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Year: 1871


BOABDII--We are not thoroughly versed in tn,
Bounty laws; bnt we would say, on a random
guess, that an officer who was given the alterna
tive either to resign or be cashicred for cowarc.
or irregularities" and wisely chose the former
Is not entitled to bounty a veteran.
BARRAT"I.-If You are y candidate for Office
and any man refuses to vote for you. and you arr
beaten, you can sue that man both for Islander ant
slan,age, and continue to sue him. as long as YOU
are able 10 pay the costs.


FoxFIRE-Go it, old fellow; you have sof
thing. But look sharp, or they will sink down OF
you for hundred dollars, the first thing yor
know.


BENzrSE-A good opening, and the hest paying
business going. If you are ashamed to do it your
self, carry it in the name of some man who ha.
got beyond that point.


ISNoCENCE.-If the fellow saved your scalp
and then refused to do your dirty work, he ha,
proven himself very ungratcful. The sooner you
cut his acquaintance, the better. 1t is a very
selfish soul that looks for friendship to work lotl
ways. Yet You are not wholly blameless, if you
neglected to remind him, at least three times a
week, that you were his friend, and to demand
some practical evidence of friendship ON his part
EsoP.-The frog was busted, simply because
he got too big for his skin. You ought to know
how it is yourself.


CORNs.-H you cannot trust your home physi.
clan to prescribe for your poor feet, consult
distant doctor by letter. Their wives some.
times read their letters, and gossip around among
their neighbors.


HAM.-You are correct. That's the way mig.
ger gets served when he sells himself, after they
have used him all they want to. We may add,
white men generally get fixed the same way.
Good for them.


LARK.-If liquid was emptied upon your head
from an upper window, while serenading your
sweetheart, and it discolored your clothes badly,
you should seek explanation without delay
for there is something about it that don't look just
right.


LiMBERTwIG.-If you hate the man, and have
not the grit to face him and tan his pelt, we can
only recommend patience. Wait until the next
civil war, then report him to the Jawhawkers as
dangerous character, and have them go through
him.


]. L. & CO.-Splendid opening. You don't need
any house. There's plenty of brush all over town.
OLD GUARD.-You have no right to ask for an
Office. You have belonged to the party more than
ten years, and are barred by the statute of limi-
tations. Give the Young converts a chance.
GEOLOGIsT.-Wc have no doubt this region is
rich in minerals, if they were only dug for. Some
are now hunting for nitrate of silver.
Year: 1871

- IL there are any two men in the Republi-
can party who are hated by the Rebel Democracy
with an extra intensity of hatred above all Others,
those two men are Senators MoEroN and BROWN
Low. Every time they probe the Democratic
carcass, it is as if aquafortis were being poured
into the wounds, as the yelps and scrceches will
testify. These two men are both invalids and
cripples, and the only way in which the Democ-
racy can adequately express their hatred, is to
taunt them with their intirIities, and attribute
them to disgraeefnl origin. If these two Grip
pies can torment the Democracy keenly, what
could they do If they were well an stoutf'
Year: 1871

II The Leavenworth printers have ut last
come to their senses. In their spirit Of rivalry
and competition, they ran down the prices Of pub
lie printing to less than paying rates, and were
losing money. The tight-skinned authorities Of
the city, not satisfied with this tried to get the
work done for nothing. This brought the print
to their right mind, and the proprietors Of all
the offices in the city have united upon a scale Of
prices and submitted it to the City Council, tell
ing them to pay that or let the work go undonc.
This - denounced combination and
"ring;" but that does not help the printing ques-
tion. This is the course all printers will have to
take at last-and the sooner the better.
Year: 1871

DrvrrcrLr SusarcA OPERATION. About =
week since, says the Sacramento Union. little
girl, daughter Of Mrs. Blackburn, widow lady
Of Rocklin. accidentally swallowed . pine nut
which she had in her mouth. The nut made its
way into the windpipe and thence to the lung
causing great distress. The child was brought
to the city for medical treatment, but the cause
Of the trouble could not, Of course, be reached in
the position it occupied. day or two SINCE
however, the child coughed the nut up from the
lung into the larynx, where it remained. On
Saturday, prominent surgeon of the city. who
had been applied TO- successfully performed the
very delicate operation of cutting into the wind
pipe and removing the nut. Last evening the
patient was deemed to be in precarious condi-
ton, consequent upon the Inflammation Of the
lung, which had become very severe prior to the
expulsion Of the nut. We learn since that the
little girl has materially improved, and is thought
to be out Of danger.
Year: 1871

