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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-06-24

OFFENDERS IN OLDEN TIME.-When
England was ruled by the Plantagenets,
no tenderness was shown to those who n.
dulterated goods or committed any other
tricks of trade. Any one ambitious Of
the pillory might easily indulge his taste.
He had only to pass off latten rings for
gold ones, charge mark for twopenny
garland, pick pocket, or let his tongue
wag too freely, and there he was IF he
weather were too cold,h could be accom-.
modated with fire, providing he exposed
unwholesome meat, sinking fish, putrid
poultry, or game rather too far gone for
sale; for then the condemned victuals
were burned under his nose,
Gentlemen of an inventive turn Of
mind found the city of London an un-
pleasant dwelling-place. In 1864, John
de Hakford was convicted Of telling a
friend there were ten thousand men ready
to rise and sleigh the chief people of the
city; he was sentenced to be imprisoned
for a year and day, and to stand in the
pillory for three hours once quarter,
coming out of Newgate for the purpose,
without hood or girdle, barefoot and
unshod, with milestone hung by chain
from his neck and lying en- his breast, it
being marked with the words A false liar,
and there shall be pair of trumpots
trumpeting before him on. his way"
In 1911 L, man was pilloried for re.
porting that it was about to be proclaimed
that alien merchants might sell merchan-
disc as freely as the freemen themselves ;
that no pleas were to be pleaded in the
city, but only before the kings justices at
Westminster and that Newgate was to
be abolished, and its inmates removed to
the Tower.
One Bertram had to stand in the pill
lory five successive days, with two whct.
stones hanging from his neck; a large
one in token of lie he had told about
the Mayor, and smaller one in token OF
lie about some less important individ.
ual.
In 1885, AN indiscrect mailman anus I'd
himself by spreading a report that the
Mayor had been sent to the Tower; and
in order that others might beware Of tell
ing such lies he was ordered to be taken
to Newgate, and from thence to the pillo
ry in Cornhill, to remain there one hour
bearing the liars .hnran- II r. a. l.
carried back to prison to be confined un
til further orders.
In 1882, an Alderman was punished
10 humorous fashion for being too econ
omical 1t had been agreed that wher
the Mayor and Aldermen went, according
to ancient custom. in procession from st
Peters in Cornhill to st. Pauls, upon thu
Yeast of Pentecost, the Aldermen shoult
be arrayed in green cloaks, lined will
green taffeta John Scly. Alderman o
, Walbrook, had, however, the hardihoo'
, to appear in single cloak without lin
ing. For this he was then and there or
, dered to prepare dinner at his private
.. house on the following Thursday for tn
Mayor and his brethren, and to get hi
cloak properly lined forthwith and so
was done"
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-06-24

Cheapost because expenses are far lower than
any other company, and dividends, which are
paid annually in cash, are much larger than any
other company. Experience is the best test In
sure your lives while in health in this grand old
sompauy, the largest and strongest monted cor
poration in the United States.
The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New
York Ia the best possible kind of Savings lnstitu-
ton for those in health. If the insured die: soon
after paying a few dollars in premiums, thousands
of dollars are at once secured. If he lives many
years. il is good investment in this Company
such are its large dividends, as will be seen by
the following illustrations Policy No. for
$4,000, dated April 20, 1855, on the life Of the
late Hon. HORACE GREELEY.
Eighteen annual premiums Of S293.0i
were paid making in all s5,?74 7:
The dividend additions to this policy a.
mount to CLOS 81
Which is SS33. .G5 more than all the premiums paid
The original amount insured $4,000 90
Has been increased by divid'ds Jos 81
Present amount of policy. Sli, ,l0s 81
Which is So ,s33 65 more than all premiums paid
rhe premiums on this policy, at
per cent.compound interest,
amount to only 1888 80
Leaving profit, over and above
premiums and compound in
forest thereon, Of 81 ,405 IS
Another dividend, from April IL, 1872, to date O
Mr.. Greeley's death will be paid.
~ Office with Judge Of Probate, in the Brio
Block, near the Court House.
NJ. A. MUNRoE. Agent
Mldlebury March !, 1873. 5O;u
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-06-24

