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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-12

GfdnQ FORKS, DdkOLd.
REFERENCES.
Hon E. III. ROLLINS. Dover, y. IL.
Col. X. N BATCHELDER, U. S. A,Washington, D. Q.
JOSEPH b. CLARK, Esq ........... Manchester, n H.
GEORGE g. FRENCH Esq Mexico n ny, y;
Hon j. l. MITCHELL, United States Senator from
Pennsylvania, Washington, ID. C.
Hon. JAMES A. WESTON, Guaranty Savings Bank,
Manchester, n. II.
SAMUEL DAGGY, ESQ. ,43 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
+. A. EATON, Esq, Cashier Second National Bank,
Nashua, n. II.
Prof. L. r. RUGGLEs, Dean of Scientific Faculty,
Dartmouth College.
N. T. GREENWOOD, Esq. London, N H.
Hon. y. III. AMsDEN. y. H.
NORMAN o. ALLEN, ESD. .Lockport, y. Y.
Hon. ROSWELL FARNHAM. ............ Bradford vt.
Hon. T.. A. ROLLINS, Centennial National Bank,
Philadelphia Pa.
A. G. BROWN, Observation-Disclosures Montpelier vt.
Montpelier, Montpelier, VT. -
w. j. CARPENTER, Esq.........P oughkeepsie, \. Y.
GUY c. II. CoRLIss. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS N: Y.
GEORGE LESLIE Esq, Cashier National Bank Of
Newbury, Wells River, VT.
CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK. Grand Forks, Dakota.
NEHR a CARPENTER, Bankers: Troy, \; Y.
Rev. SAMUEL ID. BURCHARD No. "a West 4Oth St.,
New York, n. Y.
Rev. NORMAN W. CARY. 2036 Christian ST., Phia-
dephia, Pa.
Rev. GEORGE n. BRYANT.........E East Tton, n. H.
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Domestic Recipes.
FROM r.. f. LEDGETT, HUNTINGTON
CENTER, VT.


FROM Il. f. LEDGETT, HUNTINGTON
CENTER, VT.
RASPBERRY JELLY.-Ten pounds as
sorted raspberries and ten pounds of
sugar. Boil up in porcelain kettle,
strain through cloth and boil the
juice till it thickens. The fruit, after
straining may be used for sauce.
RASPBERRY SHoRTCAKE.--Puta tea
cupful of cream into pint basin, and
fill up with sour milk. Stir one tea
spoonful of soda and a little salt into
the flour. Roll as you would biscuit,
but nearly as thin as for pie-crust, and
bake; then butter, and put in the rasp-
berries, previously picked over and
sweetened.
FROM MRS. L. j. WHITE, WATERBURY
CENTER, VT.
RICE PUDDING WITHOUT EGGs.-
One and half cups of rice boiled in
water until soft; then add one quart of
milk, one cup of maple sugar, one cup
of raisins and butter the size of an egg.
Flavor with nutmeg and bake two hours.
SNowBALLs.-One cup and half of
rice, one quart of fresh milk, five table
spoonfuls of white sugar, little nut
meg, adding salt. Wash the rice; then
boil in the milk, stewing until the rice
is soft and has soaked up the milk.
Fill small cups with the rice, pressing
it down firmly, and let it get cold. AT
dinner time turn it out upon large
fiat dish. Eat with sweetened cream.
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Gbe Soloiers' &uoget.
Pensions Granted.

To John Durkee, Tunbridge, IS a
month and $3.50 arrears; o. G. Gram
dali, Bristol, "a a month and $1,000
arrears; w. S. Stevens, STAFFORD, So a
month and 81 100 arrears; Cyrus Steb-
bins, West Burke, IS month and
1865 arrears; Freeman Ranney, Little
ton, N. H., IS a month and 81 1856
arrears; George Clark, Gardner, Mass,
IS month and 81 500 arrears; Joseph
Simons, Barnet, an increase of pension
from "a to IS month; Hiram Hunter,
Barton, an increase from $40 to S24 a
month; Hiram Balaw, Albany, IS a
month and 1886 arrears.
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How General Grant Met
EMERGENCIES.

