisky,
is simply countless. But we copy the
kindly physician and talk of ''gastro-
enteretis" when it was whisky that en-.
tered and ate hole through which the
maddened soul escaped into drunken
eternity.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-15

The advertiser, a retired physician,
having proridentially discovered while
q medical missionary in South Asia, a
very simple vegetable remedy for the
speedy permanent cure of consumption,
asthma, bronchitis, catarrh, and all
throat and lung affections-also posi-
tive and radical specific for nervous
debility, premature decay and all
nervous complaints, feels it his duty to
make it known to his suffering fellows.
Actuated by this motive he will cheer
fully send Gree of charge) to all who
desire it, the recipe for preparing, and
full directions for successfully using,
this providentiallY discovered remedy.
Those who wish to avail themselves of
the benefits of this discovery without
cost, can do so by return mail, 10y ad-
dressing with stamp, naming this paper.
DIR. CHARLES p. MARSHALL,
No. 33 Niagara Street. Buffalo. N. Y.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-15

MURDER WILL OUT.-A few years
ago august Flower" was discovered
to be a certain cure for dyspepsia and
liver complaint. A few thin dyspeptics
made known to their friends how
easily and quickly they had been
cured by its use. The great merits of
Green August Flower became heralded
through the country by one sufferer to
another, until, without advertising,
its sale has become immense. Drug
gists in every town in the United States
are selling it. No person suffering
with sour stomach, sick headache, cos
tiveness, palpitation of the heart, in
digestion, low spirits, etc., can take
three doses without relief. Go to your
druggist, Morley Bros, Austin, and
get bottle for seventy-five cents and
try 1t. Sample bottle ten cents.
feb1 dtSWeoW
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-15

The Union Pacific Railroad Company
has decided tO construct aud equip
branch road to the Black Hills. Three
routes are to be surveyed this spring,
aud the work of construction Will be
begun as soon as the line is located.
The branch will probably start on Ne
braska soil. IL is now barely eighteen
months since gold was discovered
10 the Black Hills by John Il. Pear
son and six companions. The pioneers
had travelled one hundred and forty
miles, and were resting on the bank OF
little stream. Being thirsty, the
leader Of the party threw himself on
his hands and knees and bent over the
bank 70 lap the water. A fragment OF
white flint quartz glistened in the clear
water and caught his eye. IL was the
first gold found in the Black Hills.
Boys, you can stick your pegs here,
he cried. There is gold, and we
will have it," II was on the fifteenth
Of August, 1875. And now comes the
locomotive.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-15

PECAN SPRINGS is deservedly the hub
Of local option in this county. The
first meeting of the campaign in the
county was held thereon the eighth of
January. Her representatives origi-
mated and worked up the county con-
venhon on the seventeenth of February
and now she comes to the front with
the largest club yet heard from, organ
lied last Wednesday night with Jas.
N. Hamilton, president, Jas. jackson,
vice president; G. w. Moore, secre-
tary; Miss ID. c. Clements, treasurer,
and the following executive committee:
]. II. Ray, E. S. Matthews, Joe. Tatum,
Blunt Clements and Buttery. vigor-
Gus speeches were made by several of
the citizens Of that community, and
when the vote was taken every solitary
individual in the house cast an open
ballot ''fOr prohibition, (" but one gen
sleman who having been In the county
but few weeks, was not entitled to q
vote, but said he was for local option.
Hurrah for Pecan Spnngl
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-15

Last week taught an emphatic and
timely lesson to the business communi-
ty in regard to undue haste in putting
up prices of goods the moment custom
ers begin TO manifest little appetite.
Under the stimulus of recent demand
the prices of prints and print cloths
have nearly doubled during the past
year. The Boston Post says that manu-
facturers felt inclined TO press their adj
vantage. "They had confidence to
believe that the market would bear a
little more straining without breaking,
and have lately crowded it up from to
cents, and finally demand ed 5 12 cents
for extra Ga by ca cloth on the spot.
They might have succeeded in obtain
ing this last advance, and the printing
companies would probably have acqui-
esced in it, if the actual consumers Of
the goods had not interposed their
veto" All the printing companies ad-
vanced the prices of their spring styles
from 1-2 to s cents, with two excep-
tons, the Hamilton and Knickerbock-
er. Customers would not touch the
8 cent goods, aud the companies had
to mark prices down to l-2 cents. This
reaction from forced increase OF
prices, it is feared, may exert bad in
finence for a month. II helps 10 show
that moderation above all things is
needed now. With prudence, business
will steadily grow better and prices
firmer. But speculation is altogether
out Of place, and can only be disastrous
IL its effects.