A VERY REMARKABLE SToRY.-There
lived in Brooklyn. not long ago, a man
possessed of the devil. lie had inherit.
ed the devil from his father, in the first
place, and had nursed it until it grew so
strong it took entire possession of him.
The devil was very familiar one, and
its name was Rum. The man had many
noble instincts, and better than all these,
he had loving faithful, brave wife, who
made skillful war upon the demon, her
husbands master. Recognizing the fact
that her husband was under an oyerpow.
ing impulse, that he loDged and struggled
manfully to free himself from the passion
Tor drink, she bent all the energies of her
woman nature to the task of helping him.
She loved and suffered and toiled until at
last the loving and suffering and toiing
accomplished the purpose. She took her
husband by the hand, and shared with
him his struggle, until, after years Of la.
Dor, she overcome his devil, and saw him
a free man again. Her battle with Rum
had been fierce one, taxing and wasting
her strength sorely, but she was conquer
or at last. Her husband sood upon man.
ly feet, and showed no sign of falling
again. Several years passed away, and
the reformed man fell i'll of consumption.
The distinguished physician fror, whoee
lips we have the story, prescribed alco-
holic stimulants as the only means posi-
Bile Of prolonging his life. The poor wife
was in terror, and begged the physician
to recall the prescription. She told him
of her struggle and victory, and said that
she perferred that her husband should die
then, sober man, than that he should
fill drunkard's grave year later. But
the freed spirit of the mao was strong,
and he undertook to take alcoholic liquors
as medicine, and to confne himself ab.
solutely to such times and measures in
the matter as the physician should pre-
scribe. This he did, and during the
months thus added to his life he never
once drank single drop more than the
prescription called for, and he died at last
sober man, as the wife had so earnestly
; prayed that he might. But the end was
not yet. When the loving and patient
woman laid him in his grave, and saw hel
long labors thus ended in the vciory fol
which she had tolod so h~-i -..I 'uiivreu
so bitterly, she turned, in her grief to
the brandy which had been left in the
house, and drinking it, she fell herself
into the power of the devil which she had
fought so heroically. Aud that woman
! died, not many months later, hopeless
J helpless drunkard Hearth nnL Hmm
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-06-24

Now said she, elf two of you gen.
tlcmen will go into No. l bedroom. and
wait there few minutes, I'll find spare
room for one of you as soon as I've shown
the others to their rooms"
Well, now, having thus bestowed tvo
gentlemen in No. she puts the third IN
No. 2, the fourth man in No. 3, the fifth
in No, 4, the sixth in No. 3, the seventh
in No. 6, the eighth in No. I the ninth
in No. 8, the tenth in No. 8, and the
eleventh in No. 10. She then came back
to No. l, where you will remember 5ho
had left the twelfth gentleman along With
the first, and said " I've now accommo'
dated all the rest, and have still room
to spare so, if one of you will please
step into No. IL, you will find it empty"
Thus the twelfth man got his bedroom.
Oc course there is hole in the saucepan
somewhere but leave the reader to de-
termine exactly where the fallacy is,wlth
Just warning to think twice before de-
Gliding as to which, if any, of the tray
elers was tho " odd man out"
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-06-24

WARRIoR's BUcKLEn.-Of the shield
belonging to a Comanche chief lately
slain in Texas, on Mountain Greek, the
Dallas Herald says " 1t was piece of
barbarian mechanism, both ingenious and
grotesque, and device displaying the
cunning instinct of the savage in his eff
forts at selfpreservation. A breast.plate
of strAtifed bone, held together by lami-
mated straps Of buckskin, formed por-
ton of this bulwark, and could be re-
moved at pleasure and placed upon the
breast, by depending,aprop-like, from the
neck. On the shield was a woman's scalp,
whose hair had not yet lost ITS beauty
and the material forming the shield was
of su u,h strength aud compactuess as rc
be invuluerable to bullet discharged at
twenty PAGES This interesting relic wa'
obtained BY W. A. Council, the present
owner, from Mr.. Frank Brown, whose
unerring rifle had sent the painted iuham
IN blllty to land where he'll never waut
ANY more such api lrtenances."
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-06-24

The man who never owed mere than
five cents, and that only once, has just
died in Virginia at the age of seventy
nine. 1t was in his early manhood that
he unwillingly contracted the debt Of iye
cents, it bnipg the balance on bill OF
goods purchased, aud he was wont 10
boast aIl his life afterward that he could
not sleep that night because Of it, an!
got up early the next morning, went to
his creditor, and paid him.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-06-24

THE LAST SIM was once in circle
of thirteen or fourteen clergymen, engag-
ed in theological discussion. The subject
was the eternal subject of sin, its place
in the system, its origin, and its cure. l
said at last-to one OF the truest men,
and one of the purest moralist, now living
that we we're beating round the bush ;
that it would be much better to speak
from instances than in the abstract to
discuss sins than than to discuss sin.
=" Tell us" said |, "what was the last
sin you consciously committed" The
whole assembly was hushed. My friend
was not startled. He answered immed.
lately, " piH tell you; had it on my
mind as | was speaking before. The last
sin that | consciously committed was the
sin Of staying in bed this morning when !
knew | ought to rise. Voluntarily did
what at the moment l knew was wrong
The confession was received with shout
Of amusement and Of sympathy. And
every mau of the circle acknolsdged that
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-06-24

