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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-15
TIE PETROLECM MARKET.

NEw-YokK. April Il.
The general run of the wells III the Cooper
tract continues 20 show large production. Except this
general depressing influence there wassome news to-day
tending to cause higher figures The Anchor Well No. o.
which started with production Of 80 barrels an hour
il now dong only 10 barrels hour. The Union No.
Well ia reported to be dry, and the Anchor NO IL to be
a small producer. The petroleum speculation to-day
was purely local in character. Business dull and
the hncluaiiOn. small. without any pronounced
tone ng developed prices after early ruling between
91lad9Jc., sank To 9Jls G937sc.
The reported transactions from on city were lO92OOO
barrels. The dealings ia New-fork were Ne follows:
Barrels.
Potroeum $4,000
National Petroleum Exchange ............. 35l. 900
NeU.YOrk Mining Exchange. 4t1.OO0
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21
An Indian Apent.

The President likes n good story, es-
pecially If 1t is quaint. An Indian agent,
who came East not long ago to get
something better than his agency, got
it just for the story he told. lie said:
"Mr. President, when ] got out to the
agency ! found that those Indians were
Just about to have their annual sun
dance. OF course, they invited the
agent, and of course the agent went. 1t
was very exciting, / had never seen q
sun-dance and thought it was i'm
mensc." And then he described the
wild ceremonies at length. II watched
them" he said, ''as they jumped and
yelled, and yelled and jumped, and cut
themselves, and marched and counter
marched, and cut up like so many
painted devils. All this time was
spectator. But presently they began to
pass the fire water around. OF course,
they invited the agent to drink, and OF
course the agent drank. In fact, he
drank n good deal--a good deal more
than he ought TO- 1t wasn't long before
he found himself in the middle of the
ring, as wild us the rest of them, dane
ing, yelling and bowling. Then he was
participation. lie kept this up some
time, Mr. President, and then, it is said,
Mr.. President, he got into fight with
n big buck and made SO much trouble
that they had to put him off the ground.
| don't know about that, Mr. President,
but | know that very shortly after he
became traveller, and now he would
like little softer berth little nearer
civilization. He got it for the tale he
told. Philadelphia Record
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21
Cincinnati Cultnra.

In the elegant drawing-room of Gin
cinnati pork merchants mansion @
large company was assembled. All the
luxury that wealth could command con.
tributed to the qualification of the
guests. Upon blue satin divan the
pork merchants daughter, gorgeous in
silks and pearls and diamonds, was
conversing with a friend Presently her
father approached and said:
pauline, want to say a word tc
you"
The girl arose and accompanied hcl
parent TO the seclusiou of n bay win.
dow.
Pauline" began the old man,
"there's couple of Cleveland dudes in
the dining-room having q hot talk about
Copcrnicus. Twas afraid they were 60
ing to ask me to decide the dispute, SC
| made some excuse to get out and
come to you. Now tell me, who was
Copernicus, anyhow"
"Oh, father" exclaimed Pauline,
show could YOU be so ignorantP Why
any schoolboy knows who Copcrnicus
was. lie sailed from Palos, Spain, or
the Sd of August, 1902, and discovered
America the following October"
The venerable purveyor of swine
gazed exultingly at his daughter n mo-
ment and then said, with suggestion
of sadness in his tones:
Pauline, my child, if | had your
brains | might have been a United
States senator from Ohio. Brooklyn
EaQle.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21
A Famous Galaxy,

People who delight In beautiful and
good books will be astonished when they
see. If they have not already seen, the au.
nouncements of the "Caxton Illustrated"
and other editions of standard authors,
issued this season. The typography, and
oil mechanical qualities Of printing and
binding are simply superb, and the prices
veritable marvel to the old time book.
buyer. The list includes the works, com.
plete, of Dickens, IL volumes, reduced In
price from S22.5O to $500 nee; Thack.
eray's, from Sl6.50 to $G.75; George
Eliot's, from $l2 to $3.50; Washington
Irving's Works, from 800 to 81; SCOTS
Waverly Novels, from $50 to $3.50; Haw.
thorne's Works, from S2l to $3.50; j.
Fenlmore Cooper's, from S32 to $3.50;
Bulwer's, from $sl.25 to $3.50; William
Blacks, from Sl5 to o.; De Qulnceys,
from $ls to $3.50. The publisher sends
them to any one for ex animation before
requiring any payment, on reasonable
evidence Of good faith, and will send 9
large catalogue Of these and other works
free upon application. John B. Alden
Publisher, 10 Vesey st., New York.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21

