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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-16
Soldiers Home.

Barre will hold town meeting on the
Goth instant to appoint committee to ap-
pear before the trustees of the Soldiers
Home, at their meeting in Burlington on the
Goth of next month, and ask to have the
home established in Barre. Barre is CEN
trally located, is accessible, and is a COM
munity of temperate and law-abiding citi-
zens. 1t has "a large Grand Army Post
which is anxious to have the Home in that
town. 1t is six miles from Montpelier and
connected with it by railroad. The inmates
of the home could easily visit Montpelier
as often as they cared to on the meeting of
the legislature, soldiers reunions and other
great occasions, and would have nearly all
the advantages in such matters that have
been suggested by parties residing outside
of Washington county as afforded by Mont
pelier. No town in the state is increasing
its population and wealth more rapidly than
Barre, and we doubt if the trustees of the
Soldiers Home can locate it in a town that
will give better general satisfaction than
Barre. The Herdld says that Rutland will
not ask for it, 1t is understood that Water
bury and Cambridge will make applications
for its location in their respective towns.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-16
Pickett's Charge.

In the Bag State Monthly Charles
A. Patch relates the thrilling story of
the charge of General Pickett and his
Virginia brigades upon Hancock's CEN
ter on the third and last day of the bat
tie of Gettysburg. AT two O'Clock Lee
assembled the cupola of the Pennsylva-
mia College, in quiet surveyed the
Union lines, and decided to strike for
Hancock's center. Meanwhile Pickett,
with his three Virginian brigades, num-
bering about five thousand men, had ar
rived from Chambersburg and taken
Leaving the college, Lee called coun-
Gil of his generals at Longstreets head
quarters, and the plan of attack was
formed. 1t is said that the level
headed Longstreet opposed the plan,
and if so it was but in keeping with his
remarkable generalship. The attack
was to be opened with artillery fire to
demoralize and batter the federal line,
and was to be opened by a signal of
two shots from the Washington Artil-
lery. AT half-past one the report of
the first gun rang out on the still sum-
mer air, followed minute later by the
second, and then came the roar and
flash of one hundred thirty-eight rebel
cannon. Almost Immediately one hun
dred federal guns responded and the
battle had begun. Shot and shell tore
through the air, crashing through bat
teries, tearing men and horses to pieces.
The very earth seemed to shake and
the hills to reel as the terrible thun-
ders re-echoed amongst them. For
nearly an hour every conceivable form
of ordinance known TO modern gunnery
Kissed and shrieked, whistled and
screamed, as it went forth ON its death
mission till, exhausted by excitement
and heat, the gunners slackened their
fire and silence reigned again. Then
Pickett and his brave legion stood up
and formed for the death struggle
three remnants of brigades, consisting
of Garnett's brigade, the Sth, 18th,
10Th, 18th, seth Virginia; Armistead's
brigade, the 9th, 18th, 3Sth, ODD 57tl
Virginia; Kemper's brigade, the LIST
Sd, 9TH, 18th and oath Virginia. Theil
tattered flags bore the scars of score
of battles, and from their ranks The
merciess bullet had already taken two
thirds their number. In compact ranks
their front scarcely covering two o
Hancock's brigades, with flags waving
as if for a gala-day, General Pickett sa
luted Longstreet and asked: "Shall
90 forward, sir?" But it was not il
Longstreet's heart to send those heroe
of so many battles to certain death
and he turned away his head-whel
Pickett, with that proud, impetuous al
which has earned him the title of tn
Ney" of the rebel army, exclaimed
"Sir! | shall lead my division foi
ward" The orders now rang out
Attention! attention." and the men
realizing the end was near, cried out t
their comrades, "Good-bye, boysl goot
bye!" Suddenly rang out on the al
the final order from Pickett himself, q
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-16
The Cause of Volcanoes.

Professor Joseph Prestwick of the
University of Oxford argues that the
earth must consist of solid nucleus, sur
rounded by molten stratum of no great
thickness, which, in turn, is enclosed by
crust which may be less than twenty
miles in thickness. He DOES not regard
the expansion of water-which can
hardly penetrate to greater depth
than seven or eight miles--as primary
cause of volcanic action. The presence
of aqueous vapor is due alone to the
surface and underground waters en-
countered by the lava in its passage to
the surface, and, while ii adds greatly
to their violence, it does not originate
the eruptions. The contraction of the
earth from cooling, slow though it be,
is sufficient to account for the forcing
out of lava, Cordier having long since
calculated that five volcanic eruptions
annually would shorten the earth's RAJ
dius only about one twenty-fifth of an
inch in a century.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-16
Origin of a Famous Expression.

