News and Citizen from Morrisville, Vermont • 2

Mr. tteecher and the Chronicle. which had 662 grains of wheat con leavinghis saloon in charge of a friend. DAUCHY COLUMN. Vermont Citizen.

pretty pass if our officers are to be defied in the performance of their duty, and it is time a change occurred. t-M, 1. i Coming Coming expressed in the following despatch Twin Mountain House, I Sept. 8, 1875. C.

L. licywood, Supt. Fitchburg R. Boston I must withdraw the Lake Pleasant appointment information received from Christian brethren and clergymen in that whole region has determined my course. Henry Ward Beecher.

This shows very plainly that what AT TIFT'S THE GRAND FAIR PRICES We take pleasure in again informing the public that we have another influx of Staple and Dry Goods, suited to the wants of all, and that they are to be sold at fair rates from cost. We do not advertise them as the cheapest goods in Vermont, for this song has been sung in the ears of the public until they. are tired of it, but we DO CLAIM that there are -ooc- EMPORIUM OF that our stock is much heavier than fact it is almost endless, thus afford Making Selections. C3-OOIDS I Shoes, and- None Cheaper or Better in Market, and we claim again, any other in this vicinity." In ing the public greater Advantages in cealed in his chops, and there are mil lions of them at work. It is estima ted that in one neighborhood alone the squirrels carrj- off a ton of wheat per day.

A seven-year-old Westport girl weiahs 111 pounds, measures three feet six inches around the waist, 36 inches around the chest and 22 inches around the head, while her arm near the shoulder measures 11 inches and her calf 14 1-2 inches. Between the months of May and October last j'ear, 16,889 Russian convicts were banished to Siberia, and women and cnudren ac companied the exiles. The Roman Catholic priests and prelates who are abused and put un der ban in Switzerland, take refuge in Savoy. All the world may change, but Savoy keeps up her ancient pious ways, and her mountaineers go to church regularly every Sunday. When there is no room in the chapels and churches, the peasants sit out at the doors or stand around on the squares until services are over.

The Democrats of Pennsylvania declare for inflation. Their platform is substantially identical with that of their Ohio brethren, rhey demand the overthrow of the national bank currency, and the substitution of legal They demand repudiation through the acceptance of greenbacks for custom duties and the vio lation of their pledge to the payment in gold of the interest on the public debt. In short, the platform is a square, direct victory for the inflationists, and the more significant because of the sharp fight made on this distinct issue. A party of Texas herders were en camped on the North Platte river. They had a negro cook, and to scare him one of the herders disguised himself as an Indian, caught him out of camp, and chased him until he fell in a faint.

To help the illusion another of the jokers fired several shots over the head of his disguised comrade, as though trying to kill him, and thus save the negro. After the jokt was over, and the joke was being laugh- ingly discussed, somebody said, If one of those shots had been better aimed there would have been a dead man." The man who had relished the fooling of the negro thereupon proved easy to be fooled. Supposing he had been murderously aimed at, he sought out the one who had only helped him in his masquerade, and shot several bullets into his bod', killing him instantly. There would have been a hanging to cap the climax of this episode of border life, had not the murderer quickly mounted a horse and escaped. An old resident tells his experience with the cabbage worm.

Starting wita a fiuc lot of cabbages, he tried to save them by picking off the worms, when a neighbor said salt and vine gar will drive them On went the salt and vinegar in a liberal quantity. The next day he inspected his cabbages, and the worms had doubled in number. So he commenced picking again with renewed vigor, when a friend told him that "cayenne pepper did the work sure." Ready to do anything to save them, he put on a paper of red pepper and awaited the result. In the morning he. found his cabbages were literally covered with the deserted worms, and looking at them said.

