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The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1881-05-05

BRoUdHT HIM IN ALIyB--A defeated
man is fortunate if lie happens to be wit
ty one, too. He can save his credit by his
explanation. An exchange tells us how q
lucky phrase OF army language brought a
certain "hero" out OF doubtful hunting
experience with success
A party of soldiers 'out West, not hav-
ing much to do, resolved to go bear hunt
ing. They had been out about sixteen
hours and had not seen bear, and being
tired and hungry returned to camp. On
their arrival at headquarters, they missed
one of their companions. but thought
nothing of it. one of them remarking:
He will return all right.
They made their camp fire, and COM
menced preparing for supper They
had the coffee over the fire; one Of
them was slicing some meat, and the re-
mainder sat around the fire waiting, when
they were all startled by a terrible noise
that seemed to come nearer to camp. Sud
denly the thicket parted and in rushed the
missing man, his hair standing on end, his
face deadly white, his gun gone, and his
arms flying in the air, as if grasping for
imaginary objects, and about two feet be-
hind him came great black bear. The
pursued soldier turned when he saw the
bear drop, and, looking at one of them,
said, breathlessly:
Is he dead?
One OF the men asked.
Why didn't you shoot him, instead Of
running?
What do you take me for? replied the
missing one. Do you think was such
fool as to shoot him, when could bring
him in alive?
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1881-05-05

Tnr BiIzAnps IN MINNESOTA To say
nothing Of the forty snow storms, begin.
ming with the blizzard Of October 10Th and
10th, vo nov sec no signs OF spring except
the increase oi the length Of days Mer.
curry has only few hours at time been
above freezing point since November, and
snow is four feet deep on level all over
this part Of the state, We have had no
railroad travel since January 10th. Our
nearest poiut where railroad is about six
~ five miles easta place called Sleepy
Eye" Coal and dry wood have been luxu-
ries, but we have had plenty OF green
maple from the little belt Of timber along
the river west OF US, eight or ten miles.
Al this time for five years farmers have
been sowing wheat on these prairies.
Much wheat is yet in stack all over this
part of the state, and some Of it will be
rnined ] fear.
A blizzard is to the other storms what
Niagara is to the fall Of any ordinary mill
dam, II is grand combination OF storms
"A tornado, a whirlwind, cyclone, pull
verized hail storm, thunderstorm with
the electricity evenly distributed and the
thunder frozen up. The snow, whether it
comes from the clouds above or the drifts
beneath, seems to come from all points OF
the compass, and is gronnd into the finest
powder. 1t finds its way into nose, eyes
and ears;i packs the beard and hair; it
beats into the wool of every garment, sifts
through the button holes and in five min
utes makes well dressed man look like a
miller, while he feels like frozen snow
ball Fortunately billiards. are not of com
mon occurrence and never experienced at
the east. They belong exclusively to the
northwest, There was one here six years
ago compared with which the storms of
the present winter have been only gentle
s. j. Rogers, Marshall
Lyon, MINI, March Il, 1881.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1881-05-05
Vol UME Xxx.

and from tha, drawn into an evAporsting
pan thirty by twelve feet, over furnace,
in which seventy five barrels Of sal, can he
made IN day The salinometcr shows the
brine TO have strength Of %. complete
sstustion being denoted hy loo, Analy
sis shows the sal, TO contain only parts
OF impurities in 900
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1881-05-05

get IL. Thus is not the righ, way Lock
about and SEQ what yoa eau do TO help
yourself Grind your own an Support
yourself by honorable industry, and earn
your bread while you improve the odds
aud ends in study. When ron get some.
thing ahead. use il TO support yourself
while you learn. Ten Thousand men are
now serving their generation with useful
ness aud honor who never asked anybody
10 grind an ~ for them. This Is sensible
advice The young mon OF this country,
as rule are helped altogether too much,
II they have the right stuff in them, they
can get the education which they need
without begging and borrowing
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1881-05-05
AsH:1oNIC
A Perfected Purifier Of the system.

