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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-09-29

PASTOR MADE HAPPY have been greatly
troubled with my kidneys and liver for over
twenty years and during that entire time was
never free from pain, My medical bills were
enormous, and visited both the Hot and White
Springs, noted Tor tbs curative qualities OF the
water. ! am happy to say ! am now well
man, and entirely as the result OF Warmers Safe
Kidney and Liver Cure, Not only this, but my
little daus liter has been cured OF St Vitus Dance
by Warmers Safe Neryine, which always keep
10 my family, With such glorious results. | am
only too glad 10 testify regarding the remedies
which have made me 30 happy.
RKv. Z. y. MARKLEE.
Coal Run Crossing. Arkanpas
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-09-29

AGENTS AND CANvAssERs make from S25 to
$50 per week selling goods for f. G. RIDEOUT
& CO., 10 Barclay street, New York. Send for
their catalogue and terms.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-09-29

AN ESTABLISHED REMEDy.-Downs" Elixir has
been widely known and used as cough remedy
for fifty years. No other cough medicine has
stood the test half this length OF time. The peo-
pie Stand by that which Is good
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-09-29
h. wOoDwARD,s ESTATE.
Os STATE OF VERMONT, District OF Washington, as,
Probate Moptpeliar in Naid Dlstrtcf

Os STATE ofyEkMoNT District Of Washington, as.
In Probate Court held at Montpelier In said District,
the llth day of September, A. II. les0;
Mary H. woodward ADMINISTRATIVE OF the estate OF j. II.
Woodward, late Of Montpelier. In said District deceased.
presents her account for examination and all
owance, and makes application Tor decree distribution
and partition OF the estate OF said deceased Whereupon,
II Ia ordered by said Court, that said account and
said application be referred 70 session thereof % be
held AT the Probate ONCE, In said Montpelier the 20
day Of October A. ID. 1850 for hearing and decision thereon
and Il further ordered that notice hereof be given 70 ali
interested by publication Of the Tires weeks
succcssyey In the Vermont wa.chmHn state Journal.
newspapef Published Montpelier previous 10 had time
appointed for hearing that they appear Al said TINS
and place and show cause, any they may have, why
said account should not be allowed and such decree made
BY the Court-Attest,
$50 JOEL FOSTER, JR, Register,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-09-29

Long years Of faithful service,
As loving mother, wife,
Aud now thv royal summons,
The browning Of her life.
The shadows all have vanished,
The night has passed away;
She walks with Christ In glory,
For her eternal day.
oh blessed, blessed resting
From WEAKNESS and pain;
The earthly loss Ia sweetened
With thought OF heavenly gain.
Her memory shall liDger,
As breath of passing flowers,
And sing to us in gladness
Through all our mortal hours.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-09-29

Dr. BAxTER's Mandrake Btters are purely veg
etabe-the product OF the hills and valleys.
WARRAsTED-IIenry& Johnson's Arnica and
Oil Eminent Is warranted to please all who use It,
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J!ew eadrerfisenenfs.


BEST CABINET OR PARLoR Or
CANS IN THE WORLD. winners Of
highest distinction at EVERY GREkT
WORLDS Exhibition FOR THIRTEEN
YEARS, Prices, ISL s5T, s66, $50, sos,
70 500 and upward. For easy pay
Catalogues free. MASON & HAM
LIN ORGAN CO., I5t fremont street,
BOsTON i6 East l4th Street Union
Square, NEW YORK lis Wabash
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-09-29

pHOIo; VISITING oARDs.-A psrfec, Photo
~ Round Gntedsed Cards for S. osn post-
paid s5 for slo send your photo with order, and II viii
so UNION cARD co.. hoatpeltn, W.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-09-29

The following Is Geographic report Of the live stock
market at Cambridge and Brighton for the week ending
Tuesday, September Is. 1885,
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Curious Facts.

