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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-08-06

Shooting HoRsEs.-Mr. Russell, the
secretary of the Massachusetts Board of
Agriculture, who is the American author
ity on this point, says of shoeing 1T is
not an essential thing in the moderate use
of horses. In warm climates nearly all
horses can perform usual work, except in
cities, without shoes. Farmers horses in
Massachusetts need only to be shod in icy
times. But shoeing is a great convenience
for horses used on pavements and for con-
tinuous draft. The original design of
shoeing was to prevent attrition at the
toe, and if that is kept in view, and horses
are lightly shod, the evils of shoeing will
be reduced to the minimum"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-08-06

ticultural Society. Parker Earle, Golden,
ILL.,, president. The managers tender
their assurance to exhibitors from every
state and nation that the exhibition will
be managed in the most liberal spirit,
with the earnest desire that shall afford
an unprecedented opportunity for the
study and comparison of wider range
of horticultural products than have been
hereto gathered together. Is there no
hope that Vermont may be represented
there, or do surviving war prejudices pre-
vent IL
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-08-06

ATLANTA, Georgia, is to have large
mill for the manufacture of peanut flour.
The kernels of the peanuts are ground
between ordinary mill stones, and the
flour is "bolted y or sifted through wire
sleeves, in order that all the shucks, and
coarse, sharp pieces may be removed.
The refuse-if it may 80 be called-makes
excellent food for pigs and is very fatten-
ing. There is one objection, however, to
peanut -four as steady diet. 1t is very
injurious to the teeth, causing them to
turn yellow and decay.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-08-06
Worthy of Mention.

The farmers are of enough conse-
quence in Maine to at least get mention
in the party platforms, as follows;
Resolved, That this convention instruct
its nominees for senators in the next legis-
lature to use their best efforts to secure
the establishment of an experimental
station; liberal appropriation therefor.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-08-06

THE London Mark Lane Express says
that, considering the wholesale appropria.
ton of American lands by British capital
lists which has been going on lately, it is
time something should be done to stop it /;
otherwise all the evils of the English
landlord and tenant system will soon be
rampant in America.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-08-06

WATER lilies can be grown in gardens.
Put them in large holeless seed pans
eighteen inches in diameter. These pans
are half filled with rich compost, then
filled with water, the bulbs being set in
the center. Water lilies may be easily
cultivated in this way, either in the green.
house or out of doors.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-08-06

THERE is no vulgarity so vulgar as that
by contact with people of no pretensions.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-08-06
HOODS sARsApARILLA
AYERS PILLS.

A large proportion of the diseases which
cause human suffering result from derange-
ment of the stomach, bowels, and liver.
AYERS CATHARTIc PILLS act directly upon
these organs, and are especially designed to
cure the diseases caused by their derange-
ment, including Constipation, Indiges-
ton, Dyspepsia, Headache, Dysentery,
and host of other ailments, for all of
which they are a safe, sure, prompt and
pleasant remedy. The extensive use of these
PILLS by eminent physicians in regular prac-
tice, shows Enthusiastically the estimation in
which they are held by the medical profess
sion.
These PILLS are compounded of vegetable
substances only, and are absolutely free from
calomel or any other injurious ingredient.
A Sufferer from Headache writes:
LAYERS PILLS are invaluable to me, and
are my constant companion. have been
severe sufferer from Headache, and your
PILLS are the only thing l could look to
for relief. One dose. will quickly move my
bowels and free my head from pain. They
are the most effective and the easiest physic
have ever found. 1t is a pleasure to me to
speak in their praise, and always do SO
w. l.. PAGE, of w. L. Page & Bro"
Franklin St., Richmond, Va, June 8, 1889.
az have used AYERS PILLS in number
less instances as recommended by you and
have never known them to fail to accomplish
the desired result We constantly keep them
on hand at our home, and prize them as a
pleasant, safe, and reliable family medicine.
FOR DYSPEPSIA they are invaluable.
j. T.sHAYEs."
Mexia, Texas, June II, 1882.
The REV. FRANCIS B. HARLowE, writing
from atlanta, Ga, says: "For some years
past / have been subject to constipation,
from which, in spite of the of medi-
cines of various kinds, suffered increasing
inconvenience, until some months ago |
began taking AYERS PILLS. They have
entirely corrected the costiye habit, and
have vastly improved my general health"
AYERS CATHARTIc PILLS correct irregu.
larities of the bowels, stimulate the appe-
lite and digestion, and by their prompt and
thorough action give tone and vigor to the
whole physical economy.
PREPARED BY
DR.. C.Ayer & Co.. Lowell, Mass.
Sold by all Druggists.
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TAX NOTICE.-The taxpayers of the town of
Il Washington, and non resident Taxpayers of said
town, hereby notified that rate-bil of town tax
of one hundred cents on dollar assessed the grand
list OF said town for the 1854 has been put into my
hands collection by the selectmen OF said town, as
provided by the General Statutes and the amendments
thereto; and that will receive OF all persons having
SO assessed in said rate-hl, within ninety days
from this date their said several taxes according to the
provisions the General Laws relating to the collection
of taxes by town treasurers.
II, A. WHITE, Tepn Treasurer
Washington Vt, July 29, 1854. 596l'
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PATIENTS!

