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provement. There are holders in the
interior, as usual who are waiting for q
rise, and should any occur there are
probably 100000 lbs which would at
once come upon the market. Michigan
fieeces have been in greater request and
considerable quantities of them have been
marketed. Comb.ng woods are exceedingly
scarce and in demand. To meet this request
sales of some grades of territory combing
have been made. One line OF 10000 pounds
found ready market the past week. De-
laine woods are in good, moderate demand
Large lots of fine Ohio have been closed out
in Philadelphia at &c. Texas woods are in
diminished supply and fair request. The
supply of spring wool is largely limited to
mediums, which have hitherto been much
neglected. Fine spring is very scarce
California wool is less active, and quiet at
quotations. Territory woods have sold
fairly well. Stocks of fine are practically
exhausted and &c is obtained for fine Mon
tana. Foreign woods are generally dull.
Carpet woods are very quiet. There are
but two or three carpet mills running
in Philadelphia; all the others are shut
down and business is correspondingly
dull. The following are quotations for
leading grades of wool in Boston: Xxx at
80 to 35Ic, Ohio X at 81 to 325c, Michigan
X at 30c, fine Ohio delaine at 80 to SIC,
Kentucky coarse combing at II to 22c, Texas
fine at 18 TO 2lc, Texas coarse and carpet at
l3 to 14e, Georgia unwashed at 22c, Northern
California spring at 22c Southern California
spring at 16 to 20c, Wyoming fine at 17b to
18c, Eastern Oregon at II to 183c, Kansas fine
to average at IL to 18c, and Montana choice
to medium at 20 to &c per pound.
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Singular Success Of DIR. Gage.

Last week DIR. Gage was again in Mont
pelier and Burlington, and a still greater
throng of patients consulted him than at
any preceding visit. His practice is among
our best families, who, already realizing the
efficacy Of the doctors peculiar herbal treat
ment, send their friends to him in great
numbers. A well-known Montpelier resi-
dent who had spared neither time nor
money, and who had travelled thousands Of
miles in quest of health, already reports
most remarkable results from DIR. Cages
treatment, and lady on Church street in
Burlington reports her cure after having
been the rounds of the local physicians Of
that and other cities. Certainly DR.. Gage
has abundant reason to be proud of his
achievements. He came to Vermont an
entire stranger, and by his candor, fair
dealings and skill has built up a practice
second to none in the State 1t is not strange
that people were q little slow at first to ac-
cept his treatment, for the country has been
overrun with unprincipled charlatans who
have imposed npon and disguised the COM
munity. 1t speaks well for the doctor that
he had visited the leading cities in New
Hampshire every month for several years,
where he publishes hundreds of sworn tes-
timonials from well-known citizens like
the following: Ira S. Appleton, Hillsboro
Bridge, n. H., makes oath. My wife was
helpless with spinal and other diseases:
weight ninety pounds. DIR. Gage cured her
sixty-tive pounds" c. L. Buffum. North
Munroe, N H.. total loss of power in lower
extremities; also kidney and liver diseases,
and never saw the doctor. Edmund Brown,
Keene, N. H., child had spinal disease,
could not walk, nearly blind with scrofula,
cured and can run and play. Alice Titus,
Winchester, n. H., scrofula in eyes, ten
weeks in dark room cured. Oliver Pelven,
Concord, n. H., wife cured of ovarian diff
Guilty and general female weakness. Mary
Smith, East Gambia, N. H., dropsy, ovarian
tumor, large as PERSONS head cured. Isaac
Buttrick, Londonderry, N. H., wife cured of
scrofula and son cured of deafness and ca
tarrh. A. L. Celley, West Andover, N. H.,
makes oath, my wife has been given up
with consumption; radically cured" Ora
Bishop, postmaster at McIndoe's, VT, says,
" My wife was very lame, on crutches: DR..
Gage cured her." Frank Wheelock, New
port, VT, stomach, liver, kidney and ner-
vous prostration; gained seven pounds in
seventeen days. Levi Burtt, LittletOn, n.
