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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-12-22
advertisements.
A GREAT MISTAKE

has heretofore been made in the treatment
of rheumatism, neuralgia, and nervous or
sick headache. This is evidenced by the
failure on the part Of thousands of sufferers
to find relief, even though they have ex-
hausted the skill of various physicians and
tried numerous so-called remedies. 10
such Athlophoros is offered as safe, sure,
and q,,ick cure. Its success has been phe-
nomenal, and yet it is not surprising be-
cause it tcW do all that is claimed for it.
The Athlophoros Co. will gladly refer any
who desire to make an investigation TO re-
liable parties who have been cured by it.
Concord, n. H., March IS, 1856.
Ny father, who is eighty years old, has
for years been great sufferer with rheu-
matism, also neuralgia, in the stomach.
His case was very severe one and worried
not only the family but the doctors as well
who seemed utterly unable to do him any
good, as they resorted to the most power
full remedies. Ny father grew worse and
weaker daily, and unknown to the doctor,
we got him to try Athlophoros. Very soon
there was an improvement, the pains al
mos. Immediately ceased and there was no
longer any cause to keep the doctor in
Ignorance of what he was using We told
him it was Athlophoros that he was taking,
and the doctor told him to continue its
use. as it was what he wanted, and so it
proved, for he has never been troubled with
rheumatism since. j. w. LANE.
Hudson, Mass, May II, 1856.
This is to certify that / have sold more
Athophoros than all other so-called cures
for rheumatism combined. 1t gives uni
versal satisfaction to my many customers
Have sold Athlophoros for three years.
w. l.. WEST, Druggist.
Every druggist should keep Athlophoros
and Athlophoros Pills, but where they can
not be bought of the druggist the Athlo-
phoros Co., 1l2 Wall St., New York, will
send either Carriage paid) on receipt of
regular price, which is $l.00 per bottle
for Athlophoros and SOC. for Pills.
For liver and kidney diseases, dyspepsia, in
digestion weakness, nervous debility, diseases
of women, constipation, headache, impure
blood, &C., Athlophoros Pills are unequaled'
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-12-22
The Soldiers Home.

At meeting of the trustees of the
soldiers home, held at Montpelier last
week, Hon. A. b. Valentine of Ben
nington made an interesting statement
as to the site and property about to be
donated to the home. He said "the
original cost of the Park home property
was at least S75, 900, the fountain alone
costing more than $4,000 | think a
present time would be from S25, 900 to
100000. The estate comprises two hum
dred acres and consists of meadows,
pasture land and groves. The buildings
on the estate include three dwelling
houses, the main one of which was de-
signed for the home and which alone
would accommodate upwards of forty
soldiers as it now stands. There are
also a very large number of barns and
out-buildings in fair state of repair.
AS a source of income from this estate
a hundred tons of hay are cut yearly on
the meadows, not to speak of the other
crops. Then there is the rent of the
two tenement-houses and the income
derived from the pasturage of cattle.
Some twenty acres of the land could be
sold without detriment to the estate,
the proceeds of which could be devoted
to the general improvement of the
property. Besides this there is over
500 OF recent income, which will be
included with the property when it is
transferred to the trustees of the sol
diers' home. Nothing will be done in
the way of charging the buildings until
the requirements necessitate it," Judg-
ing from the information gained by the
trustees, there will be from fifty to
seventy-live applicants for admission to
the home.
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Questions Answered.

