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Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-01-10

Kirk Gum, a Bell county
farmer, lost his residence on Big
Elm by fire last week. A number
of his neighbors and the merchants
OF Femple made up a handsome
purse as a New Years present.
The people of Texas are probverb-
ial for their generosity and a
worthy man who meets with mis-
fortune is not allowed to suffer.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-01-10

Under the bill granting pensions
to Texas veterans there exists a
deficiency of about sixty-three
thousand three hundred and seven
five dollars.
There is also a deficiency in the
appropriation for contingent ex-
penses and to pay officers and en-
ployees of the regular session of
the Eighteenth Legislature of
seven hundred and sixty-three dol
lars.
1 recommend appropriations to
meet these deficiencies.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-01-10

to secure relief except it be immi'
nent and pressing danger to US, oil
those dependent upon us, that will
not admit of delay.
Ifapahlic highway was enclos,
ed, any citizen could move the OBJ
struction; and, in such case, he
need not seek cover of night to do
it. If on tomorrow morning we
&C to the Avenue of this city and
find a long line of fence crossing
it, any one Is justified In tearing II
down to the extreme edges of the
street; but when he goes one foot
beyond the highway, he himself
becomes trespasser and may be
punished for the act.
If it was against good policy to
allow an individual, or a number
of individuals, to enclose large
bodies of land in one enclosure, ii
was the act of the peoples repre-
sentatives.
The doctrine that land and wa
ter are free, and individuals can
not acquire separate and exclu-
sive right thereto, cannot prevail
here until society is disrupted.
Constitutions and laws must per
ish, and the whole structure at
our civil government ruthlessly
swept away, and in its stead, chaos
will rule and ruin become univer-
sal.
You, gentlemen of the two
houses, come fresh from the peo-
pie, some Of you from the very
midst of the disturbances here dis
cussed, and must be hotter pro-
pared to deal with the subject than
I can possibly be, but make the
following suggestions and recon-
mendations:
| recommend the absolute repeal
of the law permitting persons TO
enclose school or public lands of
any sort.
[ recommend the enactment of a
law making it highly penal for
any ono to enclose any public
land without 4 contract with the
State, by which he may lawfully
do so.
RECOMMEND law making it
highly penal offense for any per-
son to knowingly enclose or sur
round the residence or land of an
other, without express authority
of such person or owner.
l recommend a liberal system of
highways, wherever the public
good demands it, requiring full
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-01-10
JUDICIAL DISTRICTS.

1t will be found upon examine
ton that the judicial district bill
passed at the regular session of
the Eighteenth Legislature, which
takes elect, 1884, needs
some corrections and amendments
to cure certain defects, which have
from time to time been pointed
out by members of your own bod
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-07-16
The Question of Interest on Money.

One of the singular occurrences of re-
cent date in this country is the sudden
and great decrease of the rate of interest.
1t is undoubtedly owing to the vast accu-
mutation of money in few hands, as
consequence of financial legislation which
has been regarded as highly pernicious
and injurious to the great body of the
people. We are fully persuaded that such
legislation was and is pernicious yet
in this one respect that portion of the
working class which has some capital and
is not hopelessly in debt has been some
what benefited. How does it happen?
In the first place the fact that loanable
funds have thus been concentrated in few
hands in large amounts, accounts for some
competition in the matter of investments.
But this is not the chief cause (even if it
is any cause at ally of the present low
rate of interest. A much greater cause is
the fact that the sudden concentration of
capital caused the utter financial ruin of
nearly all small property-holders who
were much in debt. These men were to-
gether owing tremendous sums secured by
mortgage, upon which they paid interest,
made large by desperate competition
among 30 many needy borrowers. These
debts were paid by the surrender of the
property, and the market for loans was to
that great extent contracted and destroyed.
In place of thousands of small merchants,
manufacturers, farmers and workmen,
seeking loans, there was at once body of
large capitalists with the houses, shops,
goods and farms on their hands for sale
or rent, while the former owners had sunk
from small though embarrassed capitalists
to the position of hirelings.
But there was yet third cause, greater
than all. The vast concentration of
capital, and the destruction of 80 many
small mercantile, manufacturing and me-
chanical businesses, opened the way for
great corporations and wealthy individ.
uals to concentrate all such industries
immensely, the ruined small capitalists
standing ready to serve as clerks, fore
men and workmen to the men who had
taken their property for debt. These
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-07-16
in the possession of "iron clad" fruit
trees Of all these species.