Articles were signed at Bridgeport,
Tuesday, for "a wrestling match between
Johu Mcmahon Of Rutland, and Perry
higley OF Bridgeport, for two thousand
dollars and the championship of America.
The match comes of at Worcester, Mass.
between the l6 aud Goth inst.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-06-24

ANEcDorE OF EMPRESS EUGENE. "A
writer, speaking of the Imperial family
says: The Duke of Cambridge was IN
Paris. Those were the early days OF the
Empire. A ball was to be gwen. The
Empress was to give ball on the follow
ing Monday. There was some difficulty
about giving at the Tuilleries. The worN'
at the Elysec were in an inchoate state
At seven O'Clock OF the morning of Coed
Friday the Emperor and Empress met
the architect at the Ely.ee, and told him
he must get ready the Elysee for the ball
But replied he, there are 5000 cu6i'
yards of stone in the court, there Is no
staircase, the walls are wet stone AMI
mortar; nothing, in fact, is finished ex-
cept the roof; it is impossible" 'C'est
un caprice de femme-it is a woman's
whim said the Emperor. i an sure
said the Empress, that nothin- is lmpos-
sible to you" The work was done. Bat
four hundred workmen had to be kept ~
work under The influence Of stimnlapts,
and the architect aged ten years in the
four days."
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-06-24

A FuxNY JusrIcE.-At Troy there Is
a police justice who, when people are
brought before him .or inebriety, insists
before he will entertain any proposition
for clemency, that they shall take the
pledge. Then he let's them off, or send
them to prison, as seems meet unto him.
If they will not take the pledge for ono
year, the Judge asks them to try for slA
months, and sometimes sends them dowH
for three months in order that they may
strengthen their resolution by the perfect
impossibility of breaking it, at least for
ninety days. Some seem to think that
they are Sold
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-06-24

LANGUAGE AND RAcE.-There is moth
ing so closely connected with the spirit as
speech. Many philosophers have con.
founded the idea with the expression of
it, and have proclaimed the impossibility
Of tho most secret and intimate thoughts
without the aid Of language. Christian
theology has called the Second Person of
its Trinity the Goldman, the Word and
the revelation Of ideas, which is for our
life, has been the eternal revelation of
Speech. Human speech is, therefore, the
most intellectual and the most spiritual Of
all our natural functions, and speech is
diversified not according to nationalitics.
but according to race. What strict kin
ship there is between the Portuguese, the
Italian, the Spanish and the French 1t
might be said that all Of the Latins are
born knowing these four languages. With
little reading, a little practice, we at
tain 20 their complete possession. And
why? Because the four dialects are inn
mediately derived from that mother tongue
which has given its name 20 our race, the
Latin language. In the most remote
antiquity are uDerring proofs of this.
While the speech of the pagan peoples
the progressive, artistic Indo. European
peoples-has rounded periods, complica.
ted syntax, a verb rich in lenses and
moods, which enable it to subordinate
secondary thoughts to the capital thought,
subsidiary phrases to the predominant
and the sovereign phrase, the religious
Semitic peoples, born to diffuse monothe.
ism, reared in the solitude of the desert
the authors of that music which appears
like the SOP of the soul, and of an archi
lecture which reserves all its marvels fol
the interior-the speech Of these peoples
is triliteral in its roots, simple in its syn
tax, suiting the sense to the sound in it
words, cut up into versicles united by tht
primitive medium Of the conjunction-al
differences of the highest Importance from
that rich variety of Greek aud Latin, tn,
two languages formed to contain and Il
express the variety of human thought.
The Indo- European languages hav
these characteristics because they are th
languages of those peoples who have pass
ed through all political ideas and socia
form who have produced gods in thei
image; who have placed the direction Q
their states in the hands of legislator.
, tribunes, heroes who have written tn
analysis of Aristotle, the synthesis Of Pla
to who have consumed innumerable phi
osophcal ideas in the perpetual move
, ment, the periodical renovation OF thei
sbirit-while the Semitic tongues are tn
: languages of religious peoples, who hay
founded the idea of the unity of God
:. Jerusalem and in Mecca; who have r,
G solved almost all their forms of govern
g ment into pure theocracy who hay
, been directed by the voice of prophets
: who have written the Koran and the b
f BILE; who opposed to the Greek chor,
; the melancholy hymn; to the dram
Q subjective and lyric poetry ; to frt
t thought, the perpetual commentary
t their revelations; to the gods of mytho
y ogy aud the Goldman of the Gospel, the
/ one Creator, secluded as in a secret tai
: ernacle in the immensity of the heavens.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-06-24

a PuzzLE.-The following is bare
faced story of how Dublin chamber
maid is said to have got twelve CONNER
cial travellers into eleven bedrooms, and
yet to have given each separate room
Here we have the eleven bedrooms
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-06-24