Stones were first used for bullets; iron
ones are first mentioned in 1850. Leaden
bullets were made before the close OF
the sixteenth century. Stone cannon
balls are still used in the East.
The announcement of the formation
of ice during the hottest days of last
summer in the caves near Zchinval, in
the Caucasus, attracted many travellers:
1t is reported that these caves are filled
with ice only during the hottest weather,
and that the newly-formed ice disap-
pears with the fall of the thermometer.
The bones of q huge creature, sup
posed by those who found them to be
part of the skeleton of amastodon, were
iscovered a few days ago by workmen
employed in cutting a ditch at Fountain
Creek, Iroquois county, I'll. Competent
persons have been sent for to make an
examination and determine the scientific
value of the discovery.
It is unfortunate for the purpose OF
the murderer, but favorable to the ends
of Justice, that %strychnine should be &c.
lected for the diabolical object Of taking
life. There is, perhaps, no poison which
produces such characteristic Symphonic
in the victim while he yet lives, OF
which affords more decisive evidence OF
| it's presence after death.
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Life In the Sea.

Brimful of life at its surface, the sea
would be incumbered if that prodigious
power of production was not kept some
what in check by the a~ntagonistic power
of destruction. Imagine that each herring
has from $4,000 to 10000 eggs! If every
egg was to produce a herring, snd every
herring 10000 more, were there not an
enormous destruction going on, the
ocean would very soon be solicited and
purified. The great cetacea drive them
toward the shores, yer and anon diving
into their ranks and swallowing up a
whole shoal. The whiting eat their fry;
cod again devour the whiting. Yet,
even here, the peril of the sea, an excess
Of fecundity, shows itself in a still more
terrible shape. The cod has up to
5000, 900 of eggs, and this creature, Of
such formidable powers Of maturity,
has nine months of love out OF twelve.
No wonder that the fishery of this
fish has created towns and colonies.
But ever then, what would the powerof
man be, opposed to such fecundityP' He
is assisted by others, among which the
sturgeon takes the chief rank. Then,
again, the sturgeon %itselfis a very fecund
fish. This devourer Of cod has itself
1900, 900 eggs. Another great devourer
is not rroportionately reproductive, and
that is the shark.
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GypsieS.

If a gypsy is caught breaking the
laws he bears his punishment patiently.
Heis ashamed of the detection, but not
Of the crime. Iicobeys willingly only
the laws Of bis tribe and chief; this he
does implicitly, but as he never speaks
of their peculiar code and customs to
outsiders, no one knows in what his
obedience consists.
That they are not an altogether bad
people, nor feared nor disliked, the fact
that Europe is full of them attests. In
almost every country they have q name
peculiar to themselves. They are called
Tziganos, Zingari, Gitanos, Bohemians,
Egyptians; all proving they are Eastern
born. In Spain they are called Concha;
in Hungary, Eva; in Russia, Galnub.
chick, whatever It may mean-certainly,
it does not sound pleasantly.
Yet the gypsy is p tavorite with the
Russian peasant-perhaps because he is
migratory, and comes with the summer
and the Birds.
A winter in Russia he could never
stand, for the SUI is his fire-except
when he boils the pot; the green COM
mon is his home, and the straw-stack or
hedgerow his bed. His ways of main
tanning himself seem to vary according
to the people he tarries with.
Instead of telling fortunes and living
on his wits, as he does in England, in
Russia he carries a guitar and sings
~love-sopgs, the women dancing Eastern
dances 10 his music, and he receives a
tumblero of tea or a drink of beer for his
trouble. The music is SAID to be wild
and sweet. List, the German comnoser,
wrote a book on "the music of the
gypsies."
Bihrey, a Hungarian gypsy, was q
| celebrated ..yiolinist. The Hungarians
have preserved his violin, though,
when old ard nearly blind, they let him
die in the street. Yet he used to play
before their beautiful empress, Maria
Theresa, and it is said he was vain
enough to fall in love with her. But the
empress had the good sense to laugh al
his folly, and continued to applaud his
music.
Agypsy will never give a history oI
himself nor of his race.
my father is a crow, and my mother
a maQpie," he will answer, if asked
about his family, and certainly no on
an deny that he has the peculiarities o.
he parentage he claims.
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Cur,ous Facts About Tools.

