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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-11-15

Laudon. the bill was ordered to lie and be made
the special order for Friday morning at II ocock.
CtQsing Of Debates-Mr Bridgman Of Barton
caiied up the resolution relating to the manner OF
closing debate, introduced by Mr.. Martin yester-
day and after having been amended, on motion
OF Mr. Noble OF st. Adams, as to allow the sub
stitution OF either OF the motions provided for the
otner, the resolution was adopted
senate BNls Referred-S 80, Senator Walker 3
bill q in amendment OF chap. 1856 Of revised laws,
relating to the support and removal Of paupers; "
to judiciary com
Bus Introduced and Referred-By Mr.. Hast
lngs Of Hancock, II. 800, "in addition to chap.
zOo OF revised laws, relating to the salary OF the
state superintendent of education" to com. on
education Establishes the salary OF the super
intendent Of education at 81 400 and expenses
-, by Mr.. Skinner of Lowell, H. $40, "to secure
the erection Of railngs on bridges;" to com. on
highways, bridges and ferries.
By Mr. Bates Of Hartland, II. 81, TO amend
sec; ,521 OF revised laws" to general com. Es-
h9lishes the price per week for boarding state
prisoners, state and town paupers at fifty cents
BY MI. Hubbard OF Lyndon, II. 312 to legal
re the grand list Of Lyndon for 1881 and 1882
to com. on grand list.
By Mr. Kimball OF vergennes H. 313 "in
amendment OF and in addition to sec 265S Of the
revised laws to com. on elections. Provides
that one.third Of the listers shall be elected each
year and hold their office three years
BY Mr.. Allen Of Ferrisburgh, H. 3f4, "to COM
pei the cutting of grass and weeds within the line
OF a railroad; to com. on railroads.
BY Mr. Smith of Addison, II. 3l5, " in relation
TO the grand list" to com on grand list. A
copy OF H. 100, Mr.. Roberts bill, which was dis
missed, except that the property to be exempted
Is $50 instead of 800.
JOINT ASSEMBLY.
Election Of JudgeS--The senate appeared In
representatives hall at 30 p. NJ for Joint assem-
~ for III, election of the supreme court, agreea-
bly, to resolution, Lieut.. Gov. Pingree, president
OF the senate, presiding, and Hon. Geo. Nichols,
secretary Of state clerk
Senator Hogan of Franklin nominated for chief
judge the present incumbent, Hon. Homer L.
Royce OF st. Abans. Messrs. Bromley of Paw
let, Priest OF Barre, Stanley of Leicester, Randall
OF Waterbury, Smith Of Newbury, Brown of
Springfield, Burke of Albany, Barbour of Brid-
port, Noble of st. Albans, Thompson of Iras-
burgh, Martin of Londonderry and Hooker OF
Brattleboro seconded Judge ROyces nomination.
Mr.. Howard of Shaftsbury inquired IL Judge
Royce had made out his tax inventory. Mr..
Childs OF Bennington stated that he should vote
for Hon 7. P. Redfield Of Montpelier, but did not
nominate HIM
Senator Walker OF Rutland nominated Hon T.
p. Redheld and Senator Childs of Rutland county,
Messrs. Merrill of Fairfax, Dix of Montgomery,
Bren OF Casteton and Stickney Of Brook.ine sec
onded Judge Redfield.
Senators Walker and Hogan, Messrs. Noble,
Priest, Childs and Howard were appointed tel
lers. ballot was taken with following result:
Whole number of votes cast. 25l
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-11-15

Browns IRON BITTERs efeotual-
ly cures Dyspepsia, Indigestion and
Weakness, and renders the greatest
relief and benefit to persons suffering
from such wasting diseases as Con-
sumption, Kidney Complaints, etc.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-11-15
Read His Statement.