r. H. EDDY,
No. 76 State ST., opposite Kilby, Boston.
Secures Patents in the United States; also in Great
Britain France and other foreign countries Copies Of
the claims of any Patent furnished by Iemtting
dollar. Assignments recorded At Washington. No
Agency in the United States possesses superior Jaei
ties for obtaining Patents or dscertainin0 the patent
X. II. EDDY Solicitor of Patents,
TESTIMONIALS.
Z" regard Mr.. Eddy AZ of the most capable and
successfM practitioners with whom have had official
intercourse.
"CHAs. MASON, Commissioner of Patents"
Inventors cannot employ person more trustworthy
capable of securing for them early and IA
vorabe consideration at the Patent Office.
EDMUND BURKE, late Commissioner of Patents"
"BosTos, October IL. 1870.
"R. II. Eddy, Esq: Dear Sir-You procured for
me- ls40 my first patent. Since then you have acted
for and advised in hundreds OF and procured
many patents reissues and extensions. / have occa-
sionay employed the best agencies in New York, PhA
delphia and Washington but still give you almost the
whole of my business in your line. and advise others to
employ you. Yours truly, GEORGE DRAPER"
Boston, January |, 1884. 1880
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Notice to Lumbermen !

WANTED-Timber and Lumber for the erection
of Ave or six threestory dwelling houses, to be dev-
cred at any time previous August 1885 For particu
lars, apply ut the Office Of the VERMONT wArcHMAS.
July Ia, 1884. 57-tf
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THE PATENT LAWS.
ARiIlInarodncsd in tns senate,

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.-Tne Platt patent bilT
provides that no patent shall hereafter be de-
clared invalid, nor shall any inventor be de-
barred from obtaining patent on an inyen-
ton in the United States by reason of its hay-
ing been first patented abroad, unless the same
has been introduced into public use in the
United States for more than two years prior to
the application; but every patent hereafter
granted which has, prior to the fling of appli-
cation for it, been patented in foreign coun-
try shall expire seventeen years from the date
OF the foreign patent, but in no case shall it
exceed seventeen years and the American am
plication must be filed within two years from
the date of the foreign patent. A special
clause provides that no patent heretofore
granted shall, however, be in any way re-
vived, prolonged or extended because OF this
bill.
Mr. Platt explained that inventors had felt
themselves aggTieved by the fact that the
term of life OF a patent taken out in foreign
country should, rs the courts interpreted the
laws of the United States, be made to de-
termine the life of a patent in this country.
Although the American letters patent make
seventeen years the term for which the patent
shall-be good. yet under the decision of our
courts the expiration of the foreign patent for
the same invention threw the invention OMEN
to the world The terms of foreign patents,
he said, were various and dependent upon the
payment from time to time of fees. This bill
would secure larger measure Of justice to the
inventor. Mach pressure had been brought to
Dear upon the committee. Mr.. Platt added,
to induce it to bring in bill that should apply
to patents, which have already expired bv
reason of the present position of the law, but
the committee had declined to present a bill
which should apply to the past and have pre-
sented one which deals only with the future,
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Five Cents a Day.
A Few Facts for Boys Who Want 10 BE-
Come NHiIlionaires.
LBrookIyn kasle.

