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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-10-23
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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-10-23
Don't be Deceived.

Many persons say al haven't got the Consumption
when asked to cure their Cough with shiloh's Con-
sumption Cure. DO they not know that Coughs lead
to Consumption and remedy that will cure CONSUMPTION
will certainly and surely cough any lung or throat
trouble. We know it will when all others fail and
faith 1t positive that will refund the price pain
You receive benefit Is not this fair propositions
Price " cents 50 and sOO per bottle. For Lame
Chest, Back Side. use shiloh's Porous Plaster.
Price IS cents. Fer sale by FRANK II. BAsCoM Mont
peer, Vt.
Why will you suffer with Dyspepsia and liver COM
plant Constipation and general debility when you get
at our store shiloh's system Nitaiizer. which we
sell positive guarantee TO you. Price ten cents
and rs cents For sale by FRANK H. BAsCoM, Mont
pelier, VT.
Hackmetack" a popular and fragrant perfume.
Sold by FRANK II. BASCOM Montpelier. Vt. s3-2teow
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-10-23
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SUFFERING FROM
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90 see or write to
NINE. SECOR, M. D.,

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use Of the knife Thousands Of Testimonials are
shown from the rs ladies Of ts tnd Europe al
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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-05-18
From Dayton.

DAYTON, May 9th, 1878
In looking through the columns of your val.
liable paper we seldom find an item from our
pleasant little village. To remedy this some.
what l drop you few lines promising that if
this should meet with favor to furnish you from
time to time what little items of interest may
come to hand
| presume most if not all of your readers
have heard of the village of DAYTON, and vet
few think what queer little town it is. Here
you can find people from almost every country
of Europe. People of every shade of politics
and ofmany religious perSuaSions, all dwelling
in peace and harmony. We have never heard
OF law suit between neighborS here nor of a
breach ofthe peace. We have neither constable,
lawyer, doctor saloon or drug store. nor n res.
idcnt preacher, and some say mo Devil either -
Because of this, however, do not imagine that
we are dead, for the citizens of tbs strange vii.
lase are moral, wide-awake energetic people,
rs shall presently be seen.
We have here three large factories besides "A
fine Touring mill. Williams 4 Coz, paper
manufacturers, are running ther mill 10 its
fullest capacity night and day, employing many
hands and from every appcaranceare making
money. The Fox River Horse Collar MFG. Co.
will be described hereafter
Unfortunately the Wooden Mil is not run.
ming this summer, except the clstom cards.
which are run for the accommodation of those
who wish to spin their own y;rns. Dad"
MakinSon will preside over the cards the COM
ing season. 1t will probably be interesting to
some of your readers TO know thai ]. Green Il
Sons still continue 10 buy wool and have a
good stock ofwoolen goods, yarns &c, to give
in part or whole 10 those who wishto exchange
The young people organized aLiterary So
cicty during the past winter AID have met
with considerable success in Their endeavors
for mutual improvement They have been
holding meetings ON Friday night II each week.
and their effort To win the esteem If the public
has been crowned with such success that b.
the donations Of friends and Their own pluck
they have organized The Dayton Library As
ISOLATION, and have already more han a hun
drcd volumns OF solid, substantial reading.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-05-18
Ophir and Vicinity.

May ., 1878
Flowing in these parts all done. The click
of the planter is now heard all over the land.
Corn as Il crop this fall will probably be
poor, as the land is in bad order Many farm
ers waded knee deep in water while blowing.
The soil as natural consequence turned up
mucky, and a few days drying will bake, hard
en- and make il lumpy. Will Earrick has fin
ished planting and is happy. He is tn be en-
WED.
II. ii. McNally has begun 10 teach again.
Miss Maggie o'Connor i. the guest of Miss
Bella Carr.
Private letters received from +. ;. Kurt of
Ottawa, report that he is doing well at Kansas
City, No.
v had two interesting sermons last Sab
bath, one by Mr. Jackson. of Buda, and the
other by Rev Sandborn, of Prairie Center. If
everybody practised what they taught what a
happy world this would be.
The Waltham band boys are doing well and
in the near future w slihau promises TO be bleSt
with band second to none in the county.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-05-18

They have secured the Rev. S. F. Glbb OF
Sheridan to deliver lecture at the school
house on Saturday evening May 18th. Subject,
What will Mrs Grundy Sayy' Mr.. Glib is
very forcible speaker and gives the lecture
solely for the benefit ofthe Library; receiving
no fee tor his services. He has also made ar
engagements TO preach here once in two weeks
during the coming year. His wife, Rev. So
phia Gibb preached an excellent sermon here
two weeks ago All who heard her were str
priscd as well as pleased with her effort. Mrs,
Glib is very unassuming, pleasant little wo-
man and no one at Il first glance would suppose
that she possessed such funi of general and
theological knowledge. More anon.
SLEESEL.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-05-18
June Magazines.
IIARPER'S.