H., nervous prostration; cured. G.. G. Hall,
Boscawen, n. H., cancer on lip cured. Miss
M. j. Barnett, Walpole, n. H., cured of deaf
ness and catarrh. Amos Young, Derry De-
pot, N. H., catarrh and scrofula, hole eaten
through roof of mouth; cured. See Herald
of Health containing sworn testimony to all
manner of disease cured DIR. Cages next
visit to the Van Ness House, Burlington, will
be Wednesday, February 4 Pavilion Hotel
Montpelier, Thursday, February 8; North
field Hotel, Friday, February 6, until II: 80
Only-4d,
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RecOllectiOns Of Fifty Years Ago.

Mr.. Editor:-When the writer was a lad in
his teens he was sometimes sent to the near
est neighbor to obtain brand of fire, as the
custom was to bury large brand on retir-
ing for the night, but which sometimes
failed of keeping alive. There were two
ways of renewing it-either go to the nearest
neighbor, seventy rods distant, or get the
fiint-lock gun and, with powder in the pan
and parcel of tow placed near the flash of
the powder set the tow on fire, and then
apply the tow to shavings prepared for the
kindling Occasionally a man more careful
for such emergencies would have some punk
on hand, and, with steel and flint, soon raise
a smoke. Friction matches were unknown.
The kind Of matches then made seemed of
better material and more lasting than OF
later years In 1882 one of our neighbors
sold his farm and removed to the distant
West-as was considered then, nearly to the
extreme bounds of civilization. Some weeks
after, the nephew he took with him, and who
was my former school-mate, wrote me let
ter, saying they were twenty-three days get
ting to their home in Chicago. They trav-
eled part Of the way by canal-boat. His
letter was over two weeks on the road and
the postage was twenty-five cents Now
letter will go in two days, and the postage
is only two cents. For three successive
winters we had the same school-teacher,
who gave good instruction in books, and oc-
casionally a short essay on morals and man
ners. With fifty scholars on an average,
his time was wholly taken up, but with no
duties omitted. BY boarding week in a
place. and tramping through snowdrifts in
season to build the school-house fire, he re-
ceived for twelve weeks the sum of $40.
The farmers in our neighborhood used to
raise pork for market, which was at Boston,
and annually, in January, my father would
take about a ton Of it, adding hundred
or more pounds of butter, a few cheeses,
and some flax, and wend his way slowly
| to market, distant one hundred seventy
five miles, taking from eighteen to twenty
one days till his return. The price of
| his produce was much less than it now
il at our own doors. In exchange for
his produce he usually took Turks Island
salt, a cask of salt fish, quantity of fresh
goldfish, a large supply of groceries for him
self and neighbors, and cask OF ruml |
am thankful that the last item was omitted
in the loading homeward ere any of the
family became inebriates Fifty years ago
some OF the most able farmers took their
wives with them TO Saratoga Springs, to re-
cuperate their health and see the sights OF
the place. On their return they told of a
circular railroad of half a mile in length
where two could ride, and one turn crank
to propel IT,, and ride three times around for
twenty-five cents. The question arose
whether there would ever be a railroad built
in Vermont, and one that was more ac-
quainted with their construction and ex-
pense in running the trains replied that
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Marriages.

HILL both Of Wolcott -
In Bethel, Jan. 10, Hiram Il. Russ and Miss L. Mox.
ley, both Of Royaton.
In Bethel. Jan. /, o. l. Greene and Isle b. Chad
wick, both OF Randolph.
In East Albany, Jan. |, Ansel l.. Barrows and Flora
ID. LOOMS, both OF Stowe.
In Danville, Jan. II, william NJ Dole and Mary M,
Stearns, both OF Danvile.
In Chelsea, Dec. "a, Dennis d. Giles of Tunbridge
and Inez Il. Sanburn Of Chelsea.
