davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-06-14
MEDICAL CoLLEGES-DOCTORS.

Barnes Educational .Wonthly takes to
task our medical colleges and the medical
profession generally, for the imperfect
manner in which the former are conduct
ed and the lack of scientific knowledge
among the latter.
While we do not indorse the sweeping
asSerSions of the writer, that 4 large pro-
portion of our doctors are incompetent to
prescribe in ordinary diseases, we have
no doubt but many reforms might be in
troduccd into our medical colleges, and
that our practitioners would become more
skillful i'll their profession if they studied
more into the causes of the disease they
are called upon to treat; in other words,
as the writer says. conduct their practice
on more scientific principles.
With the exception of one college in
New York, and two in other States, says
the above named monthly, any one may
become medical student without prelim-
mary examinations in anything, moral
character not excepted. Students are of
ten graduated at the close Of two years
study, and in some institutions the course
of instruction is even more superficial and
imperfect. Examinations for diplomas
are not at all rigid; knowledge even of
chemical analysis not being required.
There is not a single doctor in one OF the
countries in Western New York who can
conducted decent chemical analysis, or
even tell whether his nitrate of bismuth
i i ,{o,,, A Il
tor recently state on examination that the
proper dose of prussic acid for a child two
years old was from four to six drops. AS
a general thing, doctors in rural places,
and in some of our cities as well, stick to
antiquated remedies and outrageous dos
es. We think our educational journals
ought to stir up the young doctors to
more diligent habits as students. Each
one of them should have his chemical Ia
boratory, where he daily should conduct
such chemical analyses as sickness de-
mands.
If doctors were little more enterpris-
ing and pushing. we should know some
thing more concerning such disease as
typhoid fever, diphtheria, scarlet fever,
and measles. Call two doctors in success
sion to a child attacked with one ofthese
diseases, and the probabilities are they
will give you contradictory explanations,
and totally different remedies. This is no
recommendation to the medical profess
sion. Because doctors are not scientific
the practice of medicine is not to-day
science. 1t is a practice, We admit, much
to the horror of senitive tastes. The day
will be hailed with joy by disease-curs-
ed world when this practice is conducted
on scientific principles. We laymen would
like to know many things our medical adj
visers will not tell us. simply because they
cannot
Let us have some light on those disease
lurking unsubdued in all parts of our
land. 1t is your duty to enlightened the
world, and if you are the students you
should be. some of you will bless this
humanity of ours by telling exactly what
will cure certain diseases. and why it will
do so. You should be paid to prevent as
well as cure We would rather give you
twenty-five dollars to keep us well, than
ten to cure us when sick.-.Sctentifc
American.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-06-14
COUNTRY ROADS.

Matchmaking as an art, says the R"r0
Ne,c Yorker. is but poorly understood by
the majority of our highway surveyors
and road masters, and what they do
know is not always carried out. There
is no doubt, a gradual Improvement i'll
our highways. The loss and injury oc-
casioned by outlying and wash-outs are
so great that those means by which sta
bility of the travelled way is secured are
getting to be tolerably well understood.
But the other points, such as securing
easy grades, conducting a road over
swamp. the management of clayey or
mucly soils, and the removal of stones,
both fixed and loose, are all matters in
which our rural road-builders may easily
improve their methods. In every farm
ers' club, grange, and agricultural gath
ering for the discussion of rural affairs.
road making should be made matter of
frequent consideration.
The losses by reason of bad roads are
very large-far greater than the cost of
maintaining good ones. But they are SO
uncertain as regards particular instances.
and so divided among all hands, that the
SUM Vi lllcl1l uDl ItlllLpl Us IL Ought
to be. The load that can be drawn over a
road is limited by the load that can be
drawn over the worst places. just as the
strength of Il chain is only the strength
of its weakest link. The strains thrown
upon the different parts of wagon or
carriage, upon the bolts and braces. the
wheels, ayles, poles, shafts, and on the
harness Ito say nothing of the horse
by steep grades and the unevenness of the
road-bed, by deep mud. and by stones.
are also matters that are large enough in
detail, but form Il monStrouS aggregate
far beyond the conception of those who
do not figure in regard to them We
believe that there are few travelled roads
in the country on which the unnecessary
injury to vehicles alone would not pav
ard more than pay, for the cost and
maintenance of a iirst-class turnpike.
There is one thing. III particular. which
would cost but little to remedy that
is very destructive to wheels the most
costly part of every vehicle, and
which is also the case of very great
injury to horses. We refer to those loose
stones left upon the surface of the road
way-thrown upon it i'll fact, when the
roads are repaired, and left there the
whole season afterwards. These stones
could be all thrown off in very short
time and at very little expense, but they
are very rarely attended to. How many
loosenod and broken tires they cause,
and how many horses feet are injured
by these provoking loose stones i'll the
road,
Other bad things, easily rcmedicd, are
hollows worn in the road by wheels, and
rapidly increasing in depth by the soften
inc c1uSpU nv the rnllpft of water II
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-06-14
How Coffee is Cleaned,