A Perfected Purifier Of the System.
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s~eeff n dsftatr, ssa ys4isstag Asa.ds Jsaosls0
-HkBsgKE.
For Indigestion, and Dyspepsia,
the many forms Of Liver Complaint,
Impure and Impoverished Blood, and
Functional Derangements attendant
upon Debility, and for Building up
the weak, Ash-Tonic is doubtless the
mos, prompt and certain remedy yet
devised. In 1-2 lb. bottles, 75 cents;
Six Bottles, g.. Accredited Physi-
clans and Clergymen, who may desire
TO test the Tonic, will be supplied with
no, exceeding six bottles, at one.half
the retail price, money TO accompany
the order. Sold by Druggists, and by
d. b. Dewey & Co, 46 Dey ST., n. Y.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1881-05-05

One Of the greatest mineral wonders Of
Mexico, and perhaps Of the world, is the
Iron Mountain in the immediate vicinity
Of Durango. in the State Of Durango The
Iron Mountain is nearly two miles 10
length and one mile wide and about 700
feet high Above the surface, uncovered
and in sight 1t shows about 20o, ,0C0, 900
tons Of pure ore, ready 10 be shoylled or
rolled, without any cost of mining into
the furnaces 10 be erected at its base.
Much Of this ore ranges from seventy 10
ninety per cent, aud some is carried
directly 10 the forge. I, works very kind.
ly and easily assumes the form Of steel
There is egsry reason 10 believe ores Of
such rare superiority, when subject 10 all
our modern improvements 10 iron making.
will produce iron and steel unsurpassed
anyshere in the world either 10 Sweden,
or Biseay, in Spain or England or the
United states. So L1ais Giobe Demovm
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1881-05-05

HELr YOURSELVES. DR. Prime has very
little sympathy TO waste upon young men
who get their education by forced loans
from relstiye,. He says 10 an earnest
Young fellow who wants an education. but
cannot afford TO pay for IL; "'Ihe way Of
the world now is for you 70
look abont and see who will help you 10
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1881-05-05
(a$toria-ss 80 Doses.

- DO tthtA n notnefs rem
edy for slcepless and irritable Child
~n. Tne Recipe Of Old Dr. Pitcher.
Free from Morphine. and not Mar
,otic. Formula published with each
bottle. For flaiuleney, assimilating
the food, Sour Stomach, feyerishnesS
Worms, and Disordered Bowels,
Castoria has the largest sale Of any
article dispensed by Druggists.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1881-05-05

"Are you the tax collector OF this ward?"
he asked as they rode together on the
platform Of the car.
No.
Assessor
No.
Water works man?
No,
Anything to do with census2
Nothing Of the sort. Why do you ask'
"Why, saw you coming out OF house
on Sproat street the other day with two
chairs, broom, and an ottoman flying AZ
ter you, and said TO myself that yon
were an official or agent OF some sort, and
had unintentionslly offended the woman
mo, I'm no official or agent, replied
the man, in lonesome voice. II liy
there and that woman was NV wife.
Navey"
you bet" was the sympathetic re.
sponse and they crept closer together and
took chew from the same bor.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1881-05-05

Conversation is an art in which man
las All mankind for competitors
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1881-05-05

Iinirl1ent:

The most Powerful,
Penetrating and Pain-relieving
remedy ever devised by man. 1t
soothes Pain, it allays inflammation, il
heals Wounds, and il cures
RHEUMATISM,
Sciatica, Lumbago, Scalds, Burns,
Stiff Joints, Cuts, Swellings, Frost
bites, Quinsey, Salt Rheum, Itch,
Sprains, Calls, and Lameness from
any cause. Sufferers from
PAIN IN THE BACK,
Fever Sores, Eruptions, Broken
Breasts, contracted Cords, Neu-
ralgia, Palsy or dislOcated limbs;
and owners of horses, planters, me-
chanics, merchants and professional
men everywhere, unite in saying, that
CENTAUR LINIMENT
brings relief when all other Lini-
ments. Oils, Extracts and Embroca-
tions have failed.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1881-05-05