When we study the construction OF
our most important instruments We as
cover to our establishment that the u. ter
are true copies of some parts OF our
body, and simply a further completion
of them. In the stone hammer man nas
unknowingly initiated his forearm Will
closed fist; in the 8 :oVei anu SPOIL ~ ~
see the forearm and followed nano; N
the saw we find a reproduction OF a row
Of teeth; tongs represent the closing
together of thumb and fingers; in the
hook is a bent finger reproduced; the
from the simplest to the o sn e9m cpm.
Gated, only an Improvement a and tins
owe ind that ali the observation-disclosures
Of men are directed toward the same me
aim as that toward which organic de-
velopment tends..- Scientific America"
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Kind.Hesrted Employer.

The other night about nine o'clock
the proprietor of one of the great boule-
ward restaurants vas to be seen signing
and lamenting at the door of his restau-
rant. Some habitues as they were
going out asked him what was the mat
ter.
"Ah, Messieurs, four persons have
just gone away without paying for q
sumptuous dinner which they have
eaten"
"That Is unfortunate, but You need
not despair so violently"
"Ah!" replied the restaurant-k keeper
in a tone of deep distress, 1T is not on
my own account. I am rich. But my
waiter, Messieurs, my pr:vate-rcom
waiter, the father of q family who has
nothing but his place to live oni he wsit
have to bear the loss and not II"
And he sank down on a chair and
melted into tears.-Paris PAPER.
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AS Bad to Lie

Old Parson S of Come :ticut. was a
particular kind of a person. One day
be had a man blowing in his field, and
he went out to see how the work was
getting on. The ground was very stony,
and every time the plow struck a stone
the man took occasion to swear a little.
"Look here" cried Parson S., "you
must not swear that way in my field"
"Well, I reckon you'd swear too" said
the man, eff you had to plow such a
stony field az this" mot q bit of it,"
said Mr.. S. Just let me show you"
So the parson took hold of the pillow,
but he very soon had considerable
r ouble with the stones. AS stone after
stone caught the plowshare, Mr.. S.
calculated: "Well, / never saw the
like" And this he repeated every time
a stone stopped his onward way. As
soon as he had plowed around once he
stopped and said to the man: "There,
now! You see I can plow without
swearing" "But I guess it's pretty
near as bad to lie," answered the man,
land you told dozens of lies. Every
time the plow struck a stone you said,
never saw the like when the same
thing happened a minute before"
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Cloth a Of sponge.

One of the recent German Inventions
consist Of q new kind of cloth, which is
composed principally or en~tirelEre
,spenseyz5uits m~6nafacture thesp
are frstthcroughl3 beaten with
ha~Is6erYsaSatAer 10 scrysh al th&
eyal and vegetable Impurities ID l14{z
they canahaeasily Fashed out; theysare
then dried and pared with a sharp knife.
the pairing being sewed together. The
fabric which is thus obtained is described
as being free from all the danger which
sometimes arises from the absorption OF
poisonous dyes into the system; it alb
serbs without checking the p~erspiration,
so as to diminish the danger of taking
cold; it lis q conductor, and therefore
helps to maintain a uniform surface tenn.
perature; it can bemore readily cleansed
tnan the ordinary wooden eafgents; It's
fexibility decreases the liability of chat
ing; and the ease with which 1t can be-
employed in shoes, stockings, drawers,
undershirts and other articles of cloth
ing, will, it is thought, render the new
material especially useful as q protection,
against rheumatic and pulmonary at
tacks.
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How Deep to Plant Grain.
Gladstone as q DICTATOR.

