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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-09-23
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Farm For Sale.

On account of poor health will sell my farm,
situated one mile from Passumpsic Village. 1t
consists of two hundred and sixty acres OF land
suitably divided into tillage. pasture and wood
land apple orchard in bearing. also plums and
cherries Good buildings the farm, with run
ming water 10 the same; also a good sugar orchard
II is Of the best stock farms in the county and
well wooded
r. P HARVEY.
Passumpsic VT. Sept S 1881 eff
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Valuable Farm For Sale at Bargain.

Contains 300 acres land, consisting of tllage, pas
ture and woodland, under good state Of cultivation
cuts 40 tons hay go bushels oats, and other crops
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HONORABLE DEALING.

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'St. JOhnsbury, Vt. June 4, 1880.
In consideration that Messrs. VIM. Savage and
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of one hundred dollars not to sell in any way
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age & B0dgett shall 20 out of the business, except
ing what shall want for my own
tSigned) y. +. DREW"
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others.
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Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-13
Loyelorn Women.

+ Lovelorn damsels are credited with
strange freaks. In London paper it
was lately avered that the original of
Dickens's Miss Havisham still existed
in the flesh not far from Ventnor, in the
person of an old maiden lady, who,
when she was young, had formed an
attachment which did not meet with
maternal approval, and in consequence
came to nothing. The young lady gave
up her lover, but accompanied the act
Of filial duty bya declaration that she
would go to bed and never get up again ;
and she kept her word. The years have
come and gone, and the house has never
been swept or garnished the garden is
an overgrown tangle; and the eccentric
lady has spent twenty years between the
sheets. The teller of the story rashly
put a name to it, and the friends of the
eccentric lady soon published an indig
nant reputation of the romance, which
in all likelihood was simply an adapta
tion of the case of Lady Betty @
who, it is averred, took an unhappy Low,
affair so much to heart that she went Il
her bed and actually lay therein TO
the remaining twenty-six years of he
life.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-13
A HELPING Hand,

The poor give more than the rich.
This proposition holds good as a gen.
raj thing. Money is by no means the
only thing to give in this world !;
neither do large gifts necessarily contri-
butte more to the happiness of the re-
ceiver than small gifts. Go into any
country and converse with the people.
Ask who ministers most to their happi.
ness. You will very likely be told of
some venerated clergyman, whose salary
has never been more than enough to
barely support him; or some poor
widow, who goes from house to house,
like ministefing angel, wherever sor-
row and suffering demand consolation
and relief. It is astonishing how much
one without money can give. A kind
word. helping hand, the warm sym
pathy that rejoices with those who de
rejoice and weeps with those who weep
No man is so poor, no woman Is so poor
as not to be able to contribute largel,
to the happiness of those around them
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-13
WORDS OF WISDOM.

Moet men know what they hate few
what they love.
More have been ruined by their SER
wants than by their masters.
It is better to have resource to a
quack, if he can cure our disorder,
although he cannot explain it, than to
physician, if he can explain our dis
ease, but cannot cure it.
In most quarrels there is fault on
both sides. A quarrel may be compared
to a spark, which cannot be produced
without flint, as we'll as steel either
of them may hammer on wood forever,
no fire will follow.
Whenever our neighbor's house is on
fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines
to play little on our own. Better to
be despised for too anxious apprehen-
sions than be ruined by too confident a
security.
The bed is bundle Of paradoxes /;
we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit
it with regret we make up our minds
every night to leave it early, but we
make up our bodies every morning tc
keep it late.
Philanthropy, as generally under
stood, consists in profession OF affec
ton for people on the other side of the
planet, whom we really care nothing
obout, and generosity consists in send
ing them all the old things we dom
know what to do with.
As q mans life, SO are his studies
r think it is the most beautiful an6
humane thing in the world SO to minglt
gravity and pleasure that the one may
not sink into melancholy nor the Other
flise up into wantonness.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-13
The Morphine Habit.

