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Kent.

Dog days have really commenced: {: makes ono feel as If he had been wnteb- ing with n sick tramp. by Job, three nights In the week.
 Mir. Wheeler lost hls ngod gray carrl- age horse last week, probably from old ago.
 Chas. Brewster (colorcd) has been ''on the war path again. He got at Mir Mcrwin Howland's cider brandy, and ai- forwards, feeling little tired, went to the barn 10 rnst. Mr=. II. and some other ladies. thought to make him more comfortable, and at the same time see how he would net, by asking him into the house. They found ont how hc would act at once. The first thing that flew at him as he came through thcd0or was Il ccntcr-tuble, containing lamp some books, etc. Brewster came out without Il scratch, but not so with the table and its contents. He next thought he would walk around the room, but the pictures and large map each hit him Il blow as he came round; and finally he got mixed up with them all and the cen ter-table again. Mir. H. attempted to
 
 all got terribly mixed up. Result: Scv- cn dollars fine, and costs, for Brewster to work out at the Watson House in Litchfield.
 Mir Robert Waldron is having the stone hauled for the cellar wall to the now house his mother is having built on NJ tin street. The frame is being made In New Milford by NJ. Beach & Co. Rev Dr. Oliver from Kansas preached In St. Andrews church last Sunday, sup plying Rev. Mir. Sturgcs's place, who is talk ng a short vacation. Rev Mr. Bar dy is also taking his vacation.
 Miss Caroline Stuart, who has been sick for several years. died Tuesday night, and was buried Thursday. Her case has been difficult one for the physicians, none of them telling posi- lively what her disease was. She has been confined to her house most of the time since her return from the Ccnten- nial.
 The rain of Friday night has given the crops new start. Tobacco looks very promising in this vicinity. Bass fishing is getting to be very good in South Spectacle lake and also in the HOusatOnic river Those caught in the lake, however are much the largest, several of them caught last week weigh ing over two pounds each, and one weighed three and onc-quartcr pounds.
 The warm weather sends us most of our Summer boarders. Most of the city people that usually spend the Summer in this town are here. as well as some new OneS.i. B. o. NAFIDE.
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James Ioe. working for Henry B. Hodge. killed 1hunk-hoad snake last w0ek. which the oldest inhabltant says is,the largest he ever saw.
 Mr. Burr E,monds has built him new barn In the lot opposite hls house.
 Ono day last week Ar. Hornce Bourne of Grassy Plain was bitten by n dog bo- longing 10 Mir. Charles Frost. Df. c. R. Hart cauteflzed the wound. Tho dog was finally sent to that bourne from whence no traveller orc returns.
 Mrs. Rufus Short left town Wedncs. day with her daughter and son, and will spend several duys visiting her father, Bennett Blackman, Esq, of keNtown.
 The temperance meeting held in the Misses Sccloys grove wus complete success. E. F. Bailey of Danbury, and about sixty more of the friends from there wero present. Mir. E. was aP- pointed by the Bethel people as leader, and that insured m interesting meeting. Tho Danbury Glee Club were on hand, and filled their part of the bill. For nearly an hour people were coming In teams and on foot, and when the hour to commence had arrived those present were numbered by the hundreds. Roy. q. F. Waters opened with prayer The speakers all did well, and particularly Mr. Charles Bennett, whose talc of sHd- ness and trouble while in tho service of King Alcohol were very affecting, His manner of speaking showed fine culture and honesty of purpose. He will do much good. Mir. B., we learn, Is t New town boy. It Is proposed to hayo moth- CT meeting in the samo pla"e, If fpossl- blc, before long. The regular Wcdnes- day evening meetings are kept up, but are not us well attended us they should be. w.
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tToo late for last weeks issue.l Little York aIass Vicinity.

