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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-11-10
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-11-10

The new volumes of The Century and 81.
Nicholas begin with the November num-
Der; the new volumes of Hdrper's Mdgdzine
and Wide AlCdke with the December num-
Der. Other publications may be added to
the above list in due time.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-11-10

II you are bilious, take DIR. Pierces
" Pleasant Purgative Pellets" the original
" Little Liver Pill. OF all druggists.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-11-10

A COMMISSIONER and twenty policemen
have been murdered by rebels in India.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-11-10

A LADY wrote; " / don't have that awful
sideache now. | applied Hop Plaster.''
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-11-10
North Montpelier.

NUTtH WUHtptIItT.
REV. S. G. HAYFoRD will preach here next
Sunday at twelve o'clock. Subject, {" Evi-
dences of Immortality" The Sunday-school
will be held after services. =- NJ. V. b.
Hollister has recently put new smut mill
into his grist mill in this village. - Our
esteemed townsman, T.. ID. Nye is TO spend
the winter in Maiden and Wakefield, Mass,
with his son and daughter. - Martin V.
b. Spaulding is canvassing the town with
his patent gate, and is meeting with good
success. 80 Our much respected neigh
[CoNTINUEp ON FIFTH PAGE.l
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1886-03-24
Caricatures of American speech.

A celebrated English reader oncc
asked me to go and hear him read, rs ho
wanted to hear the candid opinion of an
American on his methods of initiating
the American vernacular at his public
entertainments. have some experience
of the manner in which the people Of
this planet receive candid opinions, and
SO i candidly refused and candidly gave
gave my reasons for refusing. This
made him the more persistent and so at
last weakly consented.
Ispent an hour and a half Of agony.
After it was over told him with tho
candidness he had desired that his Amer
can limitations were by all odds the most
villainous, libelous caricatures Of Ameri-
can speech that it had ever been my evil
fortune to listen to. He said, quito
good-naturedly, that he had long sus-
pected it, but that he did not intend 10
change the style, as the people of Eng.
land expected that sort of thing, and Of
course he merely supplied a public de.
mand.-Cor. Detroit Free Press.
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1886-03-24
Maintaining Tigers In a Cage.

Here, full upon the open square, as il
it were part Of The natural appurtenances
of Rajput cap.ta', arc confined eight
man-eating tigers, criminals of the neigh
boring jungles and hills, taken "red-
handed" and imprisoned as state cap
tives. The huge brindled beasts crouch at
the bars, savagely glaring forth upon the
moving crowd outside, too busy with
pleasure and traffic to notice them. Each
tiger has tasted deep of human blood
one monstrous brute, lying on his back,
has devoured seven, another ten human
beings, and the tigress growing in the
last den is declared by her custodian to
be known to have slaughtered fifteen
men, women and children. Most of
such malefactors are shot, but these have
been shared in pitfalls, where the tiger is
left until hunger has reduced him to ex-
IRENE weakness, upon which the captors
manage to draw him forth, and shut him
up in lifelong imprisonment.-G. A.
Sala's Jeypore Undia) Letter.
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1886-03-24
The Rich Man and tho Poor.

Contentment is not the result of tho
satisfaction of the physical wants SO
much as 1t is the result of the satisfying
of the sympathetic wants of men. Tho
American workingmen are not starving,
not even in our factory towns, but ser
wants, and butchers, and bakers, and
candlestick-makers and men of every
degree and station who are under en-
ployers and cut of. by lack of means and
refinement, from those of their fellows
whose life seems to be free and delightful,
are starving for that kindlier treatment
for that recognition of the identity, az
well as the difference, between them and
the rich, which the rich are not always
graceful in according. The rich man
stands beside the poor man and the first
thing he notices is the difference, but il
he is as much of man as he should Inc
will notice, too, the identity.
The differences are many, and most Of
them differences which ofttimes might be
overcome by a change in the circum-
stances Of either. The identity is some
thing deeper and less easy to change.
It is that they are both men, with hopes
aroused by much the same things, with
possibilities of hatred born of the same
causes, with the same general tempta-
tons and repentances, with the same
longings for affectionate appreciation,
with the same personal pride and the
same struggling painting desire for rest
and peace.-"Pentaur" in Kansas City
mes.
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1886-03-24
Making a New Merry Oasis.

