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Kecognizing nounce a This Fertilizer is so well and favorably known the world over, it is here unnecessary to say more than that the reputation which it has long enjoyed as standing alone and unXLd among Commercial Manures, will be fully maintained. The terms on which this Fertilizer are this season offered are far more favorable than ever before. FOR SALE BY GK N. Winchester, Corinth; Ohas. McArthur, Bast Corinth; Standlick & Locke, Pike Hill; Meaker & Tubbs, West Topsham; O. A. Dodge, Waits River; J. J. Rennie, Bradford Depot; ,N. B. Tewksbury, Newbury Centre; W. H. Silsby, Newbury; C. A. Butler, So. Newbury; J. K. Carr, Orford, N. H.; C. H. Adams, Fairlee; W. H. Gannett, Piermont, N. H., Andrew Sargent, Calcutta, and HENRY A. WIWSHIP, Bradford, Vt Sledge-Dog;,! on Unsafe Ice. Exchange Sledge-dogs need no urging with the whip when their instinct informs 'them that they are on unsafe ice. They flee onwards at the speed which alone can save and, as was experienced -repeatedly by Dr. Hayes, instead of keeping the sledges together in a com pact body, they diverge and separate, so as to distribute the weight over as large an area as possible. When they begin to find themsolves menaced by this dan ger, and the prospect ahead appears to them unusually threatening, "they trem ble, lie down, and refuse to go further." Most arctic explorers tell of hair breadth escapes from treacherous ice, when they have owed their preservation to the Bagacity of their dogs. Wrangell relates an incident of this nature: "Our first care was to examino the possibility of further advance; this, iiowever, could only be done by trust ing to the thin ice of tho channel, and opinions were divided , as to the possi bility of its bearing us. I determined to try; and tho adventure succeeded better than could have been hoped for, owing to the incredibly swift running of the dogs, to which doubtless we owed ' our safety. Tho leading sledge actually broke through in several places; but the dogs, warned, no doubt, of the danger by their natural instinct, and - animated by the incessant cries and en co'nngement of the driver, flew so rapidly over the yielding ice, that we reached the other side without actually sinking through. The other three sledges followed with similar rapidity 'ach across such part as appeared to be the most promising; and we were now all assembled in safety on the north side of the fissure. It was necessary to bait for a time, to allow the dogs to recover a little from their extraordinary exer tions." Japanese Fan Painter. . Farm and Fireside. The fan painters of Japan are an es pecial separate guild, as distinct from artists in other branches as with us the scene painter is from the portrait painter. The unknowing American looking at a Japanese fan sees nothing in it but upon one side a grotesque representation of the tea-box order, and upon the other a few crude splashes of ink. But to the citizen of Tokio or Osaka, each fan car ries a special signification a story,, or part of a story; an allusion, a satire, or a .suggestive idea. Bad Days for Fishermen. IF. H. Stauffer in The Current. Among fishermen, Candlemas Day, the first Monday in April ("the day on which Cain was born and Abel was njlain"), the second Monday in August "the day on which Sodom and Gomorrah "were destroyed"), and Dec. 31 ("the day urxm which Judas was born";, were regarded as evil days. A California Vampire. A vampire bat was recently captured at Lewis station, II Dorado county, CaL, the wings of which when extended measured twenty -ono and a half inches. It had a tail two inches in length, like a rat's. A Buddhist temple has been opened in Paris, and the priest comes from Ceylon to enlighten the French. the low prices Sweeping Reduction in the Before you buy any Fertilizers, see an agent of BRADLEY'S X. L., and get prices and terms. Then you will want no other ! ! Life Insurance of the Wealthy. Chicago Journal. William H. Vanderbilt is insured foi 1620,000. Every policy ho owns has been issued within the last five years Jay Gould made up his mind a dozen years ago to insure his life, and year by year has added to the amount until he can produce policies for $400,000, which be calls his emergency fund. Pierrt Lorillard has $255,000 on his life. F. W Devoe, the .New York paint manu facturer, carries policies for $250,000, Cyrus W. Field's life is insured foi $240,000. Alexander Barrett and F. B. Roberta, of New York, each have $200, 00 J on their lives. John Gibbs, the spool-silk man, has policies for $170, 000, Charles Pratt and F. B. Hyde, of Ne w York, are each insured tor $165,000, Uncle Kufus Hatch is insured for $76, 000. Judge Fullerton for $75,000, and H. B. Clamn for 125,000. It is said that from a monetary point oi view the i ale papers are tbe most successful college journals publishod. Chicago Herald: I'ity the poor. B don't stop there. Your simple taa't worth 2 cents an acre. A Fish Story. tCliarles Dudley Warner in Harper's. Edgar Phillips, who was a jovial sou!, settled many years