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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11
Death of Phil Kearny.

Colonel w. L. Goldsmith of Missis-
sippi gives the following account of the
death of General Kearny, who was
killed by soldiers of the Forty-ninth
Georgia regiment in September, 1862.
"The battle of Chantilly was fought
late in the afternoon amid a severe
storm of wind and rain. 1t was a
gloomy, dark, depressing afternoon,
and night was fast approaching. Our
brigade had not fired gun, but was on
the extreme left of our forces and be-
hind worm rail-fence grown up thick
with saplings and bushes-an excellent
place for ambushing. The fighting was
all to our right. l had charge of the
skirmish line, some 200 yards in ad-
vance of our line of battle, and in a
cornfeld which gently sloped up toward
the direction of the Federals. Pres
emily l saw line of blue majestically
moving toward us, several hundred
yards away, and l remember distinctly
the powerful impression it made on my
mind at the time. AS it came forward,
slowly and grandly, amid the thicken-
ing gloom of that dreary September
evening, it reminded me of an inrolling
blue wave of the great ocean. They
had no skirmish line, and l withdrew
our forces back to the main line, and,
as far as l could, tried to get the men
to hold their fire until the enemy came
close up. Some of our men commenced
firing before the enemy came close
enough, which spoiled the whole game.
The Federals were checked and driven
back so easily that we knew something
was the matter. l attributed their tim
idity to the demoralizing influence of
defeat at second Manassas, only few
days before, but on re-establishment of
our skirmish line we discovered that
the gallant General Phil Kearny had
been killed, and this was the cause of
the Federal's weak attempt The grief
of our entire army was marked and
sincere over this sad news, and General
Lee sent his body through the lines
next day, to the great satisfaction and
approval of us all. General Kearny
was killed by the Forty ninth Georgia
Regiment, beloved and mourned by
both blue and gray."-Blue and Gray.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11
Got Ahead of the AutOcrat.

Oliver Wendell Holmes met his
match once, and it was out of the
mouths of babes and stockings. An
English author who was visiting Amer.
lea had particularly bright boy, whom
he took to see the late lamented doctor.
The boy, who was only eight, had
heard 80 much in Boston about the
autocrat that he had on his very best
company manners, and when invited
to help himself to cherries struggled at
them with dessert spoon. Fingers
were made before forks, little man,"
said the great doctor with his CHEEKY
voice and laugh. "But not my fingers"
said the boy.-Exchange.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11
More Home Trouble.

There is trouble in the Minnesota
Soldiers Home. Trouble comes to all
of these institutions, and sometimes
very easily. The cause of the trouble
in Minnesota is this: The home is
crowded; the trustees thought to make
room for the blind, the weak, the
weary-those who have gone to the
limit of f-sustainers-by wedding out
twenty-five men who are abundantly
able to work and earn their own living.
The wedding has been done and the
weeded stand on the street corners and
denounce the home management, de-
claring their determination to pull
down the minions of the law at the
home and rip the foundation from the
whole structure. If the public would
turn its back upon the walters and de-
nouncers it would do an act of justice
to worthy men who cannot longer care
for themselves and are greatly in need
of the help their state can give them if
it is not obliged to help a lot of lazy
loafers who ought to be forced to help
themselves. Here is another point in
connection with those twenty-five able
bodied fellows who have been excused
from eating state rations and basking
in the sunshine of state care. All but
one of them are veterans who were
drafted, or went as substitutes after the
beginning of 1865. 1t is such facts as
these that make the real soldiers of the
war feel sea-sick and hunt for the side
of the boat. The managers of the Min
nesota home have set good example
to the managers of national home and
other state homes. Not enough care is
taken in considering the claims of ap-
plicants for admission to either state or
national homes. Can anybody tell why
a fellow who was drafted in March,
1865, and did not go beyond the SOL
diers' eating house at Chicago, should
have big pension, be an inmate of
home and have the care that the state
or the nation gives to men who were
soldiers-who served from a year to
four years and half, and who bear
scars given them in battle or who are
suffering from diseases contracted in
camp? Can any one tell why this man,
in March, 1865, and who never did his
country any service except to draw its
rations, be paid, and pensioned, should
not beisentsto the poor-house instead of
home for veterans of the War of the
RebellionP There is no soldier senti-
ment in his case milwaukee, Tele-
graph.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11
Coffee.