. SPRISGvALE, Me-, Oct. H. 1876.
Mr.. II. X. STEVENS.
Dear Sr,-flfteen years ago last fall taken sick
with rheumatism; unable to move until the next
April From that time until three years ago this fall
suffered everything with rheumatism. Sometimes there
would be weeks AT time that could step step
these attacks quite often suffered every thing that
man could. over three last spring
taking VEGEIlNE, and followed II up until had taken
seven bottles have had rheumatism since that time.
would advise that is troubled with rheumatism
to try vEGETlNE and suffer for years as
This statement is gratuous far Mr. Stevens
cerned. Yours, ETC..
ALBERT CROOKER,
Firm OF A. Crooker Co., Druggists and Apothecaries
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-11-15
Has Relieved and Cured Sufferers o
Rheumatism by the Thousands.
The Rev. William T. Worth

Recommends vEGErISE for Rheumatism and sclatlca
FALL RIVER, Mass, May 10, 1879.
Mr.. II. r. STEVENS
Dear Sir,-For some years / have been, times much
troubled with acute attacks OF rheumatism. especially
suffered ortures from scati by the advice Of friends
who knew the benefits conferred by YEGBTIsE began
use, and since that time have had ike those
previously suffered For time past have had no
return OF the trouble, except occasionally faint inma
ton which disappeared upon taking few doses of the
VEGETINE also take pleasure in recording my testimony
In favor of Its excellent effect in abang salt
rheum. and count II small pleasure thus
made free. Respectfully,
WM. T. WORTH,
Pastor First NJ. f. Church.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-11-15

SfZ Outnt frss. Address TRGE CO., Augusta Hsias.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-11-15

The senate convened at O'Clock.
ii. "a, to pay Geo. A. Hines was called up on
the special order and, on motion of Senator Estey,
was again ordered to lie
Pdssed-S. III, Senator Walls bill incorporat-
ing the Irenor W. Park home for destitute chill
dTen and women, was reported favoIably from
com. on Judiciary by Senator Walker, with pro-
posals Of amendment, which were agreed TO, and
the bill was then read the third time and passed,
Rep0rts,-From com. on judiciary, by Senator
Burnap 5, 10, Senator Burnap's bill in relation
to witnesses and depositions in civil causes with
proposals of amendment On motion of Senator
Burnap ordered to lie and be printed with amend
ments.
From the com. on grand list by Senator
Walker, ii. 2l3, Mr.. Mobiles bill allowing the
town treasurer one per cent Instead of one-half
Of one per cent when the tax IL paid to him,
adversely. On motion of Senator Boyden, or
dered to lie and be made the special order for
Friday next at 10 80 A. NJ
House Bus Referred. House bills were read
and referred as follows II. 81, Mr.. Roberts bill
relating to railroad connections; 10 com on rail
roads, ii. 210 TO protect black bass in Monkton
pond to com. on game and fisheries; II. 277. Mr..
hatoDs bill to establish valuation Of real estate OF
Wolcott for 1881, to com. on grand list III. 800,
Mr. WiLaId's bill to repeal clause . OF sec 2IO OF
the revised laws, to the com, ON judiciary.
The senate then repaired TO the hall OF the
house Of representatives for joint assembly,
The senate reassembled and, on motion OF Sem
ator Helton, adj
HousE-AFrERSooS SESSION.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-11-15
Neuralgia, Kidney Complaints and Rheu-
matism, Yield to Vegetine.

BowERY BEACH, Me-, Nov. S, 1879.
Mr.. II. R. sIEyEss-Dear SIR For 20 years my wife
was great sufferer from Neuralgia, and within that
time has tried great many kinds OF medicine hut received
benefit until she took the VEGETER, since taking
has received much benefit she takes great pleasure In
recommending 1t TO all suffering from Neuralgia or Kidney
complaint.
For many years have been a great sufferer from
rheumatism, and have found anything that gave
the relief that NEGEISE has Therefore take pleasure
recommending 1t to any suffering from Rheumatism,
being one Of the best blood purifiers now In use.
REV. A. COOK,
Member of the Maine the Methodist Epsco-
pal Church.
We take pleasure In referring to the hundreds OF tes
monias which have received from persons who have
been cured of Rheumatism by the persistent OF vEGE
TINE.
Vegetne is Sold by All Druggists.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-03-23

