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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-09-10

Braintree.-V |. Spear has gone to Mon
tana with two hundred and fifty Merino sheep
go. George W. Flagg, the champion wrestler,
has gone West on wrestling expedition. .
Mrs. f. +. Cafin and Clayton Mann are both
quite sick. MRS f. l. Clsfn is teaching
school in district No. O.. Esther Stowe Of
vergennes is here visiting her sister, Mrs. P.
j. Blanchard
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-09-10

Middlesex.-T heirs of the late Mrs Eliza
Holden have sold the house belonging TO her
estate to o. H. Richardson, and by Mr.. Rich
ardson 1t was sold to B. r. Buzzell, for $500.
-. Mark Glidden of Salem, Mass, formerly
of Barre, Vt, has been visiting friends in this
vicinity. He had not been in Vermont for
eighteen years, and finds many changes, es-
pecially in Montpelier and Barre.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-09-10

South ROyaltOn.-A large number went
from this place to Bethel to attend the fair.
The balloon ascension was failure. Mr..
Parkhurst's little boy, who has been sick with
typhoid fever and other complicated diseases,
is a little better. :. Ransom Reynolds, an old
and respected resident Of this town, died last
Monday. aged seventy-two years.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-09-10

Craftsbury.-Luman Smith has secured the
services Of A. III. Dorman to superintend the
building OF his mills. Mr.. and Mrs. f. j.
Hastings, who have been in Saratoga the past
four weeks, have returned to their home very
much improved in health. :. School at the Com
mon commenced last Wednesday, with fair
prospect of large attendance. School in
district No - commenced last Monday, with
Hattie Smopds as teacher,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-09-10

Goddard Seminary.-The number OF stu
dents has been increased to one hundred and
seventeen, and enough more are expected to
The department of music Is to be a success
Miss Kendalrs grand piano has arrived and
will be placed in the chapel, making five pianos
in all which will be kept in constant use.
Professor G. w. Foster of Calais commences
his duties next Monday as instructor OF vocal
music. Miss Fanny West teacher of paint
ing and drawing, commences her work this
week. "A reception was held Friday evening.
Among the number present were Mr.. Holister,
Mr. Bancroft and Miss Powers OF the class OF
"a, and Tracy Jeffords, class of 49, Among
the other visitors for the week were the Holden
class Of "a, and Miss Willard, a former student,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-09-10

East Roxbury.-L. w. Blanchard of Brook
field is to make some Improvements on his place
here this fall, as he intends to move here in the
spring, having rented his farm In Brookfeld to
his son.in-law, Mr.. Hubbard. .. Deacon Cyrus
Howard has so far recovered from his late sick
ness AS to be able to attend meeting last Sunday
Alice Brown Of Willamstown Is teaching
her second term of school here. E. Deacon
Pierce of Somerville, Mass, is visiting friends
here this week. E. Mrs. Lovisa Steele lost one of
her cows last week
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-09-10
Barre Academy.-The number of student,

Barre Academy.-The number of students
is now eighty-six, which, perhaps, will be in.
creased. :. The officers Of the Social Fraternity
elected for the ensuing term are as follows
President, G. +. Bailey; secretary, Miss Vettie
Clark; executive committee T.. ii. Edgerton
M. ]. Blair and j. G. Bisbee; critic, +. ii
butcher. The following officers have beer
elected for the Debating Club; President, s
G. Hutchinson; executive committee, f. w
Holden, |. A. Davidson and H. L. Averill
treasurer, S. II. Harran; secretary, S. G
Hutchinson
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-09-10

East ElmOre.-Mrs. Lucius Hayford is very
i'll. Among the visitors here last week were
Miss Drown Of Boston, Mass, Asaph Cameron
and wife OF Worcester, and Jason Cameron,
wife and two children of Brooklyn, N. Y.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-09-10
The Corporation Tax.

We publish below the tax returns made by
the corporations for the first half OF the second
year of the operation OF the new revenue law.
In the first column is the tax paid the first six
months of the first year, reproduced for con-
yenience in comparisons:
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-05-15
MISCELLANEOUS.

