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straw house in the rear Of the Kings COUNTY
Amshouse WAS burned at o'clock yesterday morning
the Gre originating from some unknown Ths
bAze led 70 tie alarm In Brooklyn that the penitentAry
Gre. Engine 30 - 20 the are, hut ths
straw house WAS quickly destroyed The light o. the nre
awakened AZ " the inmates u the different county
buildings and set the inmates u the Asylum the
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No Final Negotiation. with YaLoob Khan.

LoNDoN. May l0-The Standards despatch
from Lahore announcing that Yskoob Khan, the Ameer
OF AfghamstAn had accepted all the British proposals. Is
certainly premature and probably entirely wrong A
despatch OF this from Simla says that The Visits
changed between Gen. browne. MAJOR taVasua1. and
Yakooh Khan have been thus lar entirely ceremonial aud
" negotiations
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Fatal Duel Betweeu cattIe rh,e,e.

SHERMAN Texas. May l0.-It IS rumored thii
afternoon that duol was fought between Wiley and ia
eohs In Montague County. Ten PAGES stepped on
and both men began hnng revolvers Wcv fen m0rtaly
wounded At the thiri 'hot hat ralsed himself on hl
elbow Aud - NJ ball through Jicobss brain Killing him
Instantly Blth men were cattle thieves and the shooe
ing the result Of quarrel over DIVISION Of then
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PARIS May l0.-The Minister Of the Interior
has authorized Senator Martin yice.Presient OF the
Committee of the FrAneo-AmercAn Union. 70 organize
lottery ~ 5bp onerAnc tickets 10 raise fund tor the
ompsuon o the statue Of Liberty TO be presented 10 the
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snrrendsr of King Cetywayo,. Brother.

CAPE TowN. May l0.-Lord Chelmsford and
stan have gone 10 Utrecht hAgneza brother Of Klus
CeVwAyo, viii aiew followers has surrendered 10 tA'
BRUSH
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Tn. signal once Prediction.
JorrIyos IN AND NEAR TIE CITY.

Southerly winds warmer. clear followed bI
partly cloudy weather, falling barometer
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Rockaway trains to-day. from Hunters Point and
Brooklyn. a. A N. and | 80 z. M
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American star" son Capsules.
Blue wrapper BsSt<1yoid inferior capsules offered
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u exchange for furniture at mAnufActurers prices
tIs0Syn Fahi1Is ce. Fulton o., Brooklyn, NJ Y.-AdH
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Ice Cream, 81 per gal0n sss Advertisement
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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-11-12
Name OF the Good Samaritan.

Oberlin, the well-known philanthropist of
Steinthal, while yet candidate for the min
istry, was travelling on one occasion from
Strasbourg. IL was in the winter time
The ground was deeply covered with snow,
and the roads were almost impossible. He
had reached the middle of his Journey and
was among the mountains, but by that time
was so exhausted that he could stand up no
longer. He was rapidly freezing to death.
Sleep began to overcome him all power to
resist it left him. He commended himself
TO God, and yielded to what he felt TO be
the sleep of death. He knew not how long
he slept but suddenly became conscious Of
some one rousing him and waking him up.
Before him stood wagon-driver, in his blue
blouse, and the wagon not far away. He
gave him little wine and food, and the
spirit of life returned. He then helped him
on the wagon and brought him to the next
village. The rescued man was profuse in
his thanks, and offered money, which his
benefactor refused. at is only duty to
help one another" said the WAGNER, "and
it is the next thing to an insult to offer q re-
ward for such service "Then," replied
Oberln, " at least tell me your name, that
may have you in thankful remembrance be-
fore God" al see," said the WAGNER, "that
you are minister of the gospel please tell
me the name of the Good Samaritan"
" That" said Oberlin, =" cannot do, for it
was not put on record" "Then," replied
the wagner, "until you can tell me his
name, permit me to withhold mine" Soon
he had driven out OF sight, aud Oberlin
never saw him again. The charm of this
story is that no name is given of any per-
son-all we have is the generous spirit which
prompted it.-Selected.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-11-12
Mrs. Fremont and the Children.

Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont has found in
Arizona, where General Fremont is now
governor, a field for certain of her we'll
known scholarly talents. Certain grown boys
and girls, the children Of poor parents, and
obliged TO work for their livelihood, had
formed themselves into class for the read.
ing of history at such times as they could
spare from their labors. They were plucky
and bright, and SO pleased Mrs. Fremont
that she gave her Friday evenings to them.
OF this work she writes to friend &" II
was a great pleasure to me to find that /
could add to the knowledge of these young
people, that | could make real and human
to them names and personages, that could
link together one event and one personality
after another until history became not a
dry mass of names and dates and isolated
events, but connected and yet broadening
stream Of human effort. cannot, of course,
begin TO tell you all | said to them, but the
thirty-two history talks gave my Arizona
flock of scholars each Friday of the term
after | joined them, were panorama of
history as my father had taught me to
know it, as had realized it in many a spot
OF classic ground in Europe as reading had
enriched il with personal belongings and
lights, and as | had seen it made both in
France and in our own great trial.time.
For this, when they would thank me, /
would tell them to thank my father. / ac-
quired last winter practical insight into
the vast and spreading influence of the
spoken word on receptive and willing young
minds. | have never done any one thing
that gave me so much content in the doing
and the remembrance"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-11-12
Influence Of the Woods.

After all, the woods are the best reforma-
tory, better than stone walls, or iron CRATES,
or police systems. Put villain into the
forest, fence him about with solitude, leave
him to his own reflections, allow him no hu-
man confederates, and he will generally be
softened into man again. Put drunkard
there, let mountain stream leap and play
before his cabin door, and he will return to
his early tastes. Put miser there, leave
him alone with his hunger, aud he will for
get the value of coined metal like the mis-
anthropos Timon, digging in the earth and
finding gold, he will curse his luck that it
was not roots instead. Send into this exile
one of these rhymers OF small talk, of the
GERS de societe now SO popular, and he will
be redeemed from his devotion to his gay
mistress, Society, aud will in time return to
the poets first and only true love, Nature
1t may take years to recall him, but he will
come at last, and learn to mourn over his
wasted life. To some men Nature is like
some women, in as much as it may be neces-
sary to thrust them into her acquaintance
and imprison them there before they will
learn TO appreciate her worth, but then, so
great is the revelation, they will call them
selves stupid for not loving her before
Good COMPANY.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-11-12
A Timely Word.

A man may have arincome of five thou
sand dollars year but if he spends it all
he is poor. The way to become rich is to
live within your income. Extravaganza is
far too general. What if your clothes are
not as fine as your neighbor's, or if your
house is not as costly or furnished as ele.
gantly as that of some OF your friends Is
it not better to do the best you can with
what you have until you can afford to pur-
chase better, than to get deeply in debt, just
to crafty an extravagant whim II is a
fact that many families are rendered home
less by extravagant purchases, and all be-
cause they wish to keep up appearances and
show off as much as some neighbor. Such
notions are ruinous. Many young couple
after they marry, are not courageous enough
to live within their income, so they get lot
of nice furniture TO furnish their house, which
is often rented at high figure, aud then
two or three servants are often thought nec-
essary. Then there are the balls and parties
to be given, and many other expenses to be
met, and unless the young husband has a
"good situation in "savings bank or
insurance company" so as to replenish his
purse, after short time they are forced to
retire TO humber life. Now let us ask
you, would it not have been far better for
the young couple to have taken small cot
tage, or better yet, little farm, and fur
nished house as their means would allow,
aud as they could afford it get better ar
ticles Pay as you go along, and enjoy
what you pay for-that is the motto to live by.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-11-12
Home Influence.

