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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-12-06
Bankruptcy Notices.
IN BANKRUPTCY,

IN the District Courtof the United States for the
l'Dstrict Of Vermont. In Re. Geo. B Fessenden,
Bankrupt-In Bankruptcy. No. III. District Of
Vermont.
SrR:-Notice is hereby given that petition has
been filed in said Court, by Geo b. Fessrnden, of
Nexbury, in said Dis rict duly declared bankrupt
under the Act OF Congress Of March I'd, 1867 for q
discharge and certificate thereof, from all his debts
and other claims provsble under said Act, and that
the 9TH day OF January 1879 at o'clock a. m
before the Hon. Hoyt II. Wheeler, judge Of said
Court, at the U. $. Court Rooms in Burlington Ia
assigned for the hearing Of tbs same, when and
where all creditors WHO have proved their debts,
and other persons in interest may attend and show
cause II any they have Why the pray Of said pet-
ton should Tot be granted
Dated at Burlington, on the 18th DAY of Eovember
1873. d L sMALLEY, Clerk
Z3g3g
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lime Is money, but heslth is happiness. II you
have bad cold or cough, use DR.. Bulls Cough
Syrup, 1t will cure you. Price, Is cents.
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We are calling your attention to the
largest sale of Clothing, for Mems,
Youths and Boys wear, ever in opera
tion in this city.
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DEATHS.

( Color. Sex. Ages by Years.
: VIII Col m. F. UIIto5 5tO2O. 2otO5O 5Oto7O o 70
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-03-30

MOST ladies choose a doc. a cat. n
canary or pony for a net, and often
:. set their lives unon them. ), but rarely
does one hear of a ladv's ATTACHING her
self TO such STRANGE nets as the writer
saw at Mrs. Lincoin's. "a Howard
street, a dav or two AGO. Living in the
family are a couple of lions. twentv-one
months old. brought up by the hand of
Mrs. Lincoln. They are African lions.
a species not easily reared in this coun-
try, but Mrs. Lincoln has succeeded. by
the exercise of great care, in rearing
them to their present AGE and size. The
male weiphs about 25O mounds and the
female perhaps tiftvpounds less. They
have been at the house on Howard
street since last Sentember. and. until
within a month have had :. tho ,un of
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-03-30
Early Rising.

THERE is another class of superSti-
tons borne down to us from the grabbed
times of our Puritan ancestry which |
facedly own. They were the daily max
inns which formed part of the teach
ing of every genuine New England
home, and their permanence as part
of our mental constitution is an encour
aging circumstance to educators who
sometimes are inclined to think that
even line upon line and precept upon
precept fail to make their impression
upon the hayward mind of youth. To
remove this fear, we stand as living
monuments, boldly avowing, first, that
we find it constantly difficult to con-
vince ourselves-though our reason tells
us that we are absurd-that it is not a
moral duty to rise before, or at least
with, the sun. Day by day, as we de-
scend to our eight-o' clock or nine
O. clock breakfast, we are conscious OF
a certain sense of moral torpitude which
we know to be unreasonable. 1t is in
the effort to shake OF this sense, which
is only the remnant of an old supersti-
ton, that | write. The general axioms
on the subject of early rising, which
helped to make the New England
Primer and the Farmers Almanac a
never-failing source of supposed i'm
provement, and which were afterward
accommodated by Franklin, do not apply
to the present day nor to city life.
What is gained even for useful work
by rising at six, and then being obliged
to take nap in the middle of the day?
Why not do up all our sleeping at once,
and have a clear sweep for work? If,
again, one could carefully rake up and
cover the embers of his fire at nine p.
m, and sleep the sleep of the righteous
till six, he might possibly rise at six, or
even five, though why, even in that
case, any sane person should insist on
doing two hours work before eating,
and call such action virtue, l could
never understand. Circumstances al
ter rules as well as cases, which is
what we of Puritan stock find it hard to
understand. l myself know two young
women of New England birth and
training who, though they 90 into much
evening society, and are frequently
awake at midnight or after, each week
during the New York winter, vet per-
sist in being punctual every morning at
the half-past seven breakfast of the
family. True, they have no appetites;
true, they take long maps in the
afternoon; true, they break down every
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-03-30