For June is even more notable than usual
with this magazine for its wealth of ilustra
ton. Along the South Shore" by 5. G.. W.
Benjamin, shows many charming bits of seen.
cry between Hull and Plymouth on the Massa-
chusctts coast, and the writer is no less happy
IN his dclineations than the artist. Another
finely illustrated article is that Of Writ Sykes
on Dclft Ware, with some thirty fine cngrav-
ings.
Music receives attention in paper by q. W
Sheldon ON J. q. \. Ward aud His Methods,
with five effective illustrations; and some en-
tertaining "reminiscences ofmu.ic in New York
thirty years ago In the way of poetry we
have a pleasant correspondence in verse for
the first time published) between Fiz Greene
Halleck and young lady of Guilford, Conn,
and an interesting paper on Indian poetry,
with specimens.
Science receives due attention rs usual in
the Editors Scientific Record rs well a. in
paper by Geo. W. Beaman on Scientific Schools,
and another by Simon Ncwcomb, entitled a
Manufactured Comet"
OF larger and more national interest Is M.
Lossing's able paper on the battle of Mon
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-05-18
From MarseiIIes.
SLEESEI.

MARsEILLEs, May TO- 1878.
What is known as the new Norton mill be
gan running the fore part Of the week.
The new iron bridge over the canal will be
put up this Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
The change in the running time of passen
ger trains will facilitate getting to Ottawa very
much.
Mr. Geo. +. Lund has the contract for saw
ing all the wood on the II. !. r. r. between
this place and Rock Island
The Messrs Pitts cannot furnish their ma
chimes fast enough, being something like 30
orders behind.
Rev. j. Straub will lecture on temperance
next Tuesday evening at the Congregational
church A full attendance will welcome Mr.
Straub among us in an appreciative way.
The municipal election on Monday resulted
in a majority Of 81 against license. The fol.
lowing is the board as elected: f. III. Spicer,
d. Clark, Martin Wilson, A. Bruce and J. y.
Scott
String telephones are all the rage just now.
There Is Zine" from Neff Bros drug store to
Barns's clothing store, from which a number
branch out Two ladies have also put one up
in the east end of town.
The red ribbon club of this place has about
seven hundred members. Mr.. George Wood,
ford, of Pontiac, began course Of lectures
before the club last Friday evening, closing on
Monday evening. They were well attended,
his incislve arguments and gentlemanly treat
'mcnt of the subject adding about 175 names
to the list. Mr.. Woodford's power lies in his
sympathetic appeals to the bright side of our
natures, and his unceasing perseverance. He
does not cease to labor for the cause when he
concludes his lecture for the evening; but
when 1.-The doors of the temperance church,
are opened and the mOurners are invited to
start for the new, sober life, he goes in among
the audience and personally solcits men to
sign the pledge This is not all He does not
hide himself during the day, but visits men in
their shops and places of business, and urges
them to become total abstainers. One after
noon he secured thlrty-nine signatures to the
pledge. May his temperance shadow or sub
stance never grow less, but, rather, may he
grow long and broad in the total abstinence
cause, are the wishes of host of well wishers
in Marselllcs.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-05-18

mouth with fifteen ill,ratims, one of which
The Carnival in Phil,elphia, q very re-
markablc picture, the craving of which is as
wonderful as the artistIdesIgn In another
ield--that Of religious Bgraohy-wc have Il
concise but graphic portiture of Hugh Lati-
mer, the "Paladin of thdtefwmation
the pen of Charles ID. Dhler; and in fiction
we have further instalm,ts OF the two great
novels of the scason-Wllam Blacks MAC
lcod of Dare" and Thorn Hardy's "The Re
turn of the Native" and Tree excellent short
stories.
Bret Hartc contrlbutesa brilliant society
poem Telemachus gersusa entor, which is eff
illustrated by Reihart. George Iunt
contributes poem, A Ito; Miss Mary A.
Barr another entitled Cabve Queens in the
Market Song Of the Clay the title of pc
culiar, but very striking penn by Z. ID.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-05-18
From Texas.
in NIarsellles

