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The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-01

Enumeration OF youths, to 81, 1880
Eorollment...... .......- .......... 49ZU
Per cent. of enrolment on emu
meratl0n ...... ............... ....... 30
No. Of pupils from 6 TO l6........ 4,749
No. OF pupils from Is to 2I.... III
No. OF days in session .......... 176
No. OF DAYS taught 1877
Average enrollment............ 3,903
No. of Gays present. ..45l, S45
No. OF days absent. ....... 3S,972
No. of cases OF tsrdipess.. ...... 1856
Per ceat OF attendance OF num-
Der heloDRlng....,..... .........". 81
Per cent Of attendance on en-.
Iollment..,...".." ......s...,,".... TO
Per cent. OF tar1iness......... 2
No. of regular teachers (inciud-
ing principals................... So
No. of supernumerary teachers 6
Average No. pupils to teacher. 40
Average salaTy OF teachers. IS 484 90
Cost tuition per pupil enrolled 8 is
Cost tuition perpupil belonging 10 81
Amount collected pay pupils. ,241 80
Total cost Of tuition. 1852 90
Annual current expenses. .....56, 845 98
Paid on last sessions indebt.
edness. ....................... 9,2c4 10
No. of school houees ow Led by
CITY ...,.... ......... ......,..."
No. of school houses rented by
city ......" ......... ......... ........
No. Of fchoolrooms ........-..,. 70
No. Of sittings. ................... 37l2
Value Of school HOUSES owned
by city..................,......S98,5 28 05
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. $1,000 90
Basis OF taxation, city ......... l64, FAC SO
Rate of taxstioD, city........ II mills
Basis Of tsxation, Safe and
county. ...."... 800, ........2l, 25O,276
Rate of taxation, stare and
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-01
SEWER SYSTEM.
Number Feet Built and Connections
Made-The Coat

The following table shows the
growth Of the sewer system for the
last twelve months:
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-01
D. B. SMITH, Of Guthrie, Ky. J.w. o.
COMBINATION SALE
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Nos. 81, 6S and II Monroe street,
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Mr. Smith the embark the H9sip cattle IN Kentucky 9RS
his and his will shOy for ihsnselys ne
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-20
Wanted to Do Good.

A venerable Keptuckian told us the
following story: A wealthy planter, a
man of education, an eloquent speaker,
successful politician, was converted.
He wanted to do good. His neighbors
were irreligious, and he felt that his
first duty was to them. He built COM
modious church, put an organ in it and
hired an organist. He obtained a
license to preach and prepared some
excellent sermons. When the house
was ready he sent his servants all over
the neighborhood and invited every
body to come to church at eleven O'Clock
next Sunday. The people came and
listened. At the close of the service
the preacher thanked them for coming
and invited them to come again next
Sunday. On Saturday he sent his
servants out to remind them of the
Sabbath service. He did this year
after year, paying all expenses himself
not taking collections from anybody or
anything; for he wanted to convince
the people that the gospel was free
without money and without price.
And what was the result?' we asked
'Oh!' said our informant, 'he preached
for twenty years, and there wasn't a
single conversion in all that time.
People are not apt to prize very highly
that which costs them nothing. II
you want to get man into the church
begin by getting him to do something
for it. If you want to develop the
piety of church, train its members
to work and to give. "-Interior.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-20
An Incident of Antietam.

