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Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1888-04-27
sGermann's Ganbioatur.

Gin ,Snteruiefu" nit General Sobn 3.
5enoerIOn BON M%iiiouri. lleber Die
republifnnii6en 4usfidteH FIR Die be-
uOrItebenbe Gampasne duBerte Der ebe<
mnlise SenntOr iid fulseuoermaBeH.
oSObn Sbermnn miro pbne 3peifeI
nit eirer itdrfsreu @eIOlse in Die GOns
Oertirn eintreten, ol3 ireeno Elm an
6erer Gaubibat, aber es 1T ni6tsoeitoe
puniser eire Offene 5rase, oh er nomi.
mr: tUsr6en lam Ooer ni6t. Sdtte er
crit einmnl Die Rominatirn erbalten, 10
Diroc er Elm f%ormioabler Ganoioat
iein. Or tsiibt peni9 peri0Hli6en
Wagnetismus, cine Gt9eni6nit, Del6e
Serrn 8lnire 0ieielte Wa6t sibt, Die
Senrp 0lnD emit beioB. Serr GlaD
bate jcner 3eit Die 9raiibenti6aftsz
nomination bnben t6nneH, fuenn nidt
ieine 5rrunoe beiir6tet tdtten, raB er
gci6lngen iperoen iuiiroe. SALTS SGer.
man nOminirt pcroen iOlte, 10 ipiiroe
iein oermeirtliher Rau9el al Rasues
tIsmus i'm nitt peientlih i6aoen.
Gin Observation-Disclosures tOmmi
foaDr;no Der Champagne III SeriiDrun9
nit 10 lulni9en St;mmgeberu, baB es
lcbr merig llnteri6ieo ma9t, Oh er
mn9netli9 lit ooer nidt. Seine per-
ibnlid)en Gigcni6aiten iino nidt Don 10
GrpBer YcocutUn0 tuie feline pOlitiiden
un6 8cidGitIi6m Gunliftatipnen.
!0err S6trmGn lit Ser bette @eIhaftss
maHu, ben mir bente i'll 8Oroergrnmbe
6cs qOlltiiden gebens Dnbeu. Gr bat
ltit 81 3abrcn tba:igeH NntBejl oil Der
HplItlt gcnCmmcn. @Gbrcn0 BEG 9rie<
9es ioB ib nebsn inn I'M 5inanjconite.
General Sberman bat IuC9en ieiner 2eis
lturgen aGT Dem Sdla9tfelbe boDeSQOb
geerntct. Seoermam teunt lie. Nber
Die SdpierigteitcH, nit benen Die
MdHner 81 tdmpieH batteH, luelfe bic
mr. be 5iIGrHn9 beg ariegeS bcn0tb;g.
ten @clomittel berbcilhnTen muBten,
aaHcH Hnb mitr0iqcu III 2sru1ge.
SeHotor SGcrmmu pijrhe ein lcbr ltare
tfn GonoI0ot letN mo rjIcn 0utcr Yrds
roCntcn nbGcbtN. lScr mmcr pic In
t%crltijEun9 clicr rcputtitGnild?cn 6iibycr
bclgt, MIRO gclUIDlt IgeUoCu. gislu
Jorf miro Den Nu*Ihlo9 gctcn. Sd
bin ocy Aniidt, to6 5dIHcls, IoWo
AdH'os, Mttm!tloto mo &lscpNiia per=
mcDrtc rcpubiltan11e Mol0ulG'T llc.
1crn wcrotr."
NnI Die FtcGC, oU ott %mlrcugHngtn,
Die 0crr SGcrmon IN SiiOen mode, Inn
III Der GOHOcrtlOH 81 ltdtlcu tOnilHcn
wtlrocu, c~nt9c9Hcte General 3cn0criou:
oStimmen ous Dem Siben 5dblen 10 out
ME Stimmcn aus DEM Norbeu, aber in
etrer 9iniidt lit es cine 9efd5rli9e lin.
terItiiBung. Sic erinrern iid, nit mel
der pernI9ttnoen 8irfung isiucr j3eit
pom Den Gcgncrn IrtDur5 Die gebaupt-
ing 9emad)t wuroe, Dap CT bauptid9li4
ocn 'oId)eit Stdateu mrtcrltiibt mcyoe,
ore 9dn5llH aHBtr Stonoe, Ibm ilr
GIcttornlpotum 5u gcben".
0elra8t, ob Ct 0errn SlGine ned ais
e'Ilen ennOIontcn bctrohtc, ontpprtcte
eE-Sc'1tor:
"Nfctn. EaS RlCBc "a az lrlncr 9lH's
rldil9felf jiVeIfeIn. Sem 6renno Ncs
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1888-04-27

