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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-11-12

BW Introduced and Referred.-S. 1856, by
Senator Abbott to pay Edward j. Hall sum
named; claims.
Ordered 10 Lje,-H. 80, to amend charter
OF Sheldon Art Museum, on motion of SEN
ator Child.
On motion Of Senator Roberts a vote of
thanks was given to the officers of the Wells
River railroad for favors of transportation
ON the trip to Barre on Wednesday after
noon
The report of the committee on military
affairs was submitted by Senator Kingsley,
and accepted
Passed,-S. GS, to regulate and provide for
the appointment Of Judges of city and nut
nlcipal courts. S. ~, relating to paupers.
II. q, relating to electric light poles ii 49,
to prevent unlawful use Of G.. A. r., S. of
V" and w II. G. badges. II. 1916. TO pay j
Il. Weed sum named. II. al, to pay j.
w. Roy sum named. II. 14G to nav Wilson
Lowell sum named. II. 1866, 10 pay l.. u.
Miles sum named. III 1S9, to incorporate
the Vermont State Fireman's Association.
House amendment C0ncurrcd.-Grantinp
invitation to Hon. John w. Stewart to
speak on the agricultural college question
at such time and place as he may choose.
Ordcred 10 Lie.-H. 142, relating to the
appropriation of money for Decoration day
House BHlS Retcrred.-H. a, to establish
a board of street commissioners for the CITY
of Burlington; gen. com.
H. 232, relating to insurance companies ;
gen. com.
II. 235, to repeal Sec. / of No. SO of laws
of 1856 judiciary
II. 2i3, in relation TO the taxation of pOr-
table saw-mills; grand list.
IL. 262, apprOprating $4,000 to complete
Vermont insane asylum for occupancy com.
on insane.
Adjourned
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

The clerk read the report of the Joint
committee on military affairs, regarding the
Soldiers Home at Bennington. The com
mittee recommends the building of hospi-
tai and that the farm account he kept
separate and to appropriate $4,000 for ex-
penses during the coming two Years.
BHis Mtroduced-H 3S1 Substitute for II .
IL and III, SO, ia relation to repairs of high
ways The substitute bill substantially re-
enacts the old law, except that the tax is to
be fifteen cents in place of twenty-five cents /;
ordered to be printed
P0SSed.-H. POS, incorporating the St. AL
bans board of trade. II. 27G, Incorporating
the village OF Poultney. H. 209, to legaize
Northfeld's grand list S. 80, granting a
ferry to Allen l.. Hale at Benson Landing
II. BOB, to legalize Plymouth's grand list
ii. 336 authorizing Jamaica TO fund its in
debtedness. II PIG, relating to allowances
to the widow and children of the deceased.
Passage RcfuSed.-H. 11S, providing for a
typographical survey and map of Vermont.
II. 2S7, relating to licenses to insurance
agents. II. 264, in relation to cruelty to ami
mails. II. 2jG, relating to the licenses of
dogs. III. 80, to exempt soldiers from poll
tax. II. 247 relating to the grand list of the
town Of Middlebury. II. PAL. relating TO
damage done by dogs II. 29J, relating to
divorce. ii. 149, an act of humanity Fl.
2S3, relating to dogs. II. 800 changing the
name of Edith b. Gray.
PdSSed.-S 30, to prevent deception in the
sale of dairy products and to preserve pub
lie health; in concurrence with proposals of
amendment Adjourned.
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The Modern Babylon.