The child whose parents have found time
to enter into its plans and its pleasures is
certain to hold deathless grip on the coun-
sells of that parent. IL father and mother
have been SO blind as to fail to take an &C.
tive, sympathetic interest in what interests
the birdlings in their nest, they musttnot be
surprised if the birdlings, when they grow
up, fly away into regions of danger. IT the
home influence, on the other hand has been
wisely intertwined in the play as well as
the work and the study of the little one,
that influence will reach on and on to the
end Of the life journey. Long after the
father and mother, who then became a part
Of their existence, fall asleep, will sons and
daughters rise up to call them blessed and
also to bless the day and generation in which
they live. ship on the ocean, driving out
in the teeth of a tempest at midnight is
nor more dependent on a reliable helm for
safety than is the young man or maiden who
dashes out into the storms that sweep over
the ocean of every earthlife, dependent on
home influence. No home influence is equal
to the remembrance of the intimate sym
pathy of Christian father or mother. Lord
Brougham is said 10 have said, in substance,
that the major part OF the education of
nearly every individual of the human race
is acquired by the time the age of four years
| is reached" The little one IS learned to
walk and TO talk, to love and TO hate; to
conquer or TO be conquered by temptation,
aud TO use its little brain and heart in many
ways, as well as TO use its hands and feet,
| its eyes and its ears. If in a Christian
home it has learned the use of the prayer.
telegraph up to the AllFather on the great
white throne, it has learned far more than
we think of the teachings to be drawn from
the "old, old story 1t has learned to use
its song wings by which we override so
many of the doubts and difficulties of time.
All this aud much more has been stored up
in its treasures before the life of the child
has reached halfscore of years. No doubt
the greatest OF these lessons were those by
which its little hands have been placed on
the clew-liies Of prayer aud the Bible-lines
ness and doubt of the here, to the bright
ness aud certainty of the hereafter. Sure
we may be that any one, young or old,
whose hands remain on these clew.lines or
who having lost hold of them, afterwards
grasps them, will at last be found wearing
the robe of the righteousness of Christ.
Sure we are also that no influence of earth
is more certain to secure against relaxing
the hold on these lines, or TO ensure recover
ing lost hold on them, than the influence
of tender parental sympathy. The hour is
not lost which is taken by father or mother
from work or business TO join in the sports
of the little one. Thus may very power
full link in the chain OF home influence often
be forged. La the alchemy OF the things
that are eternal, it may be seen to be link
in . chain that is golden-a chain that
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-11-12
Waiting for the Coming.

II 10 this world only we have hope, we are
of all creatures the most miserable. 1t is
comparatively easy for the few of us who
live In comfort, who have been refined by
culture and thought till we can see how the
shadows OF time lend a new intensity and
beauty to its lights, and how pain and suf-
fering are discipline in wisdom and good
ness, 10 think this world very tolerable
one, and TO regard human life as grand
and sacred possession. But think what life
is TO the countless myriads of our race !;
think what the world is, and has BEEN as a
whole. Remember how in all ages the vast
majority OF men have been plagued by toll,
by care, by fear, by sordid penury how
they have been crushed under the bloody
heels OF tyrants who were bound TO protect
them, manned and tortured, stultifed and
coerced by the very priests who were bound
to enlighten and emanoipate them how
they have been deoimated and degraded by
war by famine, by disease, by Ignorance,
by superstition and who can deny that, if
this world be ALL then human life, taken as
a whole, is the most fatal of blunders, of
curses the most terrible III the tragedy of
human life be pregnant with no divine pur-
pose, if there were no better time coming,
no golden age Of righteousness aud peace
| If, in short, we eau no longer believe in the
advent and reign of Christ, then surely
every thoughtful spectator of this vast
tragedy must say, 1T were better for men
that they had never been born" But if we
believe in this great promise, il we cherish
this great hope, then can we with patience
wait for IL. Aud this is the very posture
which our Lord enjoins. He would have us
to be like servants who watch for the com
ing of their lord, that, when he comes, they
may open to him immediately. He would
have us believe in, and look for the advent
OF better world, in which all the wrongs OF
time will be rectifed. He would have us
] . lstain ourselves under all the tolls and sor-
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-11-12
The Wonder Of a WOman's Glove.

A woman's glove is to her what a vest
pocket is to man. Bat it is more capa-
cious, and in ninety-nine cases out of one
hundred it is much better regulated. A man
will carry 5000 worth of small change, four
matches, half dozen toothpicks, short
pencil, and yet not be able TO find nickel
or match or toothpick or a pencil or a
card when he wants it. Not so with wo-
man. She has the least bit of glove, and
in that she carries the tiniest hand and a
wad of bills and the memoranda for her in
tended purchase of dry goods and car tick
cts and matinee checks and maybe dimin.
utive powder bag. We have no idea how
she does it-how she manages to squeeze a
thousand and one things into that Wee space
But she does it every time, and the glove
never looks the least discomposed or pleth'
oric or rufflsd. And when the woman
wants any article concealed about that glove
she doesn't seem to have the least trouble ia
the world getting at it. All that is required
is simple turn of the wrist, the disappear
ance Of two fairy fingers, and the desired
article is brought to light. 1t is wonder
that no savant can explain.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-11-12
Overtaken.

