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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-01-04

NEW RAILROAD PRoJEoT.-Engineers are sur
veying route for new railroad from Dandy via
Tinmouth, Middletown, Poultney, Castleton,
Fairhaven and Orwell TO point on Lake Cham
plain opposite Ticonderoga, where the lake will be
bridged The distance is fity-fve miles, An
other road is contemplated from South Shafts
bury, via Bennington to the Hoosac tunnel
These links, with the Bennington and Rutland
road, would provide new route from the tunnel
to Ticonderoga. 1t is proposed to connect at
Ticonderoga, by road through the north woods
with sacketts Harbor, and by making western
connections with the Grand Trunk road and
eastern with the new Massachusetts, Central at
the tunnel, make a route from Chicago to Boston,
one hundred and fifty miles shorter than any in
existence.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-01-04

OvERAcTED.-Prominent among the pat
ronage of the presiding officer of the senate
is his right to appoint keeper of the SEN
ate restaurant. This is profitable place,
as the purveyor of senatorial lunches does
not have to pay anything for rent, furniture,
gas, coal and ice. Vice-President Wheeler
selected as keeper of the senate restaurant
Mr.. Barron of the Twin Mountain House
in New Hampshire, who gave excellent sat
isfaction. Mr.. Davis undertook to apply
the rules of civil service reform in making
his selection, and he required the different
candidates TO file with their applications
priced bills of fare. The successful com.
petitor was Mrs. Welcker's rigbt-hand man,
but he has reduced the size of his sand.
witches and of his oysters to correspond
with his prices. The result is that square
lunch costs more than it used to under Mr.
Barron.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-01-04
The Star Route Civil Suits.

MIR. Bliss has transmitted to Attorney
General Brewster the correspondence be-
tween himself aud Postmaster General
James, with reference TO the commence
meut of civil suits against the star route
contractors, and in his reply the attorney
general says; GAS soon as enter upon the
duties of my department, which will BIO in a
few days. propose to give you a special
authority to pursue these suggested civil
suits with all the promptitude that orderly
litigation will permit. The uttermost penny
lawlessly received and taken from the public
treasury must be recovered. Hitherto you
have given diligent attention to the
criminal proceedings, and before / came
into the cases had acquired complete
knowledge Of the subject These prosecu-
tions must be earnestly pressed, the trials
must be prompt, and the cases must be well
prepared. On you, together with the other
counsel who have been before this investi-
eating these cases, must rely for their pre-
paration. All that is essential must be
ready for use have resolved that my
duty will require inc to take active part in
the trials in court, and propose to be pres
ent with you, and in person lead in the
prosecution for the United States"
This has the right ring. No candid man
doubts that the attorney-general will be as
good as his word and that no effort will be
spared to bring the culprits to justice. But
it is herculean task in which Mr.. Brewster
announces his purpose to lead. lie will en-
counter every obstacle which money and in
fluence can place in his way. Hazard in
proceedings against great, influential and
wealthy criminals turks in every step, on
the witness stand, in the jury box, and has
sometimes sat with the Judge on the bench
and defeated the ends of justice. The OPP
portunity of lifetime is here presented
to the faithful officer who has the nerve and
the capacity to seize and employ it.
Attorney-General McVeagh ingloriously
failed to realize public expectation, and
through his negligence and inefiiciency one
great criminal has stepped beyond reach OF
statutory law. The most powerful of all
the star route contract combinations, that of
the Dorsey party, is still amenable to law.
A resume of its operations shows that it
held contracts for one hundred thirty-four
routes covering 9,SS7 miles, for which the
original contract price was, after deduct
ing for twelve routes discontinued, 1920, 923.
The additional pay granted to this party for
alleged expedited and extended service in
creased this contract price to $685., 144, max
ing a total increase Of, in round numbers,
half million dollars annually. 1t further ap-
pears that the bulk of this increase was grant
ed for "expedition" on twenty-five routes,
the original contract price for which was
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-01-04