The reviewer of Mr.. McMaster's
second volume, in the last Dial, no.
ticed his error in attributing to Judge
Marshall, instead of Colonel Henry
Lee, the authorship of the we'll
known sentence concerning Washing
ton: " First in war, first in peace and
first in the hearts of his countrymen."
The correct reading of this familiar
quotation is in doubt. Marshall, in his
Life of Washington Volume ",
page 767), prints the proceedings in the
house of representatives., and resolu-
tions read, on the death of Washington,
in which the sentence first appeared.
The last clause there reads, "and first
in the hearts of his fellow-citizens."
Colonel Lee, week later, used the
sentence in his Grafton before congress,
and makes it end with countrymen :"
instead of fellow-citizens." The
Annals of Congress " Q799-1S0l,
page 204) reports the resolutions read
in the house, and ends the sentence
with " countrymen.n The Annals
however, was not contemporaneous
publication, having been made up more
than twenty years later by Gales and
Seaton from such materials as they
could find. Its wording of the resolu-
tons is so unlike that given by Marshall
and other contemporaries that they
must have been reported from memory.
"Washingtoniana," published at Balti-
more in 1900, is compilation, made
up soon after the death of Washington
of public resolutions, testimonials of
respect and orations. The resolutions
read in the house there appear in pre-
cisely the words quoted by Marshall
except that the sentence under con-
sideration ends neither with " fellow
citizens" nor countrymen, but with
country" page 11O. Two pages
later, the same resolutions are given as
adopted in the senate, and the sentence
again ends with country
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-16
Some Famous Spendthrifts.

The ancients more than equaled the
moderns in their ingenious profuse-
ness of expenditure. A history of the
spendthrifts of ancient Rome alone
would fill a good-sized volume and be
of unique variety. Apicius, Cras-
sus, Claudius, Nero, Vitellus and
Canguia all squandered vast sums on
most trifling objects. Apicius spent
nearly million pounds on his palate,
and then, casting up his accounts and
discovering that he had not quite one
hundred thousand pounds left, imme-
diately hanged himself to avoid the
privations of threatening poverty.
Elagabalus RECALLED the attendants OF
his palace on the brains of pheasants,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-16
The Seryian Peasantry.

Ny ride through Servia, save over
the Balkans, has been most enjoyable,
and the roads, am agreeably surprised
to have to record, have averaged as
good as any country in Europe, save
England and France, though, being for
the most part unmacadamized, with
wet weather they would scarcely show
to such advantage. My impression of
the Servians is most favorable. They
are evidently warm-hearted, hospita-
BILE, and, withal, patriotic people,
loving their little country and appre-
ciating their independence as only peo-
pie who have but recently had their
dream of self-government realized know
how to appreciate it; they even paint
the woodwork of their bridges and pub
lie buildings with the national colors.
| am assured that the Servians have
progressed wonderfully since acquiring
their full independence; but as one
journeys down the beautiful and fertile
valley of the Morava, where improve
ments would naturally be seen, if any
where, one falls to wondering where
they can possibly have come in. Some
of their methods would, indeed, seem
practicability; one of the most ridicu-
lous, to the writer's mind, is the cree
ton of small, long sheds, substantially
built of heavy hewn timber supports
and thick, homemade tiles, over ordi-
nary plank fences and gates to protect
them from the weather, when good
coating of tar or paint would answer
the purpose of preservation much bet
ter. These structures give one the i'm
preston of dollar placed over penny
to protect the latter from harm. Every
peasant owns few acres of land, and
if he produces anything above his own
wants, he hauls it to market in an OK
wagon, with roughly hewn wheels with.
out tires, and whose creaking can
plainly be heard mile away. AT pres.
ent the Servian tills his little freehold
with the clumsiest of implements-some
his own rude handiwork, and the bes
imperfectly fashioned and forged or
native anvils. His pillow is chiefly the
forked limb of tree, pointed with iroI
sufficiently to enable him to root arount
in the surface soil. One would think
the country might offer a promising
field for some enterprising manufac
turer of such implements as hoes
scythes, hay-forks, small, strong plows
cultivators, etc. These people are in
dustrious, especially the women.
have frequently met Servian peasan
woman returning homeward in tn,
evening from her labor in the field
carrying a fat, heavy baby, a clums,
hoe not much lighter than the young
ster and an earthenware water-pitcher
and at the same time industriousl
spinning wool with a small hand-spin
die. And yet some people argue abou
the impossibility of doing two things a
once. Whether these poor wome
have been hoeing potatoes, carryin
the infant and spinning wool at tn
same time all day am unable to say
not having been an eyewitness, thong
really should not be much astonishe
ifthey had.-IhomaS Sterens, IN Outing
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-16
abe Suloiers' &uo9ct.
Pensions Granted.