The Russians who are singularly sus.
ceptible to new ideas and display an
audacity in engineering which has repeat
edly led them to act as pioneers in reduc.
ing theory TO practice, have fixed Their
minds on new enterprise, well calcu-
lated TO set on edge the teeth Of English
and Indian statesmen. This is no other
than the formation Of a new oasis, as
large as that Of Merry, along the new
frontier to the Oxus, which the Afghan
delimitation commission will delineate
as soon as the spring weather enables it
to quit its winter quarters at T,lans-
hambe.
Briefly, the scheme, which by the way
is not mere newspaper project, but a
sober engineering design, complete in all
details, and drawn up on the spot by the
surveys of Annenkoff, the constructor
of the Transcaspian railway, provides
for cutting the bank of the Oxus neal
Tchardzhni, and allowing the water to
run afresh through some ancient chan
nels running in the direction of Merv.
There is no particular novelty in the idea,
the oasis of Khiva being formed entirely
of country irrigated by an elaborate sys-
TEN of canals running out from the
Oxus near its entrance into the Arai sea,
while the Merry oasis is of a sin. liar
character, and uses up all the water of
the Murghab. Engineering.
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1886-03-24
How 70 Addre,, the President.

The title of the president is simply
"The President" and when one addresses
him, the proper form is "Mr. President,
and not "Your Excellency." Mrs. Wash
ington always spoke of Gen. Washing
ton as 'the president" and to have called
him General or Mr." would have been
in bad taste. An invitation from the
president is equal to a command. 1t
supersedes all other invitations, whether
accepted or not, and demands an imme-
date reply in writing to the president.
The form of address to be used is "The
President: Sir" And the president in
answering never uses 4Yours truly" or
"Your obedent servant" but simply
signs his name.-Harper's Bazaar.
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1886-03-24
IYLsR's secasrARY OF STATE.
The bursting of n Canuen ON the Prince
ton--A Historical "Reminiscences.

- p - MI
The bursting of Caunea ON the Prince
to.--A Historical "Reminiscences.
In the congressional cemetery also lies
buried the Hon. Abel Parker Upshur,
President Tyler's secretary of state, who
was killed on the steamer Princeton by
the bursting OF cannon. This terrible
accident, by which two members of
President Tyler's cabinet and three other
persons lost their lives, occurred the 2Sth
of February, 1874. Gen. John Tyler, Jr,
is probably the only survivor of that ac-
cident now living. In conversation the
other day he gave me very vivid de-
scription of the event. He said:
Commodore Stockton was regarded as
he most advanced man in the navy Of
his day. He had made many improve
ments in various ways, and among Others
had made two large wrought-iron can
non. He called these the "Peacemakers."
He invited the president and his cabinet
to take trip down the Potomac on the
Princeton to test these guns. They had
been shot several times before dinner,
and the sport had been enjoyed greatly
by all present. AT the close of the meal
Secretary Gilmer remarked to Commo-
dore Stockton:
lit is good while since we heard
that gum
The commodore regarded this as an
order, coming as it did, from his superior
officer, and so rose Immediately and
passed on deck, followed by Messrs. Up
shur, Gilmer, and the rest. My father
was little in the rear. Secretary Gil
mer turned to me as he went above and
said: will you look after Mrs. GilmerY
l knew what this meant, as Mrs. Gilmer
was delicate, and the loud report made
her nervous. So i stayed behind. 1t
hardly seemed that they had had time
to reach the deck before the aw-
full report was heard. / felt sure that
something terrible had happened, and
fastening up the terrifying scene was be-
fore me. There was some Unforeseen
defect in the piece which had withstood
the former discharges but had yielded at
last. Commodore Stockton was up to
that time one of the most popular men
in the country. He would, in my opin-
ion, have been president some time had
it not been for this accident. People in
some way indirectly attributed the fault
of this to him. Cor. Chicago Tribune.
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1886-03-24

The newest thing in newspapers is -an
organ Of b-ass bands"
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1886-03-24
The "Ring. " of Growth in Trees.

