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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-07-24
White River Junction

Our popular tailor, Mr.. Gates, has
gone to the beach to rusticate while
"Col. Jack" moves his buildings,
Due notice will be given of his return
and reopening.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-07-24

Our recent County Convention at w.
X. Junction assembled ct O'Clock P. NJ,
instead Of 3 o'clock A. NJ, as we had 1t
in the proceedings last week.
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SUDDEN CHANGES.

The Propritors Downs ELIXIR frequently
here it remarked by those not in the business
that cough medicines do not sell mnch during
the summer months. This is mistaken idea.
The sudden changes to which this climate is
subject Ut all seasons of the year, renders it
necessary to always have some reliblc cough
cure for Coughs, Colds and Whooping Cough
and all Lung Diseases, when taken In season.
and one dose, we have no doubt, has many
times prevented consumption and death.
The best certificate that can be given for any
medicine is daily accorded to Downs ELIXIR
in the tac3 that it has survived the storm and
tempest OF nearly half century, and is to
day the most popular with those who have
known it longest. 1t has gained this great
favor with the public entirely on its own mer-
its. having had less advertising done for it in
the whole time than is done for some medi
cine in single year. For sale everywhere.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-07-24

1t is .claimed that not a single case
Of sunstroke has occurred in the State
this season.
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W. H. WILKINS,

W. H. WILKINS,
WISHES to inform his friends and patrons
w of So. Woodstock and vicinity that he
has Just returned from Boston with full
stock of fresh
Groceries & w. l. Goods,
which will be sold as
Low FOR CASH
as at any other place in Vermont.
shall keep constantly in stock the best
selection of
TEAS & TOBACCO,
comprising Eight distinct grades of the for
mer and Fifteen different kinds of the latter.
PURE SPICES OF all kinds. each of which
is warranted strictly pure.
Flour, Sugars, Molasses, Rice,
Chocolate, Canned Fruits,
and Jellies.
Best American Soda &c.
Pure Cream Tarter 45c. Lard l2c. Raisins,
Crackers, Salt in boxes and bags both for
dairy and table use.
COFFEES,
Old Gov. Java Coffee, Rio, Mocha, Male.
berry K French Breakfast ;"Choice
Selections new
beats any coffee in the world.
Best Georges Bank Goldfish, Samon, Mack
erel, Sword-fisn, Blue-tish, Lake Trout, and
Triple, each in Season.
Try s Id Box Of the "Lion and Unicorn
brand of Boned Bay of Fundy Cod Fish.
BEST BOSTON OIL.
10 kinds of Family soaps, including Acme
and Stearine.
Powder, Caps, shot, Cartridges, Fuse.
STANDARD PATENT MEDICINES.
GLASS WARE, CONFECTIONERY, &C.
Thankful for iavors and patronage rendered
me in the past, am Very Truly Yours,
w. II. WILKINS,
So. Woodstock.
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w. u, H, TINE TABLE.

The new pump has not yet arrived
The quartz boulder remains drm'--
II IL an ornament
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Try mo aud know for Yourself.

STATE or VERMONT, At q Probate
DisfAIeI or HARTFORD 81, Court held at
woodstock, within aud for said District, on
tho tenth day Of June, A, d., 1878,
Present, Hon, John Porter, Judge,
David v, Chspmsn's estate, Hartford,
intsstAts,
Esiher l., fehno, Administrative OF said
estate, proposes 10 render an account OF her
administration aud 10 present her account
against said estate tor examination aud al.
lowsnee At Probate Court, TO DO held at
Woodstock aforesaid on the iirst Wednesday
Qhird day. Of July neI,, Tho Court there
fore orders that notice ~ tho sane DO gives
TO all persons interested In said estate, BY
publishing copy Of tho record OF this order
three weeks successfully Ia the - irN Of ne
Age, q newspaper printed at Woodstock afors-
SAID, that they may appear before said Court
aud contest the allowance 81 said account, u
they SEQ cause,
AA true record,
HENRY 3, DANA, Register,
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MANDRAKEs BITTERs are just the Medicine to
use during the heated term. They rectiiy
o,pa s of the Lysr gives sr tome the sT ,h
bowels; thcy::removo bile from the blood;
they purify regulate and rnvigorate the body,
thereby preventing many diseases incident
to hot summer weather. The public, the
medical profession, and the press, have borne
ample testimony OF the sterling qualities OF
the MANDRAKE BIrTERs made by HENRY
JOHNSON & LORD, Burlington w., who are the
only proprietors of the genuine. Price rs
canfa Nor hoffle-
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We learn that Frederick NJ, Whit
comb has hired out with the old flour
Ing house Of Merrill IL McCourlie,
which he formerly was with two years
and half at Kalamazoo, Mich, aud
begins his services tho first Of August,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-07-24