and assaying gold and silver are car
ried on in the Assay Office, in this city,
on quite as large scale as at the Phila-
delphia Mint Not only Government
work is done here, but large deposits
are made daily of gold and silver bull
ion by private individuals. Gold 81 al
ways found alloyed with silver, and it
is never found with any other alloy.
To separate the silver from the gold,
the bullion is boiled in sulphuric acid,
which removes the alloy; the gold is
then reboiled and reduced to coarse
powder resembling clay. Its purity
then is 99S or 999. The silver, mixed
with copper, is run into watts on lower
floor, and is purified and granulated,
when it resembles pipe-clay. The gran
ulated gold and silver are pressed into
large cheeses in a hydraulic press. A
cheese of gold, twelve inches in dame
ter and three inches thick, is worth
$4,000; a silver cheese of the same
size is worth 5000. The sulphuric acid,
after it is used, produces sediment of
blue vitriol, which is much prettier than
either the gold or the silver seen in the
Assay Office. The vitriol and the weak
acid are both sold for as much money
as the original acid costs. The substi-
tuition of sulphuric acid for nitric has
caused a saving to the New York Assay
Office alone of 100000 year. De-
positors receive their gold and silver
separately at standard purity, 900.
Pure metal is also sent to the Assay
Office from the various refneries to be
alloyed. From United States refineries
silver is generally sent in large bars or
cakes; and small amount of Mexican
metal is received in thin, irregular
shaped pieces called disks. The fumes
from the watts and the furnaces in the
Assay Office are condensed and sold as
weak acid. Only a small amount of the
gas escapes into the atmosphere, and
although it is slightly offensive it is not
injurious. On the contrary, this gas is
an excellent disinfectant, and acts upon
dead matter rather than living. The
same precautions are taken to prevent
loss in the Assay Office as in the great
mints. The ashes, the sweepings from
the floor, the crucibles and all the in
struments which come in contact with
the precious metals are washed and
ground in a machine constructed for
the purpose, and the stray particles of
silver and gold are gathered together
N. Y. Times.
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With the addition of some huge thir-
tv-eight-ton guns, the heaviest artillery
at present in the service, to the defenses
of the Thames, the forts which now pro-
tect London on the other side of the
sea may be considered in satisfactory
condition. We rarely regard London
as a fortified city, and yet against the
attack of hostile squadron it is as well
assured as any other port in the world.
1t is only within the past few years that
any really serious steps have been made
for the proper defense of the center of
the nations greatness. At any time,
no doubt, we could organize in few
days a system of torpedo defense which
would, if successful, effectually bar
progress up the river; but torpedoes are
at best treacherous kind of weapon,
and are apt, at times, to be as danger
Gus to friend as to foe. Coming up to
the More, the first opposition that an
enemy would be likely to meet with are
the Sheerness forts and the Isle of Grain
guns, together with any long-mnge
cannon which might happen to be in
position on the Essex shore at Shoebury-
ness. In the event of the hostile squad
ron passing these, it would next have
to cope with a very powerful battery at
Coal-house Point, and another Oh the
oppositite shore, called the new
Shornmeade Fort. These wyksaount
guns of very heavy caliber, and aye so
constructed that they may Qpers~ W
unison and deliver a sweeping cross
fire. Moreover, the reach of the river
is of such nature that the cannon OF
the forts could command any ships
coming up the river couple of miles
before the latter came abreast of the
batteries. If we suppose, however, the
enemy to be successful in evaCing these
works also, then his progress would be
checked again by Tilbury Fort and its
companion work opposite New Tavern
Fort. These forts are also fitted with
guns of heavy caliber and long range,
those on the Kent shore commanding
the whole of the long reach in the river
just below Gravesend. 1t would only
be in the event of an enemy rlnning the
gauntlet of those big guns that it would
have any chance whatever OF reaching
the Government factories at Woolwich,
or those docks whose overlooking riches
the world has heard vaunled so much
and SO often. NeaUS
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-03-30
Mrs. Hayes Grace and Tact.