"Cold slaw is it?" and started for the house. Returning with a pail of boiling water he dashed it over his pet vegetable, and said Hager, let's see how you like a biled dish now," and then he gave up in de spair. A remarkable sale of short-horn cattle ha3 just taken place in Scotland, and the prices brought are calculated to make the unfortunate own? ers of "Duchesses" feel good, to whatever nation they belong. The cattle were the property of Lord Dun- more, and the London papers are congratulating his lordship, on the fact that the prices brought at the sale far. exceed anj-thing ever known even in the United States, where the short-horn mania rages so violently.

The, number of cattle sold as thirty- nine, and the prices aggregated 115, being an average $3361 per head. The most extraordinary fea ture of the sale was Lord Fitzhard inge's unparalleled bid for the majestic "Duke of Connaught," which is de scribed as a magnificent bull, of proud gait and lofty carriage, with a skin like velvet, a back like a quarter deck, and length, quality and comeli ness enough to commend him to ev ery eye in fact, the finest Bates bull in the world. At the first jump 000 was bid for him, but not until $25,000 had been offered did the com petition cease, and the auctioneer an nounced that the most superb bull in existence was destined not to leave the land of his birth for England. It is generally believed that the repre sentative of the American Short-horn Society had an eye upon 'f the Duke of Connaught," but he soon found that the shots he carried were not heavy enough to silence his British opponents. Another bull brought $15,000, being knocked down to the agent of the Viceroy of Egypt, and four more brought from $5000 to $10, 000 each.

The Earl of Dunmore has not been in the short-horn business for more than seven years, but at the very outset he is said to have betray ed an adaptability to the calling, and a correctness of judgment in seleo ting and mating pedigree cattle, which were all calculated to be beneficial to the land o' Cakes. He had the cour- age to send to Canada and to purchase two calves, which were still un born when their Canadian purchaser carried their mothers away from Eng land. For these two calves Lord Dunmore paid collectively $12,500, and the son of one them is the "Duke of Connaught," who was purchased at the highest figure ever given for bull. Lord Dunmore has still re maining a herd of about forty head, comprising some of the most magni ficent animals in. Altogeth er it is said that his herd represents, having in view what it has already paid and what the rem nant of it is now worth, "something like $300,000.

,7." The friend got drunk, and as a result, got half the loafers in town drunk He placed the pitcher on the counter and allowed them to step np and help themselves. Henry Sartwell, of Jay, met with quite a serious accident last Monday. He was chopping wood at the door when the axe hit a line over his head and the heel of the axe struck him on the nose, breaking the bones and lay ing his nose flat on his face. A little son of L. Grow, of Brown- ington, went into a pasture last week to catch a horse when he was kicked in the face, smashing the skull over the right eye and breaking off five teeth.

The boy is doing well and will probably recover. John E. Gould, a young man of Montpelier, found a pearl in a Win ooski river clam last week Thursday that measures seven-eighths of an inch in circumference, and is of good color. Several valuable ones have also been found by others, but none so large as this. Speaking of snakes the other day a gentleman said he was hding corn at one time and saw a hoop snake coming towards him.

He stuck the hoe up and ran. In about an hour he returned and found the snake had struck the hoe handle which was swollen to three times its former size. The man did not say whether the hoe handle survived or not. Palladium. In Lincoln, on Sunday, the 5th while a daughter of Mr.

E. V. Page, aged eleven years, was passing through a covered bridge, one-half mile from the post office, she was attacked by a brute named Albert Daniels, who attempted to commit an outrage upon her, but fortunately the girl escaped to a house near by. Monday, Daniels was brought before the town Grand Juror, and bound over for trial at the December court, in the sum of $500. 3.

W. Duntley, now: 75 years old, is the champion sheep shearer in this locality. He commenced shearing in 1820, but not until 25 did he make a regular business during the shearing season. Since that time he has averaged not less than 350 a year, making during the fifty years 17,500. The number sheared last year was 300.

Dunt-ley claims to be good for 5 or 10 years to come. Union. Three tramps broke into the house of Thomas Smith, in Georgia Tuesday afternoon, and one of them, named Freemore, 6tole a pair of pants, a vest and about $1.50 in silver. They were pursued by a party of fifty citizens, and surrounded in the woods where they were caught. One of them drew a revolver on the posse, but was soon brought to terms.

