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The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-07-24

Circuit, in this vote secured just the
requisite number to nominate him as
candidate for Congress, a result that
was received amid tumultuous cheers.
Col. Clarke promptly moved that the
nomination be made unanimous, which
was carried. The General was then
introduced and made a brief and hap
Ply speech of thanks for the honor con-
ferred. Thus endeth the hardest fight
that has been fought in this district
since the celebrated Hoyt and Baxter
campaign. During the taking Of the
seventh ballot the committee appoint
ed to nominate district committee re-
ported the following named gentlemen
who were elected:
VIM. Harmon, W. L. Lewis, g,
D. D. Weed, II. II. Hill,
P. X. Gleed, T. A. Chase.
Among the representatives of the
press were Albert Clarke and D. w.
Dixon of the st. Adams MESSENGER
E. M. Smith of the Boston Journal
NJ :. j. Maloney of the advertiser
johnson of the Free Press, Love O
the Sunday Revieao, Tobin of tn,
Courier, and Kinsley of the CIipper
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Liberation Notice

This is to notify all persons that / have given
my stop-son, Henry d, Sargent his tinc during
the remainder Of his minority, and shall claim
none Of his wages nor pay any debts Of his con-
tracing after this date. \. l.. FLlNTON.
j. S. WHITNEY Witness.
HydePark, VT, July Stn, 1878 1915
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AGMiNed Cards, Withnamc Oua.igi
GBOuldt2 5c. CLINTON BROS, t.Uia0u.gGi
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-07-24

HYDE PARK, VT. JULY "a, 1873.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-07-24

to the public without fear Of f Sa,r John Dal
ton as the best restorative oa anp rod % house
PRICE, ONE DOLLAR PER Butte No.
sold by all Druggists - spel
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The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-05-02

sharp reply. "Fools,'' she would say, ''if
I knew where money was buried, do you
think l would part with the secret2"
Moll Pitcher died in 1918. at the age of
seventy. She was originally of Marble
head, and is said 20 have inherited the
gift of prophecy from her grandfather,
John Dimond, who must, however, have
lived in time when 1t was neither wise
nor safe to exercise powers then universal
ly attributed to the Evil One. Her faith
er sailed out of Marblehead as master of
small vessel. Mary Dimond married
Robert Pitcher q shoemaker in 1850.
Mr.. Lewis, the historian of Lynn, asserts
that she was connected with some Of the
best families in Essex, that, except her
fortune-telling pretension, there was moth
ing disreptable in her life, and that her
descendants we're living and respected
when he wrote. Her life seems rather
to mark the line which divides old and
new superstition than any decay of that in
extinguisnable craving to pry into futurity
which has distinguished the human fami-
ly in all ages. One of our native poets re-
gretful'y exclaims:
Even she, our own weird heroine,
Sole Pythoness of ancient Lynn,
Sleeps calmly where the living laid her;
And the wide realm OF sorcery,
Left by its latest mistress free,
Hath found no gray and skilled invader"
S. 4. Drake, in Harper's Magazine for Nay.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-05-02

how absurd are many popular notions
in regard to the fleetness of thought,
how exaggerated are the terrors Of re-
morseful memory that moralists have
invented for the moment of dying
And we may reasonably discount
also the stories told by men saved
from drowning, cut down before
death by hanging, or rescued from
sudden and deadly peril from other
causes. No doubt a man may think
of a great multitude Of experiences,
good or bad, in a few minutes; but
that the thoughts and emotions of a
long life may surge through the mind
during the seconds Ct asphyxiation
are manifestly impossible,
Admit that the speed of mental &C
ton is abnormally rapid at such
times, say twenty-five hundred simple
cOgnitiOnS a minute, or 10000 an
hour. If man were an hour in
drowning, instead of a few minutes,
and all the time be given to a mental
review of his life, he would, if forty
years old, have time to give ten
thoughts OF the simplest character to
each day that he had lived. In other
words memory would have time to
review the experiences of at most the
hnndredth part of one second out of
each days waking thousands.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-05-02