In East Craftsbury, Jan. |, James Anderson and
Jessie McEwen, both of East Craftsbury.
In West Concord, Jan, 10, George r.. Emery OF West
Concord and Lulu M. Hill Of st. Johnsbury.
In Norwich, w. Jan. IA, william T. Smith, MD,
OF Hanover, N H., and Susan w Kellogg Of Norwich.
In Waterbury, Jan. 10, by Rev. s. II. Wheeler,
bury.
In Grafton, Jan. s, Arthur Henry Tufts, MD. of
Sioux Falls Dakota, and Harriet 1emira Deane of
Grafton.
In Ryegate, Jan. I, James Mcbride of Monticello,
Iowa and Lizzie j. daughter of j. +. Nelson Of
Ryegate.
In Groton, Jan IA, by Rev. G. H. Farnsworth,
Frank Hooper of Ryegate and Arts NJ. Buokard Of
Monroe N. ii.
In Hancock, Jan Is, at the brides home by Rev.
Geo. $. Guernsey, Julius w. Alden of Leicester and
Hattie A. Eaton.
In st. Jehnsbury Jan. H. by Rev. G. r. Morse, the
brides father, Harry w Blake Of Chicago and Car
RE E. Morse Of st. Johnsbury.
In West Randolph, Jan. I5 by Rev. v. NJ. Hardy,
brother of the bridegroom assisted by Rev William
AM, vice principal OF st. Johnsbury Academy, and
Gertrude NJ. Ais of Brookhed.
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Country Produce.


PoTAToEs.-The market is fully supplied
and prices are unchanged. Northern and
Eastern sell at 30 to 53c, Houlton at 30 to 56c
Beauty of Hebron at 80 to 55c and Burbank
Seedlings and Prolifics at 4S to SOC per bushel.
APPLEs.-Good Greetings are in moder-
ate demand at S1.75, Pippins and sweet
apples at S1.50, and Baldwins at S185 to
$500 per barrel. Evaporated apples bring
6 to SC, and Northern and Eastern quartered
and sliced 3 to Sc per pound.
PoULTRY.-There is a firmer tendency in
prices and a better demand for choice tur-
keys and chickens. Mixed lots of chickens
and fowls are in moderate demand Choice
turkeys sell at Is to 16c, common to good at
II to 13c, and old at II to 13c; choice chick
ems at IL to 15c, and common to good at 10 to
13c per pound.
CHEEsE.-There is no material change no.
ticeable in the market. Vermont and New
York September sells at 12b to 13c, a poorer
grade of Vermont at III to 113c, choice Yer
mont sage at 10 to 13lc fair to good do at 10
to 12c, choice Western at III to 12c, fair to
good grades at 9 to lie, and skins and part
skins at to 4c per pound.
EGGs.-Receipts are large and stock gem
orally dull, held stock being extremely So
LINED are lower and Eastern are in abun-
dance. Fresh Vermont sell at 81 to 28c,
fresh Eastern at 90 to 29c, fancy at SOC, fresh
Northern at q to 28c, Western at "a to &c.
neld STOCK at 10 TO Z4c, ana LINED at IL TO
19c per dozen, as to quality.
BEANs.-There has been steady demand
for choice pea BEANS and improved Yellow
Eyes, which are quite scarce, sell readily
Choice Vermont small hand-picked peas
sell at S1.75 to S1.80; common to good ST.. 40
to S1.50; choice Vermont screened, S1.40;
hand-picked mediums, 81 so to S1.55; choice
screened mediums, S1.35 to S1.40; common
screened, S1:25 to S13O; choice Vermont
improved Yellow Eyes, S205 to $40; old
fashioned Yellow Eyes, $1.S0 to $500; Red
Kidneys, $3.50 to $40 per bushel.