THE little son of Representative Eel
ton, of Georgia, has been lying at the
point of death for many weeks in this
city. He is the last and only child left
his parents, and sympathy was deep
among their friends. At the White
House, where the little fellow was
known-he is about the age of little
Scott-the mother heart of Mrs. Hayes
brimmed over with tenderness. Two
days ago the fever, contrary to all eX-
pectation, left the patient, and with the
first tidings there came a great basket
of the rarest flowers from the White
House. Never a bud had been sent
during the hours of watching agony.
How sensitive the woman's intuitions,
that knew no leaf could cheer the moth
er at that time; they would have
brought but fresh stab, because the
beautiful in nature could SO bloom on
while human hearts were dark. But
when danger was passed-what ecstasy
to study the velvet petals. and see the
goodness of the Almighty pencied on
every leaf. Then the fragrance foated
through the fever-tainted room, con-
slant reminder of the thoughtful au-
thor. 1t is this strangely-intuitive tact
that marks Mrs. Hayes in my mind pre-
eminent among all the women | have
seen. She knows, without being told,
how to do a graceful thing and a ten
der. She always says the right thing
at the right time; in conversation she
avoids unpleasant topics with an al
most clairvoyant knowledge of their
effect, and in the deep sorrow of life
understands when the wound should be
touched, when left alone Washington
Cor. ChicaQO Times.
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person whose doctor would not per-
NIT him to eat potatoes, fruits, wine,
etc." OF course it means to say that
the doctor would not permiv him to
drink potatoes, fruit, wine, etc. This
shows how one little word may destroy
the Graphic.
Jeremy Taylor says of marriages:
g If you are for pleasure, marry; if you
prize your health, marry; if money be
your object, marry. A good wife is
Heavens last best gift to man, his angel
and minister of graces innumerable, his
gem of many virtues, his casket of
jewels"
Mrs. Bell, the wife of one of the
bonanza men, is going to Europe to
astonish the natives, and has provided
herself in advance with wonderful
wardrobe from Worth's and $3.50, 900
worth of diamonds. She appears from
the descriptions in the papers to have
worn all of the diamonds, but very few
of the clothes, at the recent charity ball
in New York.
LEGAL TENDER.
| show'd my love my fond heart,
And asked would she be mine
Till cruel death do us part!
She answered me, dch Heni
! show'd my love my bank book
All, then | touched her soul!
She sigh'd with such frank look,
And sweetly lisped, yah lcoW
". Y. Commercial advertiser.
- In the Senate, recently, Mr.. Cock
rell got resolution through, instruct
ing the Commissioner of Agriculture
to furnish the Senate all the informa-
ton in his possession relative to the
hog cholera. We trust that Mr.. Cock
rell is unnecessarily alarmed, and that
there is really no danger that this
fell disease will break up the United
States Senate before the end of the ses-
sion.-HdWk-Eye.
RUMoR's GROWTH.
Says Gossip One to Gossip Two
While shopping in the town.
''Old Mrs. Pry to me remarked,
Smith bought his goods of Brown"
Says Gossip Two to Gossip Three,
When buying her a gown
give heard it said to-day, my dear,
Smith got his goods of Brown"
Says Gossip Three to Gossip Four,
With something of a frown
"Ive heard strange news-what do YOU think p.
Smith took his goods from Brown"
Says Gossip Four to Gossip Five,
Who blaZed in round the town:
"Ive heard to-day such shocking news!
Smith stole his goods from Brown"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-03-30
Mems Love and Self-LOye.

Girls are sometimes admonished not
to tlirt because, however pleasant it
might be to them, it might break the
hearts of those with whom they firt
Nonsense. We have heard of victims
Of blighted affection, but never yet
came across one. Time, in this sort of
matter, works wonders. We doubt
whether any man ever yet died of q
broken heart. Men are more vain than
women. There are exceedingly few of
them who are not flattered by the idea
of some woman falling in love with
them. The lady for the moment af-
fords them this qualification of self-love.
She makes herself as agreeable as she
can. If the vanity of the man leads
him to believe that she has fallen vic
tim to his charms, this is his fault, not
hers. The illusion has raised him to
the seventh heaven for a brief period,
and if the period be short he has been
the gamer. In one of De Bernard's
novels he describes an old Captain who
lives supremely happy because he fan
cies that, some years ago, some girl
died of broken heart because he had
declined to marry her. He carries
about her portrait, and on all occasions
takes it out and weeps over it. One
day, however, he meets the girl, who
had not died. but had married grocer,
and forgot all about the Captain. He
is in despair. He can no longer in
dulge in the luxury Of grieving over the
sad fate of the object of his youthful af-
fections. Flirt on, young ladies, and
do not imagine that the amusement will
break the heart of anyone. 1t may
wound his vanity, quite likely, and
where this is the only quality the man
has the blow may stagger him. But it
will do him good-show him his real
selfishness. So tlirt on, young ladies,
but at the same time temper the blow
to the tenderness of the youth who is to
receive it.-BOU Bells.
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year by March; yet they CALAMITY re-
turn to the assault every autumn, and
would feel ashamed and guilty if they
did otherwise. So strong is the force
of superstition!
In the future more perfect days
will be considered sin to awake any
one from sleep except in cases of life
and death, and our grandchildren may
perhaps be free from = the inherited
weakness of believing, because the
flowers and the chickens and the birds
wake when the sun does, that therefore
a human being should do so. BY what
logic do we select the one action OF
waking as suitable for our imitation
AaaG c. Bracket, IN Harper s Magazine.
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REV. JOB WAsHBURNE, of Rockport,
Me-, ninety-two years old, has just left
off the use of tobacco, because he has
always despised filthy old men and
does not propose to become one him
self.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-03-30

