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could manage to live as long as thew
could buy what they wanted. While
on this march however there was moth
ing to buy and hard marching and ex-
treme hunger compelled the boys to
close their eyes and eat horrible hard
bread livestock and all.
Two days hard marching brought
the regiment to Seneca where they
went into camp for the night. The
following day Co. G was moved down
the river about half way between Sem
lea and the lower lock, going into
camp between two fords in a small
grove. Here was the beginning of
picket and outpost duty. Pickets were
stationed at the stockade on the high
bluff to the rear at the locks, and posts
one to six stationed at all possible cross
ings and covering the companies entire
front. The Company had left their
tents at Camp Chase, and were without
shelter of any kind. set crotches in
the ground used the tall grape vines
that had climbed the trees, to arch the
roof then filled in with sticks until suf-
ficently close for the purpose and then
wove in chestnut leaves until l had
house that would shed rain. We had
not been in this camp long before this
Company of raw recuits met with
more adventures and hair breadth es-
capes than fell to their lot later Oh
when they had fought on many bloody
fields, and had become veterans in the
service.
To be continued.
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y Granite State Local Items y
OrfOrd.

Joseph NJ Willard, A. B. graduate
of Dartmouth college 1887, has been
awarded a fellowship in mathematics
at John Hopkins University, Baltimore,
Md. 1t provides an emolument of five
hundred dc Ears. He has lately receiv-
ed two hundred dollars from the same
institution for scholarship. He spends
the summer months at home in Or
ford.
Deacon G.. H. Tillotson has just clos
ed his third canvas of Oxford in three
yhars in the interest Of the New Hamp-
shire Bible Society with the following
results. Families visited PIG. found
destitute 4,sold to the amount $33 Sc,
given away $50, collected $32 As from
the Congregational church and society
OH the river from Orfordville SIG 81,
Baptist gave 81 90, Methodist 25 cents,
Universalist % cents. Mr.. Tillotson
heartily thanks the people of Oxford
for their cordial treatment aud the
ready and liberal response to the call
for funds and hopes to have the pleas
ure of making another canvas of the
town in the near future.
Mrs. Harry Buffam of Boston, who
has been stopping with her sister, Mrs.
Constant Wright, through the spring
and summer for her health, was sud-
denly called home Tuesday afternoon
on account of the severe sickness of
her husband.
j. O. Carr, who run the saw mill for
several years before l. A. Hodge
bought it, has taken the job to saw the
timber and the single.
Mrs. p. c. KENYON, former resi-
dent of this town, is now visiting her
sister, Mrs. Avery, and other friends
in town.
Charles Mum of West Fairlee and
Burnard Babcock of North Thetford,
spent the Sabbath in town visiting
school mates.
Very large strings of fish from
Fairlee pond have been caught by our
fishermen the past week weighing
of pounds.
Miss Carrie M. Dodge had part of
her wardrobe burned up at the time
of the fire of Mrs. Eastman's buildings
at Orfordville.
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An Open Letter to the Editor
of the Opinion.

zone OF llfe's richest possessions is the
memory of good mother" and after an
absence of % years. | rejoice to see her
again, and | experience new delight and
double appreciation as l meet ttnderly
remembered ones that were in girlhOod and
lights OF boyhoOd's days, bright, burning
aud cheering lights, l gaze on them with
rapturous joy at all times through life. |
hold to them as with hooks of steel and
how interesting to contemplate the friend
sqips of early days. Friendship is not a
plant of hasty growth though planted in
esteems deep-tiXed soil, but by gradual in
and the many incidents which varied my
path as | pressed onward toward the
crowded arena of life. My sports, my es-
capeS from danger and romantic scenes that
engaged in, furnish world of thought
when | look with retrospective gaze into
the past, | would not be deprived of their
hallowed influences bOyhOod's days. how
lovely are the scenes, how matchleSs in the
sanctity of thy influences. Dear old Brad
ford. my birth place and the home of my
childhood, with its grand old hills and val
leyS. Its lllustrlouS men and good women,
and when the recOllectiOns of life shall I'M
fold its brightest scenery these will be the
back ground OF my picture. There are
many things that | prize and will always
cherish. have visited historic spots and
heard recOunted deeds of heroism and vir-
tue, which are yet bright and glowing upon
the leaves of record But there is one event
| highly prize and never 10 be forgotten, it
is the pilgrimage | made on the LIST day of
June. 1891, to the grave of my father, ''far
from the moulding crowds ignoble strife.''
l paused in solemn thought, which operate
as talisman on the imagination, and in an
instant the mercurial mind in defiance of
space and time live whole centuries.
GEO. II. AUSTIN.
MONTGOMERY A Ia
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Tuesday, June D.

