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New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-12-16
me Dss Moline. Valley Lands.

Senator Wilson, Of Iowa, has renewed his
proposition to settle the old and vexed
question of title in the Des Moines valley
These lands are along the Des Moines above
accom- fork. Under . grant in aid OF q
canal in 1846, they were improperly certi-
fled by the department OF the interior to the
state Of Iowa. thereirom located lands
sold by the United States, the state 70.
ceived indemnity lands for them, and the
Iowa legislature, in 1866, ratified the ac-
sceptance. By this. act the state was stop
ped from al claims to tho grant in the Des
Moines valley. Settlers went on these
granted lands supposing they were part Of
the public domain. the state treated them
as trespassers, and sued them.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-12-16
What q Fall Was There.

Chicago, Special Hon. Henry O'Connor
appeared in the Armory court as prosecut-
ing witness against Fred Hart, Tor having,
he alleged, robbad him Of his pocket book
and a railroad pass. Wearing yet en- his
swollen and diseolored lace the imprint
OF intellectnalilty his Intellectual at
tempts to appear the man he had
been. were pitiiul to behold Henry O, Con.
nor was for years attorney gene raj Of Iowa.
J He g sixty years q age and has held many,
positions d trust and honor. The man
Hart was discharged and the decree OF the
court Was endorsed by the ex-attorney gen.
Seral. Justice Mech gave the once eminent
he would follow y. The escort Of an q Heel
was given hin, TO his hotel.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-12-16

The annual encampment Of the Minncsn-.
ia department Of the G. A. r. will be held
in Faribault in February. It is expected
that about one Thousand Of the order will
be in attendance.
VIM. Brecht is believed to have murdered
Fred Schliehtha near Red Wing by cut
ting the arteries in his wrist, and leaving
him to bleed to death.
Mankatois about to have horse rail-
road.
The young men Of Window, determ ned
not to be outdone by st. Paul, have con-
structed an ice boat, which will sail on
Lake Cottonwood sls
Louis Lemay, a boy Of thirteen, while
skating on Centerville Lake, broke through
the ice, and before assistance could chad,
was drowned. The only one with the boy
when he broke in was his brother. eight
years old. The sad news was received at
home just as dancing had commenced at
his brothers wedding. which had taken
4 place a few hours before.
At the last regular meeting of the Owa-
tonna fire department it was decided to
enter the Minnesota State Fire associations,
and elect delegates to the annual meeting,
which will be held at: Shak opee on Jan. IS.
Recently 2, 100 ponnds Of fish were taken
L rom Ine lake Agso1uk center by one party
and shipped TO st. Paul, and the neuspsa
pefs are bowling at the Wholesale slaughter.
I'm. 6hntfer sued postmaster Quinn. 81
WAverly. for So, 600 damages fof cutting
him with . penknite, q few months ago.
The suit Waa dismissed because 81 detective
papers.
y. Larson, 81 atertown d, Oak, was e.
rested at lAyOca for steal iinR goods 81 amer.
chant, and sentenced to thirty days IA lail.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-12-16

About 5000 bushels ofwheat broke the
floor Of the new mill at DEVILS Lake, Oak,
:iuyolyipg a loss Of So. 600. ,sassf. n 8s '
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-02-11
The Resurrection Of the Just.

l cannot consent to distort its words
from their plain sense and chronological
place in the prophecy on account of anv
consideration of difficulty or any risk
of abuses which the doctrine of the
Millennium may bring with it. Those
who lived next to apostles and the
whole church for three hundred years
understood them in the plain literal
sense; and it is a strange sight in these
days to see expositors, who are among
the first in reverence of antiquity, COM
placently casting aside the most cogent
instance of unanimity which primitive
antiquity presents. AS regards the
text itself, no legitimate treatment of it
will extort what is known as the "spir-
ltual Interpretation now in fashion," If
in a passage where two restrictions
are mentioned, where certain souls
lived at the first and the rest of the
dead lived only at the end of specified
period after that first, if in such pas
sage the first resurrection may be I'M
derstood to mean spiritual rising with
Christ, while the second means literal
rising from the grave, then there is an
end of all significance in language, and
Scripture is wiped out as a definite tes-
timony in anything. If the first resur-
rection is spiritual, then so is the sec
ond, which | suppose no one will be
hardy enough to maintain; but if the
second is literal, then so is the first,
which in common with the whole print
tive church, and many of the best mod
ern expositors, l do maintain and re-
ceive as an article of faith and hope
Dean A ford on Reueldtion Gr.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-02-11
The View from Washington Monument.