WACO, TEXAS, May p
.NeSsrs. EditOrS-As the general election APP.
proaches candidates grow numerous. The
Democratic State convention meets next month,
and while aspirants to the executive Office are
cautiously feeling their way, county candidates
are not asleep. Throckmarton, Lang and Hub
bard the present incumbent, are figuring for
the nomination for governor, and when the
convention meets, two Of them at least will be
disappointed
1t is supposed that the train robbers who
are creating such sensation among the tray;
cling public, have their headquarters at Dial:
las; and how long the innocent passenger is
to be plundered by these public banuitti time
alone can prove. Ever since the law prohibit
ing citizens from wearing arms was enacted
bold robberies have increased to an alarming
extent. On Il recent occasion two of these
thieves cleaned out fifteen passengers without
Il shot being exchanged.
The anniversary of the Alamo was cclcbra
ted on the 22d of April with much interest
by the old citizens, whose hearts will never
cease to beat with animation over that brilliant
page of Texan history. Though the ashes of
Travis and his brave little band of 1870 have
smouldcred near halt n century within the
gates of the ancient city they died to defend
their deeds grow brighter with each returning
decade, and there still remains feeling of
awe that invests the traveller as he gazes upon
the walls of that old-time mission.
Grand preparations are being made for the
coming May Fcte, which takes place on the
Sth and 9th Of this month. A little of every
thing is to be represented likely to interest
lovers Of fun. Several military companies are
to be present, and with several bands of music,
a grand jubilee is expected. Reduced rates
for visitors from Missouri, Illinois and other
states have been effected with the different rail
road companies. TEXAN.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-05-18

The frontispiece, in the June number is a
beautiful steel engraving by barley, portray.
ing that scene in Kenilworthwhere the Queen
discovers Leiccster's intimacy with poor Amy
Robsart. The indignation d Elizabeth, era
ven conduct of Leicester aHi terror Of Amy
are limncd with wonderful fleet There are
stories by Thomas Collier Charles Clifton
Royce, &c, and poems by Istclle Thompson
and other favoritcs
The fashion sheets give tie latest touches
for the opening summer season; and Mr. Frost,
in series of comical sketches, depicts the
troubles and trials of the aspiraat for fame in
a fancy ball costume.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-05-18
LITTLELL's LIVING AGE.

The numbers for May 4th and 18th have the
following valuable contents:
Russia and t taa ftqRa r.hb BY Mrs. olphant
from advance sheets; The Political adventures
of Lord Beaconsield, Fortnlghtly Review
The conclusion of Erica, translated for The
Living Age from the German of Frau Won In.
gersleben; The Gothic Fragments of Ulias,
Macmillan; A Recollection of the Indian Mu.
tiny, by Thomas Farquhar, Sunday at Home
Es Triplex, Cornhill; The Pleasures of Me
diocrity, Saturday Review; A Fearful Swing,
Chambers Journal; Mr.. Froude's Life and
Times of Thomas Beckett" by Edward A. Free
man, Part H., Contemporary Review; Second
Sight, translated from the French for the Liv.
ing Age; Modern Japan, Part H., Fornightly
Note. Deafness, Mind; Positism on an Island :
the new Paul and Virginia, Contemporary /;
Can Jews be Patriots? Nineteenth Century ;
A Romance of the East Coast Fraser; and the
usual select poetry and miscellany
Any of the above publications may be seen
at the bookstore of Osman & IIapcman, where
single copies are for sale and subscriptions
taken
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-05-18

The table of contents of theJunc number
shows it to be one of unusual interest:
Home Gardens; Thank God NY Fathers
Wife; A Love Song; The Astrologer's Tower
Raised From the Dead; On the River Bridge
Hanging Failures; The Daughter of the Pala
tine; Why the Doctor Married; Three Rainy
Days; The Cold-WGter Pledge; How Mrs
Malcolm found her Bread; Out of Fashion.
Plate; Lines to A. G. W; Recollectons of
Other Days; In Pawn; The Lady in Green
Almost Homeless; Content; Our Young PEG.
pies toryTeller-My LIES Lesson; Ruth.
ven's Puzzle Page; Editorial Notes. The
Housekeeper; Curious Matters; Things Pleas.
ant and Otherwise; Our Picture Gallery (hu.
illustrations.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-05-18
PENN MONTHLY DR MAY

