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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-05-28
The Complete Geography

Is systematic comprehensive treatise of the
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The scholarly system of synoptca abuation (pages
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The oral OufIfHes running through the first twenty
pages written In so simple STYLE that 1t be
great value to the teacher suggesting methods
sruction. and In giving clear, definite ideas pupil
The definitions admirable for their clearness and
strength of expression.
The Polar Projections the maps Of North America
and Asia the figures round the pole giving difference
time on different nerins; the figures the SIDES these
mhJs giving length OF day at different parallels of dt
fude are novel and admirable features OF this book.
The Giobuiar Map page l3) Ia worth the price the
book for giving correct ideas of the roundy EARTH
and the relative situations of different countries.
The Physical Maps Of grand divisions and of the United
States are deserving Of the highest praise giving
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In the treatment Of United States tsoh to 18th page,
There are doubeses the one for study clear
and with few details. the other for reference with JaH
tails county lines There Is also double text one in
large type. for the general student; the other fine type
for the special student and for reference These
lent points There given for general study plain open
type and maps for reference detailed State Geography
with tables OF cities their locations and
Will enable the special student obtain knowl
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value OF this arrangement hardly be
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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-05-28

LOOK AFTER THEM.-It is not merely the
preachers business to attract all he can le-
Ultimately to the house of God il is the
business Of every Christian in his congrega-
tion as well. 1t is right, therefore, TO ex-
tend hearty invitation to all we meet to
come to the house of prayer. If the invita-
tion is accepted, we ought to be on the look
out for them, and give cordial welcome,
and introduce them to others in the congre-
cation. This should be followed up by a
call at their homes. Very often an uncon-
verted person will stroll into house of
worship, either for curiosity or from secret
uneasiness of heart that prompts him to
seek word of comfort. In either case, he
deserves prompt recognition, He ought to
be noticed, and with cordial greeting. 1t
may be the turning point in his history
Presbyterian al Work.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-05-28
Hopeless Sorrow.

Perhaps even now, within the circle of
your acquaintance, you may be able to re-
member some on whose brow sadness ever
sits enshrouded; some in whose sky not one
star is ever seen to shine. and in whose
bighted heart no blessed hope of better days
is dawning. They were born to trouble and
to nothing else. Beneath the cloud they 90
always, and are never once seen beyond the
valley of the shadow of death. When the
morning comes they say, "Would God it
were even," and at even they say, "Would
God It were morning" All time is time of
trouble. and it hangs heavily upon them.
1t can hardly be said that they have any
days; because the rising of the sun is like
the going down Of the same, and it is night
all the time where they sojourn. And they
have their songs in the night; but these are
all sorrowful, and are set to some mournfnl
tune, and sound like the signing of the
stormy wind, or the moaning of the melan-
choly sea Passing through the valley of
Baca, they can dig no wells for their re.
freshment You never see them smiling
and happy; but on the contrary they are as
solemn and as gloomy as the grave. And
why are they so sorrowful Why, just be-
cause there is to them such total failure of
all their temporal blessings. In their pain
ful experience the ig-tree does not blossom,
and there is no fruit on the vines the labor
of the olive fails, and the fields yield no
meat; the flock is cut off from the fold, and
there is no herd in the stalls. Every hope
is blasted. Every comfort is clean gone;
every shadowing gourd is withered; and
every well-spring of pleasure is dried up. In
their personal history they find ample proof
of the proverb that one sorrow seldom comes
alone, and when it does it is sometimes the
forerunner of troop. That which the
palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten
and that which the locust hath left hath the
cankerworin eaten, and that which the can
kerworm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten.
Without controversy such was the case of
the upright man of the land of Uz.
When such SORROWS are sent upon us, we
should rejoice, because they come at the
command of God. Seasons of famine are
just as much from him as fruitful seasons /;
the black horses of adversity are sent
out by him as well as the white horses " of
prosperity. We must look above and be-
yond the second and apparent causes to God
the first, the last and only efficient cause
the cause of causes.--Aierander Dickson.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-05-28
The Turn OF Life.