Wh-c-w! did you ever see warm weather, saying nothing about feeling it? Several persons were so nearly over come by the heat that they were obliged to leave work, while most of our farm- CTS worked spell in the morning and at night, and lay still during the middle of the day. But we predict our Western friends will blow" us after this, as report said thewarm weather was coming East, and breeze following 1t.
 C. NJ. Squircs killed a red adder on Friday of last venk while moving. It was "bird" l would rather see at a distance than under my feet, as Mir. Squircs found out. It was the largest snake of its kind that has been killed around here for some years.
 For a spell it looked doubtful whether the prayers of our very dear brother, MT. Ford, would be answered; but it seems they have been, for he has at last suc- ceeded in getting the Rev. Mir. Bryant, of South Britain, to come out here once a month to preach to the people of this place. He preached a very interesting sermon last Sunday afternoon. The sentiment of the same shows how well he Is fitted for the high and noble calling iR which he is placed.
 Scenes of past days were presented before us the other day by the return of three of our worthy ladies from black berrying. They looked weary as they came up the street, but the smile on their sunbumt faces denoted the success they had met with in the blackberry field. Ladies, the next time you go berrying, wear your sun-bOnnets instead of your Sunday-go-to-meeting hats.
 Several cars were seen at the depot loaded with "silica rock" to be shipped to New York, where it is to be ground and used for various purposes. The rock is obtained at present in Bridgewa- ter, on or near the farm of Calburt Smith. The company havo also pros pccted on the farm of s. J. StOclOrds, where they claim to have found the same kind of stone and in more abundance than where they are now at work.
 As I have been led so near the bridge which spans the Housatonic riverat this place, perhaps it will not be wrong on my part to say few words in regard to the bridge. It is at present wooden structure, without paint or anything to protect it from inclemency of the wealth. CT, and the least observing cannot help noticing the fast-decaying timbers as he crosses it. Would it not be well for the company to look at this before any seri- ous accident may occur?
 Stanley S. Squires spends the whole of his time intervening between now and Sept. 18th in the office of his preceptor, Dr. Vile, of Sandy Hook. JOHN.
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of our eOe0annt whan we meet them. Tho daar souls think high foroheads arr too masculine. The fashion docs make them look less intellectual.
 Burglars entered the music store of ]. r, Morris, Opera House block. on Mon. Fay night Ent much damage. On Tues dity night thny ycntarod Beai musicslOre. Hamlin's Gallery of Art. and Louis Moegllng's saloon, in the same block. Hamlin estimates inc damage to him about fifty dollars, Islng. iewellcr In Banl's lost few dollars worth Of jewel. ry. They entered through the windows in the rear by removing panes of glass from the sash. Probably the work of amateurs. CLEM.
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RESTRICT OF VIEWPOINT ss. PRO-
 D BATE COURT. July 29th. 1878.

Estate Of JabeZ BOtsfOrd, late Of Ncwtown, In said District deceased.
 The Court of Probate for the District of New town hath limited and allowed six months from the date hereof for the Creditors of said Estate to exhibit their claims for settlement. Those who neglect to present their accounts properly attes- ted within said time. will be debaIr d recovery. All persons indebted to said Estate are requested to make immediate payment to
 ELTZABETH BOTSFORD, or
 WILLIS H. BOTSFORD,
 Administrators
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PURSUANT to an order from the Court of Pro bate for the Hstrict of Newtown will be sold at Public Auction, to the highest bidder. on the 4th day of November. 1878. at l o'clock, in the after nos n. einiess previously disposed of at private sale all the Real Estate of Jabez Botsford late of Newtown, deceasod, viz: about II acres nolth of Newtown depot, and about 100 acres near Sandy Hook, on the road to Zoar. Sale to take place on each of the premises in said Newtown. Terms ma ie known at the time of sale.
 ELIZABETH BOTHFORD,
 WILLIS H. BOTSFORD
 Administrators. Dated at Eewtown this 18th day of July. ISIS.
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Danbury.