In "The Month" the edir treats concisely
but ably the Eastern Qucst,n, The Paris Ex-
position, The Irish Land Law, The Silver
Question, The Wood Tariff Civil Service Re
form, &c.
Florence Bayard Lockwood, with no less ell
oquencc than sound sense, gives a woman S
ideas on the important SUBJ of the training
of children; ID. w. Vaugha, in another arti-
Gle, gives his estimate of thtStatesmanship of
the Times; Professor Robei Ellis Thompson
writes n trenchant article on the Uses and
Abuses of Examinations; ad an anonymous
writer contributes an appreda alive criticism of
Lawrence Barrett as an acto.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-05-18

DOUGLASS MoNuMESr.-The Douglas Mon
umcnt, to be erected over his grave at Chicago,
is now being made by the Hollowell Granite
Company at Hollowel, Maine, and is to be
completed in five or six weeks. A IIolowell
paper thus describes it:
Upon the tomb rests a granite base fourteen
feet square, with polished shields upon each
corner, and above this is plinth of proportion
ate dimensions, supporting Il die with polished
panels. The die is capped with another stone
carved in laurel wreaths and festoons in the
finest and most artistic style of workmanship.
Upon this stands round granite shaft, fifty
feet in length, encirccd with bands of thirty
eight polished STARS and with oak leaf trim.
mings Ornamenting the cap. Surmountng
the whole Is a colossal statue Of Stephen A.
Douglas, ten feet in height and in proportion
ate size. The whole height of the structure
wi, 0c uiacty-five feet.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-05-18

A wit having been asked by another person
whether he would advise him to lend Il certain
friend of theirs money, said What! lend
him money! You might give HIM an emetic,
and he wouldn't return it."
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-05-18

The Gypsics that were cncamped ut Troy
Grove pulled up stakes last Tuesday They
made over $1,000 while here telling fortunes
and trading horses-for the latter business they
have peculiar talent, as every one they traded
with got wors,ed in the transaction.
Mendoza is blcst with musical prodigy In
the shape of little seven year old girl, Miss
Maggie Shoupp. She has never taken a music
lesson in her life but is able to play any air
asked The writer had the pleasure of listen.
ing to some of her music and requested her TO
play tunes that he thought must he strange to
her, but was mistaken, she played them of
without hesitation. She gives promise Of a
bright musical career. HERCULEsP PEDRO.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-05-18

Gen. Mcclellan is man of muscle. On ;
certain occasion, while conversing with a party
of friends on the subject of physical strength
he took silver quarter Of dollar from hi.
pocket and bent it between his forefnger anC
thumb
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-05-18

"Why," said Il lover to his mistress "arc you
like that hinge?' Cant even guess" BE
cause you are something to a door adore.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-05-18
LINES To THE CUCUMBER.

The cucumber graceth the fesial board
Inshrouded in condiments rare,
And the epicure gleefully rubbeth his pauncl
At the sight u the treasure there.
The doctor smileth sad.like smile
And giyeth a crocodile groan,
And the marble man gOcth out the while
And polisheth up the stone.
The undertaken mOurnfully asks:
What will his measure bcg'
And the sexton marketh a spot 'reserycd'i
All under the willow tree.
lis hard the times aud Ills scarce the cash
And 20, with zesiful low.
We welcome wait 90 the itfsl fruit
That giyeih the folk employ.
ST. LDgis yoaI5lasl.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-05-18