A gentleman of this town having re-
Gently made trip through Webster
county, Kentucky, tells us OF man he
met who has never taken drink of wa
ter, though now 80 years of age. His
name is Thomas Lawton, and he is a
kinsman OF w. c. Carnahan, of this
place, and Mr.. Carnahan vouches for
the truth OF the statement that he never
drank water. Mr.. Lawton says that he
has no desire whatever for the purest
beverage known to creation, neither
has he any inclination to partake of it
in any of the adulterated forms. He
has had raging fevers ant. shaking
chills but nothing in his constitution
calls for drink. He drinks milk for
its nourishing virtues and coffee as a
preventive for painters collie, for he is
a painter by trade. He once drank
some mineral water, taking it as tonic,
but the fluid was so repughant to his
taste that he did not remain long at the
springs. Crittcnden (Ky.) Press.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21

PETERsON's MAGAZINE for Decem-
Der is, as usual, ahead of all the lady S
books. Splendid as this magazine has
been in the past, the present number
quite outstrips itself. There are more
than hundred pages of reading mat
ter; two superb steel-plates a colored
pattern, costlier even than a chrome !;
a colored fashion, double size, printed
from steels and more shah half a
hundred wood-cuts of fashion, work
table patterns, etc The stories are,
as always, exceptionally good. The
price is but $500 a year. Great in
ducements offered to clubs. Address
Peterson's Magazine, Philadelphia, Pa.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21

REMARKABLE LoNGEvITY.--Morti-
mer Daneher, aged l21 years, died on
the 9th inst. at the residence of his son,
in Derrynaus, lie Sueur county, MINI.
Mr.. Daneher was the last surviving
brother of II remarkable family, which
for longevity probably surpassed any
thing in the records of modern times.
Mr.. Daneher's mother died in her lO1st
year, his eldest brother at the age of
lOS years, his second at the age of III
years, z months and 20 days, and HIM
self at the age OF 121 years. The IA
ther was the shortest lived of the fam
lily. having died at the age Of 80. Mr..
Daneher had been remarkably healthy
and active man, never having been
really ill in his life. Lately, however,
old age kept him more or less to his
bed, but he was never i'll, and even got
up and dressed himself on Wednesday
last. He came from County Clare,
Ireland, and could speak in the Celtic
tongue only.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21
GDe S1,tI.
NEW YORK, 1884.

About sixty million copies of THE Sun
have gone out of our establishment dur.
lug the past twelve months.
II you were to paste end to end all the
columns OF all The SUNS printed and sold
last year you would get continuous
strip OF interesting information, common
sense wisdom, sound doctrine, and sane
Wit long enough to reach from Print.
ing House Square to the top of Mt
Copernlcus in the moon, then back TO
Printing House Square, and then three
quarters of the way back to the moon
again.
BUT lHE Sun is written for the inbabit-
ants Of the earth; this same strip of in.
telligence would grdle the globe twenty.
seven or twenty-eight times.
If every buyer of copy of THE SIN
during the past year has spent only one
hour over it, and if his wife or his grand
father spent another hour, this newspaper
in 1888 has afforded the Human race 10000
years of steady reading, night and day.
1t is only by little calculations like these
that you can form any idea of the circula-
ton of the most popular of American
newspapers, or of its influence on the
opinions and actions of American men
and women.
The Sun is, and will continue to be, a
newspaper which tells the truth without
tear OF consequences, which gets at the
facts no matter how much the process
costs, which presents the news of all the
world without waste of words and in the
most readable shape, which is working
with all its heart for the cause of honest
government, and which therefore believes
that the Republican party must 90, and
must go in this coming year of our Lord
1884.
lfyou know The Sun, you like it al
ready, and yon will read it with accustom-
ed diligence and profit during what is sure
to be the most interesting year in its his
tory. lfyou do BOT yet know The Sun,
it is high time to get into the sunshine.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21

Confessions of an indianapolis bag,
gage smasher: "All there is left now i
the roping of trunks at 25cents each
and we are working for all there is in
it. We come at the travelling man with
the remark. Better have that trunk
roped, if it is not strapped, be the
trunk a good or insufficient one. If the
fellow hesitatcs and is somewhat green
about travelling, we tell him that tht
trunk will be carried at the owners
risk if not properly roped, and if thai
does not bring him we hunt weak
place in the trunk, or come one of oul
shaky twists on it, and tell him we have
to mark it Bad order, and this gener.
ally brings the quarter. We get only
10 cents Of it though; the Union Rail
way Company furnishes the rope. Thi:
costs A or cents, and the other 10 or !
cents goes into the treasury of the poor
Union Railway Company. At Kansas
City or st. Louis" he continued, "tht
boys let trunks drop on purpose to burs
them and get chance to tie them W
with rope"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21