The most savagely contested part of
the struggle at Antietam was in and
around the sunken lane of Roulet's
farm, where Jackson's corps for hours
held the ground, from which Hooker
and Mansfield had been successfully
repulsed early in the morning. In
their yellowish, butternut suits the
confederates were scarcely distinguish
able from the road-bed on the ditch
where they lay, or from the ripe stalks
of the corn-field behind, through which
their reinforcing brigades were con-
stantly descending. Not more than
fifty yards off, lying or kneeling in the
green pasture field, without any shelter,
the Union men-Kimball's Caldwell's
and the Irish brigades-poured so
deadly fire into that lane that after
the battle six hundred confederate dead
were found there. Repeated efforts
were made by the Union troops to
charge. Perhaps the first was in con-
formity to generals orders; the 9TH
ers certainly were not. The confeder-
ate fire was so terrible that every one,
however, realized the need either of
driving the confederates from the lane
and the rising ground behind, or else
of retiring, to avoid humiliation. Such
expressions as, "We must CHARGE"
Let's try the bayonet, boys" were
constantly repeated along the line, and
bayonets would be fixed without any
order whatever, so far as known, from
general or field officers. But, on max
ing the effort to charge and finding the
enemy's fire irresistible, the Union
line, with heads bent, as if against a
rain-storm, would "back up" to its
former position, and, kneeling or lying
down again, resume its fire. Finally
clamor of desperation broke out.
There were no troops in sight behind,
no promise of reserve or support, and
the situation was calling. The whole
heavens were splitting with the detona-
tons of battle, and the rest of the army
was probably fighting for its own life
The men on their knees fixed bayonets
again for the tenth time, perhaps, and
with a murderous howl of rage, the
three brigades rushed forward and in 6
minute were in the lane and their ban
ners were ascending through the corn
field toward the peach orchard where
Jackson himself is said to have been
during all those hours. This charge
which broke Jackson's right for time
and required all his genius to proven
proving supreme disaster to his army
would not have been made when it wa
made if the initiative had depended or
a commanders orders.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-20
Begin Right.

AS the boy begins, so will the man
end. The lad who speaks with affecta-
ton, and minces foreign tongues that
he does not understand, at school, will
be a weak chrome in character all his
life; the boy who cheats his teacher
into thinking him devout at chapel will
be the man who will make religion a
trade and bring Christianity into con-
tempt; the boy who wins the highest
average by stealing his examination
papers will figure some day as tricky
politician. The lad who, whether rich
or poor, dull or clever, looks you straight
in the eyes and keeps his answers in
side of truth already counts friends
who will last his life, and holds a cap
ital that brings surer interest than
money. Then get to the bottom of
things. You see already as to that. 1t
was the student who was grounded in
the grammar who took the prize; it was
that slow, steady drudge who practiced
firing every day last winter that bagged
the most game in the mountain; it is
the clerk who studies the specially of
the house in off hours who was pro-
NOTED. Your brilliant, happy-go-lucky,
hit-or-miss fellow usually turns out the
lightweight of the family by forty-five.
Don't take anything for granted; get to
the bottom of things. Neither be a
sham yourself nor be fooled by shams.
-Selected
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-20

who had resolved that they would have
no preacher and no gospel there. One
man who had tried it for year bore
bitter testimony of the result. came
out here" said he, "to find a place
where there was no Cod have found
it, and it is hell" And he set him
self to work to organize a Sunday-school.
How many families there are which are
in just the condition of that western
town. AS family they are without
God. No voice of prayer or praise ever
goes up from the home circle. No
child ever learns to look through the
father on earth to the Father in heaven;
through the earthly home to the home
in heaven. 1t is pitiful to think how
many children there are in the world,
and even in this land of ours, who grow
up in ignorance, not knowing how to
read or write. 1t is more pitiful to
think how many children there are
who grow up not knowing how to pray
or praise. May God help the father
and mother who read these lines to es-
tablish church in their house, or, if
one is already established there, to
make it richer in faith and hope and
love; to set up in their household a lad
der which rests upon the ground, but
whose topmost round pierces the heav-
ems, up which every night and morning
the prayers run nimbly to God, and
down which, more nimbly, come angels,
bearing blessings from his hand.-Ly-
man Abbott.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-20
The Pilgrim Fathers.