The man lS more interesting Cuan any
of the parts he has been called to play;
but we come to understand the man bet-
ter by seeing how he shapes and molds
these parts. As an orator, his conspic.
uous merits, besides his striking coun-,
tenance, dignifed action, and a voice full,
rich md admirably shodulated are fer,
tility and readinesss He seems. TO have
always at command an inexhaustible
store Of ideas, reasons. 1Adstrati0nss
whatever be the subject which be Is re-
ouired to deal with.a10fall great En-
jel;sh speakers, probably no one, not
even William Pitt, ;has,been soindepenG-
emit of SreNara.ion. Even Fox. swift
and rushing as-Ae was. was great only
in reply, when his feeGpgs were heated
by the atmosphere of bhtls, where a.
MIR. Gladstone Is just as animated n
forcibie in an opening, or n 8 purely
ornamental and u~ncontentious h~arangue~
as in the midst of parliamentary strife.
Of the many anecdotes that are current
illustrating his amazing power OF rising
to an occasion, one may be given which
has the merit of being true. On the
afternoon when he was to make an i'm
portant motion in the house of COM
mons, a friend, happening 10 call on
him between two and three O'Clock,
found him Just sitting down to make
some notes of the coming speech. he
laid aside his pen and talked tor a while,
than iotted down q few heads on paper,
went down to the house before Jour
o'clock, found himself drawn into a pre-
liminary controversy of a very trying
nature, in which lie had to repel so
MANY questions and attacks that it was
past six before he rose to make the great
speech. He then discovered that, as ne
had left his eyeglasses at home, MS
notes were practically useless, put them
quietly back into his cont pocket, and
delivered with no aid to his memory,
and upon that one hours preparation, a
powerful argument interspersed WIFI
passages of wonderful passion and
pathos, which lasted for three hours,
and will always rank among his hnest
efforts.
These qualities have made him by far
the greatest parliamentary debater( using
the word in its strict sense) Of the
present generation. No one can deal
with complicated facts, can expound
his own case, and refute his adversaries,
with anything like the same ease, clear
ness. force. On the other hand, this
very facility prevents him from often
rising to the highest SUBMITS OF
eloquence. In speaking, as in every
thing else, time and pains r indispen-
sable to the production of the most
finished work. Even q genius cannot
improvise more than three or four abso-
lutely perfect sentences at a time. Hence,
though his good work is tar greater in
quantity than that of Edmund Burke
or Macaulay or John Bright, there are
few among his speeches which car be
put in comparison with their best per-
formances.-Sc71bner.
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A Big Picture.
A short time ago a painting l

A short time ago a painting 100 feet
ong and thirty feet deep was hung, n
the Guildhall, London, to remain on
view for q week. The picture contains
upwards of 1000 figures, and is q repre-
sentation OF the battle of Agincourt. II
was painted by Sir Robert Keer Porter
(pain.er of the Siege of Seringapataml
when nineteen years Of age, and wa
about the year 1919 presented to the corr
occasionally been Utilized as a screen q
the Mansion house, but owing to its Inn
mense size it has been found necessary
to cut it into three sections. The center
piece, which is ffty.four feet long, repss
resents the battle at its height: The SIDE
pieces are each twenty-three feet loa9.
The one on the right portrays the re
treat of the French army, while the ieit
is q beautiful landscape, with a portlon
OF the English army advancing through
a well.wooded and watered country 70
give battle to the fee. I
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A Few Brief Years,

A few briet years and I shall lie
Beneath yon calm and peaceful sky,
Whose breast is bright with notes and bars,
And laughing music of the stars
Whose bosom, spread from pole TO pole,
In silence will my grave console.
With Strengthened limbs my SHADE will rest,
Ay head against my coffin pressed;
And hour by hour, and day by day,
My wasted bones will pass away,
his hand that W rites will then DO cold,
And shrunk and eaten with the mold
OF time and death and dark decay,
Till joint by Joint returns to clay.
The dread, the fear, the torment sore,
VIII 1end my heartstrings never more;
Nor human wiles nor worldly strife,
To barely win the bread of life,
Will ne'er, within my narrow bed,
Disturb or wake my wearied head.
A thousand years will pass me by,
Without a change in land or sky;
No winters snow, nor summers hea,.
Will Ger disturb my winding sheet.
At evenings close I'll meet no more
The sInile that waits me at the door;
riic Mills and dales and streams will be
A mute forevermore to me.
No morn will wake me at its dawn;
No more, on mead or field or lawn,
When landscapes smile beneath the sun,
Will romping childhood to me run.
My span Of Life, my humble lot,
Like friendships VOWS, will be forgot;
And ell the world will live the same
As II I never had a name.
Hugh F. Me Dsrmott.
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tence was passed on o man accused of
highway robbery ut the Old Bailey in
the year 1720, and there may have been
still later examples.-&. James GozeHs.
The Wild PIG of India.

