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

The notable incidents of the past week
in the affairs of this company are the re-
port OF the receiver on the value of the
Norwood lumber property, the institution
of insolvency proceedings against Law.
renee Brainerd, the attachment of the
property of the directors of the trust com.
pany at the suit of the creditors and stock
holders of the company, and the failure of
F. L. Brainerd, grocer in st. Adams,
formerly partner of Lawrence Brainerd
under the firm name of +. L. Brainerd &
Co. The report of Receiver Rich on the
Norwood property is published in another
column. With feeble artifce the Messen-
ger credits the receivers statement long
enough to give The Waterman puny
dab; balances on the fence for day in a
haze OF doubt and incredulity, and on the
next, in non.committal way, descends
from its perch, impelled apparently by a
correspondents pungent review of the Nor
wood showing. There is refreshing plain
ness and directness in what the MESSENGERS
correspondent, who is depositor in the
Inflated company, has to say and we crave
our contemporaries pardon for quoting
from that communication rather than
from its able leading article. The Mes.
senger's correspondent says:
You stated last week that the receiver would
this week, in company with an expert lumber
man, proceed to northern New York and ex-
anime the property there and report to us the
result Norwood is about one hundred and
twenty miles from St. Adams. The receiver
and expert, understand, went there on Mon
day night, examined something on Tuesday,
returned on Wednesday and made up the re-
port published in your Thursday paper. The
most prominent things in the report appear to
be eulogies upon Governor Colton Mr..
Ashley, president Of board Of trustees in Nor
wood" village, and Mr.. Brainerd. The dis
patch with which the immense property was
examined beat all past record; but, as a result,
we have estimates on about forty-two thousand
acres OF land, three mills and forty-three other
structures, lumber. logs, ETC., camp equipags,
horses, etc, goods and store accounts at over
$390.0OO. Was ever appraisal made 80 quickly
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-09-19
A Minnesota Wheat Farm.

From private letter from native Mont
pelier girl now living in St. Paul, THE WATCH
MAN is courteously allowed to make some ex-
tracts descriptive OF visit to tho Lockhart,"
one OF two immense wheat farms in north
western Minnesota Seen through the eyes of
an intelligent and appreGative woman, the
scenes presented are invested with a complete
ness and a charm and freshness to which the
hackneysd arts OF the professional correspond
ept are stranger The details of wheat
farming described are rather startling, even to
those who are measurably familiar with the
immense scale on which all kinds of business
In the West are carried on. The two farms
called respectively the " Lockhart" and the
Keystone" are on the line of the Northern
Pacific railway, in the Red River valley, and
are owned by capitalists in Pennsylvania. Mr..
Springer Harbaugh, formerly OF Pittsburgh,
now resident OF st. Paul, is manager, and
his son, DeLorme B, Harbaugh, whose wife
Is the writer OF the following extract, is super
intendent:
&c expected to be on the boundless prairies
to-day, but am home sooner than | expected.
Oh for the pen of a ready writer to describe to
you the wonders Of the past few daysl would
like to have all my friends among the Green
Mountains see the vast wheat fields rs have
just seen them We left st. Paul ON the 22nd,
Mr.. Gibbons, prominent lawyer OF Philadel-
phis, his lovely, gray haired wife, his daughter,
Mrs. White, DE l.. and ], and after comforta-
bic ride OF night we were landed at the Lock-
hart switch, at ten, the next morning. Father
was waiting in the nice, roomy spring wagon,
and after riding to the farm house and leaving
our traps, we went at once TO the harvest field.
We used our adjectives so freely that our
repetoire was exhausted long before we reached
the fields, for the vastness of the praires and
the abundance of flowers was something won
derful. You cannot imagine the extent of
these level wheat fields, miles and miles and
miles, indeed only bounded by the horizon,
without fence, hill or a stump, to break the
level ground. OF course the machines act like
charm on such level ground and we were
"lost in wonder and with rapture filled" when
we saw the harvesters at work. There were
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-09-19

of difference between the republicans and
the democrats of the Empire State. The
republicans have abandoned the district
association and thrown the primary doors
wide open to all consistent republicans /;
the democratic state committee voted to
adopt similar course, but through fear
of John Kelley and in the interest of har.
mony the doors have been slammed in the
face of the non-elect democratic voter.
The result of the workings of the newborn
policy of harmony in New York will be
the signal feature of interest in the Skin.
mishing this fall for positions of advantage
in the great contest next year.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-09-19

