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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-02-27
A Very Big Chicken.

There is an old darkey in the city of
Washington who swears by Colonel
Dudley, the former commissioner Of
pensions. He earns his living by
"totin' coal " and doing other little
jobs. Jim is his name. He brags over
the fact that he was Colonel Dudley's
body servant during the war, and t.
tells very amusing story about his
service. He was slave on a planta-
ton on the Rappahannock when the
regiment to which Colonel Dudley was
attached as captain marched through
that section. Jim was captured and
held as contraband of war. He was
sworn in as a loyal man and enlisted as
a teamster. Afterward he was made
body servant to Captain Dudley and
was charged with the duty of supplying
the table when provisions ran low, as
well as preparing the food. owe had
been marching steadily for weeks, -
said jim, in broad Virginia dialect,
"and the grub was mighty low. One
day Cap'n Dudley told me that he
got to have suthin' to eat. We was in
a part of the country with which | was
familiar, and | tole him / would git
fields and promised to meet the regi-
ment five miles down the road, where
camp was to be made. After walking a
mile | came to plantation where there
was a number of chickens about the
house. Icaptured big rooster. Then
| went up to the house and asked the
mistress to please give me little salt.
She was very kind; said she was loyal
to the Union, and didn't want few
nice beaten biscuits to fix the chicken
up with? She gave me lot of salt and
some nice biscuits, and | started for
the camp. When the regiment came
up dinner was ready. | told Cap'n
Dudley that there was a mighty biz
chicken and that he better invite some
of the other officers. Well, there wa,
party of six sat round that mess o.
chicken and it did look good. Cap'n
Dudley sat at the head of the table and
helped the surgeon first. He could not
wait until the others were served, but
took mouthful of chicken and gravy
in minute. But he didn't swallow it
He just spit it out. Then he hollered
for me. He seq: "Jim, you ornery
niger, what yer gone done ter dis yere
pullet? Is yer trying ter pzen de
regerment?" Then the surgeon made
me git my kit. He examined the leav.
ings and found that shiftless women
done give me epson salts to cure that
chicken with. The dinner was spoiled
But l recon | got even with her. That
same night took some of the boys &c
the plantation, and when we came away
there was not one chicken left on that
place" Colonel Dudley said Jim's
story was true, and that never before
or since has he ever experienced such
bitter disappointment as he felt when
he found that the tempting dish OF
chicken stew had been pizened."
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Muscular Christianity.

Among the regular attendants at one
of the Chicago Sunday-schools is a
small boy who is full of enthusiasm
over Bible truths and stories, and who
evidently believes in muscular Chris
tianity. On recent Sunday he was
in his class, listening closely to his
teachers explanation of the lesson for
the day, which told of the Lords all
seeing eye. He noticed that one of his
classmates, rather tough " young
ster, was paying more attention to the
little girls in the class across the aisle
than to the remarks of his teacher, and
he mentally resolved to show this little
heather the error of his ways. When
the school was dismissed the good little
boy captured the tough" and ran him
over into corner of the room. Grab
bling him by the collar, he pressed him
against the wall and said: d" Look here,
kid, God sees everything we do an he
knows all we think an he'll punish us
if we do wrong. Dye understand"
CHOW, kid" he said, who sees
everything we do?" The wicked boy
began to whimper and said he did not
know. "Why, you ought to have more
sense" cried the good boy, as he shook
the little ruflian viciously and banged
his head against the wall. Don't
know who sees all we do? God, COL
darn you'll Now you remember that"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-02-27