Gen. Grant is booming as newspaper
scribe.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-11-23
Harper's Magazine

For December-the beginning of the
sixty.fourth volums-offsrs its readers an
unusually rich and varied entertainment.
The opening article of the number il
very interesting description of the royal
family of Sweden with twenty-four illus
trations.
Joseph Hatton in his third paper on
journalistic London" gives considerable
space to Mr.. Edwin Arnold, author Of "The
Light of Asia" and, in every respect, his
article is worth reading.
William Hamilton Gibson contributes
another of his delightful papers, entitled
/" Among our Footprints" with sixteen
illustrations beautifully engraved from his
own drawings. - n 1l5
Alfred T. Story presents some very timely
information respecting William Psnn's
Grave at Jordans. His article-which is
illustrated conclusively why per-
nilsson could not be granted for the re-
moval of Penn's remains to America,
Howard Pyle contributes short paper
entitled Autumn Sketches In the Penn.
sylvania Highlands" illustrated by five ex-
quisite engravings.
William Allen Butler contributes poem
entitled "The Garden Of the Gods" effect
lively illustrated by Thomas Moran
A very curious article respecting certain
popular delusions, entitled Monsters"
Is contributed by N. ID. Conway, with illus
trations. Among other things, Mr.. Conway
exposes the fraud known as" Mother Ship
toms Prophecies.
Prof. John Fiske's papsr I" How America
Came to be Discovered offers very inter.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-11-23

IT is necessary to add very little on
the question of prohibition, concerning
which our correspondent furnishes sec
ond article in this issue. The circum-
stances under which we worked in har-
mony with our friend differ very materially
from those now under discussion, and
the different positions we occupy do not
argue any inconsistency in principle.
With conditions reversed we should doubt
less be found working together again.
What we may have done in the past is
scarcely worth mentioning at this late
day. The fact that we vote with some in
temperate men and saloon keepers no
more proves that we have adopted their
principles than their voting with us proves
that they are in favor OF temperance prin-
ciples and measures. There has been no
pretense that we believed temperance men
ought to vote for candidates for Office who
were opposed to temperance principles.
We only called in question the propriety
of supporting q third candidate for an
Office when the Republican was as con-
sistent q temperance man as the Prohibi-
ton candidate, and where the only effect,
If any, would be to throw the Office into
the hands Of man who was VIGOROUSLY
opposed to every species Of temperance
legislation; in short, to labor TO defeat d
good and safe man and put one opposed
to every principle vital to the temperance
reform in his place, and we must confess
that the articles of our correspondent have
not made the matter any clearer to us. If
they had labored to defeat Republican
candidates for the Legislature who were
opposed to the principles of temperance,
we would have commended them and
voted with them, if we had had opportu-
nifty. but that there is an inconsistency and
absurdity in pursuing the course they did
in this and half dozen other counties we
believe, and that is the. claim we set out
with in the beginning. To put the ques-
ton so no one can fail TO comprehend it,
we were anxious to know why the Pro-
hibitionists of this county were anxious to
defeat Mr. Metcalf-as good and safe
temperance man as they could nominate
when his defeat could only result In the
election of one more member opposed to
temperance legislation? For anything
that yet appears to the contrary, we must
still insist they made mistake.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-11-23

THE Hudson Enterprise, which last
winter suspended for lack of sufficient
patronage to make 1t pay, was encouraged
to resume publication with promise OF
support and continued until last week,
when the editor and publisher, Chas. G.,
Guilford, an experienced practical printer,
who was fully competent to make a good
local paper, announced that the glitter
ing promise had been a hope deferred,
and he had staggered under the weight OF
non-sustsining Enterprise too long, and
from necessity succumbed at last. With
out its college and newspaper we should
think Hudson would be as quiet place
as could be found for the Children's Home,
a site for which the Commissioners OF
Summit County are looking.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-11-23
A Physicians Advice Of How to gain
Health.