Canon Liddon yesterday made some
strong observations from the pulpit of St.
Paul on the marriage markets of modern
Babylon. He had, no doubt, ample room
for a picturesque satire in the familiar
phenomenon of London society: "Eager
mothers, like generals setting out on q
campaign, prepared to undergo any
amount of fatigue if only they could mar.
~ their daughters-not necessarily to a
high souled man, but in any case to a
fortune. They could see, too, group of
young men, after, perhaps career OF
dissipation, thinking that the time had
arrived for settling respectfully in life,
and looking out-Dot for girl whose
graces and character would make her
husband and children happy, but for
somebody with sufficient dowry to ena-
blethenl to keep up large establishment.
They could not wonder when the most
sacred of human relations was thus placed
on the brutal level of an affair of cash,
that such transactions were quickly fol-
lowed by months OF years of misery
misery which, after seething in private,
was at last paraded before the eyes of a
wondering world amid the unspeakable
shame and degradation of the Divorce
Court "The brutal level of an affair of
cash, is the level at which French mar
riages are arranged without shame and
without pretence. But are marriages ar
ranged by parents on the whole more
prone to end in the Divorce Court than
when young people are left free to arrange
their marriages themselves P-PaN Mall
Gazette,
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The Mischieyous Cut Worms.

Some of them ascend trees, shrubs and
ether plants in their destructive work,
while most of them confne their opera.
tions to the surface, and work their mis-.
chief by cutting off young and tender
plants even with the ground. Their
work is done at night, and as daylight
approaches they hide themselves in holes
in the ground. Cabbage, when first set
out, and lettuce and other plants of the
garden, up to squashes, and other plants
of the farm, are attacked by them.
Growing muskmelons snd wasermelons
for Northern markets is now an impor.
tant industry in the Southern States,
especially within easy reach of the ship
ping ports, some hundreds of acres being
occupied by watermeions alone. The
grower of melons, as veil as of cabbages,
ETC., finds that his greatest obstacle to
success is in the attacks of cut worms.
Various devices have been proposed to
ward off their attacks, but among these
none appears to be so sensible or go
effective as that devised by DR.. A. Oem-
ler, author of 'sTruck Farming for the
South" Dr.. Oemlet kills off the cut
worms before the plants appear. Upon
his watermelon fields he nets poison traps
at shout fifteen feet apart each way.
These traps are cabbage or turnip leaves,
which have been moistened on the con-
cave side and then busted with a mixture
of Paris green with twenty parts of flour.
These leaves are placed over the fields,
poisoned side down, at the distances
stated, before the plants appear.-Amer-
ican AgricuNurist.
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A Novelty for GreenYille..


Prof. A. s. Townes, of the Female
College, and j. O. Fitzgerald, the photog.
rapher, have secured and imported into
Greenville something that will be q Gu.
riosity to hundreds of people in the city.
It is an Edison perfected phonograph.
The instrument is rented from the Old
Dominion Phonograph Company, who
control the invention for the States of
Virginia, North and South Carolina.
Like the telephone, the phonograph is in
the hands of gigantic monopoly and
the machines are never sold outright but
let out at high yearly rental. Professor
Townes and Mr.. Fitzgerald have secured
one of them after great trouble and con.
siderable expense.
Professor Towns will utilize the ma.
chine in experiments for the benefit OF
his pupils at the Female College. He
expects to 6nd it especially useful in his
elocution class, the pkonograph enabling
him to point out to pupils the defects in
their elocution by having their recita-
tions repeated to them ffum the metallic
surface. The young ladies will fud the
machine of great use, doubtless, and
Professor Townes has done an enterpris-
ing thing in giving them the benefit Of
the most wonderful invention of the age
An opportunity will probably be afforded
soon for the public to hear the phono'
graph, under the management of Mr.
Fitzgerald. This is the only phonograph
it is believed, in the State, and the first o.
the perfected machines ever brought tc
Greenville.- Greenvilze News.
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Poisoned by Her Gloves.

The Warsaw Courier reports singu-
lar fatality which occurred few days
ago in that city. A young Jewess from
Cieff was visiting her friends in the Pol
ish capital, who gave ball in honor Of
their handsome young kins-woman, The
latter purchased for the occasion pair
cflong Danish gloves. While dancing
the young lady felta pain in her left
wrist, which became suddenly inaamed
aud swollen. It appears that while
making her toilet she had slightly prick.
ed her wrist with a pin. A medical ex-
animation showed that the young lady
mas suffering from carbuncle and blood
poisoning, contracted from the glove,
which the doctors declare to have been
made from skin of an animal suffering
from carbuncle or anthrax. Notwith.
standing the various means adopted by
the doctors to save their unfortunate pa
tient she died in forty eight hours in great
agony. The fatal gloves we're purchased
in fashionable Warsaw shop.
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For Sore Throat.