Between the ages of forty-fve and sixty a
man who has properly regulated himself
may be considered in the prime of life. His
matured strength of constitution renders
him almost impervious to an attack of dis
ease, and experience has given soundness to
his judgment. His mind is resolute, firm,
and equal all his functions are in the high.
est order he assumes mastery over his bust
ness builds up competence ON the foun.
dation he has laid in early manhood, and
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-05-28

WHAT THEN ?-Are angels my attend
ants 7 Then | should walk worthy of my
companionship. Am | so soon to go and
dwell with angels Then should be pure
Are these feet so soon to tread the courts of
heaven Is this tongue so soon to unite
with heavenly beings in praising God Are
these eyes so soon to look on the throne of
eternal glory and on the assembled Re
deemer Then these feet, and eyes, and
lips should be pure and holy, and ] should
be dead to the world, and live for heaven
Albert Barnes.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-05-28

For the Vermont watchman
THE OCEAN AND THE BAY.

THE OCEAN AND THE BAY.
NJ MRS. Y. n. oRcrTT
In quiet beauty feeps the bay,
OF smiling in Its dreams,
And having caught the hue Of heaven,
with its own glory beams.
And leaves a restfui spirit, too.
All along the beaten shore,
As II 'twould smooth life's troubled ways
To peace forevermore
And near the ever restless deep
Pours out, In grand array.
It's ceaseless notes Of lofty praise.
A solemn roundelayi
Waves rushing in and rushing out,
Like throbbngs Of the heart.
As II the ocean were the pulse
For Nature act apart
Great Nature that In II adores,
without the need OF rest,
Him who hath set la bounds Of praise
AZ II hath pleased him best.
A type, perhaps. Of those who sing
Beyond the shores OF time,
And never tire Of their employ
within that happy cline.
an Diego, CAL. April q. 1879.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-08-16
now BISMARCK LOOKS.
Americans Talking with the In
terestjng Old Humbug
of Germany.
Special in Cincinr
mercial.

Hnllauelpnla SpeCldl III CluClHHhIl NOil-
mercial.
Judge "Pig Iron" Kelley has ar
rived at Berlin July 10) just as the
Reichstag is in anxious session over
a tariff bill which would reverse the
trade policy of the Empire, for the
reason that the provisions of the
bill all recognize the principles of
Pennsylvania protection. Judge
Kelley writes a most interesting
letter to the Times under the above
date, in which he gives most inn
portant verbatim conversation with
Prince Bismarck, q conversation
about which the Judge says: "tn
view Of the grave international sig
niticance of which ] must omit in
this letter the less significant, though
highly interesting, details of other
subjects which the Prince gave me-"
Judge Kelley then goes on to give
Bismarck's extraordinary utter
ances in favor of strict protection
and against the decentralization of
silver,
AS the clock struck 2, the carriage
of the Minister, Hon. A. ID. White,
entered the courtyard of Prince
Rlsmarck's official residence, which,
fronting on Wilhelmstrasse, sur
rounds three sides of triangle. AS
we entered his room, Bismarck ad-
vanced and put me at ease by the
cordiality of his greeting. His per-
sOnal appearance was a surprise to
me. Portraits, busts and statues
had made me familiar with his face
and head, but had not told me that
his height was more than six feet
three, and his frame is broader than
was that of General Scott, to whom
in all physical respects, except in
the contour of his face and head, he
bears a closer resemblance than any
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-08-16

A DETRoITER who has the repu-
tation of being hard pay was waited
on the other day by a nun who
began: H.
"Mr. Blank, hold your note for
$75. 1t is long past due, and i
wanted to see what you would do
about it,"
"My note? Ali yes, yes, this is
my note. For value received i
promise to pay, and so forth. Have
you been to the note-shavers with
this?"
81 have, but none of them would
have it,"
"Wouldn't eh? And you tried
the banks ?"
"Yes, sir; they wouldn't look at
it,"
wouldn't eh? And / suppose
you went to "A Justice to see about
suing itY"
II did, but he said a Judgment
wouldn't be worth a dOllar.v
"Did, eh? And now what propo-
sition do you wish TO make?
"This is your note for SIS. Give
me s. and you can have it,"
"Five dollars No, sir No,
sir! / have no money TO throw
away, sirl
"But il is your own note"
"True, sir, very true, but Pm not
such an idiot as to throw away
money on worthless securities, no
matter who signs them. / deal
only in first-class paper, sir, and
when that note has a negotiable
value / will be pleased to discount
it. Good day, sir-looks like settled
weather."
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-08-16
WHOLE NO. 2, 2,282.

