davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1872-03-01
EEED!. FEED! FEED /:
l,i.soiution Of t'oparsnersli,,.
Notice /!

sTNO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: ALL
l. personsare hereby warned mot 10 give
credit to any person in my name without
an order from my hand.
J0UN ROBlSETT.
Lebanon, January "a, lS'2-2lw4
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1872-03-01
Mrs. Rridgef,rn.er

WISHES TO INFORM THE LADIES
w OF Albany and vicinity that Miss N.
N. JOHNSON has taken charge Of her
Millinery and DreSs-SEakIllg store.
She is isprcpared tOdO all kinds of work
i'll that line.
E-CAI.A AND SEE. -
Albany, iJnt. -, ls7s-sOtt
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-11-26

PERILs OF INFANcy.-It is not hard to
destroy the life of child. The vanity.
or importance of a fond mother often
causes the calamity she would have given
her life to avert. For instance, what an
army of children have been destroyed by
the absurd custome Of exposing their
necks and arms And yet this fashion
is tolerated because it is $50 pretty"
To illustrate the danger to which child
is thus exposed, 1t is only necessary to
say that many children have been cured
OF habtual cough and hoarsencss by keep
ing their arms and hands warm. Another
fruitful source of danger to the young, is
found in the foolish indulgence which will
not withhold from them colored candies.
An English chemist recently made an
examination into the quality of these
sweetmeats, and found that out af thirty
FIVE different kinds, obtain do from twenty
different dealers, ,twenty-eight were color
ed with poisonous material. The poison
must commonly used is some preparation
of lead. The diseases caused by lead
poison are amoung the most terrible which
are produced by anything. This expert
ment will serve as warning to parents
to practice greater care in providing
sweetmeats for their children. If they
are to be used at all, it is safer to make
them at home. Then you know what
they contain.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-11-26

"DEAD LETTERs"-Two MILLION Doi-
LARS RIsKED IN MrsDIREcTED AND UN-
AVAILABLE ENvELorEs.-The aggregate
carelessness Of the American people is
strikingly shown by statistical statement
in the Postal Record of the number Of
letters sent to the Dead Letter Office
during a single year nearly three millions
of letters were received at that Office, Of
which sixty-eight could not he forwarded,
for the reason that the county and State
we're left off the direction four hundred
thousand were unstamped, and more than
three thousand were mailed with no dir
ection at all.
Some Of the unstamped letters may
have lost their miniature portraits OF A.
merican statesmen through the non-adhes-
iveness Of Uncle Sans mucilage, but how
three thousand persons could mail simply
blank envelopes passes our comprehension.
1t must be that they were bound to write
letter to some disagreeable acquaintance,
aud thus delivered themselves from the
burden Of lowing letter. without the
corresponding obligation of receiving an
answer, or else the. American people are
wonderfully careless.
Tnc strangest part of this statement is,
that there were found in these letters,
mouey orders to the amount Of two mill
lion, OF dollars. That tired lover or
cold friend should write tender opis-
tie and trust it to the hands Of a postoff-
ice clerk, in an envelope innocent Of even
single line Of direction, is perhaps pos
sible; but that old John Cashdown should
send Of his letters to his business cores
pondents in the same fashion, is hard TO
be believed.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-11-26

A GENTLE REBUKE.-"The Rev. Mr..
Martin of Bellington, Maine, man OF
decided talent and worth, was also somc-
what noted for his eccentricity and hum
er, which occasionally showed themselves
in his public minStrations. In the time
of the great land speculations in Maine,
several of his parishioners and church
members were carried away with the
mania of buying lumber tracts. Mr..
Martin resisted this specializing spirit,
and more than once rebuked it in his
prayer.meeting, he noticed that several
Of his prominent men were absent, aud
he knew at once they were going to Ban
gor to attend great land sale, After
hymn had been sung, he said Broth
er Allen, will you lead us in prayer p
"Some one spoke up and said, He has
gone to Bangor "Mr. Martin, not dis
concerted in the least, called out, 'Dea-
con Barber. will you lead us in prayer?'
He has gone to Bangor" another an
swered. again the pastor asked,
"'Squire Clark, will you prayF The
Squire has gone to Bangor" said some
one and Mr.. Martin being now satisfied,
looked around upon the little assembly
as if the same reply would probably be
be given to every similar request, and
very quietly said, The choir will sing
BANGOR, and then we will dismiss the
meetingr"
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-11-26