An expert on coffee, writing to the
New York Tribune, says:
A combination of one part Mocha,
one part Rio, and two parts Java or
Marscaibo, will yield heavy, rich,
strong-favored coffee, but not as smooth
and pleasing as if the Rio were omitted
When a smooth and delicate favored
beverage is desired, use one-third
Mocha and two-lhirds Java. When it
is desired strong and heavy, use Rio
and Maracaibo, or temper the former
by combining it with some of the milder
kinds. Recent experiments confirm
the opinion that coffee, which is an aid
to digestion, should be an infusion and
not decoction, for which particular
reason the after-dinner coffee, espe-
cially, should be an infusion, as The
caffeine of coffee, which is the element
most stimulating, is best drawn out by
keeping the coffee at the boiling-point.
but without boiling, for few minutes
before serving. Prolonged boiling ex-
tracts the astringent property, tannin.
For the ideal cup of coffee take one
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11
Smuggling in Venezuela,

Smuggling is an everyday or per-
haps more probably an every night
occupation along the shores and at
the ports of Venezuela. 1t is carried
on much of the time in collision
with the customs officers and is done
with a degree of openness. A New
Yorker recently returned from those
parts crossed from one of the West
India islands to the mainland in a
small sailing craft and noted that
the captain had several snug spots
about the boat for ooncealing dutia-
BILE merchandise. Beneath the floor
of his bunk on deck the captain had
many bottles of olive oil. Elsewhere
he had dried Goldfish, and in one cor
ner was a barrel of flour. These
things were struggled ashore as OPP
portunity offered. People came out
to the vessel as she rode offshore
and purchased contraband goods by
night.
One evening custom house Off
Ger, who visited the vessel, said he
thought he d stay all night on board
The captain expected good bust
ness that night and found the pres
ence of the officer embarrassing.
The officer, who saw the shippers
dissatisfaction, finally said in plain
words that he must search the YES
sci unless the captain would yield
up box of salt fish The captain,
feeling himself robbed, but without
recourse, gave the fish to the officer,
escaped search and had the satisfac-
ton of seeing his guest ashore before
night.
1t is q common thing for small
vessels to anchor thus offshore and
signal at night to Venezuelan SNUG
glers The latter como out, and there
is a lively trade until all are sup
piled with what they need The YES
sci goes to another place the next
night, repeats her signals and has
another set of customers. This con-
tinues until the cargo is sold out. If
any customs officer shows himself,
his silence is procured by bribery.
Vessels sometimes come into port
and land a struggled cargo with the
full knowledge of the customs Off
GERS. In such case no official record
is kept of the vessel arrival in port,
though clearance papers are granted
when she sails. Even when seizure
is made and a vessel is put up at auc-
ton she goes for a trifle and is
bought in by her owners. Public
sentiment is on the side of the SNUG
glers Old coasting vessels from the
United States often engage in this
trade. 1t is perfectly safe, though
less profitable than in some places
because of keen competition.
The Dutch island of Curacao, close
to the coast of Venezuela, is one of
the most important smuggling points
in the world Scores of Venezuelans
visit the island to obtain goods, and
the trade goes on the year round al
most unveXed of the customs Off
GERS. The knowledge of all this is
public property, and the Venezuelan
government must be perfectly cog
infant of the facts in the case.
Doubtless a great deal of the SNUG
Cling to Venezuelan ports begins at
New York by the filling of orders for
customers in Venezuela. The old
method of smuggling articles on or
der to persons of means in Cuba was
to give the package in charge of the
purser of an outgoing steamer after
marking the goods for the captain
of the port of Havana. New York
Sun.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11

CURE FOR HEADACHE.-As a rem
edy for all forms of headache Electric
Bitters has proved to be the very best.
1t effects permanent cure and the
most dreaded habitual sick headaches
yield to its influence. We urge all who
are afflicted to procure a bottle, and
give this remedy a fair trial. In cases
of habitual constipation Electric Bitters
cures by giving the needed tone to the
bowels, and few cases long resist the
use of this medicine. Try it once.
Large bottles only fifty cents at c..
Blakely's drug store.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11
FACT AND FANCY,
Testing Phyllis.