Studying out my Bible lesson lately, was
struck as never had been before with the
force of that word "overtaken." Brethren,
if a man be overtaken in fault.
vi: l. What, then, is it to he overtaken ?"
What due, ID impy2 What are the con-
ditions, the procuring cause ? Leaving off
those smaller details which would differ in
different cases, we have always the two
main facts of the pursuer and the pursued /;
the one on his way, the other "overtaking "
him by faster or slower degrees. The one is
come up WITH the other has gained his point.
You all know who the two are in this case :
there is the man to whom it has been said,
Escape for thy life;" there is the devil
seeking whom he may devour." And some
where, somehow, the man must have slack
ened speed, for the adversary has gained
upon him, and now he is overtaken in a
fault" Not overcome, take notice there is
no talk of fight; he is simply" overtaken." i"
And what should make a man linger, with
such an enemy upon his trail ? Did he get
"weary in well-doing?" then he must have
first separated himself from those who "press
toward the mark."-Annd B. Warner.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-11-12
HumOrsOme Waits.

A young lawyer of Boston says that per-
sons seeking solitude, where they can COM
mune with their own thoughts uninterrup-
tedly, should come TO his office, where it is
as quiet as the grave.
An Irishman having purchased an alarm
clock, an acquaintance asked him what he
was going to do with it. "Och," he ans
wered, "sure / have nothing to do but to
pull string and wake meself."
The new apartment house recently built
in New York for bachelors has plenty of
closet room, which seems TO be a waste.
What does man want of closets, so long
as he does not have a wife to forbid his
keeping things in the middle Of the floor
OK a certain American railroad young
man put his head out of the car window to
kiss his girl goodbye, when the train went
ahead so rapidly that he kissed an aged
African female at the next station. This is
supposed 10 be the fastest time ever made
on railway train.
SOME one was mentioning in Lambs pres
ence the cold-heartedness of the Duke OF
Cumberland in restraining the Duchess
from rushing up to the embrace of her son,
whom she had not seen for considerable
time, and insisted on her receiving him in
state. "Ilow horribly cold it wa" said the
narrator. "Yes," said Lamb, in his stutter-
ing way, "but you know he is the Duke of
Cu-cum-ber-lsnd."
A ooLoRsp man was once asked why he
did not get married. "Why, you see, sah,"
said he, I" got an old mudder, an hab to
do for her, ye see, sab, an if don't buy her
shoes an stockin's an' bread an butter she
wouldn't get none Now, ef ! was to get
married, would hab to buy dem tings Tor
my wife, an dat would be takin' de shoes
an stockin's an bread an butter right out
O. my mudder's mouf'"
AN excellent old gentleman who held to
the theory of non'resistance in its EXTREMIST
form, was once asked "But suppose,
Father NJ, robbers should break into
your house and there was danger II their in.
fiicting bodily harm upon your wife and
children; what would you d, then ?" "No
doubt" he replied, with flash OF the eye
that gave emphasis to his words, "no doubt
should do very wrongp
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-11-12
The Outgr0wth Of Faith.

