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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-08
Stray Shots.

THE reunion of Company | Eleventh
Vermont Regiment, will be held at
Mortified on the 18th instant.
A VERMONT soldier who was accused
of stealing rebels goose during the
war said he found it kissing at the
American flag and arrested it for
treason.
A PAUPER in New York was recently
granted a pension of S72 month and
over 81 900 arrears for total blindness
contracted while confined in confed-
crate prison in Georgia.
GENERAL HARVEY of the United
States army is the oldest man on the reg
lister. He became soldier in 1918, and
participated in every war in which the
country has engaged since that time.
He is eighty-six years of age and
very rich.
FRANK LIBBY of st. Johnsbury, who
was tried at the last term of the United
States court at Windsor, charged with
endeavoring to obtain a pension on
fraudulent testimony, was found guilty
and sentenced to the house of correc-
ton for two years. This, we believe,
is the first conviction under the pension
laws in Vermont since that of Samuel
Morgan of Hyde Park, about ten years
since, who was sentenced to two years
in state prison but was pardoned by the
President without being committed.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-08
Skulking Officers.

General Sheridan was viewing the
diorama of the battle of Missionary
Ridge, in Chicago, and thinking of the
times that tried mems souls twenty
years ago and more, when he said to a
friend: " i never did like to see men
skulk out of fight when the skirmish-
ers were pushing in and the line dressed
up and following close after. You re-
member that lesson | gave those fell
lows up in Tennessee? | saw several
officers dropping out, leaving their COM
panies to go into the fight while they
hunted safety. l had those fellows
picked up the day after, formed the di-
vision in hollow square, the skulkers
for center-piece. They didn't know
what was going to happen to them.
You know l am not much on making
speeches-in fact, 1 never was. But
what l told those men that day was
clearly understood by every man in the
division. l told them that l would not
disgrace one of the brave soldiers of
my division by asking him to receive
the swords of such cowardly whelps
and while l did not like the idea of in
flicting unmerited cruelty on the col
ored race, that | should, nevertheless,
ask my negro servant if he would take
those swords away from those things
standing out there. Possibly" said
the general, retlectively, this may
have had something to do with my loss
OF officers at Missionary Ridge"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-08
Property Captured During the War
to be Returned.

Some time ago Acting Secretary Fair
child instructed Mr.. Krites, chief of
the division of abandoned property, to
carry into effect the provisions of the
act of congress authorizing the secre-
tary of the treasury to deliver to the
rightful owners certain articles of Jew
elry, ETC., captured by the United States
army during the civil war and deposited
in the treasury department. Mr.. Krites
has accordingly prepared rules and
regulations which will govern the res
toration of all such articles, and has Just
concluded an examination of the ar
ticles on deposit. They are contained
in two boxes and consist of silverware,
jewelry, portraits, watches, etc. One of
the boxes contained nearly i've hundred
watches-gold, silver and Grassland
a number of jack-knives pocket-books,
letters, etc. These were mainly taken
from prisoners of war-who died in hos
pitfalls around Washington, Cape Look
out and Elmira-and were deposited in
the treasury by General Ketchem.
Some of them, however, belonged to
Union soldiers, who died during the
war near the place designated. The
other box contained lot of articles
captured by General Sherman's troops
in Camden, S. c., IN the early part of
1865. They consist of family plate,
jewelry, etc., which had been deposited
in bank at Camden by Mr.. McRae
and other wealthy residents of that sec
ton. An inventory has been made
and it is thought the articles can be
easily identified by their owners. They
will be restored upon application, ac-
companed by satisfactory evidence of
ownership. The two boxes referred
to contain all the property of the char
acter described now in the United
States treasury, except possibly the
presentation swords belonging to Gen
eral Twiggs and captured by General
Butler in New Orleans. 1t is an I'M
settled question as yet whether these
swords can be restored under the pro-
visions of the act referred to above. All
the other articles mentioned which
have not been restored by April next
will be advertised, and such as shall
still remain in the treasury for one year
from that time will be sold at public
auction.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-08