"A Woodstock girl says she finds
nothing 10 suit her taste 80 well rs to
embrace IN old bachelor with a
mouthful Of tobacco,
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Good news for the boys. A barber
out in Ohio has invented machine by
which he can SINCE off the human hair
one thirteen e-hundredth of an
inch closer to the skull than it Is now
possible to bring it with the clipping
machine.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-07-24

J. B. Jones begins bis annual clos
ing out sale this week, and he "mesns
business"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-07-24

Beedles Swiss Bell Ringers gave
show and had full house Saturday
evening.
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THE HEATED TERM.

81 Com mcrcc street Boston, Ma
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-08-02

The testimony Of Secretary Sherman he
fore the Potter Committee, is as explicit in
its denial Of the matters imputed to him, as
was that of Gen. Ncyes and the other "vis-
iting statesmen" He utterly denied the
Anderson Weber story. He never had such
a conversation with Weber; he never could
have made a speech about controlling pat
ronage, nor did anybody mention to him
anything of forged protest. He never
heard of such thing. Secretary Sherman
was shown the letter alleged TO have been
written to him by Weber and Anderson
dated November 20, 1876. lie said he never
received such letter. and never saw or
heard of it until it was published. Such
letter could not have been sent to me with
out my knowledge. Any such letter would
have excited my resentment. The letter on
its face is insulting.
In response to further questions Mr.. Sher-
man said he never suggested to these men
employment for any service they might rem
der in connection with the returning board
or in any other way, nor was any promise
of reward even int.mated, With reference
to the alleged reply Secretary Sherman said
most emphatieally lie did not write such
a letter at the time. However, as
he stated when this investigation
began, there were things in it
that be would have written to these or any
other men who were engaged in the perform
ancc of what he believed to be their daty if
be had been asked; but ne did not think he
wrote the letter. He believed he did say, in
conversation with various gentlemen, that all
Republicans in Louisiana Who stood by their
guns deserved credit. If he had been cit
izen of Louisiana he would probably have
been killed for he should have resisted the
rifle clubs who, in addition to other crimes,
drove negroes from their homes to the
swamps. His conversations on that subject
were similar to tie remarks he had uttered
in the Senate. and he would make them in
New Orleans TODAY. There never could be
peace and quiet while these things occurred.
In the Fall of 1876. in Louisiana, there were
scenes cf intimidation. violence and wrong.
He could not think of these occurrences even
now without feeling of resentment and
without exciting his anger. The testimony
was overwhelming.
In the course Of further examination, Sec
retary Sherman said, with reference to
Weber's testimony, that be never heard Of
any plan to manipulate the vote of Louis
lana, nor was be at any time writing at any
desk at the custom house. Weber must have
seen somebody else. The testimony Of that
witness about a caucus at which he was pres
ent is false, made out of whole cloth. He
was astonished so many Republicans stood
up for fight amid so much intimidation and
so many threats on the part of the Demo
eraus. He deemed that Ihs exhibition and
statements cuncerning Eliza Pinkston were
part Of ID plot for political purposes. He
never asked Mrs. jerks TO suppress any
letter written by him He never had A con-
versation with her, except in the presence
of others, and never offered her any reward,
or gave her hope Of reward, tor snythiug she
uas I'm dn
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-08-02