Yes, pass is absolutely neces-
sary," said the conductor of the Wash
ington monument elevator the other
lar into his hand and crowded his way
upon the platform. WASN'T the young
man, because l had gone to Colonel
Casey and got regular pass. The
young man was evidently on his bridal
tour, and had travelled enough to know
that silver answers as pass to every
thing. 1t certainly will in this city,
but one wants plenty of it. There
were about twenty-five persons on the
elevator, packed as close as we could
stand, but as it has carried all the tons
of stone that are piled one upon the
other, without single accident, there
was no danger. The trip each way
takes ten minutes, and unless one tries
to look over the railing and down the
deepest hole in the world of its kind,
there is nothing to make the head giddy
till you reach the top and take look at
the surrounding country. There you
won't think of giddiness for the grand
eur of the view. Washington, George
town, Alexandria and the surrounding
country for radius of forty miles are
spread out before you like a raised
map. You look down over one hun
dred fifty feet upon the dome of the
capitol. The White House, with its
gardens and driving park, is directly at
your feet The city seems to be filled
with toy houses. The broad Potomac
stretches away in either direction till it
is lost in the haze of distance in the
northwest and the Chesapeake bay in
the east. Teams look like playthings
and persons no bigger than flies. That
statement is not meant to exaggerate,
and have not talked with one yet who
has been on the top of the monument
who has not said the same thing. You
get there the reality of birds-eye view
pictures. 1t will satisfy ones ambi-
ton to go up in balloon. He would
hereafter prefer to look down five hun
dred fifty feet from solid rock than
from frail basket. A visitor to Wash
ington who does not go to the top of
the monument will miss the rarest treat
of his life Washington Correspond
ence Concord Monitor.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-02-11
Burdette on Hornets.


Ella Wheeler's latest poem is "The
Room Beneath the Rafters," in which
she declares she "saw the hornet come
forth from his mud-walled hanging
house." We don't intend to criticise
Mrs. Wilcox's poetry, but when she
calls mud wasp hornet we kick. A
hornets nest, Ella, is made of home
spun paper, and is built around 268, 900
hexagonal holes, there being, when the
nest is in executive session, about 800
hornets to the hole. The nest grows
in a good season to the size of bushel
and half measure. Moreover, people
do not lie in the trundle bed" and
watch the hornets play, as you say you
did. All, no; when they happen to come
unexpectedly upon the hornet at play,
they turn and fly, or would fly, if they
could trade off their boots for pair of
wings. The chief industry among the
hornets is the manufacture of probes
and bodkins. Hamlet speaks of taking
his quietus "with bare bodkin. T"
Now, when man takes about three
quarters of an inch of hornets bod
kin, it doesn't make his quietus. Land,
no! it makes him jump and holler until
you can hear him mile and half, OF
two miles.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-02-11
American Preachers Not Sensational.

The nearer of itching ears may, there
fore, search in vain through the length
and width of some of the chief cities Of
America for sensational preaching.
The imperial city of New York does
not possess such an article. Probably
the impression of the English sermon
hunter, after pretty careful raid for
his favorite style, would be that the
preaching of New York was good, schol-
arly, in excellent taste, but to him a
trifle commonplace and dull. 1t is.
probable that all the sensation which
the American can bear is furnished
him by the newspaper press. Other
forms of intellectual effort may also
suffer from a reaction against this sem
sationalism of the newspapers and be
almost too much restrained within the
stricter lines of oratorical and literary
style. American public speaking is al
ways good, but it is rather stiff and
stilted. American authorship suffers
somewhat in the same manner. More
naturalness, and simplicity, and direct
ness in the pulpit would not be amiss.
But we doubt whether the average
American congregation, in some places
at least, would like such preaching. 1t
would not be bookish enough, and being
interesting, its very simplicity would
raise a suspicion of its depth and thor
oughness. DR.. L. ID. Beran, in
the Quiuer for February.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-02-11
Burning His Infldel Books.