n. L., HUNTINGTON.-If you have
lost your discharge certificate you could
receive new one by applying to the
war department at Washington, ID. G..
NJ. p. A., North CRAFTsBURY.-If
you were granted a pension on one
disability when you claimed it on two
you can still prosecute your claim on
the remaining disability. You have
the right to appeal to the secretary of
the interior for higher rating of your
pension.
j. A. S., FAIRLEE. - This CORE
spondent desires to know when a pen
sion case appealed to the secretary of
the interior in April, 1886, will prob
ably be reached for decision. We
should say in about fifteen months from
the time the appeal was filed in the in
terror department.
G.. NJ, SPRINGFIELD.-T The rate of
pension for total deafness is S13 a
month. This rate was fixed about twenty
years ago and has never been changed.
The rate of pension for the loss of a
limb at that time was SO month and
has been increased to SIS, S24, $50 and
S36 month. We think the rate of
pension for total deafness ought to be
increased also.
G.. H., BURLINGToN.-The list of
pensions granted is furnished the
WATCHNIAN by T. J. Deavitt of Mont
pelier and not by the pension agent at
Concord, n. II. The United States
pension agents are not authorized to
give the rates and amounts of arrears
that pensioners receive to publishers
The most they could give would be the
names and addresses Of the pensioners.
SOLDIER, WALDEN.-If the attorney
you mention eXacted over 500 for
his services in prosecuting a claim fol-
pension, and that fact is established
by the testimony taken by the specia'
examiner of the pension Office, he will
not only be prohibited from prosecuting
claims before the pension bureau, but
will be liable to punishment by fine
or imprisonment. The authorized fee
for procuring pension is S25, which
sum is not payable until the pension is
granted and paid.
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Selected Sturp.
December.

beautiful river is gliding away
Through the wilderng hours of a soft June day,
The quivering waves in the light and the shade
Rejecting our happiness, blooming to fade,
The river adrift with hopes and tears,
The river of hours, and days and years
September has shed all her bronze and her gold,
The river is singing her song of old;
1t echoes the tones Of our life in its flow
The joyous, the bitter, the sweet and low.
The river ageam with smiles and tears,
The river of hours, and days. and years.
December embraces the earth in his clasp,
Ensealing her charms in his lingering grasp;
The river between us is frozen and chill,
1t echoes no longer, its music Is still.
The river of life, so full of tears,
oh river of hours, and months, and years.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-12-22
The Battle of Pittsburgh.

In September, 1914, the British came to
Plattsburgh, fourteen thousand strong.
They had to pass our house, and Mai or
John +. Wool came and aroused us. He
said he was going to place the cannon in
front of the house and we must get out
as soon as possible. | hitched up our
team, put on the hay-rack, loaded in
such things as were necessary and
started off. Went about a mile and
found an old house which some
sheep had taken possession of. We
drove them out, lighted our candles,
cleaned out as much as we could
unloaded our wagon and made our
selves as comfortable as we could. We
got there at about ten at night and got
settled down about twelve O'Clock. The
cannon was placed south of our house,
but the cannon balls flew past and
struck in the field Just back of the
house. The first shot killed and
wounded twenty of the Britishers and
there were great many killed before
our artillery had to retreat, when they
followed and drove us across the river
Saranac. When our forces crossed the
river they tore up the bridge, and then
the Britishers had to stop. None ever
crossed the river but such as were
taken prisoners. They waited for their
fleet to come and make general at
tack. The fleet came, and our fleet
knocked them to pieces and took what
they did not sink. The great army of
fourteen thousand got back to Canada
as fast as possible, losing some prison
ers and meeting with good many dis
asters. In their haste to get away they
left their dead lying upon the ground
unburied. | went down on their camp
ground the next day and saw a number
of the dead thrown into piles, and
around the barn that they used as a
hospital the dead were stripped naked
and scattered about. So ended the
great battle of Pittsburgh. Our family
moved back to our home and found
things pretty well destroyed Our hay
and grain, with which our barn was
filled, was eaten up. They had COM
pany of cavalry, and the horses were
kept in our barn and the house was used
for barracks. - Correspondent PldttS-
burgh Republican,.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-12-22

SAVING THE LAWYERS. -" The first
thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
This is rather blood-thirsty PROPOSE
ton, which we modify by offering to
cure this worthy class of people. Most
of them suffer lin common with nearly
all others of sedentary habits from the
injurious effects of dyspepsia, indiges-
ton, piles, loss of appetite and other
ailments caused by constipated habit
of the body. DR.. Pierce's Pleasant
Purgative Pellets " eradicate all these
disorders in promptly removing the
cause thereof, and induce a rare degree
of comfort and health.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-12-22
Constitutional Catarrh.