The Canadian steamer Argyle. bound
from Sault Ste. Marie TO Port Arthur, with q
cargo OF supplies for Canadian Pacific
Railway contractor, was lost on Lake Supe-
rior during gale. The crew escaped.
The American Tract Society held its
ffty-ninth annual meeting at New York. The
donations and legacies for the year were
S102, $780, and the expenditures 1854, 1852.
Sxty-three missionaries distributed 1873, 463
volumes.
The steamer City of Portland, ply
ing between Portland, Me-. and ST. John, N.
b., struck on ledge of Rockland, Me-, and
is total wreck. The passengers and officers
kept cool, and nc lives were lost, sloop and
a steamer taking them all on board.
The arctic steamer Alert, which was
presented to the United States by the British
Government for use in the Greedy expedition,
has sailed from New York for the frozen
north.
Recent deaths: Ex-Gov. Marcus l..
Ward, OF New Jersey; Thomas Gof, mill
ionaire distiller of Cincinnati and Aurora,
Ind; DIR. Willard Parker, an eminent sur
geon Of New York; Gen. Emerson Opdyke.
an eminent New York merchant; Sanford
b. Hunt, editor OF the Newark IN. j.
Advertiser; Prof. o. M. Conover, Reporter
of the Wisconsin Supreme Court; ex-
Gov. Henry n. Matthews, OF West vir-
ginia; George Caldwell, prominent
San Francisco, lawyer; Sir Michael Arthur
Bass, NJ. r., head of the famous English
brewing firm; Asa Ayers, of Michigan City.
Ind, veteran of the war of 1879; Gen. Will
liam Poynter, OF Philadelphia; Baron Raglan,
of London, son of the famous Crimean Cen
eral; Catholic Bishop Toebbe, of the Diocese
of Covington, Ky.
The steamship Titania arrived at
Quebec having on board twenty-five of the
crew of the steamship State of Florida. The
latter collided with a bark In mid-ocean, and
went right down. Out OF 1877 souls only
forty-four were saved The bark also went
do wn with twelve souls.
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be as rapid as that of California; and that
New York win soon become the financial
center OF the world.
The liabilities Of the firm of Grant
& Ward, of New York, are estimated ut
81, o0o, 900. Ward and Gen. Grant and his
two sons, Fred and Jesse. have all made as
signments of their property for the benefit of
their creditors, and they have been enjoined
against disposing of their assets 1t is one of
the heaviest as well as one OF tho
worst failures in the history OF Wall street.
and was brought about by reckless specu-
lation by Ward. The household effects Of
Ward were seized In Brooklyn. and his wife
and family were compelled 70 depart for his
mother-in-laws house.
Daniel G.. Tucker, prominent cit
ken of Lockport, N. Y, for thirty years a
Deputy Federal Marshal, hanged himself be-
cause OF intense suffering from asthma.
Mr.. George Jones, of the New York
Tisaes, who was mainly instrumental In got
ting up the testimonial fund for Gen. Grant
some time ago, says that $3.50, 600 OF that Is
absolutely safe. Gen. Grant has hitherto
been paid s15, l40, the interest on the fund,
the 1st of May OF each year. Hereafter he
will be paid quarterly. Mr.. Jones says 1t Is
the intention OF the trustees that the fund
shall not be diverted from the purpose for
winch IL was subscribed.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-05-15
SOUTHERN.

The grand jury of Copiah County,
Mississippi, has indicted 4. b. Wheeler for
the murder of s. p, or print" Matthews,
in that county last election day. Matthews,
it will be remembered, was the leading Re
publican in Copiah County, and the affair 40
quared national importance through the
Senate Investigating Committee. The grand
jury making the indictment was composed
entirely of Democrats, including one Demo-
cratic negro.
At Winston, n. c., a mob took Henry
Swain, who murdered woman, from
jan and hanged him.
William w. Massey, paying teller of
the Baltimore Bank of Commerce, appropri-
ated to his own account $40, 900 OF the money
of that concern. He lost IL in speculation.
He has confessed.
James S. Coleman, colored, was exc
cuted at Columbia, s. c., for the murder of
Sarah Willis his wife's sister.
Masked men at Elizabetbtown, Ky.
took from jHil a negro who had committed
an outrage on a white woman, and hanged
him TO tree outside the city. with a placard
ordering no one TO touch the corpse.
Miles Patty, a negro, in Jail ct Eliza
BEETHOVEN, KY, fer outraeing n young lady,
was taken out by mob and hanged
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-05-15
WESTERN.