Nothing is moro eficacious in the sore
throat Of children or adults than vet
compress to the throat. Double towel
two or three times, 80 as to make pad
that will fit aDugly under the chin and
over the throat, aud let it extend around
from ear to ear. Then bind thickly
folded towel over the wet pad, having
the towel vide enough to overlap the
edges of the pad. It is best TO pass this
outer covering over the head, and not
around the neck after the style of era
vat, the object being TO exclude the air
80 as t., keep up a perspiration over the
diseased part. If tho soreness is low
down on the throat, the outside towel
may be passed around tie neck, yet,
when this is done, it is dificnlt to ex-
clude the air. The vet compress may
be put ON cold or warm; when cold, it
soon becomes warm from the heat of the
skin, and really vapor bath. When
the pad is taken of, wash the throat in
cold water to close the pores. and then
dry it we'll with q towel. This applies
to Group and all kinds of sore throats.
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He Had the Squire That Time.

An amusing sceue was recently enact
ed in country courtroom in Maine,
says the Lewiston Journal. The tyia!
Justice, big pompous Official. with a
voice like trombone, took it upon him.
self to examine witness-a little with
cred old man, whose face was as red and
wrinkled as smoked herring.
"What is your namef" asked the JUS
tice.
"Why, 'squire," said the astonished
witness, "you know my name as we'll as
I know yourn."
'Neyer you mind what I Enow or what
+ don't know" was the caution given,
with magisterial severity, IT ask the
question in my official capacity and
you're bound to answer it under oath"
With contemptuous snort the witness
gave his name, and the questioning pro-
ceeded.
aWhere do you live p
aWal, I srum !" calculated tho old
man. ".Why," he continued, appealing
to the laughing listeners, Tive lived in
this town all my life, and SOS he," point.
ing to the justice, SAN b. gosh, to hear
him go on you'd think"
"Silence ~ thundered the irate magis.
trate. aAnswer my question, or I'll fine
you for contempt of court"
Alarmed by the threat, the witness
named his place Of residence, and the
examination went on.
"What is your occupation ?"
"Huh7"
"What do you do for living"
go git out, squirrel Jest as if you
don't know that I tend gardens in the
summer season an saw wood in the win.
terW
"As private citizen do know.it, but
as the court I know nothing about youl"
exclaimed the perspiring justice.
"Wal, 'squire," remarked the puzzled
witness, eff you know somethin' outside
the court room an don't know nothin' in
it, you'd better get out an let somebody
try this case that's got hoss sense"
The advice may have been we'll meant,
but it cost the witness ten dollars.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-03-06
The EVIL Of Novel Reading.

The mischief of voracious novel read.
ing is really much more like the mischief
of dram drinking than appears at first
sight. 1t tends to make all other literary
nourishment intolerable, just as dram
drinking tends to make all true food in.
toleratle, and to supercsde food by drink.
The voracious novel reader of to-day, as
we havu said, rejects Scott, because
SCOTS novels contain so much good food
that is not mere story telling. The gen.
uine novel reader detests what he calls
tame stories, stories in which the interest
is not exaggerated and piled up ten times
as high as the interests of ordinary life.
He wants always to be feeling thrill Of
excitement running through his nerves,
always to be living in imagination
through the concentrated essence of the
perils of hundred adventurous lives,
instead of toiling calmly through the or
dinary hopes and fear of one. No state
of mind can be unwhol esome, because
none ia more calculated to divert the en-.
ergies from the sort Of quiet tasks to
which they should be habitually applied,
and to keep them stretched on the tenter.
hooks Of expectation, waiting for sort
of strain, which is never likely to occur,
and if it did occur, would certainly not
find mans energies any the better pre-
pared for having been worn out previous
ly with long series of imaginary excite
ments. The habit of dram. drinking, it
is said, leads to fatty degeneration Of the
heart. e., excessive fattening round the
heart, and weak action of the heart in
consequence. So, too, the habit of ex.
citing novel reading leads to fatty de-
generation Of the literary mind. e., to
an unhealthy and spasmodic action of
the Imagination, and general weaken
ing of the power of entering thoroughly
into the solid interests of real life. So
far as ne know the only effective cure
for this habit Of literary dram drinking
a cure not always forthcoming-is
moral shock of some kind which exposes
the hollowness of all these unreal inter.
ests, and makes them appear as artificial
and melo dramatic as they actually are.
That, however, is cure which is an ex-
tremely painful one, almost cruel in it's
disillusioning power.-LOndon Spectator.
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The Curse of the Age.