Four students at Wacousta, Wisconsin, stole a
farmers gate, The college faculty condemned
them to expulsion or the alternative Of hatever
punishment the farmer might innict. lie SEN
fenced them to chop four cords of his wood and
deliver it to poor widow. They did 1t to the
music of band and the plaudts of crowd that
watched the operation.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-01-04

THE law has been brought to bear against the
smoke nuisance in San Francisco. A householder
who lived next door to a tall chimney, which
poured out volumes OF dirty black SCOT, defilng
everything in the negbborhood, sued for damages
The trial involved the question whether person
had right to discharge into the air on his own
premises, nuisance injurious to the health and
property Of his neighbors, and the court awarded
the plaintiff a handsome sum, establishing the
fact that no such right exists, at least under its
jurisdiction.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-01-04

AMERICAN inventions and American machinery
in the principal markets of the world hold the
first rank. Notwithstanding the high price of
labor in the United States, the products of our
skilled artisans and improved machinery compete
successfully with those Of the i-paid labor Of Eu-
rope, where in thousands of cases the machines
employed are the result of American ingenuity
The awards at the great International Erpositions
OF Paris and Vienna are only enforced tributes TO
to the superiority OF the inventive and mechanical
genius OF our comparatively new land, which
also Furnished bread and meat TO myriads OF
our Old World brethren. Yet, while come OF
those who originate much that Is readily grasped
at the world over, for its manifest excellence and
there are other inventors TO whom the road to for
tune proves n difficult path. While our patent
laws are more liberal, and afford better protec-
ton to inventors than those OF any other country,
there Is much In having an invention properly
placed before the patent commissioners The i'm
mense volume OF business transacted In that de-
partment requires that the solicitor for u patent
be able 10 give his client information as to patent
ability, conflicting claims and other obstacles;
snch information none but an expert can give
10 inventors we would commend Mr.. r. II.
Eddy, 70 state street, Boston, as "a leading and
most successful solicitor Of patents one who,
from his two-score years experience and his ia
miiarity with the laws and technicaltles In this
and foreign countries, is most competent 70 advi
them in regard To American and Ear,pean pa
tents. trademarks. designs, Reissues. ete,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-01-04

ONE evening last week as Maine mother was
putting to bed her little girl who had been taught
TO add to her evening prayer, "And God bless
papa and mamma and everybody else" the little
one surprised her mother by adding Except
Guiteau, who shot good man" The next even
ing her mother asked her little daughter II she
could not pray for Guiteau, when she replied,
"oh, no. that would spoil whole prayer"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-01-04

The Newport Express shows either woful
ignorance or malicious spite when il speaks
thus of man who served twelve years as
United States senator from one of the most
intelligent northern states "The man who
succeeds Mr.. James as postmaster-ge general is
Timothy o. Howe of Wisconsin, and that's
all we know about him."
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-01-04

MoRMoNIsM.-In the late number of
Harper's Magazine, Senator Edmunds dis
cusses the Mormon question, and after
dwelling upon the difficulties which lie in
the way of executing the laws against polyg-
amy in country where Mormon marriages
are never witnessed by Gentle eyes and
where Mormons sit in the jury box, suggests
a remedy in the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of Utah
and annexing its parts to adjacent terri
tories. President Arthur calls attention in
his message to the spread of Mormonism in
Idaho and Arizona, so that the application
of some such measure as recommended by
Mr.. Edmunds has doubtless been antici-
pated by the Mormon leaders and measures
entered upon TO render it ineffective. The
remedy involved in the idea of partition is
that the non-Mormon population in the sur
rounding territories would be able to out
vote Mormonism and thus extirpate po-
lygamy.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-01-04

bered by Mr. James Gordon Bennett In substan-
tial manner Before the sailing Of the Jeanette
on her Arctic expedition he deposited $4,000 to
her credit In bank, and this sum was doubled
last summer, when discouaglng news was re-
ceiyed from Captain belong and his gallant crew
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-01-04

MIR ROSWELL SMITH, editor and publisher OF
the Century, has made Enthusiastically gener-
GUS gift. lie gave 5000 in Christmas gifts to
those whom he employs, and distributed among
the leading members OF his literary and business
staff $1,000 worth OF the valuable CeTttry stock
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-01-04