Cur re6ten 3eit auseuanbt bat Elm
sutes Sausmittel i6ou bdufis Dor i5psrs
en- 2eibeH bepa5rt. 81. Gus. aonig's
hamburger 5amilien Nebisinen Iinb
u~rfebtbare Seilmittel.
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$ IT Retcr 9ontel, Bloomington, 81,
bait 9rOBe StIde All ct. Satobs Gel
uno ut 0 peiien @orSialitteit Dol.
itInSid iiber;euot.
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1888-04-27

9eurp County bat slei6fuGs clue
Seleui9uft sur 60rceruns Der Ginipan-
oerun9 ms 2eben eerufcn.
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Entered al the Post once 81 Hermann, Mo-, and
admitted for q O. smission through the mails AZ
s~eeond-ciass raIes-
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-10-05
Notice..
State of Vermont SIS.

The resident propretnrs of the town of
Vershire in the County Of Orange. are
hereby notified that the taxes assessed by
sad town within the year next preceding
this date remain either in whole or in part
unpaid on the following described lands in
said town of Vcrshire: Being all that par
eel and portion of land now owned and oc-
eupied by Charles III. Orr. called the La
thrOp land and is located in school district
No. 5 in said town, and is all and the same
land willed to the said Charles FL. Orr by
Harris Orr late of said VerShire, deceased.
Reference may be had to said will and the
records thereof FIR a more particular de-
scription.
The amount of said tax assessed on the
grand list for the year Of 1886 upon said
land and remaining unpaid is (S7l.27) sew
enty one and twenty-seven one hundredths
dollars, and not finding goods and chattels
that can be distrained, l have extended my
warrant upon the above described lands.
And so much of the above described land
as shall be requisite to discharge said tax
with costs will be sold at public auction at
the post Office in said Vershire on Wednes-
day the 31st day of October, A. d., 1888, at
one O'Clock in the afternoon, unless previ
ouSly paid.
Dated at Vershird, VT, Sept. "a, 1888.
Attest
5. Z. DARLING,
First Constable and Collector Town Taxes.
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Between San Juan del Rio and Quere.
taro the Mexican Central traverses the
fields of one Mexican farmer who raises
10000 bushels of wheat year. There
are six or seven haciendas in the same To-
cality where the crops reach 10, 900 bush.
els; and 10000 bushels of wheat means
10000 bushels of corn, 1900 bushels of
peas, and 5000 bushels of beans on the
same hacienda. That is the way the
Mexican farmer of this part of the coun-
try diversifies his crops. He raises wheat,
corn, beans, and peas in about the pro-
portion given. Occasionally there is a
specialist like the farmer near Queretaro
who goes into the raising of chile, the hot
peppers of this country. This man usu-
ally has 10000 chile plants or vines.--
Globe Democrat.
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State of Vermont, IS.

The resident proprietors of the town of
Vershire in the County of Orange are here
by not fed that the taxes assessed by said
twn within the year next proceeding this
date remain either in whole or in part I'M
paid on the following described land in said
town of Vershlre: Being all and the same
land occupied by Hiram Lathrop in said
Vershire, containing TO acres of land, and
is set in the Grand List of said town in the
year of 1886 to the said Hiram Lathrop. the
supposed proprietor, at S1S.75 upon which
grand list the Selectmen of said town have
assessed tax amounting to the sum of
($1l2.55) one hundred and twelve aud fifty
five one hundredths dollars, and not finding
goods and chattels that can be distrained,
have extended my warrant upon the
above described land And so much of the
above described land as shall be requisite to
discharge SAID tax with costs will De sold at
public auction at the post office in said Yer
shire on Wednesday, October 3lst, A. d.,
1888, at 10 O'Clock in the forenoon. unless
previously paid.
Dated at Vershire, VT, Sept. "a, 1888.
Attest
4S S. B. DARLING,
First Constable and Collector Town Taxes.
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George Spears Estate