The decision OF Secretary Sehurz asserting
the right of settlers to enter upon the lands
granted to railroads at the pre-emption rate
Of Sl.25 per acre, Is doubtless one OF the
most IMPORTANT that II Cabinet officer has
made in long time. 1t has been popularity
believed that the lands granted railroad
companies by Congress was forever under
their control after they had fulfilled all the
conditions thereof The Secretary, however,
points out the fact that by the terms of the
grants after three years have expired after
the completion of the road to which the
grant was made, the land not previously
disposed of by the company falls under the
pre-emption laws Of the United States and
may be taken in the usual manner at S125
per acre by actual settlers. The various
Pacific railroads, the Central, Union, Kan
sas and Denver, have grants covering over
%, SOC, ,000ot lands to which the provision
above referred to applies upon which these
companies have given mortgages agyregating
nearly S2i000,000 Hitherto the com
panies above referred to have been selling
their settling lands at prices ranging from So
to Sc. In 1877 the average price realized py
the Union Pacific was S4GS. By Secretary
Schurz's decision all land COW held can be
obtained by actual settlers for 81 25 an acre
"a result which must have serious effect
upon the credit of the railroads in question.
On the other hand, the effect Of the de-
cision upon the settlement Of the unOccupied
lands along these lines will be salutary, and,
in the end, it is possible that the railroads
will gain by the cheapness Of the land which
will invite multitudes of settlers along their
lines. who in a short time will give larger
business than their policy of high-priced
lands could pOssiblY develop.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-08-02
POLITICAL.

The so-called National party of Ohio, in
State convention at Columbus, on Wednes-
day, nominated ticket and adopted plat
form. Of the candidates We know nothing,
excep. that it is said that Chiffon A. White,
who runs for Judge of the supreme court.
was one of the most virulent of Western
copperheads during the shareholders rebel
lion.
After spending a full week quarrcling
over the selection of n candidate for COVER
nor, tho Texas Democratic convention on
Tuesday decided to withdraw the names Of
both candidates and present the name of
Chief Justice o. NJ Roberts. This was
done, and Judge Roberts was nominated for
Governor by acclImation.
If the Charleston Neics is to be credited.
South Carolina is preparing to array herself
in antagonism to the government OF the
United States. Judge Kershaw. the Ne1cs
asserts, is determined to hold the federal
revenue officers who killed the outlaw Lsdd,
and try them for murder under State jiuris-
diction, in defiance of any action the author
tiles of the general government may take.
An interview with General Grant appears
in the New York Herald, dated Hamburg.
Speaking of the late third term discussion,
after long talk on army men and matters,
he says: Il said then under no circum-
stances would | become candidate, even if
my nomination and election were assured |
would not now. A nomination, il ran,
would be after a struggle before it was made
unanimous. Election, if should win, would
be only after struggle and would not be as
satisfactory as before. II | succeeded and
tried to do my very best | should still have
had crippled administration. This was
the public view Personally, | was weary
of office. | never wanted to get out Of
place as | did to get out of the Presidency"
The Order of the Garter, with which
Beaconsfeld has been invested by the
Queen. il the Oldest and highest of the
English Orders of Knighthood, and one of
the most illustrious in Europe. 1t was in
stituted by Edward the Third about five
hundred and thirty years ago, and to become
member of it has been the highest ambi-
tion of British statesmen and warriors.
The membership il limited to twenty-five
English subjects in addition % the honorary
members, who are of the royal family or
European soyereigns, and the vacancy
caused BY the recent death of Earl Russell |
enabled the Queen at once to bestow this |
high distinction upon her chief representa-
of the order are OF the nobility, and most Of |
them owe the distinction to their family |
and their social position rather
than to services in civil or military positions.
- Boston 1rare!ler.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-08-02

The pipe Of the quail in the stubbe feldi
The scent Of the new mown hay
And all day long the shout and The song
Of the reapers SO .ar away
The restless racket amid the grain,
The noise of the reaping machine
And ever gain the howl OF pain
Comes over the meadows green.
Oh sweet is the field where the meadow lark iits
And sings, as 1t scars and dives;
Where the granger ats. and yells as he gifts
His fingers among the knives.
No longer We hear on the.hillsides sere
The scythe-stOnes clickety -clink
But the rea pin achlne cuts his leg of, ween,
Before ever the man can think.
With foreboding and tears his good wife hears
The man OF the house say good-by;
10 return. 10 sooth, with horse rako tooth
Sticking four inches out OF his eye.
When the threshers come in with halloo and din,
How burdened with sorrow the hour.
When they pause 10 scan what is le.t OF me man
Chswed up in an eight horse power.
oh 1.-THE and listen From over the hills
What voice for the doctor begst
'Tis the stoke er who fell, and awful TO tell
The steam harrow ran over his legs.
Thus all dsy long, with mirth ana song,
lhey laugh a. the dread alarms;
Though the waving field shall Its harvest yield
Of fingers and legs and arms.
Then pity the sorrows OF poor old granger
Whose mangle1 limbs have borne him to the Tense
And run his farm with modern implements.
-BurliRgfoE HaWkeye.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-08-02
Cor. New York Tribune.