It is said that the morphine habit is
not only widely prevalent. but that it
has grown alarmingly during the last
five or six years, and many persons who
would never be suspected CT the habit
are. it's irredeemable victims. Hyper
dermic injections of morphine have
largely usurped the place, with certain
classes, of the old custom of taking
morphine, laudanum and other prepa-
rations of opium into the stomach. The
popular notion is that it is not so harm
fal. But there is very little difference,
and the injections are thought to be
more dangerous because they are more
insidious. They can be self-adminis,
tered without the least trouble, and ere
so administered in nearly all cases where
serious mischief is done. The effect o1
morphine under the skin is described
as peculiar and wonderfully agreeable.
| The mind is stepped in fascinating re-
pose. Even strong men and women
have frequently found it hard to resist
its allursments, and have not been able
to surrender it's beatitudes without
arousing all their will. On this account
some physicians will not administer OF
prescribe morphine under any circuIn
stances, fearing the consequences tt
their patients. Not few women of the
finer type have been wrecked by the
habit, and many men, professional ant
commercial, are steadily running them
selves by its indulgence. 1t was hailet
as great blessing once, and SO it is
properly regulated; but, like SO man.
blessings, it may readily be converte
into curse. At least, it is dangerou
remedy.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-13
VIRGINIA ITEMS.

Norfolk is the first city whose repre-
sentatives have paid in full their SUBJ
scription to the capital stock of the In
ternational Cotton Exposition. e
The Common Council of Lynchburg
has adopted an ordinance exempting all
capital employed in manufacturing en-
terprises from city taxation for ten
years. aap
The report of the Tobacco Association
of Danville submitted for the month Of
July, shows 2,174,078 pounds sold for
1886, 1884. IS, being an average OF S11-8l
per 100 pounds, Since the 1st of Octo-
ber last, 25, ,54s.pounds of tobacco
have been sold at Danville for ~, 2,493,-
41457. being an average of 1892 per
100 pounds.
Efforts are being made at the Post
Office Department, Washington, for the
establishment of the letter-carrier sys-
tenn in Lynchburg.
Mr.. James Mcdaniel, whose farm is
near Silcott's Mills, Loudoun County,
had & flock of thirty-fou sheep killed
by lightning during recent storm.
President Jefferson's famous old clock
at Monticello is undergoing full repairs.
Tt is said to be remarkable time-piece
on a grand scale-a splendid piece of
mechanism and great curiosity alto
gether.
Since the programme of the Yorktown
Centennial Association has been issued
much preparation has been made for the
celebration. Mr.. l., Wolf has now
nearly completed a large hotel, which
adds much as an improvement to this
dilapidated place. The Temple farm is
being enclosed by a high picket fence,
and the Moore House is being reno
vated for the headquarters for the Presi-
dent. The Theater Comique is nearly
completed, which will add greatly to
the few attractions of the place. Man
ager Shield and assistants are doing all
in their power to have their efforts
crowned with success. Mr. Charles
Cluverius has erected q neat and COM
Portable house for centennial purposes.
A little village in Smokers Gap, Blue
Ridge Mountains, in Loudon county,
was nearly destroyed on July 81 by a
] waterspout.
The United States engineers are now
engaged in making very thorough and
exhaustive survey of the Appomattox
river with view of improving the har
bor
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-13
Time end Tide.

A clear brook sparhled in haste along,
And the little child who sported by
Heard sweetest tones in the ripping song
That trilled its notes where the cresses lie
Trouble and grief were yet unborn,
That was the gong of life's glad morn.
A schoolgirl passed by the gnrgling food,
Which kissed the stones at her active feet,
And the song it sang was glad and good,
As she bounded over light and fleet,
Singing in turn her childish lay;
That was the song Of a later day.
maiden walked by the brooklet's side,
And heard the song of the silvern stream
Fair, and soon to become bride,
Every impulse golden dream
Heard no echo of sin or strife,
Naught but the sweetest psalm of life.
woman passed by the brooklet's side,
Walking in sorrowful grief alone,
Hearing moans in its turbid tide
Echoing those her life had known:
Changed the sound of its restless ruin,
Life had reached to the height of noon.
Aged and bent woman roamed,
Bowed with burdens and creased with care
Over it's rapids the water foamed,
Fierce and swift from its woodland lair;
Sadly she listened, then wept and sighed
Life drew near to its eventide
Once again did she come that way,
All her beauty and brightness hid,
Fair face furrowed and hair turned gray.
Sheltered under coffin's lid
Wind and water in dirges blond,
Life was over, and this its end.
Still the brook'n it's restless flow,
Chants its anthems or mlrmurs low,
just as it did in the long ago.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-13
A SOUTH AFRICAN SHARPSHOOTER.
The Remarkable Exploits Of a B6er with n
Rifle.