Do PEOPLE READ ADVERTISEMENTS -
There is now and then person so stu
pid as to believe that advertisements on
newspapers are not generally read, and
that money expended in adververtising
is practically wasted. Even such will
colcede that if hundred men of polite
address, of fluent speech and ready wit
were to call daily or weekly each upon
an hundred others and get the ears Of
each long enough to say Jno. Smith or
Jones, or Thompson at such place, has
such and such goods at such prices. or
would sell a farm, or house and lot, OF
had lost Il horse or pocket-book, or would
loan money, etc.,-we say such men will
concede, that the services Of this one
hundred men would be of great value tc
Smith or Jones, and in some measure ad
vantageous to pay to whom this state
ment was made. The hundred men could
not be employed to 20 from door to dool
and make this statement to ten thousand
people at less than the cost of several
hundred dollars each trip. All this i,
done by the newspapers at a cost of few
shillings, or few dollars at most, ant
the visits are made week after week. day
after day. The messenger who travels
addresses himself to the ear aud take
the party addressed, when he may hav,
his thoughts absorbed in business or othe
matters; +; but the newspaper reaches the
party sought through the eye, when thu
reader has his thoughts solely fixed upor
the paper before him.
But those who effect to believe tha
there IS little use in advertising, urge a
an objection that advertisements are no
+ read. They can be easily convinced o
their error in this respect by making in
quiry. Let them insert an advertisement
Offering to purchase some article rhat i
: tolerably plenty in the market, and the,
, will be flooded with offers to sell beior
} the ink OF the advertisement is dry. AT
cuterprising weekly that has circulation
. of one, two or three thousand copies, i
) ia position to do the village merchan
: great good, aud for which, as rule, tn
publisher does not get one-fourth of wha
be justly deserves. In its sphere tn,
weekly is Of quite as much service to th
advertiser as the daily, and oftentimes
enjoys the privilege Of being the exclu
, sive family visitor, privilege the dali
seldom Union and Advertiser
Rochester, N. Y.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-11-26

EVANS DENIES THAT He MURDERED
THE LOWERING GrRL.-Franklin B Evans
the man charged with an outrage upon
and murder Of Georgiana Lowering at
Northwood,i is man weighing l35 pounds,
5 feet 8 inches in height, slim. gray hair,
and has very large, full grayish whiskers.
He has rather strange eye, a little glar
ing, and set well back In his head
quite retreatipg and narrow forehead
rather dried-up form a man Of small
intellect, garruous and snofensive in his
appearance and rather whining and
cringing in in his manner than otherwise.
He said: 81 am not guilty of the murder,
but knew where the body was put. When
| got to the woods he had killed her
said that he had outraged her and then
checked her to death. He wanted me
to help him conceal the body, and said
he would give me a handsome present.
We then luggcd her half or three qua
ters of a mile. 1 took her by the head
and he by the feet and legs. l do not
want to tell now who the person was that
killed her. He got me two or three days
before,to get her into the woods for him.
His language is unfit for publication.
1t was for corrupt purposes.) He showed
me piece OF her body, gave it to me,
and l went to the road and hid it. |
should not have told the sheriff where the
body was, if he had not solemnly promis-
cd me my liberty. He then declined to
talk further, stating that he had nothing
more to say at that time.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-11-26
The Bells.
ny MRS. OLIVE y. =. THOMAS.

ny MRS. OLIVE T.. L. THOMAS.
Chime, church bells, chime, Thy winning cal
Hath power tho rowing feet to thrall,
To bidc meath rising psalm and prayer
Hearts leave their weary weight of care,
With Him who will each burden bear
Chime, church bells, chime
Ring, wedding bcllsl The flowers are sweet
That wait to kiss the young brides feet
Hope, like tho morning, fair and high,
Watts many golden promise by,
While love records her mystic tie
Ring, wedding bclls'
Toll, funeral bells, oh sadly toll
For departed, starry soul!
stern anguish is tho sovereign now,
Deaths frost is on an idols brow,
Once more, DER the calm face we bow,
Toll solemn bell
Sound, vespers, long. The dying day
Like loved spirit glidcs away,
Her smile lies on the waiting lands.
Till with the past encrownod she stands,
Steal through the twilight's purple bands,
Soft vespers steal
Rise, Christmas lay, Tho star of fire
The Iowly brings to Eden higher,
While listening nations meet to sing
The glory Of Judea's king.
Oh, joyfully your echoes fling.
Wild Christmas bells
The new year makes welcome tone
For hope and promise all its own.
Ring gaily in the hour Of mirth
Till dear delight cnfolds the earth,
And untold melodies have birth.
Ring, new year bells,
Spring Side Cottage, Middlebury, Vt.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-11-26