WHAT TURKEY HAS LOsT-TnE EXTENT OF
ENGIAND's DIPLOMATIC TRIUMPH.
LONDON, July l3.- Let US try
to see exactly what has been done; what the
glory and the triumph are made up of; how
long they are likely to last; and what part a
sincere friend of England can take in the
congratulations which interested partisans
are bcstowing on the author of all this.
The Anglc-Russian agreement lett Eng
land in the position OF entering the Congress
with protest against secret bargains on her
lips and secret bargain in her pocket. The
moral value of her professions is not much
impaired by the discovery that instead of one
secret bargain she had two. She has deliber
atcly sacrificed her moral position. What
has she gained by it,
She has set her hand to a treaty by which,
in the words of the ablest Anglo Turkish
journal, tho Treaty OF San Stetano has in tact
been approved in all its worst features and
details. should call them its best
features and details, but | prefer to dis
cuss the matter at present from the Anglo
Turk point OF view. From that point
Of view there ~ no dispute that the Treaty
of Berlin, if it stood alone, would be a humil-
iat;ou and disaster to Eugland. 1t is
Treaty OF Partition, and the thing which is
the subject of partition is that same Turkish
Empire of which Lord Beaconfeld undertook
to defend the territorial integrity. Europe
gives Bulgaria north Of the Balkans to
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-08-02
Light.



From the ouickened womb Of the primal gloom
Tho sun rolled bleak and bare,
Till wove him q vest for his kthiop breast
OF the threads Of my golden hair
And when the broad tent Of the ornament
Arose on lis airy bars,
pencilled the hue of the matchless blue
And spangled II round with stars.
painted the flowers of Eden bowers,
And their leaves OF living green,
And mine were the dyes in the sinless eyes
OF Edenis virgin queen; ,.
And when the hend's art on the trustluI nears
Had fastened its mortal spell
10 the sllvery sphere Of the arst-born tear
To the trem bling earth fell.
Wben the vayes that burst oer a world aecursed,
Their work of wrath had sped,
And The arks lone few, tie tried and true
Game forth among the dead,
With the wondrous CLEANS of my bridal beams,
bsde their terrors cease,
As l wrote on the roll of the storms dark scroll
Gods covenant OF peace.
Like pail at rest on senseless breast,
Nights funeral shadow slept
When shepherd SWANS on Bethlehem's plains
Their lsv ly vigils kept
Then flashed on their sight the herslds bright
OF Heavens redeeming plan,
And they chanted the morn OF Saviour born
Joy. joy to the outcast man
EQUAL favor show to the lofty and low
On the Just and unjust descend;
Zen the blind whose van spheres roll in darkness
and tears.
Feel my smile the best smile Of friend.
Nay, the flower of the waste by my love is EN-
braced,
As the rose in the garden o kings;
At the chrysalis bier OF the worm appear,
And 10 the gay butterfly wings.
The desolate morn, like mourner forlorn.
Conceals all the pride Of her charms,
Till bid the bright hours chase the night tiom her
bowers,
And lead her young day to her arms.
And when the gay rover seeks eve for his lover,
And sinks to her balmy repose,
/ wrap the soft rest by the Iypher famed Nest,
In curtains Of amber and rose.
From my sentinel sleep by the night dreaded deep
gazs W ith unslumbering eye,
When the cynosure star of the mai iner
Is blotted from out the sky,
And guided by me through the merciless sea.
Though sped by the hurricanes wings,
bis composites, dark. lone. weltering oarQue
To the haven-home safely he brings.
| waksn the flowers in their dew spapgled bowers,
The birds in their chambers OF green,
And mountains and plain glow with beauty again,
As they hask in their matinal sheen.
oh If such the glad worth of my presence on earth
Though fretfll and 1eeting the while,
What glores must rest on the home OF the blest,
Ever bright with the Deitys smile.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-08-02
There are hills beyond Pentiand, ,
There are iriths hey ond Forth
iffhere are lords in the Southland,
There are CHIEFS in the NOrfh,n