AS the November zephyrs whirl
through the windy Hub many good ci.-
liens who staked greenbacks, hats,
overcoats, Medford rum, houses, lands,
or milk routes upon Ben Buffers cleo
ton must feel with sorrow that it s
going to be hard winter. Almost
everybody in respectable Massachusetts
seems to have made wagers of some
sort, and the comparatively harmless
wager of q wheelbarrow ride was
especially common. 1t is foolish to
bet, but the disappointed admirers Of
Butler will have plenty of chance to
make up their losses. "The Old Man"
will run again, and the poor Massa-
chusetts Republicans, who are already
tired-well, there is no peace for the
wicked n. Y. Sun.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21

Now Is the time to treat Catarrh oflone
standing. Ely's Cream Balm reaches OBJ.
stinate cases, where other remedies fail.
In 1t lies the reliefyou seek. Price scots.
Apply to the nostrils with the finger.
A GENTLEMAN from Orwell, Pa, called
my attention to Ely's Cream Balm as a
remedy for Catarrh, Hay Fever, &c. He
was so earnest In asserting 1t to be a
positive cure (himself having been cured
by iD that | purchased stock. The
Balm has already effected cures. P.F.
HYATT, M. d., Bordentown, N. j..
l HAVE been severe sufferer from
Catarrh for 10 years, with distressing pain
over my eyes, gradually the disease work
ed upon my lungs. About year and a
half ago / began using EIy's Cream Balm,
with the most gratifying results, and am
to-day apparently cured, 2. C. WARREN,
Rutland, vt.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21
NEW HAMPSHIRE.

The Catholics of Hinesdale are about
to erect new church.
There were 3l4 divorces granted in
the State last year.
A young son of John Carpenter was
drowned Thursday while skating on
Pages pond, near Keene.
Mrs. Thomas Burns, of Nashua, at
tempted suicide on Saturday. Domes-
tic unhappiness, caused by rum.
Hon. y. c. Haskell, representa-
tive to Kansas, and wife, are visiting
relatives in Claremont. Mr.. Haskell
is native of Weathersfeld, Vt.
A heifer kicked over lantern at
Sandwich on the 9Th inst, ard the
buildings of James M. Mudgett were
totally destroyed in consequence. Loss
$500; insurance s1l00.
Survey has been made from the Pro-
file to the Flume house for the extcn-
sion of the Bethlehem narrow guage
railroad, distance, five miles; eleva-
ton, 140 feet. The line runs between
the highway and the Pemigewasset riv-
er most of the way.
Miss Ella jenkins, prepossessing
young lady, weaver in one of the
Manchester mills, has gone to St. Pc
ter, Mimi, to wed prosperous farm
er there whom she never saw. The
courtship was carried on by way of the
postoflce, by the aid of a mutual
friend. He pays her expenses out,
and if she doesn't like the looks of
things he is to pay her expenses back.
That's fair.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21

BALLOU's MAGAZINE for December
contains the last chapter of Mr.. VIM.
H. Thomes's "Belle of Australia. -
OF course it ends we'll. The young
husband gets his young bride, and the
old folks bless them, and the wicked
earl turns out to be tramp and a
pretty good fellow, even if he does run
after the women little more than is
proper for a nobleman. In the Janu-
airy number of Ballou Mr.. Themes
Will begin new yarn, called Son
Land and Sea, or California in the
Years 1913, IA, and AS" 1t is only
Sl.5O per annum, or 10 cents a single
copy. For sale everywhere. Publish
ed by Themes & Talbot 20 Hawley
Street, Boston.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21
All Sorts.
A Pittsburg minister recently lectur-

