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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-09-19

North ThetfOrd.-A large number from
this place attended the ordination of Rev. r.
b. Fay at Post Mills. Mr.. Fay WAS formerly a
Methodist pastor, but has changed to a Congre-
gational minister and will preach here and at
said place for the year.
A NUMBER of small scholars 20 from here
this fall to Thetford academy.
MR. ADAMS held a meeting at Ely station
Sunday afternoon, which was we'll attended
considering the number of church-going peo-
pie in the place.
THE quiet of II. L. Fitch's house was dis.
turbed recently by the entrance of a thief a,
the pantry window. Nothing was carried
away, the person being frightened away by Mr.
Fitch's calling out to know who was there. II
is supposed he arrived on the night train as he
was tracked from this station to the house.
SARAH CoNANT enters Wellesley college this
fall. Ellen Chamberlain with other friends
has been spending few weeks at the Wilmot
house. -. Miss Miller the dressmaker, has re.
turned to her work here and is boarding al
Newton Balch' e.. Mrs. Nathan Pike, who
was formerly Josephine Brown of this place
has been here at the stone house on visit the
first time for many years. Charlie Porter
and family have returned to their home in Fal
River, Mass. ..Abbie Palmer finished work al
the Fabyan house, White Mountains, las
Thursday, and returned home.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-09-19

Cheisea.-G. L. Stow has been to Burling-
Ton visiting his mother a few days.....H. @.
biz by and Mrs. +. w. Bixby have gone to Bos-
ton ;''J. b. Bacon and wife are in Saratoga.
go Freeman Chase OF Chase Express Co Ros.
ton, was in town last week. -. A. f. Mills re-.
turned home to ST. Louis Monday and Alice
Mills returned to Wellesley, Mass S. Patter-
son has been sick with lung fever. d. G.
Blake had one of his work horses break its leg
make good leg of it yet.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-09-19

East ROxbury.-Aaron Webster goes to
Montreal to attend the fair, he having the ap.
pointment as one of the judges on fruit Z.
N. Paige attended the state fair last week and
brought home lad from the Orphans Home
TO live with him.. Mrs. S. IL. Allen is visit
Ing her sister in Massachusetts. ID l.. Buck
carries his arm in a sling nowadays, sused
by falling from staging on which he was at
-. Jason Freeman is acting as hired man at
Daniel Braley's.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-09-19
Barre.

THE meat market In the basement of the
French block Is to be opened again soon.
JACKSON & HowEs are earring potatoes, pay
ing from thirty to thirty.five cents bushel.
THE teachers and students from Goddard
seminary enjoyed pleasant ride to Williams
town Springs and picnic there last Saturday.
MONDAY evening might have been heard the
strains of the violin and the song Of the soap
man on the corner, ms he tried to begue the
crowd into buying his wares
FRED SHERBURN and Lewis A. Dodge left
here last Saturday morning on bicycle trip,
to be gone about two weeks. They will visit
Springfield and Boston before returning
THERE was trial of one of the "Cham-
pion road machines here last Friday and Sat-
urday. The first trial was in S G. Chubb's
meadow, where some new streets were to be
made, making about one hundred rods of road,
mostly in greensward in about seven hours, as
near as we can learn. 1t did the work very
satisfactorily, leaving the road we'll turnpiked,
smooth and hard. 1t was next tried on the
west side Of Main street, from the crossing
near the post Office to the depot road in clear
ing the ditch and rounding up the street, and
then up by Jockey Hollow. The working Of
the machine was witnessed by good many of
our townsmen, who pronounced the work well
done, and a score or more of men whom we
heard express an opinion, all favored the
Champion"
lHE agent lOT bnb hdlb Ol MT. blalnB BrbAb
national work, Twenty Years of Congress-,
has arrived in town, and is taking orders from
large number of our citizens Great inter-
est is felt regarding this forthcoming work all
over the country, and the sales are immense
everywhere. The period chosen by Mr.. Blaine
being from 1861 to 1881, was one of the most
eventful in the history of our country. And
as the period is unsurpassed in interest and
Importance, so is the history especially fitted
for the historians work. Mr.. Blaine is brill
liant writer, journalist by profession, and is
giving his entire time and talents to the great
task. His own personal experience fits him for
the labor, while his "reminiscences of the great
men of the past, such as Lincoln, Douglass,
Seward, Chase, Breckenridge, Sumner, Ste
vens, Ben Hill, Carpenter and Garfield and
those of the present, like Edmunds Bayard,
Conkling, Thurman, Butler, Logan and Ran
dali will give to this work, to young and old
alike, the fascination Of biography and general
history combined. The price is within the
reach of all, and everyone should embrace the
opportunity thus afforded.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-09-19