lBrooklyn Eagle.
The cumulative power of money is fact
very generally known, but not generally sp-
preciated. There are few men living to-day
OF the age of 65, hanging on The bounty of
kindred or friends, but who might, by exer-
cislng the smallest particle of thrift Iigidy
adhered TO in the past, have set aside re-
spectab sum which would materially help
teen TO maintain their Independence in their
old age. Let us take the small and ius,gnif-
icanl sum OF five cents, which we daily pay
to have our boots blacked, to ride in a car
distance we are able to walk, or procure
Dad cigar we are better without, and see
what It's value is in the course Of years. We
will suppose boy OF Is, by backing his own
boots, or saving his Car fare, or going with
cut his cherished cigarette, puts by FIVE cents
day, III one year he saves SIS 25, which be-
log banked, bears interest al the rate of five
per Cent per annum, compounded bi-yearly.
On this basis, when our thrifty youth reach
5 The age OF 90, having set his five cents per
day rellgiously aside during fifty years. the
result is truly surpris ng. H. as accumu-
lated pc less sum than $2S93 II. scru-
uny OF the progress Of this result is interpst-
ing. AT the age of 80 our hero has 1895; at
~, ~, Tot at OV, SI,ooij at oU, Sz,VO2. After
ntteen yea s. savng. bis annual interest
more than eqp ais bis original principal; in
twenty-five years it is more than double; in
thlr y-tive years it is four lines as ,nueh; in
1orty-hve years it is eight times as much,
aud the last years interest is $196, or ten
ana malt times as much as The annual
amount he pu's by. The actual cash amount
saved in tily years is S9l2.50; the difference
between that amount and the grand total Of
81, IL, VIZ, 81 ,9S0.6S. is accumu ated in
lefesl. What magnificent premium for
the minimum of thrift that can well be rep
resented by figures.
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FOREIGN.

LONDON, Feb. S-Some Aldershot regiments
have been ordered to prepare for foreign SER
vice, and more marines nave been despatched
to Egypt.
General Gordon has arrived in that province.
Dynawinters in Vienna.
VIENNA, Feb. 8 The police have made a
thorough search of the lodgings OF Schumacher.
the assassin Of Detective Bloch, and dynamite
bombs and seditions writings were discovered.
His landlord has been arrested.
Rebels Dispersed.
PARIS, Feb. 9.-Official despaic ches from Tom
quin announce that the rebels in the provinces
of Namdinh and Sontay have been dispersed
with heavy losses.
Further advces from Tonquiu report that
the rebel leader Dedoc was wounded, and has
taken refuge in BacBinch. Between 400 and
800 Of the rebels were slain. The gunboat
Parieval has destroyed nests of pirates az Sa-
valow and Fowtainson, killing aud wounding
many. An excited feeling prevails at Hue.
Whites Attacked by Natives in West Africa
LONDON, Feb. S.-Advices from st. Paul dc
Loando, capital Of the PortHgues province of
Angola, West Africa, state that an attack has
bsen made upon whites by the natives. Dur
ing he fighting an explosion of gun powder
kill forty natives.
Km Ghe Commons.
Mr.. Parnell moved ia the House of Commons
todav an amendment to the address in reply to
the Queens speech, severely eondemning the
policy of the government Of Ireland, and as
serting that it has failed to tranqnillize the
people, wantonly prohibited public meetings
and interfered with the freedom OF speech.
The amendment demands immediate abandon
ment OF the policy of stimulating state aid to
emigration from Ireland.
The FFanco-Chinese Troubles.
Papers have been laid before Parliament
which explain that the negotiations between
England aud the other neutral powers as to
the course to be pursued should war arise be-
tween France and China, have twice formed
subject of inquiry on the part of France.
Earl Granville, Foreign Secretary of S'ate, iu-
formed Nj. Waddington, the French Minister
at the Court of ST. James, last December that
the powers which have vessels in Chinese
waters proposed to instruct their commanders
TO unite in the adoption OF such measures as
would inure 20 the protection Of foreigners and
the continuance of a friendly spirit toward
both France and China. M. WaddiDgton said
In reply that France would not exceed the pro-
gramme already announced BY either interfer-
ing with foreign trade or blockading the treaty
ports unless forced to do so by the action OF
China.
Foreign Notes.
The correspondel CO between the British
foreign secretary and Mr. Lowell, American
Minister, on the sentence II O'D ,nnell was
presented in Parliament Friday. Earl Gran
ville's replies to Mr.. Lowell are curt and for
NAL Zach letter is limited to a single SEN
tance.
Frank ives Scudamore, formerly superin-
tendent of English telegraphs, is dead.
A Lisbon despatch states that treaty with
England relative to the Congo will shortly be
submitted TO the Cortes. IL provides for the
full navigation of the river. and fixes the Por-
tuguese boundary Of the Zlmbesi region be-
tween Shire river and Lake Nyassa.
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The Value of Exercise.
Nervous Diseases Cured Mechanically In
stead of Chemically.
[popular Science MOnthly.l