Burglars entered the Post Office on Monday night last. No great damage was done. About three dollars in money were taken. Some twenty letters were broken open, but it is thought they con tained nothing valuable. The burglars were evidently cash dealers only, no stamps were taken.
 The matters, men and women, in good Iy numbers had a picnic at Lake Kenosia on Saturday. Of course good time was had. Matters are a people that know how to picnic to some purpose. They went out to lne lake in several large carryalls' headed by a band of music.
 The Aquenuckaquewauks of Danhury are bracing up for their annual salting. It would seem that the name at least would keep without salt. Ifany of your readers from Ncwtown to Japan can pronounce that word we would be happy to hear from them. We have all sorts of clubs in Danbury, and that is the name of one of them. II is fishing club. It is made up of round, jolly men of con genial spirits who are piscatorially in- elined, and who prefer salt water for the indulgence of their piscatorial pro- pensity.
 The reformed men went to Bethel in force Sunday afternoon to hold blue ribbon meeting.
 : There were many sad little Methodist hearts on Tuesday. That was the day set apart for the Sunday-school to enjoy the cool shades of Parlor Rock. On ac- count of the weather they had to stay at home and eat the goodies prepared for the picnic. Next Tuesday now if it don't rain. It is expected that it will. The Universalists propose to try the same refreshing shades on the Eth or Sth of Aug, and meet friends similarly dis posed from Bridgeport. The Catholics have chartered the steamer Laura and propose to have sail and picnic Aug. .7th. Picnic and dog days are the rage.
 Mir. Henry B. Betsford of Sandy Hook is visiting friends here, the guest of Mir. F. II. Austin of Silver Lawn.
 The Methodist society has been repair ing and improving their church base ment. The partition between the lecture room and two class-rooms in the rear has been removed and large sliding doors substituted so that the three, or the space that was three rooms, can be thrown in- to one, making a large room. It has been repainted very tastefnlly, recar- peted, reseated with chairs and settees, and the windows painted white. It Is not only sbaciOus (seating almost as many as the main audience room up stairs), but very pleasant and cheerful. On Thursday evening re-openng was held. On Friday evening 8 "love-feast." Sunday morning, after an interesting sermon by the pastor, Rev. MT. Bray, from the text In Chronicles, "JOash was minded to repair the house of the Lord, the financial aspect was considered. The expense had been about Sl, 800. This amount was all soon pledged. It was divided into 600 shares, $500 each, and they were all taken, and a few shares over. They claim to have the handsom- est and most commodious basement room in town. Now for the next.
 HORACE.
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"Whew!" exclaimed Mrs. Clement that is stereotyped hOt-weather pre- face of hers-'' whew and she vibra- ted her fan--" Oh, for lodge in some vast wilderness and I responded wag ging my beaver, ''some boundless con- tiguity of shadei" You will remember Cowper quoted the same. The weather seemed worthy of special mention. I made note of it. 1 went out to get a breath of fresh air. Soon as 1 struck the sidewalk. "Good morning Clem- hot day!' said friend. I knew it was hot, but didn't say so. When those I meet insist on posting me up let them post. It is cheap way have of pleas ing my friends. It cost nothing. I went to the post-office. I met nineteen men who saluted me with Good morning, and seventeen supplemented the remark with !" hot day." The odd two were ab- sent minded, they would have added the supplement only they forgot it. On my way back met some fifteen and about fifteen thought it hot, and a percentage of them quoted it as it is said Beecher did when he preached his celebrated hot sermon on profanity. They lay every thing to Beecher.
 Perhaps ought not to mention it, and yet l am divulging no secret when say we young fellows in Danbury carry cocoanut in our hat this warm weather. This we expose when we take of our hat to the ladies. but we do it in no time, just as they get by us, and then clap it on as if we were catching flies. It Is little humiliating, especially when the stem end is on top of the head. But the fashion brings out the ears prominently. And this reminds me of the girls, and way of theirs. The moisture of tender ness aims my eyes when I think of it in connection with the dear, sweet angels; they 's bang their hair. It Is admir- able. I can conceive of nothing more becoming, had almost said bewitching- ly angelic, especially when they give us n straight bang and drop it down square just over their eyebrows. Who can blame us boys for giving them glimpse
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Dated at Newtovn thIs 2sth day of JuIr. lsi
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-11-01
A Vivid Picture of the Road to Death.