asked, cts the measure definitely
determined ?''
replied afirmatively, SAYING
that / had my information from
President Hayes and our Minister
OF Foreign Affairs, Mr.. Evaits, and
that Congress had appropriated l20,-
600 marks with which to defray the
expenses Of our commissioners.
Turning to Minister White with
an earnestness Of manner which
caused me to think he would be-
pleased If the remark should BE
transmitted to Washington, he said:
"That proposition will not need
practical consideration. Its accept
ance will be Immediate"
The publication of the facts may
impair the mysterious value of ftl-
ture formal diplomacy, but Is justi-
fed by the freedom of the interview,
which imposed no restraint ON my
pen.
"Your country" concluded Bis
marck, "has great geographical
advantages your occupation Of the
Pacific coast makes the hordes Of
Asia your neighbors and opens their
trade to your enterprise, and the
South American States are open to
you on both oceans. But in this
matter you must not act alone.
Others must cooperate with you.
l have told you that no more Of our
silver will be sold, and you may
also know that the specie will go
into circulation again; il Is already
ordered"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-08-16

Col. ALBERT, who has charge Of
the improvement of the Potomac,
says the flats, with the deposits
made on them by the Washington
sewers, seriously affect the health
of the city, and proposes a plan for
an abatement of the nuisance. The
plan is to dredge out the so-called
Virginia channel from Easby's
Point to the arsenal, and use dredg-
ings to reclaim the entire area be-
tween that channel and the city
front, thus leaving one wide, deep
channel, instead of two compana-
lively shallow ones, with halEsub-
merged flats between them. Col.
Albert estimates the cost OF the work
at 81, 800, 900, and recommends that
it be betrayed by annual apprOpria-
tions Of $3.50, 900 to 5000, 900 per year,
until the improvement Is completed.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-08-16
For the CHRONICLE.
Love Me.

4
Love me, only love me,
Was the burden of song,
1 kept hearing all day long.
Whence it came could not tell,
But it brought a strange, sweet spell,
That soothed my every waking sense,
Into drowsy Incidence.
And every little light-winged bird,
Caught up the song which had heard,
And trilled it through the summer air,
Until it echoed everywhere,
Through the earth and heavens above me
Love me, only love me
At first 1 listened all intent,
To tell, if could be, what it meant
That new sweet magic lay,
That thrilled me in the strangest way,
Until my heart took up the song,
And sung it softly all day long
Sung it DER till every beat
Brought with 1t assurance sweet,
And each flower at close of day
With it's red lips seemed to say
While the sky beamed soft above me,
Love me, only love me
And my heart keeps beating on,
Tho that strange sweet song is gone,
Every note has died away,
still the throbbing pulse of day.
Now the quiet moonlight lies
Where the last red sunbeam dies.
Glimmers strange the faint pale light
OF the stars that, pale and white,
Look down thro' the mists of heaven
As fpower to them were given,
My every inmost thought to know
All that darlxly lies below.
Did they watch me late tonight,
With their eyes of tender light,
When bade my love good-by,
Did they hear me softly sigh?
All, my heart was crying still,
With mighty, vigorous will,
While the sky watched still above me,
Love ME, only love me
-Peeppy lie Brue.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-08-16

THE severest storm for many
years ragged in England lately. The
storm was attended by fall Of hail
stones, some five inches in circum-
ference. The damage TO glass in
London amounts to thousands OF
pounds sterling. In a great part of
Bedfordshire the bay crop Is conn
pletely swept away and many cattle
drowned. Newmarket and neigh
bOrhood is flooded. The rainfall In
Buckinghamshire IL estimated at
seventy tons per acre. Great dam
age by floods and lightning Is also
reported from Cambridge, Norfolk,
Guilford, Leicester, Bath and Mon
mouth. .Thestorm was terribly severe
in the valley of the Thames. Inn
mense injury is done the growing
crops. The damage by rain, hail
and inundation is irreparable this
season. The loss Of live stock Is
serious.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-08-16
MESozOIC TINE.
. l~ q

