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ThGrutumetrIo Readings.
OFFtCE CHIEF SiGEaL.OFFrGER q. S. A..
September lG 1879.


For the Middle Atlantic States clear or partly
cloudy weather, with possible rain areas IN the
northern portion, southwest winds, stationary or
higher temperature, falling followed in northern
portions by rising barometer.
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THE SECRET KEY TO HEALTH-The Science of
Life or, SolfPrestrvation, 800 pages Price only ST.
Contains fifty valuable prescriptions, either one of
book. Illustrated sample sent on receipt of cents
for postage. Address DR.. w. II. Parker, Dulhnch
street Boston, Mass.
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Baltimore ana Ohio Depot, corner Now DER
ANenua nnl q SlreeI


Rooms wanted.
PockctbOok lost
u. y. Herrlck Il CO.
L. 4. Barnun's circus.
Auction sale-M. II. Prince.
Base bnll-Nation0l VS.. Poughkeepsie.
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strong list of attractions is presented at the
Comique this week. The performance is bright
and entertaining from beginning to end. The
corps of specially artists is very numerous, and
includes many stars of wide celebrity on the va
ricty stage,
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FOR FINE DRESS SUITS GO TO EIsEMAN
BROS, CORNER SEVENTH AMI L.
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Ford's opera-House-"H. NJ. 8. Pinafore.r

The love affair of the audacious tar and the Cap
tain's daughter on the deck of the "Pinafore, "
made interesting by the obstacles thrown in the
way by matchmaking father an umorous old
admiral, and meddlesome shipmate, will never
lose It's charm. The performance of Pinaforo"
House is pronounced by all to excel any rendition
of the opera with which Washington audiences
have yet been favored matinee will be given
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An USEM EMS.
National Theatre" Queens Evidence"


The reception of Queens Evidence" at the Ma.
tonal lasevening positive proof strength of
the piece. 1t is one of those admirably conceived
dramas which never flag in interest from begin.
ming TO end. The company headed by Messrs Boni.
face and Rowe, produce 1t In manner that sustains
their reputation excellent artists and DEVELOPS
every dramatic point and situation in the piece.
There will be matinee performance this AFTER
noon.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-01
Money and Goods.

The effort this country has been making |
to equalize the value of its currency with |
that of other countries, called "resump-
tion," has been successful. The national |
paper dollar has become equal in purchasing
power to the gold dollar. Unless we were |
to remain in constant state of uncertainty |
upon all questions of value, this was neces-
sity. But with people who were in debt a |
state of uncertainty which allowed them the |
possession and enjoyment of property seemed |
much better than reduction to state of |
certainty that their debts must be paid, and |
that it would take all they had to do |
it, For, while the progress towards resump-
ton decreased the value of every other
species of property, it increased the value
of dollars. Everybody whose property con-
sisted in land, houses and merchandise, be-
came poorer. Everybody whose property
consisted in sound obligations to pay dollars
became richer And as these obligations
to pay dollars are by law made paramount
to all other obligations, the result has been
a course of "settling up" by which those
holding obligations to pay dollars have
made themselves possessors of lands, houses
and other goods, almost or quite at their
own price.
Naturally the people are disconnected to
be thus deprived of home and goods, con-
siderable part of which, at least, they be-
lieyed themselves to own, and in fact honestly
did own. They had themselves joined in
the cry for resumption and honest money,
not once thinking that when the gap between
deprecated paper currency and metallic cur
rency was closed up, they themselves would
be caught therein and pinched so terribly.
In short, they did not know anything about
the operations of financial laws. They were
taught in school the length of African rivers
and the hight of Asatic mountains; in col
lege Greek and Latin and high mathematics
but they were in neither of them taught
what it meant to create surplus of paper
money and then resume that is make il
redeemable in gold They know now; but
they will die and forget it, and another gene
ration will spring up as ignorant as they.
The new generation will be instructed in the
length of rivers and the hight of mountains,
and the minds of collegians will be exercised,
developed, and cultured by the study of
high mathematics aud the classics. But the
way to become rich by the skilful handling
of debt and credit, by initiation and contrac-
ton, will remain " business secrets" of the
Rothschilds, the Earrings, the Jay Goulds,
the Vanderbilts, and few other money
kings, who with these " secrets rule nations
and engulph whole communities in ruin
turning out even the shrewd Yankee from
his birth-right, because, with all his Wanted
education he is ignorant of "little
game" as simple as addition, division, and
silence"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-01
Calais Sweet.