BUTTER.-The supply of strictly choice,
fresh qualities is very light, and for such
there is a ready sale. Extra Western cream
cries are in demand, but lower grades are
much slower. Northern dairy lots are gen.
orally dull with few sales at over zoe. Choice
ladle is in moderate demand. We quote
extra Northern creameres at % to 29c, extra
Vermont and New York diaries at "a to DC
Franklin county at % to 26c, fair to good
Vermont and New York diaries at % to 24c
fresh-made Western creameries at 80 to Bic
and common grades at 10 to 15c per pound.
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Miscellaneous.

HAY AND STRAw.-The hay market is quiet.
We quote choice prime at SIG to SIT; fancy
SIS; medium to good, S15 to S16; choice
Eastern fine, S15 to $40; poor Eastern, S13
to S14, and Eastern swale at $40 to 81 per
ton. Choice rye straw sells at $40 to $50,
and oat straw at 50 to S11 per ton.
LUMBER-The improvement noted last
week for Western hardwood continues, but
is the only active feature in the market
Western pine continues to move slowly.
Southern lumber is slow and unchanged
The retail dealers in Eastern lumber have a
fairly good trade for the season, but they
have laid in fair stocks and are buying but
little from the wholesalers. The loggers
are still much embarrassed by the lack OF
snow and the cut is expected to be much
smaller than last year. even II there should
be plenty of snow from this time forward
None of the mills in the North are able to do
much work at present, and but few mills in
either Vermont or New Hampshire have
commenced logging operations to any ex-
tent. The recent action by all the railroads,
by which the amount of lumber in a car
load has been reduced to $4,000 pounds
that is, from about 10, 800 feet to $500 feet
is practically an increase in freight rates and
has caused additional firmness. Box shocks
are slow. Our quotations are as follows: Ship
ping pine, No. to Nos. l and clear, $1,000 to
$4,000 per thousand feet. Hemlock boards
rough, $1,000 to $1,000; planed, S11.50 to
GlZUU. spruce DodTuS - DeSt, Nll.Ou 10
$500; second best, $1,000 to Sl6.5O; coarse,
sl1O0; refuse, $40 to $3.50 Box boards
1 inch, $500 to $500; inch, $1,000 to
S1250; I inch, $1,000 to 5000; inch, $500
to 5000. Spruce underfioors, 5000 TO
Sl150 Northern do, $500; Northern stock
boards, $3.50 to Sl4.00. Shingles-Extra
Eastern sawed, $500 TO 1925; do do clear,
$3.50 TO $685. first quality Eastern shaved,
S5.35; Eastern shaved fine, No. l, S425 to
$500; do spruce, No. |, $3.50. Clapboards
Extra 4-feet spruce, $500 to $1,000; do
clear, $1,000 to $27 90; extra pine, $500; do
clear, S35. 90 TO $4,000. Laths-Spruce and
pine, S2.15 to S2,25; poor, Sl.95 to $500.
WooL.-The market has father a better
tone and the sales are very encouraging in
quantity, the amount (both domestic and
foreign) for the week reaching 1885, lbs,
or JOG, 1881 lbs more than the corresponding
week last year. There are no features OF
special novelty to record, the market jogging
along at quiet, steady gait, and no adj
vance in prices is yet noticeable, except
possibly in delaine. Ohio and Pennsyl-
vania fieeces are in moderate demand
though the prices as yet show no i'm
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8ostom Markets.
The quotations given below the prices paid b!
receivers Jobbing prices, of course, range higher
Live Stock.

The following is telegraphic report OF
the live stock market at Watertown and
Brighton for the week ending Tuesday,
January goth:
Cattle. Sheep. Hogs Calves.
At market this week.. 2,12o 1925 1885 325
one one year H ago. s ssi 1851 2aiiSSiSS FL
SHEEP AND LAMBs.-There was q wide
range in prices-from q to SIC, live weight.
SwINE.-The market has been strong this
week. Prices ranged at AZ to DC; Northern
dressed 81 to &c per pound.
Cows.--Prices were better on mich cows,
there being fewer at market. The range
was from 1876 for fair to $50 for the best.