The Remarkable Exploits of a B6er with n
Rife.
I had long conversation to-day with
a very intelligent specimen Of Boer,
who forms in Newcastle one of the
guard that accompanies the Boer lead
ers attending on the commission. He
spent the afternoon in my camp, and
gave me a rehearsal of the different
modes of fighting among the Beers.
First of all, he began to try his hand at
shooting at bottles, distance 100 yards,
with fifteen Winchester repeater,
which I lent him for the purpose. With
this weapon, however, he failed to ac-
complish any decided success, the bull
let's falling close all round, but the
bottle remained untouched.
II cannot shoot with your rife," he
observed /; "but give me Martini Henry
and will pick off two bottles at 200
yards" I sent up to the camp for a
Martini Henry carbine, which the Boer
laid hold of with great deal more ap-
parent confidence, and in the first two
shots verified his boast, for the bottles
were Immediately shivered to- atoms
He next proceeded to show me the Boel
mode of shooting from behind rocks
and stones. "The great mistake YOU
soldiers make" he observed, "was to
aim over the stone at the enemy, but we
always fire round the corner" Throw
ing himself fiat on the ground, he pro
ceeded to put his remark into practice,
and, dragging himself lithely along,
peered cautiously round the right-hani
corner of low stone that only just con
cealed his form from sight of the sup
posed enemy. Removing his hat, h
raised it slowly aloft on the top Of hi
ramrod and maneuvred it SO as to caus
it to have the appearance of man
head cautiously taking note Of tn
enemy. At this hat an English soldie
is supposed to have taken pot shot
when the Boer suddenly let it fall, and
bringing his body round the corner
took steady aim at black bottle SOM
$50 yards distant, which, in another mo
ment, was smashed to atoms.
Another method of shooting on horse
back he showed me in a brilliant ant
effective manner. Mounting his hors
and uttering loud cry, he sent it gal
Looping up the hill as hard as it coult
go. Suddenly, without word of warn
ing, the left foot was pressed to tn
stirrup, the right leg thrown backward
over the saddle, the man was on hi
feet, and the horse stopped instantane
ously, as if spellbound. Standing erect
the Boer aimed coolly at a distant bottl
and knocked it over; then springin
into the saddle, he executed the sam
man@uvel in two opposite directions
with single ami unerring aim effect
The man was one of 1S0 who frs
stormed and took the Maiuba Heights
London Morning Post. F"
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-08-13
ITEMS or INTEREST.
stol pocket must go.

The pistol pocket must go.
Three bicyclists rode from Providence
r. T., to Cape Ann, Mass lightweight
miles), in nine hours and fifty minutes.
The higher you are lifted by the re-
marks of fatterer, the fatterer you
feel when you come down to the truth
again. ,t
A laborer in Russia gets eight cents
a day and finds himself" Finds him.
self mighty hungry, pretty often, we
should think.
The New York Herald calls the Brook
lyn Seaside Home for poor children at
Coney Island "the most important life
saving station on the coast"
Mr.. Powers, the sculptor, commenced
work on bust of President Garfield in
his studio at Florence on the very day
that his life was attempted.
The new comet is coming towards the
earth at the rate of 100000 miles per
day. Let us hope it will defect little
in the course of the next year.
It is proposed in New Hampshire to
celebrate the one hundredth anniver-
sary of Daniel Webster's birth, which
falls on the 18th of January next.
Rhode Island has 210 miles Of rail-
road, but when deaf man is hoisted off
the track by the COW catcher, he always
finds himself in an adjoining state.
The Chicago Bridewell has been
struck by lightning. 1t looks as though
we should have to go back to first prin-
ciples and protect our convicts with the
rod.
You can tell new paragrapher in
minute. He always inquiries if DIR. Mary
Walker doesn't pant for office. This
joke seems to be the alphabet and primer
of a photographic education.
An English correspondent writes to
the Free Press that it is predicted in
England that messages by the new At
lantic cable will cost only six pence per
word.
"H. H." Mrs. Helen Hunt Jackson.
left New England pale, delicate inval-
id, and now in her Colorado home has
recovered her health and weighs 200
pounds.
There is school for the technical
education of young colored people in
Alabama, where the culture of the silk
worm is said to have been undertaken
with success.
Watering place correspondents say
that the three notable things about
these places are: The fat women, fine
looking elderly gentlemen and scarcity
of eligible young men. IS a,,H
A felon refused to be photographed
for a rogues' gallery at Erie, Pa, and
swore that he would kill whoever at-
tempted to force him before the camera.
Legal opinion was given that compliance
with the order could not be violently
enforced, and he triumphed.