About three years ago some friend, whose
letter accompanying them has been mislaid,
sent us cions of an apple with the above
name. The young trees have made good
growth and seem very hardy, and as hardy
sweet apples (hardy enough for Orleans
county, we mean) are scarce, we are anxious
to know more about the other qualities of
the tree and fruit, so as to judge how many
we had better set in the orchard. II this
meets the eye OF the sender, or any one ac-
quainted with the "Calais Sweet" will he
tell us the size, color, quality and season of
the apple, and the habit of the tree as re.
CARDS early bearing and productiveness ?
We should also be glad to receive a few
specimens of the fruit, which may be sent
by express Ito Newport) at our expense.
Woodbury. Sweet" received from the same
party, did not prove hardy.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-01

of the peasants follows inevitably; due in
no small measure to the fact that under the
pressure of constant demand for grain
from western Europe, the old system Of fall
low lands has been abandoned and the fields
plowed year in and year out. The same re-
suit has happened in California With the
seaboard close at hand it did not pay to
feed grain TO CATTLE 1t was all exported,
and fields which began by yielding twenty
and thirty bushels to the acre now return
half that, and are never likely to give more,
while the same course is continued in culti-
waiting the new grain fields farther inland"
Our wise heads, our great men, our lead
ing statesmen, call this sort of thing de
veloping the country" The Northern Pa
cifc railroad is an illustration of the pol
ICY Although we already have a route by
rail to the Pacific, and an abundance of ter
ritory well supplied with railroads, needing
only population aud capital to grow food
enough to feed every mouth in Europe at
profit, we allow spectators to lobby through
Congress land grant for railroad through
a fertile wilderness, to go up there and build
their road, carry up men and machinery and
pillow prairie and SOW wheat by the million
acres, raising crops so cheaply that all other
wheat farming throughout the whole land
is rendered Improbable, at the very time,
too, of all others, when farmers need to
make profits in order to meet the mortgage
debts that threaten to pauperize them, or to,
reduce them to the status of tenants at will
upon land once their own. This stupidity
is patronized and subsidized by the national
legislature, in which farmers neither sit nor
have influence, simply in behalf of few
spectators who do not care whom they ruin,
so they may be rich. This railroad is built
through thousands of miles of wilderness,
ostensibly to give access to the north Pa
cific coast and accommodate a population
not as large as that of the state of Yer
mont If it had not been built, our Western
farmers would have supplied the European
call for grain at prices that would have paid
them something and they would not have
been driven into competition with Eastern
farmers in dairy products, fruits, etc.-the
only products out of which Eastern farmers
can make anything, with their own railroads
carrying freight cheaper from Chicago to
Boston than they carry it from Montpelier
to the same market.
This is idiocy, or worse. Every legiti-
mate industry in this country is made the
sport of spectators, through venal or ignor-
ant legislation. And we call stripping a
country of its resources prosperity just
as gang of pillagers, rushing into a town
and robbing it of everything portable, are
prosperous, so are we who, having devasted
the forests and the soil of the East, are now
doing the same for the great West, even to
the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Sea.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-01

lie has, perhaps, two or three daughters, but
he does not count them at all. These hea-
then around us think it is cause of shame
and sadness that their children are daughters,
and noneof them will ever count them among
the number of their children. Do you not
think it sometimes makes the little heather
girls sad to hear their fathers say they have
no children at all. But when the mission
airy tells him that this little girl from Amer
lea wants to see his little daughter, he will
go in and drag her out, or else call on her
to come out quickly. She is very much
frightened, but she is too much afraid of
her father not to mind him at once. Her
name is Na-ha-kootty pronounce the like
IN fatheD which means i" the child Of the
COBRA" The cobra is, you remember, that
ugly, poisonous snake which kills people
when it bites them. What a name for a lit.
tie girl But this poor, ignorant man thinks
that snake is one Of the gods, aud he has
been taught that to repeat its name will be
regarded by the snake as prayer that he
should not be hurt by it, so he gave his
daughter this name, that whenever he called
Tor her he might pray to the snake. But
how differently she looks from little Pre-
cious Pearl. Her dress is only very small
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-01
Enormous.

