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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-04
Alleged Proposition of President Lin
coin to Buy OFF the South.

The St. Louis Giobe-Democrdt prints, edi-
torially, the following interesting facts in
connection with President Lincoln and the
war: a number of personal friends were
discussing some incidents of the late war.
One OF them spoke of Mr.. Lincoln's aversion
to bloodshed, and, in illustration, said he
had it from member of the cabinet of the
war period that Mr.. Lincoln, on his return
from the Hampton Roads conference, in
February, 1865, proposed to his cabinet to
submit message to congress giving to the
Southern States an amount of money equal
to the probable cost of the war from that
time to its close, on condition of their laying
down their arms and returning to their
loyalty to the Union. The editor of the Globe
Democrat, hearing of the conversation, sent
a memorandum of it to Hon. John p. Usher,
who was at the time referred to Mr. Lin
resident OF Lawrence, Kansas, requesting
him to state his recollection as to its cor
rectness. From Mr.. Usher's reply, we make
the following extract: Soon after his Uin-
coln's) return from the James River, the
cabinet was convened and he read to it for
approval message which he had prepared
to be submitted to congress, in which he
recommended that congress appropriate
S3OO,OOO,OOO, TO be apportioned among the
several states in proportion to slave popu-
lation, to be distributed to the holders of
slaves in those states, upon condition that
they would consent to the abolition of
slavery and the disbanding of the insurgent
army, and would acknowledge and submit
to the laws of the United States. The
members of the cabinet were all opposed.
He seemed somewhat surprised at that, and
asked: How long will the war last2' No
one answered, but he soon said: A hun
dred days. Well, we are spending now in
carrying on the war S3,000,000 a day,
which will amount to all this money be-
sides all the lives;' and With deep sigh he
added: But you are all opposed to me,
and will not send the message
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-04
The Ruined BrattlebOrO Bank.

The affairs of the ruined First National
Bank were finally closed last week and the
stockholders received their final dividend
from Receiver Price of nineteen and five
eighths per cent, which was pleasant sur
prise to them, as they had not calculated on
receiving more than twelve per cent after
the necessary expenses had been taken out
This, together with the previous dividend
makes total of sixty-four and five-eighths
per cent returned of the twenty-five per
cent assessment which the stockholders
were called upon to pay, in addition to the
loss of their stock and was necessary to pay
the depositors and other creditors of the
bank. Waite's protest against this last
division was unheeded after the decision of
the supreme court affirming the validity of
the judgment against his estate There is
general feeling among the unfortunate
stockholders of the bank that Receiver
Price has unraveled the tangled affairs as
best he could under the circumstances. and
saved as much from the wreck as could
reasonably have been expected. Some of
the stockholders unnecessarily shuddered
because of the belief that Waite's stubborn
resistance to closing matters would ne cess-
tate even another assessment of the stock,
which could not have been met by many;
consequently, the outcome is quite satisfac-
tory.-BrdtlebOrO Letter.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-04
General Term of Supreme Court.

The cases heard since our last report are
the hdbeds corpus case from Middlebury. in
re William II. SHELL A p. Pond u.s. W. II.
Stiles and Luther Barker, from Franklin
county; l.. A. Lyman, administrator Us.
Central Vermont Railroad; the cross suit of
Joseph Battell Us. John Matot, and Matot
Us. Battell, from Addison county; and Cen
trail Vermont Railway Us. Town of Royal
ton. The case of Rutland Railroad Us. Glenn
ents, Mead and Haven is now being argued,
and will probably occupy two days.
Thursday afternoon, on the coming in of
the court, on motion of Colonel Walker of
Rutland, Charles M. Bennett and Walter A.
Button of Montpelier, Frank c. Partridge
and I. w. Maloney of Rutland and Fuller
q. Smith of Vergennes were admitted and
sworn in as attorneys of the courts of YER
mont. The committee reported that II.
w. Love had reached the required aver
age in the examinations that there were
Irregularities disclosed in the papers which
he had fled that a petition, signed by a
majority of the Rutland county bar, pro-
testing against his admission, had been re-
ceived by the committee, who refused to
recommend his admission. There were
eleven applicants for admission.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-04
Adirondack Murray in st. JOhnsbury.