A CURE FOR WnIsKEY DRINKERs.-
A correspondent Of an exchange, who
signs himself "One who has reformed"
sends the following captain Hall was
the commander Of the Great Eastern
steamship. lie had fallen into such hab-
its OF drunkenness that his most earnest
efforts to reclaim himself proved unavail'
ing At length he sought the advice Of
an eminent physician who gave him a
prescription which he followed faithfully
for seven mouths. At the end of that
time he had lost all desire for liquor, al
though he had many times been led. cap
tive oy most debasing appetite. The
prescription. which he afterwards pub
lished, and by which so many other drunk
ards have been assisted to reform, is al
follows Sulphate of iron, 3 grains; mag
nesia. 10 grains peppermint water, |
drachns spirits Of nitmeg, drachm
twice day.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-11-26
A REMARKABLE RIvER.-The Platte, i

A REMARKABLE RIvER.-The Piatte,is
remarkable river. On our way through
Nebraska says correspondent, We fol-
lowed it for nearly three hundred miles.
flowing there nearly east, and now having
crossed the first range of the Rocky
Mountains, We find it again in the Lara
mie Plains, hundreds Of miles nearer its
source, here flowing nearly north, whence
after long distance, it swings around,
passes through gap in the Black Hills,
and makes its way eastward and south
eastward through Wyoming and into the
western part of Nebraska, where it is
joined by the South Fork, and is thence
forward the main Platte River mentioned
above. Some idea of the size of the ter
ritory we have in this region may be
formed by the fact that the Platte and
its tributaries drain region of country
larger than all New England, New York
and Pennsylvania.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-11-26
The Lay of the Lost Traveller.

BY Z. J. +.
With saddened face and tattered hat
And eye that told of blank despair,
On wooden bench traveller sat
Cursing the fate that brought him there;
Nine hours, ho cried, we've fingered here
With thoughts intont on distant homes.
Waiting for that delusive train
That, always coming, never comes,
Till weary and worn cold and forlorn,
And paralyzed in every function,
| hope in hell
Their souls may dwell
Who first invented Essex Junction.
I've Travelled north, I've travelled south,
o Ter mountain, forest, prairie, river,
In oceans storm, in deserts drought,
Through railroad smash and steamboa. shiver,
While hope and courage faltered not,
Nor strength gave way, nor faith was shaken,
Until / reached this dismal spot,
OF man accurscd, of God forsaken,
Where strange new forms of misery
Assail mems lives without compunction,
And l hope in hell
Their souls may dwell
Who first invented Essex Junction.
Hero Boston waits for Ogdensburgh,
And 0gdensburgh for Montreal,
And late New York long tarrieth,
And Saratoga hindereth all;
From far Atlantic wave swept bays
To Mssssippi's turbid tide.
All accidents, mistakes, delays
Are gathered here and multiplied;
Oh! fellow man! avoid this place
As you would plague of Peter Funkshun;
And hope in hell
Their souls may dwell
Who first invented Essex Junction.
And long aud late, conductors tell
Of trains remote, shipwrecked, and slow,
Till even the engines dismal bell
Takes up the cry, No GO! No co.
Oh! lot me from this hole depart
By any route, so tits long one,
He cried, and with a sudden start .
He jumped on board train, (the wrong one),
And as he vanished in the smoke,
He shouted with redoubled JUNCTION,
l hope in hell
Their souls may dwell
Whe first inyented Essex Junction.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-11-26
Low water in Lake Honatcong, N. j

Low water in Lake Honatcong. N. j.,
has uncovered quantity Of Indian an
tiquities, among which the Morris Repub-
lican says is stone tomahawk of beauti-
full finish. 1t is of the hardest stone, and
has around the head groove, neatly cut,
in which the thongs were placed which
boand on the handle. Numerous pieces
of pottery have been discovered, many Of
them marked and ornamented in a way
that shows no small pretensions to taste
and design. and nearly all in good state
Of preservation. Among these there is
what is evidently pipe-st.m, also made
Of pottery, and which it is believed is al
most the only one found, the Indians gen.
orally using wooden tube with q hole
burned by fire, or else an elder stalk with
the pith removed. 1t has not generally
been thought that the Indians had pro-
gressed SO far as to make pipe-stem Of
this character.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-11-26
Lewis VAIN Smith, temporary Sec.