A PlttsDurg minister recently lectur-
ed on "Mistakes of the Devil"
Eggs are $3.50 per dozen in some
parts of Montana.
"Hell-to-pay" is q station on the
Northern Pacific in Montana. 1t was
named by a man whose suspenders
broke there.
A drayman in Cleveland, Tenn,
drives a mule which is 80 years Old
32 years must have taken the kick out
of him some.
The choir which sang at the dedica-
ton of the Christian church in Swan.
sea, Mass, so years ago, observed the
bi-centennial of that event on Sunday
last. The - are all living, and a
majority of them were present and
sung.
A New Jersey man has been put in
Jail for having fourteen wives. Must
be a great relief to him.
1t is estimoted that ten thousand
hunters are killing deer and buffalo in
Montana along the line of the Northern
Pacific railrOad.
John G. P. Collins has been sentenc-
cd to be hanged at San Francisco, May
II, for numbering w. F. Cummings
while robbing stage.
Harriet Hawkins and her child were
found dead in bed at Lexington, Ky,
Wednesday morning. Death resulted
from starvation and cold.
Rev. Father Cardigan Of Quio par
ish, Montreal, has become insane and
refuses to eat, saying he has divine
command not to partake Of food.
The apple crop of the Shenandoah
valley of Virginia is simply immense
this fall. Thousands of barrels are
being shipped north.
The New York Bible house reports
that not a single copy of the revised
New Testament has been sold in five
months.
Farmers in Indiana are reported to
be suffering one of the worst forms of
Socialism. A gang of incendiaries
burn the barns of those who employ
labor-saving machinery.
Notwithstanding the Irish agitation,
Ireland continues to furnish more re-
cruits for the British army in proper
ton to population than any other div
ision Of the United Kingdom.
Of course the bonanza kings want to
shake the wives of their youths and
marry others. You see it takes one
kind of a wife to help make fortune /;
another to help spend it.
A grandniece of George Washing
ton is said to keep a boarding house
back of the Riggs Hotel at Washing
ton. She is 10 years old and active in
charitable works.
Prof. McMaster says there were no
pawn shops in New. York 100 years
ago. New York has much improved
as regards the necessities of life.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21

1t has been found that Wallace
Cobb's death at Lynn, Mass, was not
caused by a misstep, but by the ulcer
alton of the bowels by the Judgment of
an undigested hard baked bean in the
appendix calci, situated in the right
lilac fossa or the lower right hand
corner of the abdomen. The inaam.
matory process extended, and finally
ended in a collapse which caused death.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21

l would recommend Ely's Cream Balm
to anyone having Catarrh or CatarrhaI
Asthma. | have suffered for the last five
years so l could not lie down for weeks
at time. Since have been using the
Balm can lie down and rest nicely
thank God that you ever invented such q
medicine. FRANK p. BuRLEIGH, Farm.
ington, N. II.
For 20 years have been afflicted with
Catarrh so that l have been confined to
my room for two months at time.
have tried all the humbugs in hope of re-
lief, but with no success until met with
an old friend who had used Elys Cream
Balm and advised me to try it. pro-
cured bottle and from the first appiica.
ton found relief. 1t is the best remedy
l have ever tried. w. G. MATHEWS,
Justice of the Peace, Shenandoah, Iowa.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21
:
VERMONT.
Brattleboro has more rum than she
wants Cor tln LaaliL oE Lar oitiznnn

| Brattlebor0 has more rum than she
wants for the health of her citizens.
Over at Manchester hay is selling
at auction for $40 ton, potatoes, "a
cents bushel.
Orson Butler, the Plymouth fat boy,
was weighed Nov. Z, the day he was
~ years old. He weighed 245 lbs.
A large grain elevator, the only one
in northeastern Vermont, is being
built at Newport.
Widow Marina Wright of Addison
is in her one hundredth year.
Friday night, while switching cars
at Barre, Israel Lacroix caught his
foot in frog, was unable to withdraw
it, and the engine backed on to him,
but did not break any bones. This is
the second accident he has met with
within week. He ought to have
those feet shaved down.
f. M. Irish of the Union house has
purchased the Bishop hotel, at Mont
pelier, Of Hiram Fales for $1,000.
The Catholic fair at Bellows Falls
netted $500; one at Ludlow $50;
one at Burlington $4,000.
There were 10 deaths in Burlington
last month, of which eight were of
people over 70 years of age.
A middle aged Wolcott man has
made SO trips to the Western states
thus far and is going again soon. He
will be taken tor tramp out there if he
goes many times more.
Frank Bishop of West Burke has
this season shot 250 cartridges. One
day he shot twelve and another day
thirteen without the help of a dog.
The telephone line between Burling-
ton and Montpelier will be completed
shortly.
A newspaper is soon to be started at
South Londonderry. The poor man,
whoever he is, has our sympathy in his
hour of trouble.
Nathan Wood, formerly of Chester,
hos arrived almost to his 93d year, and
has paid out less than S25 for doctors
services for himself in that time.
The widely known bark firm of j.
Daigneau & Co., of Sherbrook, Que,
has failed with liabilities estimate at
100000. The failure was caused by
the great break in bark from So to IS
cord.
A 100 years old carriage, in which
President Monroe once rode, went for
1925 at a Vergenncs auction the other
day.
Ludlow women certainly take the
pie. They recently had 81 varieties
of that indigestible compound at a
including an "onion pie"
The Free Press says that water
spout was seen on Lake Champlain a
day or two ago. The spout was 100
feet high and twenty feet wide at the
top. A "nipper' of that Burlington
whiskey will enable man to see al
most anything.
The doctors who attended Mrs.
Clapp, who died at Middlebury hotel
under suspicious circumstances, say
she died of acute peritonitis, but as the
man in whose family she had been
working has fled the country, this
diagnosis helps on rather than quiets
the local scandal. The papers are
after the states attorney because he
doesn't start an investigation.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21
NJ MARRIAGES..