The Joliet Rcp,lJi'rm says the communists are
"a set Of theorists who find themselves starving
in the richest land on the face of the earth" and
advises them, If their theories won't keep them
from starving, tO-"Drink Germans mead"
Did you ever?
Since the bull whipped the lion in the hippo
drome at San Antonio, 1t is no longer allowable
in Texas to speak Of the lion rs the king Of
beasts A slim, slcek-haircd theological student
from Massachusetts having casually made that
statement in a sermon there the other Sunday,
the congregation became SO nliamcd that the
deacons had TO take him out and hang him on q
pecan tree as a mark for the Sunday school chill
dren TO practice at with their little revolycrs
Then a grlzzled old circuit-rder happened along
and preached a stirring discourse from the words,
"The devil goes about like mad steer, seeking
whom he may horn
Editorial amenities are always pleasant and us
the Chicago papers are pattern for the bucolic
press Of the great west, few specimens are al
WAYS In season. Thus within a week or two we
find the Times abiding to the editor Of the Tri-
bun as a "swindler" and the author of vulgar
crime" 10 a second paper as dull thing"
which steals and snifllcs, "whilc parading its
theft with hypocritical preicnsions of morality
which Il has not the sense TO understand or the
virtue TO practice" The Times also audes to
1.-TWO other minor local publications, one morn
ing sheet, published in the interest Of falsehood
and is creditors, the other an equally obscene
thing published by ell.known thieves who have
been exposed often before" Per contra, one Of
lie esteemed contemporaries speaks Of the Times
as 'the slop-bucket Of journalism on Fifth aycn-
ue, which is dlgnifed by the name Of a newspa.
per. The greed OF that scorbutic sheet" says
slis amiablc critic, "makcs II crazy in It's pruri-
ency, and causes it 10 make stupendous ass of
Itself even in the only department where il usu-
ally eycels"
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1878-07-26
NORTH CONSOLIDATED VIRGINIA.
Change or Management-The SHAFT
OF she Nine 60 be Used 10 vestt.
late Other Mines-Work 60 he
Rssumei Immediately.

.,o.,., ,..,,,, ~ thu s,oclholasr.
sp'' ~ NJ
OF the NORM 'ohsoiiuA'eu 'n'
giniA Mining Company was held In
"a, rr.nci.eo l..t Monday. which result
:, a. on.n,. a, m,n,ycm.p, Ina ne,,
m"- ~, a., .....L. ,,,.
day. ihs nc" poa'u INV ,Aine nA''"s
charge Of the Union Consolidated. A
dividend Of two-tbird, Of q share was de-
sI..s1 Mon. ,ha .tocLholders.
In'a..IIs,eIv mn ,hs cb.nye beiny
.tIn.e"ra. rds5 Nsssr. F.ir AMI
m !. rs-asssan,s,ivos m tha nav
s"s1 .,ai,.., H. mins ,ook formal nos.
sss.ian' and them replacei superintendent
Jacl,on I'm charge. Mr.. jackson was In.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1878-07-26

had agreed that the count should 20 on TO
pesoeable termination. Witness had com.
planned that the Democratic caucus had
not demanded as . condition Of the count
proceeding, that Louisiana and South
Carolina were to go free from bayonet
rule. II Louisiana was left TO herself. she
must trade or fight. Trading would lose
two United States Senators TO the Democ-
racy. n lighting might plunge tho
country into revolution. Hewitt re-
sponded that the Democratic party could
not afford to take the responsibility Of
plunging the country into strife, upsetting
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1878-07-26
rus rERRIBLs scounaE.

Yellow Fever Raging In New Or.
Isans.
NEW ORLEANS. July 26.-The following
explains itself:
NEW ORLEANS, July "a. 1878.
Mr.. J. N. Woodwork. Surgeon General
Marine Hospital Service. Washington, ID.
C.-sir: II now becomes my duty to re-
port tho existence OF yellow fever in New
Orleans. About the 18th instant cases
began 10 occur In the practice OF several
physicians near the intersection OF Con-
stance and Terpsichore streets. which pro-
sented suspicious symptoms, and We now
reckon fourteen cases OF infection. with six
deaths. In addition TO these. seven other
cases have come to light at different
points, aud much more scattered. four
OF which have already resulted fatally.
We arc endeavoring diligently to trace the
origin Of this outbreak. but 30 lar nnd no
connection with any foreign source. Car.
bolic acid disinfection 10 rigidly carried
on at all the infected points, aud We hope
To prevent the pestilence from assuming
epidemic proportions. I will keep you
advised In regard to the progress Of tho
fever. and In Q few days give you the de-
termination OF the Board OF Health upon
the question OF allegiance 10 tho central
authority Of Washington. Respectfully,
SAMUEL II. CHASE, N. D.,
President OF the Board OF Health.
Tho President OF the Board OF Health
reports % cases Of yellow fever to date
M deaths and 10 convAlescents.