July earnings had not at the date of the
report, September 10Th, been fully &C.
counted for, and that August and Sep.
TENDER earnings are a matter of judy
ment. Fifteen millions of the eighty mill
ions of water and capital upon which
the company is paying seven per cent an
nually is not recognized by the courts of
New York as legitimate capital, and the
company has been enjoined from paying
a dividend upon it. But it appears from
the amount of the dividend the company
declared for the quarter just ended aud
for the previous quarter that az the Bos-
ton advertiser puts it, the company pays
dividends on $S0,0O0OOO as if there were
no injunction to the contrary" The
fiscal year of the company ends on June
30tb, and Mr.. Norvin Green, the presi-
dent, reports business as follows:
Receipts. Expenses. Profits.
1885, ss s.5s ffa sSss z sSsis s.
This makes net profits for the seven
teen years ended on June 80, 1883, &c.,
44,65S52. The annual meeting of the
company will be held in October at which
fuller details of the condition of the
company, its property and the extent of
its business, will be submitted. In view
of the agitation of the subject of gov
eminent telegraph, this statement will be
awaited with an interest that is not con-
fined to the holders of Western Union
certificates.
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Ir is WHISPERED that something besides

IT is whispered that something besides
the manual of arms and big pumpkins
was discussed at the muster and the
state fair. 1t is limited that political
tactics were studied, as well as military,
that the chances of candidates, as well as
horses, to win races were canvassed. In
ferentially the conclusion is reached that
the political slate for next year has been
made up. Later on the people may take
hand in the political game and possibly
they may hold the little Joker.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-09-19
No Resistance.

Some of our contemporaries, agricultu-
raj and otherwise, have been wistfully
looking to see the tax commissioner at
about this time bring lot of delinquent
corporations into court to show cause why
they should not pay the tax assessed upon
them by the legislature at its late session.
We commiserate our brethren and all
their sympathizers on their disappoint-
ment. Their hopes at present are con-
fined to short strip of the Troy & Boston
railway, about five miles in length, which
cuts across the extreme southwestern cor
ner of the state. The state papers were
proclaiming last week that the Passump-
sic railway would contest the law, while
in point of fact that corporation, as an
nounced by The WATcHMAN, had made
its return to the commissioner, accom-
panied by a note that signified ready
and cheerful acquiescence to the require
ments of the law. During the past week
the Delaware g. Hudson, the Southeast
ern, and the Grand Trunk have in cour-
teous notes explained the delay in making
their returns, delay which was inciden-
tai to business troubles or to the extent
of their operations and which was en-
tirely apart from any belligerent purpose.
The amount of tax these roads will pay
has not yet been ascertained; their inten-
ton to pay as soon as they can make up
their accounts has been very respectfully
indicated. The corporation tax law is
running the gauntlet of denunciation
and carping criticism, through which
its elder brother, the new listing law,
passed, and is emerging as triumph
antly. Its critics will be silent or laud-
atory by another year, just as were
they who in the winter of 1881 were SO
violently assailing the listing law. The
corporation tax law has come to stay, and
loyalty to it will, or should, be the test
of official preferment, as much as was
fealty to the listing law in the last state
canvass. The silly charge, lately revived,
that the law sis based on no principle"
will deceive no one. Its "principle " is
the same as the principle of the listing
law, that property shall pay taxes. Its
methods are different. The old methods,
as the state learned by dear and scandal
GUS experience with town and state list
ers, were inapplicable to corporations.
Doubtless the new methods are not the
best that can be devised. They were the
best that could be framed in the time and
with the information at the disposal of
the legislature. They are susceptible of
improvement and of equitable readjust-
ment, and these will come in the light of
experience and the information which
will be laid before the next legislature as
one of the benefcent results of the pres
emit law. A law which, as the present
seems likely to do, will raise annually
100000 of revenue is very far from be-
ing failure, much less an ignominious
failure" as some papers, the doughty
champions of the people," stigmatize it.
A community of farmers which has for
generations borne the burdens of taxa
ton will appreciate the relief this law
will afford, and in the next legislature to
a man will be ready "to stand up and be
counted " in its support.
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The Western Union Quarterly.