We have received from A. Webster, Esq
of East Roxbury specimen Of new Rus
sian apple with the above name aud fully
justifying it, being nearly fourteen inches
in circumference and in fine eating order
August 30th, 1t is the largest early apple
we have any acquaintance with, and one of
the best for dessert use. In this respect it is
ahead of most Of the Russians, few of them
being strictly choice dessert apples. The
" Enormous is also very handsome apple,
roundish, somewhat hattened in shape, with
q clear white skin, delicately streaked with
pink. 1t is certainly one Of the very best of
the long list of Russian apples imported by
the department OF agriculture in 1869.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-01
"Developing" a Country.

A commercial exchange informs us that
"the Russian grain belt south and southeast
of Moscow is beginning to feel the effects of
the steady expectation Of grain to England
for two generations. The land is wearing out,
and the farmers are moving to the thinly
settled provinces on the eastern steppes at a
rate which gives the Russian government
much uneasiness. The government tax ON
the grain districts remains the same in spite
Of the diminishing yield, and the departure
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-01
agricultural Ueparfpem
A DINNER AND A KISS.

81 have brought your dinner, father"
The blacksmith's daughter said,
As she took from her arms Kettle
And lifted lis shining lid.
There's not any pie or pudding,
Sol will give you this"
And upon his toil-worn forehead
She left a childish kiss.
The blacksmith tore OF his apron
And dined in happy mood,
Wondering much at the SAVIOR
Hid In his humble food.
while all about him were visions
Full Of prophetic bliss
But he never thought Of the magic
In his little daughters kiss,
While she with her kettle swinging,
Merrily trudged away,
Stopping at sight Of a squirrel.
Catching some wild birds lay.
And thought how many n shadow
OF life and fate we should miss
II always our frugal dinners
Were seasoned with kiss.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-01
efor Me Nonna.
NEEDS wONDERINas.

Little brook, laughing brook. how do you know
Through meadows through woodlands just where TO 70
To ind, by and by the broad river below
And you, robin redbreast do tell me, right now.
Before you ny on TO your little birds, how
You built that round nest in the old apple-bough2
And beautiful flower. how was II you sprung
From the hard little seed carelcssly flung
One morning, the weeds aud the rubbish among2
The brook rippled on the moher-blrd fed,
The dainty white blOssom-not one word she said.
Iwonder-could any onete little Ned VIDE AioaLe.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-01
ANNOUNCEMENT
FOR THE
FALL TRADE


g j. G. EMERY would say to
3 his friends and patrons that
90 with his new and varied stock
90 of seasonable goods, in each
A department, he is fully pre-
b pared to meet the wants of
?, the trade, and solicits an ex-
!: animation of goods and prices.
g CARPET DEPARTMENT.-In
Is this department the styles are
unique and beautiful, and the
/" prices so low that very few
IS need deprive themselves the
80 comfort Or luxury of a new
L Carpet; and for the amount
i i that it will cost, there is no
item that so beauties or rem
s. s. ders comfortable Vermont
s home.
ss Room PAPERS AND WINDOW
s. s. SHADES. AS to these goods,
no better or more extensive
y Y stock can be found in the
% ST tie, and the prices are such
e thai with few dollars the
Is walls may be covered with
a. q, beauty, and to the chilling
80 wind may be said: " THUS far,
81 and no farther"
w w The DINING ROOM And
20 =, for the Dining Room may be
n found an unusually fine stock
Is of Crockery, Glassware and
4" Table Cutlery, embracing a
.. new and especially handsome
F." shape of Crockery, in finish
80 80 almost equalling the French
g China goods.
y FANCY GoODs.-In the Fan
" cy Goods department may be
IS - found "Majolica and "Pa-
% :" lissey" ware, from the En-
% glish, German and French
=. potteries, japanese novelties,
and Porcelains from "Lamo-
80 ges," in France.
!. For wedding and all pres
50 ents these goods are largely
d" taking the place of plated
10 ware, in consequence of their
artistic merit and beauty.
y" ~ To be understood and APP
90 preciated the stock needs to
be seen, therefore COME
Sc and SEE"
d.
We j. C.. EMERY,
=, September 10, 1879. Montpelier, VI.
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IMnfsrn,enfs.

photo VISITING CARDs.-A perfect Photo
= graph OF yOnrsef and your name neatly printed
" Round conefed Gi-edged Cards for IS centH,
paid 90 fot LOO Send your photo with order and II VIII
De returned with cards. Sifnpe cents Address
%-H UNION CARD CO.. Npntpelier VI
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-01
Washington County Fair.

