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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-07-18

There are plenty Of grasshoppurs in most
of the towns of this part of the state, and in
some places they are more numerous than
they have been known to be in any previous
season. Misfortunes, It is said, never come
singly as if to make the saying good, and
after the damaging effect on the grass crop of
the frost aud dry weather, millions of grass
hoppers appear to feed on what remains In
some of the towns Of New Hampshire they
are much more destructive than in any part
of Vermont. A Franklin, N. H., writer re-
ports 475 bushels of grasshoppers caught by
machinery on few farms in that town. For
tunately the life of the grasshopper is short.
Where there Are no young hoppers to take the
place of the old ones, there will be no trouble
with them after about three weeks, for they
live only about that time after reaching their
full size
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-07-18

The hay product of Windham county is
given in the census report at nearly So, 600
tons. The number of animals consuming
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-07-18

Although the potato bugs are fully as plon-
ty here as they have been in any other sea
sou, there is still some hope that they may
not always abide with US. They are disap-
poaring in the west along the track Of their
advance eastward The Ohio experiment sta
tion addressed inquiries last year, and receiv-
ed replies from 1852 points in the state, in ref
erence to the prevalence of noxious insects,
and 3Ol reported the Colorado potato beetle
to be diminishing and only three reported an
increase The director of the station says
1.-THE Colorado potato beetle is rapidly disap-
pearing from the state, and those that remain
do but slight damage to the potato crop. At
the present rate of decrease it will be but a
few years until they entirely disappear
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-07-18

ENOR SALE-A Story-and-a-half House on
II Washington Street, which will make somebody a
pretty home, ~ CUDWORTH a CHILDS
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-07-18

FINO LET-A tenement on the corner of So.
IL Main and Pine streets, Of 1--WE rooms. Apply to
Dr. Blakeslee, on the premises. 20
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-07-18
COLD and SILVER,

TO anyone sending us their full address, We will
send TO them prepaid, Electric Battery with full
Instructions for either Gold Silver platingfor Two
Dollars or both to address for Three Dollars aud
will guarantee them to do good work. We make this
LIBERAL DEFER for 90 days, to introduce our goods
Address, ELECTRIC MFG CO.,
ll-29 HARRISBURG Pa.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-07-18
WARREN LELAND,
Largest Hotel Enterprises

Of America, says that whllO passenger from
Now York on board ship going around c,ra
Horn, in tho carly days Of emigration 10 cai
ifornia, ho learned that ono Of tho officer. !,
tho vessel had cured himself, during tho Wv.
age, Of an obstinate disease by the use Of
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-07-18

Young.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-19

4 STORY or A oR1A1 AOrKH4

met n day last week, says . news
paper correspondent, an old lady who
told me this story OF Ristori, of whom
she spoke in terms OF most devoted
friendship. The story has never, she
told me. been printed before:
Madame Ristori wa playing In the
city of Madrid, in the Royal Theatre.
She had carried the audience away in
the act by her great power, the curtain
had fallen on b first act, and unusually
long applause occurred. No one could
understand her absence. The time
came and passed when she should have
resumed play. What was the meaning
of her absence? As she was passing
from the stage, in the wings stood q poor
woman, who caught her garment.
Madame" she said, ''do you hear
that bell now tolling?"
"Yes,"
"That bell tolls for the death of my
husband; he will die at sunrise to-mor-
row Won't you" implored the woman,
plead for me? The queen sits in the
box yonder."
The great tragedy queen went to the
royal box and begged for the life Of that
man-a man that she had no particular
interest in, but simply because he was
going to die. Madame Ristori pleaded
so well with the queen that with q PEN
Gil she wrote his reprieve, and he was
saved. Meantime the truth had crept
out among the audience, and when the
curtain rose again the whole audience
sprang to their feet.
Tears ran like rain. Hats and hand
kerchiefs were waved, shout after shout
went up from the multitude-not for the
tragic queen, but for the woman in
fnitely greater-the woman that pleaded
for q life and not in vain.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-19

An old sailor i called "a whale" A
drunken man is referred to as being
''three sheets in the wind" no doubt
because he staggers like . ship in a
storm under shortened sail As to the
use Of profanity, sailors are peculiar.
They do most OF their cursing in heavy
weather, when sails are being furled and
when the wind@s bowling through the
rigging with terrific force. Take him in
lair weather, however, and he is q mild
sort of q person, seldom veal and
cheerily braces the yards around to the
tune OF Eye no, heave q no, for to Hong
Kong we will CO."
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-19
Amendment OF the Land Laws.