in the possession of "iron clad" fruit
trees Of all these species.
Mr.. Jameson is also slightly in error in
saying that we recommend only a
short list because there are but few
hardy kinds. Experienced orchardists in
southern New England and New York do
the same. There are at least one hundred
and fifty kinds now known that are per-
fectly "iron Clad" but the short lists are
given because they are the best, just as
Baldwin, Rhode Island Greening and
Roxbury Russell are the standard kinds
and almost exclusively planted where
there are hundreds of other sorts that
succeed, but are not 80 profitable. We
are still little short in winter kinds, but
we shall soon be able to select them from
the Russian sorts now on trial, and from
many new American seedlings, grown in
the colder parts of the country.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-07-16
South Carolina Rock.

The Homestead, which kindly informed
us, little while ago, that we were not
reliably informed either as to the price or
the chemistry of fertilizers" because we
advised the trial of finely ground South
Carolina phosphate rock as cheap fertil-
izer, now prints, in its issue of July 5, a
letter from j. b. Lawes of Rothamsted,
England, under date of June Is, 1884, in
which he says, If l farmed in your
Eastern States should be disposed to use
finely ground South Carolina phosphate
rock" Similar advice has also been
given by Professor johnson, the leading
American agricultural chemist. We con-
fess that we don't feel so very badly at
being told that we are ignorant on a SUBJ
ject when we find our ignorance shared
by two of the greatest agricultural chem
lists in the world. Lawes also advises
Gas we have often done) the use of an acid
phosphate for turnips, to push them for
ward quickly, out of the reach of the fly.
We hope that the question of the relative
value and cost of the different forms of
phosphoric acid will be soon subjected to
series of careful and thorough tests, on
sufficiently large scale to set the matter
at rest. No more useful work could be
done on an agricultural college or expert
ment station farm than this would be.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-07-16
Grass and POmOlOgy,

Mr.. Editor Il read the agricultural
page of THE WATCHMAN with much in
terest. There are two things l would like
to call your attention to. In the discus
sion now going on in regard to haying,
think If some clear definition could be
given to the terms early" and "lste !" the
reader would be more benefited. Some
writers use the terms in relation to time
only; others call grass cut before BIOS
soming early and that cut when the seeds
are in the milk late; while others yet call
grass when the seeds are in the milk early
and when ripe late. Farmers generally
are in the same trouble, and they misun-
derstand the arguments on account of the
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-07-16

In eight states (Arkansas, California,
South Carolina, Illinois, Ohio, New York,
Wisconsin and VermonD where the agri-
cultural colleges are chained to literary
colleges, the industrial students (both
agricultural and mechanically number in all
255-agricultural 101; mechanical, la.
In five states where the industrial colleges
are independent Colorado, Massachusetts,
Mississippi, Michigan and Kausas) there
are 9S6 agricultural and 127 mechar-
ical Students Wisconsin Agricultural Re.
port, 1883.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-07-16
Hired Men.

A correspondent of the Homestead asks
"Why cannot hired men see that it is an
absolute loss to them in the end to be the
time-servers that they are ? Instead of
being an actual enemy to their employers
by neglecting their duties, Sinking re,
sponsibilities, sighting their work, idling
away time when out of employers sight,
and actually lying to cover up their fail
ures to carry out particular instructions,
would 1t not pay hired men in the end,
no matter whom they were working for,
to at least try to earn their wages Does
it pay hired man to drink three barrels
OF cider put away for vinegar and fill the
barrels up with water? To dry off COWS
three months before time to avoid milk
ing disagreeable ones To neglect to feed
and water stock at proper times and then
lie about it To leave lots of potatoes in
the ground because too lazy to dig them
properly p? And do hundreds of like tricks
to the actual loss and damage Of the en-
ployer 2"
1t seems to us that the reason why
hired men cannot see all this is for Just
about the same reason that scolding wife
or stingy husband, or a disobedient
son or daughter, or a drunkard, or an
opium eater, or sloven, or slut, or
liar, or cheat Of any kind, "cannot see "
that they are injuring themselves by their
conduct. AS matter of fact they do see
it. These things are done out of "pure
cussedness," far more than out of ig-
norance. AS for hired men, there are all
sorts. We have been hiring help on the
farm now for good many years, and we
can honestly say that, making allowance
as one human being always should for the
infrmities of another, we have been sur
prised at their average excellence. We
never had but one who would willfully do
any of the things named above, while we
have had others that would do more over
work and extra jobs than we wanted
them to do, Just on account of the inter-
est they took. This very week one of our
hands was sick for two days, and seemed
actually to be more sorry to let crop
suffer for the hoeing it needed than for
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-07-16
Central Vermont Railroad.
Eastern Standard Time.
Commencing July 7, 1884.