A large dirk knife was found on another. They were brought to St. Albans jail, but were taken to Georgia by Sheriff Morrill, where they are to have an examina tion. Messenger. On Saturday last Geo.

Sanbury at the Corner was trying to shoot a pistol, and, having snapped three caps on it, turned It np to look into the muzzle. He discovered it was load ed, for just then it went off, the ball striking over the left eve next to the nose, passing around the socket' and coming out at the other corner of the eye. It is not certain as the sight is destroyed, but, whether he loses it or not, he won't look down the muzzle of a gun again to see if it is loaded. Unions Diamonds must bejlenty in Ben nington. A few days ago Mr.

Elijah Dewev went out and In a scramble through the bushes after a large fish he had caught he lost a $500 diamond. Mr. Wm. E. Hawks, who is probably the best fisherman in Ver mont, heard of it and made great sport of Dewey over his bad luck.

Two days later Hawks went out fish ing and lost a $250 shirt stud. This makes $1000 in diamonds that Mr. Hawks has lost in eight or ten years. Mrs. Harry Quint, cf White River Junction, was arrested for stealing from the store of J.

O. Belknap, last week Wednesday. She was visiting friends and took occasion to obtain a new purse while in the store, without asking the price thereof, but being suspected of previous thefts was watch ed, and an officer sent to arrest She managed to secrete the purse be fore being searched, but it was "fished out" of its concealment, when' she owned up, and the cost was settled by her friends to the tune of $27. lhe officers have been making a general sweep through the Township of Pot ton, arresting quite a number for larceny. August 27th Horace Allen, Henry Sargent, Augustus Bo-wen, were brought before Judge Fos ter charged with petty larceny and plead guity and will be sentenced at the next term of the court.

Septem ber 1st Ileaton Skinner, who stole Geo. Tisdale's horse last week, was brought before Judge Foster charged with the same, and plead not guilty and his trial is fixed for October. We understand mat a number ot more are on the anxious seat. Palladium. On the day of the circus one Carlos Smith visited the show and pro cured a ticket for himself and little child but left his wife "out in the cold." While loitering around the ''big tent" an acquantance happened along who bought a ticket for her.

All went well until they started for home when he commenced to upbraid her words led to blows and finally he gave her a most unmerciful (beat ing, for which he was complained of and brought before Justice Startwell for trial. He wanted a jury trial and the constable went out to panel a jury. During his absence Mr. Smith "stepped down and and has not been seen in these parts since. Pal ladium.

A mob of loafers set the authority of the state of Vermont at defiance, and triumphed over the officers of the law, at Rutland, a week ago last Sat urday night. A man was arrested for obstructing travel and taken to a sta ble towait a conveyance to jail, when the crowd gathered around the office, making such threats that the officers could do no other way than to release the prisoner. Officer Stearns receiv ed a severe blow on the eye. The Herald says Things have come to a The Vermont Chronicle, of two or three weeks ago, denounced sharply the running of excursion- trains to the Twin Mountain House, to hear Mr. Beecher, as a desecration of the Sabbath.

For this, it held three par ties responsible, first, the keepers of the Twin Mountain House and second, the Tailroad managers. The motive actuating these two, the Chronicle considered to be simply pecuniary gain. Of the third party, he said The third party to this desecration of the Sabbath is Mr. Beecher. If it were not in accordance with his wishes to increase the business of the hotels on the Sabbath to have the rail roads run excursion trains on that day to his boarding place to open scores of depots usuallj' shut on God's sacred day, and to break the solemn stillness of Sabbath along hundreds of miles of railroad by the screeching of, engines and thundering of trains, none of these things, would be done.

The Boston Congregational ist en dorsed the views of the Chronicle, and Mr. Beecher deemed the matter of consequence enough to demand notice at his hands. He prefaced his sermon, on Snndaj' week, with a re-pty to the Chronicle. He said, at the outset, that he yielded to none in regard for the Sabbath. "We can spare," said he, "agreat many things but we cannot spare the Christian Sabbath.