THE Muscatine Tribune says: A
six-foot, raw-boned countryman
walked into Dillaway's crOckery
store yesterday, and, noticing the
fine porcelain spittoons on the show
case, asked the proprietor "what
them things were ?' "Those are
spittoons," quietly remarked Mr..
D. "SpittoOns What are they
for ?" demanded the granger. ''T0
spit in" was the reply. "To spit
in, is that so?" and thereupon he
gathered a quartcup of pure tobacco
saliva in his mouth and elected the
same into said spittoon. "Well,
WE'LL" quoth ths granger, ''some-
thing new every day. When I'm
in the city again I'll call and spit in
it again." and then walked out.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-08-16

LAST year when the epidemic was
raging in Memphis, among the Gin
cinnati physicians who rendered
their services and lives to Health
Officer Minor was young Dr.lCOl-
lins, an unusually bright and intel
ligent man, who was making a
precarious living at his practice, not
through lack of ability, for Of that
he had abundance, but from the
lack of patients.
His services, together with those
of five others, were accepted, and
on certain evening they all went
to the depot to take the train for the
South. Young Collins, in taking
leave of the Health officer, who had
gone down to see the little band off,
said: "DOctOr, / will either make
reputation in Memphis or never
come home again." He arrived in
that city, and reported to the How
ard Association for duty, was given
an assignment in part OF the town
where the disease was carrying peo-
pie off by the scores.
Among Others that he attended
was the family of a wealthy planter.
He was successful in bringing the
children through the sickness, one
of whom was beautiful and intel
ligent young lady.
Within a short time the Doctor
himself, worn down by unceasing
labor, was smitten with the scourge,
and lay tossing feverishly In his
small room. The young lady, hear
ing of the circumstance, went to his
house and nursed him tenderly
through his illness.
1t is almost needless to say that
by this time the youthful pair be-
came mutually attached, a proposal
and acceptance followed, to which
consent was unhesitatingly given
by the parents. They were after
ward married, the father investing
his new son-in-law with a hand
some interest in his large planta-
ton. DIR. Collins is now one Of the
rising young physicians Of Mem
phis, and is the efficient Secretary
of its Board of Health.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-08-16

THE report of the Kentucky State
Commissioner of Agriculture, Just
issued, says correspondents from all
parts Of the State speak despond-
lngly and disp1iringly Of anything
like full corn crops. Their reports
were written IN most cases just be-
fore the recent rains that seem TO
have been satisfactory throughout
the State. The wheat crop has been
extraordinary in quality and yield.
We regret that WE have MP data at
hand from which we can approx
mate the acreage in the State, nor
have we any means from which to
form anything approaching an idea
of the aggregate crop In the State.
The acreage, we gather from our
correspondents, and of couise each
only speaks for his own locality, Is
from eight TO ten per cent. above
that Of last year.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-08-16

EQUIvooATIoN is a shadow OF
falsehood, which grows up by
what it feeds on, until at last it is
evolved a full-grown lie.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-08-16

THE Stewart county A. & M. As
sociation will hold its annual Fair
at the Fair Grounds near Dover, In
October next, the IA, 10, ~ and IL.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-08-16
DON'T FORGET!

To go to V. L. Williams popular Low
Priced Shoe Store for bargains in Boots,
Shoes, Hats, Caps, Notions, Etc. The
people do daily testify that he now has the
best goods for the least money of any
house in ClarksviIle. Reader, put us to
the test, and prove what we say. Store
Room, on the Corner, No. % Franklin
and First Cross streets.
May 81, 1S79-f
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-07-26
Truth for All Times =.