To William Rogers, Westfeld, "a month
and 1868 arrears; Asa l.. Preston, Cabot,
formerly of Waitsheld, SO a month and S29i
arrears, George w. Smith, Barre, S4 a month
and S612 arrears; Nettie A. Wills, East
Bethel, $40 month and $40 arrears;
Charles II. Wills, deceased, East Bethel, IS
a month and S10i arrears, payable to his
widow Mark Warner, East Hardwick, an
increase of pension from SIS to So month ;
Caleb Sabin, South Woodbury., an increase
from SIS to S12 month; Charles II. Stone,
Middlesex, an increase from SO to So a
month; George ID. Parker, Waitsheld, an
increase from "a to SO a month; Hiram
Goodspeed, East Warren, an increase from
S6 to IS a month.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-16
Select Mlistellanp.
Below the Sea.

Deep In the bay the old church lies,
Beyond the storm-wind's power;
The waves that whelmed 1t ever play
In ripples round the tower,
And II you look down through the tide,
Many and many time
You may catch the gllmmer of the stones,
Or hear the sweet bells chime.
For they that dwell deep in the sea,
Below the wind and rain.
The Mermen and the Mermaidens,
Have built 1t up again.
They have made fast the ruined walls
with their immortal hands,
And strewn the aisle with red sea-howers,
And with the wet sea-sands.
And when a drifting boat comes back,
Rock-shattered to the shore,
with never captain at the helm,
Nor sailor at the oar
Then down below the stormy foam
The sweet old bells ring free
They call upon the mariners
That come no more from sea.
Mary Kendall, in Magazine Of art
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-16

A CELEBRATED physician declares
that " Hunts Remedy will cure any
case of kidney disease that can be
cured"
A CELEBRATED doctor says that
" other preparations as substitutes for
Hunts Kidney Remedy are worthless
in comparison to it,"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-16
For Sale or EXCHANGE.

The J. NJ, Palmer farm, situated in williamstown,
VT mile south of the village, is for sale
change II contains two hundred one acres, by
measure suitably divided into tillage' pasturng and
wood land. There Is an excellent apple orchard !;
also sugar orchard of one thousand trees, together
with sugaring utensils etc. Terms easy II sold for
cash, or exchanged for small farm village prop
erty either in Barre or Montpelier. Address the
owner at Nashua, N. H., or II, IL Martin, on the
farm o. q. ELLIS, nj. ID.
Nashua, N. H., October 9Th. 1885,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-16

AN exchange says; "Man's average
life is thirty-three years" DIR. Bulls
Cough Syrup will always live.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-16
Drive Whist Score Cards.

We can send Score Cards for this new aud popular
game at pc per dozen, or, with Cords and Pencils
attached, at Csc per dozen, Address
UNION CARD CO., Montpelier, VT.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-16
CHRISTMAS.

our line of Christmas Cards will be opened for eX
hihition early next week and will comprise the
largest line ever shown In Vermont. SPECIAL
RATES MADE TO DEALERS. We also keep
ON hand large line of Embossed Scrap
Book Pictures, Visiting and Advertising Cards, Re
ward of Merit and Scripture Text Cards, American
and Imported Tissue Papers for making flowers,
ETC. etc, etc. Send stamp for Catalogues.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-10-07
REPUBLICAN, TICKET.
KANSAS RAILROADS.