PETERSON MAGAZINE for December is
on our table in advance. and is perfect
gem. This is. without doubt. the cheap
est of the really good ladies' books. 1t
containes, every year .one thousand pages ::
forteen steel engravings twelve colored,
double-size, steel fashions plates twelve
colorcd Berlin patterns; twenty-four pag.
es of music; and more than hundred
novelets and original stories by the bes.
American writer's. There is no decep-
tion about it Yet the price is only two
dollars, or dollar less than magazines
of its class No wonder it has the lar
gest circulation in the world To clubs
it is cheaper still. Thus, five copies are
sent for eight dollars, or eight copies for
twelve dollars. To the person getting up
either of these clubs an extra copy is
given as premium, and also supe rb
ive.dollar engraving for framing, "Chrisi
Weeping Over Jerusalem" Specimens
of the magazine are sent, gratis 50 write
for one. an d see for yourselves. Now is
the time to subscribe, or to get up clubs
for 1878. Address CHARLES j. PETER
SON, 306 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-11-26

An Irishman called at the stable of
"A few days ago, for horse and bug
gy. He was cautioned against fast driv-
ing, to which he replied he was going to
funeral, and "be jabers shall kape up
wild the procession, if kill the baste -
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-11-26

JORDAN. MARSH Il Co. sent a check
for $4,000 to be appropriated to the
iiremen who excrtel themselves 80 nobly
in staying the connagration, especially
requesting that the firemen of all cities
and towns, who were present, should
participate IN its benefit.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-11-26

An old rail splitter in Indiana put the
quietus upon young man who chafed
him upon his bald head, in these words
"Young man, when my head gets as
soft as yours, / can raise hair to SELL"
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-11-26
NOTICE..
NTIDDLEBURY GRADED
WI SCHOOL.

MIDDLEBUIEshYo Ishoo, GRADED
MIDDLEBURY, VERMONT.
G. d MEAD, A. NJ, Principal.
II. NJ. BAILEY, A. b., Teacher Of Greek.
Miss EMILY HUMPHREY, Preceptress.
" LAURA A. GooDRIcH, Teacher of Grammar
School
" MARY A. b. HAcKETT, " intermediate.
" ELLEN FULLER, Third Primary.
" NANCY NJ. CUsHMAs, Second "
Mrs. L. A. BARNEY, First &
Penmanship,
Miss EMMA L. HIGLEr, Vocal and Instrumental
Music.
HORACE ID. CusnMAS, JanitOr.
The Fall Term begins Sept. 9th and continues
| Is weeks.
TUITI0N-To Non Residents.
| Primary Department, per term, s. OF
| Intermediate aud Grammar School, g "
| High School, OF
| Greek and Latin, -
| Mi. p;..o per quarter Of 20 lessons, 10 OF
| per term of 26 &" ~ OF
| instruction in Vocal Music will be given TO thu
pupils in all the grades below the High School
| free Of charge.
Daily lessons to singing class at 81 per term.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-11-26

Most Of the men who owned hand carts
are now millionaires.
I'm the course of time" said one man
lately, "the sea will be the only fence re.
quired." "What bull" said another
"You mean that the sea will be the only
landmark %
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-11-26

In spite of the horse disease panthers
are eating young colts in Texas.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-11-26

A woman who tells fortunes from o
teacup need not be sauceress.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1872-02-22