No Christianmaa ought to hesitate for a moment to condemn whatever degrades the Sabbath or weakens its power." Of the par ticular case in hand, he said The running of trains on the Loid's day tocampmeetings or to places of resort is to me so comparatively new that I am not prepared to express approval or disapproval of it. If it shall be found, on the whole, to weaken the moral affections with which people hold the Sabbath, I shall not hesitate to join these who would dissuade my fellow citizens from such a practice. But if it be found, not only that it is harmless, but that it conduces to the great end for which the Sabbath itself was created, then I shall defend the custom. I shall not ask what is the best thing for men who are well off and have their own wagons and carriages and property, and live above want and trouble, and are masters of their own time through the week. I shall ask what is the best for needy men, for workingmen, for men who are under the bondage of employers during the week daj and who have no flee command of their time.

What is the best for them on the Sabbath day will comport wi th the spirit of our Lord and Master, who said that the Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath. Mr. Beecher also defended the ho tel keepers, saying that they made no profits out of the meetings that they closed their bar, and that fewer people remained to dine than before the special trains began running. Of the suggestion that the hotel men profited by. the advertising these meetings gave their house, Mr.

Beecher said The fling is simply mean. It is a fling which no gentleman making once in your parlor would be found in your parlor again to make. If you can not have piety in Unristian men you ought at least to have ordinary decency and courtesy. If it does ad vertise their house 1 am giad or it. If a hotel keeper is willing, for the sake of -advertising his house, to help five thousand people to hear ie Gos pel preached, and so promote the good of humanity, then 1 say let him have all the advantage which he can derive from such a course.

Reading a passage from the Chron icle, Mr. Beecher said Not one effort to find a good mo tive not one single statement of any advantage a low toned imputation of sinister motive not only Xo the railroads, but to jrou, saying that you cover your desire for a Sunday excur sion by a pretence iof prayer and praise in this tabernacle. Now, I do not suppose that railroad corporations would run their trains purely and merely for the sake of promoting the public welfare, even in preaching. But I believe the men who control the great railroad corporations are men who, while running their trains somewhat with an ej-e to profit, are glad that their profits come in the way of bringing men to meeting. I believe that they have, as we all have, mingled motives, and that their motives is the real belief that good is done by the running of their extra trains.

Of the editor of the Clironcle, the reverend orator added "If the man who wrote that, dies in the spirit in which he now is, I shall never meet him but if he changes and goes to Heaven, the first thing he will say to me will be, fl am sorry for that mean article I In the last number of the Chronicle, the editor devotes two columns to a reply, the sharpest thing in which is the remark, that he does not remember to have met for man1 a statement coming from Mr. Beecher affirming so unequivocally his belief in endless future punishment; as the sentence obovcquoted.i He reasserts his position that therunning of these excursion-traLn9 ja a desecration of the Sabbath: He tells Mr. Beecher that he can kick the editor out of his parlor and out of Heaven but he cannot thrust the fourth commandment out of the decalogue andx he insists that Mr. Beecher, in his course, is "lending the weight of his diminishing influence to the worldly spirit which is fast dissolving the sanctity of the. Lord's The Chronicle also, a from President Smith, of Dartmouth College, thanking the, Chronicle for its stand, and speaking of the Sun day; trains to the Twin Mountain House as "an outrage upon the sen timent of our people, encouraged and defended one who ought to be the champion of better things." Doubt less a majority of the: Christian ministers of New England would concur in the opinion that more, than good is likely to result to cause of morality and religion, from: the running of Sunday excursion, trains, to hear Mr.

Beecheiv or anyone else. Such, at any rate, is pretty plainly thq feeling in Franklin Mass. The superintendent of the Fitchburg road engaged, Mr Beecher, to preach a week from next Sunday, at Lake Pleasant, a popular resort in Western Massachusetts, and announced trains for the occasion. Seventeen i Congregational; ministers of that, county thereupon joined, in a protest against the proceedings; result was a withdrawal by Mr. Beecher roro the arrangement, $1,200 PROFIT OH $100 Invested ia Stock Privileees in WaU St Books and Circulars telling, "How 'tis done," sent free.