There are ten railroads at present In
course OF construction in the state OF
Kansas. and over thirty in contempia-
ton. MANY of the latter are actual
cerlainties and v i'll probably be nnder
wav within year. A comparison OF
the railroads in progress and IN con-
templation In Kansas with those OF
other states furnishes some very inter-
esting facts. Kansas stands with IL
linojs aud Texas at the head OF the
list in the western states as far as
railroads in progress is concerned.
Illinois has IL, Texas 10, and Kansas
10. OF the railroads in contemplation
Kansas has SO, Illinois IL, and Texas
I6. As compared with the Pacific
states. Kansas surpasses all except
California, which has fourteen roads
in progress and eleven in confempia-
ton. Kansas has now more miles OF
railroad in course of const ruction than
anv other state in the country. 1t has
g23 miles of road now being built,
while California has but GOA; Georgia,
2O9: Florida, 572: Illinois, 5SS: Wiscon-
sin. 595: Missouri, AGO; and Texas, $50.
The length of the roads in contempla-
ton in Kansas is 6,305 miles, with
Minnesota ranking next with 2,24S
miles.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-10-07
IGNORANCE.

speaking of the location of the or
phan's home, the Salina Journal says:
The eastern part of the State Is
walking away with all these iavors.
The country living west of Manhattan
and north of the u. Z. Road, an area
comprising more than one-half OF the
state. has not one state institution.
That shows how little a man may
know and still edit a paper. The
territory described, comprises less than
one ourth of the AGRA of the state.
and not to exceed one-tenth lis popu-
lation. There is about the same ter
ritory IN extent and about as many
people south and west of the Arkansas
river. as in the territory west OF
Manhattan and north of the L. +.
road. Salina is even located in the
northeast quarter of the state. Very
few people and fewer editors OF the
old towns of this State really know
how big Kansas is.
The territory lying south and west
of the Arkansas river in Kansas only
lacks one hundred townships of COM
prising one-fourth of the entire State
of kansas Into this territory, this
wear. have gone over one hundred
thousand people. IL is the new en-
pire-kansas' Palingeuesis.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-10-07
OUR NEW ROAD.

Al The meeting of the business men
oi Kansas City, held last Tuesday, a
committee was appointed tn devise
WAYS and means to raise $4,000 TO
aid in building the proposed line from
Kansas Git, to Pao!a. The company
will solicit aid from the merchants of
Kansas CITY and from townships along
the line of the road. While Paola and
other points are willing 10 do their
SHAKE toward securing this new line,
the city at the "Kawsmouth" should
remember that she 10 the one TO de-
rive the greatest benefit therefrOm,
and if she wants the trade of that vast
portion of Kansas iraversed by the
could system of roads she should not
hesitate going down deep in her peck
cts and shelling out liberally.-Paola
Republican.
Kansas City knows how TO go down
into pockets, but it's somebody else's
pockets. The idea that town, " hich
claims SO much, among the least OF
which claims Is that she l.
the metropolis of Kansas, can't raise
$4,000 towards the building of a rail-
road. But Kansas City, aside from
Kansas people, never did accomplish
ANYTHING
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-10-07
ARLINGTON.
Arlington, Oct. 4th, 1885.

Arlington, Oct. 4th, 1885.
To the Editor Of the Daily Eagle.
Your correspondent dropped into
this lively, bustling little town last
night to stop over Sunday and
thought would drop you short let
ter from this place.
This is the Duluth of this section as
il is lS miles sOuthw est Of Iiutchin-
son, Is miles from Nickerson, Is miles
from Sterling, Is miles from kingman
CITY, and is situated on the north
fork of the Minnesota with tho best
water power in southwestern Kansas,
Arkansas City excepted. Arlington
contains about two hundred and fifty
to three hundred inhabitants, with
two good hotels, the Commercial and
Arlington: three livery stables; seven
stores, well filled with goods of all
kinds: one large Touring mill with a
capacity for one handred bbls. per
dav, it is run by water however. and
fed from never failing springs. The
town site is beautiful one. hnd
this much better country than en-
pected TO see here, corn Is in splendid
crop. and all of the cereals do well
here. farmers are contentcd and hap
pv, they are live people and are wild
| i'm anticipation of railroad connection
with Wichita.
The town is on air line from Wichita
| to Larned aud no place on the line
offers better inducements for invest
| ment than this. To-day being Sun
day, in company with Mr.. Enspy, we
rode out over the proposed line of the
Wichita & Colorado as far as Zenith
and found it practicable route, the
grade will be light and can be cheaply
| built. On our return we called at the
fruit farm of b. +. Harmon. and we
were surprised to see such an orchard
in this new country-an apple orchard
| of five hundred trees, all bearing de-
licious fruit, and pears, peaches, april
cots and plums and all the small
fruits. surely this is beautiful coun-
try.
We find here neat little newspaper.
the Arlington Enterprise, with cir
| culation of four hundred. 1t is but a
few months old, in politics it is Repub-
lican and is edited by A. b. Caldwell.
A telephone line connects Hutchi-
son and Arlington. L. L.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-10-07
MEDICINE LODGE.