HARRIsRuRa, Pa, March 80, 1881.
Nothing is more charming and attract
i've than athoroughly healthy, perfectly
formed woman; bright eyed, rosy.
laughing. joyous, happy-fsced -irl, one
ing. An invalid wife or mother is a con-
slant hold. Happy the home whose
women folk enjoy perfect health. In
my practice have always recommended
sickly women to use Browns Iron Bit
ters. In case of ofirregularities, dyspeps la
indigestion, heartburn. nausea, sour
stomach, nervousness and exhaustive
debility, 1 find IL exceeds all other reme-
dies as a true medicinal tonic. 1t never
fails to gently soothe, refresh aud
strengthen the general system, and es-
peoially those parts made weak by con-
tinued distressi apd what satisfies me
most is, that the cures. although In some
instances gradual, are always perman-
ent.-M. d.
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TO the Editor of the EsrxErnrsx.
Happening to have the leisure on that
evening we spent it in listening to the
Hon. r. G. Horr's lecture on :" Individual
sm." While he said many things that
were true and commendable, there were
others deserving of criticism and condem-
nation. The latter were no doubt owing
to faulty taste rather than deliberate pur-
pose, for we do not think the lecturer
would set out to offend any portion of his
audience by making doctrines sacred to
the hearts of all christian people and vital
to the existence of the christian religion,
the subject of pleasantly or ridicule.
The poor man who served his country
in monotonous clerkship, is not phys
ically or mentally what his more favored
brother is who was given active life, yet, If
he does his duty in that position and has
accepted the atonement, is infinitely safer
and more to be admired than the man who
can speak lightly of the most sacred things
God has revealed. 10 man; or disbelieving
that revelation himself, can lightly speak
of those things that other men hold sacred |;
or can hold up the ministry to ridicule in
such q way that the thoughtless and irrev-
erent may applaud. The humorous way
of alluding to white neck-ties aud sewing
societies and missionary meetings is but
sugar coat to the poison grains Of error
administered.
This whole question has more serious
phase than seemed to be apparent to the
speaker and many of his hearers. As no
well bred person would be expected to
tolerate ridicule of his wife or family or
friend, no more can christian people many
of whom would not suffer in intellect by
comparison with himself, be expected to
look with favor upon efforts TO belittle the
| fundamental truths of the christian system
in such a way as to weaken the reverence
of the Young and undiscriminating among
those Of maturer years. We attribute it TO
bad taste rather than design, but the re-
suits are none the less to be deplored.
If preachers were promulgating their
own self invented systems instead of try
ing TO interpret the revealed win of God,
then there would, no doubt, be argument
after argument till all that were weaker
than the stronger, would have to succumb
from sheer WEAKNESS, but when the sur
vival of the fittest " system was evolved it
would only be at best, the best human
system, stripped OF everything that is
Divine.
A French philosopher once devised
system of theology that he thought per-
feet, but complained to Talleyrand that he
had difficulty in inducing his countrymento
acceptit. Talleyrand replied that he could
tell him how he could get men 10 believe
in it. Heeagerly asked what he should do,
and the answer was: go live in poverty,
heal the sick, raise the dead, be crucified
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-11-23