When men vote, and when their chosen
officers meet to conduct the affairs of their poll
teal Governments, no soldiers can interfere
This limit to their antagonisms no political
party can safely pass"
SO said William NJ. Evarts, at a mass meet
ing of the people of New York, a dozen years
ago, when as yet he had never dreamed of link
ing his political fortunes with those of the then
Unknow man Hayes.
An armed force in the neighborboOd of the
polls is almost Of necessity menace to the
voters and an interference with their freedom
and independence"
So SAID Geo w. McCrary. in his book on
elections, before he had lent himself to HAYES.
Civil liberty and a standing army for the
purposes of civil police have never yet stood
together, and never can stand together"
So said William H. Seward speaking with
the same wholesome adherence of military in
reference with the rights of the citizen which
led the founders of our Government to subscribe
within the narrowest limits both the size and
the functions of the regular army.
But we now see Hayes, in his vetoes, march
ing beyond that limit in party maneuvers
which Mr.. Evarts once declared unsafe to pass ;
insisting on that right Of using troops at the
polls which Mr.. McCary declared to be men.
ace to the independence of voters; and intend.
ing TO make the use of standing army as a
police which Mr. Seward declared to be incom-
patible with the continuance Of liher'y-Nao
York Sun
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-07-26
HOME MATTERS.


Mrs. VI. w Baldwin is in Chicago
Mrs c. Hard is in saltwater, MINI.
l.. W. Brewer has gone to Nebraska.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hosford are in Minnesota.
H. Wilson, of the Sc, store, is in Davenport.
Mrs. White (t,e Nellie Barser) is at Mr.. :. f.
Kings
l. " BEEN, Esq, has gone to Colorado to re-
cuperate
Miss Jennie Treat Perm. is guest Of Miss
Lille Bull.
George TrimDle spent the past week in-anotE-
er county.
Mr.. Thos Marvin has gone to Iowa 10 look az
ter that wheat.
Mrs c. ID. Trmble has been in Princeton for
the past fortnight.
Mrs. F. l.. Fske and daughters are summer
ing in Connecticut.
Charley and Ed Bradford returned from Florida
on last Tuesday evening.
Miss Anna Wallace, indianapolis, is visiting
Miss Lura Nash, of this city.
Ed Booher, of \. Franks, recupcrateth on the
Mississippi and in ST. Paul.
Geo S Fisher, Esq, of Washington City, is on
visit to his parents in this city.
the Lake Superior trout streams.
viii Secley has departed from Ottawa and Will
hang out his attorneys shinglc elsewhere.
Mr.. and Mrs a. l.. Wood lost their infant son,
who died on Tuesday last at the age Of six
months.
d. b. Snow started for the land of baked beans
and Goldfish on Wednesday: Portland, the Maine
coast, &C.
NJ D. Learned & Co., of Utica, have dissolved
partnership. The business will be continued by
NJ d. Learned.
The Peru H,,a1d: "Miss Sylvia Brewster has
gone on her usual summer vacation to the east"
Miss Brewster was in this city last week.
The Peru H~oId: MURRAY Blanchard and
family leave next week for vacation to Geneva
Lake, Wis, where they will rusticate for month
or So"
Peter Miller Esq, of this city, leaves Oh Mon
day, for three months visit to his relatives in
Germany,-at Frankfort-on-Main and thence TO
Iianau.
Mrs Samuel Nicholson has gone east to enjoy
the seaside and will not return before October
She will visit her old home and birth place New
York. before returning.
Rev q. i Barnes will H'Nl week. 20 east iu'
hi, summer vacation, according 10 ord"r of his
congregation, ead order being accompanied by
pecunary "tcstimonial.' He will take in the
famous Chautauqua country described iii the late
Huper. and be gone several weeks.
In another place will be found an article on
Flint Implements" &c. Mr.. Frank II. Cush-
ing is nephew of Mr.. A. Cushing, of this city,
and though but about % years old is Curator of
the chronological Department of the Smithsonian
Institute at Washington. His special study is
the subject written on in the article; and at his
residence he has collection Of over 1000 flint
implements.
We had a pleasant call on Saturday from y. G..
Cannon, for many years prominent lawyer in
La Sale, in this county, but of late years resi-
dent of Red Oak, Iowa. Mr.. c. seems to have
prospered among the Hawkeyes, and was on a
general recreation trip to the eastern watering
places, the White Mountains, Lake Superior, or
wherever inclination during his pcrigrinations
may carry him.