The western crops are reported as gen
orally favorable.
Reports from Port-au-Prince show a bad
state of affairs there.
Gen. Buffers client, Mrs. johnson, was
set free by Judge Nelson.
Sixteen inmates of the Massachusetts,
Soldiers home applied for discharges.
1t is rumored that the wealthy Jewish
merchants intend to quit st. Petersburg.
A female burglar was sentenced to ten
years in the house of correction in Boston.
The conductor of an excursion train in
Kentucky was shot by a boisterous negro.
The antitrust law in Iowa proves to be
inadequate to accomplish the purpose de
sired.
The French senate, by a vote of 2OS to 40,
has passed the bill reducing the duties on
corn.
Unearned forfeited railroad lands in
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Iowa are t. be opened to settlement OF
July6,
The town OF Everett, Mass, has grown
very rapidly the past year, making an in
crease of 1902.
A real estate case has come up, in
which Isaac b. Sawtell, the murderer
figures.
In spite of the strikers, work has been
resumed in every lumber yard in New
York city.
A PorUus uese deputy proposes the sale
of most of the colonies to redeem the ma.
tional debt.
The prosecutions of persons implicated
in the Melinite scandal in France is
recommended. ~
Several offers to extend A er cent.
bonds were received at the tit Jury de-
partment in Washington yesterd
Two towas in northern Italy Vere de-
stroyed practically by Sundays earth
quake; rumblings and slight tremblings
continue.
Floods along the Red river in Texas and
Indian Territory did great damage to crops
and other property, and caused some loss
of life
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A COmpxrisOn.

Isn't that sunset Perfectly BEAUTIFUL"
cried. an enthusiastic and sentimental
young lady one evening last autumn when
she was spe.!dng Il art of her vacation
witch al old couple wh.' lived on barren
little farm at the base of the White noun
tains. 81 never saw anything lovelier in
all my life See those lovely purple and
crimson and scarlet tiEts! Isn't i: loyely"
Her landlady glanced carelessly toward
the glowing western sky and said. with
some little show of enthusiasm:
at is purity There's no ard5ln that. 1t
pats me in mind of the way my ole mans
face looked last spring when he came so
nigh lyin' of the airysipelas 'Tw:s exactly
them colors Detroit Free Press.
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Monday, June 8.

The flint glass works in Findley, O.
were burned Loss $4,000; insured fol
$65, 600
John Hoyt said to be the Oldest paper
manufacturer in this country, died at Man
chester, N. H.
The president of a Philadelphia cracker
company has been arrested on charge Of
conspiring to defraud.
William Demorest, while fishing in Lake
Kogomoc, New London, Conn, fell from
boat and was drowned.
A New York fraud, who failed to
swindle clergyman, attempted to murder
the gentleman because he refused to give
him money.
Rev. Phillips Bernstein died at Buffalo
of heart disease, aged So years He had
filled pulpits in San Francisco, Montreal
and Winchester, Mass.
The statue erected by Brooklyn citizens
to the venerable James S. L. Stranahan
was unveiled by that gentleman himself.
Rev. Dr. Storrs delivered the Grafton.
Queen Victoria has bestowed the decora-
ton of the Red Cross upon Mrs. Grim
wood, wife of Commissioner GrimwoOd,
who was killed in the recent rebellion in
Manipur.
A letter has been received in New York
city from the private secretary of the
Prince of Wales, in which that gentleman
declares that the is no foundation for the
report that he is to visit the United States
Fong Bor son of Fong Kung Bor, the
Chinese Delmonico of New York city, has
renowned the ia; tn of his fathers and be-
come Christian. His father is almost
distracted because of the fact FOnp ROr
is to be missionary.
Rev. NJ. l.. Scudder. minister of the
Methodist church for the past five years,
died at Washington, aged n. DR.. Scudder
was not req ularly attached to any church.
He had preached at various times in Bos-
ton, New York and Brooklyn.
Rev. Robert Russell Booth, who voted
not to retain DIR. Briggs as professor OF
Union seminary, considers the act of the
directors as simply rebellion, add very,
much to be regretted. His continuance at
the seminary, DR.. Booth says, imperils its
best interests
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Wednesday, June 10,