After q careful study of the subject
Prof. P. d. Penhallow concludes that the
formation Of the so-called annual rings"
of growth in trees is chiefly determined
by whatever operates to produce al
ternating periods of physiological rest
and activity. In cold climates the rings
are an approximately correct, but not al
ways certain, index Of age. In warm
climates, however, the rings are Of no
value in this respect, as the growth is
moro likely 10 mark a perion OF rainfall
than the yearly hot season Of summer
Boston Budget.
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1886-03-24
The Changes Of the Earth's surface.


The recent appearance Of a new island in
one Of the Pacific ocean groups illustrates
the fact that hundreds of geographers
and surveyors have all they can do to
keep their work abreast of the never
ending physical changes Of the earth's
surface. Great Britain employs ten ships
and 600 men in its admiralty surveys,
and much Of their work consists in max.
ing new charts of waters that were care
fully surveyed from ten to thirty years
ago. New surveys along the east and
west coasts of England last year showed
important changes in depths and other
features have occurred since the previous
surveys. Navigation charts are likely
after ten or twelve years TO be as value
less for purposes Of present information.
as a last months newspaper.-Boston
Transcript.
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1886-03-24

A Frenchman named Lalontan has
just accomplished remarkable feat in
book-renovation. He had sent him a
copy Of Coverdale's Bible that was CON-
pletely saturated with fat, and had been
badly eaten by mice. His process was TO
treat each leaf TO a judicious course Of
chlorine in solution and ammonia, while
the dirt was removed by some process
only known TO himself. He then sup
piled the defective portions by carefully
grating on selected pieces Of paper Of
the requisite texture and shade. The
missing letter-press was fac-similed, the
whole was then sized and afterwards APP
propriately bound by one Of the best
Partisan binders, the whole cost Of this
treatment being f900.-Frank Leslie's.
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1886-03-24
The Meanness Of Modern Society.

Society-what ISL? It has about a.
much consideration and sensibility fol-
individuals as the plowshare has for the
clover. Mean. why it is meanness itself,
selfish, grasping, heartless-if ono could
embody society in one great burly bully,
such as il is in tho aggregate. ono would
want TO tie society 10 post and give 80.
ciety sound Jogging. Tho aggregate
Of society is always aggregated meaness
The Interior. 'gT
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1886-03-24
A pstrif,.d Daughter Of Earth.

Professor, Young Of Princeton, says tho
moon Is apetrified daughter Of the earth,
destitute of life, air, and water. The
temperature he estimates in the dark
spots at 200 degrees below zero, and at
other places at @boiling water point" n
the moon was annihilated the tempera-
ture Of this section would be reduced one
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1886-10-19
Book Notices.

The October number of the soUTnERE
BIvoUAc is out with its usual variety of inter.
esting and entertaining articles. A Northern
soldier draws striking comparison between
the campaigns of General Lee and General
Grant. Colonel Robert w. WooIley has an i'm.
portant paper relating to Gen. Albert Sydney
Johnston's purposes in fighting the battle Of
Shiloh, and Colonel w. Allen reviews General
Longstreet's account of Lees Invasion of Mary.
land. AS a war issue the October BiUounc is
probably the best issue of the magazine. But
aside from these war papers, the magazine has
much to interest the general reader.
We have received from the publisher. John
B. Alden, New York, the October number OF
the LIBRARY MAGAzINE. and the literary mat
ter contained in it is simply superb. The price
has been reduced to 81 90 year. but the mag
aZine is really worth more than that. A spec
linen copy is sent free to any applicant.
Our LITTLE ONES AND NURsERr, one of the
most charming of all Juvenile publications, for
October, has been received. 1t completes the
9th Vol. and is filed with charming stories and
beautiful pictures. Published by the Russell
Pub. Co., Boston S1.5o year.
BALLoU's MONTHLY for October is received,
with continuation of Theodore Arnald's
"After the Wedding" and interesting short
stories. poetry, &c. G. w. Study publisher,
% Hawly ST., Boston.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1886-10-19