| saw young men with the ruddy
health of country life stamped upon
their cheeks. They had gathered in
the harvest grain beneath Gods blue
sky, with the honest strong hands God
had given them. What we're they do
ing hele? They had heard how gayly
a boat dances on the edge of mael-
strOm and they were venturing. saw
that young man when he first consulted
evil. | saw that it was his first night.
A look of defiance was in his face, say
ing, 81 am more powerful than sim"
Then | saw the shade of painful re-
Election passing across his face. | think
ii soft voice came out of that tawdry,
gaudy furniture, whispering to him
above the discOrdant music. But sin
triumphed and he turned to the tempter.
| don't feel SO keenly sorrOwful for
young men brought up in the city and
accustomed to city life when see them
thus, but l pity the young man from
the country. Oh! young man from the
far hills, what have your parents done
that you should treat them so? When
you were gathering the harvest apples
down there in the corner of the lot
where the little brook murmurs by,
did you think you would come to this
Do you prefer this brazen, painted,
grinning thing to that old wrinkled face
which smiles in sympathy with every
one of Your smiles and weeps when you
are unhappy? Look at those distorted
fingers. What made them 500 Work
ing for you, sir, working for you. Write
home to your poor old gray-haired
mother cursing her; curse her white
locks curse the cradle you were rock
ed in. What You won't ? But Won
are doing worse. The news of your
profligacy will kill her. Some old Cos
sip will find the way to your mothers
cottage on an afternoon when the sun
is shining bright and all the beautiful
country is smiling for joy. She will
enter when your mother is sitting by
the window, and presently she will say,
"Do you know your son drinks 2" and
then your mother will ask to have the
door opened; she feels faint. And still
into her ear will be poured the story of
your life here. She will go out and sit
down on the old worn step where you
used to play and cry. By and by the
doctors gig will come up through the
shady quiet lane and he'll stop. He'll
come again and again, but she'll get
worse instead of better. And then the
village bell will toll, and the farmers
VIII drive up in their old wagons and
hitch their horses there under the maple
trees. And they'll ask, what did she
die Oft And one of the village doctors
will say malaria" and another ''inter-
mittent fever" Young man, she died
of broken heart.-Preacher Talmaqe,
IN has description Of a visit to the haunts
of Uice.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-11-01
IF NV Words Abide in You"

AS we abide in Christ, and his words
abide in us, our prayers are answered,
according to the promise John Isl z.
Why do not Christ's words abide in us Y
Because we forget them. Some have
naturally poor memories. Some have
abused and dissipated the power OF
recollection by reading which was not
worth remembering. Some lose their
memories by the infirmities of illness or
age. Such will fail to comply with the
divine condition, of having Christs
words abide in their hearts unless re-
infoIced by the Comforter. "He shall
bling all things to your remembrance,
whatsoever l have spoken unto you"
ale helpeth our intirmities." ChrIst's
words do not abide because other words
and thoughts displace them. No mind
can hold more than its fill. If mems
words, spoken or printed, occupy us !;
if thoughts of business, science, amuse-
ment or anything, pre-occupy our
minds, there is no room for the d.
vine promises and covenants to abide.
Christ's words do not abide in us be-
cause we do not have faith in them.
They do not many mighty works III
our souls because of our unbelief. Our
acceptance of them lacks that personal
and self-appropriating quality which is
the grasp and hold of real faith. Hence
we do not give "mOst earnest heed"
and we ''let them slip" The same
words abide not in us because they do
not speak to us from heart to IL heart.
We do not see the love that is in them.
What difference there is in the feel
al nh lott In
business letters, our routine letters, our
occasional communications from entire
strangers, are quite another thing from
the letters that reach us from absent
friends. How wildly we remember
some of the latter. Whole lines we're
blotted with tears. Single words were
packed full of love and tenderness. One
gentle sentence delicately conveyed
needed rebuke. The written characters
even were eloquent in sweet associa-
tiOns, and awakened the music of long
and Ieverberating chords of memory.
Such are Christ's words to Il loving
heart. Many are stained with tears,
some with blood. Some allude to his
own sufferings, some to ours. Some
have been tried in our fire. All have
been weighed in Gods balance and
none found wanting. Every word of
God is good good for each of us at
some time, under some circumstances.
Love alone can discern their significance
and drink in their meetness. When
love reigns in Il soul it is difficult not to
remember and feel the abiding words
of Jesus.
Thus may we offer specific prayer
that is sure of Il specific answer. ''lf
my words abide in you ye shall ask
what we will and it shall he done unto
you" Reader, can you claim and plead
the promise Christian Mirror.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-11-01