w. III. III. Murray" Adirondack Murray"
read the history of John Norton, the trap
per, before a good audience in the town
hall last Monday evening. The entertain
ment was pronounced one of the most en-
joyable given here in long time. Every
one present left the hall with heart
kinder towards the poor than before he en-
tered it, AT the close of his reading he
stepped away from the desk and called at
tention to an article which had appeared in
the st. Johnsbury Republicans, speaking of
Mr.. Murray as the man with =" a wasted
life" Mr.. Murray then gave brief record
OF his life from the time he was seven years
old, his struggle with poverty in childhood
and while acquiring a collegiate education,
of his long ministry in Park street church.
his work on the Golden Rule, his published
stories, showing that he had already accom-
plished the usual work of half dozen lit
erary men, and, Notwithstanding his two or
three years in saw-mill and saloon business,
he had in him reserve for still larger
amount of literary work which he proposed
to do. Then he devoted few sentences to
the author of the item, and when he had
finished, if there was wasted life" in
that audience, Brother johnson of the Re
publican, who had shrunk up into the pro-
portions of a small boy, looked as if he felt
responsible for it.-Lyndon Union.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-04

by planting manufactures on the sterile soil
of Massachusetts-and they were the con-
temporaries of such men as Webster and
Choate and of honest John Davis and of
Winthrop-and thus developing and multi
plying the employments of your people, CIV
ing every man of your state an opportunity
to do his best, have secured its growth, its
prosperity and its reputation the world over
without this policy, the farms of Massa-
chusetts to-day would not bring one-half of
their present valuation. 1t is through this
policy that the rich endowments of your
colleges have taken place. 1t is by this policy
that you have established broadcast your
common schools. Without IL one-half, more
than one-half of the pulpits of your churches,
and the church-gong BELLS would to-day be
silent. Without this policy your state to-day
would not have one-fourth of the present
magnitude of its population. And vet some
OF these men, If they could carry out their
policy, If they could be successful in my
Judgment in very short time would be
nothing but tramps in the streets. The pro-
tective tariff is not local question. Its
beneficence touches the foot as well as the
hand, the heart as well as the head. Its
example-the example of Massachusetts,
may be as safely followed in the South as
in the North, in Virginia and Georgia as in
Pennsylvania and New York, in the states
beyond the Mississippi as well as in Illinois
and Ohio. In fact, our great wheat-helds of
the West, unless they can find great and
steadfast home market, will soon find that
they have no attraction to emigrants for
their magnificent productions. A foreign
market is will-o'-the-wisp. The only
sure props of our great western wheat and
corn-growing territories is tariff and cheap
transportation. But it is said that we must
have revenue reform. And what is that
Why, it is mugwump gravitation down
ward toward free-trade. The effect of it
will be, whether designed or not, to cheaper
labor and to deprive labor of some of its
present comforts and ornaments. Its effect
will be to send more of our children bare
foot into the fields and into the workshops
and less to the common schools. / NAV say
that the free-traders would emascuate the
Declaration of Independence they would
not leave us enough manhood to support
anything more than government OF the
police, not enough to enable us to choose
our own avocations. l trust. however that
we shall have enough of that ancient heroic
independence to show that we intend now
and forever, in peace or in war, to make
our own coats and shirts-n homely phase,
to make our own. dresses and blankets, to
make our own shoes and stockings, to
make our own dinner-plates, and knives
and forks, above all, to make our own ships
and cannon; and finally, that we shall have
enough to demand a little Americanism in
our colleges. 1t strikes me that it would be
well, and / don't wish to boycott them.
But life is too short for our young men to
learn and unlearn theories that have no
root anywhere except upon aristocratic soil
upon the soil of England"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-04
GOld-Mining in Vermont.