l. LIGHTNING RoDs.-During the Summer,
when thunder-storms are most common, =,
srecia! attention should be paid, particular
ly in exposed situations in country places.
to tho condition Of tho lightning rods. The
main stem of a copper lightning conductor
should never bo less than 40 of an inch
dia meter this dimension is not sufficient
for building more than eighty feet high.
Galvanized iron may be used instead of cop
per. but then the diameter should be- at
least, double that of a copper rod. A gal
vanized irOn-rOpe conductor should never
be less than $40 of an inch in diameter ::
galvanized iron strip should be 4 inches
wide and l-S of an inch thick A light
ning-rod must be continuous and unbroken
from end to end. A rod need not be at
ings: metal clamps may be safely
employed. provided the rod bo of good
conducting capacity and otherwise efficient.
Above, the rod must terminate in metal
points. well projected into the air there
should be several Of these points, and all
perfectly sharp. The bottom OF the conduc-
tor must carried down into the moist earth
and be connected with it by surlace-contact
Of large extent. All large masses of mctal
in a building should be metsllically con
nected with the lightning rod. except when
they are liable to be occupied by people
during thunder stOrm-an iron balcony,
for instance. Ia such case. it is better not
to have the iron connected with tho con-
ductor, for there is some risk of persons
standing on the balcony furnishing a path
for the lightning to the rod Tho rods
ought to be tested every year to mako sure
that the continuity is perfect, and the
ground connection satisfactory.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-08-02
TackIing the Wrong Tom Cat.

A man he owned a terrier dog
bob-tailed, ornery cuss.
And that there pup got that there man
In many an ugly muss
For the man was on his muscle,
And the dog was on his bites
Go to kick the dorg- -goned snimile
Was sure to raise fight.
A woman owned Thomas cat,
That it at fifteen pound
The other cats got up and slid
When that there cat was round.
The man and his dorg came along one day,
Where the woman she did dwell
And the purp he growled terociously,
Then went for that ca. pell NELL.
He tried to chaw the neck Of the cat.
But the cat he wouldn't be chawed,
So he lit on the back OF that there dorg,
And bit and clawedi snd chzwedi
Oh the hair ii few and the purp he youled
As tn claws went into his hide,
And the chunks OF flesh were peeled from his side :
Then he fummuxed and Kicked and died
The man be ripped, and cursed, and swore,
As he gathered 8 big brickbst,
That he would be burned essentially
II be didn't kill that cat
But the old woman allowed shed'd be blessed II he
did
And snatched up an old shotgun,
Which she fired and peppered his diaphragm
With bird shot number enc.
They toted him home on window blind,
And the doctor cured him up;
But he was never known to fight again,
Or own another pup.
Folks may turn up their snoots at this there rhyme,
don't care q snap for that
All / want to show Is, that fighting dogs
h sy tackle the wrong Tom cat.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-08-02

Thomas Lister, the aged astrologer who
is credited with having foretold the rebellion
and Lincoln's assassination. died few days
ago, at his home, in New York In 1875,
he predicted that Grants influence would
begin to wane March 4, 1876; that his crit
ieal periods will be in his 73d and S7th years
and that, though liable to fire, firearms and
explosions, he will die natural death, and
probably attain the age of 81.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-08-02

Hearts more or less | suppose. most of us
have. but We keep them so close-cased and
padlocked we wear an outside 50 hard or
dry that little or none of the love that may
be within escapes to gladden. those around
us. And so lite passes without any of the
sweetening to society that comes when affec-
ton is not only felt but expressed. - [Shairp.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-08-02

We should carry up our affections to the
mansions prepared for us above, where eter-
nifty is the measure, felicity the state. angels
the company. the Lamb the light, and God
the inheritance and portion of His people
forever Jeremy Taylor.