STATE OF VT, Bradford District, IS,
~ Al probate court held at Theord within and 70,
sad district on the Ist day Of Oct A. D., 1888.
Luella D. Spear administrator Of the estate of Geo
makes application said court for license to sell ali 81
the real estate Of said deceased situated in F-irlee
representing that the sale thereof is necessary for he
purpose Of paying debts. Whereupon il is ordered
by SAID court that said application be referred to
session thereof to be held at the Probate Office in said
ihetord on the aoth day Of Oct A. d. 1888 for hear
ing and decision thereon and il is further ordered that
Of notice Of said application and order thereon three
weeks successfully in the United Opinion newspaper
published at Bradford and which circuates in The
neighborhood Of those interested before said time Of
and II they see cause object thereto.
By the Court-Attest,
40 s. NJ GLEASON Iudoe
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A large part of the failures, the disap-
pointments, the inferior work, the poor
thinking. the shallow reasoning. the lack
Of kindly feeling and sympathetic action
which as,lict mankind. is due to the lack
of nourishinent afforded to the faculties.
They are starved, consequently feeble and
inefficient. Men plead the lack of time to
enrich their minds. to stimulate their
powers. to feed their moral natures. As
well might the bird with dropping wing
and declining strength plead that he had
SO many flights to take in midair that he
had no time to pick the corn from the
field or the fruit from the tree to sustain
him in those flights. Home Journal.
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Court OF Insolvency.

STATE Of Vermont, District Of Bradford ss
~ In the matter Of Adelber Clark, insolvent debtor
Take notice that the second and third meetings of the
creditors Of said insolvent debtor will be held at the
Eagle Hotel in West Faee in said district on the 27th
day Of October, A. D.. 1885, o'clock in the fore
noon for the purposes forth in Sections TO- ,, and
So Of ian act to establish Courts Of Insolvency in this
State approved Nov 49, 1876 at which time and place
the assignee Of said debtors will submit his ac-
discharge from all liability as such assignee to any Of
said creditors, that dividend may be ordered and
certificate Of discharge granted said debtor agreeaby
to the Revised Laws Of Vermont and any proper OBJ
jections to any business said meeting will be in order
Dated at Thetford, this a9h day of Sept. A. D., 1883
40 S. NJ. GLEASON, Judge.
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TAXES I

The taxpayers of the town of Corinth,
are hereby notified that / have in my hands
for collection the Town, School, Highway
and special Highway Tax for the year 1888:
and all taxpayers are hereby notified to pay
their respective taxes as above to the under
signed Treasurer of the town of Corinth
within ninety days from the date hereof
(said time expires Dec. 18th, 1855 as per
Act No. 80 A. d., 1880, Laws of the State of
Vermont.
TENDER. A. d., 1883.
Al G. c. COOKE, Town Treas.
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Notice /!

We the undersigned hereby give notice
that the partnership heretofore existing be-
tween George A. Ames and Charles Chan
dler, doing business at Norwich, i'm the
county of Windsor under the style and
firm name of George A. Ames d Co., is
this day dissolved by mutual consent.
George A. Ames is authorized to receive all
demands due said firm and viii pay all
claims and demands against said firm.
GEORGE A. AMEs.
CHARLES CHANDLER.
Norwich. VT, Sept. 18th. 1883. IS
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TAXES.

The taxpayers of School District No. 10,
of Bradford are hereby notified that have
i'm my hands for collection School Tax for
1883. and all taxpayers are hereby notified
to pay their respective taxes as above to the
undersigned. Treasurer of School District
No. 10. within ninety days from the date
hereof (said time expires Nov. |. 1881 as
per Act No. 30. A. d.. 1880. Laws of the
State of Vermont.
Dated at Bradford. this 3lst day of July.
A. d.. 1888.
40 JOHN c. HARDY. Treas.
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Locke's Moon Hoax.

The ''moon hoax" is out Of print and a
copy can only be obtained by chance. 1t
was first published in the New York Sun of
Aug. Is, 20, "a, %, 20, and 81, 1885, The
full title of the series was: "Great Astro-
nomical Discoveries Lately Made by Sir John
Herschel, LID, F. R. g., etc.. at the Cape
of Good Hope" and the articles purported to
be extracts from and condensations of an &C.
count of those discoveries published in the
supplement to the July number Of the Edin-
burgh Journal of Science.
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Legal

PROBATE COURTS AND COURTS OF INsOL.
vENCY-BRADFORD DISTRICT Iss6.,.s
Probate Courts and Courts Of Insolvency within and
for said district will be holden the ensuing year as follows
bradiord-AtJ II. Watsons Office in Bradford on the
second Tuesdays Of every month, commencing January
.Cornth-At the Hotel in East Corinh on the third
Wednesdays OF June, August and October.
West Fairlee-At the Probate Office in West Fairlee
on the last Saturday OF every month.
m S. M. GLEASON, Judge.
Thetord Centre, VT, Dec. I. 1885. '''sS'
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Notice..
State of Vermont, SIS.