StOwe.-Rev. Frank Handy of Maine, a ma
tive Of Stowe, preached at the Methodist church
last Sunday. He is to preach at the West
Branch next Sunday.
GEORGE THOMPSON has writing class
which meets at the village school house.
REV. ID. KILBURN delivered a lecture to the
literary club this week Tuesday evening. His
subject was " God in history"
MADAME FRY's concert last SATURDAY. even.
ing was very fine entertainment and the
house was we'll filled. Several were encored
so that the programme was quite lengthy.
WIDOW HIRAM TowNE of Moscow in some
way fell and broke her hip last Friday. 1t will
undoubtedly prove to be a very serious injury
Drs. Grout OF this place and James of Water
bury were called. Severe accidents are getting
to be OF very frequent occurrences in this town
Mr.. AND MRS. HIRAM TowNE 90 to Boston,
New York and perhaps Baltimore this week
Lewis Moody will attend to dispensing grocer.
les to customers during their absence. %. Abe
Dufer and wife of Wisconsin are visiting III
Judge Stiles Mrs. Edna Bingham, formerly
Edna Luce OF this place, is expected here this
week. Willie Bennett returned to Boston
last Wednesday to continue his study of music
at the New England Conservatory.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-09-19

BRIGHT's DISEASE, DIABETES Beware of
the stuff that pretends to cure these diseases
or other serious kidney, urinary or liver dis
cases. as they only relieve for time and make
you ten times worse afterwards, but rely solely
on Hop Btters, the only remedy that will surely
and permanently cure you. 1t destroys and
removes the cause of disease so effectually that
it never returns.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-09-19

Richmond.-G. W. Stevens of Bolton came
TO TINS village last Saturday and brought a
branch Of apple blossoms that he picked from
his orchard that day.. Eli Judson is recover
ing from his accident. II. Ii. Frary has been
repairing the dam at his mill and Geo. Palmer
has been repairing the house recently pur-
chased by him.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-09-19

NORTHUMBERLAND Child Is attending the
village school. Mr.. and Mrs. j. W. Bagley
are visiting friends in Sheldon :. Ida Seayer
Is working for Mrs. Ada Johnson of Waterbury
49, MT and Mrs Stephen Goodspeed are visit
ter, Mass, is stopping with her sister, Mrs
Charles Harran.. ..F. NJ. Berno and wife are
rejoicing over a son.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-09-19

MANY new styles in parlor and chamber fur
niture are now being furnished at Paine's Man
niactory, AZ Canal street, Boston. Send for
illustrated catalogue and price list
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-09-19