Trains Going South tUiU Leave Montpelier
as foltops!
x En- m MAIL, from 1t. Adams and Burlington
WV W h'' for Concord, Manchester, Nashua, Wor-
cester. Lowell, Fitchburg, Boston, SPRING
held New London and New York.
1926 S bars and Tf ~ O% NS5 qgS S9
and New York via Springfield and New
London. Pullman Drawing Room Car to
Boston via Lowell and New York via
Springfield
ZOO p. m. MIXED to ROnOury'
1925 S SIGMT S11 Ss from Montreal o.
Lowell, and all points In New England.
Sleeping Cars to Boston via Lowell.
Trains Gotyig North and Vest:
am q m NIGHT EXPRESS, from Boston and New
J'Uu o. ILL., York for Montreal, ogdensburg and the
West. Sleeping Car to Montreal
c On m ACCOMMODATIONS, to st. Albans.
q Az n, LOCAL EXPRESS, from White River
J'tJ o. H Junction for Burlington, st. Adams and
Richford.
Qb0 n m DAY EXPRESS, for Burlington, st. Al
O'JU " Ills bans Montreal, Ogdensburg and the West
Drawing Room Car to ST. Adams.
nm n m CHICAGO EXPRESS. Pullman Sleeping
I'uu " h' Car through TO Chicago without change.
Trains leave for Barre at 100 a. M, l0.45 a,
IN. and 4l3 p. IN.
Through tickets to Chicago and all points West for
sale at the principal stations.
j. W. HOBART, General Manager.
\. w. CUMMINGS, General Passenger Agent.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-07-16

his own suffering. Though the world is
not over-stocked with good men, or women
either, we believe that farmers who pay
good wages, pay in cash and pay promptly,
and treat their help in manly way, can
generally get good help and plenty of it.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-07-16

THE only fruitful ideas are those which
are obtained as tbs result of labor and
thought, just as the beneficial dollar is the
d lllar gained by work.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-07-16
eHerp Embellishments.
HEREDITARY
iSC.ROFUTA.

A RE you aware that in your blood the
~ faint of scrofula has prominent
place? This is true of every one. 1t is liza
BILE at any time, on the slightest provocation,
to develop itself in some insidious disease.
Consumption and many other diseases are
outgrowths of this mpurity of the blood.
HOODS SARsAPARILLA has wonderful
power over all scrofulous troubles, as the re-
markable testimonials we have received
Enthusiastically prove.
MEssRs c. l. HOOP s. Co.: Gentlemen
.. My youngest son has always been
troubled with Scrofulous Humor; sores in
his head dscharging from his ears, and a run
ming sore on the back of his ear for two
years; his eyeldS would tester and ulcerate,
discharging so that was obliged to wash
them open every morning, his eyelashes
nearly all coming out; he was exceedingly
dainty most OF the time eating but two slight
meals day. We We're unable to find any
thing that had the least effect upon him till
last spring. 1876, we gave him two bottles of
at once. The back Of his ear lealed
up without scar, and not a sore in his head
since. Sincerely yours,
Mrs. n. C. SANRoRN,
No. 10S Merrimack ST., Lowell, Mass.
1--WE do not as rule allow ourselves to
use our editorial columns to speak of any
remedy we advertise, but we feel warranted
in saying a word for Hoods Sarsaparlla.
SarSaparila has been known as a remedial
agent for centuries and Is recognized by all
schools of practice as a valuable blood puri-
fer. 1t is put up in forms of almost infinite
variety, but Messrs. Hood & Co., Uowell,
Mass.l who are thoroughly reliable pharma-
cists, have hit upon a remedy Of unusual
value. Certainly they have vouchers of
cures which we know to be most eXtraor-
binary. "-Eduors LOlCeH Weekly Journal
HOODS SARSAPARiZLA.
Sold by druggists Price 81; six for So
Prepared byC.L. HOOD q CO., Lowell, Mass.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-07-16
DETITION FOR DIVORCE.
WASHINGTON COUNTY, SEPTEMBER TERN, 1883
LnurI L GlLnkiI w .Sirunn L