These forefathers were great think
ers, for they thought Gods thoughts
after him, careless of the contradiction
which those thoughts might bring to
our human logic. This was their in
tellectual heroism that they believed
God, though they thereby made every
man liar. 1t is the fashion now-a-
days to admire the Puritan and decry
Puritanism. But it was the doctrine
that made the man, and not the man
the doctrine. Iron in the thinkers
brain is just as needful, if he is to grasp
and master the dark problems of the
universe, as iron in the blacksmith's
blood is needful if he is to weld and
mold the iron bar which he holds in his
hand. And our Puritan fathers had
the iron from the hills of eternal truth
so wrought into their blood that they
have sent down current of stalwart
convictions which score of genera
tions has not outgrown. This
shall be my closing sentiment: "The
Pilgrim fathers, as they are marching
on year by year in the culture, and
wealth, and greatness which their sons
have wrought out after them; may the
Pilgrim sons fall back year by year
upon the piety, and virtue, and con-
science which their fathers wrought
out before them.-ReU. A. j. Gordon,
DID,, on FOrefdther'S Day.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-20
The Home Church.

Your home ought to be a church.
The home was Gods first church, the
father and mother were Gods first
priests and the first altar was a family
altar. The most sacred of all church
services is the Lords Supper, and this
replaces the Passover feast, which was
family feast. The early Christian
Church was Graded in the household,
and in private homes the disciples met
for prayer and praise, The universal
Church, including all the faithful, is a
household of faith, great family whose
father is in heaven; the Church of the
First Born above, our heaven, is our
home. So the first paradise and the
last paradise are both homes, and the
home between ought to be like them.
Our children ought to learn all their
first lessons of father and mother; and
lessons of faith, hope and charity, les
sons of reverence and penitence, les
sons of prayer and praise, ought to be
their first lessons. You would be
shocked to go into western town and
find in it no church, no Sunday-school
no religious services. l heard the other
day of such town, made up of men
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-20
Temper at Home.

l have peeped into quiet "par-
lors," where the carpet is clean and
not old, and the furniture polished and
bright; into "rooms where the chairs
are neat and the floor carpetless; into
kitchens " where the family live and
the meals are cooked and eaten, and
the boys and girls are as blithe as the
sparrows in the thatch overhead, and l
see that it is not so much wealth and
learning, nor clothing, nor servants,
nor idleness, nor town, nor country, nor
station, as tone and temper that rem
der homes happy or wretched. And 1
see, too, that in town or country good
sense and Gods grace make life what
no teachers or accomplishments, or
means, or society can make 1.-THE
opening stave of an everlasting psalm;
the fair beginning of an endless exist
ence; the goodly, modest, well proper
toned vestibule to temple of Gods
building, that shall never decay, wax
old or vanish away.-Selected.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-20
Negative Goodness.

Conversion is very common term in
the church and in the pulpit. Some
times we use it in a very vague sense.
Conversion, Scripturally, means simply
two things: O 81 have quit the
wrong" (2) 81 have taken hold of the
right" No man is Scripturally con-
verted until he throws down the wrong
and walks off from the wrong and
walks up to the right and espouses the
cause of the right. Religion is two
fold principle, or, rather, it is princi-
pie that enables man to discern the
right and to do the right; to discern the
wrong and to make him hate the wrong.
There are two elements in every pious
life: O Negative goodness; (2) posi-
tive righteousness. Negative goodness
is not religion. If negative goodness
was religion, then one of these lamp
posts out here would be the best Chris
tian in town; it never cursed, nor
swore, nor drank drop since it was
made; it never did anything wrong
Sam Jones.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-20
Truth and Truthfulness.