The events of the summer have brought
the Western Union telegraph company
prominently before the people. With its
ramifications into almost every city and
hamlet in the country the company was
tolerably we'll known as dispatcher of
telegraphic messages before the strike
turned upon it the blaze of "that fierce
light that beats against the throne" In
that light some things which were known
in business circles and had been the sub
ject of comment in a general way in the
newspapers were seen by the people at
large, and have had great influence in
shaping popular sentiment in favor of the
assumption of the business of telegraphy
by the general government. The West
ern Union has recently declared its usual
quarterly dividend of one and three
fourths per cent. The official statement
of the earnings of the company, made in
connection with the declaration of it's GUS
tomary dividend, will have especial inter-
est at this time. The official statement is
as follows:
The net revenues OF the quarter ending
September 30th, instant, based upon
nearly completed returns for July, par
tial returns for August, and estimating
the business for September will be about 81 $50 900 20
Add surplus, July ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, 1858 566 %
s5,sOS,5a 90
interest on bonded debt..,..... $l06.lOO 90
- sl267Oo %
Leaves balance OF OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. S. 8l 1865 20
the capital stock. 81 ss977s ~
Deductng, which leaves surplus. after pay
ing mWdend ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. S3762,O86 81
For the quarter ended June 30th, the
net revenues of the company were 81.
639,S97. So it appears that during last
quarter, when its revenues for nearly
month were measurably suspended by the
occurrence of the great strike and when it
was paying fabulous prices for very linn.
tied and very inferior service, the officers
of the company estimate that the net
revenues will show gain of more than
$4,000. 1t shows its confidence in its es-
Inmates of its earnings by declaring its
usual dividend, acknowledging that its
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-09-19

IL nearly dead after taking some highly
puhed up stuff, with long testimonials, turn
to Hop Bltters, and have no fear of any kidney
or urinary troubles, Bright's disease, diabetes
or liver complaint. These diseases cannot re-
sist the curative power of Hop Bittersi besides
II Is The best family medicine on earth.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-09-19

DpHTHERIA poisons the blood. Convalescents
should take Hoods Sarsaparilla TO neutralize
and eradicate the poison matter.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-09-19

THE fig is said to be sure crop in most of
the southern states. The cost OF cultivation is
trihing.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-09-19

to satisfy the Indebtedness to the trust company
of 1912, 743, leaving an apparent margin of S52,-
593, after paying the trust company in full.
The receiver remarks' " Whether the property
can be sold so as to secure the full amount due
TO the trust company will depend upon the sue
cess which the assignee has in disposibg OF it.
So large property cannot find y purchaser at
once, rs all must see. The assignee is conf
dent he can realize the estimated amount, II he
can have reasonable time in which TO make
the sales" The statement was evidently pre-
pared for the receiver, the time he spent at
Norwood, as is shown by comments made else
where, being utterly insufficient for the APP
praisal of such an immense property
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-09-19
sHafrfrmar Dc gunruaI.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1888.

TERMs-s2OO per year, strictly in advance; or $3.50 II
not paid within three months.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-08-14
FISHERS OF MEN.

Down the calm river they leisurely hoated
There, in a nook that was shady snd cool,
They brought out their lines, and their hooks were
all coated
With bait we'll adapted the fishes TO fool.
Mabel was with them, and Lizzie and Laura,
Maidens light-hear'ed, and merry and fair;
Zach bestowed smiles on her favored adorer,
Destined, perchance, to fall into her snare.
Idly they played with their lines on the river;
Little they cared though % fish should be caught;
Fondly each hoped that the fates would deliver
Into her keeping the lover she sought.
Lightly they talked upon themes with which Cupid
Had lavishly filled both their hearts and their
brains,
And laushiney said that the men were all stupid,
The While they were artfully weaving their
chains.
The day passed away, and the fishing was ended |;
Pleased with themselves the fair innocsnts
looked;
They galed on their victims, and each oompre-
hended
The fish she had angled 50 long for was hooked.
Then back to the town the young men rowed
lightly,
Their baskets all empty-that fishing was tame
While on each other the maidens smiled brightly
The fishers of men had won at their game.
Eliot RYDER.
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Written for the Sunday Morning BAzoo.
THE SINGLE GRAY HAIR.