Commons to-day, DisIaeli inquired whether
any answer to Lord Granville's note in regard
to the Alabama claims had been received.
Gladstone replied that nothing official had
been received, but that the United States
Minister, Sehenck, belieTed reply from his
Government would reach London about the
first of March.
! The House Of Commons went into q cons
mittee on supply, when Hon. VIM. Fowler,
member from Cambridge, made speech de-
nouncing the Coolie traffic, and the part
taken therein by citizens of Portugal, Spain
and Cuba. He referred particularly to the
| cases which had been reported to the cases
which had been reported in Cuba and Peru,
| and presented some revolving details of treat
ment or Coolies in the Spanish Antilles.
Other members followed Fowler in con-
demustiou Of the traffic, which was pro.
| nounced a disgrace to civilization, and
greater evil than. the slave trade itself
WASHINGTON, February 1.-THE House is
engaged in debate. The Senate had no session.
The majority and minority Ku Klux reports
are nearly ready. They agree that nearly all
| the Southern States are approaching financial
ruin from bad legislation and Ku Klux. One
report attributes The bad legislation to the
Ka Klux, and the other attributes the Ku
Klux to bad legislation.
The tea ship Florilla, from Hong Kong,
has arrived at San Francisco.
The Los Angeles rioters, who killed the
Chinese, were acquitted.
A panic has occurred ia California mining
stocks.
The weather in California is remarkably
favorable for farming.
The Japanese leave Salt Lake, eastward, on
Monday.
Heavy gales have occurred on the Mexican
coast.
The PruSsian bark Herman, Levy, was lost
on the Alvsrado bar; the crew were saved.
The English bark Parmico was wrecked in
Vera Cru1 harbor, and the crew, fifteen in
number, drowned.
The Ohio river is gorged from the Little Mis-
anna to LaWrsnceburg, distance of rs miles.
NEW YoAK, February IA Cincinnati dis
patch says that the gorge started last night,
sinking fifty coal boats, causing a loss of
$4,000.
The smallpox is decreasing, owing very
generally to vaccination. There we're six
deaths to-day, making twenty-five for the
week. The new cases are mostly varioloid.
Thomas A Scott is elected President of the
Texas Pacific railroad, vice Marshall o. Rob-
erts, resigned.
1t is stated that persons implicated in ire
gularities have offered to compromise with
four millions; their prosecutors demand six
millions. A compromise is probable upon
disagreement of FIVE millions.
PHILADELPHIA, February 1.-THE bark
Sabra Moses, hence FOR Havrs, was sunk by
the ;ice in the Schuylkill. The Clermont,i Of
the Norfolk and Richmond line, was sunk at
the wharf and the cOOk dr0WnAd
CHICAGO, February l7-Ten persons were
frozen to death in Dixon county, Nebraska.
Seven wood cutters for the Winnebago
Agency were frozen. The suddenness and
severity Of the storm is III pMalleled.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1872-02-22

Out of the snoWdrifts of the Wes+
tern plains comes a story sufficiently
romantic to warm the hearts of all
sentimental persons without excep-
ton.
A pretty California girl, respond
ing to the somewhat remarkable ap-
pellation of Alameda Cosgrove, am
swered matrimonial advertisement
not long ago, after the questionable
manner of sundry other pretty girls.
The ensuing correspondence had
three important results. The first
was the reception by the young lady
Of very handsome photograph of
her correspondent; the second was
proposal of marriage; the third was
a journey undertaken by Miss Ala
media, the objective point being
Kansas, where her lover resided. All
alone did she take the trip, and on
the way her train was "snowed uD"
or several days. Alameda soon
found that even her strong affection
was not able to satisfy stomachic
cravings, and very glad was she to
share the profered porringer of a
good-natured fellow traveller, a young
and handsome man, who noticed the
friendless condition of the girl, and
was moved to pity thereat. The
rest is soon told. Alameda went on
to Kansas, found her frstlove not by
any means what her fancy had
painted him, refused to marry him,
and then began second pilgrimage
after her hero of the snoWdrifts.
She found him in Kansas City, and
married him in triumph, which, it
being leap year, she had an undoubt.
ed right to do.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1872-02-22
IN MEMORY.
Friend after friend departs.
WhO hath net lost q friendI
There IS no union here Of hearts,

James L. Brown departed this life in our
city, at the residence of his father, Mr.. Le-
ander Brown, on the morning of the 10th
instant, after long and painful illness.
Of a kind and obligiug disposition, faithful
and attentive to the sick and suffering, the de-
ceased had endeared himself to a large cir
Gle Of friends, who now mourn his loss with
no common sorrow. For five years he had
been q member of the Cumberland Church,
and evlnced, through the long weary months
Of suffering which were his, that patience knd
quiet submission to his Heavenly Father, that
exclaimed: "He doeth all things we'll" And
the Christian fortitude With which he bore
his Affections, will not soon be forgotten BY
those loving ones, who, as tireless watchers,
were ever at his bedside, anticipating his
slightest wish, and striving by every means
that love could suggest to alleviate his suf-
ferings. Blu: even love could not hold him
back from the icy embrace of death, nor the
unbroksn silence of the grave. Although
with sorrowing hearts We followed his re-
mains to the grave, yet to US, as to the weep
ing sisters of the dead Lazarus, come like
balm the gracious words of the Immaculate
Son of God: 81 am the resurrection and the
life; he that believeth in Ne, though he were
dead, yet shall he live"
We nay not tear the veil away
That hides that land Of cloudless day;
Its waving fields, and pastures green,
By mortal eyes may not be seen;
But there We know, removed from pain,
The dead in Christ shall live again.
MATTE.
Austin, February Is, 1872.