Those who have formed their concep-
ton of pig exclusively upon the tame
pig of the civilized sty, have no
adequate idea of the free wild pig of the
Indian Jungle. Like the North Ameri.
can Indian the pig is debased by contact
with civilization. He becomes cowardly,
weak, dirty, ana q prey to ar inordinate
thirst for swili. The distance between
the tame Indian of Saratoga, who steals
chickens and wallows drunken in the
gutter, and the fierce warrior OF the
Western plains, is not greater than that
which separates the despiscd pig OF
civilization from the wild and fearless
quarry of the East Indian plg-sticker.
The latter pig, whose spirit has never
been broken with pig-yokes, and whose
moral nature has never been poisoned
with swill, is one of tue bravest inhabi-
tants of the Jungle, and has been known
to attack and put to rout the majestic
elephant and the ferocious tiger.
The full name of The East Indian pig
is Sus indicus, though nj one except a
punctilious scientific person ever calls
him by it. Among beginners in the art
of pig-sticking he is sometimes magnllo-
uuently described as a wild boar
though he is very often a wild SOW; but
p%ig-stickers of reputation uniformly call
him a pig, or q hog. Sus indicus often
grows to the length of four feet and eight
or ten inches, and reaches the height of
three feet, or even forty inches, at the
shoulder. When full grown his strength
is enormous, and in speed ne will some
times rival the fastest Arabian horse.
He enters upon EXIST nee in a striped
state; subsequently he becomes brown;
when in the prime of life, lie affects a
dingy black color; and when old, he is
gray and grizzled. At no period a he
be honestly called a handsome or q
graceful animal, but his courag; and
.tenacity of life demand respect.
In point of teeth the tame pig has
sadly deteriorated. The wild bear OF
India, which is the type of the barbaric
pig of all ages, is armed with long semi
circular tusks. Those in the lower jaw
attain the length OF eight or
nine inches. They curve outward and
upward, and the edges are kept sharp by
the pigs constant habit or securing
them against the tusks IF the upper jaw.
The swiftness and power with which he
uses those tusks to carve an enemy are
incredible. A hunting dog is
frequently cut in two by a single stroke
q boar's tusks, and horses and men are
occasionally killed by bears which have
become tired of being hunted, and
try to infuse u little variety into
the affair by bunting their enemies.
When wounded he is an exceedingly
dangerous beast to face on foot, unless
the hunter is o lawless ruffian who is
capable of killing him with o rifle. One
can scarcely imagine an Englishman so
lost to all sense of decency as 10 shoot a
fox, and next to that crime ranks, in
Anglo Indian estimation, the loath-
some outrage of killing a pig by any
process except that OF pig-stlcking.-
Hdrper's Maqasine.
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Salt In Intermittent Fever.

Take a handful of table salt and roast
in a clean oven with moderate heat till
it is brown-the color of roasted coffee.
Dose for an adult: a sours2oon!al dis.
solved in a glass of warm water flake at
once. When the fever appears at inter-
walls of two, three or four days, the
remedy should be taken fasting on the
morning of the day following the fever.
70 overcome the thirst a very little
later should be taken through a straw.
During the forty-eight hours which fol-
low the taking of the salt the appetite
should be satisfied with chicken and
beef broth only; it is especially neces-
sary to observe a severe diet and avoid
taking cold. The remedy is very simple
and harmless, and it is said that it never
has been known to fail where it has
been given a trial.