The thousands of good people who are
waging war against lotteries and GAM
bling do not 90 to the root of the evil,
and they know it.
They know very well that the greatest
curse of American life is the speculative
fever-the desire to get something for
nothing-to strike it rich-to make
fortune by stroke OF chance that will
ruin q neighbor. The species of gam.
bling called speculation has thousand
followers where lotteries and cards have
one. A thousand men go down to poVer-
erty and crime through speculation where
one falls through the lottery or the faro
table.
Let us take the latest sad story in real
life to point the moral. The other day
the business men of Philadelphia and
Atlantic City were astounded to ind
that Mrs Edwin Lippincott. of the lat
ter place, had raised some $50, 600 on
forged papers. Mrs. Lippiucott is fifty
years old. She is a lady of standing,
and had a fortune Of $4,000 when she
married. Her husband owns Haddon
Hall, one of the most profitable summer
hotels on the jersey coast.
The discovery of the forgeries has
ruined Mr. Lippincott, and will probably
result in the criminal prosecution of his
wife.
What internal temptation dragged
this gray haired lady down to such a
depth of crime? Tho whole truth has
cpme out. Mrs Lippincott saw respect
able men, good men, speculatiDg in stocks
and making money. She tried her luck:
For years she was heavy buyer of
stocks, and generally got on the wrong
side of the market. She borrowed mon.
ey of her friends and of the hotel ser.
wants. At last she forged the names OF
business men on negotiable paper, and
obtained loans from personal friends,
giving iu return checks dated months
ahead when she had nota dollar on
deposit. Of course, this could not 60 on
forever. The crash came, and she was 8
ruined woman and criminal.
In every community the victims OF
speculation are following the methods
Of Mrs. Lippincott. Occasionally they
are sent to jail, or they commit suicide,
or run off to Canada. The temptation
spares no class. 1t blasts and blights
the Cody church member as well as the
thoughtless man of the world. The
greatest danger of the whole business il
its apparent or alleged responsibility. It
is easy to induce men to gamble when
the game is called speculation. The
Lippincott case should be full of warning
to these reckless people whose conaum.
ing thirst for riches has made them hall
mad d.-Atlantia Constitution.
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Beware OF Ointments for Catarrh that
contain Mercury,

as mercury will surely destroy the sense
of smell and completely derange the
whole system when entering it through
the mucous surfaces. Such articles should
never be used except on prescriptions
from reputable pbysiciacs, as the damage
they will do is ten fold to the good you
can possibly derive from them. Halls
Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. j.
Cheney & Co., Toledo, O., contains no
mercury and is taken internally, and acts
directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system. In buying Hall's
Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine.
II is taken internally, and made in Tole.
do, Ohio, by FL. Cheney & Co.
nensold by Druggists, price rs cents per
bottle,
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a Most Remarkable Duel.