JOSH BILLINGS HEARD FRoM.-Newport, r. l.,
August II, 1880 Dear Btters-l am here trying
to breathe In all the salt air OF the ocean, and
having been a sufferer for more than year with
refractory liver, was induced 10 mix Hop Bit
tiers with the sea gale and have found the tine
ture u glorious result. | have been
greatly helped by the Bitters, and am not afraid
10 say 80. Yours without a struggle, josh Bill
lings.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-01-04

IRIS hard to believe Miss Whittier was cured Of
such terrible sores by Hoods sarsaparla, but re-
liable people prove 1t
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-04-22
Moneyed Men at Dinner.

A. T. Stewart used to dine here. "William, a sirloin steak, fried potatoes and cup of tea, he would say. (" Yes, sir" "Aud William, a melon. "Yes, sir" But never cent to O waiter One of the queerest of our customers was old Mir. Tileston, of the shipping house of Spoford & Tileston. No one would ever suspect him of giving anything. But he often gave me a dime. He was very fond of onions, steak and tripe. So was Mir. Vanderbilt, the Mir. Vanderbilt. The way that he and old Mr. Charles Morgan used to eat steak and onions was sight to see, sir"
 "Was the Commodore pleasant?"
 "That depends. He never walked fast, as I remember, and he never wasted words, sir, but he could snap those eyes of his and say, Damnstion, so that 1t meant damnation, better than any man I ever heard"
 "Did you ever zee old John Jacob Astor ?"
 "Only once, sir. He WIS feeble man when I saw him, but his son Will ian used to lunch regular with Clarke & Brown. He was O great hand for apple dumplings. Nor could l find it in my heart, sir, for blaming anybody from liking them dumplings, because they was awful good, sir"
 "Did you ever serve Mir. Bennett ?"
 "Yes, sir, often. He had way of coming in On cold day, sitting before the fire and warming one side and then the other. He would say, Eugene, breakfast ' Eugene WAS the cad wait. CT, sir, and powerful rich. But it was plwsys charged 50 as to save tue trouble of handling the change, and SO there WAS no sixpence for the waiter, sir. - NOttt MdiL
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-04-22
slsep nna Cleanliness Of Ants.

Ii IS probable that all ants enjoy pe- riuds of true sluInber alternating with those of activity but actual Observd- tons on this subject have only been made in the case of two or three species. Dr. MoCook says that the harvesting Nrts of Texas sleep so soundly that they nay be pretty severely stroked with a feather without being aroused but they are immediately awakened by a sharp tap. On awakening they often stretch their limbs in n manner precisely re- EemblinS that of warm-blOoded animals, and even yawD--the latter act being livery like that ot ihe human animal the mandibles are thrown open with the peculiar muscular strain which is fla miliar to all readers; the tongue is also some times thrust out" The ordinary duration of sleep in this species is about three hours. Invariably on awakening, and often at other times, the ants per form, like many other insects, elaborate processes of washing and brushing. But, unlike other insects, ants assist one another in the performance of their toilet
 The author just quoted describes the whole process in the genus Alta. The cleanser begins with washing the face of her companion, then passing on to ti1e thorax, legs and abdomen. The attitude of the ceansed all this while Is one of intense satisfaction, quite re- sembling that of family dog when one is scratching the back of his neck. The insect stretches out her limbs, and as her friend takes them successively into haud, yields them limp and supple to her manipulation she rolls gently over on her side, even quite over on her back, and with all her limbs relaxed pre- sents 8 perfect picture of muscular sur render and ease. The pleasure which tho creatures take in being thus "combed and "sponged" is really en- ioyable to the observer. I have seen an ant kneel down before another and thrust forward the head dropping quite under the face, and lie there motionless, thus expressing, ns plainly as sign Ian ->snage could, her desire to be cleansed. ct oGce understood the gesture, and SC did the supPlicated ant, for she at once went to Nineteenth Century.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-04-22
RelnarkabIe Escape.