Popular Science Monthly.l
when l reflect on the immunity OF hard
working people from the effects of wrong
and over-feeding," says Dr.. Boerhaave, "I
cannot help thinking that most OF our fash
ionabs diseases might be cured mechani-
cilly instead of chemically, by climbing a
bit erwood tree, or chopping it do gn, If you
like, rather than swallowing a decoction of
its disgusting leaves" For male patients,
gardening in all its branches, is ABOUT as
fashionable as the said diseases, and no lib
eral mau would shrink from the expenses of
board fence, if it would induce his drug
poisoned wife to try her hand at turf spad-
ing, or, as last resort, at hoeing, or bit OF
wheelbarrow work. Lawn tennis will not
answer the occasion. There is no reason of
going to extremes and exhausting the little
remaining strength of the patient, but with
out certain amount Of fatigue the specific
fails to operate, and experience will show
That labor with practical purpose-garden-
ing, bOat-r0wing or amateur ctrpenteri' g.
enables people to beguile themselves into
far greater amount vi work than the drill
mast,r of a gymnasium could get them 70
undergo Besides the potential energy that
turns hardship into play-work, athletes have
the farther advantage of greater disease
restoring capacity. Their constitu ion does
not yield to every trifing accident; their
nerves can stand the wear aud tear Of or
dinary excitements; a little change in the
weather does not disturb their sleep; they
can digest more than other people. Any
kind OF exercise that tends to strengthen
not special set of muscles. but the mus
Gle system in general-has proporlionaie
influence on the general vigor of the ner-
vons organism, and thereby on its psthologi-
cal power of resistance.
For nervous children my first prescription
would be-the open woods and merry
plas mat; for the chlorotic affections of
their elder comrades-some diverting, but
withal fatiuging, form of manual labor. In
the minds of too many parents there Is a
vague notion that rough work brutalizes the
character. The truth is that it regulates its
defects; il calms the temper, it affords an
outlet to things that would otherwise vent
themselves in fretfulness and ugly passions.
Most school-ieaehers know that city chill
dren are more fdgety more irritable and
mischieyous than their village comrades;
and the most placid females of the genus
homo aIe found among the well-fed but
uard-working housewives of German Penn
sylyauia
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-02-09
GENERAL NEWS.