A large stock-raising firm has rented
40, GOO, 900 acres of land from the Pawnee In
dams In Indian Territory for five years at
cents per acre per year.
With over Is, 600, 600 bushels of grain
in store in Chicago, there still lie idle in the
river vessels with capacity Of 200, 900 bush
els-a fact almost without precedent in the
history of lake navigation in May.
James Clark, confidential clerk of
Rudolph HochkoHer, large commission
merchant Mt San Francisco, is ''short" $780,
600, which he spent in speculation,
Charles Ford, whose brother assassin
ated Jesse James about two years ago, shot
himself through the heart at his home, near
Richmond, Mo. He had suffered from con-
sumption for long time.
Ham Patterson, a negro, was taken
from bed, near Fulton, Mo-, and killed by a
mob. Itappears that Patterson and his brother
Julius circulated scandalous reports about
nearly all of the women in the neighborhood,
which greatly exasperated the men, and
some twenty or more reputable citizens took
the matter In their own hands with the above
result
A dreadful wreck occurred on the
ST. Louis division of the Wabash Railroad
ten miles from Decatur, III. The two rear
coaches and sleeper were thrown from the
track and forty people injured, two fatally.
Chicago detectives recently learned
that Joe Clougb, the leader of a gang OF burg
lars, would arrive in that city by n Lake
Shore train, in huge trunk. The baggage
came promptly on time, and was consigned 10
brother of the crook. The officers followed
It 20 its destination, where they broke the
lock and took out their man.
Tie Vanderbilt party made the trip
from Detroit TO Cincinnati in five and one.
half hours. the distance being 263 miles.
Barbed-wire manufacturers, In session
at St Louis, decided to advance the price of
wire quarter of a cent.
Reports of the wheat crop from
various parts of Michigan indicate that In
the northern counties if will be 81 per cent.
of an average and in the southern tier about
97 per cent. Clover is rather backward, and
will average 80 per cent. Apples will be
about the same, while peaches will
scarcely exceed half OF full crop.
Reports from various parts of Dakota and
Minnesota regarding the condition of the
spring wheat crop are very encourag-
ing. There is an increased acreage,
and from present appearances there
will be an abundant harvest. The
oat crop is also looking very well.
The Illinois Department of Agriculture finds
the prospects not encouraging for over 81
per cent of an average yield of winter
wheat. The crop outlook IN Iowa is of a
most cheering character.
Ten persons were seriously and about
forty slightly injured by the falling of the
grand stand at the baseball park in Chilli
cothe, Ohio during the progress of a game.
A sanguine inventor has secured per-
mission TO lay a seventeen-inch pneumatic
tube along the canal from Chicago TO La
Sale, Illinois, for the transmission of grain
and small packages by compressed air at the
rate OF a mile minute.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-05-15
FOREIGN.

A Mormon missionary has been SEN
fenced to a months imprisonment at Vienna.
Austria.
By an explosion of dynamite in q
factory in Ayrshire, England, ten women
were blown to pieces and two othors wore
wounded.
Papers found ON the body of an in
surgent officer ut Bada. %, Spain, reveal tho
existence Of a deep, well-plotted, and extern
sive conspiracy against the Spanish mon,
archy. Officers of the Spanish army in all OF
SPANS dependencies are imp icated in sic
plot, and few days ago sub-lieutenont OF
artillery, two scrgeants, and FIVE privates
were arrested in tho interior OF Cuba for
completely in the consp racy. The revelations
in any case have caused n profound sensation
I'm Spain and much uneasiness i'm Alfonso's
palace.
The Paris municipal elections re-
suited IN signal victory for the Revolution
lists, and the Paris press takes gloomy view
of the future of the republic.
Gladstone was Missed as well as
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-05-15

ex-senator Kellogg asking That an investiga-
ton concerning his alleged connection with
tho starroute frauds should be begun. The
committee did not evince any disposition TO
accommodate Kellogg, but Springer was APP
pointed a committee of one TO confer with
him In regard 20 the matter.
The Senate Finance Committee has
agreed to make IN adverse report on the
trade-dollar bill.
A strong effort will be made by the
Southern Democrats this session to secure
the repeal OF the tax on tobacco and fruit
spirits and brandies. It is thought Mr.. Kas-
sons bill to abolish the tax on tobacco may
become law before adjournment.
Judge Hagner. of Washington. has
asked Hallett Kilbourn 70 consent to "a re-
duction of the Judgment against ex-Ser-
geant-at-Arms Thompson to sac. 900; other
wise new trial VIII be granted.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-05-15
POLITICAL.