New, Phyllis ia a clever girl,
And am rather slow.
She likes to keep me in a whirl,
To tell me things that startle so
think that I shall crazy go
And then she laughs, the naughty grill
My name is James. She calls me "Jim."
Indeed, jump with fear
Wiener she says, with air most prm.
For Instance" James, you are dear,
But really, James, for most a year
I've loved another, bigger gymi"
And have known the time when she
Wonld wipe her weeping eyes
And tell me that she could not see
And bid me bring doctor wise
And make all haste and then surprise
Me with a smile. Loves blnd-,Jimmvln
And yet like my Phyllis well,
Aud a prank can play.
I've found that her own eyes will tell
When she's in fun, and give away
The Joke that her trained lips may say;
And that is why l ne'er rebel
I'm not as stupid as seem,
For Phyllis, pretty dear.
Who first was part Of Loves young dream.
I've caught. know that II is queer,
Bat here's the secret, " Let her steer
When loves the barque and life the stree n 81
Judge.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11
The AfterglOw.

Soft shades of gray steal Ger the way,
And then calmly, gently fall
And golden rays in the far west stray
With a rose flush over all.
When these faint rays so softly stray
O'or the hills and wooded dells,
Then docp in my heart hear lay
Like distant vesper bells.
Annie H. Quill in Minneapolis Housekeepei
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11

When the woman does not understand
what the matter is, and her doctor can
not or will not tell her, she grows morose
and melancholy; that's the blues.
Mrs. Newton Cobb, of Manchester, o.,
says: Lydia +. Pnkhom'S Vegetable
Compound will correct all this trouble.
| cannot praise 1t enough. am pleased
TO tell every one that it cured me; and il
it will cure me, why not others / am
sure my case was severe enough" 1t will.
Get it of your druggist at once.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11

AUSTRALIA has population of less
than 100000, but economists declare
it could support 100,0O0,O00 with ease.
AS means of showing how far the
world is from being overpopulated,
they assert that the entire population
of the United States could live COM
fortably in the single state of Texas.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11

Women in per-
feet or good health
are rarely victims
of this symptom.
Women nearly
monopolize the
blues, because their
peculiar ailments
promote them.
When the female
organs fail to per-
form their func-
tions properly,
when the dreaded
female complaints
appear, there is
shown nervousness,
sleeplessness, faint
ness, Blackjack he,
headache, bearing
down pains, etc,
causing the dreaded
"let-me-alone" and
" all gone " feel
inps.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11

The best wearing, most stylish, and
the greatest value of any $500 Mems
Shoes on the continent.
Best calfskin, dongola tops, solid
leather soles, with all the popular toes,
lasts and fastenings, and Lewis Cork
Filled Soles.
Each pair contains paid-up Acct
dent Insurance Policy for 500, good for
80 days.
Wear Lewis Accident Insurance Shoes
once and you will never change. The
insurance goes for "full measure"
Talk with your dealer who sells Lewis
Shoes.
SOLD by
The b. N. Shepard Co., Montpelier, vt
j. c. Griggs, Waterbury, vt
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11
MISCELLANY.
Life and Song.

II life were caught by clarionet,
And a wild heart, throbbing in the reed.
Should thrill It's Joy and tril Its fret
And utter its love in loves own deed;
Then would this breathing clarionet,
Type what would that might be,
For none of the poets ever yet
Has wholly lived his minstrelsy.
Or wholly sung his true, true thought
Or utterly bodied forth his life,
Or made what God made when he wrought
One perfect self OF man and wife;
Or lived and sung, that Life and Song
Might each express the others all,
Careless II life or art were long,
Since both were one, to stand or fall,
30 that the wonder struck the crowd,
Who shouted 1t about the land;
His song was only living aloud
His work was singing with his hand
Sidney Lanier.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11
THE HOUSEHOLD.
A Baby Philosopher.