No single disease has enailed more suffering or
fastened the breaking up of the constitution than
Catarrh. The of smell of taste of sight, of
hearing, the human voice, the mind,--one more,
and sometimes all, yield to its destructive influence
The poison it distributes throughout the system at
tacks every vital force, and breaks up the most
robust of constitutions Ignored, because but little
understood, by most physicians impotently assailed
by quacks and charatans, those suffering from 1t
have little hope TO he relieved of it this of the grave
1t is time, then, that the popular treatment of this
this terrible disease by remedies within the reach of
all passed into hands at once competent and trust
worthy The and hitherto untried method
adopted by Dr. Sanford in the preparation of his
RADICAL CURE has the hearty approval of
thousands. 1t is instantaneous in afordng relief in
all head colds, sneeZng, snufllng and INSTRUCTED
breathing, and rapidly removes the most oppressive
symptoms, clearing the head sweetening the breath
restoring the senses of smell, taste and hearing, and
neutralzing the constitutional tendency of the dis
towards the lungs, liver and kidneys.
SANFoRD's RADICAL CURE consists of one bottle
of the RADICAL CURE, one box of CATARRHAL
SOLVENT, and IMPROVED INHALER; price, 81.
POTTER DRUG AND CHEMICAL Co., BOSTON.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-12-22

mony clearly showed want of sufli-
cient means for comfortable support
of the family at the date of the SOL
dier's death and that the claimant was
justly entitled to pension. The secre-
tary of the interior made decision re-
versing the action of the pension office
in rejecting the claim, and last week
Mrs. Chadwick received pension OF
S12 a month and 50, 175 arrears.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-12-22
advertisements.
SCALY, ITCHY SKIN
And All Itching and Scaly Skin
and Scalp Diseases Cured
by Cuticura.

DSORIASIS Eczema, letter Ringworm, Lchen,
L Pruritus Scald Head, Milk Crust, DandruH. Bar
bers', Bakers Grocers' and Washerwomans Itch,
and every species of Itching, Burning, Scay Pimply
lumors of the Skin and Scalp are positively cured
soar, exquisite Skin Beautiher, externally, and
CUTICuRA REsoLvENT, the new Blood Purifier, IN
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-12-22

VICTORY AT LAST Consumption,
the greatest curse of the age, the de-
stroyer of thousands of our brightest
and best, is conquered. 1t is no longer
incurabe. DR.. Pierce's g Golden Med
ical Discovery " is certain remedy for
this terrible disease if taken in time.
All scrofulous diseases-consumpt
is scrofulous affection of the lungs,
can be cured by it. Its effects in dis
eases of the throat and lungs are little
less than miraculous. All druggists
have it.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-12-22
DISTRESSING ERUPTION.

Your CUTICURA REMEDIES performed a wonder
full cure last summer one Of our customers, NJ
old gentleman of seventy years of age, who suffered
with fearfuy distressing eruption on his head am
face, and who mad tried all remedies and doctors
no purpose. j. +. SMITH co.
TEXARKANA, ARK.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-12-22
PSORIASIS, OR sCALY SKIN.

I. John j. Case, D. D. S., having practised dentistry
in this county for thirty five years and being well
known to thousands hereabouts, with view to help
any who are afflicted as ! have been for the past
twelve years, testify that the CUTICURA REMEDIES
cured me of Psoriasis. or Scaly Skin in eight days
after the doctors with whom had consulted gave
me no hope or encouragement. -
JOHN j. CASE, d. d. $.
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DUSTPANFUL OF SCALES.

H. Il. Carpenter. Henderson, y, Y, cured of Psori
ass, Leprosy, of twenty years standing by CUTI
CURA REMEDIES. The most wonderful cure OF
record. A dustpanful of scales fell from him daily
Physicians and his friends thought he must die
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-12-22

HOODS SARsAPARILLA has cured
thousands of cases of rheumatism. This
is abundant reason for belief that it will
cure you. Try it.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-12-22
ECZEMA RADICALLY CURED.