The Staunton (va.) Post, edited
by a colored man of marked intel
ligence, supports James Bumgardner,
the Democratic nominee for Congress
in that district. The Post says:
The condition of the coIored man
of the South and his relations with
his white fellow citizens are better
now than they have been at any pc
riod of his existence, and they pro-
pose in the Tenth district to promote
that good feeling by casting the bal
lot for James Bumgardner for Con-
gress. He will be elected.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1886-10-19

Just received from the eastern man.
ufacturers New Stock of Goods, from
which you can select something that
will suit you-from Ladies' Breach
to a fine Gold Watch. have the best
selected stock of goods in the county,
and offer them at reduced rates. j
buy for Cash, and therefore can sell
for cash for less money than those that
buy on time. Ihave a fine lot of Dog
Collars, for sale cheap Best Powder,
by the Ib. so cts; Shot, 8 cts. 10.
Cartridges, Wads, Caps, &C.. &c
Watches, Clocks, JeweIry, Fly Fans,
Lamps, or anything in my line, will
be repaired at short notice have
worked Il years at the trade, there
fore know what am doing.
H. A. BURTON.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1886-10-19

Il Large .Antount of Money Stdked on
the Result-Detdils Of the First and
Only Round Bet,Ueen Their Snake
ships, Which Resulted in Victory
for the Bldcksndke, Etc.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1886-10-19
CHARLEsTOWN W. va, 19,
SPIRIT OF JEFFERSON.
oHAH1rs4ows, JEFFERSON oousrr, W. Va.
TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 10. 1886.
Various Items.

Rev. Campbell Fair has resigned
the rectorship of Ascension (Episco-
pal) Church, Baltimore.
The town council of Liberty, Va, /,
has imposed license tax of $3.50 for
the sale of cider and ginger pop.
The securities of Samuel R. Ster-
ling, defaulting treasurer of Rocking
ham county, have compromised by
paying the county $4,000.
What it insures.-A pleasant home
is insured to all mothers that use DR..
Bulls Baby Syrup. 25c.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad an
nounces that it will double-track its
Metropolitan Branch, between WASH
ington and Washington Junction.
Take Warrington want of Days
Horse Powder many horses, COWS,
sheep, and hogs are daily lost
Mr.. Leo Wheat has written the
music and his father, DR.. Wheat, the
words for a national anthem appro-
pirate to be sung at the laying of the
cornerstone of the Lee monument.
You can save time and trouble, and
may be life itself, by prompt and ju-
dicious use of DIR. Bulls Baltimore
Pills at the beginning of a bilious
attack.
Mail messenger service will be dis
continued in West Virginia on Octo-
ber 23 on route "a, ,035, Shepherds
town, Jefferson county, from Shenan-
doah Valley Railroad, route IL, ,021.
Belle of the season." Drexel's
Bell Cologne.
Rev. Walter r. Long, who for the
past nine years has been State agent
of the American Bible Society for
West Virginia, has resigued-and
Rev. Thomas Cotton, of Ohio county,
has been appointed in his stead.
If you want good bread you must
buy " Primrose" and Z" Superlative"
Roller Flour.
If you want to make your wife and
children happy, feed them on I" Prim-
rose' and Superlative" Roller
Flour.
The barn, granery and contents
belonging to Josiah Rinker, near
Gainesboro', Frederick county, Va,
were destroyed by fire Thursday
night week. Loss estimated at ST.
600 and tramps supposed to have
caused the fire.
The torturing disease neuralgia is
instantly relieved and rapidly cured
by Salvation Oil.
The special delivery system is now
extended to all postoflices, and let
ter or package bearing special de-
livery stamp can oe sent to any office,
however small or remote, with the
certainty of its immediate delivery
within one mile of the office.
Rev. VIM. H. Chapman, Pastor of
NJ. E. Church, Georgetown, d. c.,
wrote us:-Having had the opportu-
nifty to test the excellent qualities of
DIR. Bulls Cough Syrup, L hesitate
not to say, it is the best remedy I
have ever used in my family. For
Group and whooping cough it is a
sure cure.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1886-10-19
PoETlcAL..
The Fire of Home.