We give below a complete list of the pre-
miums awarded by the judges of the Wash
ington County Agricultural Society at their
annual fair held at Prospect Park on We'd
nesday, Thursday aud Friday of last week :
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-01
CLASS gII1sRALRE .S.ggAR. H0HEE

BREdD. ETC.
' samuel raneu u pDa"r. D 50 90
Mrs. r. W. skinner, Planneld, fifteen pounds OF but
Ter, w
II. H. loistcr, Marshneld cheese, lst and M.... 90
81 sugar, IT, b. non'pee' Ivy pV"us % 100
Nathan skinner Plainned. 2d.......... ......... 10
Mrs Joel Foster, Jr, Montpelier, loaf Of wheat bread,
lst' "a
Mrs n. 9. Tabor, Montpelier, leaf Of rye and corn .
bread lst.. .''.......'''s'''.' 60
u. II. Templeton Z. Montpelier maple syrup, lst q
l.. A. Persons, observation-disclosures. 80
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-01
Is not a Medicine.
MuItitudes of Infants
The Success

OF RIDGES FOOD has caused the he overrun
with worthless limitations In asking for RIDGES FOOD
see that II. Take other Can be had of almost
any druggist In Of IS cents IS cents 81 Is and s5
bearing signature of WO0LRICH Il co. on every label.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-01

WHITE BRONZE MONUMENTS!
A Grand Improvement!

All persons about to pure. Monuments Head stones
Tablets etc, will find II for their interest st examine
and sample Monuments and specimens Of White Bronze
work at my residence Berlin street.
We make nearly 200 different styles Of Monuments
from two feet to forty feet n heht at prices from 500 to
sb5O in style diversified that ALL think will be able
to select what will fully suit their taste. Our statuary
alone Is worthy OF the highest consideration. II
braces many beautiful figures both for adults and chill
iren's monuments. We also make Medallions Portrait
Busts; soldiers Statue feet high. be placed
soldiers Monuments urn-, VASES and Bot HoLDERs
for Cemeteries and LdrRs Corner Markes for Cemetery
LOTS Flower, bouquets, wreaths Lambs. Doves Century
Plants, Odd Fellow and Masonic Emblems, and Cemetery
Ornaments In almost endless variety. Also Signs Door
Plates Numbering Letters for Buildings, These
are all made from pure Zine, lin and Copper and
ualy Thicker and Stronger in material than Bronze
statuary that has stood for th0usaHd years
and pronounced by Scientists be the 0ea material now
In use for Cemetery Purposes. Also
KENNEY'S PITENT
TUBULAR GALVANIZED IRON FENCES
in different styles. for Cemetery Purposes
and city Residences.
Descriptive Circulars sent free on application to
A. BANCROFT,
igeli for Middle and Western PefHaoHf
80 MoNTrELIKR, VT.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-01
HORSE SHOEING

and general blacksmith work and trust by keeping first
class help and doing good work. to merit share Of the
public patronage do business cash basis and war
rant all work pay Give me call and satisfy YOUR
selves as to the truth OF my statements.
PETER BADORD.
Montpelier, w. July 80, 1879. 9s-u
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-01

Awarded Silver Medal at the New England
Fair at Worcester this Fall, and IA silver
Medal at the Vermont state Fair at Mont
pelieri also First Premium mt Maine state
Fair mt Portland,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-01
Cloaks g. Shawls

CLOAKS, PAISLEY, CAMEL'S
HAIR, BEAVER, LONG SHAWLS,
ETC.. which were bought at great
reduction, and will be sold accord
ingly. New CLOTHS, CLOAK
IN GS, REPELLANTS, LADIES'
FLANNELS, etc.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-01-06