Laura j. Guptii vs.. Simon J. GuptH
Whereas. Laura j. Guptl of Moretown, In the County
of Washington has filed In the Office % the clerk of said
Court her Petition for Divorce setting forth in
that at Stowe, in the County of Lamoe, 4th day
of August, 1858, she duly joined in marriage to
Simon j. Guptl by Wesley Dyke, minister Of the
Gospel that she has ever since on her part faithfully
observed her said marriage covenants but that the said
simon has not kept the SAM for that the said Simon
DE- for more than three consecutive years. had wifuly
deserted the petitioner and also for that the said Simon
J being of sufficient pecunary ability had refused and
neglected to provide suitable maintenance for said
toner and praying that decree of divorce be granted
her from the said Simon j. And whereas II is madeto
appear that the said Simon j. resides without this
State where the process of this Court cannot be served
upon him. ii therefore ordered that the said Simon
be notified and summoned to make his personal appear
ance before the honorable County Court next TO be
held at Montpelier within and for the County OF WASH
ingon on the second Tuesday Of September, A d. 1884
then and there to show cause any he have why the
prayer OF said petitioner be not granted by the publica
ton of the substance of said petition, together with this
order thereon three weeks excessively in Vermont
Watchman Il State Journal, newspaper published at
Montpelier the last of which publications TO be least
six weeks previous to said second Tuesday of Septem
ber A. d. 1884, which shall be deemed sufficient notice
to the said Simon j.
Given under my hand at Montpelier in said County of
Washington, this 9TH day of July, A; d. 1884.
ALLAND G. FAY, Deputy CLERK.
-. DEAvIrT, Attorney for Petitioner,
The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-10-18

kil4ed t~e sf tke sksse promisin9 young nsn md she pursst cArinGian uoman in the villAea rhsn is usns oas into the fossss where vas Fiding aloag, ssss=sd- ing to my own business. tipped ne oses and hsoke my lex. Evsrywkem t sought ous the young snd fair. IL spAred the old, the siEful and the tough, but spens its fury on the teedef, the good, the true and the beautiful Is it suFpusing that it jefked me galley weslg No. indeed. l am only surprised that am alive.
 had intended 10 say . woFd or t~o about ~has so do when you sec cycione coming. but this letter is siesdy loo long. Doe general rule may not be not ee out of place, however rus:-.be sue that IL is . cyclone Then take ycsr family and adjourn to the state peniten. tisfy. Those vho have spen, the major porsson of their lives in the penitentiAry ~,ll remember with pseasure the feslinI of security they experienced wA,le there may say truly that 1 have never fel, that same old security my self. since r. .ot why rake up old personalisiesl They sin all come to the surface when run tor president.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-10-18
= n ArArsaesv Tressiv.
 THE TWO.
sY FLOW.

!, ~.s the place where the lilies grow, |, wzs a time of sunsets glow; |when be and she together sat. By the ripping brock, CT grassy plat They talked Of the future, she and he;
 Of the day when welded they would be, And the,r joyous hearts, devoid of fears,
 Could see 10 griefs in the coming -ars. rss s....e % them vas bright and fair,
 They saw no clouds or burdens of care, No days of anguish no days of pam,
 No iow ring skies, or days of rain. Ali the same old place where the lilies grow, A, the same old time of sunset glow, An aged couple together stand,
 Al the rippiing brook of the meadow land. They are the same who years before,
 Had talked and though, their future o'er, Had dreamed their dreams so bright and fair,
 And built their castles of tainest air. As now they stand by the meadow brook,
 And, as over the past they cast look, Their hearts grow sad and their eyes are dim, Then they think of life and its burden of sin. The hopes of their youth long since have fed
 Their children, kinsmen and friends are
 dead,
 And here at sunset midst falling dew.
 We leave them alone, the aged two.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-10-18