Let any one look back upon what he
was when he was child; let him leap
over the thirty, or forty, or sixty years
that have passed since he came into
conscious knowledge of good and evil,
and he will indeed have been happy
have been blessed with the teaching of
true parents, and had that teaching
blessed to him-if he does not see, in that
long-distant past, some dark blot of de-
ceit staining the calmness and purity
with which his infancy might else have
appeared arrayed to him. Some child
ish offence has been followed by a
childish deceit. He has broken a
fathers command, and has feared pun
ishment, and has tried to evade it by
falsehood, and the stain of that false
hood has eaten deep into his soul. And
so, again, when the years of mere child
hood are past, and boys are gathered
together in large numbers at a school,
are there no recollections of offences
against the truth? Was an evasive
answer, shutting excuse, paltry
equivocation thing altogether I'M
known? Was the school a temple of
truth, into which there entered nothing
that loved or made lie? Or did you
find lies there, so long as they could
assume a form somewhat short of a
downright falsehood in its very terms,
common and lightly thought Unknown
by some phrase which served to hide
its real character; so that there was, in
fact, two-fold liza lie upon lie
first, the falsehood practiced upon the
teacher, and then the falsehood prac-
ticed upon yourselves, to make each
other think that that was no falsehood?
l do not say that this is always the case.
Doubtless there have always been eX-
ceptions to it. We may hope that such
things will become more and more
known to be what they are-that they
will be the exception, and the love of
truth the rule. Yet still none can deny
that these sins have been, and are, too
common. 1t rests with those who are
now young, and passing through that
stage of life in which they meet with
temptations to this kind of falsehood,
whether it shall be so still. If there be
such among my readers, would ask
them also to pass over in their thoughts
the same lapse of time as they do who
recur in after-life to the time wher
tHey WeTc CulluTeu. IL is lor you u
look forward, as they look backward
When you are tempted to practice de-
ceit, put away for moment the pleas.
ure or the impunity which it brings
with it now, and think how it will seen
to you when you look back upon it il
mature age, and see it in its deformity
as a falsehood. Look forward still
forward over many years, over Ions
life, over to the end of time-an(
think how it will seem to you when yol
are standing in the presence of the Goo
of truth, to whom lying lips are ar
abomination.-1he Quirer for January
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-20

General Butler and had been made
somewhat famous by her general de-
pertinent, her speeches and her pert
ness. The Greyhound was taken to
Boston, was adjudged a lawful prize
and was condemned. Belle Boyd, with
the other passengers and the officers
and crew, were released and permitted
to go wherever theypleased. From Bos-
ton they all went to Halifax and from
thence to England. The prize-master
of the Greyhound was young volun-
teer officer, with the rank of acting
master in the United States navy, and
rather good-looking fellow. 1t seems
that while on board of the Greyhound
he and Belle Boyd became greatly in
terested in each other and their feelings
ripened into affectionate friendship.
After they separated at Boston fervent
correspondence was commenced and
continued between them, and they
became engaged. He resigned from
the federal navy and proceeded to En-
gland and they were married in Liver
pool Subsequently she wrote an interest
ing book about her life and adventures,
in which she gives graphic account of
her courtship and marriage, with all at
tending incidents. Her career was GER
tainly full of the most eventful, heroic
and romantic features-a career soft
ened and varied at the same time and
which showed that hearts could be cap
tured as well as blockade-runners. Itmay
not be generally known, or may have
been forgotten by the public, that
Belle Boyd was the daughter of General
Boyd of the confederate army, who
died while a prisoner to the federal
forces. He possessed vast estates in
Virginia, early embraced the cause of
southern independence and was soon
entrusted with generals command.
His daughter, Belle, enthusiastically en-
braced the same cause, followed her
father to the field and accompanied him
throughout his campaigns. On two &C.
casions, like modern Joan of Arc,
she heroically led on the troops to bat
tie. She was, however, captured in a
skirmish and was prisoner for thir-
teen months, as previously mentioned.
Then she was exchanged for General
CocErane, who had been made prisoner
by the confederates. After all these
years l remember her second capture
and its results with amused interest"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-20
Bsligious Mlistellamp.
Written for the Waterman.
His Will be Done.

BY AoHsA MILLS Drown, LouDoN, N. II.
I'm in the place my Father planned that should b
His will he done.
I cannot all the why's and wherefores see;
His will be done
lie orders all things by his love and power,
And guards and guides me in each trying hour;
His will be done
What though dark shadows fall across my way2
His will be done.
Beyond the clouds there is glorious day;
His will be done
I need not group alone through this dark vale,
His loving presence every fear can quail
His will be done.
lay my plans, he thwarts them by his hands;
His will be done.
What now I cannot know he understands;
His will be done
Step after step, the shadows flee away,
All will at last be plain in realms of day.
His will be done.
Here must my conquests or defeat be found
His will be done.
may not stand upon another's ground;
His will be done.
My Savior trod a rough and thorny road,
Walking that path will lead me up to God;
His will be done
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-20
How an Ohio Battery Captured
Supplies.