John Kuhn, of Lafayette, Ind, had a very narrow escape from death. This is his own story: "One year ago I was in the last stages of consumption. Onr best physicians gave my case up. I finally got so low that our doctor said I could not live twenty-four hours. My friends then purchased bottle of Dr. Vim. Halls Balsam for the lungs, which benefited me
 l continued until took nine bottles. I am now in perfect health having used no other medicine" From the above it is plainly evident that there is a cure for consumption, even in the most hopeles cases, and that cure is Dr, Wm. Halls Balsam for the lungs. Cures all coughs and colds. Cures all diseases of the lungs and chest. Cures pneumonia and sore throat, and IS a sure cure for consumption, if taken in season 3
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-04-22
Notice Of Assessment.

Pinal Consolidated Mining Company, To- cation of principal place of business, San Fran cisco, California
 Location of works, Pioneer mining district, Pinal county, Arizona Territory
 Notice is hereby given, that at a meeting of the board of directors, held on the Sd day of April, 1882, an assessment, No. 3, of 30 cents per share was levied upon the capital stock of the corporation, payable immediately in U. S. gold coin, to the secretary, at the office of the company, room 37, Nevada Block, San Fran cisco, California.
 Any stock upon which this assessment shall remain unpaid on the Sth day of May, 1882, will be delinquent, and advertised for sale at public auction; and unless payment is made be- fore, will be sold on Monday, the 29th day of May, 1882, to pay the delinquent assessment, together with cost of advertising and expenses of sale.
 By order of the Board of Directors
 W. w. TRAYLoR, Secretary.
 Office, room S7, Nevada Block, San Fran cisco, California 2-4
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-04-22
Rescued from Deatla.

William J. Coughlin, of Somerville, Mass, says: In the fall of 1876 I was taken with bleeding of the lungs followed by severe cough. I lost my appetite and flesh, and was confined to my bed. In 1877 l was admitted to the hospital. The doctors said I had hole in my lung as big as a half dollar. At one time a re- port went around that 1 was dead. l gave up hope, but a friend told me of DR. WILLIAM HALLS BALsAM FOR THE LUNGS. got bottle, when to my surprise, l commenced to feel better, and to-day l feel better than for three years past.
 T write this hoping every one afflicted with diseased lungs will take DR. WILLIAM HALL'L BALsAM, and be convinced that CONSUMPTION CAN BE CURED. 1 can posi- lively say it has done more good than all the other medicines I have taken since my sickness
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-04-22
Housekeeping Hereafter.

Housekeeping, as now conducted, IS too big job for those who undertake to do it-a fact practically realized in all households. Not even the most favored are free from danger of periodic break down in the taxed machinery of domestic administration, and the com mon experience is that the gearing runs anything but smoothly at best. The one matter of trouble with servants is becoming such a crying evil that it is talked of whenever housekeepers meet, and the public prints are burdened with discussions of remedies and plans for obtaining better "help." This agita- ton will presently make plain that the servant trouble lies too deep to be reached by changes in the personnel of the service. It is not that cooks and chambermaids are so greatly at fault as that too much is demanded from them. The work to be done requires greater intelligence and ability than can be in- duced to enter domestic service at pres ent.
 Necessity commanding and oppor- tunity inviting, an attempt to institute better methods of housekeeping cannot long be delayed. The centripetal force of society, potent in commerce and arts, will be permitted again to modify the conduct of household affairs acting, as heretofore, by removing certain kinds of work from the home, and mak- ing them the basis of new business. The kinds of work to be transplanted are those which bring dirt and litter into the house, those which require and wh;ck produce heat, and those which demand 8 mans strength or an experts skill. In plain words, the household is to be relieved of the heavy and gross labors, and also the difficult and trying operations connected with cooking, washing, ironing, heating and cleaning.
 -Atld5ltic Monthly.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-04-22
N0ndera nf Eleetrieitr-