FURTHER DEvELoPMENTs.-Mr. Lowery, the
lucky prospector," has struck rich quartz on
what is considered an extension OF the Dillon
ledge, So rich that We are told, with what truth
We cannot say, that it is difficult to break and
separate the boulders on account Of their being
held together by thread gold. Other parties are
also said to have found good prospects on fur
ther extensions of this ledge in tho past few
days. The exceeding richness Of the Rock
Greek surface mines below where this ledge
crosses would argue that the source Of all this
surface gold had been found.
Year: 1871

LARGE number Of tax suits have been COM
mcnced agninst delinquents. many OF these for
trihing amounts where tho costs and percentage
will reach ten times the amount due; and yet the
officers have no alternative but to enforce the
law. We learn that in many of these cases the
cost enn yet be saved if the parties will come
forward and promptly settle.
Year: 1871

AT LAsT.-Thc new fence in front Of the Pub
lie School grounds in Auburn is nearly complct-
ed, and the lot is being appropriately planted in
different varieties OF shade and orname trees
This is all being done by private enterprise and
without touching a dollar Of the educational
fund. number Of our leading citizens have
pressed this matter. and kept the ball rolling
til success is in sight, for which they entitled
to much praise from all our people. Years hence
all that have contributed to this praiseworthy
object can look upon this lot and feel fully re-
compensed for what they are now doing.
Year: 1871

The PAiN KILLER is by universal consent Ill
lowed to have won for itself u reputation unsur-
passed in the history Of medical preparations
Its instantaneous effect in tho eradication and c1-
tinction Of Pain in all it's various forms incident
to the human family, and the unsolicited written
and verbal testimony of the masses in its favor,
have been, and are its own bost advertisements.


The ingredients Of the PAIN KILLER. being
purely VEGETABLE, render it perfectly safe and
eficacious remedy taken internally, as well us
for external applications, when used according
to directions. The stain upon linen from it.
use is readily removed by washing with alcohol


This Medicine justly celebrated for the
of so many OF the Affections incident to the hu-
man family, has now been before the public
THIRTY YEARS, and has found it's way into almost
every corner of the world: and wherever il has
been used, the same opinion is expressed Of its
medical properties.


In any attack, where prompt action upon the
system is required, the Pain Killer is invaluable
It's almost instantaneous effect in Relieving Pain
is truly wonderful; and VIII N used &c ording to
directions is true to it's name, aPAIN KILLER.
Year: 1871

FIns.-On Thursday morning, between and
4 O'clock a Are was discovered between the
ceiling and reof and in the roof OF the private
residence OF DR.. S. +. Chaplin, and in fair way
to do serious and extensive damage. The fire
had caught from the stovcpipe but was timely
discovered and put out before much damage was
done. The building is a large two-story one and
had it burned it would have been almost impos-
sible to have saved three four other valuable
wooden buildings in the immediate vicinity.
Year: 1871

live through almost any treatment; but


study their peculiarities, and manifest a


willingness to crafty them and they will


grow without stint. Most houses are too


hot for them, as indeed they are for their


owners. Neither plants nor people should


have the average temperature over sixty
five degrees Fahrenheit. Take care and


not enfeeble your ivics by. undue heat or
excessive watering, and you will find that
they will not seem to mind whether the sun
shines on them or not; or in what position
or direction you train them. l.. deed, 50
much will they do of themselves to render d
room charming. that / would rather have
an unlimited number of them to draw upon,
than cauything else in nature or art. Do
you wish the ugly plain door that shuts off
your 7tinypentry from your parlor were arch,
ed or curved, like those in the drawing room
of your richer neighbor? Buy couple Of
brackets, such as lamps for the burning of
kerosene are sometimes placed in. aud screw
them on the sides of the door. Put in each
a plant Of English ivy, the longer the bet,
ter, then train the plants over the top,
against the sides, indeed, any way your fam
cy dictates. You need not buy the bcauti-.
fulbut costly pots the flower dealer wilad-,
wise; common glazed ones will answer eve
ry purpose, for by placing in each two or
three sprays of Coliseum ivy; in months
time no vestige of the pot itself can be dis
covered through their thick screen.
Year: 1871