For the radical cure of an obstinate of Eczema
of long standing give credit to the CUTICURA REM
EDGEs T.. b. RICHARDSON, New Haven, Conn.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-12-22

Sold by all druggists. Price; CUTICrRA, 50 cents
REsOLVENr, sl.00; SOAP, % cents POTTER DRUG
AND CHEMICAL Co, Boston.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-12-22

WHEN we look down upon the earth
we think of the past; when we look up
to the sky we think of the future.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-15
Brief Mention,

Brief Mention.
A tramp, name unknown, sat on the railroad
track near Lisle. A train ran over and killed
him.
At Carlinsville Abram Haasis committed sui
eide by shooting. He leaves a wife and Eve chill
dren.
Peter Hardie, ST., who was thrown from a
runaway wagon died at Atlanta, on Thursday
He was well-known farmer.
A mad dog was killed at Hillsboro, on Thurs
day, by j. j. Scherer, but not before it had Bit
ten two or three horses and number of dogs.
A social event at Buda on Thursday was the
marriage of Miss Eva, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Curtney Warren, and Dr. E. A. Van Tuyl,
of Riverside.
William Cunningham, a switchman, was in
stantly crushed to death while dsconnecting q
damaged car from freight train in the switch
yard at Galesburg. Z
A Memoria-day proclamation has been issued
by Governor Oglesby. He suggests that Satur-
day, the 18th, or Monday the 31st'inst, be OBJ
served, as may best suit the convenience Of the
public.
At the meeting, Thursday, Of the Illinois State
Dental Association at Rock Island a resolution
was unanimously passed, requesting the Gov
ernor to reappoint DR.. A. w. Harlan as mem
Der of the Board of Dental Examiners.
D.. l.. Halfacre. residing four miles west of
Shelbyvie, is charged with having so beaten his
son, twelve years old, as to cause his DEATH The
father then buried the body in field without a
coffin Halfacre, who is half Indian is missing
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-15
Debris from a Disseoting-Room.

CHICAGO May 14-The coroner received
dispatch this morning from F. A. Vogt a trus-
tee of the town of Cicero, near this city, which
said that nine boxes containing the bodies of
children and adults had been found about half
mile south of Oak Park. Up to IL o'clock no
other particulars concerning the discovery were
TO be had. The facts as known created excite
ment in police circles-one of the theories ad-
vanced being that the corpses were those of
Anarchists who had died from injuries received
in the Haymarket explosion and in subsequent
fights with the police in the southwestern part
of the city. There have been rumors that
number of dead Anarchists were secretly buried
by their comrades, and it was thought that the
bodies found might be those disposed of in that
manner.
A close examination of the decomposed re-
mains discloses that they were evidently taken
there from the dissecting-room Of one Of the
medical colleges in the vicinity. AS near as
could be ascertained there were portions of the
bodies of twelve persons. including woman and
two infants. The rumor that the bodies were
those of persons killed in the riots was I'M
founded.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-15

of Massachusetts, that they had ever since been
sensitive on the subjects OF both negroes and
rum, and they were now undertaking. to large
extent, to prohibit rum after having extermin-
ated slavery. MIR. Vest criticised the course of
the Senate in lately passing large number of
private pension bills without even reading them5
MIR. Teller said the government had made
contract with the soldier that, if he received in
jury he should receive compensation for It.
That was as sacred contract as the contract to
pay the bonded debt of the Union 1t was COM
planned that we had paid over 800, 900, 900 in
pensions. We had paid to moneyed men more
than three times that sum nero interest, for
the use OF their money in putting down the Re-
Dellion, and were paying the principal besides
We had done that because we had no right 10 re-
pudiate our honorable obligations. But were
such obligations any more sacred than the ooli-
cations we had incurred to the men who had
saved the Nations Fortunately, we were able to
keep our obligations to both classes.
Mr.. Logan said he had never heard an argu-
ment that he considered reasonable why dis
abled soldier should not have pension. The
argument had always been: First the amount
involved, and second, that pension agents were
building houses. No pension agent, Mr.. Logan
said, could get pension for a man who
was not entitled to it. Was it any an
swer to a deserving pensioner to say
that he could not get it because he was Endorsed
by an agent2 The government that would allow
poor, disabled soldier to beg on the streets be-
cause ~agent" advocated his claim. or because
it would cost something to relieve him. would not
be worthy of the devotion which our soldiers had
displayed. The people Of the United States
would never consent to such course.
Mr.. Morgan submitted an amendment to be
moved by him at the proper time, providing that
pensions covered by the bill and not provided for
by existing laws should be payable only out of
money to be derived from internal revenue, and
requiring the Secretary of the Treasury to re-
port to Congress in December, 1886, what per-
centage of taxation on the capital stock of cor
porations would be sufficient to pay the expense
incurred under this act, but not to include cor
porations organized to promote religion, charity,
education, morals or health, nor any corporation
of less capital stock than $50 900.
After executive session the Senate ad-
journed until Monday.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-15
Minor Notes.