When coffee was rctailed in its natural
condition, and roasted in small lots over
the kitchen fire, imperfect beans and I'M
purites We're picked out by hand With
wholesale roasting more expeditions
methods were necessary, and machines
were invented to do the work with
| greater economy and dispatch. From
this necessary operation, to the invention
of processes for polishing and cooring
inferior goods, to make them look like
prime coitees, was but step. The poorer
| grades of coffee were washed in colored
water, and then treated to course of
polishing with powdered soapstone. which
gave the beans the glossy and flinty APP
| pearance of first rate coffee and covered
| up all defects. The natural result was
to make all honest dealers suspicious of
| polished cotlees, though the need of ma
chime cleaning was i'll 10 way diminished.
1t is possible, however. to have coffee
cleaned and polished by machinery and
at the same time be honest
| by this process the coffee is put into Il
large cylinder capable of holding eight
OF nine hundred pounds. the cylinder
being lined with heavy linen and pro-
vided with cleats to increase the friction,
| when the beans are set in motion by the
| rapid revolution of the cylinder At one
end of the cylinder are a number of holes
to admit air. and at the other suction
| fan making about two thousand rcvolu-
| tons minute. The friction loosens the
| dust and the outer coverings of the cot
fee, which impurities are carried away
| by the air current set in motion by the
fan. After ten or fifteen minutes OF this
treatment the coffee is wet with pure
water and the machine again set in mo-
ton. The coffee is thus washed. and
| after half an hours securing comes out
entirely clean and much improved i'll ap-
pearance by the polishing it has received.
| Coifees which contain much loose dirt
and many broken beans are subjected to
| preliminary process in which the per-
| feet beans are winnowed clean. after
| which they are treated us already de-
| scribed.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-06-14
Sport Levels Rank.

DcvotccS of the turf Will talk horse"
with any one at l race, however plrticu-
lar they may be about their associates in
everyday life. But they miss it some
times. Not long since a well-known Bos-
ton minister and editor, famed quite as
much for his love of horses and outdoor
sports as for 'mildncss, peace and pray
CT, was trying one of his pet nags on
the Brighton road, when a gentleman
came along with his pet nag, evidently
ready for a "brush.' lie got all he
wanted-the minister disappeared in a
cloud Of dust. Next day the two CHANGED
to meet i'll the street. ''lIow are YOU"
said the horsc-loying divine, heartily.
CoNvNUED on NEXT PAGE
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-06-14
TWO FISHERS.

One morning, when Spring was in her
y morn TO Il poets wishing.
All tinted i'll delicate pinkS and green's
Miss Bessie and went fishing.
in my rough and easy clothes.
With my face at the sun tan $ mercy;
She with her hat tipped down to her nose,
And her nose tipped-cice rerS9.
| with my rod. my reel, and my hooks,
And Il hamper for lunching recesseS:
She with the bait OF her comely looks,
And the seine of her golden tresseS.
SO we sat us down on the sunny dixie,
Where the white pond-lilies tceter.
And went to fishing like quaint old Ike
And she like Simon Peter.
All the noon | lay in the light OF her eyes
And dreamily watched and matted;
But the fish were cunning, and would
not rise.
And the batter alone was baited.
And when the time for departure came.
My bag hung flat rs a founder;
But Bessie had neatly hooked her game
\ MISUNDERSTANDING
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1879-08-02
Vershire,