single gray hair noticed just now,
As her tresses in negiige fell round her brow;
And my heart for q moment stood still and turned
cold,
With the thought that my darling was now grow
ing old.
locked at her features smooth and so round,
list to her voire with its mellow, sweet sound,
l could not distinguish the slightest change there.
But still my heart echoed "that single gray hair =!
How sad DO we feel when the blossoms of May
In those when We love, show the marks of decay;
When Time, with its wrinkles, displaces the bloom
And the bright eye Of youth is wrapped in his
gloom;
To think that the loved ones all beauty and grace
So perfect in form, and so lovely in face;
Every feature We love, in its beauty divine,
Will be swept from the earth by unpity ing time.
How strange that hair 50 frail and so small,
Gould shadow the heart like q funeral pail
lis its whiteness, so ghOstlike, for Time has been
there,
And his first touch is shown by single gray hair.
Those brown, lovely tresses when invaded by one,
Show me plainly the havoc that's in them begun |;
lis Deaths star that's dawning in Times gloomy
night,
And it silvers the head with its ominous light.
Yes, Time leaves a trail, broad, open and black,
More dreadful by far than the warriors track;
His dread touch on IN -nkind can .lways he known,
And he whitens the hair he makes them his own.
ras
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From a gentleman who was in Pilot
Grove Friday night, a BAzoo reporter
learned Of . desperate attempt at escape
made by q prisoner whose preliminary ex-
animation had just been concluded before .
justice Of the peace, resulting in his being
held to await the action of the grand Jury.
The name of the alleged criminal is VIII
cox, and he is charged with stealing six
teen sacks of wheat from . farmer in that
vicinity.
As soon as the trial had ended and the
decision of the justice announced, Wilcox
bounded through the open door of the JUS
tees Office, taking the officers completely
BY surprise and making good his escape.
The circumstance created great deal of
excitement: in that quiet neighborhood, and
all of the able bodied residents in the vi
cinity turned out to assist the officers in
their pursuit of the fugitive. 1t required
three hours to run him down, he finally
being overhauled about three miles from
town, and escorted to Jail, followed BY the
excited populsce. Upon arriving at the
entrance Of the calaboose, the now thor
oughly enraged and excited prisoner offered
to whip any ten men in the crowd, upon
condition that If he succeeded in getting
away with them, he be granted his liberty.
1t is needless to say that his proposition
was not accepted, and he now lansuishes
behind the bars of the Boonyille Jail,
whittier he was yesterday removed.
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Society Elsewhere.
wARRENsBURG.

wARRENsBURG.
Miss Julia Blake is visiting in Illinois.
Mrs. Lizzie Kemp has returned from .
visit tc friends at Holden.
-Mias Kate Taylor, of Columbus, has
been visiting frien0s 10 this city.
DIR. C. w. Robinson and family have
returned from their pleasure trip east.
Mrs. Lee and Mrs. Potter, of Gains.
vile, Texas, are visiting Mrs. w. p. Hunt,
in this city.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. w. Wall, Of Lection. are
visiting Mrs. Wallis father, A. o. Redford,
in this city.
Mrs. d. Uric, who has been visiting
her daug' ter, Mrs. Youngs, at Winchester,
Ohio, returned home last week.
Mr.. s. A. McElvain and family, Of
Hazel Hill, have removed to their elegant
residence on Broad street, in this city.
Married. at the residence of Mr.. A. F.
Scruggs, in Washington township, August
5th, Mr.. w. N. Beckley and Miss Mary D..
Chapel.
Miss Fannie Souther, of Knobnoster,
and Mrs. Lizsie Salisbury, of Denison,
Texas, have been visiting Mrs. Yankee, in
this city.
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SOHELL CITY SIFTINoS.