/ hear them tell in far-off climes,
And treasures grand they hold
of Minister walls where stained light falls
On canvass rare and old
My hands fall down, my breath comes fast,
But ah, how can roaIn7
Ny task know TO spin and sew,
And light the fire of homo.
Sometimes hear of noble deeds;
OF words that move mankindi
OF willing hands that 10 other lands
Bring light to the poor and blind
I dare not preach, dare not write,
fear to cross the foam.
Who, if go. will spin and sew.
Aud light the fire at homer
My husband comes, as the shadows fan,
From the fields with my girl and boy.
His loving kiss brings with It bliss
That hath no base alloy.
From the new-plowed meadows, fresh ant
brown,
catch the scent of the loan;
" Heart, do not fret, 'tis something yet
To light the fire at home"
George Worster.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1886-10-19
George L. Travis.
THE R00G RARRFR

announces to his friends
IL and the public that has removed to the
front upper room in the Gibson building, ad-
joining the courthouse yard.
Ny shop has been Thoroughly Furnished and
with the Best Patent Spring Chairs
&c, is large and roomy. and shall constantly
have the services of competent assistant
Promptness, neatness, and politeness. my mot
April G, 1886.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1886-10-19

FIGHT BETWEEN A RATHER AND a
BLACKsNAKE.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1886-10-19

81 Bicycles t-Bieyeles.f - nay toshun laughter,
Try cycles first, and buy cycles after.
For surely the buyer deserves but the worst.
WhOyould buy cycles. failing 70 try cycles frstt
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1886-10-19

Rev. Campbell Fair has resigned
the rectorship of Ascension (Episco-
paI) Church, Baltimore.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1886-10-19
SpIit-sottom Chairs.

TIME undersigned would hereby inform the
Il public that he continues the manufacture
of SPLfT-BOTTOM CHAIRS of all kinds
Arm Rocker and Plain-Of the best material
and at low rates. Table Chairs furnished at
e1O peg dozen; ChiIdren's Plain Chairs. 40 cts.
each; Children's Rockers, so cts; Ladies' Rock
ers, 81; Gents Arm Rockers, 90. Other Chairs
proportionately low. Old chairs re-bottomed
on short notice. ELIAS HIGGS.
P. o. Middleway, jefferson Co., W. Va.
February II, 1S32-y.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1886-10-19

The torturing disease neuralgia is
instantly relieved and rapidly cured
by Salvation Oil.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-10-13

A full line of Chewing and Smoking Tobaccos,
Snuff and Cigars.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-10-13
Ohm r. AsHE w. n. AsHE, JR
ASHE 81 ASHE,
McCOnnelIsViIIe s. e..
COTTON GINNING, &C.

WYE hereby beg to inform the public that we
w are fully prepared to Gin Cotton, Grind
Corn and furnish Brick in any quantity. We
have nothing but first-class machinery and don't
hesitate to say that we can do you better work
than any competitor We will WILL run an eighty, d y
saw new Pratt Gin, and have it geared to
making finer sample and cleaning the seed bet
ter than the present usual method of ginning
cotton.
We have our Corn Mill ready to mash corn and
deem it unnecessary to say more than that our
machinery was prepared and put in motion by
J. WYLIE WELLS, which alone is sufficient
guarantee for tirst-class work.
We have one quarter of million of Brick
now ready for market, and will be pleased to
serve any party with both plain and pressed
Brick in such quantity as they may want. We
will ship Brick to any point to which we can
make satisfactory freight rates.
We will meet any competition in our merchan-
disc business and guarantee satisfaction III every
instance. Give us showing all round.
ASHE & ASHE.