to the war department to ascertain If
the news was true, although from our
window long files of men were seen
coming out of the war department
building, and all seemed to be very
much enthused" about something.
Every man seen upon the street seemed
to be possessed with an irresistible de-
sire to shake hands with every other
man. In few moments came an or
der from Secretary Stanton to send
band to the war department immedi-
ately, and before the orderly, who was
sent to the barracks for the band, could
by any possibility have reached the
barracks up came another orderly with
another order, Send band immedi-
ately TO the war department." and
when, in very few minutes more, the
third one came with the third order,
the writer thought band might be de-
sired at the war department, and started
himself, before the impulsive secretary
of war should appear and desire
band. But the musicians were very
much like other men that morning,
and went on the street to get the news.
However, number of members of
different bands were got together and
taken to the war department, and they
made noise and pleased the crowd,
who were too happy to be very particu-
lar about the quality of the music. In
few moments officers began to gather
at headquarters and ask: What shall
we do to celebrate?" And a parade of
all the troops in the city was decided
upon and held the same afternoon on
the grounds south of the White House.
On the evening of April there was
general illumination of the public
buildings and many private ones. On
the 9th President Lincoln came back
from the front and was serenaded by
band and made short speech at the
White House. AT the close of the
speech he asked the band to play the
tune Dixie" stating it was one he
had always liked. As the " Johnnies -
had appropriated it, he had not heard
it for some time, but thought we had
now earned the right to play it. The
following evening he made longer
speech from the White House, when
he read from a manuscript. 1t was
evident to all that the war was about
over, and we were all longing for home
and full of joy and thankfulness. Cor
respondence Of Springfield Republican.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-08
Washington and Bunker Hill.

1t was on the 18th day of June, 1915,
that George Washington was chosen
COMMUNICATIVE of the American
army. The next day he sent his an
swer to congress, in which he declared
that he accepted the office, but that he
would take no pay. He left Philadel-
phia on his way to Boston June 81,
escorted by troop of horsemen, and
accompanied by Schuyler and Lee,
who had just been made major-generals
by congress. They had gone about
twenty miles when they saw man on
horseback coming rapidly down the
road. 1t was messenger riding post
haste to Philadelphia and carrying to
congress news of the battle of Bunker
Hill. Everybody was stirred by the
news and wanted to know the particu-
lars. Why were the provincials COM
PEELED to retreat?" he was asked. " 1t
was for want of ammunition, he re-
piled. "Did they stand the fire of the
regular troops?' asked Washington,
anxiously. "That they did, and held
their own fire in reserve until the
enemy was within eight rods" Then
the liberties of the country are safer'
exclaimed Washington. He remem-
bered we'll the scenes under Braddock,
and he knew what a sight it must have
been to those New England farmers
when a compact body of uniformed SOL
diers came marching up from the boats
at Charlestown. If they could stand
fearlessly there was stuff in them for
soldiers. -.Selected.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-08
A Good Showing.

BY the report of the national presi-
dent it was shown that on July 20,
1888 the membership of the Woman's
Relief Corps consisted of but forty-five
ladies, while now there are more than
thirty-six thousand loyal and patriotic
women banded together with one grand
object in view-to assist veterans of
the late rebellion and their families.
Twenty-three thousand dollars have
been expended the past year in the work
of relief among the veterans or their
needy families. Fully $4,000 have
been turned over to different posts,
and this is proof enough that they have
been true to their principles. No esti-
mate can be put upon the deeds of
mercy done by these women, who have
visited the sick, buried the dead, cheered
the afflicted and procured homes and
friends for the unfortunate.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-08
Questions Answered.