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They only ask you to look at their large stock in this i department which has come FRESH FROM MARKET and satisfy yonrsslves-that they do offer it at i CKKATLT KEDrCED PKICES. GROCERIES thev have, which are warranted to suit in every respect. No one can beat their best Japan and Green Teas. Sugar, Raisins, Coffee, Spices, Tobacco, Ac. Their Crockery Shelves are full, and Fine Ware, Glass are, andCutlery of all kinds always on i In Boots Shoes they i can give an outfit for men, women i i and children, as do them good, -after having bought so much of those cheap shoddy i ''V1 goods which have been in the market, to the disgust of everyone.

Please caU and see for With the new building' which has just been fitted up, they carry a Larger Assortment of Heavy Goods, such an Finnr. Corn. Siilt. ime. Nails.

Paints ft Oils. Machine, Meatsfoot, Sperm, Kerosene and Castor Oils, Pork, Lard, Ac. than any other establishment in town. Their Coarse Salt is Purer, Cleaner and Better than ever seen in Morrisville before. So acknowledged by all who have seen it.

Suit vonr Pork with it. Suerm oil is of the best quality for Lamps. They take in exchange for their goons, evervtning a larmur iu eeu, anil pay taan ior rorii, jnu nuu ss BMMJ TIIEST lOO GOOD HOGS, Tor Cash. Down. G.

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EARLE, Kditor. KRMS In advance Other- wUe. fJ.no. Morrisville, Thursday, Sep. 16, 1875 A gentleman who recently visited Bangkok, the capital of Slam was so fortunate as to see a quadruple execu- tion, No.

1 was an incendiary, who had his hand cut off, and directly that member was sent flying through the air, wrapped the stump up in a han-kcrchief, and remained to witness the end of the performances. No. 2 was a murderer, who was ripped open, and though perishing miserably, bit a banana to the last. No. 3 had said something disrespectful to the king, and was condemned to be devoured by wild beasts before he was lowered down into the den, and the crunching and roaring began (no human cry was perceptible amidst that horrid din), he leaned over the rim of the pit and spoke to the creatures, recommending them to sharpen tbeir appe- tites.

No. 4 was a blasphemer, who was tied between two planks and burned to death by jets of flame directed against his temples from two braziers he continued singing what were supposed to be impious songs during his death agonjT. The American Associated Press published th following dispatch, Monday, sent from Montpelier "The Mad River Valley Agricultural Society will hold their iair at Waitsfield, September 22 and 23, and a fine show is anticipated. The trotting will be' a prominent feature. As anything that has made a record of 2 :30 is barred from the race, the brown gelding Earle, of Morrisville, will not be entered, much to the regret of those who like to see good, square trotting." The explanation probably is that Mr.

despairs of beating the time he made at the last Waits-field races. Free Press. Gelding," eh You just go to the places we have sojourned in the last twenty years- Irasburgh, Barton, Bradford, St. Johnsbury. Call us a gelding" then, and we ill sue you for libel.

Speaking of our record at Waitsfield, it was fast, but hardly up to the time" made by our brother Benedict out of the Burlington Post Office, and which has so disgruntled him towards his fellow citizens. The Bublisgton Sentinel. Is the only Democratic Daily newspaper in the State of Vermont. Its aim is, to be lively and newsy, and give full attention to State and local matters It will advocate to the best of its ability the principles of the Democra tic Party, and it is the intention of the proprietor during the coming State and. Presidential campaigns, by the employment of able political writers, to make it worthy the patronage of the Democracy of Vermont and Northern New York.

Terms $2.00 for three months $8.00 per i'Prders should be addressed to A. N. Mekciia.nt, Burlington, Vt. Fire. And now it is Middlebury that suffers from fire.