Let every man consider how important a
place faith fills in his life, how much he gets
through his belief, and how dependent he is
upon IL. Faith is the channel through which
nearly all our knowledge has come, and is
the handspring of our activity. BY faith
men learn the alphabet A mother or
teacher says that A is A, B is b. and the
child believes it. BY faith men learn to
walk. The mother holds her hands first I'M
der the arms, then on each side of child,
and trusting in this help and in the heart of
love behind it, the child ventures TO step out.
Or it may be trust in a chair, bench, or
some other support that embodens child
TO try walk. What is begun through faith
is continued and ended by it. Nearly all
the knowledge acquired is received through
faith. What one man writes is accepted,
what another tells is rejected, through conf.
dence or a lack of it. History is taken on
trust. Lands and people never seen are
known by faith in the accounts of those
who have visited them. Science is accepted
through faith. Indeed, nearly all the knowl-
edge man has he has received through
faith. Faith is also the handspring of ac-
tion. There may be the energetic activity
OF despair, a man may perhaps lay out all
his strength and all his resources in one des-
confidence in the efficacy of such venture.
Men eat three times day the food set be-
fore them because they trust in those who
have prepared it. There have been those
who have not had such confidence, and they
have not eaten until their food has been first
tasted in their presence by their attendants.
Men go about the streets unarmed and un-
attended because they trust in the peaceable
character of their fellows in the righteous
ness and power of the government. There
are those who have no such trust and they
go about armed to the teeth. Men travel
by faith in the steamer, the coach, the en-
gine, in the captain, the crew, the conductor,
the engineer. If they had not such faith
they would not travel. Men invest their
earnings and savings in what they believe
will yield return, and be, when they de-
sire it again, convertible into money. Men
cultivate the soil through faith in the sun
shine and dews and showers, through faith
in the fertility of the soil which they have
bought or hired through faith, and in faith
in the fertilizers which have been obtained
and applied through faith. Men trust in
themselves, in one another, in nature, some
men in God. The merchant trusts his clerks,
the clerks their employers; the lawyer trusts
his clients and the clients their lawyer the
physician trusts the patient and the attend
ant, the patient and attendant the physician;
The sailor trusts the captain and the captain
the sailor, and both trust in the ships the
soldier trusts the general, and the general
the soldier children trust their parents,
scholars their teacher, and according to the
kind and degree of the faith of every man
is the nature of his life and its activity.
Distrust is inaction and death.-Christidn
Intelligencer.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-11-12
Raihnad Gime gable.
CENTBAL VERMONT RAILROAD LINE
Commencing on Monday October lSth 1879

Trains Going South and East.
Leave Montpelier at 11.45 A. NJ, 40 p. NJ, and
1000 p. NJ
Portland Express-Ftom Syracuse and Ogdensburg,
~ Al6ans and Burlington arrives at Montpelier At
s.2' Al.
Mail-From Montreal ST. Aibans, Burlington etc. leaves
Montpelier At Has 4. NJ, for Boston, New London,
Springfield, New York and intermediate points.
Mixed Train-Ieavea st. Abana at 400 p Burlington
al bW ?. NJ, Montpelier at 1.lO ?. NJ for Northhed.
Night Express--From Ogdensbufg, Montreal, st. Al
bans and Burlington leaves Montpelier at 1880
for Boston via Lowell or Fitchbufg, Springfield, New
YORK and intermediate points,
Trains Going North and West.
Leave Montpelier at 1926 A. M, 8.45 A. M, IL. 10 A.
NJ, and 3.55 p. M
Day Express-Leaves Boston via Fltohburg at 500 NJ,
sprinsneld At 500 A. NJ. Montpelier at $50 p ~, for
Burlington, ~. Albans, Montreal and Ogdensburg.
Accommodation Traln-Leaves Northhed at $40 A..
NJ, Montpelier at s45 A. for Burlington, Rutland,
st. Albans, st. Johns and Richford.
Mixed-Leaves W. X. Junction at $50 A. M Northneld at
1880 A. NJ Montpelier at II 10 A. for Burlington, st.
Albans, Rchford, Rouses Point, etc.
Night ExpressLeaves Boston via Lowell at 100 p NJ,
via fitchbuTR at 500 p NJ, New York at 500 NJ,
Springfield at 500 NJ, Montpelier ut s25 A. NJ for Bur
hngton st. Albans, Montreal and 0gd'bg and the West
Trains leave Montpelier for Barre at 100 A. NJ, $40 A.
NJ and $50 NJ. Returning, leave Barre at 7i5 A. NJ,
l0.2O A. NJ and $50. pm.
Sleeping Night Express trains running
between Montreal and Boston, and Montreal and Spring
field and New York via Troy and paror Day Ex
press between Boston and Montreal.
Through Chicago the West for sale at the
principal stations. i. W. HOBART, General Sup't.
st. Albans w. October II, 1879.