Mr.. Horr doubtless knows, and would
not under-rate. the importance of Chris
tianity as great factor in the forces
of the world by which intelligence is dis
seminated, the physical good and material
prosperity of mankind advanced, and CON-
mercial relations and political harmony
between nations promoted or established
The argument against missionary work,
" attenuated Christianity trying to spread
itself over so large an area as to be ineffec
tual anywhere, with the inference that the
"near dutyn is left undone when bene-
violence does not stop at home, is favorite
and very old excuse for selfishness. Mis-
sionary work abroad is carried on by those
who are the leaders of and do the bulk of
the local benevolent work at home. If
Mr. Horr has considered the subject at all,
he knows that all the great charitable en-
terprises of the world-the asylums, re-
formatories, and most educational institu-
tions-are the fruit of Christian benevo-
lence And he must also know that the
majority of women who organize and sus-
tain the Woman's Christian Associations
and Woman's Foreign and other Mission
airy Societies, are not sentimental and
visionary, neglecters Of home interests,
but the most practical, refined and intelli
gent makers of good homes in our
country. 1t is because it does so pro
mote human happiness and make the
ideal home that real Christianity never
stops with working the greatest good to
the smallest number. That was too
much cramped and selfish prayer for these
days: Lord bless me, my wife and my
son John and his wife, those four and no
more. Amen"
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10 ,he Eai,or Of the Esrr.rn1s..
A STRANGER.

To the Editor Of the ExrxzrKrsz-
regret exceedingly that I am obliged
to differ with one with whom Ihave walk
ed so long in the temperance cause, and
sympathized with so deeply when you
were prosecuted and reviled in such a
wanton manner for the noble stand you
took against the liquor traffic. when you
was Mayor of Wellington, by drunken
vagabonds and that most degraded biped,
the rum seller, together with some who
are now leaders in the Republican Party
in Wellington. And 1 still more regret to
see you walk up to the polls shoulder to
shoulder with these same men and help to
elect men whom they know will subserve
their interests and join them in fighting
the only party that avows itself unequivo-
cally in favor ofthe prohibition ofthe liquor
traffic, q party that increased its vote
nearly six fold In the last year while the
Republican and Democratic parties have
Jointly fallen off nearly two hundred
thousand votes in the same time. But
you are unable to see the similarity in the
position we occupy to the Republican
party and that Of the Abolitionists of '54
and the Wing party. You say that they
never tried to defeat the Wing or Demo
crat parties by running a third candidate.
Nor did we try to defeat Mr.. Foster, but
you forget that the Abolitionists who voted
for James G. Birney and afterwards for
Jno. P. Hale to sustain q principle were
told they were likely to defeat the Wings
and throw the election into hands Of the
proslavery Democrats and there was
no hope for the slave or abolition except
through the Wing party, and they said to
such men as John Q. Adams, W.. Lloyd
Garrison, BENZ. Wade, J. r. Giddings, s.
P. Chase, and others that they must choose
the least of two evils, but they said NEVER,
and the same Wing party under the
administration of Fillmore, lead by that
prince of politicians, Daniel Webster, passed
the Infamous Fugitive Slave Law and
went out and died, Judas-like, and, fear,
the same fate awaits the once grand, but
now fallen, Republican party, unless they
cut loose from the liquor power aud assert
and stand up for what they know
to be right-Prohibition, and as you
remember several of our citizens were
imprisoned under this odious law and ]
am glad TO say that some of these same
citizens voted with the third party twenty
seven years ago for the overthrow of slav'
cry and are now voting with third party
for the overthrow of slavery to the de.
mon alcohol. compared with which, negro
slavery was paradise. Il, 3
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and buried, the third day rise from the
dead and ascend to heaven in the presence
of your, followers, and men will accept
your religion.
Preachers do not go undisputed If they
teach error. There has been an argument
reaching down through the ages concern
ing mans Interpretation of the Gospel, dur
ing which, as at the council of Nice, the
Reformation, and Wesley's times, men in
searching the Scriptures came nearer and
nearer the essential and central truth of
the christian system, the atonement made
by Jesus Christ and that man may know
whether he may claim the benefits Of that
atonement. That " survival of the fittest I"
system is more and more nearly
established as the Churches approach that
oneness which will ensue when we are
untramelled by the diversities Of natural
and circumstantial Individualism.
A STRANGER