toned medical rates, stands thus: John
Rollins, to an all night visit to his wife,
81 so. There is no larger single charge
than this John lived several miles away
in neighboring town, and this charge
covered the long ride in that old gig, per
haps in some stormy night, over rough
roads, and the whole night away from
home.
Our old doctor was very busy man.
He always endeavored to 60 to church at
least half day on Sunday. But when
in church it was no uncommon thing for
him to be called out of meeting to attend
some one. And what sensation of SYM
patty would run through the quiet con-
gregation as the good doctor would
quietly glide down the broad aisle to
meet the serious messenger. And how
rapidly, after the service was ended,
would everyone in that assembly know
Just where the doctor had been called,
and Just how much the caller needed his
service.
AS we to day run over the old doctors
daybook, we call to mind the fact that all
the patients and the old doctor himself
sleep the sleep that knows no waking.
All his skill and all his powerful drugs
could only ease their passage to the rural
graveyard now so populOus and where SO
many generations of the towns people
rest under the sod. Follow through the
old book of charges the doctors connec-
ton with one and another of these depart
ed patients, and you will be surprised by
the fact that they all must have sv allowed
vast quantity of the doctors potions
before the day came when even the conf
dent doctor would come to the conclusion
that he might just as we'll as not open the
old medicine trunk.
The doctors death was sudden one,
and he had no opportunity to experiment
rpon himself in his last hours. One
pleasant Sabbath morning while sitting
quietly in his pew at church, one car lis
tenlng to the good preacher, the other
alert for the oft-coming summons from
the porch, messenger he little dreamed
of seeing that morning came, all unob
served, and touched him lightly upon the
shoulder, and called him away from his
old patients. The messenger was the
messenger of death. In his long years
of hard work he had had many close
views of the dread messenger, and many
and many time had he argued with
him and parleyed with him in the sick
chambers of the village when he had
come for others. This time the message
the summons, was for the doctor himself,
and there was but moments delay in
Servinu If
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-05-02
ONE OF THE HIGHEST MOUNTAINS.

According to recent geographical
surveys it seems that the Aconcagua
Peak is the loftiest of the Andes
range, and the highest in America.
1t is 100 miles east Of Valparaiso, and
nearly in latitude 800 30> south. Its
actual height is not accurately known,
but the measurements made by NJ.
PIssis and other noted scientists make
certain that the elevation
is between %. 400 and % 900 feet above
the waters of the sea. The French
explorer made it % 422, or four miles
and 1902 feet over, which would be
o9S feet higher than the snowy sum-
NIT of Chimborazo. as Humboldt
measured the latter, when in 1862 the
the great German made his famous
ascent of that mountain with Bon
pland to height of 1925 feet.
Aconcagua. seen from the CHILEAN
seaport of Valparaiso. is shown only
as peak. towering above the other
heights of the Andes at distance Of
loo miles or more inland, toward the
sunrise. Aconcagua has been called
An extinct volcano. but the best ex-
aminations yet made Of its summit do
not appear to bear out that idea. The
recent observations make the height
of the CHILEAN mountain % 300 feet,
and probably" over the figure. The
elevation Of MeNico's highest noun
tain-Popocatepetl. or Smoking
Mountain is nearly 5000 feet less
than that Of the Gillian peak. and
Mount Hood fall short To about the
same figure. Pixies Peak is about
1900 feet lower than Aconcagua,
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-05-02
MOCl PITCHER,