suggested Mir. Hargrave, trembling 1ess me mayvr should croex him so remain.
 Bcs sAe cEkcial tcck m fuxsAex noeice of him, and therefore Mir. Hargrsve bade a silent farwen tc his surToundings and regretted that he dared not to retusn to gel the bible his amt had given h,m be- fore he had left Bosson. from his desk But be had scarcely eiosed the cfice door on the outside when there loomeo up a tall stranger of ferocious aspect, whom Mir. Hargrave recognized .. the gentle man who had conducted the raid on the faro bank.
 B1ong inside ?" inquired the stranger, easily.
 Yes, .ir,' faliered NIT. Hargrave. feel ing very much hke the gentleman men toned in the scriptures, who fled from . lon and was met by bear. Whom did you want to zee
 "The dashed blank what calls himself the editor" replied the stranger, savagely.
 " He's inside with his feet on the desk" said Mir. Hargrave, in a moment of inspiration.
 The stranger entered and Mir. Har- grave only waited to ses him clinch with the mayor, and to notice that ofhcial bite piece out of his ear and suffer the loss of two-thiTds of his bearf, and then he departed, sadly but not slowly.
 When be took up . newspaper in Des Moines, day or two later. he ieid that the ennre village of Steel Pate had been sacked by Indians, as was presumed, and burned to the ground
 MT. Hargrave informed his aunt tha, he felt tha, his first effort in the upbuiid- ing of mankind had not been an entire success
The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-10-18
THE CYCLONE.
lBii Nye, in Denver opinion.l

IBiii Nye, n Denver Opinion.
 Those who know me best will remem- beI that have never, openly or secretly, written or uttered sentiment that could in any way be warped into an adverse criticism os the cyclone. Whatever l may have learned or observed dsrogatory to the cyclone and its cruel and treAchsr- ous nature, have religiously kept to my sslt l have oven gone so far as to stand up for and champion the cause of the cyclone when its enemies sought to dam- age II in my hearing. When others spoke in harsh and severe terms Of the vandal, murderous work of the cyclone, | said, "Ah, yes, gentlemen, but do n.i overlook the great work of purifcation that is done by it in its mad eyrasions- Think hos necessary are these aimos- phsric ID leAyAls to E,d us of supef6uous electricity and purify the stsgnant air"
 did this until 1 suffered personally among men, and even the blue-nosed and sore-eyed hoodlum pointed at me as 1 passed and slid, There goes Bull Nye. the friend of the cyclone"
 And what is my re~srd for all this Like peaceful Cte, stealing up through the shelisring ambush to saw open the windpipe of dear friend, comes the ring g-tail peeler of the sky, scarcely nov ing the green leaves as he steals along the valley on his hind legi The air is like the atmosphere of death. No souad is heard except the dull thud of the woodman's ax as it baries itself in the heart of piEe tree that belongs to some one else. The sun has dropped behind dull gray cloud that IS faced with pale green. Still lover down the steel-grsy And purple clouds come boiling over th- -tops- The tsee-t0sd msxxs se- desuliory remarks, Kasy-did says good evening" and the premature twilight has come. Up from the southsess comes sul1en mu,ies. crash, roar, lake twessy oceans in joint caucus, the rush of fAiiing trees, the eT.sa es gisr: hall stopes, the thunder of falling vaserA, and like ,he deadly charge of heAyen's artillery 1t is over. That E cyciope- oue of the adcit variety when il is feel ing we'll When you sec one of that klnd sliding up into the sky. do not try to twist its tau as ii goes y. k takes stsosg, quick man so reach ou, over the dAsh-boaTd and twist the tail of a cycIone. He must be strong in ihe wrists, cool-hesded, and sooa in move meofs.
 Tke cycloee which visited northern Wisconsin on the 9:h instant vAs about . mile and . half side, and lessed shrough period of time, would say. such e would be measured io psooounc- isE the vosd .Sczs!' in n os1ieasy tune of voice. If blew down thsee chasrhes, spar.aE sil shs sAIeoas, jesIhed the schoo1 bsiil6nGy csoeked, lDecbsd she poss-o6ce 6l1y ed dsaslishsd . dsses s.ssss and Pi.oes ef bssisss& It
The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-10-18
How Ben Bolts Food.

inferries .ifh Waiter in Chicago Herald.
 Have you ever spread meal before Ben RutleY 7"
 Twice, and never want to again He is worse than Tartar to wzii upon 1 don't think anything vas ever cooked to suit him. fin vas he never scknowl- edged t. The hrss time l served meal to him vas ., break3As,. asd he sept his ssezk back to the kischen three times and then Ryosied while he sas easisg t. He takes plenty o( tiae to digest bis food well, and vish the time Be devoses to abusing the vaises he generally remains in the 0ining-soom n hour. AlthOugh he is such . gyumh,ss think he rslishas evesyshise. jsdgisg tom ths vsy he smscis ks lips. Doss he lihe pie ? Well, hs sis foas pieces and iooked as f he voalA Aave 6ked more the dsy sesved him. dcat thisk he belseves b tbe fse sysss.. e sever heard q his hsvisG epconraeD6 it.s