The Swiss naturalist, Arnold Guyot Blair,
professor of geology and physical geography
aud senior professor of Princeton College died
in PrincetoD, N. j., yesterday, aged 76.
The Irish societies in Boston last night re-
solved to abandon its idea Of having a parade
on ST. Pstrick's day, aud will instead have a
lecture in the evening, the proceeds of which
will be devoted to the funds for the erection OF
a statute to Wendell Phillips.
The New York excise commissioners have
created CONSERVATION among Il @ liquor sellers
by sending circulars to HOO dealers notifying
them OF the revocation of their licenses be-
cause OF violations of the law
VIM. !. Lambert of Burlington, VT, the al
legged mail robber, was bound over yesterday
for trial. All the evidence against him was
furnished by his wife.
Addie Cutting, aged II, daughter of Geo. E.
Cutting of Benton, n. f., died yesterday, in
consequence of dog bite.
Miss Couch, the New Milford, Conn.,, school
teacher, recently arrested for obtaining goods
under false pretences and was acquitted, has
brought suit to recover $4,000.
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appropriation to be reduced $1,000, 900 each
succeeding year)
The Honse then went into committee of the
whole on the private calendar.
The first bill on the calenoar was one to pro-
vide for muster and pay of certain officers and
enlisted men of volunteer forces. lit author
ICES the Secretary of War to correct he muster
rolls OF volunteer forces 30 that TIE muster of
officers and enlisted men shall cover the whole
period during which they were regularly COM
missioned and actually performed the duties to
which they were so commissioned or were pre-
vented from performing those duties by reason
of wounds received, etc.
Alter short debate the committee rose and
the bill was passed.
The Speaker announced the appointment of
Messrs. Hopkins, Ward and Adams of New
York, Poland and Wilson of Iowa as a COM
mlttee to investigate charges against FL. "
BoSnton, Washington correspondent OF the
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
Mr.. Golf of West Virginia introduced
joint resolution appropriating $4,000 for the
relief OF sufferers by the overflow of the Ohio
river and its tributaries. Referred.
Adjourned until Monday.
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INDUSTRIAL MATTERS.
wareham Nailers stin Holding O

Wareham Nailers still Holding Out.
WAREHAM, Msss.-The nsilers are still con-
hdent that within three weeks the manufactur-
erS will be- obliged to call upon them to go TO
work. Large sprlng orders are constant tly
coming in, and the manufacturers cannot fill
them, for their extensive storehouses are emp
ty. Several uailers who had some of the best
positions in tie establishments of Wareham
have been very successful in obtaining as
good, and in one or two instances better, situa-
tions in tack shops out of town.
The woodchoppers of West Wareham are at
war with many of the striking nailers, who
have gone into the forest cutting wood. The
professional choppers claim that they were
making good living unJil the Dailers struck,
when the strikers got work in the woods by
Offering to cut some twenty per cent less a
cord than the professionals were receiving.
They thought it pretty hard for men who left
work where they we're receiving from SLIP IL
TO $l.25 per day to come in the woods aud do
work for eighty cents that the choppers had
been receiving 81 for.
Sill Striking at Fall River.
FALL RIVER. Wesvers in the Barna-
by glngham mill struck this morning, because
OIL lines docked from their pay on account of
defects IN cloth. the strikers m rched from
the mill to the Star Music Hall, where they
held meeting at which the causes of the
connection with the trouble at the print cloth
mills, and there is no trouble in other depart
ments of the Barnaby mill.
at the meeting of weavers held this after
noon to organize union, about 400 were pres
ent representing the ten mills where spinners
have struck. 1t was voted to form weavers
union, aud 200 signed the roll of membership
After electing secretary ana temporary Of
hcers the meeting adjourned until tomorrow
hight han permanent organization will be
effected. There are no new deyelopements in
the strike today, except little trouble at the
Barnaby gingham mill where the strike is due
to trouble between the overseers and opera
tiyes.
Cut Down at Dover Postponed.
DOVER, N. H., Jan. 8-Howard Stockton,
treasurer of the Cocheco Manufacturing Com
pany TO-DAY ordered that the reduction of wag-
es in the print works be postponed unit it is
moe fully known what reductions will be
made in other New England print works.
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CLEVELAND, Feb. S-Stnator Sherman has
written letter to the iron trade touching a
movement which, originating here and culmi-
mating in the organization in New York of an
association of capitalists to secure eciprocity
with Canada IN the matter of reduction of
the duty on coal and iron ore. He says: my
We have plenty of coal and iron ore in this
country now protected with comparatively
low rate of duty and see no reason to disturb
it, Indeed the whole protective system is now
in more danger from its friends than its ene-
mics. 1t is labor that is to be protected and
not capital, and it is indeed more important to
develop the national resources of the country
in the production of mining and manufac-
ture of such articles as wool, coal and iron than
to protect higher forms of production where
cheap labor is indispensable.