Houndsditch captured the Ascot stakes.
| Freight cars were smashed at West
! Winsted, Conn.
in New Orleans.
Recent rains have improved crop pros
poets in England much.
Crops in the province of Ontario are
suffering for lack of rain.
j. L. Campion of Omaha has been ar
rested for embezzlement
Wheat lice are numerous in the wheat
fields around Decatur, III.
Bad investments OF Peters pence have
resulted in -, 100000 loss
There is little change in the situation of
the London omnibus strike.
A prominent young SpaniarI was shot
and killed by Madrid editor. 49,
A questionable financial scGt'TS' Is put
forward by Salvation Army leaders in
France.
Two freight trains were wrecked in
Texas, and three men burned to death in
the debris.
Judgment for $4,000 has been entered
against the treasurer of the Boston Water
Power company.
The Chicago Ship-building company has
shut down it's yard because of the depres-
sion in lake traffic.
The Cincinnati authorities propose to try
singly the eighteen men who played ball
there last Sunday.
Cold weather has put back the Egyptian
cotton crop, and the appearance of locusts
causes uneasiness
Seattle, WASH, is said to have 1000 idle
laborers standing around the streets with
no prospects of work
The government warehouse at Honolulu
was burned recently with 10000 cases of
kerosene; loss $780,
E. d. Thayer, president of Vermont
bank, was robbed of $4,000 in securities in
a western sleeping car.
A passenger has sued the Grand Trunk
Railroad company for injuries SUSTAINED
while alighting from train.
A heavy rainstorm deluged Hid Springs,
S. d., washed out railways and carried OF
three bridges in the vicinity.
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OrfOrdville.

Mr.. Lang Merrill has sold out, and
gone to Massachusetts, to live with his
son.
G.. M. Hubbard and wife of Bath are
visiting at Cushman brothers.
L. H. Merrill is closing out his goods
i'm the store, and is soon to move to
Norwich where he is to be engaged in
the same business. We are sorry to
lose him, and hope some one will re-
fill the store. AS we cannot very well
get along without one.
Mrs. Eastman, whose house was
burned short time ago, is to rebuild
Immediately, we are glad of that for
we would be sorry to lose her, and her
daughter, Mrs. Pierce, from our midst.
Next Sunday is communion, several
are to be taxed into the church.
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&1oo Reward. &1oo.

will be pleased to learn that there is at
least one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all its stages, and'th
is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure is the only
positive cure now known to the medical
fraternity. Catarrh being constitutional
disease, requires a constitutional treatment.
Halls Catarrh Cure is tYken internally.
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces Of the system, thereby destroying
the foundation of the disease, and giving
the patient strength by building us the con-
stitution and assisting nature in doing it's
work. The proprietors have so much faith
in its curative powers, that they offer One
Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails
to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Adj
dress.
F. }. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
H-Sold by Druggists, 75c.
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sunday, June Z.