The vicinity of High Rock was long
memorable as the residence of Moll Pitch
er, the fortune-teller Of Lynn. Twenty
five years ago there were verv few fire.
sides in New England that her fame had
not reached, perhaps disturbed; and he,
successful predictions, alike astounding
to the vulgar or perplexing to the e.
lightened, were the theme Of many q
midnight watch or forecastlc confab. She
was not the withered, decrepit, and
toothless crone of Spenser, or Otwav's
"Wrinkled bag, with age grown double,
Picking dry sticks and mumbling to herself
but woman who lived in the full gaze
and gossip of the world, which only &C
cepted her claim to foreknowledge upon
the uneqvivocal testimony of thousand
witnesses. Do you contend that her rep
utatiOn was due solely to the shrewdness,
penetration, and ready wit with which
she was undoubtedly and in remark.
able degree giftedl How, then, will you
explain revelations of the future made
ten and twenty years before the events
predicted took placed
When she was in the meridian of hel
fame and life the ordinary applicant saw
a woman of medium stature, having ar
unusually large head, pale thin face
shaded by masses of dark brown hair
who was ss thoroughly self possessed a.
he was Ill at ease. and whose comprehen
sive glance measured his mental capacity
before he could utter syllable. People
OF better discernment, who recollect her
say that her face had none of the wild
ness of the traditional wich. but wa,
clouded with habitual sadness. as OF &
mind overburdened with being the de
pository of so many condolences, perhap.
Grimes. She had full, capacious fore
head, eyes that read the secret thought:
of a suffer. nose inclined to be long,
and thin lips-a physiognomy wholly
unlike the popular ideal, but rather
that Of a modern Egeria; in short. the wict
of the nlnth;eenth century.
During the fifty years that she pursued
her trade of fortune telling. in what was
then a lonely and little frequented quar-
ter OF the town, not only was she consult
ed sy the Door and ignorant. but by the rich
and Intelligent class. Love affairs. lega.
cies. the discovery of crime. lotteries. com.
contingencies of fortune formed. We NAV
well imagine, the staple of her predictions
but the most valued clients came from
the oPulent sea ports within sight OF
High Rock The common sail1r and tire
lmeste-, the cabin-boy and the owner,
1ed to her humble abode to
TX Of the voyage. 1t is
nany = vessel has been de-
= the eve of sailing, in con
Ills uniucky vatcination.
uch hsought by treasure
y nunerous class In her
ited digging aiong the
ngonnd would, if usefully
ees6lmed for cultivation
= - Of virgin soil. For
- itch had short and
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-05-02

trating glance toward the door where the
old man still stood. and thinking. prob.
ably, that he had gone as far that way "
it was advisable to proceed at that time
carefully turned his horses head in the
opposite direction, and was seen to &C
down Lincoln Street.
The proprietor again seated himself al
the table, with the remark, "There,
guess have got lid of that potato man. y
But all human hopes are delusive. Nc
sooner were we airly at work, than door
bell No, 2 Lincoln Street rang. It was
no gentle ring, but regular hard pull,
showing conclusive evidence that the
operator at the bell-wire was in no amiabe
state of mind
''There is that potato-man again, and
must CO." said mine host, and, sure
enough, there he stood.
Neither spoke, both looking intently
into the others face, the one with his
long iron-gray locks and happy face run
ing over with fun and goodness the other,
puzzled, doubling, slowly taking the
dimensions Of the goot man with his eye,
from head to food and from foot to head.
retreating all the time backward down
the steps, and, with troubled, anxious
countenance, again mounted his wagon,
and feeling, doubtlesly, in his mind that
it would be utterly useless to proceed any
further in that direction, again turned
his horses head, determined this time to
make such circuit as to forever clear
himself from any possibility of again
meeting what, to his mind, seemed little
less than apparition.
By this time the matter had assumed
so comical a character that we deter.
mined to watch his movements. After he
was again seated, his innocent and un-
offending horse was surprised to find him
self receiving castigation from his usu-
ally kind master, without, to him. sufR-
cient cause. Casting one long, lingering
look behind, he proceeded up to the cor
ner again, still undetermined which wav
to 60, and being drawn, no doubt. by that
mysterious something which is apt to
draw, where mystery really exists. and
perhaps desiring to ascertain if he really
could find the jolly landlord at everv
door where he had so recently left him.
AT any rate he turned down Bedford
Street, closely scanning each door As he
passed.
All looked we'll, and with returning
courage he ratified on and turned the cor
ner of Columbia Street, and, after passing
two or three doors, to make what seemed
to him surety doubly sure. yet not with
out looking up the street just oace to see
if the old fellow was not after him, bold
y rang the doorbell of house number
three Columbia Street. Before the tink
ling bell had ceased its last note the old,
man, calm as ever stood before him:
"Great and holy jerusalem" said the
frightened potato-vender, and, without
losing time toi mount his wagon,
took his horse by the bit, and ives last
seen going down toward Albany Street at
a rate OF speed which greatly imperiled
the safety of the wagon and its unsold
contents.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-05-02
WORK 4HEAO FOR INVENTORS.

1t has been favorite dogma with
speculative philosophers that the
surest road to human improvement
and happiness lies through a limiting
of mans wants. All orr troubles
and most of orr crimes. they tell US.
arise from the multiplicity of orr
artificial needs and desires-from orr
cornplicating life with innumerabIe
inventions.
A practical philosopher. through a
transcendentalist, has = truer con-
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-05-02
POETRY
A ROYAL RACE.