"Me don't want to say good night
Want to say good morning.
Lisped my little man in white,
My suggestions scorning.
"But It's night, my baby dear
Darkness and not dawning."
"Dont want it to be dark Come here
And play it's uice good morning
Dear philosopl 90 add sage,
Night with day eAaSing,
Always through YES darkoned page
Keep your glad good morning"
Mrs. NJ. l.. Rayne in Detroit Free Press.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11

81 HAVE found Hoods Pills invalu.
able for constipation and liver com.
plant. Mrs. George W. Kellogg,
West Bolton VI.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11
the BLUES.
Why do Women have the Blues more
than Men!
t.PEcIAL TO OUR LADY RIA

tsPEcIAL To OUR LADY RRApERs1
Are not women naturally as light
hearted, brave, and hopeful as men
Yes but woman's organism is diff
fereut from mans
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11

DRESSES of spun glass were shown in
Paris in 1868. .s.ass ..s.a .. IN
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11

AT bazaar held in Paris recently the
net proceeds were over $4,000.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-10-21
QUITE A JOB

Cut Out for the Spanish Navy by Spanish
Editor-He Calls Americans Hard Names,
and Wants New York Bombarded
City Of Mexico, October 20.-Raca
Latina, Spanish daily paper here, the
organ of the resident Spaniards, de-
cleares that when Spain has completed
the subjugation of Cuba, she will send
the sixth division of the Spanish navy
to lombard New York, thus inaugu-
rating a war with a nation Of barbar-
ians, who, although numerically supe-
rior to the Spaniards, are really con-
temptible, clustering dwarfs. Spain
must rely on her Spanish pride to teach
the Yankees d lesson. The organs of
the Spanish colony here are exceeding
ly bitter against the American people,
and war is a common threat.
President Diaz has received the
American scientists here at the palace.
He told them he was proud of seeing so
many scientists in Mexico. The Amer
icanist congresses was discussed at the
latest session, the origins of the early
American tribes the use of hierogliph-
ic writing on this continent and the
rowsDarers published in America in
the early times etc.
,era ulu4, OctoDer 20.-The Spanish
commissioners have returned well
pleased with their interview with the
Spanish Minister in the City of Mexico,
Duke de ARGOS.
Guadalajara, via Mexico City, Octo-
Der 2O.-It is reported that local riot
has broken out at Arandas in the
eleventh canon and that federal troops
have gone to suppress it
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-10-21
A GREAT FIRE
Burned One Hundred and Twenty
Houses in Algiers, Opposite New
Orleans Seven Hundred People
Homeless.

New Orleans, October 20.-Fire broke
out about 1 O'Clock this morning in Al
giers. and before the flames We're final
w subdued destroyed about one hun
d-od small buildings and about twenty
more pretenuous structures, including
the Court House and a number of hand
some residences. The fire started at
rbe corner of Bermuda and Morgan
streets. and swept in a southwesterly
direction. The burned section is
bounded by Morgan, Alex, La Vergne
and Rourney streets. 1t is estimated
that seven hundred persons are rem
dered homeless. Relief measures were
started this morning for the benefit Of
rho destitute. The building used as a
Police Court and Jail in Algiers was
constructed about the year 1872 by the
La versnes for a residence, the greater
norton of the town then being their
nlantation home. All the records Of
the Fifth district (Algrersl were con-
sumed in the building. The loss by the
fire will not probably exceed $15O,O0O.
The insurance is light.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-10-21
THE INDIANA.
The New Battleship is the Fastest
Man-ofWar AfOat in Any Navy.
A Very Formidable Ship.