We knew it would be night before
the slow-paced baggage-wagons reached
Bowling Green, and perhaps morn
ing before we could find them. The
thought made the soldiers ravenous.
Clearly something must be done to pro-
cure rations for supper. Far off down
driving an oX-team, making his way
home, probably scared into an ague
fit by the sudden appearance of the
Yankees. 1t was the first time, the
reader must remember, that the federal
troops had penetrated the South and
the ignorant people regarded them with
comical terror. The negro was making
what haste he could to avoid being
overtaken. At this moment a wheel
ran off from the leading gun-carriage
and the first detachment halted, draw
ing to one side to enable the battery to
pass. In minute or two it was re-
placed, but by this time the battery had
! Numbered by the OK team, leaving the
negro, half paralyzed with fear, sitting
in his wagon by the roadside. A hur-
ried consultation in the detachment re-
suited in the sergent giving it one min
ute to convert the oxen into beef. We
approached the team on run, halted
and, while the negro still sat on the
wagon, with staring eyes, shivering witt
fright, twenty men fell to the work OF
slaughter. They worked like wild men
for fear of losing their rations. In g
minute or two it was all over, eigh
quarters of beef adorned the cassior
chests, the detachment clattered on the
run to overtake the battery, and the
negro still sat on his wagon, gazing al
ternately at the hides, heads and debris
incumbering the yoke and wager
tongue, and the flying artillery disap
pearing down the road,-Correspond
ence Clereland Leader.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-20
Love and Blockade. Running.

In an article in the Philadelphia Times
on blockade-running Rear Admiral j.
j. Almy, U. S. N, relates the following
incident Love and matrimony once
came in as incidents in the course of
this blockade service. Ports and towns
may be blockaded, but loving hearts
can never be, although hard-hearted
parents sometimes attempt it, When
the Greyhound was captured-vessel
and cargo adjudged by the prize courts
to be worth half million of dollars
among the passengers on board was the
noted Belle Boyd, who had been pris-
oner before in the war in the hands OF
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-20
Officers Bounty
and Pay.

Under recent decision of the treasury depart
ment all soldiers who enlisted for three years prior
to July % 1851 and were mustered In prior to August
years to accept promotion, are entitled to 300
of the Second and Third Regiments of Vermont Vol
unteers are entitled under the above ruling. BY
recent act of officers entitled to pay for
the rank to which they were promoted from the
date Of their commissions instead of from the date Of
muster For blanks and instructions for making APP
pcations for pay and bounty under the above laws
address, T. j. DEAVITT, Montpelier, VT.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-20

For cuts, bruises, sprains or strains,
burns, scalds, frost-bites, chilblains
and bites of poisonous insects nothing
equals Salvation Oil. 1t annihilates
pain, Price twenty-five cents a bottle.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-20

Do not wait till you be holy ere you
cast your confidence on the Savior; but
cast your confidence on him now, and
you shall be made holy.-Dr. Chalmers.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-20

CHARLES A. ROBERTS of East Will
son, N. Y, had thirteen scrofulous ul-
GERS on his face and neck. Hoods
Sarsaparilla cured them.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-20

HOP PLAsTERs are soothing, stimu-
lating, pain-killing and strengthening,
clean, sweet and sure.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-20
REPRESENTATIVE CIRCUIT
OF VERMONT

has introduced a bill in the house
granting pension to all invalid SOL
diers who are dependent upon their
daily labor for their support; also one
giving arrears of pension. Also bills
granting pensions to Lucinda Gould of
Worcester and Walter A. Phillips, for
merly of Montpelier, and an increase of
pension to William II. II. Buck of Mid
dleseX, and a restoration of Richard
Dodge's pension and others.