Wearers of paper collars may be interest
cd in the repgrts on the manufacture paper
in Japan, which have lately bepn printed for
the British Parliament. There seems to be
no reason why they should not wear not only
paper collars but Il lss paper shirts and wash
ai.io paper coats and trousers; by taking ad,
vantage oflhcproccss described as follows:
lode of making paper cloth warranted
to wash ('Shifu.O Take some Of the paper
called Ii, sho' or some e the best 'senka' and
dye it of the color required. Boil some OF
the O ITS called -niakw-nodama with the
skins en-; try them with the inner portion OF
a rice stalk, when it pcretrates easily they
arc sufficiently done. Peel them and let the
water run off and then pound. them into u
paste. Spread this paste on either side OF
the paper and let it dry in the sun until it is
quite stiff. Then sprinkle water on it until
it is thoroughly damp and leave it in. that
condition over night The next morning
roll it on bamboo the thickness of, an arrow
shaft and force it with the hands from eth
cr end into a crumplc in the cegtaF. Unroll
it and repeat this process two or three times
rolling it from each sde and corner of the
paper. Then crumple it we'll in tho hands
by rubbing it together until it becomes qRite
soft, and then sprinkle water on it again to
damp it. Hglf it out straight and smooth
then fo.d it up and pound it with wooden
mallet, 1t may then be put into water as
much and as often as is liked without sustain.
ing any injury, having become strong and
lasting material.


The cloth is made principally in the Da
maiate of Sendia. Boxes, trays, and ever
saucepans may be made of this cloth, and
saucepans made in this manner sustain nc
injury from strong charcoal heat. Bag'
may be made of it, wherein wine may be
put and heated by insertion in boiling watel
without injury
Year: 1871

An action was decided in Philadelphia
last week, by Judge Thayer, in favor of a
husband who had boen sued by dry goods
firm for the amount of bill of gooIs run
up by his wife. Defence set up that defen-
dant furnished his wife with an ample sup
nlv of nGcessarios. I'm the course Of his
Charge Judge Thayer said: "It is false
and foolish notion for trades people to enter
tain that husband is bound to pay all bills
contracted by his wife. No such monstrous
doctrine is allowed by law. Merchants must
ascertain the facts and the true relations of
man and wife before allowing the latter to
run up bills which he is to be loeked to to
pay, .s...
Year: 1871

The editor of the Boston Medical and
.Surgical Journal says: eve do not vouch
for the following item which has been sent
us: "A surgeon in distant place is said to
have removed tumor weighing sixty-three
pounds, and thinks of presenting the same
TO General Grant"
Year: 1871

Sciatics is a pain beginning at the hip,
and follows the course of the sciatic nerve,
and is generally purely ueurslqic of ner
7ous pain. To cure, use Renne's Pain
Killing Magic Oil on the painful parts, and
also in the hollow Of the foot. If the blood
be in low stage, preparation of iron m must
be given at the same time-but the Magic
Oil alone generally cures. For Sale BY
John BengssoR.
Year: 1871

We give the redistribution to the sew
| eral towns aud cores, furnished by State


Treasurer Page, to the Montpelier Jour.


nal, of the fund known as the United


States Deposit money. This fund is the


portion awarded to Vermont by Congress


of money derived from the sales of public


lands. The distribution was made at a


time when the national government had
surplus of revenue, and the act was
founded on the theory that the public
lands were the property of the people ;
and when the money from this source
was not needed by the government, both
Justice and sound policy demanded dis
tribution of it to the States according to
their representative population. This,
however, was not gift to the States, but
deposit" liable to be recalled when
ever needed by the nation. AS the gov
ernment passed through the late war
without demanding the repayment of
this fund, it may be assumed pretty safe
ly that the State will never be called upon
for it. The following is the amount as
signed to each town in the new apportien-
ment, also a column showing the loss and
gain Of each town;
Year: 1871

THE FAULT IN AMERICAN CHARAC-
TER Rev. Mr.. Frothingham thinks slm-
plicity is the great want of the American


character. We live too superficially and


slowly, and indulgence eats out con-
science The response to the appeal OF
burning Chicago, great as 1T was, did not


begin to equal the demand we have
spent so much on our follies and vices
and extravagsnces that we have nothing
left for an emergency like this. We
ought to learn lesson from the yachts


whose trials of speed have interested US
80 much. Gay pleasure boats they are.
beautiful and graceful in shape. Go into
their c4bins; they are furnished like pal
aces. See the costly wines there are on


The t4ble to feast the ladies and gentle
men. But look at these boats as they take
their position and strain for the race. See
how every line has been made with a
view to swiftuess: how provision has
heen made for eeonomizing every breath
of wind No pennsnts flying now no
crowd of men and women on the deck.