KEYsER, w. Va, Feb. 24.-The new
mining town of Elkins, on exhibited
States Senator Davis's new railroad, was
the scene of duel last night possessing
some remarkable phases. James Nee, 9
coal miner, and a carpenter named
Archer, fast friends, went on big drunk
together Saturday after drawing their
pay, and continued the spree over uneil
Sunday. That evening they vent to
Mrs. Wise's saloon, where they had been
frequent patrons during the carouse, and,
getting into a dispute with the woman,
drove her out of the house.
They then proceeded to wreck the inte.
terror of the saloon, smashing glasses,
windows and mirrors and breaking the
|. furniture.
While thus engaged, Nee accidentally
hit Archer and the two men quarreied
and had a rough and tumble fight, This
did not satisfy them and they agreed to
fight q duel. There was but one revolver
between them, and with drunken gravity
they agreed that the pistol should be
used turn outthe shots to be fired while
the men stood at opposite ends of the
barroom.
The choice for first shot fell to Archer
and, Nee taking his place at the other
end of the room, Archer blazed away
The bullet struck Nee in the head
ploughing a furrow along the scalp and
causing profuse bemorrhage.
When Nee came to shoot he was
blinded by blood and go nervous from the
effects of the shot that he could not aim
the result was a miss, and Archer thel
took second shot, but also missed, ani
handed over the revolver to Nee for s
second shot.
By this time crowd had been attract
ed to the saloon, but no one had courage
enough to enter. The men refused to pay
any attention to calls to desist, and Net
fred at Archer, shooting him through tht
hand. He took the gun to Archer for I
fifth shot, but before it could be fred th'
crowd rushed in, grabbed the revolver
and put stop to the desperate proceed
|
ings.
| Neither Of the wounds Inflicted is at al
serious.
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I see what's the matter with you and the
other women who employ help, and I
won't be 9 party to it.''
Il asked you to let her alone"
You did Neverl You begged. of
me to go out and throw her over the
alley fence, and her bundle after hef,
and what must that poor girls feelings
be at this momentl I now go. I may
return or I may not. If not, you have
the consolation Of knowing what drove
me from my own domicile."
But he returned, All husbands return.
They, begin to feel ashamed of them
selves before they are clear Of the gate,
and the next hour is spent in fishing for
an excuse to return quarter Of an hour
earlier than ,ususl. "a girl happened
along just after he left and Ihired her,
and he hasn't even referred to the subject
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Bucklen's Arnlca SalYe

The best salye in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fe.
YER Sores, letter, Chapped Hands, Chill
blains, Corns, and all Skin EruptionH
and positively cures Piles, or no pay
required. It is guaranteed to give per
feet satisfaction, or money refunded
Price Is cents per box. For sale BY
Hill Bros.
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Farming Does Pay.


Our farmers are making extraordinary
efforts for big crops. More land has been
broken up at this time of the year in
Georgia and South Carolina than ever
before, and, if the seasons are favorable,
there is no doubt of large yield Of cot
top, corn, oats and other crops. 1t is es'
timated that so per cent, more guapo
will be used than any previous year.
As usual, our farmers are spending
large sums of money for Western mules
that should be raised in Georgia and
South Carolina.
A gentleman, largely interested in
farming, says that our soil is just as we'll
adapted to produce grasses that will feed
stock as either Kentucky or Tennessee.
If our people will only go to work in an
intelligent and practical way to raise
their mules and horses they will be cer-
tain to succeed.
The South will never become indepen.
dent and rich until we raise within our
own borders all needful supplies for the
household and the farm.
By raising our own food supplies and
cur own stock it will only take few
years for the South to become the rich.
est and the most prosperous section of the
Union.
There is no doubt in the world that
farming can be made to pay better in
Georgia and South Carolina than in
any other State either North or South.
We have the climate and the soil that
will yield abundantly in response to in
telligent industry.-Augusta Chronicle.
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= George Wilcox, of Bradford County,
Pa, left a fortune to his grandsons on
condition that they always vote the Dem
ocratic ticket, and to his grarddsughters
on condition that they marry Democrats.
= The Rev. DR.. John A. Broadus has
been invited TO take the lectureship in
Christian Evidences in Johns Hopkins
University.
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"A New York bank president says
that during the past twenty eight years
the amount of money lost by all the
national banks in the United States
through dishonest practice does not exceed
S7O00,000. In view of the vast sums
handled by the banks during these years,
he considered the amount small.
= Chief Busyhead, of the Cherokee
Nation, offers an original suggestion for
the solution of the race problem. He
would send all the blacks to Africa and
all The whites to Europe. Then all the
land would naturally revert to the red
skins, the original owners of the coun.