The recent discovery of gold-bearing rock,
in sufficient quantities to pay for working,
in various parts of Windsor county, notably
in Plymouth, has stirred up a gold-fever of
no small proportions in other localities,
especially in Reading and West Windsor.
The original prospecting was done in most
instances by experienced miners from Cali
fornia and Colorado. The extremely rugged
topography of the country about the head
of Mill brook and its tributaries would seem
to invite prospecting parties into this re-
gion in search of the precious metal, as the
land is poorly adapted to farming purposes
except in occasional places. 1t is worthy
OF remark that no one seems to have inves-
tigated the gravelly beds of Mill brook and
It's many little branches, where the water
for ages has been running down-sometimes
IN trickling streams, sometimes in torrents
wearing its way deep into the rock and
through veins of alleged gold-bearing
quartz, to discover If such gravel at bedrock
Is auriferous or not. Should such inyesti-
CATION be made faithfully, and gold in pay
ing quantities in quartz veins through
which these streams flow is found to such
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-04
The Unhappy Democrats.

A Rutland correspondent presumably a
democrat) writes the Burlington Independ-
ent as follows: "In the makeup of the
democr attic state committee, each county in
the tate is entitled to one member. AS
there has been so much said III papers pub
lished in the state, as well as out of it,,
scandalizing to the democracy of Vermont,
in reference to the manner of making Sc
lections and methods adopted in the distri-
button of offices, it would seem to be ur-
gently necessary that meeting of the state
committee should be called and thorough
investigation had, so that the democratic
party in this state may know whether these
charges are true or not, and, If true,
whether the state committee, as a whole,
is prepared to shoulder the responsibility
for such course. As it now stands, each
member of the committee is responsible,
politically, for any bad appointment or
recommendation for presidential office. l
believe some do not wish it to be so under
stood"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-04
Windsor County.


THE members of the Universalist Sunday
school gave very entertaining harvest con-
cert at their church on Sunday evening,
which was largely attended. 60 George
Alexander started on Monday to join the
Vermont Colony in Dakota - A. l..
Stearns is building an addition to his livery
stable. - Mrs. G. p. Coy is suffering
from a disease of the throat that renders
it impossible for her to speak above whis-
per. - Forty-tive tickets We're sold at
this station for the Boston excursion last
week. - George Lombard came home
from Montpelier on Friday of last week.
- We hear that the committee is begin
ming to consider the holding of the annual
Masonic ball. - G.. j. Wallace and G.. III.
Kidder have sold the Samuel Bean farm to
Herbert Barrett. - The young people
connected with the graded school are holding
very pleasant lyceums once in two weeks.
- Work has been commenced on the
foundation for Kittredges new building.
-C e. III. Kidder shipped two carloads
of stock last Monday. - Rev. f.. Fisxe
has returned. 80 Amos Chamberlin has
bought the Daniel Kinney house on " Chris
tan Hill"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-04
Chittenden County.
Richmond.

M. DAVIDSON, Esq, is visiting friends in
this vicinity. Mrs. Cowan of Montreal is
also stopping in this place - The Cath
Ole society will hold fair at Bostwicks
hall on Thursday, Friday and Saturday
evenings of this week. Several articles of
furniture are to be drawn and a gold-headed
ebony cane will be presented to the candi-
date receiving the most votes. - The
village people are putting in street lamps at
their own expense. Hilton & Stevens, DIR.
Green and j. G. Barber have already done
so, and several others will soon follow suit
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-04

THE ROYAL BAKER AND PASTRY CooK-a
royal addition to the kitchen library. 1t
contains over seven hundred recipes per-
tanning to every branch of the culinary de-
partment, including baking, roasting, pre-
serving, soups, cakes, jellies, pastry and all
kinds of sweetmeats, with recipes for .the
most delicious candies, cordials, beverages
and all other necessary knowledge for the
chef de cuisine of the most exacting epicure,
as well as for the more modest housewife,
who desires to prepare for her lord and
master a repast that shall be both whole
some and economical. With each recipe is
given full and explicit directions for putting
together, manipulating, shaping, baking and
kind of utensil to be used, so that novice
can go through the operation with success /;
while a special and important feature is
made of the mode of preparing all kinds of
food and delcacies for the sick. The book
has been prepared under the direction of
Professor Rudmani, late chez of the New
York Cooking School, and is the most valu-
able of the recent editions upon the subject
of cookery that has come to our notice. 1t
is gotten up in the highest style of the
printers art, on illuminated covers, etc.
We are assured that every can of the " Royal
Baking Powder contains an order for one
of these valuable books.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-04