MEDICINE LODGE, Oct. 4, 1885.
To the Editor OF the Eagle.
Grading on the Southern Kansas
road will be completed at this end of
the line in about ten days.
Geo. E. Tewksbury, of the land de-
partment of the A, T. & 5. F., is here
looking after the interests of that COM
panv in the new railroad addition TO
our city. the depot grounds are
about ready for the erection of de-
pot, and other buildings will be put up
in the railroad addition in short
time. l.. B. Tewksbury is located here
as agent for the sale of lots in the new
addition.
Hon. T. A. McNeal returned from
the Topeka reunion Friday.
The large brick block of W. W.
Cook Nick Shelock and others is
nearly ready for occupancy. II is a
magnificent building, two stories high
containing four business rooms OF
twenty-five feet front by one hundred
feet deep, with Offices on the second
floor.
Bob. Lebrecht has just completed q
big brick business house one hundred
feet deep.
Everybody is watching for the head,
light of the first train, and the town Is
booming from the ground up.
The opening of the land office al
Larned causes a renewed spirit OF
trade and traffic, and fills the hearts OF
the land and loan agents with joy.
The political pot is gently simmer
ing, and it remains 10 be seen whose
goose will be cooked. The Rcpubli'
cans are hopeful and the Democrats
confident, while the local canvass pro-
crosses ardently with no reference to
spirits.
Come and see us. Good evening
MACDUFF.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-10-07
ANTHONY.
Its History. Progress and Destiny

ANTHONY, Oct. 4, 1885.
To the Editor of the Eagle.
.sThere is divinity which shapes our
ends,
Rough hew them though we will"
Is an explanation written by one Of
the most brilliant writers of any age
or any CLINE, and though the beautiful
city Of Anthony, the county seat OF
Harper county, Kansas. was never
thou ht of by the writer when he ex-
pressed this thought in measured Ian
guage, this thought is very applicable
to the town.
A few wears since few humble
citizens of Kansas with very limited
circumstances left the city of Wichita
to seek new home on the frontier.
They sojourned TO Harper county and
selected the present site of the city OF
ANTHONY as the nucleus of their col
on:. and in course of time laid out q
town and commenced 10 build ham,
let under the most discoursging cir
cumstances. No river flowed by TO
nourish an industrious and busy hive
into prosperity. No iron horse. breath
ing fire AMI blowing smoke from his
nostrils, came to bring glad It'd
ings to the isolated few.
Not tree was to be seen
in sight of the colony. Not bushel
Of av ailable coal within many miles of
them. There was little 10 encourage
them except the promises OF the Giver
of all good, and the belief that there is
a seed time and harvest. and 8 knowl-
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-10-07
q HEALTHY BOOM

1t is no wonder that Wichita Is the
subject ola healthy boom in business
and stable advance in real estate,
when W G consider the liberallty with
which lis citizens, lis municipality ant:
It's township comes forward in sup
port of the railroads. 1t appears now
that in the election in Wichita town
ship for IA subscription of stock to the
Omaha. Abilene & Wichita railway,
the tally sheet shows unanimous
vote in favor of the bonds, thus illus
trating that the people nnders tand
one. at least of the sources of genuine
progress, aud that they are not slow
to take advantage oft. Railways are
to a Young and growing community
what advertising is to the business
man. They bring trade, disseminate
knowledge. build up the waste places
and command prosperity. Well done,
Wichita. Emporia News.