"A hOIAl NANe.
Amongthe fine old sings that reign
Upon simple wooden throne,
There's one with but small domain,
But mark you, it is all his own.
And though upon his rustic towers
No blazOned standard waves it wing,
Thick leaty banners, flushed with flowers,
From all the fragrant easement swing.
And here in royal homespun, bow
bis nut-brown court at night and morn;
The brOnzed Field Marshal OF the Plough,
The Chancellor OF Wheat and corn.
The Keeper of the Golden Stacks,
The Mistress of the Milking pail.
The bold Knights OF the Ringing Axe,
The Heralds OF the Sounding Fiail
The Ladies Of the New -mown Hay,
The Master OF the Spade and Hoe,
The Minstrels of the glorious lay
That all the Sons OF Freedom know
And thus, while on the seasons roll.
He wins from the inspiring sod
The brawny arm and nerve of soul
That serve his country and his God.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-05-02
CURIOUS TELEPHONE EXP ERlmsNTs


In note to the French academy.
NJ Brequet says that all the points OF
the telephone-the handle the binding
screws, the shell. ETC., as we'll as the
plate, may enable one to hear sounds.
He demonstrated this with the string
telephone. Attaching the string to
any point of the bell telephone, and
using the parchment membrane, one
may easily corresond with person
using bell telephone. Thus, by at
taching several string telephones to a
bell telephone, several persons may
hear the messages simultaneously.
To render string telephones more
practically useful, NJ. Brequet fixes
to the cen.er of the membrane two or
several strings meeting there at an
angle The sound carried by one Of
them is propagated by all the others.
A thread is also passed through the
centers of membranes, which then
served as supports for long. straight
lines. a sort of relay is also formed
by means of brass cylinder with two
membranes. to which strings are con-
nected. This method of extending
the string telephone has been in use in
this country for the past three years.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-05-02
SCIENCE
FlA1uLENr DYSPEPSIA.

At a recent meeting of the Paris
Academy of Medicine, NJ. Leven read
a paper on the gases of the stomach
and tlatulent dyspepsia. He is Of
opinion, says the Journal Of Chemis-
try that food does not produce gas, and
that the gases which are found in the
digestive tube proceed from the eX-
ternal air, the blood and fsecal matter.
These gases are continually put in
motion by the pathological contrac-
tons Of the muscular fibers of the
intestines. Expelled by the mouth
they are constantly renewed, and their
production may be as incesSant in q
starving man as in one who is well
fed. This symptom of production of
gas, therefore, signifies an irritation
of the stomach, which is always con-
secutive to Il long-standing gastric
dyspepsia. The progress Of the
disease and the treatment to be adop-
ted for it's cure confirm these data of
clinical observation. There is no need
to seek for any therapeutic agent to
combat these gaSses.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-29
inc Jefrerson couptv near IT, Atk;n.

ing Jefferson county near Fl. Akin
son, veered round to the north, then
to the east.
Primrose, Perry snd Montrose in
this county suffered much damage.
Reports indicate thirty lives lost, and
between fifty and one hundred injur-
ed in this county alone. The track of
the storm is everywhere marked by
desolation and ruin. Its width is
from quarter to half a mile. 1t lift
ed in several places only to come
down with renewed energy and
force. 1t was accompanied by thun-
der and lightning Oft most terrific
nature. The belt of country travers-
ed is low and wet and in favorable
condition for the development of at
mospheric electricity. A storm of
like intensity passed over nearly the
same belt of country about twenty
five years ago. News from the inte-
rior is worry slow in reaching here,
but from accounts already received.
it is evident that the worst is yet to
be learned. The loss to property
can't be estimated, but will undoubt-
eddy reach hundreds of thousands of
dollars, while the loss of life, it lie
feared, will largely exceed the present
estimate.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-29