Gen. Chalmers will be the Republi-
can candidate for Congress In the second
Mississippi District next fall.
The Kentucky Democratic Conven-
ton indorsed Speaker Carlisle as q Demo
cratic Presidential candidate.
The Massachusetts, Prohibition State
Convention was held at Boston, the resolu-
tons declaring for the suppression of the
liquor traffic by constitutional and statutory
measures.
Gen. Grant favors q constitutional
amendment making the Presidential term
seven years and the occupant ineligible to
reelection.
The Greenbackers of the Twelfth
District of Missouri, renoninated w. s. Has
eltine for Congress and elected A. w. st.
John and K. l.. Bentley delegates to the na-
tional convention.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-05-15
CLIPPINGS.

A WASHINGTON girl suicided because her
lover made his own clam chowder when she
wanted to make il for him.
GOULD says that no extensive opemtor
can get on in Wall street without some fixed
purpose. That is the secret of success in
most every walk Of life.
ABOUT every third-rate literary man in
England is now busily engaged trying to
prove with his pen that Charles Reade was
not man of genius.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-05-15
WASHINGTON.

On the order OF the House Commit
tee on Foreign Affairs, Representative Stew
art has prepared a bin for the appointment
of three commissioners TO aid in extending
trade with the Southern republics and to in
quire into public sentiment in regard TO rail-
way extensions. The sum of $4,000 Is set
aside for expenses and salaries for two years.
Mr.. Stewart claims that railroad communi-
cation with the Argentine Republic could
easily be brought about.
At the meeting of the Springer COM
mittee, the other day, letter was read from
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-05-15

cheered no the opening OF the Healch Exhibi-
ton ut London.
Gen. Gordon refuses to accept escape
from Khartoum through bribery of the
soudanese. Subscriptions for this purpose
have therefore been abandoned.
NJ. Portevin. recently Secretary Of
the French Consulate ae New York. on his
return voyage across the Atlantic, ex-
pressed sympathy with the German people
and insulted an American gentleman. He
excuses himself on the ground that he was
''full," and is especially contrite on account
Of his beha vior toward Americana.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-05-15
CHIPS.

EMMA BOND is at Palmyra, Wis, for
medical treatment
The lady nominated for belle of New
port this year is Miss May, young lady of
unusual beauty and of unusual height.
AT the New Orleans Worlds Fair next
winter Mexico will exhibit a garden of
tropical plants, covering 300, 900 square feet.
WINDSOR, Conn, has rogue detective
society, embracing in its membership $50
OF the most influential men of the town.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-05-15
EASTERN.

An interviewer in New York caught
Gen. Grant in his Office just before the failure
of his firm, and secured his views on various
subjects. The ex-Prcsident thinks the United
States will have n population OF 100000. OCO
at tho end of the century; that the Southern
States may then take the lead I'm manufac-
turos; that tho development OF Mexico will
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-05-15
FIRE RECORD.

A fire on the corner of Atwater and
Griswold streets, Detroit, burned the build
ing of the Steam Supply Company and other
structures valued at 100000. The steamer
Il. S. Ford, valued Mt $4,000, was burned at
her wharf at Charlestown, Md. Forest fires
in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey,
and Maryland wiped out hundreds of thou
sands of acres of valuable timber, and ex-
tinguished several villages, entailing an es-
timated loss of $4,000 900. Thirty-one build
ings at Gainesville, Fla, were reduced to
ashes, causing a loss of $4,000. Other fire
losses OF the week were as follows:
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-05-15

FLORIDA fisherman has seen a swamp
snake over thirty feet long.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-05-15

LADY DUFFUs- HARDY found tho true
American republic in Salt Lake City.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-05-15
THE RECORD.
Vote of the House of Representatives on
the Morrison Tariff Bill.
IN FAVOR OF THE ]

Following is the vote cast in the National
House of Representatives on MIR. Nor
risons tariff measure:
The bee., 1884-05-17
A GrOcer,s Story.

bad much to learn concerning the
tricks of men when began business and
at the end of my first year l found that,
although my business had been brisk and
the books showed large receipts, my
profits were small. / could not under
stand it for some time. was quite GER
tain that my clerks were honest and that
there was no leak in the money drawer.
began to watch my business more
closely than ever, and soon found out the
cause of my losses: From the start | had
Instructed my clerks to give samples OF
our goods to such customers as asked for
them. | did not think there was any
better way of advertising the quality Of
the wares | dealt in. When i came to
investigate the matter found that the
samples given away during the week often
amounted to twenty or thirty dollars |
also found that majority of those people
who obtained samples never patronlzed
my store at ALL On inquiry ascertaincd
that there were several families living In
the vicinity who had succeeded in getting
enough tea and coffee from my clerks, as
samples, to keep them we'll supplied with
these luxuries for the entire year. That
made me mad, and at once issued orders
to my employees not to give out any more
samples except to customers of establish
ed honesty. In this way stopped the
leak in my profits. Another set of people
also give us trouble-the petty thieves.
The bee., 1884-05-17
Pioneer Girls of the Plains.