One broke out in the paper mill last Friday, while the workmen were at dinner, and was communicated to stores and other buildings until three acres were burned over, involving a loss of $175,000, on which there is an insurance of $82,000." As Middlebury is one of the dead-stand-still towns of Vermont, we think it not very probable that she will recover from her loss as soon as some others Montpelier for instance. There was a fire at Fair Haven also, Friday night, the loss being from $25,000 to $30,000 insured for 000. -Where next? Weeck. rThe steam barge Equl nox 'foundered Friday night, off Point Ausable, in Lake Michigan. She was terribly overloaded, among other things having on board six thousand barrels of salt.

She was called worth from $25,000 to $30,000. All was lost, including over twenty hands. ATT. THE NEWS. Vermont.

Albert Campbell of Weston, killed a 400 lb; bear last week with a club Earnet is building a new town house, 40 by 60, on the site of the old one. Rev, II. Eastman of Jacksonville has a metallic sun dial which is 113 years old. There are about one hundred and twenty students at the Vermont Meth odist College. Chief Justice Waite and family are guests of the Brooks House at Brat- tlcboro for a few weeks.

Mr. John Whittemore, of St. Albans, recently had forty sheep killed by dogs. Gen. Henry II.

Baxter of Rutland, has harvested 210 tons of hay in the last month, and not a drop of rain on it 1 Potatoes in Rutland County, which promised to be a fine crop have rusted badly the last few da-s. Some fields prove an entire failure. Joseph McKenzie of Woodstock had 14 sheep, killed recently by James Ilagarty's dog. With revolver in his pocket he tracked the miserable cur home and shot him dead in his own er's barn. Henry Damon, of Rutland, 63 years old, who was sentenced to the State Prison at Windsor, for life, in 1839 for killing his killed by fall ing down stairs in the prison, a' few days ago.

J. The St. Johnsbury- Caledonian re ports that Nathan Miner, a young man who hfl9 been employed in the station at Wells River, has come np missing. together with about $200 of railroad money and $60 of express money At the South Church, thirteen Were admitted to membership last Sunday seven were admitted at the North Church and twenty at the Methodist Church, thred of the latter being baptized by immersion. Caledo-man.

The proprietor of a rum shop in Rutland went away a few days ago, the officers would be justified, we think, in using severe measures with the ringleaders. We speak for the respectable portion of our town when we say that such scenes must be stopped at any rate. Friday afternoon, Mr. Horace E. Stoughton, lost freight agent of the Central Vermont Railroad, came to a voilent and terrible death under the following circumsiances He took the freight train at Montpelier June tipn to go to Waterbury, fell from the train about the time thev left the bridge over the Winooski, just this side of Montpelier Junction, and was run over by the cars.

One leg and ane arm were cut off, his head was frightfully mangled, and he was oth erwise injured. Death must have been almost instantaneous. Mr. Stoughton was formerly station agent at South Royalton, but for a number of years past has been employed by the Central Vermont to look up lost freight He leaves a wife and two children. It should be said that accounts- disagree as to whether he fell from the train or was knocked off by the bridge while standing on a car Miscellaneous.

California was twenty-five years old as a State on Thursdaj'. Geergia's debt is $8,105,000 and she owns property worth about Again the attempt is being made to stop pool selling on horse races in Buffalo. The fortress of Coblentz will be destroyed during the siege manoeuvres of the Prussian army next summer. A corn stalk raised in the jail garden, in Plattsburgh village, measures thirteen feet in height. Continuous and heavy rains are still reported in different parts of the country.

In Great Britain, only three print ers are authorized to publish the English Bible. The election expenses of a present memberof the British Parliament were $72,000, or about $10 for every vote he received. In Great Britain there are 000,000 invested in the production of alcohol. The butchers of Montreal are to have a newspaper with $50,000 capital. Mr.