In discussing lecture delivered be- fore the Society of Arts in London by Mir. Alexander Siemens, on the trans mission of power by electricity, the London Standard says that he dealt with Q subject which is destined to play conspicuous part in the future of the worlds history. It would seem," it says, Gas if much we have hitherto deemed wonderful and almost perfect in the domain of practical science was about to vanish away. A new competi- tor enters the field, armed with subtle and irresistible power, and promising not merely to perform old things in better way, but to accomplish that which has been hitherto unattempted, if not altogether undreamed of. Even the railway, the perfection of mechan- ism and engineering art-is not secure. It may, indeed, remain; but there seems a possibility of undergoing a change which will make it new thing altogether. Experimental railways, worked by electricity, have been known for about two years but commence ment has now been made in business like form, and the suburbs of Berlin are now witness to the opening of a public hhe ot hallway, in which the moving power takes the shape of electricity. The beginning is small, but it is real, and as it already presents the appearance of success we may look for its extension. The Prussian authorities have officially decided that the vehicle thus travelling on rails is a tramcar, and must not go at higher average speed than nine English miles, or just a fraction more, per hour. This so-called tramcar is ill reality an electrical carriage, very well capable of performing in five minutes the journey on which it is compelled to cXpend twice that amount of time. There is no reason why several carriages, each with its own electrical appliance, should not be joined in ne-train. The motive power will thus be equal to steep gradients, and the machinery could in an instant be made to exercise the most effective brake power. When proposal was put forth some time back for an overhead street-railway in Berlin, on the Simens and Halske system, calcu- lation wGs entered into as to cost. It was then estimated that the first cost for the railway and all its accessories would be under el2,OO0 per mile. The rolling-stock would be of small extent, but it was shown that, if 200 trains ran per day, carrying on an average five or six passengers each, at the charge of a penny per mile for each passenger, all the expenses would be paid, including depreciation and repairs and per cent on capital. Unfortunately, there were Il. ko tho cahavon Donpla nh horred the idea of railway passengers peering in at their frst-foor windows, md the Emperor did not wish to see one of the handsomest thorouglfares of the capital disfgured. Hence the conces- sion was not granted and the project re- mains in abeyance.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-04-22
Important NOtice-TOrds of
 Warming.

We desire to give this friendly word of warn- ing to whom it may concern, that all persons who have been, or are now dealing in prepa- ration called Clayton & Russell's Celebrated Stomach Bitters,' put upon the market by Adams & Co.,, of New York, render them selves liable to prosecution and damages, as said article has been pronounced by the U. s. Circuit Court, Southern District, New York, in dicision rendered by his Honor, Judge Blatchford, February, 1882, as being an imita- tion of Hostetter's Celebrated Stomach Bitters, and who granted decree of perpetual injunc- tion with damages, against the said Adams & Co for violation of our trade mark in the prem ises. The principle of this important decision applies with equal force to any article of bit ters, the labels of which bear general resem- bance to our trade mark, as well to the re- filling of our old bottles with spurious stuff, or selling in bulk any article purporting to be our preparation. and hence this friendly word oi caution. We never fail te convict, as the coun- ty records of New Orleans, St. Louis, New York and other points fully affirm.
 H0sTETTER X SMITE.
 Pittshnrg March, 1882
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-04-22
DISAPPOINTMENT.
Probate Court.

Tn the Probate Court of the county of Pinal, in the Territory of Arizona.
 In the matter of the estate of Peter Shaffell, an insane person.
 Order to show cause on application of guar dian for an order of sale of real and person property.
 It appearing to this court from the petition this day presented and filed by Nj. l.. Moran, the guardian of the estate of Peter Shaffell, m insane person. praying for an order of sale of all the personal property and real estate be- longing to said ward, and that it is for the best interest of said ward, and necessary that said personal property and real estate should be sold.
 It is hereby ordered that the next of kin of the said ward and all persons interested in the said estate appear before this court on Mon day, the seventeenth (17) day of April, A. D., 1882, at 10 o'clock, a. In., at the courtroom of this court. in the town of Florence, in the county of Pinal, in the Territory of Arizona, then and there to show cause why an order should not be granted for the sale of such real and personal estate
 And it is further ordered that a copy of this order be published at least once week for three successive weeks before said day of hear ing in the ARIZONA WEEKLY ENTERPRIsE, a newspaper printed and published in the town of Florence and county of Pinal, A. T.
 q. L. WRATTEY, Probate Judge.
 Dated March 18th, 1882. 51