A New YORK paper finds that 1,204
different languages are spoken in
America. No wonder a husband does
not always understand when asked for
q new dress.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-03-30

THE stretcher used to punish convicts
in the New Jersey State Prison is war
ranted to kill an average man in four
minutes.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-03-30

The Iowa Senate has passed a bill
making County Treasurers ineligible
for more than two consecutive terms.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-03-30

A GRACEFUL exits one of the hardest
things to learn in acting.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-03-30

"DURNG his ministry he made 600
hearts beat as 300," is the way a
Maine paper neatly puts it concerning
a local pastor.
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SKEPTIcs are like consumptives-they
are always soothing.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1878-01-25
o Is Kr u ~ h " .

The memory Of q christian, whose char.
acter was so exalted and exemplary rs
that of Mrs. SUSAN Il. INsKEgp, should
be cherished as a choice treasure.
| remember her as young and beau.
tiful girl in tue home of her father. WV.
VAScE, Esq About that time she was
married to Henry NJ. INsKEEr-for ma.
NY years trusted officer in the Valley
Bank at Romney and went TO his home
on the South Branch OF the Potomac
where she resided until her death.
Many years ago she beclm, member
Of the Presbyterian Church, in Romuey,
and from that time was recognized by
all who knew her as a consistent chris.
tian. The declaration Of Scripture, that,
through much tribulation" we must en-.
ter the Kingdom, was excmpife1 in her
experience. a young daughter, just
budding into womanhood. was taken a
way. under peculiarly trying circumstan.
ces, and shortly after her husband died
suddenly, leaving her a widow. with four
children. Two Of these she followed 10
the grave IN less than year Of each
other. Though strong in her affections
aud devoted to her family. it may he
truly said OF her. through all thesc trials
she was patient in tribu'ation"
Modest and retiring, AMI very domes-
tic in her disposition, it was only 70 her
immediate relatives AMI her few init.
mate friends that her real worth was
known.
She was aGectionate and confding
her utter forgetfulness Of self in her dc.
sire 10 promote the comfort Of others,
and the c,nstancy Of her friendships
were distinguishing traits in her charac-
ter. To excel lent sense and judgment
was aide great gentleness OF manner
and whilst firm in her adherence to what
she believed to be right, she exhibited
in remarkable degree that meek an 4
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NJ ~ SREED.

At the residence Ct The brides parents. on
Capon river. on The 10th inst, by The Rev. W.
Eichelberger, Mr.. ALosz' VI. KEi.rER to Miss
MAG"IK z. DAVIS, both of this county.
On the Sih INST, 10y the Rev. Joha Johnston,
OF the residence of Felix Seymour. Esq, Mr.
DAsisL Y. JUoY to Miss SAaAu J. SMITH, all oil
Giant county.
At the residence Of Mr. Amos Umstoi, 10 re t..
ger, on the l5th inst, by The Rev. ]. NJ. ely.
mer, Mr BENJAMIN PARkEa to Miss Bells PAK.Ep,
all Of this county.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1878-01-25

10 The latest Charles Ross turnel up
in Baltimore on Saturday last He was
landed from steamer just arrive from
Demarara, anil says he was stolen from
his home about foar years ago, by ne.
gro woman anil taken 10 that far off
lard in the tropics. lie has not vet
been identified by his parents. however.
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quiet spiri. So commended BY our sa.