BetheI.-Rev E. Gerry, late from Oregon.
supplied the pulpit at the Congregational house
Sunday, the 9Th, in the absence of Mr.. Bugbee,
who preached at Royalton.
THE prospect for big rush at the fair was
never better, many exhibitors already Mon
day. being on the ground
X. S. JAMES has closed up his bedding busi.
ness, and is going into the poultry enterprise
on large scale, having already bought three
hundred hens to winter
THE Kittridge block will be completed soon.
Two men have rented the whole building. and
had it been three times rs large, ere this the
rooms would all have been taken.
The Wilson house, under the management of
the present proprietor, A. S. Robinson, main
tains its former good name, the register show
ing oo4 guests in one month aud twelve DAYS.
THERE was a fine rain on Thursday, lasting
about hive hours, and making many hearts
glad. Every vessel that would hold water.
from pail to barrel, was at once brought
into requistion.
MRS j. g. SARGENT has been on the sick list
for a long time, but now is a little better
though not able to leave her room, Mrs
Wells OF Burlington is visiting Mrs. Dodge AT
the Wilson house. Mrs. NJ A. MOODY ia vis-
itiDg her father and mother at Brattleboro.
Albert Thayer, the cook at the Bishop house AT
Montpelier, made a flying visit at a certain
place, coming Saturday and returning Monday,
They say he Is great lover of music.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-09-19

THE eighth wonder of the world il the suc-
cess in dyeing dresses whole at Lewando's
French Dye House. II Temple Place, Boston,
U. s. A.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-09-19

Iowa has twice the timber acreage she had
thirty years ago.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-26
Sacred Animals in India,

In every larger city there are walled
tanks where sacred crocodiles await the
contributions of the pious. In Benares
they subsist upon the rent of real
estate legacy and occasional donations
of the wealthy produce-merchants. But
even the poorest of the poor contribute
to the support of the sacred balloons.
The bhunder-baboon and the Hanuman
have every reason to regard themselves
as the primates of the animal kingdom.
and man as a humble relative, gifted
with certain horticultural talents for
the parpose of ministering to the wants
of his four-handed superiors. Northern
India is dotted with "mahakhunds." or
monkeyfarms, where thousands of long
tailed saints are provided with shelter.
respectful attendants, and three sub
stantial meals day, on the sole condi-
ton that they shall renounce their
sylvan haunts and bless the neighbor
hood with the influence of their holy
presence Sick monkeys are sent to the
next bhunder-hospital, generally we'll
endowed and well-managed institution
with a special dhecadar or responsible
major-domo. The little town of Gavin
pore has eight such infirmaries, Benares
twenty or twenty-five, some of them
with a subdivision for incurables and
chronic dyspeptics !-Popular Science
M)nthly.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-26
The True Standard of Value.

Values are relative. One person puts
high estimate on what another deems
worthless. a savage covets snowy
feather or gaudy trinket. Civilized
ladies sometimes have a similar fancy;
but, again, an antiquarian would prize
an old book above a bale of feathers
and barrel of trinkets. Who shall
say what is the real test Of value in
material possessions? A little child
was recently startled by what she had
heard said at the family table about a
robbery in the neighborhood. AS she
learned the possibility of her own home
being entered by robbers she trembled
for her choice possessions. Mama"
she whispered, "do robbers take dolls 2"
Her dolls were here treasure. If they
were in danger, life had new perils for
her. mo, my DEAR" said her mamma.
'Robbers don't want dolls Why should
they take them? ?" Il didn't know but
they would want them for their little
girls was the answer, showing the
child-belief that robbers were human,
and that their children had child-long-
ings and child fancies. With the as
surance that her dolls were safe, that
httle girl had less dread of robbers.
What was the loss of family silver or
of clothing and jewels, of books and
pictures, if the dolls were to be left
Unframed? After all, was that child's
estimate of values wrong or unreal, or
is the trouble with the rest of us =
Sunday School Times.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-26
The Earth Stiff as Steel.

G. III. Darwin has just published an
important paper upon the rigidity of
the earth. The data upon which his
work is based are the tidal observa-
tions made under the direction of the
Indian government during the past
few years, combined with others in
England and France-in all, thirty
three years observation at fourteen
different ports. The whole tide at any
place may be regarded as made up of
great number of smaller tides, of vary
ing period. Among these subordinate
tides two were selected for the discus
sion-one with a period of two weeks,
depending upon the distance of the
moon north or south of the celestial
equator, the other with period of
month, depending upon the varying
distance of the moon from the earth.
These are free from all systematic
meteorological or seasonal influence.
Now, if the earth is not rigid, but
yields at all to the tide-raising force,
the time and height of high water will
be affected. 1t appears from the inves-
tigation that each of these tides is only
little more than two-thirds what it
should be if the earth were absolutely
rigid, and from this Mr.. Darwin shows
that the amount of yielding is about
that of steel, conclusion agreeing
very well with that deduced by Sir
William Thomson, some fifteen years
ago, from rather scanty data. Ev-
identity this result does not favor the
idea that the earth's interior is molten
mass.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-26
The Russian Colony in Alta California.