ago near the head waters of the Susquehanna. He was, in tact, a rresbyterian aominic. He was full of humor, and ready with his re partee on all occasions. Jack Kiekitt, a quasi parishioner, who was more punct ual at the river than the church, pre sented the elder one Monday morning with a fine string of pickerel. Elder Phillips thanked him graciously for the gift. "But elder," suggested Jack, still retaining the fish, "those fish were caught yesterday" (Sunday). "Perhaps yer conscience won't let ye eat 'em. "Jack," replied the elder, stretching out his hand toward the string, "there's one thing I know; the pickerel were not to blame" Skilled phjmlcian Indome Ad. amson'a uotanic uaisf.m as tue Barest ana most effectual remedv for coughs and colds ever discovered. Bold bv druggists and deal ers at 35 una To cents. VERMONT NEWS. H. L. Doyle, grocer, West Burke, has gone into insolvency. It is generally thought that Judge Bowman will be St. Johnsbury's next postmaster. J. G. HilUrd, jeweler, Burlington, is trying to setttle with his creditors at 50 cents on the dollar. John Eastman, 88 years old, fell ai.d broke his leg Tuesday at his house in Grafton, and will die. A fire in the sawmill of H. M. Bruce at Stowe Forks caused a loss of $5500 ; insurance $775. The country from Bennington to Arlington flooded with water and con siderable damage being done. James Parrott of Milton is the father of twenty-five children. No twins among them, either. ruling for every Between December 9th aod 25th, Antoine Bell of Roxbury buried six children, all dying of diphtheria. Waterbury has voted to abolish teaching music in the public schools, the basis of objection being the high taxation. The Burlington Democrats are talk-, ing of starting a new paper, there be ing no Democratic paper in Chittenden county. George A. Tuttle, a leading citizen, and founder oi the Rutland Daily Herald, died at Rutland, January 4, aged 60 years. Diphtheria is still raging in Morgan Vermont's contribution to the Gar field monument fund to December 15, amounted to $48.50. ft is said that the Stv Johnsbury Caledonian is for sale. There is con erable talk of starting another Repub lican paper at Lyndonville or St Johnsbury. A woman who is still on her travels and calling herself Delia Nelson, has been swindling hotels and boarding bouse keepers at lirattlenoro, North field, Mass., and other places. The heavy rain Snnday night and Monday caused tbe ice in Sleeper's river to break up, which carried away a bridge on the St. Johnsbury and Lake Champlain railroad in St. Johns bury. A Burlington dentist-fireman is one customer short, lie got a woman s mouth all fixed up with tooth filling apparatus recently and then ran off to answer a fire-alarm. leaving the woman unable to speak for half an hour. Chelsea proposes to have a railway built there as soon as possible. A narrow-gauge road running to South Royal ton, 13 miles away, is talked of, but the majority of the people favor the offer of some sum of money to the Central Vermont road to ouild from Barre to Chelsea. Some fox hunters on Thursday started a deer on Sutton Mountain and drove him into a small woods near Richford. Friday morning several men went out to start him. The dogs ran him for a short time when he was shot by Kit Hazzard within sight of the railroad Btation. Joe Smith, tbe founder of Mormon- ism in utau, was avermonier; so was Brigham Young ; and the cele brated John H. Noyes, father of the defunct Oneida community, was also a Vermonter. all being born in or near the town of Putney. Noyes was a graduate of Dartmouth, and now finds it congenial to live on the Canadian side at Niagara Falls. So it wiU be seen that while Mormonism had its leaders from Vermont, to-day its great opponent Senator Edmunds is also a Vermonter. thing it is with much pleasure that I an Tbe new officers of tbe State teachers association are : President, B. F. Brlgbam of Brattleboro ; secretary, J M. Hitt of Northfielfl ; treasurer, John Pickard of Ludlow; executive committe, 8. W. Landon of Burling ton C. C. Gove of New Haven ; E. A. Bishop of Montpeher. A third soap-stone quarry has been discovered upon George L. Fletcuer's lands in Chester in a straight Hue with the soap stone quarries in Perkinsville, the Davis quarry in Chester, near Grafton line, the imarry in Grafton and the one in Townshend. Mr. L. L. Lawrence formerly a leading lawyer in Burlington, died last Thursday night at Westford. He was admitted to the bar in 1867, having studied with aenator Edmunds There are fifty-two pupils in the de partmeut of instrumental music at the Vermont Methodist Seminary this term. There are eighty-three in the vocal class. It is reported that parties are mak ing negotiations for tbe purchase of the Index and tbe Caledonian, the two St. Johnsbury papers, which will be merged in one and run as a republi can paper. If the project Succeeds, a goou tapar whi oe started, it is probable the Index will be bought if the Caledonian cannot be, and that the paper will change owners very soon. A tramp-, who has been at work at