Philadelphia, October 2O.-The battle
ship Indiana, which left Boston at IL
O'Clock Friday night, arrived at her
dock at Cramps shipyard at o'clock
this afternoon. On the trip around Uhe
members Of the government trial board
made a six and one-half hours test of
the coal consumption, the results Of
which will be worked out and submit
ted to the Secretary of the Navy. Ed
win S. Cramp, who had charge Of the
trip, said the Indiana averaged 13
knots am hour from Boston 10 Delaware
Breal1water, a distance of 414 knots.
This is almost equal to the time made
by cruisers under ordinary draught,
and is remarkably fast travelling, when
the fact is consiGeed that the Indiana
is built for lightning, not for speed.
Last night the ship encountered a
severe gale, but weathered it beauti-
fully. Only a few of those who were
on board when the official trial of the
Massachusetts, coast was made last
Friday, came back on Uhe ship. Cap
tain Evans, her future commander,
stuck to his post, however, and was en-
thUsiastic in nus praise of the sea-gOing
and fighting qualities of his new
charge In an interview he reiterated
his former declaration that the Indiana
IS the finest ship OF her class afOat, be-
ing far ahead of any baJtlesMp attach
ed to the navy of any foreign power.
He says that on the run back, the en-
gines were worked under forced
draueiht for a while and the patent log
showed a speed of 16 $40 knots an
hour. Captain Evans will remain in
Philadelphia until the finishing touches
are put on the Indiana. 1t is expected
she viii be ready to go into commission
soon after November l. She will then
be given her government trial, which
consists of a forty-eight hours run at
sea. During this test, her guns will
all be fred with the regulation charge,
and if everything proves satisfactory,
the big floating fortress viii then be
ready to take her place with the ATTAIN
tic squadron.
The Indiane's sister ship, the Massa-
chusetts, is rapidly nearing completion,
her armOr being placed In position as
fast as it is received at the shipyard.
1t is not believed. however, that she will
be given her official trial before next
Spvi~"
Washington, October 2O.-The cor
rected official speed made by the bat
tleship Indiana on her trial trip off the
Massachusetts, coast last Friday has
been reported to Secretary Herbert 1t
shows the corrected speed Of the vessel
to have been IS 547-1000 knots per
hour. The contract for the constTuc-
ton Of the ship called for a speed on 10
knots. The Cramps under the contract
are to receive $25.O0O for each quarter
knot made above contract require
ments.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-10-21
CoREAN AFFAIRS.
The Death OF the Queen Officially Con
frmed-Russia Growing, and May Send
an Tltimatum.

The Death OF the Queen Officially Con
frmed-Russia Growing, and May Send
an Ultimatum.
Yokohama. October 20.-Newspape1
advices received from Seoul say thai
the COrean government confirms tne
news Of the Queens death. II is re-
ported that the Russian minister has
protested against the administration OF
stgre AFFAIRS in COrea by Ia.-
Won-Kun. the father Of the King, and
has demanded that the King should
administer affairs. 1t is believed that
if the protest is ignored, an ultimatum
viii follow.
The N.chishimbun (newspaper) says
that the japanese minister, Miura and
other officials of the japanese legation
are indicated as The principal f0mentera
of the disturbance, the japanese sol
dier5 having acted on Minister Miura'i
orders against the views OF the Japa.
nese advisers to the Corean government
who declared that Minister Miuras ac
tion would lead to serious interna-
tional complication. Orders have been
given that over forty japanese resi-
dents of Seoul should be dep0rted.
A Toxic journal, the Asaki, says thai
Minister Miura and the japanese Off
cials are returning to Japan under an
escort Of Gendarmes. The foreign rep
resentatives at Seoul are stated 20 have
demanded protection for their respect
i've legations. All of them agree in de-
nouncing the japanese as the murderers
of the Queen.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-10-21

per especially as regards the Ameri-
can point of view as indicated by Off
cial reports issued from Washington.
The Chronicle says that there is rea-
son to believe that if Lord Salisbury
decides to settle the affair without re-
gard to Americas intervention, Amer
lea may carry out in full the invitation
given in July by United States Am0as-
sador Bayard in the friendliest spirit,
that the delimitaion might be negotia-
ted amicably through Washington.
"There is no doubt" the Chronicle
continues, that the United States is
determined to bring about an early set
tlement of the dispute. No answer to
Mr.. Bayard's dispatch to Lord Sails
bury has yet been received at the en-
bassy."