A SCRAP OF PAPER SAVES HER
LIFE.-It was just an ordinary scrap of
wrapping paper, but it saved her life.
She was in the last stages of consump-
ton, told by physicians that she was
incurable and could live only a short
time; she weighed less than seventy
pounds. On piece of wrapping paper
she read of DR.. Kings New Discovery,
and got a sample bottle, it helped her,
she bought large bottle, it helped her
more, bought another and grew better
fast, continued its use and is now
strong, healthy, rosy, plump, weighing
one hundred forty pounds. For fuller
particulars send stamp to w. II. Cole,
druggist, Fort Smith. Trial bottles of
this wonderful Discovery free at any
drugstore.
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which the explosion had converted the
fort, the troops were huddled. There
was strange and inexplicable delay,
which gave the enemy time to rally
their flying forces. The hostile, angry
guns enfladed the crater with fatal eff
feet. The attempt to advance was met
with courage born of despair. A gen
eral advance of the corps was ordered.
The Fifty-frst had reached the breast
works. In the forefront behold an in
trepid spirit urging his men forward.
Waving his sword and calling to his
brave boys to follow, he reached the
enemy's intrenchments and CALAMITY
fell in a hand-to-hand encounter with
his face to the foe, martyr to liberty
and an honor to mankind. Such was
the fate of the heroic Captain Samuel
II. Sims of the Fifty-lirst New York
Volunteers Generdl Hordtio G. King,
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Questions Answered.


r, S., BARRE.-Congress has passed,
and the president approved, the bill
increasing the pension of soldiers who
have lost two limbs to 800 month.
There are only twenty that will be bene-
fitted by this new law.
&. H., SOUTH ROYALTON.-You APP
plication for admission to the Soldiers
Home at Bennington has been accepted
and notice mailed to your address Jan
uary 7 informing you that you could re-
port there at once. There is plenty of
room at the home now, and you will be
received at any time.
NJ. r., CABoT.-The rate of pension
paid private soldiers widow is Sl2 a
month, without regard to the amount
he may have received. If the soldier
is killed by accident or dies of disease
not contracted in his service in the
army the widow is not entitled to any
pension under existing laws, even if he
was receiving $50 or S72 month at
The time of his death.
L. M. g., PLYMOUTH, N. Hive
would not advise veteran of the Mex
lean war and of the war of the rebel
lion advanced in life as you are to
remove to Fort Payne, Ala, to spend
his remaining days. We would not
advise you to make investments there,
unless it was for the purpose of taking
advantage of the "boom" that is de-
veloping. Investors in real estate have
and will make money if they sell at the
right time. The Fort Payne Coal and
Iron Company has sold all the stock
it offered at S25 a share and has
raised 81 100000 The subscribers to
the stock signed an agreement not to
sell it for one year, to enable the COM
pany to dispose of a block of stock it
retained at high price. Investing in
the company's stock looks to us like
buying lottery ticket 1t may draw a
prize, but is moe likely to draw a
blank. A great many shrewd Yankees,
however, have invested in it, but it
seems to us that they have done so
more with the view of selling out when
the stock is sufficiently doomed "
than of keeping it for future dividends.
There is said to be large amount of
coal and iron in Fort Payne. So there
is in many other places in Alabama.
We know of no safer or better place to
invest ones money than in Montpelier
or Barre at the present time. James
r. Langdon made the prediction last
summer that in ten years Barre would
be the largest town in Vermont and
that Montpelier would double its popu-
lation. We think this prediction, so far
as Montpelier is concerned, will be real
lied in half that time. The new rail-
road to the granite quarries and the
new granite company organized here,
with a capital of $50, 900, with all the
other healthful enterprises in Mont
pelier, can not fail to increase business
to an extent that will enhance the value
of all kinds of real estate in both Barre
and Montpelier. The new insane
asylum, with its hundreds of inmates,
and the new railroad to Stowe will
have tendency to advance real estate
in Waterbury and 20 increase its bust
ness. We should prefer investments
made anywhere in Washington county,
Vt, to wildcat" ones in Alabama.
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Courage in Battle.