THE DOLLAR THEN AND Now.-In
1864 the greenback dollar would buy
two yards of calico. Now it will buy
sixteen. In 1864 the working mans
$3.50 for days work would buy three
yards of calico for his wife. Now his 81
a day will buy her sixteen.
In 1864 it took the laborer, working
at $3.50 day, twenty-five and one-half
days to earn enough to buy a barrel of
pork. Now if he only gets 81 day he
can buy barrel in eight or nine days.
In 1864 the price of days labor
S1.5O-was equal to that of three yards
of brown muslin. Now the price of a
days labor-$1-is equal to that of
twelve and One-half yards of brown
muslin.
In 1864 days labor at $3.50 would
buy one gallon of molasses. Now a
days work at 81 will buy two and one
half gallons.
And yet the greenback orators and
papers ask the laborers of this country
to vote to go back to the currency OF
1864.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-11-01
"As One Whom His Mother Com
forteth."

Whatever there is in the universe has
been first in the mind, in the heart, in
the nature of God. He calls himself
our father, and now he speaks of him
self as our mother. All human rela-
tiOnships seem to lie intended to show
us God. We could never reach to the
conception of the fatherhood of God if
we did not have human fathers, and
there are loves III the recesses of the
nature of God which we can only reach
through our knowledge of the heart
that is in our mothers. In him we live
and move and have our being. "All
my springs are in thee" We are his
offspring.
Her many children never become
COMPOUNDED in Il mothers heart. She
not only knows all, she knows each !:
she knows his popularity of bodily con-
stitutiOn and of temperament, and his
mental peculiarities. She knows how
to reach him and what to do for him.
The wife may be as fond as wife can
be, but she does not know what kind
of babe or boy her husband was, but
his mother knows it all. So the Lord
"knOweth our frame he remembered
that we are dust"
In it's little hurts, disappointments,
and distresses, no one can comfort
child like its mother, for no one will
allow for it and be tender to it, even
when it is naughty and bad. So God
comforts us with the comfort which
each one needs. He can comfort us all
the more if we will recognize that he is
verify our spiritual mother, if we can
call him as the Psalms dO-Our OiUn God.
Another mans mother may be best for
him, but my own mother is my best
comfort.
A mothers love never fails her child.
Ordinarily as long as he lives, though
he himself should become an old man
before his mother dies, she is tender
toward him. In his infancy, in the
night, when others weary, she wakes
and watches and yearns over him, and
that yearning goes out to him through
his career of life. She loves him with
an everlasting love, and the Lord says
to each one of his children, 81 will love
thee with an everlasting love-"
A mother sacrifices ease, comfort,
pleasure, for heI child, devOtes her days
and nights to the wearied, the sick, or
disabled child. Just as she fondles,
consoles, fOrgives, and cheers her child,
so the Lord does his child. You will
readily recall a passage of Scripture to
suit each word in the preceding sen
tence. But nothing can make you ever
think too tenderly of God, nor feel too
tenderly of God, nor feel too fondly
toward him who has said to you. "As
one whom his mother comfOrteth, so
will comfort you."-ReU. DIR. Deems,
IN Sunday Magasine.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-11-01

Nova Scotia during the French and In
dian war?
2. Upon this sad event what poem
has been founded
8. What made the act of Government
seem especially heartless 2
9. What town stands on the site of
the old French Fort Du Quesneq
10. From what point in Canada to
what point in the United States did the
French build forts and how many did
they possess?
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-11-01

SEEK INNOCENT PLEASURE. - Seek
pleasure whenever you can consistently
do so. No enjoyment, however incon-
siderable, is confined to the present
moment. A man is the happier for life
from having once made an agreeable
tour, or lived any length of time with
pleasant people, or enjoyed any consid-
cradle intervals of innocent pleasure.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-11-01
Assiunee's Sale,

In the District Court of the United States for IL,
District of Vermont. In the matter of FIN
LEY GREEN, Bankrupt.
Notice is hereby given that I will sell at pubr,
auction at the Tannery in Hardwick village oo
at o'clock in the afternoon to the highest HT
der for cash, the following property belonging to
said bankrupt's estate, to wit: l covered b1oyy
wagon l open buggy wagon, lumber wagon
pipe, set Fairbanks platform scales bark co-t
the books of account and sundry notes.
51-53 H. E. CARTER, AssgDes