The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-10-07


pumping water from mines, cut.
ting feed for stock, running portable grist
mills, and for other purposes, to which
the power has been successfully applied
The company manufacture ihreshers, sep.
arators, cleaners, wood and circular saw
frames, and furnish all or any materials
necessary to accompany the machine for
any kind Of work desired.
THE RECENT IMPROVEMENTS
Have produced horsepower seeming
ly as near perfection ss such machine
can be made. The machines are so con.
structed, running upon friction rollers on
cast steel rods, that the friction Of the
machines is but tribe, securing and APP
plying the whole power of the horse to
the work to be done. The proprietors
claim that they have the lightost and
most durable machine of the kind in use,
and not without reason. The gearing is
made mostly of wrought iron, and the
whole is constructed with view to light
ness, strength, durability, and to work
with the greatest dispatch.e Their. one
horsepower will saw twenty cords oc four
feet wood, twice in two, in day, or thresh
and clean from thirty'to forty bushels of
oats per hour. A two-horse power will
do more than that We saw in the st.
Adams (Vt.) Messenger, not long since,
statement from b. M. Ballard, of Fair.
fax, in Franklin county, w., that he
''sawed, with one Of A. W. Gray e. Sons
two.horse-power machines, four cords of
hard wood, twice in two. in thirty five
minutes also at another time, twenty.
seven cords of wood, twice in two, 10 eight
hours, including delay in moving and set.
ting machine three times"
But of the merits Of the power as la.
Dor saving machine there can be no ques.
ton. We see them everywhere in this
section Of Vermont. s They are becoming
as common, indeed as indispensable, as
the mower and horse rake. The demand
from the West is increasing and the ma
chimes are now sent to all parts of the
country, and the time is not far distant
when the Gray machine and other rail.
way horse-powers will take place of the
ten.horse lever powers Of the West. As
these machines are introduced in the
wheat growing countries of the West, they
find the Gray machines. much better than
those lever :en-horso-powers, not only in
saving expense in thrcshing, but in saving
of grain, as well as in convenience in US.
ing.
The Grays now employ no travelling q.
gent, nor are their machines consigned
every one is sold before it leaves their
factory, and are ordered as fast as they
can make them.
Many Of the newspapers are calling
upon dclinqueat subcribers for their
back pay.
New York city consumes 100000
hogs. $4,000 sheep, and $4,000 bull.
locks annually.
The German government has invested
ST 100000 in the United States five
per cents.
1t is now believed the farmers oranges
will secure the next United States Sena.
tor in Kansas.
Three Socialists have been sentenced
to death by the Tribunal of Justice of
Valencia, Spain.
The outgoing steamers from New York
for Europe now carry comparatively few
cabin passengers.
The receipts of cotton at shipping
ports show vast increase in the crop
over the previous season.
Young John Morriscy was blown up
with powder with which he was playing
near Glen Station, N. Y, and seriously
injured.
A Detroit man brought his cooking
stove to town the other day and sold it
to get money enough to take his family
to the circus.
Some Of the Western Changers have
invited the presidents of the railroads to
attend their meetings and give their side
of the question.
More than half the acreage in Illinois
is in corn. The Chicago Tribune indi.
Gates, from one.half to two.thirds an av.
eragc crop this year.
1t is stated that the Chinese have
been using sbad liver oil for centuries as
curative, and that it is more eflicacious
than cod liver OIL
Interesting invalid-"Doctor, l want
my husband to take me to Paris. Now,
do tell me, what complaint ought l to
have ?" And that's what the bill was
for.
A Colorado justice of the peace sen,
fenced a man to be hung for horse. steal.
ing, and the gallows was ready before
the official found out he had no jurisdic.
ton.
GOOD morning, gentlemen" says a
book pedlar, entering railroad car. No
one responded. beg pardon, if have
said 400 much; withdraw the last ex.
preston"