The average price was about S45. Spring
ers were sold for $40, S48, $50 and S55 each.
Aldrich Il johnson sold one Durham and
Ayrshire grade COW at $50. She gives
twenty quarts of milk per day.
STORE CATTLE.-W Working oxen sold at
300 to $685. handy steers, $50 to S125, or
according to their value for beef. Cows, $40
to S3S; extra, $40 to $4S; fancy, $50 to $50;
farrow and dry, $15 to $31. Yearlings, $40
to $40; two-year-olds, S14 to $50; three-year-
olds S24 to $40. Working oxen were in
limited demand. ID. Hosmer sold one pair,
girthing six feet four inches, weighing 1900
lbs, for sos; one pair, weighing $500 lbs, for
$125; one pair, weighing 5000 lbs, for $40.
MISCELLANEOUS ACalves sold at % to 7Jc
per h. Hides, to Tic per lb country lots,
to &c. Calf skins, 10c per 10. Tallow--
Brighton, 81 to 6bc per lb country lots, 81
to 4ic. Pelts, 80 to 81 each; dairy skins, 90
to Zoe each.
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ta's " career, though highly successful in an
artistic sense, was ended in poverty. and
the family she worked faithfully to support
are now almost destitute.
AT meeting of 5000 unemployed persons
at Birmingham, England, resolution was
passed asking the city to furnish them with
employment.
WAR has broken out among the transat-
lantic steamship companies, and steerage
passengers are carried from New York to
the continent for S14 by some lines.
OLIVER Brothers AND PHILLIPS, iron
manufacturers, and the Oliver & Roberts
wire company of Pittsburg, Pa, have sus-
pended. The liabilities are reported at
5000, 900, and the assets about S6,0O0,000
Mr.. YATES of the London World, has gone
to prison, the court of appeals having sus-
tanned the sentence of four months impris-
onment pronounced on him for publishing a
libel against Lord Lonsdale.
THE sufferings of the people who have
been rendered houseless by the earthquakes
are intense. According to the official record
the number of persons killed by the earth
quakes in Granada was 695, and the number
injured 1880
SHOCKS of earthquake continued to be of
daily occurrence in Granada, and the demor-
alization of the people is increasing. A fur
ther remittance of $4,000 raises the amount
thus far received from London for the
earthquake fund $4,000.
WILLIAM DRUssE, farmer in moderate
circumstances living in the town of Warren,
Herkimer county, N. Y, has been missing for
a month. He had had frequent quarrels with
his wife, and it was suspected by the neigh
bors that she had murdered him. A nephew
aged eighteen years, has confessed that his
aunt shot her husband and then with the
assistance of himself and her son burned
the body and buried the bones.
THE last new addition to railroad service
is the Locophone." The instrument is in
tended to be placed inside the cab of each
locomotive running over the road. The To-
cophone resembles the telephone in the fact
that it is an apparatus through which talk
ing between distant points is to be done.
The circuit is made over the rails. BY tele-
graph the engineers can be acquainted with
the orders of the superintendent or dis
patcher only at stations, while by the loco
phone conversation can be carried on while
running mile a minute.
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SAMUEL 5. sMACoMBER,s ESTATE.


In Probate Court. held at Montpelier, in and for
said District the 10th day of january, A. D. 1855
Melville e. Smile Executor OF the last will and
testament of Samuel \, Macomber, late of East
Montpelier, In said District deceased. makes appi.
cation caid Court for license sell all of the real
estate OF said deceased situated in said East Mont
peer and in Calais In said District, to Wit: The
lot in said Calais representing that the sale thereof
ceased and the expenses OF administration of his
tate, Whereupon 1t is ordered by said Court, that
said application be referred to a session thereof,
to be held at the Probate ONCE in said Montpelier
on the 18th day OF February, A. d. lsss. for
her ordered that all persons interested be mo-
titled hereof by publication of notice of said app
Vermont Waterman a State Journal, a newspaper
published at Montuelier. and which circulates In
time Of hearing, that they may appear AZ said time
by the Court-Attest,
6@ A. q. AYERILI., Register.