Fully a century ago the pleasant
wales leading up into the Coast noun
tains had been penetrated by the from
tiersmen of Mexico, of which country
this whole great region was an Hide
fined province under the name of Alta
California. These men were herds
men or farmers. Early in the present
century colony of Russians and In
dians from Alaska, under the leader
ship of Alexander Koskoff, landed a.
Bodega Bay, and began farming where
now is the village of Bodega. Not sat
islied with this place alone, however,
they travelled northward some forty
miles, and established permanent ira
ding post and agricultural station neal
Salt Point, the site and many of the
buildings of which are now occupied
as the village of Fort Ross-an .angli-
cized abbreviation of Fuerte de los
RuSoS, as the post was called by the
Spaniards.
The occupancy of this strip of coast
for their hold extended all the way
between Point Arenas on the north and
Point Ruges on the south-by the Mus
covites from 1911 until 1880, when they
abandoned their station, left its impress
upon the names of the region, and espe-
cially clings to the principal stream
watering this portion of the redwood
belt-the Russian river.-Harper's
Magazine.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-26

1t is well-known fact that people
whose limbs have been amputated tell
you that they can feel their fingers and
toes for a long time afterward-
years, sometimes.and will even de-
scribe pains and definite sensations
affecting certain joints of individual
digits. This is readily understood
when we remember that the brain is
the only part of the body that feels, all
sensations and impulses being conveyed
to it from different parts by nerve
fibres. Feelings of pain, heat, cold,
touch, and the functions of the special
senses are telegraphed to it; and when
the connecting nerve is divided it may
be some time before it learns to local
ize truly the seat of the sensation it APP
preciates. When we knonck our
funny bones" we experience a thrill in
the little finger and in7er border of the
hand; the fact being that we have slim
ulated the bundle of telegraph wires
known as the ulnar nerve-which
transmits sensations from that finger
and part of the next, in the middle of
its course, as it winds round the Joint
of the elbow Washington star.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-26
Oil upon Troubled Waters.

Captain Brice, one of the inspectors
of the Board of Trade, was in Aberdeen
Scotland, the other day, watching ex-
periments for the purpose of rendering
the passage of vessels over the bar safe
in stormy weather by pumping oil upon
the water. A heavy southwesterly
gale was blowing. Seal oil was used.
After the pnmps had been at work
twenty minutes the crested waves
which were dashing with great fury
against the piers, became greatly as
suaged, and the entrance was rendered
safe. The experiments were considered
successful.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-26
A Remarkable Experiment.

OF many years ago a remarkable eX-
pertinent was tried at the Hospital Los
Lazaros, Sac Christovao, near Rio de
Janeiro. A Brazilian physician pre-
tended to have discovered that "beri-
beri," the mysterious and deadly NAL
ady of that country, half dropsy, half
leprosy,was identical with the Elephan-
tidSiS Graecord1n, which the ancient
opponents of the healing art used to
cure by incubation of snake venom.
An inmate of the hospital knowing his
state to be hopeless as it stood, con-
scented to allow the trial to be made on
his body. So vigorous rattlesnake
was accordingly brought to his bedside
and made to bite his swollen and hy-
pertrophied hand, in the presence of
large number of doctors, both native
and foreign. 1t was noted at the time
that the reptile displayed great appa-
rent reluctance to use its fangs, and it
was not until after much irritation that
it could be induced to strike. The
punctures were inflicted near the base
of the little finger, but the patient was
not aware that he had been bitten till
the bystanders told him, so lifeless was
the part. For some hours no results
were apparent. The characteristic evil
dences of blood-poisoning nevertheless
set in, and before night the man was
CORPSE.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-26
Sharp Practice.