quiet spirit SO commended by our Sa.
vicr. - 81
She believed The Scripture implicitly.
and earnestly endeavorcd to act in nc.
cordancc with IT'S teachings. Especially
was she diligent TN tying to train up
her children in the nurture and admoni-
ton OF the l. ,rd. have heard it said.
10y one long since dead. that she was in
the habit of taking her little children. at
stated periods. to her private room aud
there praying with. and instructing them
in the Sculptures. s
Her influence was always decided on
the side OF Christ. She was ever ready
to visit the sick. to minister to the wants
of the needy. and to aid in every good
work.
To few. with as much propriety as TO
her. may be applied the words OF King
Lemuel:
'rhe heart of her husband did safely
7" trust in her.
"She stretched out her hands to the
poor, and reached forth her hands to
the needy"
"Ske opened her mouth with wisdom,
and in her tongue was the law of
kindness"
"She looked well TO the ways OF her
household. AMI ate not the bread of
e idleness.
"IIer chillten arise up and call her
blessed"
Although in feeble health for years,
she bore her suiferings with su,h cheer
fulness as almost to deceive her family
as to her real condition. When she
found that ''the Master had come and
called for her." with the utmost comp o.
sure she assembled her hou sehol around
her to receive her parting advice and
blessing. With tenderness and so;em
nifty she spoke fitting worls to each one,
and then meokly resigned her spirit in
to the hands Of Him who gave it.
A FRIEND.
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DIR. Tut has been en-
gagged in the practice OF
medicine thirty years, and
foralong time was demon.
strltor of anatomy in the
Medical College of Geor-
gia. hence persons using
his Pills have the guaran-
tee that they are prepared
on scientific principles,
and are free from all
quackery.
lie has succeeded in
combining in them the
heretofore antagonistic
qualities of n strengthen.
fHg,pHygofiVe, dHdd bnr.
iLying ionic.
Their first apparent cf.
feet is to increase the ap.
petite by causing the food
to- properly n ssimilate.
Thus the system is nour.
ishcd, and by their tonic
action on the digestive or
garis, regular and healthy
excavations are produced.
The rapidity with which
Persons take on Essh,
while under the influence
of these pills, Of Itself in
dicates their adaptability
TO nourish the body, and
hence their efhcacyin Cur.
ing nervous debility, mel.
ancholy, dyspepsia, vast.
ing OF the muscles, slug.
gishness Of the liver,
chronic constipation, and
myth TO the system. Sold
Ia ray Street, New York.
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WEST VIRGINIA. ro w1r.-Ai

w EST VIRGINIA, TO WIT - At
rules held in the Clerks Office OF
the Circuit Court of Hampshire County,
on the first Monday In January, 1878.
Thomas Ludwick,
as.
Esdras Ludwiclt, William II. Ind wick.
William Gilbert and Sarah his wife,
late Sarah Ludwick. Linus johnson
aud Catharine his wife, late Catharine
Ludwick, Elmer Everett and Mary
Ann bis wife, late Mary Ann Lud-
wick. and Ailsey Ludwick, Degen-
dants, In CuANcEIY.
The object OF this suit, is 20 try by
proper issues whether a writing admit,
ted to Probate in the Clerks Office of
the County Court Of Hampshire county.
be the true last will and testament Of
Joseph Ludwick, decd. To invalidate
letters Parliamentary, granted 10 Esdr. 6
budwick. on the sail writing, and for
other and further relief In equity. &c.
And it appearing from an affidavit
fled in this cause, that the defendants.
Linus Johnson and Calharine his wife.
late Catharine Ludwick. and Esdraa
EudwicS. are non residents Of the State
Of West Virginia: 1t is ordered. that
the said defendants do appear at tic
next rule day, held In said Office on the
first Monday in February, 1878, anil 10
what is necessary 20 protect their inter.
ests. Teste,
v. NJ. POLLING, cccut.
Jan. II, 1878.
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Do WON It may Conoern.

HAVlNG administered on the Ests,e ~ n,
u Il John ~. Snyder, decd, would NOTE
AZ pefsons who are indebted 10 The Fs,s,e !,
make prompt payment to r. W. DtLrv. n,
snd all having Claims against The Estate viii
present the same 10 him VIII
VIRGINIA b. SNYDER.
ROM ne. ~, ,s-- Admioiststrx.