The funeral of Ex-Governor Page, last
week, was attended by many prominent
people of Vermont and other states. Among
those present We're Governor Pingree and
members of his staff, eS-Governors Proctor
and Smith, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Ormsbee,
Judge Shaw, Judge Prout, Hon. Ira Allen,
General Burnett of New York, j. w. Hobart,
j. w. Hickok, General Ripley and many
others, including railroad officers from all
over New England. The employees of the
Howe scale works attended the funeral in a
body, as did the Rutland fire department
and representatives of the village govern
ment. The Kingsley Guard acted as guard
of honor. All the schools, factories and
business houses We're closed during the
afternoon as "A mark of respect.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-04

GENERAL MILES, commanding the depart
ment Of the Missouri, has received official
information that about four hundred we'll
armed and equipped men are on their way
10 the Oklahoma territory, determined TO
fight II necessary, for possession of the land.
Troops will proceed against them at once.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-04

GEORGE w. FOSTER Of st. Adams died
last Monday, of a short illness of pneumonia,
aged siXty-seven years. He was in mer-
camille business in st. Adams several years
was at one time a custom-house officer in
Alburgh, and for some years past a director
of the First National bank
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-04

BEREAVEMENT of the liver, with constipa-
ton, injure the complexion, induce pinples,
sallow skin, etc Remove the cause by using
Carter's Little Liver Pills. One dose.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-04
Orleans County.
Craftsbury.

THE Orleans county educational society
will hold a meeting in this place on Friday,
November 18th, during the day and evening
A full attendance of superintendent and
teachers is desired.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-04
Glover.

WILLIAM MERRIAM has sold his farm in
Barton to Gilbert Cass. - John Borland
had two teeth broken off by base ball one
day last week. - William Fuller is very
low with consumption.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-10-15
Knows When to Laugh.

ttThere is man in this city," said a
well-known Washington lawyer to the
New York Telegram correspondent,
''whose chief stock in trade is in know
ing when to laugh. Yes," he continued,
and that mans profession is that Of a
lobbyist. He is smooth talker and al
ways has his hands full of business. One
day last winter I was in his COM
pany, when he introduced me to Jer-
seyman, who had come down to Wash
ington to look after some matters before
Congress. In the course of the conver-
sation the Jerseyman told joke-a ver-
table chestnut. My friend laughed
immoderately, but as l had heard the
so-called joke thousand or more times
i could not join in the merriment. The
next day met my lobbyist friend, who
said: I was probably as much bored
last night as you were; but the fact that
I indulged my Jersey friend and laughed
at his stale jokes has brought me ducats.
Here is his check for 81, 900, which he
gave me as a retainer to represent his
claim before committee of the house.
Sam Ward, he continued, made fame
and fortune by knowing how to feed
people. I make my money because !
know how and when to laugh"
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-10-15
How to Eat Reed Birds.

The most succulent portion of the
reed bird is the base of its brain. Hold
the bill in one hand and crush your
teeth through the back Of the head, and
then thank Providence that you are per-
mitted to live. Reed birds need no con-
comitants when cooking. Select the
fattest and bake them whole, the entrails
having been removed, or split them up
the back and broil them, leaving the
flesh very slightly rare. Better still,
place in either shape in pan with a
small lump of butter, pepper and salt
and cook over quick fire. That is
simple, isn't it2 and yet Lucullus would
have envied you the morsel. Use no
fork in eating. Take the neck of the
bird in the left hand and his little right
leg in the right hand. Tear away the
right leg and eat all but the extreme end
of the bone. Take the remaining left
leg in your right hand and place in your
mouth the entire body of the bird, the
head alone excepted, and then MUNICH
the sweetest morsel that ever brought
gustatory delight. Having finished 1t
bones and all, dispose of the head as |
told you before. All that remains Of the
bird then is the front portion Of the
head and the tiny bits Of bone that formed
the ends of the legs. To leave more is
to betray your unappreciativeness Of a
gift of the gods. - Philadelphia NsaOs.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-10-15
The Seal Fishery.