A certain Michigander who had long
succeeded in lodging certain creditor,
was few weeks ago cornered in the
Office of mutual friend. and the credi-
tor began:
'TSir! you have owed me $25 for q
year past, and now l want to know
what you are going to do about it?"
"Well, I'll think it over"
"There will be no thinking it over,
my friend. II you don't pay me I'll sue
you"
"You Wilt"
81 will, sir!'
"Then you'll be certain to get Judge
ment. The party which brings the
suit always gets the verdict before a
justice Knowing this, you will take
advantage of me?"
81 VIII"
every we'll Now, then, deny that
| owe you dollar"
"You do?'
81 do, sir, but in case you want to
borrow $25 ofme for a week here it is"
81 don't care whether you call it
paying or lending, so long as 1 get my
money" replied the creditor, and he
made out a receipt in full and took the
money.
AT the end of the week he was asked
to return the loan, but laughed at the
absurdity of herequest. Suit was be-
gun to recover it, the mutual friend
used as a witness, and the plaintiff re-
ceived judgment in his favor and had
clean receipt to show for the debit
Detroit Free Press.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-26
Dreamlnnd.

Only in visions does the future wait
To tell us of the mysteries to be:
Yet even thus we linger at the gate
That opes eternity.
Except in dreams, the Past comes not again
With all its vanished weight of joy and
fears:
But blindly we retrace, in grief and pain,
The saddened bygone years
The present lives; to bane us or to bless
Within its guidance does the Future hide
The Past holds over it with tenderness
All good is at its side.
To live within the Present-yet to take
From out the Future and the darkened
Past
All hopes and lessons that for goodness
make
May this be ours at last
WALTER L. SAWYER in Youths Compan-
ION.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-26
Asbestos

Asbestos is not rare mineral, as it
is found in most of the middle and
northern States in this country and in
Europe, in all mountainous sections.
In New York there is a deposit in
Richmond county which affords fibres
two feet long. In Brunswick, N. j.,
there is fine deposit of the interlaced
variety, the mountain leather, so-called.
In Maryland, asbestos of good quality
is found in several localities. In Mas
sachusetts it occurs at Brighton, Shelf
field, Pelham, Windsor, and several
other towns. The mineral is plentiful
enough for all our wants, even if, some
day, it is used in house construction,
an event not improbable. Boston
Journal Of Commerce.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-26
The Age of Steel.

Even if there was once a time wnen
the state of industrial civilization
could fittingly be described as the age
of iron, says the Philadelphia Inquirer,
that time is past and gone, We are
rapidly approaching the age of steel.
Iron is being superseded in many direc-
tons by its more popular rival. Great
transportation lines prefer steel rails to
iron ones on account of their superior
wearing qualities. True, there are many
iron tracks still in existence but there
are also wooden tracks on some old
fashioned railways. Wire rods will
henceforth be made of steel rather than
of iron. Already the production of
steel in the United States is reported
to exceed the production of iron in mag
nitude. For many purposes iron is so
admirably designated that it will re-
main, certainly for many years, and
probably forever, in common use; but.
the number of instances in which it
has been or is being superseded by
steel is much greater than would have
been believed decade ago.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-26
a real reverence and affection for her.

a real reverence and affection for her.
These feelings he bore to witness every
where, and when his friends would play
upon him and say half in jest and half
in earnest: "Ah, Charlie, you're fine
fellow, amt you?" he would answer
with naive conceit and confidence:
"Yase, l am for l hef commanded
a bark of a dousand duns but dere's a
better dan me at home. And ev any
body says Kalstroms a vine Yellow
you gan dell him, ase, but Kalstrom's
wife is viner.'"