Tuttle, the organist of Westminister Abbey, has retired, after a service of 56 j'ears. There is a pauper in Boston who is said to be able to solicit alms in ten different languages. Wah Lee, a Chinaman, who has laundries in several of our cities, derives ah income of $1,700 per week. New York has moved into her new eight million dollar Post Office, and likes the change amazingly." The last Artie expedition, that fitted out from England, has been heard from, and the news is of much During the past year, James Wylie, the champion draught player of the world, has won 7,944 games, lost 32 and drawn 494. An alligator, weighing 100 pounds, and having teeth an inch long, was caught at Hannibal, Mo.

He fought desperately for hi3 freedom. Spain is determined to send still more troops to Cuba. Some day or another, she will become thoroughly sick of it. The BlackwelFs Island prison keep ers have managed by their cruelty to murder one of the convicts in the prison. A Spanish vessel, shipping materi al of war at Barcelona, suddenly ex? ploded and Fifty persons were The Mikado has just invested in a state carriage valued at $3,000, four horses worth $25,000, and harnesses costing $1500.

Four communists, having been tried and convicted, were Thursdaj' senten ced to death in Paris. The national council, of Switzerland nas passed a resolution lor tne sup pression of convents and sisters of charity. One hundred and seven million gallons of water are daily consumed in New York, '-i The population of Boston has at least been ascertained to foot up a few over 341,000. Pretty well. The autumn months are spoken of in advance by the physicians as cer tain to be uncommonly health'.

The burglars are getting shot, clubbed, and carried off on stretchers more than they ever were before. But the class dosu't appear to thin out much. President Ralston, of the Bank of California, kept seventy-five horses in his stables. He used to ride twen tv mues to and irora nis business in San Francisco, and beat the trains. Mr.

McGregor of San Francisco bought a trotting horse, Abe Edging- ton, for $15,000, and sold him only a few hours afterward to Gov. Stanford for $20,000. The South Australian wheat re port shows that there will be 204,000 tons of surplus wheat. About 45,000 tons have already exported and the balance is ready for shipment. There is a horse at Jackson, tnat is mty-one years old.

lie was foaled in Clarence, Erie county, In 1824, and his name is' Romp. He hasn't a single puff or wingall on his legs and does a good day's work every day. A lobster was recently shipped from Eastport, which weighed nineteen pounds, and measured three feet and five inches long and eight in ches across. The failure of the Bank af Califor nia is total and no attempt will be made to resume The liabilities are more' than $14,000,000, and it is doubtful if more than of assets can be realized, Squirrels in California are very de structive to One was killed We offer as usual in Shelf Goods, bargains in Prints, Ginghams, Alpacas, Brilliantines, Mohairs, Pongee Silks, Jap Stripes Reversibles, and a hundred other varities of ever mav be Mr. Beecher's views of the proprieties and moralities of the case and he has said they are not settled he does not intend to array himself against the prevailing senti-m of Christian ministers and Christian people in this matter, and in this, of course, he is wise.

We presume that when he gives his calm and deliberate judgment to the question, he will himself reach the conclusion that the sanctity and good influence of the Sabbath is not likely to be promoted by Siyiday railroad excursions. Free Press. At the State Prison. The editor of the Argus and Patriot has peen on a visit to the Vermont State prison and notices some of its inmates thus: Sitting at a bench, under close scrutiny of a- shop-keeper, was Horace R. Plumley, 43 years old, of Shrewsbury, sentenced at Rutland to be hung for mnrderAEliLj' 1869, which sen tence was afterwards commuteTTnra" life-sentence.

At the same time, his father, Ziba Plumley, a native of New Hampshire, and his brother, TV Z. Plumley, of got life-sentences for manslaughter, they all coming to prison bound together. Old Ziba dropped dead suddenly, three weeks ago, while emplo3-ed outside the walls, from heart complaint it is supposed, aged over 70. The younger son has been pardoned, after serving his six years. Horace, who alone remains, is represented to be a morose, and at times untractable convict.