N. D., WINoosKI.-A soldiers widow
cannot draw pension for an adopted
child, though it be under sixteen years
of age.
j. H., MILToN.-The battle of Fort
Stevens, ID. c., was the nearest one to
the city of Washington during the
war. 1t was fought December u, 1864.
M. D., RICHMoND.-If the rate of
your pension should be reduced new
pension certificate will be issued for
the lower rate. We believe this is the
practice of the pension Office recently
adopted.
n. r., WORCESTERSHIRE children
of soldier are not entitled to pension
while widow survives. On the re-
marriage or death of the widow the
right of the children to pension begins.
One child would be entitled to S14 a
month. Children's pensions terminate
when they reach the age of sixteen
years.
G. S., CHELsEA.-Ify you contracted
disease while in the service for which
you was discharged and recovered
from it so far as TO be accepted on a
second enlistment, you are entitled to
pension if you are now disabled from
any disease resulting from said disease.
The second enlistment is no bar to OBJ
tanning pension.
G. w. H., PLATTsBURGH, n. Y.-Dr.
Henry Van Aernam, late surgeon in
the One Hundred Fifty-fourth New
York Infantry, is residing at Franklin
vile, n. Y. He has been commits
sioner of pensions and member of
congress since his service in the army.
You had better write the commissioner
of pensions for the addresses of your
company officers.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-08
Richmond Is Taken.o

On the morning of April A, 1865,
while on duty as acknowledgement of
the garrison of Washington and seated
at my desk in the headquarters on
Pennsylvania avenue, just above Nine
teenth street, / was startled by loud
shout in the street, and the clatter of a
horses feet on the pavement told me
that he was being rapidly driven. A
cavalry man was riding at full speed
up Pennsylvania avenue and shouting
at the top of his voice: " Richmond is
taken!" An orderly was at once sent
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-08
Seletteo Storp.
The Old Barn.

Light gushed in at each shrunken board
And blazed in the fragrant bay
Where wifely hens their eggs had stored
In bowls of the new.made hay.
There went the iris-spattered dove,
ON the crossbeam to and fro,
Telling the sweetness of her love
To her mate as white as snow
There through each little knot-hole door,
Swift swallows hurtled past
To the bracket-nests the rafters bore,
Glued to their sides so fast
Oft we slept meath the " dishing" roof,
Mid the drone songs Of the flies
Whose time was marked by the horses hoof
With its worried fall and rise.
The wasps hung there their pear-like globes,
And darting forth In space
At wicked stabs of boysh probes,
They cleared the sacred place.
Oh, home of tawny-coated bees,
And strange things meath the floor,
Could some sweet summer-laden breeze
Blow open wide thy door,
And watt us in, no more to roam,
Dear John and James and Arne,
We'd ask to get no nearer home
Heaven prosper thee, old barn.
Detroit Free Press.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-08
Gbs Soldiers @uoget.
Pensions Granted.

To Edward M. Savage, Waitsfield, S2
a month and 1925 arrears; George II.
Emerson, Mortified, an increase to IS
a month and 81, 100 arrears; Horace
Thrasher, Mortified, So month and
81 ,005 arrears; II. Miles, Greensboro,
$4 month and $3.50 arrears; Alfred
Smalley, Greensboro, an increase from
S4 to 1914 month and 81 $50 arrears;
Clark Boutwell,, Barre, an increase from
IS to $12 month; Michael Mckenzie,
Burlington, an increase from 50 to $40
a month; John Ryan, North Groton, n.
H., recently of Duxbury, VT, SO a
month and so, 100 arrears.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-08

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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-08

IT is fact well established that con-
sumption, if attended to in its first
stages, can be cured. There is, how
ever, no true and rational way to cure
this disease, which is really scrofulous
liberation of the lungs, except through
purifying the blood. Keep the liver in
perfect order and pure blood will be the
result. DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
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pound, does all this and more: while it
purifies the blood it also builds up the
system, strengthening it against future
attacks of disease. Ask for DIR. Pierce's
" Golden Medical Discovery" Take
no other. OF druggists.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-08
A Perfect Nutrient for INVAllDS
in either Chronic or
Acute Gases.