81 recall an instance of General
Grants readiness in emergency" says
General Porter, " on the night of the
second day of heWilderness fight, when
Sedgewick's corps had been broken and
Shattuck and Seymour captured. Gen
eral Grant sat in his headquarters and
listened to the fast coming reports of
perpleXity and trouble; but he turned
to one and another and talked of his
orders with as much precision and dis
play of judgment as though he had been
studying that unexpected situation for
two months. All who saw him watched
and listened and wondered. And again
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Home Suggestions.

THE grated rind and the juice of an
orange add much to the flavor of ginger
cake.
ORANGES, lemons and similar acid
fruits should always be put up in glass,
as the acid in them readily attacks tin
plate.
For the relief of intense itching the
Lancet recommends sponging the parts
once or twice day with pure rectitied
spirits, containing one per cent of car
bolic acid.
The French method of administer
ing castor oil to children is to pour the
oil into pan over moderate fire,
break an egg into it and stir up. When
it is done flavor with little salt, sugar
or currant jelly.
IN making pickles never use vessels
of brass, copper or tin, as the action of
the acid on such metals often results in
poisoning the pickles. Either porce-
lain or granite iron kettle is the best
for such purposes.
MOULD can be prevented from form
ing on fruit jellies by pouring a little
melted parafiine over the top. When
cool it will harden to a solid cake,
which can be easily removed when the
jelly is used and saved to use over
again another year.
CHLORIDE of lime should be used
with care. A young lady recently put
a large quantity in clothes-press
where there was a musty smell. The
bad odor was entirely destroyed by the
chemical, but a silk dress, of pale
blue color, was bleached to dirty gray
hue and rendered almost useless.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-12

WORMS IN FLowER-PoTs.-A new
remedy for the worms which destroy
house-plants is number of sulphur
matches placed in the hower-pots with
their heads down. The experiment has
been tried with success.
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A Daughters Misery.

Eleven years our daughter suffered on a
bed of misery.
From a complication of kidney, liver,
rheumatic trouble and nervous debility,
Under the care of the best physicians,
Who gave her disease various names,
" But no relief,
And now she is restored to us in good
health by as simple a remedy as Hop Bit
ters, that we had Stunned for years before
using it," THE PARENTS.
EB" None genuine without bunch Of
green Hops on the white label. Shun all
the vile, poisonous stuff with Hop" or
Chops in their name.
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Gbe 4ousebolo.

" Communications for this column should be
sent to the agricultural editor, DIR. Hoskins, at
Newport, VT.
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New Signals on Cars.

The bell cord has been removed from
nearly all the trains of the Pennsylvania
railroad, and a patent air-tubc system o;
signaling has been substituted. Each
car has o rubber tube running under tn,
bottom, and these are connected between
the cars in the same way as the Westing-
house air-brake tubes. They are kept
charged with air at fifteen pounds pres
sure from a reservoir situated under tho
cab of the engine, and which is itself
supplied from the air-brake reservoir.
The rubber tube is also connected with a
whistle valve in the engineers cab. The
conductor by pulling i cord IN the car
opens a valve in the rubber tube and al
lows the air to escape. This relieves tho
pressure on the whistle valve and throw 8
it open, causing the whistle to sound.
So long as the cord is held the whistle
will sound. One whistle means the train
is broken. The same effect would bc
caused if the rubber tube was broken.
and the engineer would thus be Informed
ut once Of the accident. The new device
is not popular among the tr"!nmcn; but,
although it is very costly, the officers "t
the road are substituting it for the bel:
rope. The fault Of the bel rope is that
it is apt to get too slack Or to get broken.
-Ne9 York SUI.
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RATES OF POSTAGE.
important Changes Which Will Take
Effect on July I.