The fight before Petersburg brought
out several remarkable displays of per-
sonal courage. Two armies confronted
each other with sullen and determined
bravery. On Burnside's front the con-
federate lines were less than $50 yards
distant. A stone might have been
thrown from the Union parapet into
the rebel earthwork. For nearly
month 400 patriotic mOes had been
burrowing in the ground, carrying out
the earth in cracker boxes, concealing
it from the enemy's view with under
brush, and steadily undermining the
fort of the unsuspecting foe. Night
and day the work went on, and all
hearts were centered on the project
which. if successful, would insure the
capture of Petersburg, and, in all
probability, the fall of Richmond. The
evening of July 20 was at hand, and
under the doomed fort 5000 pounds of
powder lay with deadly destruction en-
bodied in the inert mass. The fuse
was laid, and at early morn of the Both
of July the match was to be applied
But the daylight was past, and the
troops rested impatient and inquirng
upon their arms. The suspense was
painful. Minutes seemed hours, and
yet 40 unusual sound disturbed the
peace of that July morning. AT last
two heroic spirits, a commissioned and
non-commissioned officer of the Forty
eighth Pennsylvania, volunteered to
enter the mine and learn the cause of
the delay or failure. 1t seemed almost
certain death for them to enter the tun-
mel. The explosion was liable to oc-
cur at any moment and blow them to
atoms, but they went in. The fuse
was found defective and was speedily
replaced, and ere the sun had risen
high over the old hills of Virginia the
ground shook with the tremor of an
earthquake, and through the earth
thrown high in the air the exploding
powder blazed like lightning, casting a
lurid glare upon the confused mass of
dismantled guns, shattered caissons,
SMOKING camp equipage and mangled
human bodies. simultaneously the
order to charge rang out, and the Third
Division of the Ninth Corps advanced
to the slaughter. The enemy, stunned i,
almost paralyzed with fear, and panic
stricken scattered in all directions
The concentrated fire from half hun
dred guns made pandemonium indie
scribable. Into the vast crater, into
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-02-27
Sololcrs' &uooet.
Pensions Granted.

To James M. d. Celley, Montpelier,
81 a month and $3.50 arrears; Emma
NJ, widow of M. ID. Brock, late of Bar
net, S12 a mouth; George A. Boyce,
Braintree, increase from 81 to SIS a
month; Edwin II. Carroll, Woodstock,
increase from S12 to 500 a month ;
James Cusack, Rutland, S22 month
and 81 $50 arrears; Richard j. Doying,
Wolcott, increase from S4 to SIS a
month; John Hussey, Jr., West Hol.
land, increase from SO to S12 month
and 1910 arrears; Hiram p. Kdder, Boil
tonvile, increase from SIG to $17 ii
month; Hiram n. Leach, Waterville,
increase from SO to SIG a month; John
McRoy, East Craftsbury, increase from
S12 to 2l7 a month and 1920 arrears.
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williamstown. VI.
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uNIrEn srArEs suPREME CoURT.

Washington Jan. a2.The following business was Trans
acted In The Supreme Court OF the United States today
No 1,0T6-steesman Company, sppel9pts agt Charles
s Wallace ct al Writ OF eertIoIah awarded
No. 1sl-Benjamin Richardson ct al appellants, ast'
Ashbel Green Ct a.. trustees
No 9i7-rhomas NJ. Nelson ct al. appellants, agt
Ashbei Green ct al trustees.
No. / O27-Thomas NJ. Nelson appellants ast Asbel
Green Ct al, trustees
No. iO47-Danlel +. sloklei e. al, appellants agt
Ashbel Green et al trustees Motion % postpone hear
ing whom these cases arc reached unt decision motion
10 dismiss denied and motion dnas ordered for hearing
At the argument the merits.
No. 59O-John Glenn, trustee, pl9inun in error agt
Charles Taussg Of al. Order Of publication granted
No. BAL. n. Young CT al, appellants agi. T. u.
knight administrator. Order Of publication granted
and writ Of eertloFad awbfded
No. i00-Peter L. Kimberly appellant, agt Charles d.
Arms % al Argued.
No. I7i-The Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad
Company appellant, agt Abel Dcuhson
No. i72-The Chicago and E8Eem Illinois Ipilfoaa
Company, appellant agt Joseph sondoFs Appeals from
the Circuit Court United States for the Northern District
OF Illinois Dlmlssed with costs pursuant % onh rule
No. i9i-The Eastern Railroad Company appellant agt
the United States Argument begun.