The exodus of Russian Jews is reaching
alarming proportions.
| The French bank at Buenos Ayres, which
recently suspended, has resumed opera
tions.
There is widespread popular discomfort
in Germany at the retention of the corr
duties.
Asa Carpenter, the centenarian of Lock
port, n. Y, is dead, aged los years.
The defalcation of "Honest Jacob" Bon
net of Baltimore may reach over 100000
The withdrawal of the permanent coer-
cion bill' is hailed with joy in Newfound-
land.
Prince Kotohito of the royal house OF
Japan arrived in New York yesterday and
proposes to see the sights
At Williamsburg, KY, Sidney Lewis
was sentenced to the penitentiary for life
for the murder of his father.
There was another hard frost at Water
bury, Vt, an vicinity Saturday night. In
some places corn and potatoes were in
jured.
O'Donovan Rosa, after an exile of
twenty-one years from his native land
leaves New York next Saturday to visit
Ireland.
Gertrude, the Agar old daughter of
Nathaniel Cleveland of Putnam, Conn.,,
fell into the Quinnebaugh river and was
drowned
Pierce N. WEIGH of New Haven is
the donor of the proposed new dormitory
at Yale The building will cost SlS0,OO0
Mr.. WEIGH is not Yale graduate, though
interested in the university.
Ex-President Nicolas de Pierola of Peru,
who escaped from prison in that country
and was refused asylum in Bolivia, is said
to be in New York now, having come
Aither under an assumed name.
Bishop Loughlin of the diocese of Long
Island announces his intention of eXcom-
municating FIR. Yodgezus, and of insti.
tuting legal proceedings to get possession
of church property held by the priest.
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EmeIlne Smiths viii.

STATE OF VERMONT, District Of Bradford. IS.
p In Probate Court held at Bradford in and for said
District on the 9th day Of June, A. D., 1891.
An instrument purporting to be the last will and
testament Of Emelne Smith, late Of Topsham in said
district deceased being presented for Probate il is or
dered by said court that all persons concerned therein
be notified to appear at session thereof be held at
D.. 1891, at 10 o'clock a. m, and show cause Il any
they may have against the probate of said will for
which purpose it is further ordered that this order be
published three weeks successfully in the United Opin
ion newspaper printed Bradford in this state, pre-.
vious to said time Of hearing.
By the Court, Attest,
50 S. NJ. GLEASON, Judge.
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Saturday, June 6.

Two children were burned to death at
Meyersdale, Pa.
The cashier has wrecked the Hunting
burg und.,) bank
The grip is causing great havoc among
the natives in Alaska.
The expulsion of Jews from Russia con-
tinues with undated vigor.
The Boston Daily Traveller is reported
to have been sold to the Committee of One
Hundred.
The rulnor of Gen. Schofield's approach
ing marriage is not credited at the war de-
partment.
Connecticut senators desire a special ses-
sion of the supreme court to dispose of quo
warranto suits.
The Dominion government is to inquire
into the United States quarantine against
Canadian live stock
Crop reports from many points in Min
nesota and the Dakotas are of most fat
tering description.
An alleged conspiracy against the present
holders of the A. L. Stewart estate is said
to have been discovered.
Damages have been awarded to the ad-
ministrator of the estate of a man killed
in a Quincy, Mass, stone yard.
c. B. Seeley, the late p. 7. Barnum's
principal heir, is young man of %. He
has inherited 100000 of Mr.. Barnum's
money.
OElectrical storms in Illinois and a cy-
clone in Missouri did great damage. Two
lives were lost by tornado in johnson
county, Ind.
Two sons of Hiram Wiser of Brace
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Piermont.

We wish to express our sincere thanks
to our friends for their many deeds of
kindness and words of sympathy dur.
ing our recent affiiction.
MIR. AND MRS. GEO. A. JOHNSON
AND FAMILY.
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A Fortunate Man.

had severe attacks of kidney disease. My stomach
also troubled me very much. was prevailed upon to
try DR.. David Kennedys Favorite Remedy. After
using five or six bottles, was cured consider it an
invaluable remedy for Kidney Disease stomach trouble
and all diseases Of the bood.-John Vandersce, No.
Gregory street, Rochester, NY.
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One Customer Found.

One Customer Found.
Stranger-Have you Rudyard Kipling's
criticisms of Chicago?
Chicago Dealer-Yes, sir. Don't seem to
be much demand
Stranger-Give me half dozen copies.
Dealer-Certainly. Certainly. How is
everything down in St. Louis?-New York
Weekly.
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SUFFERED for more than ten years with
that dreadful disease. catarrh, and used
every available medicine which was recOn,-
mended to me. | cannot thank you enough
f9r the reil lie, which ra Elys Cream Balm has
L. L., N. Y.
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AM an old man and have been a con-
slant sufferer with catarrh for the last ten
years. | am entirely cured by the use of
Ely's Cream Balm. 1t is strange that so
simple remedy will cure such a stubborn
disease, Henry Billings, U. s. Pension
Atty. WASHINGTON d. G.
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A Curious Epitapll.