Accompanying the bill reported to Mr3
Cobb, from the q. s. House Committee on
Public Lands, providing for the repeal
of the pre-emption and timber culture
laws and amendment of the Homestead
law q report has been submitted.
The committee says:-We believe it
should be the policy of the government
to give to those of our citizens who are
without homes such an amount of the
public domains as will make them COM
Portable homesteads, where they enter
upon it in good faith intending to make
it their homes and cultivate and live up
on the same for a fixed period of time,
and we believe that 16O acres should be
the maximum.
Under the presumption, homestead
and timber culture laws, as they now
stand, one person may become the own
er of 4sO acres of the public domain
100 acres under each. This is too large
an amount of land, in our opinion, for
any one person to acquire in this man.
ner. We think that the policy of the
government should be to furnish as
many of it's citizens with comfortable
homes as long in the future as possible,
and 100 acres is sufficient for this pur-
pose. By giving them this amount it
will not be many years until all our pub
lie domain will be taken up.
The Presumption law was passed in
1841, the Homestead law in 1862 and the
Timber Culture act In 1873. When the
Homestead law was enacted the Pre-.
emption law should have been repealed.
The Timber Culture law should never
have been passed. We have, therefore
in the substitute provided for the repeal
of the Presumption and Timber Culture
acts and the amendment of the Home
stead law.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-19
Bring on Your Goat!

Mi. Jones has been thinking of form
ing a lodge and becoming Free Mason,
o he will be able to tell a straight story
to Maria when he comes home late at
night all tangled up in his mind. So
when he met the Grand Panjandrum the
other day on the corner of Henry and
Clifford streets he began to talk bust
ness.
"I'm coming down some night" he
said winking n eyelid rapidly. "to get
Insulated"
3d." said his friend. winking back.
"We'n rattle you through the degree in
no time. Goat while you're young, Jones,
Dye hear, old man ?"
At hat moment a wicked white goat
hat lodges at McCarthy's stables, and
day-boards around on vacant lots, rushed
out of the corner yard, knocking Jones
into the middle Of the street, and seating
the Grand Panjandrum outside of the
sidewalk.
"Look here" said Jones, getting up
slowly out of the dust, II call this taking
a mean advantage of a a I wasn't
ready to be Insulated, and I don't like
that way of doing things! However, l
amt going to be scared off II anything
! happens to me tell Maria T died game.
Now bring on your goat" and Jones
rolled nm hia sleeves and staadied himsoIi
for a square tight.-Dctroit Free Press
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-19
Sewfns-yraeh ipe Irdustry.

These remarkable Items pour into our of1ce
daily. Mr.. H. S. Flu Ter. with the new Homo
Machine company. Of Orange. Mass, writes,
May 23, 1883: 81 have used Hunts Remedy
in my family for over ten years. Ny wife
was roubled with satarrh Of the bladder,
sssffered intense pain in the kidneysapd loins,
and urination was accomplt he'd with the
greatest of agony. Ny friends thought that
she could not recover. We tried doctors and
nleiicines, and although better at times she
would grow worse again. She was obliged
to use the ur.nal as many as fifteen times in
a night, and was growing worse daily: At
this time my attention was called to hunts
Remedy, and ! c. included to try it: and after
using one bottle SHE was a good deal better.
the inflammation wa reduced, and the water
more natural. She began TO gain in apo
tlte, and felt no pain in the back and k1dneyA
She could attend to her household work with
out pain, and this hal been a great burden
70 do, even the Eighties: kind of work. After
using six bottles he was completely cured.
Since then ] have had occasion 20 use Hunt!
Remedy for kidney and liver complaints, and
found 1t TO De jus. as represented. and con.
sider it . most wonderful Medicine lwould
not be without Hunts Remedy in my family
and l have recommended it TO my friend,
here In Orange with equally good renltA"
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-19
A Glass of Beer.