E1IcCt On July 10
Tie postofIice department ct Washington
has received inquiries from all quarters Us to
tho new legislation in the postottice appro-
priation bill passed by the last Congress. The
following are the important changes which
will take effect Oh July /:
First-The weight of all single-rate letters
is increased from one-half of ounce each or
fraction thereof to one ounce each or fraction
thereof. The same increase Of weight is al
| lowed for drop letters, whether mailed at
stations where there is a free delivery or
where carrier service is not established.
Second-All newspapers sent from the
| office of publication, including sample copies,
or when sent from a news agency to actual
, subscribers thereto, or to other news agents,
shall be entitled to transmission at the rate
of one cent per pound or fraction thereof, the
postage to be prepaid. This is a reduction OF
0ne-half from existing rates.
Third-Any article in q newspaper or other
publication may be markell for observation
except by written or printed words, without
increase of postage.
Fourth-A special stamp of the value of
ten cents may be issued which when attached
TO Il letter, in addition to the lawful postage
thereon, shall cntitlc the letter to immediate
delivery at place containing 1000 population
or over, according to the Federal census,
within the carrier limit of any free delivery
office or any other other postoflice coming
within the provisions of this law which may,
in like manner, be designated as a special
delivery office, that such specially stamped
letters shall be delivered between Z o'clock
A. 81. and midnight; that a book shall
be provided in which the person to whom the
letter is addressed shall acknowledge its re-
ceipt; that messengers for this special delivery
are to be paid eighty per cont. of face value
of all the stamps received and recorded in a
month, provided that the aggregate compen-
sation paid to any one person for such service
shall not exceed thirty dollars per month, and
provided further that the regulations for the
delivery of those specially stamped letters
shall in no way interfere with the prompt
delivery of letters as provided by existing
law or regulations,
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A Great Russian Gambler.

Prince Demidoff's gambling exploits
have furnished The matter Of more than
one paragraph to the Partisan chroni'
queurs during the last few days. lie
once played 4 match ut ecarte with
Khalil Bey, another inveterate gamester,
the stake being 60, 900 each game; and
it was agreed between the parties that
they were to go on playing till one of
them had lost II million" to the other.
They played all night in q private room
at the Cafe Anglais, Khalil Bey winning
SEQ, 900 in the first hour or two; but his
luck then turned. and at 9 o'clock next
morning the prince had won sG, 900.
Fatigued with so long q struggle, the
players lay down on the sofas in the
room for a ~siesta. and slept till midday,
when, after a light breakfast, they sat
down to the card table again. They
broke off for an hour in the evening for
dinner, resumed their game, played
through the Whole of the second night,
and at 1T next morning Khalil Boy,
who was favored by a second run of luck,
won the match and pocketed the princes
check for !G40. 000.-St. Mmes's Gazette.
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC

MINNIE PALMER's success continues quite
undated.
AIMEE's Southern tour has been uniformly
and immensely profitable.
FRAU MATERNA gets Sl2,0 0 q month for
singing in German opera.
MR.. HENRY IRVING will reappear at the
Lyceum theatre, London, on May.
THEATRE parties, recently introduced in
Paris by Americans, are becoming more and
more fashionable there.
The production of Gilbert and Sullivan's
Japanese opera was set down for March II at
the Savoy theatre, in London.
DANIEL FEoHAAN is to be the manager Of
an entirely new theatre, which is to DO built
In New York during the coming summer.
BENJAMIN A. BAKER, assistant secretary of
the actors fund in New York, is the Oldest
american stage manager now living.
CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG predicts that
Italian opera is doomed, and that it will soon
Do rendered III this country only in English.
AUGUSTA FOSTER, who is playing leading
business with Madame Ristori, has been en-
gagged for the same position with Salvini next
season.
IT is again rumored that Henry Irving has
refused the honor of knighthcod. The great
actor would prefer a baronetcy, which IS he
reditary.
HERR JOACHIM, the eminent violinist, was
ayouthful prodigy. He played in England
at the age Of THU teen. where he has always
been a favorlte and a frequent visitor.
The signs of the times are ominous: Mrs.
Langtry has given up her engagement at the
otar theatre Tor next fall. Has the failure
Of Princess Georges" in London crushed
the Jersey Lily!
OPERA is given twice a week in Venezuela,
and the subsidy received by the present man
agement is $40, COO for the season Of three
months, with free use of the house and
scenery, which belongs to tho government.
ANTOINE SYLVIA is under contract to sing
in this country, and is expected to arrive
soon. L. NJ. Ruben will manage him. Sylvia
has for several years past been the leading
tenor at the Italian opera, st. Petersburg.
BoUcICAULT announces that he has can
celed his London dates for next season, and
adds that, believing Irish drama will be IN
popular in England for many years to come,
lie regards it as improbable that he will ever
appear there again.
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A DOUBLE TRAGEDY.