OUdCe vi vermont, SIS.
The resident prOprietors of the town of
Vershire in the County of Orange, are here
by notified that the taxes assessed by said
town within the year next proceeding this
date remain either in whole or in part un-
paid on the following described land in said
town of Vershire: Being part of Lot 10,
Range =, in the first division, containing 30
acres of land. Zenas MOrey was the origi
nal proprietor, and is now supposed to be
owned by Rufus Blanchard and is set in
the grand list to said Rufus Blanchard at
$3.50 upon which grand list the selectmen
of said town have assessed tax of (Sl5.O5)
fifteen and five one hundredthS dollars.
The sum not being paid, have extended
my warrant upon the above described land.
And so muc,: of the above described lands
as shall be requisite to discharge said tax
with costs, will be sold at public auction at
the post office in said Vershire on Wednes-
day, October 31st, A. D., 1888, at 2 o'clock
in the afternoon, unless previously paid.
Dated at Vershire, Vt, Sept. IA, 1885,
Attest
s. 3. DARLING,
First Constable and Collector Town TaypS
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First Constable and Collector Town Taxes.
TAXES

The taxpayers of the town of Bradford
are hereby notified that have i'm my hands
for collection Town and Highway Taxes for
1888, and all taxpayers are hereby notified
to pay their respective taxes as above to the
undersigned. Treasurer of Bradford within
ninety days from the date hereof, (said time
expires Nov. Both. 1889 as per Act No.
30 A. ID. 1880 and Act No. 5, A. d. 1885.
Laws of the State of Vermont
Dated at Bradford, VT, this LIST day of
September, A. d., 1888. "A
BARRON HAY. Town Treasurer.
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Tho Rain Gauge

The pluviometer is rain gauge, or an In.
strument by means Of which the rainfall Of
any area may be determined. It Is a cylin.
drical vessel in shape, and has horizontal
base, surmounted by funnel shaped tip. A
glass tube allows the water from tho outside
to enter the bottom Of the vessel. The water
also falls into the funnel shaped top. The
gauge is placed in an open space. free from
the disturbing influences Of winds, and when
the water has risen one inch In the tube 1t ID
estimated that one inch of rain has fallen
over the given area.
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A Swiss Gus osus.

Tho swin Good Night refers to tho custom
Of the Swiss mountaineers Of calling through
their speaking trumpets at dusk, "Praise the
Lord God" One herdsman starts the call,
and bis neighbors from every peak echo II.
The sounds are prolonged by reverberation
from one mountain to another. After q
short pesiod, which IL supposed to have been
devoted TO prayer, q herdsman calls GOOD
night" This, too, is repeated, and ~ dark.
ness falls, each retires to his hut These
calls may be heard for miles, and are re.
echoed from the rocks for some minutes after
the original call has died away.
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The existence of stock company at the
Museum puts some actors on e different
social footing here from that attained by the
stars who play occasional engagements
There are always several studious young
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night rafting along the river bed above
the roar of the boiling current.
That was always after our dams,
fumes, sluices and water wheels, repre-
senting whole summers work and possibly
that of the previous winter, had been swept
away, as swept away they were two seasons
out of three just as in September we had
turned the stream and had commenced taking
out gold. This was the fortune of two-thirds
of the river claims that came under my OBJ
servation during my three years of river
mining.
'sFlour gold" to the amount of millions of
dollars has run to waste from the mouths of
thousands of rockers and sluices. 1t is borne
along in the thick muddy water of the min
ing bitches. 1t will in amalgam squeeze,
when tightly pressed, through the pores of
a buckskin bag There is vast deposit of it
in the mud at the bottom of the bay of San
Francisco as run into that bay from the
California creeks and rivers. No process has
vet been devised to save it.
The rich quartz gold specimens YOU may
have seen are not reliable. The best paving
quartz veins show little or no ''free gold. as
gold in rock is termed that is visible. And
if ever you meet man from the west, with
his tempting little bag full of rich quartz,
and his tempting story and gilt edged ''pros-
pectus,n have care. knew one genius who
went east from California after six weeks,
apprenticeship in quartz mining, thus forth
fled with rock picked up from paying
claim He returned with 500, 900 mined from
the pockets of eastern capitalists and with it
built quartz mill, and the mill may be in
existence yet. but not the mine-for there
never was mine, at least not the mine that
mill was built for.
PRENTICE MUIFoRD
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they are all removed from the public schools,
One of the funniest incidents of the period
is the strike of hired girls in some of the
suburbs for 80 cents more pay week, which
extra amount they subscribe to the parish
schools. A good many families have COM
tbined against the move, and are in conse-
quence without help
The Handel and Haydn society has some
courage. 1t is going to weed the people with
cracked voices out of its chorus by compelling
all who have been members for over ten
years to have their voices examined by an
expert. Some good singers have heretofore
refused to join this renowned organization,
because they would not submit to the annoy
ance Of bad singing at their elbow
Some of the drummers think that the mer-
chants week reception to the retail tradesmen
of New England doesn't hurt the travelling
business bit, because the visitors do not
leave enough orders to do So The drum
mers' Importance is rather enhanced by this
meeting of wholesalers and retailers, for the
latter like to be greeted by the men whom
they know and who have visited them at
their stores.
Rev. Dr. Bartol is quite sick at his resi-
dence in Pocasset and though no serious re-
suits are anticipated his friends are some
what alarmed. He is troubled with severe
attack of nervous dyspepsia.
There was curious contrast at the Boston
theater the other night A giddy thing pat
termed after the Cinderella play was being
presented when the great comedian, Joseph
jefferson, quietly slid into retired seat--art
in the audience, show, glitter, below and
strut on the stage.
Our Eighty base ball nine is puzzle even
to itself. 1t may get fourth place.
CHARLES CALVIN.
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Notice..