In travelling over the prairies, one now
and then comes across lonely shack,
which, with its surroundings, wears an
aspect of neatness which distinguishes 1t
from the average carelessly thrown to-
gether shanty, that suffices to prove the
claimants right to the title of proprietor
of 100 acres surrounding. If of boards,
the cracks are carefully battened with
lath; if of logs the crevices are closely
plastered with mud; hardy morning
glorie cling around the doorway and
creep along the humble caves, while
small plats smiling with violets, larkspur,
lovebell and honeysuckle, transplanted
from the prairie, hover around the mod
est domicile, true indiceS to the female
spirit that rules within.
The novelty of their situation seems to
charm these women pioneers; their face
and form are the embodiments of happl-
ness and health; they as hastily enjoy a
tramp over the prairie in search of the
boundary lines of their claim, as the
society girl enjoys trip in dog cart or
a sail on the lake. They become adebts
in the use of rifle and shotgun; they learn
to handle the harvester as deftly as their
mascu line neighbors and ride the sulky
plow with as much grace as her refined
sister would ornament a trisicle. The
majority of these pioneers are schOol-mis-
tresses, who pursue their Greek, Latin,
astronomy, botany or chemistry during
their leisure moments in their prairie
home during the summer, and pursue their
vocation in village or city school room
during the winter months. Thus they
preserve their health, keep up their
studies, and slowly but surely build up
for themselves home that they can
point to with just pride as the fruit Of
their own labor.
The hardships and trials which these
brave little pioneers undergo are enough
to shake the courage of the sterner sex.
Mrs. Ball, young widow, came to the
territory two years ago, built her claim
shack which was twice blown away by
t0rnadoes, and once burned to the ground,
but through her indomitable will she is
still there, and says she is bound to stay.
Miss Nellie Uline, daughter of Col.
Uline, of Chicago, has her homestead
near Devils Lake, is a tireless pedestri
enne, crack rifle shot, and possesses ac-
complishments that fit her for the lead
ership of any refined society in which
she may move. Miss Hoover, the Misses
Pringle, Miss Flynn, Miss Bruce, Miss
Marks, Miss Olson, Miss Shottwell and
the Misses Phelps, who, through their
pluck and perseverance, have gained u
fine homestead and built up little for
tune of so, 900. and are but few of the
great army of women who deserve the
highest praise for their fortitude and de-
termination.
The bee., 1884-05-17
Washington.

THE testimony in the Jeanette investiga-
hon before the House naval committee ended
with that of Mrs lie Long, who testified That
uer husband had studied the subject of nrc
visions for an Arctic voyage and hed. esllideav-
pred TO procure the best. ,..--.'
REPRESENTATIVE COLLINS was directed
by the committee to favorabiy re )ort JOIN
resolution proposing an aue ldment to Ar6i-
Gle Is of the Constitution. The amendment
consists of the inS5 rtion o. thu word = natlY-
fly and MAKES the first ctlon read as Tor
lows: "The tight OF citizens OF tue United
States to vote Shall not be denied or abridged
by the nitsd States. CT by any State on ac-
rount of nativity, race or color, or previous
rendition OF seTvitu lie.
SToRY's statue of Chic Jus. ice John Mar
thal was unveiled a &c days ago upon the
west front o the capi ol in pres ence of many
members of both HOSES of Congress and
other noted people. Chief Justice Waite
made an address AM t1e Grafton of the day
was delivered by William Henry Rave, Of
PhiIadelphis.
BY vote OF six to five the House commit
bee on elections agreed to report IN favor OF
seating Wallace, the contestant In the Ohio
election case of Wallace against Mckinley.
THE secretaries of war and the navy have
appointed General John Newton chief of en-
glneers. Colonel .. A. Gilmore, corps of
engineers. and Lieutenant Commander b. h.
McCalla, members, ana Lieut. ana1t I. ID,
Bliss First Artillery. rscorderof a board ere
s-el hv a resolution of the House OF Repre-
tentatives t. cons r the expediency Of the
construction of a line of int 1rlor waterways
for the rr, action of the seaboard of the At
lantic and Gulf States