A Ncwly-Wcddcd Vir1inia Couple
Murdercd-A Missing SuitOr.
News of a frightful tragedy has been re-
ceived from Wise county, Virginia. In
the neighborhood Of Bonds Mills, the
Hentons, Mitchel!s, and Rcynoldses were
the leading families, and Martha
Reynolds was the belle of the whole region.
She had many ~suitors, the most favored of
whom were Charles Henton and ''Bud'
Mitchell. Not certain which sho loved the
most, she engaged herself to both. IIenton
became aware of the fact, and persuaded the
girl to elope with him. They left the n~cighbor-
hood, were quietly married, and returned
to the home of the BRIDES parents.
That night the wedding was celebrated with
a dance. bud" Mitchell was present, and,
under the influence of liquor, became noisy
and insulting. He berated the bride for her
fckleness, and finally slapped her. Her hus-
band, bearing of it, ran across the room, and
gave Mitchell q beating, and was only pre-
vented from killing him by his friends.
Mitchell left, vowing vengeance.
The following night Henton and his wife
attended a prayer meeting at q rural church,
going home by q short cut. Mitchell was not
seen by any one. AS Henton and his wife
failed to put in an appearance, search was
made the next day, and their bodies, dis
covered in a lonely spot in the path they
were following. The woman's head was
nearly severed from her body. Henton had
been shot in the breast, and afterward the
assassin had pounded his head to a Jelly with
q stone. Mitchell was missing.
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NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.

BERNARD FREEL, the proprietor, and
James Martin, an employe of the Dunkirk
hotel at Bradford, Penn, were burned to
death in a fire which destroyed the building
and three adjoining structures The thirty
sleeping guests in the hotel had a hard time
IN escaping, a number being compelled to
jump from the windows and sustaining
more or less serious injuries,
JOSEPH BARRETT, fifty-fve years old, a
convict in the Philadelphia prison, was greatly
affected by the preparations for DR.. Goer-
sens execution. After the execution Barrett
was found dead III his cell, and is supposed to
have been frightened to death.
PAUL BAUER, q prominent Coney Island
~hotel-keeper, has been sentenced to three
months Imprisonment and to pay a fine Of
S75o for allowing pool-selling on horse races
in his premises.
7. s. ARTHUR, the we'll known writer and
publisher, died the other day in Philadelphia,
aged seventy-six years.
FALDINE HoEFFNER, a Brooklyn baker,
shot Miss Susanna Lesser three times, infict-
ing probably mortal injuries, and then killed
himself. Unrequited lovo was the cause Of
the double crime.
WHAT will probably be q big strike has be-
gun in Western Pennsylvania, 1000 miners
in the Pittsburg district leading OFF by quit
ting work.
Four mills belonging to q powder manu-
factory situated near Newburg, N. Y, were
completely destroyed by an explosion and
two men instantly killed and q third proba-
bly, fatally injured. The explosions were
heard thirty miles away.
AT a meeting of the New York p~resbytery
q committee reported in favor of retiring the
Rev. Dr.. Burchard, whose "Rum, Romanism
and Rebellion" speech during the last days Of
the late political campaign suddenly made
him conspicuous before tho country. Mr..
Burchard, who is seventy-four years old, Is to
be retired with a pension of $500.
THE wife Of Deacon Sidney S.. Brown, Of
Gowanda, N. Y, has been acknowledged by
the English courts as the heiress to the Law
rence-Townley estate in England, valued at
500, 600, O0O, her share being $40, 100000.
The fishing schooner Solomon Poole, Of
Gloucester, Mass, with fifteen men on board,
has been given up as lost.
A NITRo-GLYcERINE factory and magazine
containing nearly 5000 pounds Of the terrible
explosive, located three miles from Bradford,
Penn, were scattered into fragments by All
explosion which shook the country for miles
around. W. H. Harrington, one Of the pro-
prietors, and H. Y. Platt, an employee, were
killed. This was the most terrific nitro
glycerine explosion ever known in the oil
country.
Four negroes were drowned at Minock's
Landing, La, by the swapping Of their
skiff.
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Pen Paralysis.