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WHAT we learn with pleasure

"WHAT we learn with pleasure we never
forget ALFRED MERCER. The following is
case in point: 81 paid out hundreds of
dollars without receiving any benefit" says
Mrs. Emily Rhoades of McBrides, Mich. al
had female complaints, especially drag
ging-down,' for over six years. DIR. r. V.
Pierce's 'Favorite Prescription did me
more good than any medicine l ever took.
l advise every sick lady to take it," And
so do we. Itnever disappoints its patrons.
Druggists sell it.
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STRANGER than fiction are the records Of
some OF the cures of consumption effected
by that most wonderful remedy--Dr. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery" Thousands
OF grateful men and women, who have been
snatched almost from the very jaws of
death, can testify that consumption in its
earlier stages is no longer incurable. The
Discovery has no equal NJ pectoral and al
terative, and the most obstinate affections
OF the throat and lungs yield to its power.
Sold by all druggists
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West Topsham.-Methodi quarterly
meeting was held last Sunday. The Pre-
siding Elder not being present tho services
were conducted by Rev. Mr.. Kilbourn from
East Topsham. - The Free Baptist quar-
terly meeting for this quarter was held at
Corinth Meadow Westinghouse, commence
ing last Friday. Several from this church
attended. - The friends OF temperance
are quite engaged in the cause, there being
two meetings each week, but they have
quite a job on their hands, while cider is as
plenty as at present. 1t is said that some
OF the members break their pledge every
week, 49, Lumbermen are anxiously
waiting for snow.
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Two years ago was sight to behold and
was unable to enjoy life at all. Now | am
the picture of health and can eat anything.
What did it? Sulphur Bitters cured me of
dyspepsia and liver complaint, after suffer-
fer ~ H.
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Frrs.-Al fits stopped free by DR.. Kline's
Great Nerve Restorer. No fits after first
days use. Marvellous cures. Treatise and
$500 trial bottle free to fit cases. Send to
DR.. Kline, 931 Arch street, Philadelphia,
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THE worldwide reputation of Ayers Hair
Vigor is due to its healthy action on the hair
and scalp, through which it restores gray
hair to its original color and imparts gloss
and freshness which makes it so much de-
sired by all classes and conditions OF people.
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PILE tumors, however large, speedily and
painlessly cured without knife, caustic or
salve. Send six cents in stamps for pamph-
let, references and reply. Worlds Dispen-
sary Medical Association, 663 Maine Street,
Buffalo, N. Y.
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TAKE in season DIR. GRAVES HEART
REGULATOR, time but strengthens the
hold Heart Disease has on YOU the Heart
Regulator will give you relief thousands
say so. Free pamphlet of F. e. ingalls,,
Cambridge Mass. 81 per bottle.
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that her mother always gave her sulphur
and molasses to purify her blood, but she
now gives Sulphur Bitters to her grand
children, as it is the best medicine she ever
aw.-The Father.
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ScOtt's Emulsion of Pure Cod Liver Oil,
with HYpOphOsphites,

Is Very Palatdbie and agrees Nth the Stomach
DIR. j. WoBRING, of Newark, Ohio, says:
Z" have used SCOTS Emulsion in COMPARE
son with the plain oil and acid emulsions
and find it TO agree much better with the
stomach, and give better results in the dis
eases in which Cod Liver Oil is useful"
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AROUND THE HEART.-The last and most
dangerous form of rheumatism is that which
attacks the heart. Heretofore there has
been little hope for patient when the dis
ease reached this stage. But Mrs. w Well
man, of Kingsville, Ohio, writes as follows
II received the bottle OF Athlophoros all
right. Have received more benefit from it
than from any other medicine l ever used
1t relieved me from all pain around my heart
the first day, and went to bed and slept
we'll"