Everything in the way of ornament that
might impede their speed has been re-
moved. These gay boats bend themselves
TO the wind and face the elements in their
widest fury, sweeping on boldly to the
mark. We Americans, with our wealth.
ouyht 90 to live that when the time for
racing comes, we could dispense with
many things and enter upon the course.
Year: 1871

NEWSPAPER CREDITs.-A few days


since the Burlington Free Press took oc
casion to characterize THE HERALDs


manner of crediting an article entitled
"Grand List of 1871" to the Montpelier


Journal, as disreputabl journalism. We


repel this charge. The article was an i'm


portant one to the readers of THE HER


AID, and that it might attract the atten-


ton of those interested, it was leGded and


put in conspicuous place in the paper.


In another paragraph in our local COL


umns the attention of readers was called


to it, saying in distinct terms that it was


taken from the Montpelier Journal, and


that it was probably from the pen of Hon.


E. P. Walton. We not only gave the
Journal credit, in which it originally ap-
peared, but also to its supposed author


Is an endeavor to place important matter
before our readers and to give full credit,
iisreputable journalism ? We profess to
be live journal and to call the attention
Of readers to important questions, and it
ia no matter to the Free Press how we do
it. We propose to conduct our paper in
our own way. We regret, because by an
oversight, the Free Press should give +
wrong credit, and that an endeavor, cour-
+eously, to correct the error, the Free
Press should show evidence of temper and
charge Us with disreputable journalism.
1t was all their own fault, and it should
not take umbrage at THE HERALD if it
"als attention to its error. The Free
Press has it's own ways-so have other
journals. and they should not throw
.tones at others while they have glass ir
their own house, for if they will refer to
he Free Press files, they will find they
taUe given credit in the same way time
md again within the last two years.


A Rutland contemporary takes up the
yrowl of the Free Press, but that journal |
'hould have little to say while it con
5inues to steal column after column of it.
ocal news each week from THE RUTLAND
HERALD.
Year: 1871

CHEESE FACTORIES DECLINING-The
Cambridge Post says:


The cheese factory at West Pawlet is
running on sage contract, we think, at
twelve cents per pound. The cheese fac
tory at West Rupert has closed for the
season, and we understand that the stock
holders have offered it for wooden mill.
The factory at Dandy can hope for but
little patronage next season as many of
the patrons intend to carry their milk to
the milk train.
Year: 1871

RUNING THE COUNTRY TO PAY IT'S DEBT
BEFORE If Is DUE.-The Tribune reioices
at the fact that the Secretary of the
Treasury has paid more than eleven mil
lion dollars Of the rational debt during
the month Of March, making two hun
dred and fifteen millions paid since Mr.
Boutwell, took office "O.' exclaims
Mr. Greeley" o that we might keep on
paying at this rate till the last dollar was
wiped out, as it might be in less than
twenty years. Yes, and every man now
in business in the United States would
be wiped out with it; the poor would be
ground down into inextricable poverty
and wretchedness, and all the property
in the country would belong to few
stony-souled men, whose wealth would
be counted by hundreds of millions
Paying your debts when they are due is
well; but robbing the poor in order to
pay them before they are due, is folly.
The war against the rebellion was not
waged for the benefit Of the present gen
Grafton alone, and none but madman
would desire to force upon the present
generation the whole payment of its cost
However, Mr.. Greeley's notions have
prevailed in the legislation Of the last
Congress and Of that now in session.
They have done nothing to take off the
great burdens that are destroying the in
dustry and business Of the country, and
the Republican party will have to bear
the consequences. Does Mr.. Greeley re-
member the great political revolution of
1910, by which the Democracy were
wiped out? That revolution grew out
of financial distress, out Of the stagna-
ton of business, the stoppage of manu-
factories, the turning out Of employment
ofmyriads of laboring men. Such con-
dition Of things is now upon US, and its
effect will in due time be made manifest.
N. Y. San.
Year: 1871