The most impressive instance of the
power of truth on the conscience, in
my memory, is that of an intelligent
man, who sent for me after mid
night to tell me how to be saved and to
pray for him; for he did not think he
could pray for himself. | spent the
rest of the night with him, praying
with him and teaching him. He rose
from his bed again to kneel, and though
obviously dying, as indicated by his
breathing, he found a key, showed me
how to open a heavy trunk and found
in it parcel of books. 81 want YOU"
he said, to take these to keep them
from any other hands, to promise me
that you will burn them" His look and
tone / cannot forget, as he said, "They
have brought my soul to the very brink
of hell; they were my destruction" l
kept my promise. He died in the early
forenoon, trust sincerely, as he pro-
fessed, trusting himself as sinner in
the hands of God in Christ, the only
Savior.-Dr. John Hall.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-02-11

be under foreigners. Is it not SO, O
soldiers? / also inform YOU
that there are no French among us
now; and foreigners here are those
only with whom we are on terms of
friendship, so let every one take care
not to injure either their property or
their persons. Yet, o people, whatever
be our strength, or however great our
numbers, all will be in vain without the
aid of God; so let each one of us ask
him to help and save us in this our lust
cause. My last word is this, o SOL
diers: Even though we should perish
Gin our warfare), we need not feel
ashamed or disgraced for fighting (for
the right. Our name and our fame
will live forever; for we had better die
than give up our fatherland. Is il not
so, o soldiers?-Ne,D York Evangelist.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-02-11
The Blind English Statesman.

On a recent Sunday reference was
made in many sermons in London to
the late pOstmaster-general, Henry
Fawcett. At Westminster Abbey, in
the afternoon, Archdeacon Farrar
preache before a crowded congrega-
ton on Hebrews xii: 7. Quoting the
exhortation of the Latin poet, "Yield
not thou to thy trials, but rather adj
vance more boldly, whittier thy fortune
shall suffer thee" he said that this was
but the picture of one who, not corrupt
ing the strength of heaven-descended
will, triumphed over fate and death and
time. 1t was but the determination
even if the worst befell, to work the
work of him who sent us while it was
day. OF the man thus nobly resolute
it might be said,
He shall not dread misfortune's dingy nien,
Nor idly sink beneath her onset rude.
"On Monday last" continued the arch
deacon, we held in this abbey fun
eral service for one who, by Gods
grace, set to the world in this respect
an example conspicuously noble. Henry
Fawcett, the postmaster-general, who
has lust been laid in his grave amid
SO many tears, had been blind from
early manhood nearly thirty years
He was out shooting with his father
when by some strange accident as we
call these issues of Gods unseen provi-
dence, shot entered the pupil OF both
his eyes, and from that moment he
was totally blind. Now, under such
an overwhelming calamity--as indeed
under many forms of heavy trial-most
men lead but manned life of repinine
bitterness. But, young as he was
Henry Fawcett showed the world {
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-02-11
Noble Utterances.

The queen Of Madagascar has de-
livered second speech to her people.
In an open space near her capital a
platform was erected, and there, with q
large Bible on her right and her crown
on her left, and with an assembly Of
more than two hundred thousand per-
sons before her, she renewed her pro-
test against the unwarrantable proceed
ings Of the French invaders. A mis-
sionary has sent home report of her
address, and the following extract from
that report will show what view is taken
of the situation of affairs by this spir-
tied lady and her subjects: :" tell you,
O soldiers for we are all soldiers now &,
that from the commencement of the
French invasion have done all in my
power to bring the war to an end; for
although we have twice paid an in
demnity to France, l have shown my
self willing to yield to her demands in
everything except what infringes upon
my sovereignty and independence, for
it is extremely repugnant and grievous
to me that your blood should be shed.
But the French were unwilling, .
soldiers, for they have demanded a
lDlTu part vi TIC islthu, IL pay ihcht vi
5000, 900, and an indemnity for all the
losses of foreigners suffered during the
war, notwithstanding the fact that it
was not we who caused these losses,
but they themselves; for was it not they
who commenced the war, and that with
out any notice being given? But that
is not all. l and my predecessors are
treated by them with indignity. They
say am not queen of Madagas-
car, but only queen of Imerinal That,
then, is what the French want before
they are willing to cease hostilities. l
have told you that, but you have re-
fused to yield. now have to say to
you that join with you in the re-
fusal. - My duties as sover-
eign in this affair have hitherto full
filed, and mean not to do otherwise in
the future; forthough / am woman, l
have the heart of man, and am ready
to rise and lead you against those who
come to steal our country from us; for
it is God forbid if we are required to
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-02-11