The Newman pond, Lafayette, broke on
Thursday night and $4,000 carp escaped into a
creek near by.
William Cbavis, colored, has been arrested at
Charlestown on warrant charging him with
raising postoffice order, at Winchester, Ind,
from So to $13.
Joseph Berry, one sof the best lofty tumblers
in the circus business, is at his home in Jeffer-
sonville, in dying condition from injuries re-
ceived in the ring
New Albany will be represented at the ST.
Louis Kenne, Clubs bench show by five entries
by Joseph H. Kraft In the string is Robin
Affair."" dog that has taken thirteen pre-
miums out of fourteen entries.
The body of Michael WEIGH ditcher, with q
pint flask half full of whisky in his pocket and
fractured skull was found two miles south Of
Anderson. The body was in thicket by the
roadside and submerged in water
Rev. j. F. Englehart. of the Bretzvlle Luther
an Church. is preparing to remove to Seymour,
where he will engage in journalism taking
charge of the Seymour and Columbus Journal
Rev. j. ]. Simon, of ST. Louis. has taken charge
of his congregation at Bretzvle.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-15
THE HOUSE.
A Discussion Patents Leads to Brief
Debate on the Tariff.

Discussion Patents Leads to Brief
Debate on the Tariff.
WASHINGTON, May 14-Cn motion of Mr.. Pc
ters, of Kansas, a Senate bill was passed appro-
prating $50, 600 for the completion of the public
building at Wichita. Kan. After the transaction
of some routine business, the House went into
committee of the whole-Mr. Hatch, of Missouri,
in the chair--on the private calendar.
bill for the extension of patent gave rise
to debate which trenched upon the ground Of
tariff reduction.
Mr.. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, defended the tar
LIZ laws as tendinsto develop the resources of
the States. If the policy of Arkansas would
permit the development of her material re-
sources, she would shine respondent among the
nations of the world, and her people would
abound in wealth.
Mr.. Butterwortb, of Ohio, defended the patent
laws and expressed the belief that but for the
inventive genius of the country the limo of set
Element would not be one hundred miles west OF
the Aleghenies. 1t was the inventive genius
of the Republic that made it what it was. The
genius of invention was the genius of God.
MIR. Dunn not surprised that he should
have aroused the advocates of high taxation and
monopoly taxation. Let the CALLED jade vince,
my wIthers are not wrung." AS answer to
the argument of the gentleman from Pennsyl-
vania Mr.. Kelley in favor of protective tariff,
ne read from description given py Mr.. row
derly of the lamentable condition of the Hunga-
RAN laborers in the Pennsylvania coke regions.
This. he said was the beauty, the luxury, the
delight the happiness of that protected labor.
1t was the Pennsylvania statesman who had
robbed Arkansas of its just prosperity.
Mr.. Kelley said he had never had the privilege of
meeting Mr.. Powderly, but that he had received
that gentlemans kind acknowledgements Of his
services in behalf of the laborers of the country
and of that provision of American policy and
law to which the laborers looked for an indie
pendent life as compensation for steady and
faithful work. He then passed on to discussion
of internal revenue taxation, advocating its
abolition. The Democrats adhered to the doc
trnes which prevailed when great workshops
were supposed to be foes to the institution of
slavery. They forgot that they could not whip
niger men and women as they formerly did.
Kisses on the Democratic side.
Mr. Bayne of Pennsylvania said that the
Hungarian settlements in western Pennsylvania
represented European working methods They
were free-trade laborers imported under con-
tract against the protests of Pennsylvania and
Pennsylvanians AS an illustration of the good
results to labor from protective policy, he
stated that in his county of Allegheny more
wages were paid to labor in one year than was
paid in three years in the whole State of Ar
kansas.
There was disposition shown to lengthen out
the tariff debav~, hut protest was made, and
private business was proceeded with The COM
mttee rose after reporting several bills, and the
House adiourred