dollar expended ON their private res
dences the little village is reached. A
tramp of mile to the northward and the
solitary traveller stands amid the almost
buried ruins of an old fort erected by
the early settlers of Cumberland (now
Perry county in pre-revolutionary times
to which with their families they could
flee for the better protection OF their
lives from the oft-repeated and oft-timS
deathly assaults of the aborigines, upon
whose domain they were encroaching
and battling for supremacy. as in attest
ed by the mounds in the vicinity which
mark the graves of the Indian braves.
The fort were erected in 1740 and was
of unusual dimensions for it's day. Its
site was on bluff commanding good
view of the surrounding coutrry and is
on the farm of Andrew Troy. It was
fashioned after the block houses in
vogue at that early day and surmounted
deep excavation which has been nearly
filled up with stones and other debris
hauled from adjacent fields.
Within sight of the fort stood the old
Presbyterian kirk erected by the Scotch
Irish and German settlers in 1865. AS
the neighborhood was but sparesely set
tied at the time of which I write the
people came many miles to worship God
in the rude structure dedicated TO the
advancement of His kingdom on earth
The local antiquarians are antagonistic
in their description of the kirk, yet all
agree that it was log structure, quaint
and curious. The first pastor was Rev.
John Linn who died in 1920. 1t is said
of Mr.. Linn that he exerted q most
wonderful influence througout the entire /.
western end of the county In his day
and generation, and as he moved among
his parishioners in later years was in
variably spoken OF as zone Of those hills
nearest Heaven" The lemodeled church
stands on the site of the old kirk, and
although It's situation in midwinter ap-
pears bleak and desolate IN the extreme
it is one of matchless loveliness in the
spring and summer time, when its flow
ers come shyly out in all their aesthetic
beauty; when its slopIng banks and
broad avenues a1e carpeted i'm delicate
emerald and wooded by oaks which
tower above all surroundings hike Cyclic
plan giant. 1t would seem that here.
If anywhere on earth the worship OF
God could be conducted In all the beauty
and simplicity of holiness. The church
edifce overIooks an old graveyard, In
which repose the remains OF MANY who
were identified with the settlement NJ
the county, not few of whom bore his
toric names. The Oldest engraved head
stone bears the inscription: "Martha
Robertson, died December "a. 1766,
aged 81 years, although there are many
more antiouated.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-03-23

One of the most interesting sights in
the sky, and one which can be watched
without telescope, is the variations in
the light of the star Algol, whose Arabic
name means the Demon. Tic Ii some
times called the Wlnking Demon. This
wonderful star is now in O good 20
sition for observation, being nearly
overhead at nightfall. 1t Is the brightest
of the little cluster called the Head OF
Medusa, which, according to the old ia
BILE, Perseus carries In his hand as he
hurries to the rescue of Andromeda. For
little over two days and half Algol
shines as star of the second magnitude.
Then its light begins to fade, and In
about three hours and third it sinks
to the fourth magnitude, glimmering SO
feebly that casual observer would be
unable to distinguish it from the faint
stars in its neighborhood. Thus it re-
mains for Is minutes, and then begins
to brighten again, and in the same time
that it takes in growing dun, attains its
former brilliancy. From one minimum
to another is two days 20 hours and
nearly 40 minutes, There will not be
another minimum visible on this longf-
tude early in the evening until February
Is at s o'clock and "a minutes.
The fact thata star thus brightens
and grows dim at regular intervals is in
itself wonderful, but it appears all the
more wonderful when we are told that
Algol is sun, probably larger than ours
having an enormous dark body revolving
around it at tremendous speed. Some
astronomers think that this mysterious
body viii fall into the star, produc-
ing an outburst of light and heat that
would be fatal to any living beings who
might exist within millions of miles OF
that distantsun. Such catastrophe would
be visible to us in the sudden increase
of splendor in the star.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-03-23
SIX Thousand Years Old.

The Ashmolean Museum, at Oxford,
contains one of the oldest monuments of
civilization in the world, if. indeed, it is
not the very oldest. This is the Intel
stone of tomb winch formed the last
resting place of an officer who lived in
the time of King Sent, of the second
dynasty, whose date is placed by M.
Mariette more than six thousand years
ago. The stone is covered with that
delicate and finished sculpture which
distinguished the early periods of Egyp-
tian history, and was immeasurably
superior to the stiff and conventional art
of the latter ages of Egypt which we are
accustomed to see in our European mu-
seums, But it is also covered with
something more precious still than
sculpture, with hieroglyphics which
show that even at that remote period
Egyptian writing was a complete and
finished art, with long ages of previous
development lying behind it. The
hierogIyphic characters are already
used, not only pictorially and ideo-
graphically, but also to express syllables
and alphabetic letters, the name of the
King, for instance, being spelled alpha
betically. In the hands of the Egyptian
scribes, however, Egyptian writing
never made any further progress. With
the fall of what is called the Old Empire
(about B. @. 35O0) the freshness and ex-
pansive force of the people passed away,
Egyptian life and thought became fos-
silized, and through the long series OF
centuries that followed Egypt resembled
one of its own mummies. faithfully pie.
serving the form and features of the
past age, and of life which had ceas
ed to beat in it's veins. Until the in
PRODUCTION of Christianity the only
change undergone by Egyptian writer's
was the invention OF q running hand,
which in its earlier and simple form is
called hieratic, and in its later form
domotic.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-03-23
Drugged Again.
srWell. Catharine Davis 2"