Mamma" said Bessie Ashton,
'didn't you say that a glass of beer
n,ade a person feel good; and that it
was healthy and harmless }"
"Why, yes Bessie, I think I did,"
answered Mrs. Ashton, slowly. some
what puzzled at Bessie's question.
"Mrs. Thompson don't think so,
mamma The poor woman just cries
nearly alfthe time"
"Cries ?" Intercepted Mrs. Ashton,
in surprise, for she believed her neigh
Dor to be ono of the happiest of women.
eyes, mamma, cries all the time" re-
peated Bessie, with emphasis. "Mr.
Thompson's cheeks looked pulled away
out, and his face is always 80 red. She
says he is cross and scolds continually.
But he didn't used to be that way. He
only drank n glass of beer then; now
he an drink six add eight, and he gets
mad ut everything. 1t don't to
make hin feel good or look healthy"
Mrs. Ashton's ~countenance assumed o
serious change. She felt keenly the
force of the rebuke, but answered:
"Mr. Thompson should not give way
to his appetite for drink. I'm sure one
glass can do no harm"
"That's just what he thought" ,spoke
ap Bessie. "But Mrs. Thompson a y
It had him down on his back before be
vas aware of it."
"Well, I don't know" answered he,
mother, abstractedly. 81 drink q glass
occasionally; It don't seem to affect me. >
cit don't puff your cheeks out, nam
ma; but it makes your face awfully red
sometimes, and you can drink more thar
Won used to-"
Mrs. Ashton stopped to think. She
,o,,ld drink more han she used to. Bes.
sic had told the truth.
When supper time came, instead O
beer, a glass OF fresh, sweet milk stoot
near her own and her husbands plate
Mr.. Ashton opened wide his eyes whe1
he sa. down TO eat, and as his wife I'm
ished relating the conversation between
herself and Bessie, he caught the chill.
in her arms and kissed hez aEectionately
remarking: NO: another drop Of bee
shall eve enter my home !"
And he kept his word.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-19

A TOLEDO doctor takes strong grounds
on the Transmission of disease by kiss.
ing, forbidding callers to kiss any of his
children. Wait until your daughters
grow up, Doctor, and then see how your
cautions will operate.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-19

SpEAKSa OF salaries on the New York
papers, the Journalist says = The
average reporter does no. make twenty
five dollars q week. There are q few
men who Gay average from forty to fifty
dollars, bat they are exceptions. A day
OF sickuess, or ever a sererc cold con.
tractei froca exposure while on dniy,
may easily cut down the twenty dollar,
to ten or twelve,
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-19

Some think that determination con-
s.s:~ IN dwelling Oh the question, "Am l
= C~hristianT' That question ought to
l'e decided once for all. To keep it open
Is to tribe with Gods promises.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-19
AafiafacfoYx Evidence.

J. ". Graham, wholesale druggist, OF
Austin, Tex, writes: / have been handling
DR.. VIM. Halls Balsam for the Lungs for the
past year, and have found it one OF the most
salable medicines / have ever had In my
house for coughs, colds, and even consump-
ton, always giving entire Satisfaction
Please SEND me another gross.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-19
all an Accident

"To show you how accidents may oc-
cur" says the editor of London Truth,
II will tell you a case in my own expe-
rience. One of the best known men on
the press sent me q paragraph, its basis
was political, sbut it contained q re1ec-
ton on an Individual. l passed my pen
through the reflection. The printer,
however, imagined that1 meant to un-
derline it, and printed it In italics. The
individual brought an action. I, of
course, accepted the responsibility. and
did not state in my pleadings what had
really occurred, for I thought that peo-
pie would say that I was trying to get
out on a subterfuge. Well, we each
spent about E30O, when I came to the
conclusion that my best plan was to
agree to pay the plaintiffs costs. A
mistake, therefore, which certainly was
no fault of mine, cost me E60O."
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-19