Rev. Mr.. Cummings, pastor O
the Congregational church at Straf'
ford, preached in exchange with
Rev. Mr.. Pay last sabbath.
Another Sabbath school concert
will be held about the first of Sep
TENDER. A picnic is also proposed
Strange coincidence, but a SINH
lar accident to the one chronicled
by your Ely correspondent, recent
ly, as occurring at North Ely, hap
pened at Vershire, near the resi-
dence of Mr.. Asa Brown, and at
about the same time. We are not
superstitious. but we do fear this
means something.
The school at the Centre taught
by Miss May Parker, closed Satur.
day with rhetorical exercises and a
picnic in the grove near the grange
store.
Query: What spirit guards that
cherry tree from being robbed 7 Ed
says he knows.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1879-08-02
Bradford Price Current.
Corrected weekly by STEVENS d BAaLEr.
WatertOwn Union Live Stock Market.
Tuesday july 29th. l8

Tuesday July 29th, 1879.
Number of cattle in market 500; sheep
and lambs 5042 swine 6323. 275 cattle and
1923 sheep from Vermont rs cattle and 7l9
sheep from N. II.
Market beef-A few choice, $7.25extra$6.5O
to $6.75; first quality $3.50 to SO; lower
grades $500 to 1926
Store cattle-Workng oxen 800 to $3.50.
Miloh cows and calves go to $35. $50 farrow
cows $40 to $26 yearlings 81 to $13; two
years-old $l2 to $26 ;three years.old SIS to $35
Veal calves-3 to 4. cents per pound. Swine
Northern dressed hogs cts. per pound.
Sheep and Lambs-Supply from the North
increasing.
We quote lots at $500 to $500 each; extra
$3.50 to IS, or from S to AZ cts per pound
Spring lambs S to cents per pound.
Hides and tallow-Country hides 81 to
cents; country tallow to At cents sheared
skins and lamb skins % to 50 cents calf
skins 10 to II cents.
REMARKS.
Cattle-The supply of Cattle this week at
this landing was mostly Northern only Is
head of Western and Al of those were from
Michigan. The market did not open with
much activity, although fair representa-
ton OF sales and the disposals largely at these
yards. Sales range from a 73c. dressed
weight, and only very few pair at the lat
ter price. Grass-fed Cattle are now on the
market and very well fatted some young
stock, together with few pair Of Working
Oxen. Prices range within the limits of last
weeks quotations.
Sheep and Lambs-Thc market for Lambs
is strong 10 below our last figures, &c the
top price, and we heard of sales at Sc, and on
Sheep q 42sc; we did not hear Of any at Sc
per Id. The supply is increasing from the
North and will probably decrease from the
West.
A fair call for Mich Cows. A few Shotes
at market at &c in lot, orr So peddled out.
Poultry-Two tons of Poultry on sale:
prices range at llc for Turkeys and Fowl and
1910 for Chickens.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1879-08-02
WOOdSYille.

There are quite a large number
of summer boarders at the Mt
Gardner Hotel.
Diphtheria is still raging quite
hard in the family of George E
Brown.
The second meeting in bankrupt.
cy of Messrs. Ramsay & George is
to be held at the Mount Gardner
Hotel, August IL.
James E. LeGerow, a river driver
in the employ of Smiths drive, losl
a valuable gold watch last week.
just below Towards Island, in the
Connecticut river. he was at work
on jamb, when it fell from his
pocket into the water. Several at
tempts were made to find it by di.
wing, all of which failed.
The case of George M. and Wat.
son Aldrich Us. Hiram D. MOrey, q
former Deputy Sheriff at Went.
worth, is to be tried at the Mt
Gardner House, August 8, before
John NJ. Mitchell, referee. A. P,
Carpenter and P. Carpenter fol
plaintiff; Hon. s. B. Page and G.
b. George for defendant.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1879-08-02
EafrIce,

The textbook committee met Ol
Saturday evening last at the house
of Mr.. j. A. Worthen, and agreed
upon the following list to be use(
| in the schools Of the town for thu
term of five years from the first day
of Nov. next
Reader, Franklin (full series.)
Arithmetic, Greenleafs three
bOOks.)
Grammar, Reed and kellogg <botl
books.)
Geography, Guyots, series.
Speller, New American, (botf
bOoks.)
History, Anderson's.
Civil Government, T0wnsend's
Shorter Course. .n
Morals and Manners, Cows.
Copy Book, Model.
Drawing, Krusi's.
The meeting was entirely har
IN oni0us and the committee were al
once unanimous in these selections,
with one or two exceptions the
Supt. rather reluctantly consented
to the adoption of Guyots series O.
Biographies, hardly thinking they
were what the schools required
Two book agents appeared at the
meeting, and were kindly provided
with seats in another room. The
com mittee voted to recommend tt
the fractional districts that they
procure their books from the town
in which the school house stands.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1879-08-02
Wells River.