"Well, Catharine Davis p
"Im not well, at all, sir; and wha'
lady would be after passing the night OF
the hard benches herer"
''Catharine, you are charged with
drunkenness.
'"Then the charge is false, sir. wGs
no more drunk than that stove"
"But you were arrested while trying
TO make q speech on the street, and you
couldn't walk down here"
"Well, your Honor, / wasn't drunk On
my way home stopped into grocery
to buy some soap and the clerk offere d
me a glass of cider. In Eve minutes
after drinking it / was as crazy as 8
Loom"
"Do you think the cider was drug
ged?"
"Of course it was.
"There wasn't any drug in this, was
there?" continued the Court, as he held
up whiskey-bottle taken from her
pocket the night before.
"Bless me, 1 never saw it before p
she gasped.
'But il was taken from your pocket.
"Then some one put it there TO con-
vict poor woman who lost her hus-
band by tornado nineteen years ago.
Oh, sir, il you only knew how I had
struggled.
ST do know, Catharine. You have
struggled with the officers at least four
times in the past year.
"But was drugged, sir"
'"That's the fourth time you've told
that same story. Come, Catharine, you
must go up"
"For one day. sir?"
"No-for thirty"
"Then I'm dead widow, sir. | can
never stand the disgrace of it. Can I
send out and buy some poison
'BIah will fix all that. Please fall
back into the corridor, and hope this
will be lesson to YOU"
Biiah gave her an napple, promised her
his photograph, and SO cheered her up
that she forgot all about the poison, and
entered the omnibus singing "The jug
| Left Behind Me-"
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-03-23
Fugitive Inks.

The aniline violet pencils now extern
sively used in this country, as we'll 81
inks made of the same coloring matter,
must be understood to produce writing
of a very fugitive character; well enough
perhaps, for amatory correspondence,
which, in order to be in character with
the feeling that prompts it, is possibly
better TO be of somewhat transient
kind. 1t is, however, different with
most writing, and permanence is COM
monty recognized as an essential charso-
teristic; and, as we have said, this qnalt-
ty does not belong to inks of the anlline
violet series. A druggist whom we know
found out this to his cost. He labeled
some of his bottles with purple ink OF
most telling brilliancy, but some time
after was much surprised to find that
not o trace of the writing was to be seen.
The light effectually bleaches the an1llns
and we have noticed that exposure In
damp place produces the same efect.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-03-23
Fertilizer Experiments.

Nitrogen is the most costly ingredient
used in commercial fertilizers, and the
most di fficult at the present time to Oh
tam. It would be wasteful, therefore,
to use greater quantity than is really
needed, and such waste is exceedingly
costly to the farmer. As it is found
that less nitrogen is required, the price
of fertilizing has been gradually drop
ping in market, and this gain is greatly
to the benefit of the farmer. 1t enables
him to buy more, and to use more with
a fair prospect of obtaining a profit.
One objection to the use of guano, he
believed, was that it contained larger
percentage of nitrogen than is needed
and consequently larger proportion
than farmers can afford to pay for it. A
saving of one per cent in the amount of
nitrogen in ton of fertilizer will cheap
ed the cost about four dollars. The most
profitable way to use fertilizers is in
connection with stable manure, the fer
tilizer being compounded in such way
as to make the manure and fertilizer to-
gether Just meet the wants of the crop
to be grown. Exactly how the nitrogen
is taken by plants. is not explained, but
If is evident that soil which is we'll filled
with the tops and roots of clover and
other plants contains large amount
of nitrogen that the growing crop will
In some way appropriate.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-03-23