Green Apples,
Eaten in the spring time, or any othe. season,
is liable to give one a bowel trouble, which can
be speedily checked by the use Of DR.. Biggers'
Southern Remedy, the great specific that will
certainly cure cramp collie, diarrhua, dysentery,
and restore the little one gradually wasting
away from the effects Of teething. This, with a
bottle Of Taylor's Cherokee Remedy of Sweet
Gum and Mullen combining the stimulating
expectorant principle of the sweet gum with the
demulcent healing one Of the mullen, for the
cure of Group, whooping cough, colds and con-
sumption, presents a little MEDICINE CHEST no
household should be without for the speedy re-
lief Of sudden and dangerous attacks of tho
lungs and bowels. Ask your druggist for them.
Taylor's Premium Cologne, Atlanta, Ga
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-19

THEY tell Of an editor In Florida who
xas q genius in his way way that per.
haps would not end itself to stock
holders anxious for semi-annuA divi.
dends- On being told one day by the
harassed proprietor that his leader uas
too long, and that to publish it would
~necessitate the leaving out OF nearly all
the advertisements, he exclaimed with 8
majestic wave OF the hand: Then leave
them out I am writing for p~oetenty."
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-19

No effort has ever been made to advertise
Lydia z. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound out
side our own America; yet frequent calls from
other parts of the world show that good news
will spread, Packages of this medicine have
been sent from Lynn, Mass, to China.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-19

SourH CAROLINA has 1865 -four, grfst and
rice mills. employing 4,S7g whites and blacks,
requiring q capital Of g, 1885, $50 and turning
out annually 45,2Ss, 600 worth OF douSe fssd,
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-19

THERE are now thirty-n1ne circuses uav-
cling through the United States, and a large
number Of them have the only sacred white
elephant.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-19

THIRTY States and territories AVE moro
territories have more women than men.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-19

ANEW journal, printed on blood-red
paper, and calling itself the Hydra Of
anarchy, has been started in Paris.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-19

The increasing sales of Piso's Cure attests 1T
claims - the best cough remedy.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-19
Stories OF the Cyclone.

Remarkable stories are told of the last
cyclone in Georgia. In Chipley, when
Mrs. Lanford was found the morning
after the cyclone, she was lying amid the
wreck of her home, her infant child
clasped in her arms with an embrace so
strong that the strength of four men was
required to release the child from her
grasp. Though the home of DR.. Thorn.
ton was scattered like chaf before the
wind, his wife and babe, that was less
than two weeks old, were blown some
distance. and yet were left upon the
feather bed without the slightest injury.
Mr.. Irwin was quite sick in bed on the
night of the storm, but when the crash
came and his children were buried be-
meath the timbers, he rushed amid the
ruins and with s%uperhuman strength lifted
large timbers from upon them. 1t took
four men to handle some timbers after.
ward that he had lifted alone. Mr.. Lee
Afford was standing against the door,
his children clinging to him for protec-
ton, when the winds sliced him and
hurled him more than q hundred wards.
AFTER H RABBITS About one hun.
dred stoats and veasels, which had beer
caught with considerable difficulty ii
different parts Of Lincolnshire by a yer
min catcher, have just been sent to New
Zealand. They have been purchased
by the Government Of tha at country fol
the purpose of destroying the rabbit
which overrun the colony. One thousani
five hundred live pigeons have beer
shipped for the consumption Of the ami
mails during the voyage.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-19

JOHN I. SULLIVAN, puSilist, has cleared
e175, 900 in tho last eight months
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-19

FISHERMEN say tnat this Is a great rlsh year.
All kinds Of fish are uncommonly early In
an appearance, and they are bis in size and
very abundant.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-19

OVER 10000 Polish Jews, who fled from
Russia because of persecution, are living In
London.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-19

THE worlds tin production last year reached
45. 10 tons, one-third of which was consumed
in the United StateA
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-19
Thousands Unon The

Thousands Upon Thousands.
The proprietors of the world-renowped Gar
boline-the natural Hair Restorer-never put
up less than 600 gallons at q time. This
gives but an idea Of its Immense demand.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-19

..Rough on DentIst' Tooth Powder
Smooth, refreshing, harmless, elegant, cleans
ing, preventative and fragrant. 15c. Druggists.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-19
lGnflarA.