Correspondence of the Bazoo.
ScHE CITY, August IL.
Mrs. c. p. Graves is in town visiting
friends
Miss Ramsy, of Clinton, is visiting
Mrs. F. L. Munmert this week.
The latest craze in Scheil is the young
ladies getting their fortunes told.
Mrs. Will Duck and Mrs. Biglow, of
Nevada, were the guests of Mrs. D. Duck
this week.
B. F Hendricks, J. p, has been quite
sick for the past few dsys, but we are glad
to learn that he is getting better.
Mrs. Long, of Osceola, who has been
visiting Mrs. Cash for the past ten days,
left Wednesday evening for Kansas, to visit
friends.
Rev. Allen, the Presbyterian minister
Of this place, returned, the first of the week,
from four weeks visit to Eureka Springs.
His health is decidedly improved.
DIR. H. p. Wherritt returned home
Wednesday. from Illinois. which state he
visited in company with c. p. Graves, who
Is engaged in buying some blooded horses
with which to stock his farm, situated four
miles south of Schell.
"A prize fight, Marquis of Queensbury
rules, between Robertson and Shepherd,
proprietos of the different hacks plying
between this place and Eldorado, took
place ON Tuesday morning. Both were
knocked out in the first round, and first
blood was drawn BY both parties about the
same time. The gate money amounted to
$500 apiece, and Vas handed to Mayor
Childs, who acted - stakeholder.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-08-14

C0eH0CTON STATION, N. T., Dec. ~, TS.
GENTS number of people had been
using your Bitiers here, and with marked
effect. In one case, lady of over seventy
years, had been sick for years. and for the
past ten years has not been able to be
around hall the time. About six months
ago she got so feeble she was helpless. Her
old remedies, or physicians, being of no
avail, sent to Deposit, forty Eve miles
away, and got bottle of Hop Bitters. 1t
improved her 80 she was able to dress her.
self and walk about the house. When she
had taken the second bottle she was able to
take care of her own room and walk out to
her neighbors', and has improved all the
time since. Ny wife and children also
have derived great benefit from their use.
w. b HATHAWAY,
Agent o. 8. Express Company.
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In which to spend social hour; that is
the verdict of al who visit McCormack's
popular Wine Hall at the corner of Main
and Usage streets. The proprietor spares
no pains to entertain his visitors and in
sures . second call by courteous treatment
and by the quality of the goods which
passes over his bar, only the very best
wines, Liquors and cigars beirg dispensed.
Mac knows how to keep 6nt-class saloon,
and in consequence, % enjoying fins pa
tonnage.
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s.%"He that prays harm tor his neigh
Dor, begs a curse upon himself" He that
recommends Kidney-Wort to his sick
neighbor brings a blessing rich and full
both to his neighbor and himself. Habit
ual costiveness is the bane of nearly every
American woman. Every woman owes it
to herself and to her family to use that
celebrated medicine, Kidney-Wort.
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SOCIETY NEWS.

IAnv items of Interest suitable for this depart
pent, from Sedalia neighboring places, are re-
spectfully solicited. We want q vivaciOus, active
nd CHEEKY lady correspondent in all the neighbor
Ins towns tributary to Sedalla. Address all such
Sommunications to Rosa Pearle, society reporter,
6asoo Office, Sedalia. Mo-
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BoONvILLE
Miss Ida Nelson has returned from her
visit to Sweet Springs.
Mrs. Henry Andrac, of Jefferson City,
has beeu visiting in this city.
Mrs. Lena Sappington, of Saline
county, is visiting in Boonville.
Mrs. Sallie Chandler left for her home
in Kansas City few days ago.
R. F. Walker and wife, of Versailles,
were registered at the City hotel this week.
Miss Tallie Brant arrived in Boonville
Friday, and will spend short time here.
Miss Mollie Holman, of this city, has
returned from her visit to Fayette, Howard
county.
Mrs. Fannie Watson, of Fulton, CAL
laway county, is the guest of Miss Mamie
Spahr this week.
Mrs. L. d. Tucker, of Upton, Mo-. is
the guest of the family of Mr.. Geo. Harmed
At Vermont. this county.
Miss Neltie Zuber, of Jefferson City,
has been visiting the family of Mr.. Nick
Wall in this city this week.
Miss Annie Williams, of Carthage.
Mo-, has been visiting the family of Mr.. r.
r. Thompson in Boonville.
Mis- Pauline Barth has returned from
Der visit to Upton, bringing with her Miss
Ida Keister of that city, who is visiting in
Boonville this week.
Miss Mamie Rider, of Warrensburg,
johnson county, is visiting the Vine Clad
city this week, the guest Of her cousin,
Mr.. Thomas A, Johnston.