Hundreds of physicians testify to its great
value 1t will be retained when even lime
water and milk is rejected by the stomach.
In dyspepsia and in all wasting diseases it
has proved the most nutritious and palatable,
and at the same time the most economical,
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-08

My DEAR" he said, Z" what is the
difference between ingenious and in
genuous?" " The difference between
Il and i, my love-" she replied, and he
scratched his head for diagram.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-08

" DOES our talk disturb your" said
one of company of laxative ladies to
an old gentleman sitting in railway
carriage the other afternoon. "No.
ma'am," was the naive reply; 1--WE
been married nigh on to forty years.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-08

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roe School of Oratory and Dramatic Art are pre-
pared to give instruction In yoice-cuture, expires
sion gesture and rendition. They will respond to
calls for associations, lecture courses, literary and
church societies. L. o. address, Hardwick, Vt
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-08
ASSURE PREVENTIVE and CURE
for CHOLERA INFANTUM.

BY the use of this predigeSted and easily as
simulated Food, fatal results in this dreaded
disease can be surely prevented.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-08
The BEST FOOD to be used in
connection with PARTIAL
NURSING.

No other food answers so perfectly in such
cases. 1t causes no disturbance of digestion
and will be relished by the child.
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Now is the time to subscribe for you
local paper. s,
Judge Kel,ey.s Good Health.

"Pig Iron" Kelley, Of Philadelphia, was
among the members who have visited New
York recently. He is serving in his thir-
tconth congrss, and he tells me that his blood
is learins through his veins at a faster rate
no,y THAI at any other time during the last
fifteen years. He has written within year
lis Look OH Mcclellan and 5000 words Of
"reminiscences of Lincoln. Though over 10
years a:lI the oldest man in congress, in
point of service, Mr.. Kelley still works hard
and continuously. But he is evidently slowly
creeping into childish ways, and l am toldby
other members that he has to be humored
JndSs. Krii ,a@fihes his present Gaal as~el+h
largely to the fact that he has entirely
stopped the use of tobacco. For fifty-iivc years
he chewcd and smoked. A cigar was always
in his mouth during the day and he went to
sleep with qud between his jaws The re-
suit was that his system became saturated
with nicotine, and the side of the check in
which the tobacco lay at night became
poisoned and a cancerous sore was developed,
which caused him great pain. The doctors
told him he must stop the use of tobacco. He
did so partially, using only the end of cigar
occasionally. He had the cancerous forma-
ton cut out of his cheek, and then gave up
tobacco altogether. He said itmade him feel
like a new man.-Cor. New York News
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East Corinth.

Henry Kemp has gone to Burlington
to attend College.
Joseph Carter, our Representative
elect, is in Canterbury visiting his IA
Their who is very Ill.
Alfred COrliss has gone to UniOi
Village where he has secured aplac,
as clerk in general merchandise store
Capt. Chamberlin Of New York City
is in town.
Chas. Butterz of Lowell is in town
visiting at Mrs. Geo. Martins.
Frank Stevens started Wednesday
for Peacham where he is to attend
school.
Mr.. Batchelder of Manchester has
been in town the past week canvassing
for the Manchester Union.
The village school is progressing
finely under the excellent management
of Nettie Runnels of South Newbury.
Mrs. VIM. Gage of Bradford was in
town visiting her parents and sister,
Sunday.
Carrie Taplin and Mabel Worthley
are attending school at Bradford.
T.. G. Freeman of Fairlee is workh
for S. Thompson.
Coop, our ex-harness maker has re-
tired from his profession.
Jack who was laid up for repairs the
first of the month Is so as to be out,
having been successfully treated by
one. of our skillful young men by the
name of Fly.
Gertie James who has been in East
Corinth for the past summer, returned
home to Middlebury Saturday. Her
many friends regret her absence.
George Chamberlin started this
week for Ithaca, N. Y, where he is to
attend College.
We do have instrumental music at
our Thursday evening prayer meet
ings if our former organists are absent.
Mrs. j. F. Chamberlin and her four
children who have been spending the
summer at Chas. Pages, returned to
Boston Tuesday.
A serious accident occurred Wednes-
day afternoon about 6 o'clock. Mrs.
Reuben Simpson, Carrie, Fannie and
Erwin, who had been out for an after
noon visit were driving home, when
the horse took fright, caused by the
breaking of the harness, throwing
them out and injuring them all. The
boy died in a few hours, Carrie was
quite seriously hurt, the others escap-
ed with slight injuries.
Mrs. Fred Miller and Lizzie Miller
of Meriden, Conn.,, are stopping at E.
S. Carpenters, Highland farm.
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Suicide Among French Children.