Spauldins's mill near Roxburv for a few days, left Tuesday morning, tak ing wun aim some property belong ing to his fellow-work men. Deputy Sheriff E. W. Howe of Northfleld was notified by telephone, and, together with Constable Wright ot tbatlown, has been in pursuit of the criminal. At last accounts be had taken to the hills. At a meetins of' the Merchants National Bank held at St. Johnsburv Tuesday, William E. Peck of Pas sumpsic was elected President and II . E. Folsom of Lyndonville, Vice Presi dent. The board consists of seven in. stead of nine Directors, as heretofore. The bank shrunk its surplus fund $40, 000 the past Year and nasaed a Rpmi- annual dividend, but starts off free from bad debts, with $7000 surplus. SCOTT'S EMULSION OF POKE Cod Liver Oil with Hypophospliites, In Tnninlont r'nncuinntmn fleeing; tO DORgP.Mll rpmo.Hul nnnrofa fit rrrcat efficacy. It heals the Irritation of the throat and lunirs. Make mm iil.wwl ami forfifUa the system agaiust further Inroads by disease. NEW HAMPSHIRE NEWS. In view of the' recent large de crease in the number of students in Dartmouth medical college n effort will be made to remove that institu tion to Concord. Price of Joseph McGee, grocer. Lancaster, has failed. An ice rink has been constructed at Lancaster. S. L. Woodbury, jeweler at Clare mont, has bee l attached. There were ten deaths in Kensiug ton, in 1884. Average age 62.5. Portsmouth has two daily and two weekly republican papers. A teachers' institute for Sullivan county will begin ia Claremont, Jan uary 13. Rev. J. Q. Bittinger of Haverhill is preparing a history of that town for publication. J. M. Tebbetts, milliner, Ports mouth, owes $4000. and has actual assets of about $2000. The "shortage" iu the accounts of ex City Clerk Doolittle of Keene, is known to be over $600. The Portsmouth Brewing company recently declared a dividend of 20 per cent., with prospects of another soon. Henniker has a new weekly news paper, edited by Col. L. W. Cogswell, historian ot the town and veteran of ficer. The New Hampshire cattle company at Concord Tuesday, voted to increase its capital stock from $130,000 to $300,000. The citizens of Lancaster have by ballot, by a large majority, expressed the wish that their present postmaster, Charles E. Allen, shall bae a third term. Emily, wife of ex-Gov. Fredeiick Smyth, died Wednesday morning, at her home in Manchester. She was one of tbe foremost women in New Hampshire, and was beloved and honored by all. William Wellington, who r.ied late ly in Walpole at the age of 83, was the most muscular man in the town. He onco Jug 140 bushels of potatoes in one day and carried them into bia cellar. On another occasion he laid 23 rods ot stone wall in a day. Dr. H. W. Greeley, who has been ten ra nths tbe city editor of the Evening News, published in Norfolk, Va., died of apoplexy on Dec. 27. He was a young man of much ability, and during his brief residence in Nor folk has made many fiiends. He be longed in Nashua. l In Manchester in 1884 the City Clerk issued 439 intentions of mar riage. The largest number to any month was September, 50, and the smallest in tbe Lenten season of April, 26V Iho oldest male was 74 and the youngest 17; the oldest female 64 and the youngest 15. The greatest dis parity in age of any couple was 31 years. Forty-five couples were of even age, and in 89 the females were older than the males. Charles Thatcher, a grocer of Ls conia, doe not allow his son John, aged 20 years, to go out doors or even to be a en by auv oue. He has never been to school and has never been seen on the street since he was about 8 years old. HU lather claims that he. has fits. Tho Selectmen ofCampton, who have been ordered by the Court to build n bridge at Livcrmore Falls, have about decided to build a deck iron bridge, the present abutments be kg sufficient for that style of bridge, while entirely now abutments will be necessary if a eovired wooden bridge is built. Under the circumstances the expense will be about equal. Considerable opposition to a covered bridge is manifested. Ebenezer Roberts, aged 65 years, a bachelor, who lives alone on a small farm in Rollinsfoid, was found Tues day forenoon, by a neighbor, lying in bed. nnconcious, his face completely disfigured, and covered with blood. The neighbor, who beleived it an at tempted murder, gave an alarm, bring ing others to the scene. Roberts face was washed, and one eye was found to be protruding from its socket, and he also had other ugly wounds. Up on searching the premises, a broken board was found in the floor of a hay loft in the barn, and it is now believed that Roberts tell through to the barn floor while after hay for his cattle. Roberts had not been seen for four days, and the uccideut is thought to have occurred several days ago. The injuries will prob ibly prove fatal. MOTES Absolutely Pure. This powder never Tarict. A mrvet ot purity trentlh and wholenomeneM, Mom eeonomlol k.. Ti.. kinds, and cmiii oI be toldiln competition wllh the multitude of or test, short ti osnf. ROYAL BAKISO'I'OWDKR to, 10 Will it. V Y. . .