Mr.. Gilbert Child, a merchant o.
Wells River. was found dead in his
bed on Tuesday morning at Du'
rants Hotel.
The Band has recently procured
new instruments.
New steel rails are being laid on
q portion of the Montpelier and
Wells River railroad.
The report of the Wells River
Sabbath School for the six months
ending July LIST, is as follows
Whole number enrolled, 1926; Larg-
est attendance, 166; Average, 123.
Penny collections, $1,000.
Mr.. Chas. E. Leslie, son of Q. B.
Leslie, who was admitted to the bar
of Orange Co. at the late term Of
court, has started for Minnesota,
where he expects to engage in the
practice of his profession.
The hearing in the bankruptcy
case of II. r. McNiece & Go. re-
suited in the closing of the testimo.
ny in chief of tho petitioner on Fri.
day night. The taking of testimony
on the part of Parker McNiece and
son, who oppose the petition, will
be at this place before Register J..
L. Edwards, Aug. 9th.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1879-08-02
Personal.

Miss l. M. Patterson of New York
is stopping at j. M. Warden's.
0. Gambell, Esq, and family left
town on their return to Troy, N. Y.
on Friday last.
Mr.. j. w. Pickett, at the Trottel
House, is recovering from his re
cent severe injury, apparently al
rapidly as could be anticipated.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. P. Bean of Peoria
ILL.,, arrived in town on Wednesday
and are stopping at Mr.. d. 7
P illsbury's.
Misses Mamie and Oracle, daugh
tiers of the late John Flanders, Esq.
are visiting at Mr.. q. B. Stevens.
Mrs. Hurder and daughter and
Misses Cora and Julia Belle Berri
of New York, and Mrs. N. A. Frost
of Hanover are stopping at Mr.. Geo
F. Morris.
Among the arrivals at the TrOt-
ter House since those noted in our
last issue Mr.. M. and Miss Lucy
Corwin, N. Y; Mr.. and Mrs. F. w.
Hall, Roxbury, VT; T. A. Booth
and party of four from New Bed.
ford, Mass; J. F. Perley, Hoosac
Falls, N. Y; F. Teal, N. Y; Hon.
Geo. E, Mann and wife and Master
John Scott, Galveston, Tex. /; Mrs.
Geo. Seeligson and Miss Lillian
Seeligson, Galveston, Tex; N. w.
Converse, Boston; Miss Pickett,
Boston +; Capt. L. K. Fuller, Brat
tleboro.
ebert" Chandler, G. O. Morris
and one or two other young men
started on Monday morning for a
tramp to the White Mountains.
"Bert" has just returned from a trip
to Maine and Massachusetts on foot
having travelled some six hundred
miles.
G. Il. Peters, F. Fl. Stevens and
@. q. Clark started on pedestrian
tour of the White Mountain Coun.
try on Wednesday morning to BIZ
gone week or so. They went in
Eight marching order," and are ex'
pected to make q more extended
trip than "Fay." "Ned." and "JOhn
ny" did, though they will hardly
beat their time on a sforced march.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1879-08-02

den, but nary o bug. Somebody
thon told him that Guinea hem
would clean them out In no time;
so Mr.. Lawrence rode several miles
and paid q high price for o pair of
Guinea fowls and let them loose on
his premises; still he had plenty OF
bugs but not cabbages. After this
experiment he read Of the coal gas
tar remedy, and that was tried, aud
now his potato field looks as though
there had been o frost on it, and he
thinks possibly this may be the
thing to drive the bugs away as
there is nothing left for them to eat.
For fear such will prove to be the
fact he has gone to picking them by
hand 80 as to keep enough for
chicken feed.-[ Oaledonian.
After a most thorough and excit.
ing contest in st. Johnsbury, the
text book mmittee have decided
to adopt the first four books in Ap.
pletOn's series of readers, Harper's
Ographies and Greenleaf's arith.
metics.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1879-08-02

A party of Haselton's, Hale's 8
90. In o four horse coach came from
Oxford and dined at the Spring
Hotel u few days since, and they
say Fabyan gave them good din.
ner. There are some 80 to 40 sum
mer boarders there, and more than
100 in the village.
DIR. Buxton will have his rooms
in the old Newbury House, and you
can have your teeth filed or some
new ones at reasonable prices.
+ An exchange says: At New
bury the other day, while digging
off the bank OH the top of the hill
near the old fort of revolutionary
fame, some men unearthed the
skeleton of an Indian, which was
buried in an upright position. Judg-
ing from the shape Of the skull it is
thought to be one of the tribe OF
Flatheads.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1879-08-02

II. Rowland and e. Rowland Of
Newbury were arrested at Butter
fields Four Corners, last Sunday
night, and on Monday morning the
states attorney had them brought
before Justice J. P. Tabor, and
fined $500 and costs each for be-
ing intoxicated and disturbing the
naaCe.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1879-08-02
Hanover.