First Constable and Collector Town Tax
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-05-18

toned or involved in this text. As great ruler
must be surrounded by great statesmen and sup
ported by great people, so this great doctrine OF
atonement must be surrounded by fundamental
truths, and II must be supported by vast prepare
ton and most extensive appliances for its proper
handling, its proper presentation Look at the
mighty truths reaching out of eternity and out of
mans infinite want TO grapple and appropriate
this doctrine. God, Righteousness. Justice. man,
freedom sin, moral government, accountability,
immortality, judgment, the incarnation, the dying
of the Son of God forbearance, mercy, pardon,
salvation, eternal life These are an infinite pat
rimony in themselves, the Inheritance of the be-
lever Forty centuries full of struggling philos-
ophers never turned the telescope of human
thought upon such blazing and amazing galaxy.
Only God can spread such armament above us,
and train our eyes to mark the march of this
mighty host. Once to have considered these
truths is to be forever elevated above the plane of
mere nature, and lifted out of the darkness of
mere heathenism. Henceforth God hath set forth
Jesus for your atonelnent. Fore"rrmore pardon
and heaven have once, at least, been within your
reach.
'Let everybody hear me. Art thou philoso-
pher, lost in the depths Of thy own reasoningH
Hear me For this statement that God has set
forth his Son as Precipitation for our sins in such
statement that If 1t be true it does not matter
whatever else be false, and IL It be false 1t does
not matter what else be true. Art thou a scholar
me Though this may seem to thee it did to
the Greeks-fooshness-ye it is the wisdom of
God. Art thou sinner, tormented with thy
gloom and guilt, ready at times to break Jail with
suicides hand and flee from thyself into the en-
swathing darkness of endless despair Hear me.
Thou needest not to die Jesus Christ has died.
In him God shows forth his righteousness and for
bearance for the remission of sins that are past
There is n way of escape. There is straight and
narrow way up to life, eternal life For by this
atonement God is able to be just, and Justify
him, whosoever he may be, however deeply mired
in corruption and lost to all honor, that beeveth
in Jesus. Art thou believer, walking with
trembling and anxious step, fearing lest such
riches should prove too great to be timer Hear
me. By this token thou mayest hope for all
things. Let everybody hear me. This is the
good news for all men God has made an atone
ment for all men through faith in the blood Of
Jesus May God help all to hear and believe and
be saved
The Rev John e. Robinson, of India
read the closing hymn, All Hail the
| Power of Jesus Name, and Rev. DR.. r.
S Rust, Of Ohio, pronounced the bene
| dicton.
Bishop Fowler was born in Canada in
| 1887 but was reared in Illinois and edu-
Gated for the law When converted he
studied for the ministry. and was licensed
in the Rock River conference in 1861 He
has risen steadily and rapidly. and in 1884
was ordained bishop His home is in San
Francisco, but as bishop his travels are
extensive"