The following inscription has been dis
covered on a tomb in an old chIrchyard:
Here lies the body of Jonathan Ram,
His souls in the bosom of Abraham.
That's all very well for Jonathan Ram
But, say, how about poor Abrahams
-Tagliche Rundschau.
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CONDENSED NEWS.
Thursday, June A.

A monument to Gen. Grant was un
yelled at Galena n. Y.
The anniversary of the Fenian invasion
of Canada was commemorated at Toronto
The Phillips Andover boys won the ath'
letic tournament with the Phillips Exeter
boys.
Three firemen were hurt at a fire which
damaged the Winsor hotel, Gardner, Mass.
from $4,000 to $4,000.
The most glowing crop reports come
from both Dakotas and Minnesota, rains
having removed every doubt of an enor.
nous wheat crop.
Paris Figaro publishes a story to the
effect that Italy has Englands written
promise of fleet to protect her against q
naval attack by France.
The pope, in order to provide against all
possible contingencies, has just completed
a definite will. In this document he be
queaths all his personal property to the
holy see.
A decision has been rendered against
out of the breaking up of the Nye-Riley
combination at Louisville. Damages were
assessed at $685.
From Vienna come reports of general
prospective shortage of the crop in all the
wheat producing countries of eastern Eu-
rope, and an expression of concern over
the fact that the tide of gold must ba
turned again toward the United States
A Chicago priest refused to christen
child whose parents wished to call it Gar
field. The decision was based on the
theory that this was not pre-eminently
Christian name, although the ex-president
may have been a good man and wise
statesman.
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Rather NIonotonous.

Medium-If' you are a spirit, tell me
where you live.
Spirit (of average woman)-In heaven.
"Are you happyF"
"Not very"
"Why?"
'There is nobody to look down on."-
Good News.
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Catarrh of the Bladder.

had been troubled since 1869 with gravel and ca
tarrh Of the bladder Tried several doctors but got
relief Finally, at the advice Of F. D. W. Parsons,
was prevailed upon to try Dr. David Kennedys Favor
lite Remedy. The result was marvellous: After using
few bottles, was entirely cured. s.: N Arnold, No.
5o3 Plymouth avenue Rochester, N Y.
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Parnell Will Give Fipures

DUBLIN, June S.-Mr. Parnell speaking
at Inchicore, yesterday said he had pre.
pared balance sheet of the funds he con
trolled, and would submit it to Mr..
O'Brien when he left prison, with permis.
sion to publish it if he liked.
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Friday, June &.

Ex-King Milan won $4,000 at baccarat
In Paris.
Five men were killed by a boiler explo
sion near Bedford, Ind,
A severe hailstorm did damage to crops
and property at Clyde, o.
John Dillon is again talked of as a com
promise leader of the Irish party.
A new building connected with the
Maine state reform school was burned.
DR.. Charles Fuller of Lincoln, Me-,
guilty of pension frauds, was sentenced to
jail.
A business block and contents at Den
nisport, Mass, was destroyed by fire. Loss
about $4,000
There re reports of an approaching trial
OF DR.. Asa Dalton of Portland, Me-, on a
charge of heresy
The Connell Hall & McLoster company,
wholesale dry goods and shoes, Nashville,
Tenn, has assigned.
A body, supposed to be that of the VIC
tim of . murder, was found in ravine
near Danbury, Conn.
Great damage to crops and other prop
erty and some loss of life has been caused
by severe storms in western states.
The American Sugar Refinery company
will pay a semi-annual dividend of 81 per
cent. instead of the per cent. expected.
Paris stage drivers are moving to make
James Gordon Bennett present in &C.
Acknowledgement of his generous contribu-
ton to their strike fund.
There was wild scene in the Illinois
house over the arbitrary action of the
speaker in forcing through motion re-
ducing the Worlds fair appropriation to
$75OOOO.
E. NJ. Mcpherson, commissioner of
foreign corporations for Massachusetts, is
In Sioux City, Ia, looking into the affairs
OF the various companies that carry on
business in the Bay State
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Bridge, Ont, aged 4 and 6 years, respec-
lively, were carried over Muskoka Falls
and drowned.