Many stenographers and persons who
make their living by constant use OF the
pen or pencil, are afflicted with pen
paralysis; and, although, as a general
thing this trouble can be cured by~a few
months rest, some-of those writers
afflicted with it never rccover. Nobody
knows the strain of incessant ~penmanship
upon the muscles and nerves of the hand
and wrist better, or indeed as we'll, ss
those who pass through q daily expert
ence of that nature.
Telegraph operators are likewise
afflicted with paralysis of the sam,
muscles. A Times reporter had a con-
versation recently with q trst-clGs,
operator, and he asked this question:
"I understand hat first. class tele-
graphers are the only ones who get tele.
graphers' paralysis; why don'tthe second
and third-rate operators get it,"
because" replied the Morse man, "a
good operator is paid a good salary, and
is consequently kept constantly working
at the board, while a second or third
rate man has many resting spells, which
allow him to stretch his arms, and thus
escape paralysis. Many men who havo
been working for the company for years.
and were getting good wages, have been
compelled to give up their lucrative m
ployment by telegraphers' paralysis. You
notice it first in the muscle of your arm.
which becomes numb after n hard days
work, and within six mouths after the
first shock the stoutest operator will sue.
clmb. This paralysis, however, does
not destroy the use Of your arm and
fingers entirely. but while you arc ablc
to lift and handle objects of any consid-
cradle size, you will not be able to but
ton your coat or suspcnders."
Don't that account for some OF tho
mistakes made in ~telegraphing2"
"Yes, indeed. Many mistakes in telc-
graphing, charged ut first to defects in
the machinery, have been traced to pa
ralysis in the operator, because it soon
becomes evident that the operator has
lost his sense of touch. You sce, tho
slightest pressure on the key over what
is required will produce another letter
than the one intended by the operator,
and so it soon comes about that what tho
unfortunate operator at first attributes TO
overwork finally comes to be IN evident
loss of scnsitiveness of touch. Thi.
usually occurs from six to eight years
after m operator has been working
steadily as u first class mau."-HarytorI
Times.
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ENGLAND AND RUSSIA.
The Latter's March Toward Hcrat
Likely 10 End in War.

The Latter's March Toward Hcrat
Likely 10 End in War.
\ London paper says that the English
government has sent an emphatic demand to
ST. Petersburg fer the withdrawal Of the
Russian troops now OH Afghan territory.
Tho despatch partook of the character of an
ultimatum.
Orders have been sent to Sir Peter Lums-
den, the British commissioner on the Afghan
frontier, to direct the .Afghars to evacuate
Penjdeh on the withdrawal of the Russian
forces from Akrobat. Baron de Staal, the
Russian ambassador. has promised that the
Russian troops shall retire.
The British government has suspended the
operation Of the factory act limiting the
number Of hours during which worklnen may
he employed Us far as it relates to the royal
arsenal at Woolwich. The object is to allow
the workshops Mt the arsenal to he run at
their full capacity night and day and to en-
able them to turn out $500, 900 cartridges per
week.
Despite the pacific assurances Of Russia,
the British war Office is despatching troops
to India with all possible speed. The num-
Der sent forward is limited only by the
means Of transportation, rs there arc far
more men available for active service than
can be sent to the scene of the expected hos
t%ilities, owing to the lack of vessels.
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Senate Spccial ScsHion-Scventh Day.

.
MI. Van Wyck's resolution directing the
secretary Of the interior and the attorney
general to take steps to prevent the sale Of
lands granted to the State of Florida to aid
in the construction Of railroads in that State
was discussed without action. Mr.. Man.
dcrson introduced a resolution calling
upon the secretary OF state for such informa'
ton as the department may have regarding
the rumorei attempt Of General Rutino Bar
rios, president Of Guatemala. to seize upon
the territory or destroy the integrity OF the
republics of Nicaragua, Honduras, San Sal,
vador and Costa Rica, and to report what
steps were being taken by the government to
preserve the rights of the United States un'
der existing or pending treaties. ...Mr
George presented the credentials of E. G.
Walthall as United Senator from Mississippi.