nobler example, which will never be
forgotten. By Gods help he from the
first faced his catastrophe with for
titude which refused to succumb, and
breasted undauntedly the blows of cir
cumstance. He determined that he
would still see with the inward eye of a
brave heart and q pure soul. stood
next to him few years ago on MEM
orable occasion in the house of lords.
The friend who accompanied him was
pointing out every person and every
incident, exactly as he would have
done to one not thus afflicted. Yon-
der, there he said, is that royal
prince; yonder, such a statesman and
so on. To each remark Mr.. Fawcett
answered, Yes, see.' Ia point of
fact he did see with the eyes of Sc
rene and cheerful Imagination. Man
full and accomplishing, he lived all his
life as man, and as man not blind.
He walked with the same swinging
stride, he fished in his native stream,
he pulled stroke in the boat on the
river, he skated for miles along the
frozen river, he lectured as a university
professor, he rode in the streets of
London, he addressed without ire
NOR tumultuous meetings, and he dis
played high administrative ability as
member of the government. Blind, he
never missed an opportunity of helping
and encouraging the blind; and it was
q touching proof Of the love which he
had won by the kindness Of sympathy
that many even OF the female clerks
and telegraph boys, whose interest as
acknowledgement he had always con-
sidered, sent flowers and wreaths to
lay upon his bier. Other blind men
have shown similar fortitude. The
great church father, Didymus, became
blind at four years old, and Saint Je-
rome called him vident,tm me,up-my
seer. The blind old Doge Dandolo was
the leader of the fourth crusade, and
though ninety years of age, stood on
the prov of his galley, and was the
first man to leap ashore at the assault
of Byzantium. The blind king of Bo-
hernia had the bride of his horse tied
to those of two knights, and rode into
the thick of the fight at Crecy to meet
his doom. Ambrose Fisher, the blind
scholar, lies buried in our east cloister,
and yonder is the bust of that immor-
tai blind poet who, like the Samson of
whom he sung,
Though fall'n on evil days,
On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues,
In darkness and with dangers comprised round
yet, with light denied him, continued
to do for God his day labor, and bated
mo jot of heart or hope, but still bore
up and steered uphillward.' With all
these who faced thus bravely a dire
calamity, the name of Henry Fawcett
will be remembered, and he, having
thus served God in his generation, has
received his sight. Is not this high
courage under trial one of the lessons
of him who went to meet his cross? And
ought not that example to teach every
true Christian man that to shrink and
whine and complain and fill the world
with splenetic murmurs and jaundiced
judgments is the way of the coward,
but that the virtue of the Christian is
cheerful fortitude, and that it brings
its own reward?'-Ne,u York Eran-
geHst.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-02-11
8eligious MlisteIIamp.
For the Vermont Waterman.
Abide With Me.
ny REV. W. II. cocHRANB.


In these bright days when, with the happy hearted
Time as on laughing wing doth seem to glide
Rop, ere my friends and pleasures have departed,
Come, o Lord Jesus, and with me abidei
Abide with me when seas are growing rougher,
When j, in weakness, turn for help to thee;
When the sick heart can only walt and suffer-
Come, o Lord Jesus, and abide with me!
In the long weeks Of toll, Hope dimly shining,
Through burdening cares cannot lay aside,
The worn and tired years Of life's declining
Come, Lord Jesus and with me abidel
Abide with me in the sad parting hour,
When dear ones bow before deaths hard decree,
When am bending under Sorrows power,
Come, my Savior, and abide with mel
Come, all thine infinite compositions feeling,
Thou Prince Of Peace, myself the sinners plea,
Soothing my pain, my wounded spirit healing
Come, Lord Jesus and abide with mel
Perhaps the steps very few before me,
And must enter soon the silent tide;
But while wait, and when the waves come DER me
pray thee, blessed Lord, with me abidel
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-02-11
The Lesson OF Patience.