''All aboard for the Limestone Ridge
Limited Expressr' Travel between New
port, on the Pennsylvania Railroad, and
New Germantown, Pennsylvania, dis
tance of thirty miles, is conducted by
means of the primitive stage coach. The
order to board came from the lusty
lungs of Zach Rice, who comes of q
family of stage drivers, his father, Zach
ariah Rice, ST., and his brothers before
him having driven the same route for
''nigh on to forty years or more" The
''express" is an uncouth, box-like We.
hicle, with blood-red panneled siles
running gears the color of yellow ochre,
and an enormous leather boot in the
rear for storing mail pouches, Saratogas
and other luggage. Sixteen passengers
can be packed like herrings into the
coach which is sometimes dragged by
four horses and sometimes by two. Five
miles toward sunset New Bloomfield is
reached, country town, with a popu-
lation of seven hundred and sixty, which
requires four newspaper to keep it alive
Hreculean task that none but news
papers could accomplish.
Not long ago reorganization and
election of officers of the Peoples Freight
Railway Company occurred. This COM
pany was chartered by the last Legis-
lature under the old Constitution, and
is one of the many projected lines from
New York TO the West. The surveyed
route crosses the Delaware at a point
near Trenton, N. j., and passes through
the counties of Bucks, Montgomery,
Berks, Lebanon, Dauphin, Perry, Hum
tington, Bedford, Somerset, Westmore-
land, Allegheny and Washington, in
this State. By reason of the fact that
over fifty thousand dollars were expen-
ded in grading portion of the road the
charter has been kept alive. The fin
ancial crisis of 1873 stopped work, but
recently new life has been infused there
in. The officers elected are H. 81.
Bechtel, president; Jacob l.. Markell
secretary; James Ell. Graham, Jr., SOM
citor; o. H. P. Ryder, George f. Ems
minger, w. F. Sadler, Hon. James H.
Graham, III. Ell. Bechtel and John MI.
Smith, directors. The name of the COM
pany was changed to '"The Pennsylvania
Midland Railway Company. The cor
poration rights and franchises under the
charter being very liberal, negotiations
for their sale to Issac B. Hymer. oi
New York and Council Bluffs Railroad,
are now in progress.
The work of locating the South Penn.
sylvania Railroad. which runs parallel
with and crosses and recrosses the Peo'
ple's Freight from Marysvllle, on the
Pennsylvania Central, through Sher'
mans Valley to the Broad Top regions
is how being vigorously prosecuted by
two corps of engineers. Naturally the
excitement among residents along the
proposed route, many of whom have
never seen locomotive or heard its
soporifc shrek is intense.
Again to the westward twelve miles
by the same primitive mode of locomo
ton. passing en route through fertile
valley, bustling villages and one OF the
most reliable agricultural districts in the
State. where the farmers invest five dol
lars for rearing palatial barns for hous-
! ing crops and protecting stock to on'
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-03-23
CLOUDS.

Soft and fieecy clouds above me
Scarcely seem TO move at all,
Yet are rolling, drifting, shifting,
Free from ev'ry sort OF thrall.
Sun-iiiumined, gray and silver,
Banked against the azure sky
on such couches bathed In nectar,
Might the gods from heaven lie.
Twisted into shapes fantastic,
Frowning cliffs and towers high,
How | Oft have gazed upon them
With beauty-raptured eyel
Those light forms, so freely lioating,
All my soul with longing I'LL,
FIJI it with languid longing,
That Is out Of reach of will.
Fill 1t with u restless longing,
For what things know not well;
Fill IL with q mournful longing
That no words can ever tell.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-03-25
District in Congress.
A BILL FOR FREE SCIENTIFIC LECTURES


Representative Kelley has introduced in the
House bill providing that annual courses of lee
lures shall be delivered in this city upon mining
and metallurgy, applied chemistry, agriculture
and horticulture, veterinary science, mechanical
engineering, fsh-culture, entomology, microscopy,
electricity, forestry, architecture, navigation and
ship-building, meteoro'ogy, botony, anatomy and
physiology, and geology and mineralogy. The
lecturers are to be employed by board OF mana
gers, consisting of the secretary of the Smithso-
tional experimental garden ut the Agricultural
department., the chief of the bureau Of education,
the director of the Army Medical Museum, the
the director OF the mint, the astronomer at the
naval observatory. and one OF the chief examiners
OF the Patent Office. These lectures are to be
given, ia order that there shall be provided the
best instruction in the arts and sciences which
especially relate to the development Of the mate
rial resources or the country and the increase of
the comforts and conveniences OF life among the
people. No fees are to be charged. The managers
are to make an annual report TO the President OF
work done and money expended. The lecture
courses are to begin in November and continue
until the LIST OF May.