There must be an error in the New York
Suns statement about the French statistics
containing numerous suicides among children
for the first time Suicides among children
were common after the first French revolu-
ton The criminality among children al
luded to by The Sun as Of serious augury for
France simply shows the influence of the
Franco-Pr ussian war. In children insanity
shows itself in immortality and crime as
rule. Children born during the siege of Paris
died of commissions, became victims of nerv-
GUS diseases, demonstrably insane or criminal,
so that among the French lower classes "child
of the siege was synonym for doomed child.
The Suns statistics simply illustrate the infu-
ence of serious political convulsion, and do
not show any French decadence. French
statistics, being better collected under the re-
public than tho empire, seem to show de-
cadence, really the result of accuracy; and,
as tie bigoted enemies Of the republic have
control of most of the French news gathering,
erroneous deductions are the result j. G.
Herman in Chicago News
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Post Mills.

Born the 18th inst, Il daughter tC
Mr.. and Mrs. II. Il. Howe.
The band will be out Saturday If.
ternOon at 2 o'clock for street drill by
their drum major, b. M. West.
Mr.. Graves decided that to make a
nice job of frescOing the church il
would have to be replastered, and ar
engagements to that effect are being
made.
Minnie Knight returned to Somcr-
vile last Saturday.
Prof. Upper is taking two weeks
vacation.
David and Harry Howe of North
field are visiting their parents.
George Moore of Newton Centre,
Mass, is in town.
Harry Cook started for Nauvoo, H.,
last Tuesday morning. He intends to
try clerkiDg in store for n while.
VIM. A. Dodge went to market last
Monday with several fine cows.
Capt. Chubb and wife left for Texas
this week. Ed Sturgis will remain
here this winter.
Friends of Mrs. G. W. Cook of
Woodsville have been visiting her the
past week.
Winnie Howe is the champion fish
erman, he caught last Monday black
bass that weighed pounds.
The band talk of giving a prone
made concert at Colburn's Hall, Union
Village, "Wednesday eve, Sept. 22d.
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NeWburV Centre,

O. W. Brock is quite sick with ty-
phoid fever, Geo. Darling, M. d., is
attending him.
The many friends and neighbors of
A. d. Felch and wife, one hundred in
all, made them social visit on Mon
day afternoon and evening, presenting
them with good assortment of pres
ents both useful and ornamental. The
young people improved the evening by
having 0 hop, Buchanan and Hender-
son furnishing the music.
Mrs. E. H. Patten of Woburn, Mass,
is visiting friends in town. F:
j. E. Bailey is at work for John
Woods making extensive repairs .on
his house.
Tuesday afternoon and evening s.
W. Tewksbury and wife received a SC
cial visit from their many friends,
which was enjoyed by all. They leave
for Canada on Thursday, the home in
childhood of Mrs. Tewksbury.
The farmers in this section are hav-
ing their threshing done by A. Mason,
who gives the best of satisfaction to all.
John Buchanan started for Canada
ON Monday. He intends visiting Mr..
Davenport at Richford, and Broome,
Knowlton and St. Johns in Canada.
N. e. Corliss fell while running out
his wagon from the barn and came
near breaking his leg. He is at pres
ent confined to his room, attended by
DR.. Geo. Darling.