kearney, the notorious agitator of
San Francisco, who was lately the
leader of the Communistic forces
there, and who has been deposed.
headed deputation recently to the
Roman Catholic Archbishop, who af-
ter listening to wordy harangue, adj
dressed Kearney as follows: "Mr.
kearney. understand that you wish
me to mind my business. Very good !;
perhaps you know what my business
is better than l do. But, Mr.. Kearn-
ey, there is only one person who is at
present authorized to show me how
to mind my business, and that is the
Pope of Rome. Perhaps, Mr.. Kear-
ney, if you write to him he will trans
fer that power to you. And now let
me tell you little story, Mr.. Kear-
ney. have lived here q great many
years, and | know the temper of the
people of California pretty well, and
q long time ago, before you had come
to America, went to bed one night
leaving everything going on in the
city as usual. Well, Mr.. Kearney, af-
ter comfortable nights rest l arose
and looked out of the window, and
there on the street was poor fellow
hanging by his neck, dead, suspended
from . lamp post. He was a poor
fellow who did not know how to
mind his own business. Mr.. Kearney,
and that was all. You mind yonr
business well, Mr.. Kearney, and
will mind mine. Good morning. y
That arch bishop is, undoubtedly. a
pretty good specimen of the muscular
Christian, and thorough bred Pacific
sloper withal.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-29
AwErkLyllsr

Of United States patents issued tc
the inventors of lows, for the week
ending May IA, 1878, and each pat.
emit in the list will besr that date.
Reported expressly by telegra ph
for the COURIER, by A. HI. Evans &
Co, Patent solicitors, Washington,
ID. G.
J B Fisher, Davenport, Fences.
Curtis & Andrews, Lemars, Hoes
and Cultivatora.
w Gamfert, Keokuk, Wood Sole
Shoes.
81 Gordon, Winterset, Laundry
Apparatus.
T. 8. Mcdowell, Davenport, Paper
covers for telegraph reporters.
Chamberg & Day, Sabuls, Dat meal
machine.
DE- Brown, Jr., Charlton, Combin-
ed Vice, Wrench, etc.
Clifford & Pyle, Iowa Falls, Steam
Boilers, etc.
Grinnell & Buskins, Waverly, We
hicle Top Adjuster.
Kuntz 4 Shredder, Dubuque, ve-
hicle Top.
s Miller, Clinton, Metallic Fence
Post.
II Reynolds, Marshalltown, Fence
Barb.
CE Patterson, Covington township
Circulating machine.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-29
Wanted, a Man to "sit with Sal.


Yesterday afternoon a green-look.
ing couple, evidently newly married
called at the Photographic gallery Of
Beals & Waterhouse and wanted theil
pictures taken. just as Mr.. Beals had
got his plates ready the man called
him aside and said he wanted to ask
him favor. IL was told in Carson
you took the best pictures in the
State. Now, you see, Sal and l go,
hitched down there last Monday now
her folks go good deal on style, and
they live in Chicago. They never
saw me, and if send my mug back
East they'll be dead agin me sure
Pm darned sight better than I look,
and when people come to know me
they vote me brick. Now, what ]
want is to get some good-lookin' man
to sit with Sal for picture. Will
you stand in2 She's willin'. Them
big whiskers Of yours II catch 'em
sure and create harmony. You look
like solid capitalist, and they'd take
me for . petty-larceny thief" Mr..
Beals enjoyed the idea immensely,
and sat with "Sal' for the picture,
which will doubtless carry joy into
the household of those relatives in a
week or so.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-29

The following very sensible and
infinitely needed advice is given
young girls by an exchange. II
young ladies cared as much for fol.
lowing nature as they do Tor some
things, the number of healthy look
ing, sensible and really attractive
girls would be greatly increased.
The exchange says: .Now let the
girls form walking club. Put on
loose clothes, shoes that fit 'em, eat
wholesome food, three square meals
every twenty-four hours, walk from
two to five miles per day, and in two
or three weeks they win be able to
breathe free, sleep well. enjoy life
and--'catch' some good young man
for husband. Let yourselves out,
girls, and enjoy life. Throw Fashion
over the fence, and give Nature an
embrace and kiss of welcome"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-29
Mills Stopping.

FALL RIVER, May 2S.-By the stop
page of Troy, Stafford, Flint, Chace,
Robson, Wettamoc, the two Tecum.
sch and the two WampaDoag mills,
besides the Border City, Sycamore
and Union, there are nearly 1900 OF
the 10000 looms idle this week.
Other mills will shut down next week
Some are running on contracts and
cannot stop At present. By the stop
page of the mills come 1000 opera
tives are thrown out of employ ment.