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Some IoId Books and Papers.


DR.. Lyman Rogers is the possessOr of
a large number of old books and docu-
ments which are interesting and valu-
able. In looking through a bundle of
his old books few days since, there
were fuond the following, all bound in
leather and in good state of preserva-
ton. Earnest Contendings for The
Faith being the answers written to Mr..
Robert Fleming's first and second pa.
pers for union with the INDUCED, the
first paper printed in ammo 1851. where
unto some of the authors letters relative
to the sun and the duties of the day are
annexed" "By that faithful servant of
Jesus Christ, Mr.. Robert McWard minis
ter of the gospel in Glasgow. Printed
in the year 1928. Never before pub
lished." A medical work ON the Prac-
tice of Midwifery with a set of ano-
tomical, tables with explanations. Print
ed and sold in Boston by Norman at
his office near the Boston stone in July
1856" This book was presented to the
doctor by Mrs. Gideon Olin, the wife of
one of the early congressman from Yer
mont. Her first husband, DR.. Pope
died about the year 1895. Another one
is entitled "Stereometry, or the Art of
Gauging Made Easy by the Help of
Sliding Rule, which shows the area of
circles in gallons and the square and
cube roots of any number under 100000
by inspection" Dublin, prinGed and
sold by Jackson, at the Globe in Meath
St., 1879. Others were: "Tbe Young
Gcntlemen's and Ladies Monitor, and
English Assistant" by J. Hamilton
Moore, London, Reprinted New York
by Hugh Gaine at the bible in Hanover
Square in 1892.
Laws of the State of Vermont, passed
by the Legislature and revised in the
year of our Lord 1871" Published by
authority at Rutland by Josiah Fay,
179S. THE new dispensatory contain
ing the theory and practice of pharmacy
for j. House opposite Catherine st. in
the Strand 1853. An interesting old rel
ic is copy of the Vermont Gazette pub.
lished in Bennington by Anthony Has
well. The date is Tuesday July 8, 1904.
1t is No. II of volume 2. The paper is
four page, 20 by 70 inches, columns to
a page. According to it's prospectus
the terms were two dollars year. pay
able in advance on the delivery of the
first paper. Subscribers who reside in
neghborhoods off from the post
roads who would take their paper in
bundles of not less than thirteen and
pay for them weekly could have them at
the rate of thirty-three cents per quar-
ter or one dollar and thirty three cents
year. The weekly pcices current were on
the first page. There is considerable
foreign news in the sheet, dating back
as far as March "a, and a column or
more is taken up with doings of the
New Hampshire legislature. There are
communications from Manchester, Ru- |
pert Middlebury and other towns and |
but little local news. There is no.
tice of celebration to be held the next |
day at SALISBURY at the home of Major
Ara Burnham, the orator of the day to |
to be Orsimus c. Merrill. The announce
ment is also made of a celebration to lie |
held at Four Corners in Hoosick No |
tice is also given that "a negro wench
the property of Mr.. Isaac Bishop of |
Granville, N. Y, a few days since cut |
the throst of her child from ear to
ear SO that it died immediately" Micah |
+. Lyman was then postmaster in Ben |
and E. Niles in SALISBURY.
There is only one advertisement from
this town, signed by Amos D. Allen, |
John Roberts and E. Kelsey. There are
other advertisers from Middletown, Man |
chester, Lansingburgh, N. Y, and calls |
for proposals for printing various books. |
There is also a copy of the Rutland |
Herald of Wednesday, March 6, 1922, |
volume rs, number 10; William Fayipub-
Usher. The paper is somewhat larger
than the Gazette, having five columns to
a page. The paper is mostly made up
of correspondence between Gen. Jack.
son and Judge Eli j. Fromentin, of Flori-
da proceedings of congress, and report
of State convention held at Montpelier,
February Goth previous, and three col
umns of religious news from Palestine.
The only foreign news is from Chill and
Peru, the latest being dated the Octo-
Der 9th previous. S. w. Dana adver-
tises new lot of St. Croix rum just re-
ceived. Announcement is made that
pensioners cannot receive the pittance
due them for the reason that there is no
~ tln NE,& l.
for that purpose. Both papers are we'll
and are quite a contrast with
those now published here and in Rut-
land.