A certain lady had met with serious
accident, which necessitated a very
painful surgical operation and many
months confinement to her bed. When
the physician had finished his work
and was taking his leave the patient
asked Doctor, how long shall l have
to lie here helpless ?' so, only one
day at time" was the CHEEKY answer;
and the poor sufferer was not only com
forted for the moment, but many times
during the succeeding weary weeks did
the thought, "Only one day at a
time" come back with its quieting in
huence. Think it was Sidney Smith who
recommended taking short views"
as good safeguard against needless
worry; and One far wiser than he said:
"Take therefore no thought for the
morrow. Sufficient unto the day is the
evil thereof. THE Presbyterian.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-02-11

JUDGE NoT.-Of all spirits, l believe
that the spirit of Judging is the worst,
and it has had the rule of me | cannot
tell you how dreadfully and how long.
Looking for the faults, which l had
secret consciousness were in myself, in
other people and accusing them instead
of looking for their faults in myself,
where l should have been sure to find
them all, this, find, has more hindered
my progress in love and gentleness and
sympathy than all things else. l never
knew what the words Judge not, that
We be not Judged" meant before; now
they seem to me some of the most aw-
full, necessary and beautiful in the
whole word of God.-Rer. Frederick
Denison Maurice.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-02-11
Delay

not, Sulphur Bitters will cure you.
Miss HELEN JONES, eleven years
in charge of the Package Department,
Boston & Maine depot, says have been
sufferer from Bilousness, Water Brash, and
General Debility for several years. Most CT
the time felt miserably and life seemed a bur
den. was induced to try your Sulphur Bit
tiers, and was completely surprised to see how
much better felt, and am now enjoying bet
ter health than for years before. shall always
keep supply of Sulphur Bitters on hand, for
they have done me a world Of good. Sulphur
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-02-11
advertisements.
Do Not

delay; If you are sick use Sulphur Bitters.
The Vice President of the Bank of
Waverly, Iowa, SMITH p. HUNT,
says: have suffered with Catarrh for the last
ten years, and also severe Biliousness and Liver
Complaint. Since 1873 my Catarrh grew rap
idly worse, so that my life was despaired Of
At that time weighed one hundred and seven
ty-fye pounds, but grew emaciated so rapidly
that weighed only one hundred and thirty
After consulting the most celebrated physicians
in the Western States, and spending many
hundred dollars, from which no relief was OBJ
tanned, was induced to try your
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-02-11

FARMERS wishing TO be successful
with sheep should guard them against
exposure. But if in sheltering his sheep
the farmer exposes himself and catches
cold, he must use DIR. Bulls Cough
Syrup.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-02-11

HOOPS SARsAPARILLA has cured
thousands of cases of rheumatism. This
is abundant reason for belief that it will
cure you. Try it.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-02-11
$1.00 per ounce.
Farm for Sale.

The subscriber offers his farm of one hundred
eighty Ave acres for sale Said farm Is situated In
South Cabot one half mile from school-h house, post
ONCE, mill and repair shop There u u good
quantity of soft and hard wood lumber on the place
Also sugar orchard that can be worked early Ia the
spring of six hundred and nifty trees The buildings
are all excellent and In good repair There Is a
carriago-house, work shop, and other out-budngs;
also new cow barn, with good cellar under the
same, There Is u good apple orchard on the place
and running water ut house and barns This will be
sold low. For further particulars enquire Of the
subscriber at South Cabot. JOHN AUSTIN.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-11-14

MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, Nov. 13-The
meeting between the Minneapolis Millers
Association and the St. Paul Railway
officials which was held with closed doors
was without result to the millers. They
argued fora reduction in the -four and
wheat rate to Chicago, which was ad-
vanced November |, but the railway men
stated that the rate Of IL! cents per 100
pounds during the winter was lowenough,
and that as the railway commissioners
compelled them TO reduce their local rates
they had to have something more on
through rates. The millers state that be-
fore December every mill would be closed
II the Northwestern lines continued the
III cent rate, and the Eastern trunk lines
advanced TO % cents on November 90, as
they would operate their mills a. an actual
loss II they paid these rates.