STRANGE WORDS FROM A STRANGE
QUARTER the course of an article
depreciation with much earnestness the
proposed measures now before congress
for the suppression Of the so called Ku.
klux outrages at the Sonth, the Boston
Adcertiser, the leading Radical organ of
Massachusetts, declares that:


The South must be reconstructed if at
all, by its natural leaders--the men of
brains, character and inhuence--most OF
whom, of course were in the late war
This is sound policy. This opinion is
held by hundreds of unprejndiccd people
old army officer and citizens-who
lived and owned plantations in the South,
or have travelled there. The present
state of things is very bad. Wo have
been trying to create an unnatural state
of affairs, and the result is a failure, so
long as the only intelligent men are dis
franchised, and the ignorant and vicious
are PERMITTED to control matters. All
accounts agree that the hostility is not
felt towards the National Government
but toward certain obnoxious black and
white people. Now, it is certainly too
much to expect very active publicsen-
timent against the Ku Klux, if nothing
better is promised the grotesque traves-
ties of governments which we have seen
in many of these States. Let US try a
new remedy, and give brains and char
actcr, and decency chance. First OF
all let us stop this wretched Congress
sional foolng with great communities as
il they were babes or idiots. BY attempt
ing to subject whole States to the con-
troll of ignorant blacks and whites, who
are both ignorant and vicious, we invite
the very outrages Of which we complain,
The country is sick Of the whole thing"
Year: 1871

JAIL DELIvERY.-On Wednesday, between
confined in the upper part of the Jail made
their escape, by prying off the rafters at one
corner and then crawling round between the
roof to the CRATE in the back Of the building,
where they removed the stone wall sufficient
" to admit egress to the body of a man
when they tied their blankets together and
lowered themselves down about 20 feet, to the
iail yard, and then dug hole sufficient:to
crawl under the fence, which they did and
made their escape, without the knowledge o f
the guard. They were gone some two or three
hours before it was known by the guard. To
say the least, it is apparent there was general
carelessness on the part of the keepers of the
iail, for if the guard had been on watch it
would have been impossible for them to have
made their escape. Three Of the prisoners,
confined in the same room, declined to leave
with the balance; they say that everything
was arranged for the escape the day before.
That isthe rafters were got out and one ofthe
prisoners by name of Perry. we think, pros
pected to see how the land lay. The men that
escaped were all desperate characters. Two
or three were in for murder, and several were
in for dealing in counterfeit money-and evil
dence for conviction most positive in all the
cases. Their names were;


Bocquet, Frenchman, charged with muir
der.


John Childers, charged with murder


Henry Perry and Jerry Perry, passing
counterfeit money and attempt to kill.


VS., carp, John Shour and W. II. Brock
All bad men. No arrests have been made up
to-day-although possee is ont on the hunt.


Perry, who shot Deputy Marshal Shoe
maker, we learn this morning, was seen at
Maysville on Friday last. He is now among
bis friends and his arrest doubtful, at present.
Year: 1871

sX- We learn from Captain BRIrToN, that
they will soon have SPARKS Toll Gate Road
In operation between Van Buren, and Fort
Smith. Onr little notice Of the detrimental
effects to the country, he thinks has set all
Fort Smith in love with it.
Year: 1871

In private conversation he was even
more emphatic and unreserved. Speak
ing of the San Domingo scheme he said
to me:


"We have territory enough, more
than we have use for. We can hire a
coalng station in the West Indies for
three thousand dollars year, and we
had better do that"
Year: 1871

Experience Of an Active and Intelligent" tn
Not Finding the Receiver Of Those Tell-Tals
Love Letters-A Judge Who Does Not
Know the Man He Appointed


A Wife WHO Says Her HUI


band Lives somewhere"
Year: 1871

Brancourt rs. Mordnge.-Plaintif and defendant
owned small chatte mortgage in common, and
plaintiff assigned his interest therein to defendant.
The defendant then turned the mortgage over to
third party for collection Some delay occurred In
The collection and portion only OF the effects were
Sold The residue still unsolu is now IN the hands
subject to plaintIrs order. The litigation In refer
ence to the AFFAIR is still before the Court.