A telephone wire, running from
this village to Norwich depot, has
been erected and is ready for the
instruments, which will be supplied
in few days.
Muchmore Il Whipple, of Leba-
non, commenced building on Mon
day the "Kibling Opera House" ex.
tension. The building will have
when completed a seating capacity
of six hundred.
Geo. L. Waterman, who with his
father, carries on the Oliver Carter
farm. raised on a piece of land :,
rods long and tSo rods wide. twen,
ty-two bushels of marketable nota,
toes They were planted April 2s
and dug July "a, and of the Earl,
hose variety. George thinks who
lever beats it will have to rise early
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1879-08-02
West Fairlee

e. p. George and DR.. Il. B. Elan
ders have gone Oh fishing tour.
Rev. P. NJ. Frost preached last
Sabbath from st. Luke 10, %
"And he was angry, and would moi
go in."
Rev. Fl. A. Spencer, the newly
appointed presiding elder Of Spring
field district, will preach at Union
church next Sabbath.
James Manion, resident Of
Beanville, was taken i'll on Thurs
day, 18th inst, and was buried OF
Thursday, the Oath inst. just one
week from the day he was first taken
His disease was internal inflama'
ton. He was an employee of the
vt. @. NJ. Co., and was known fol
his pleasant manner and genial dis
position. He leaves a young wife
to mourn his loss.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1879-08-02
VextsDo


Mr., EDITOR: Tho course Of ouI
text. book committee at q recent
meeting In adopting Appleton'i
Readers for use in Bradford for the
next Ave years has been o great sur
prise to our citizens generally, and
comments are being very freely
made in regard to the motives
prompting this extraordinary &C.
ton.
Very few ifany of the patrons Of
our schools can be made to believe
that there was the slightest reason,
why the Franklin readers edited
by Hon. Geo. 8. billiard a few
months since introduced into our
schools by direction Of Supt. Nor
cross should be displaced, for as it
is we'll known tho recent conven.
ton at Chelsea, after an exhaustive
description unanimously adopted
the Franklin series thereby pledg-
ing the textbook committees of
Orange county to legalize this &C.
tion in the several towns. Already
the leading towns have done this
and inasmuch as in this town the
series was already introduced there
seemed no other sensible course
than to re-adopt it.
Many believe that this action was
not wholly NSinterested.
Be this, however, as it may all
unite in protesting against dis
placing an excellent series but just
WIS.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1879-08-02
East Orange.

Lawyer Brooks, who has been ia
town rusticating, has returned tt
his home in Syracuse, N. Y, leav
ing his wife and daughter.
There was foot race last weel
Wednesday, between Latham Farm
ham and Enos Felch. They ran
from Grin Eastman's to the black
smith shop, and Enos won the
purse.
Mrs. p. M. Dickey recently died
of pneumonia, aged "a years. The
funeral services were held at the
Union church.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1879-08-02
OVER THE RIVER.
North Haverkill.

0Aa4VCEAAAAA
Mr.. Josiah Hardy put his shout.
der ont Of joint recently while un'
loading load of sleepers.
Mr.. Geo. Browns second child
died the 2Sth, with diphtheria. the
second child be has lost within two
weeks. He has two more quite
sick.
A fishing party of four started
from this place recently on a few
days trip, but we're glad to get back
the same night.
j. w. Jackson and lady are Of
on pleasure excursion at present.
The people about here are driv-
ing their haying along in earnest
and good many are finishing up
this week.
Potato bugs are as plenty as
ever.
Blueberries are worth IL cts. a
quart here now.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1879-08-02

The item ip the assoc lated press
news Of the city papers saying that
DR.. r. @. JENNIE of East Corinth
was so badly hurt that no hopes OF
his recovery are entertained, is a
mistake. The dispatch having
been incorrectly repeated some
where. The Doctor had a narrow
escape, but is so as to be out again.