The seal fishery has been unusually
successful this year. Many steamers
have returned from the sealing grounds
loaded down almost to the waters edge.
Steamer Ranger with over two hun
dred men on board, returned to st.
Johns with $4,000 prime young harp
seals, the largest catch for her tonnage
ever taken into any port in the world,
every nook and corner of the ship being
jammed full. She was compelled to
steam slowly from the time of leaving
the ice, to prevent upsetting, and had to
creep home inch by inch. Fortunately
the sea was calm all the way. Her deck
covered to the top of her rails with Z, 100
seals, was sight never before seen in
st. Johns. The companion-way was
covered in. only room enough being left
for man to squeeze himself into the
doorway. Thelazaret contained 720, and
250 were slowed under the hunks in
which the men slept. Eight puneheons
were filed with oil, and the rest was
slowed in the hold h}ayN Press.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-10-15

The presiding genius Of the place is a
fat and handsome Mexican, whose unc-
tuous complexion glistens in the glow OF
the charcoal fire that blazes softly in a
cavernous, horizontal slit in the gigantic
chimney. 1t is like no other cooking ar
rangement that ever was seen Dozens
of tiny saucepans and skillets, set fat
upon the Goals, crowd the opening very
much, like invalided teeth in some great
ogre's mouth, and in each Of those little
skillets and saucepans is the portion for
one person. The treasures of earth could
not induce that oily cook to consolidate
his dishes, and, more especially, to fry
more than one egg ata time in his egg
pan; his laws are fixed and unalterable,
and he rewards the protests Of his guests
against cold eggs served in CONCEALED oil
with Mexican indifference. Thirteen
plates for the thirteen waiting customers
stand ready Tor his hand, and the long
handled frying pan makes thirteen sepa-
rate journeys with thirteen separate eggs,
the while that two assistants, degree
dirtier, oilier and less fat, chop onion
and CRATE cheese, which are spreY inAl-
ly over the chilled eggs and cold i, and
placed before the hungry peoY :, whom
days anticipatory fast has prepared to
accept anything with gratitude. In lieu
Of fork very fat pancake, called y
''tortilla,n is doled out to each one.
Years Of practice are required fo- the
successful manipulation of this most
useful article, which, when you have
done with as scoop, and have diIigent-
ly and successfully chased the particles
of food in the sea of oil that fills your
plate, you are expected to eat as final
course most cleanly and labor saving
arrangement.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-10-15
The First Sank in Europe.

The bank of Venice, the first Of its
KIND established in Europe, was founded
in III. It owed its existence to the
long wars between the Guelphs and the
Ghibellines, and the governments need
of money for conducting them. Having
exhausted every other resource, the state
was obliged to resort to forced loans
from its wealthy citizens. Then was or
ganized the chamber of loans, which by
degrees assumed the form of bank. 1t
is said of this institution that sit was
for many ages the admiration of Eu-
rope, the chief instrument of Venetian
finance, and the chief facility Of com
merce not surpassed by that of any Eu-
ropean nation" Funds once deposited
in the bank could not be Withdrawn,
but were transferable at the pleasure of
the owners upon its books. So thor
oughly did the bank credits become the
means through and by which the fnan-
cial operations Of the people were con-
Quoted, that with scarcely an exception
during its entire existence, these credits
were at premium over coin, the latter
being often clipped and worn, as well as
being of various countries and uncer
tain values. We may infer that the peo-
pie were we'll satisfied with the workings
Of the bank from the statement of
we'll known economical writer that "no
book, speech, or pamphlet has been
found in which any merchant or dweller
in Venice ever put forth any condemna-
ton of its theory or its practices. The
bank of Venice continued without in
terruption until the Venetian republic
was overthrown by the revolutionary
army of France in 1897.