II you are falling; broken, worn out and ner'
vous, use ''Well's Health Remover" 81. Drgss.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-19
Thin PeoDl,

Tain People
s'WelIs Health Renewer" restores nealtn mo
vi2or, cures, dyspepsia, sexual deoiiity. 81
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-19
Special from Waltham, Mass,

Fifteen hundred watches are now
made daily at Waltham, and they are
better in quality and lower in price than
ever before.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-19

than there are Indians in the whole country.
Georgia's negro population is about 725,000.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-19

UTAH has now 1O,OcO small farms averaging
twenty-five acres, and the whole must be irri-
gated
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-19

AGENTS WANTEDee.Ts.o9. SELL ss1. nd aaHHn .ts..;
Oils. i. r. DIETER1CHS. Cleveland, Ohio.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-07-17
A Hole Half u Vile Deep But
Not a Drop Of Water.

Two years ago the Winchester Arms
company of New Haven, which uses IL
vast amount of water daily, set out to
save water bills by sinking an artesian
well on their premises, in the heart of
the city. A large framework was put
up, an engine erected, and the work of
putting six-inch hole down toward
the center of the earth was begun by
Contractor John Hogan, man of much
experience, who comes from the Penn
sylvania oil regions. In a month the
hole reached depth ut which Ordina-
rily plenty of water is found, but Mr..
HOgan's bore WAS as dry as powder.
He made fresh contract, and then
another and another, and kept ON
working toward the center of the earth.
Still no water was reached. AT length
sandstone was struck, and this made
progress more than ever slow.
The concern has spent SlS,JlW on
the well, and now finds itself with Il
hole within "A few feet of half mile
deep OH its hands with no water in it..
To make matters still worse, it is
found that a chunk of iron has fallen to
the bottom of the shaft, Thus effectually
crippling the work of the drill. 1t will
take three months to bore through it,
and Mr.. Hogan has gone to Pennsylva-
mia for "A machine with which he hopes
to be able to fish the obstruction out.
If it fails, the well will probably be
given uD
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-07-17
He Failed TO Get u Pension.

AT club dinner in New York re-
Gently an examining surgeon related
the following incident, showing how
the arrears act developed pensioners
out of sound and undeserving men.
During the war he was surgeon of an
infantry regiment. When the regi-
ment first went into battle he observed,
sitting behind big tree, at a safe dis
tance from the fightingline, the cap
tain of one of the companies. "What
are you doing here, captain ?" asked
the doctor. ''rm not feeling WELL" re-
piled the officer, in n doleful voice
The surgeon was too busy looking
after the wounded to stop and inquire
as to his complaint. A few weeks
liItcI the regiment again GUt under fire,
and the surgeon found the same cap
tain skulking behind barn. "Hello
sick again p he exclaimed. "Well, the
fact is, doctor, Pm not exactly sick, |
may as well own up that Pm a coward.
There's no help for it. 1t must be con
stitutiOnal. Now, doctor, what's the
use of my staying in the army? Wont
you help me get a discharge ?" The
surgeon thought he was doing the
country a service when, few days af-
terward, he recommended that the man
be discharged on the ground of gener-
al disability. He heard nothing more
of the captain until Is years later,
when he received Il letter from the
pension office informing him that Capt
Blank had applied for pension from
the date of his muster-out, and that
he, as surgeon of the regiment, had
certified to the disability, would hc
kindly inform the government as to
the nature of the disease from which
the officer suffered ? The surgeon re-
piled that the captains complaint was
chronic and incurable cOwardice, not
contracted in the line of his duty, but
constitutional. The captains name
did not 90 upon the roll, and his plan
for getting some $1,000 for arrears and
$50 IA month for the rest of his life
came to grief. How many schemes NJ
less dishonest have succeeded through
the cOmplaisance of examining sur
geOns, less honest than the narrator OF
this incident, could only be ascertain
ed by thorough Overhauling of the
whole pension list and Il re-eXamina
tiOn of the entire army of pensioners
II +. V. Smalley in July Century.