= In Woodstock, Nov. 10, by Rev. Moses
Kidder, Clark V. Wood, of Woodstock, and
Nellie Z. fall, of No. STAFFORD, N. II.
In Norwich, Nov. I, George B. Deering of
Bethel, and Mary ID. Cloud Of Norwich.
In Springfield, Nov. 4, att the residence of
the brides mother, Mrs. Van Orman, by Rev.
+. S. Rice, Foster c. Bates of Chester, and
Luella Whitcomb, Of
In North Charlestown, N. H., Nov. 8, at
the residence of j.. II. Locke, Esq, by Rev.
W. b. II. Smith, Kate ii. Locke and George
j. Ainsworth, of Claremont.
In Rochester, Nov. I, by Rev. II. Osgood,
DR.. 5. II. Sparhawk Of st. Johnshury, and
Kate II. Taggart of Rochester.
Iu Woodstock, Nov. !, by Rev. A. II. Webb,
Nelson A. Gibbs and frankie S. Wells, both
of Mt. Holly.
In Woodstock, Nov. 10, by Rev. A. II.
Webb, Edgar j. Allen Of RoyaIton, and Alice
Barrows Of Bridgewater
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21
The Governor Question.

Mr.. EDITOR Gov. Farnham was
a nice clever man and was kept neat and
pretty. The Landmark is nice and
clever and has attempted to start
neat little boom for q very nice man
that is fortunate enough to live neal
it. Gov. Barstow is not so pretty as
some others, but he is an excellent
Governor, and it really would be d
pity to fill his place with Il pretty man
for the reason that such men are apt to
rattle, and not appear well when they
step into the shoes of solid men. Now
the boom is just too nice for anything,
but in starting it why does The Land
mark claim to be Independent and tell
SO many abusive lies? If it really
wanted to be independent it might start
a boom for a good Democrat--there
are lots ofgood ones to choose FROM
1t might start a boom for some In
dependent man, in fact, it might if il
wished, be truly independent. 1t
certainly had better stick to the truth,
and it would not hurt it to correct such
statements as that the G.. A. r. is a
tool of the Central VT. r. R., or that
it is largely composed of nine months
men. Some of the strongest opponents
of the G. V. r. R., are members OF
the G. A. r., but as long as not one
word Of politics is allowed to be spoken
in its Posts, it cannot be in any way
the tool Of any party, and the state
ment that it is political organization is
simply ridiculous. A majority of its
members saw very nearly as many days
service as did Col. Pingree, and some
saw more service than did he. Those
who served in the older regiments, who
were true soldiers, aud are now true
men, will not, and do not in any way
slur the men who served in STANDARDS
brigade, many of whom are the peers
of Col. Pingree and to whom the Col
onel owes statement that he is not
responsible for the abuse given them.
When Pingree was nominated last
year, gum-chewer got up aud made
the statement that the G. A. II. ring
was pushing him into nomination, and
now it is stated that the G.. A. r. will
work against him. Neither statement
is true, but it is true, that many who
served in the nine months regiments
did vote for him, and no soldier will
attempt to decry his service in the
army, but they will not vote for man
who is guilty of allowing the managers
of his boom to continue to abuse any
of his old comrades. / am compelled
to stop right here, but will say that |
am a member of the G. A. r., but
that l was not nine months soldier,
and that / shall want to say more at
some future day if there are more false
statements to answer. JONES.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-11-21

The violent deuuncations of Catho.
licism from the Protestant pulpit ant
press, and the bitter attacks upon Pro.
testantism by the Catholic pulpit and
press, more violent and bitter at this
time because of the celebration of the
4O0th anniversary of the birth of Mar.
tin Luther-shocks the average sinner