REGULAR MEMPHIg And BEND PACKET.
- ron NAfOGHHERS.' VifGeKsBu6hg.
Grsenyille, Arkapolis, Terrene, He.
lena. Memphis and the bsrds-The
first class freight and passenger steamer
CnAs. p. CMoUTEAU.
W. II. Thorwegan master.
Geo. Miltenberger clerk.
sd Rrf FSPEH Law sSSWsGmmodaton' FIRST GLASS
Eli re- ns q z HssiEs'gf 6 sRRf Il SosE x2s
Through bills q lsting signed to Pine Blum
River and , Texas g Railwsy; via ArkspelIs Arb.
'p o15 little h ShoGRET s c HaYasld s ara
REG LAR MEMPHIS AND BEND PACKET.
Leaves TH gun r yGA499HHary nt n
lRss1&kar Greenvile, Annapolis. Terrene. He
lena. Memphis and the Bends-The
HENRY FRANK,
]. Frank Hicks master. ALI. Grissom clerk.
will leave az above.
.I frf KSRa i ec;GWsmmodations FIRST GLASS
For freight or pas; so sEpF pn ee SHTT rftp
Through bills OF lading signed TO- Pine Blur
and stations on the Little Rock, Mississippi
River and Texas Railway, via ArkppQlls, Ark.
and to Little Rock and stations ON the Memphis
and Little R1Gk n RaIl EE zig H2Rsaeld Arb
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-01-06
HOTEL ARRIVALS.

ST CHARLES HoTEL-W g WEIGH. city; @
Boniface. G @ Boniiaca. yr, New York; Nine
Janauschek and maid, Mr. Pellot. NJ W Canning.
= Thorne and wife Jas Taylor, M Hunter,
Beck. NJ Ober. New York: Z r Hutchfns on.
Rlchmpond. I'D; 2 Bsttes - Louisville; Ste
ington. BY: J F1Ist Le;J " gensel. steaWshi p
Mrs 9 A Newton. A0penhimer and wife, Dial.
las; Miss Stephens. VIM Robertson. New York;
WI Houston, Atlanta. Ga; A B Atkins. l.
Deane, Algiers.
s Webb. Burlington s A; Frank Wharton.
Shreveport; Joseah Smith. Cairo G Gem
Walker, W n McNeely. La: g A Mobley r
CLARK, Louisville. Ky; i n Bel. Madison par
ish: II = Fort. Canton. Miss; ] Schumpert.
CITY HOTEL-J Hopper. Selma: Robert
CLARK. Victoria; Nathan Bollis. W NJ Hollings-
worth. z B Lankin. Newark; NJ A Whitaker,
Lodi: FE W Grasson, Bayou Teche;- w E
smith: D. La: 3 Guenandon. St. Louis !;
I Cnalin, jackson. Tenn: P FLeeds. Phila-
delphia; John Miller, L Blond. city B F Full
ton nh steamer sW Willard; 7 Deblisux. James
vile. Missouri; II Sublett, st. Louis; Edwin
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-01-06
ROBBING THE MAIL.
ynE CWAnGR AGAINST JOmN L. CUM
nINGs. Wm0 WAS YEsTKnBAY
HRouGmr r. Tmus CITY NJ LOUIS.
WILLIE DETECTIVES.

Yesterday there arrived IN this city from
Louisville. KY. via the jackson and Great
Northern Railroad. Detectives q. A. Mobley.
b. Y. Clark and BailifY. having In their custody
d United States prisoner named John Il. Gum.
mings. who Ia charged with robblng the mall.
The detectives upon arriving with their pris-
cner. brought him TO the Central Police Sta
tion. where he was afterwards turned over 10
the United States Marshal who conveyed him
10 the Parish Prison.
The detectives stated that they were detained
between Louisville and New Orleans eighty
four hours owing 10 the failure Of the trains
To make time by thirty four hours. and during
sleep, and so Intense was the cold that tlieY were
compelled to give their 0vercoats 10 the prisoner
TO keep him from freezing.
the proper authorities. they went to Oassidys
Hotel and went TO bed.
A reporter repaired to the hotel and attempt
cd to learn the particulars ooncer9ing the &c.
cnsed. but, after p,nn ling on the door OF their
sleeping apartment for half an hour Without
ronsing them. left 10 disgust.
the detectives had converaed. with before retir-
Ing To bed that the accused had been substi-
TUE mall wvesssenger running run ibt between New III
IL ia alleged he robbed the malls and also con
oeaed l.lters placed IN his care.
tigatei he Jun ped his position and made tracks
for Louisville. When the United States detect
Ives worked up the case and made their report,
q search was made for Cummings. He was
found In Louisville. the place he had chosen to
conceal himself and arrested.
=. He. was arraiRnad before Judge. Ballard, oil
the United States District Court OF Louisville
but the court finding that tho crime alleged bad
been committed In Louisiana, and that that
court had 10 jurisdtction, remanded the &C
mer,'s could be made to send him back to Che
scene OF his crime.