He did not appear to take to work with any average zeal, probably thinking that it is of no use to hurry up much on a life sentence. Paul M. Burke, 44 years old, sen tenced for life, from Manchester, June 24, 18G8, for an assault with intent to kill his wife at Bennington. With a seven-shooter he discharged that number of pistol balls at her, every one of which lodged in her body. then coolly seated and suffered himself to be arrested, making no at tempt to escape.

Neither of the shots proved fatal. His wife is still "alive and kicking reioicins, doubtless. that Paul is in the safe keeping of the State for an indefinite period, and until the old Reaper cuts his mortal coil. In the mean time, he employs him self shooting nails into heel-taps, by machinery, instead of bullets from a seven-shooter. He is said to be a hard "cuss" to manage, obdurate and After sentencing, the Judge who committed him is said to have held him in such mortal fear that he went away ten miles from Manchester to sleep the same night, fearing that Paul might break jail and try a little seven-shooting on his judicial out of revenge.

Among the younger convicts reported by Mr. Lull as one of the best behaved, is James Peter Allen, sent down from the Orange County Court, held at Chelsea last for barn-burning at Randolph, whose case was reported for the Argus and Patriot. We always thought James' employer, from the evidence then elicited, tried to be over-sharp with him in; money matters. James has a quick temper. and hence he got into trouble in trying to revenge himself.

When Sheriff "Sole" Berry took Allen to irison, he cautioned Keeper Lull to look sharp for him. The latter had a little talk with James, in which he depicted vividly the "lights and shadows' of a convict's life, and the advantages of being tractable, and obeying prison discipline. 'James seems to have profited by this interview. He! has uniformly done his "level best," and behpres very While we were in sight, there was not another man in the shop who appeared to apply himself to his task with greater zeal and diligence. Charles H.

Potter was sentenced for ten years, at Montpelier," November 11, 18C9, having been convicted of having burglars' tools in his possession. His wife, Adelia S. Potter, was at the same time sentenced on a similar charge for seven years. She died in prison, December 15, 1872, after two weeks illness, of spotted fever. The real offence of these par ties was alleged complicity in the murder of an old lady named Gris-wold, a relative who lived with them at Williston.

Potter is said to have hired a couple of New York roughs to get her out of the way, she being a care to them', and possessed of sev eral thousand dollars in property, to which Mrs. Potter was sole heir. The ronshs came and murdered the old lady, Who fought them desperately Afterwards they returned to settle with Potter, and there was some trou ble about getting their pay. On this visit," one was arrested by Sheriff Flanagan, at Winooski Falls tried at convicted, an finally hung in prison, after one year's soli tary confinement, in the spring of 18G9. This man made a confession, in which he accused Potter of filing a catch on the door-latch, by which the murderer was enabled to get into the house and obtain access to Mrs.

Griswold's npartmenti Potter and wife proved an alibi in the murder case, but were subsequently arrested and 'convicted for having burglars' tools In their possession. A test was recently made, of the buoyant power of a leaf of the water lily known as the Victoria liegia, in the Botanic Garden at Ghent. Bricks were heaped over its entire area," and before it was submerged in the water a weight of 761 pounds was floated. Au abandoned woman named Can ada Era, died, as was supposed in jail, at Bay City, last Thursday- Her friends had body disinterred Saturday, when it was found that the corpse had turned on one one hand was clenched, the hair was over the face, and, there was every indication that she had been buried DRESS -Also Boots, HEADY MADE CLOTHING in latest styles, and FAIR PRICES. Crockery and Glass Ware in great assortmen, and Canned Goods Enough to Supply the County for a Year, at Wholesale nd Retail.

Table and Pocket Cutlery a large stock. Heavy stock of Wall Paper and Carpets at LOW PRICES Groceries of all kinds and best brands of Flour. A fine line of Woolen Goods, Table Linen, Crash for Towels, and SMALL WARES OF ALL KINDS. Dti not neglect to call and look over our Heavy Stock of Furniture, including every variety of Chamber Suits, Looking Glasses, Parlor Sets, Yankee Notions,.