DE-. Ilougbton's little church around
the corner in New York is becoming
celebrated ior the funerals of actors aud
actresses.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-06-24

A little boy fell into well at Salem
\. j., the other day, and his sagacious
canine playmate went and told the child's
mother and got her to pull him out.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-06-24

that very sin of lazincss--tho appetite
for little sleep, a little suuber, little
folding of the hands to s'ocp-was tho
special temptation, or sin, which had
pointed his language in the whole discus
sion.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-06-24

The woods on Anthon's Nose, OIL the
Hudson are on fire, and the light eau be
seen long distance.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-06-24

T NSAYRE, Dealer in Household
A. Provisions a general assortment of Gro
ccries, Flour, Cheese Lard, Teas, Codees, Sugars,
Oil, Tobaccos, &C. Cash paid for Prime Butter
at my store any day in the week
iotr MIDDLEBCRY. VT.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-06-24

II S. PUTNAM would inform the
L L .people of Middlebury and Addison County,
that the old Cotton Mill Is in full operation, and
thut he is prepared 20 furnish carpet warp ana
batting of superior quality, at the lowest cash
price.
Middlebury, Dec. -, 1872. 3s;u
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-06-24

MRS. L. j. MARTIN, Fashionable
WI Dress and Cloak maker, has constantly on
hand all the latest and most approved patterns
Work executed with satisfaction and despatch.
Also sole Agent for the Grover and Baker Elastic
and Lock stitch Sewing Machine,
Middlebury, Vt. ol;6m
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-06-24

nDR. II. TURRILL is fully prepared
10 execute all work upon the Natural
Teeth, or on the various styles of Artificial Work
" with all the modern improvements" in super
or manner and at reasonable prices' Extracting
free of charge where teeth inserted on plate.
Ether or Gas administered when desired.
Office hours, S TO IL, II. m, and !, to 5, P. m
52;tf Middebury, VT.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-11-12
rHE CAPTURE OF THE vIRsINIus.

The brutal execution Of four leading
Cubans found on the Virgnius when
captured by a Spanish man of-war in
neutral waters has exasperated the
civilized world; yet it is one Of those de-
plorable affairs perpetrated under the
shadow Of law, for which, as yet, no re-
dress has ever been found. The only
remedy is to enforce the Monroe doc
trine 70 the extent Of driving the bloody
Spaniards from this continent They
are fourth or fifth rate set, incapable
of selfgovernment at home, and less
fitted to govern Cuba than to adjust
their own affairs The Virginius was no
doubt in the service of the Cuban pa.
triots, yet she sailed from an American
port, and was regularly registered, and
was captured six miles off the coast Of
Jamaica. The carrying Of goods and men
for the insurgents could not be an ohense
against the laws Of nations when no war
or instruction is admitted to exist on
the Island. Our Government has so
long tolerated Spanish rule and inso-
leuce on this continent that they con-
slider themselves absolute masters Of
the situation, when they ought to have
been kicked over into the sea years ago.
The prisoners in question had no trial
before a court Of admiralty, but at
drumhead court martial organized with
bloodthirsty haste to convict. No delay
was made to hear from the parent Gov
eminent or to allow a legal and decent
trial. After the men were shot like
cattle dispatch came from Madrid to
nostsone extreme measures until the
facts could be investigated But that
is not Spanish justice. They execute
first and decline to try the cause
afterward. An opportunity Of muir
dering fool hardy flibuster or
suspected Cuban sympathizer is never
allowed to pass unimproyed. Techni-
cally the law of nations is no doubt
against the Virginus; but Spain, BY her
repeated atrocities in the new world, has
placed herself beyo nd the pale of civil
lied nations, and is entitled to no ad
vantage arising under the comfy which
exists between the hrmanized people OF
other countries When these prisoners
were shot grand illumination was
given in Havana in homer Of tbs event,
and it was day of rejoicing, such IS
could be seen ia 90 hali-civillzed coun'
try in the world not uader Spanish do
,ninion. In moral sense. our Govern
ment owes Spain nothing but retaliation
and riping out from the face OF this
cOntin a.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-11-12
The PresenI Rome of the Modocs.
From the San Francisco Bulletin, Oct. 29.l

From the San Francisco Bulletin, Oct. 81
The Modoc captives in the charge Of
Captain Harry c. Hasbrouck, OF Battery
b. Fourth Artillery, were expected to
arrive at Fort Macpherson, Nebraska,
this morning.. This military reserva-
ton, instead Of Fort d. A. Russell CIV.
I. J, has been selected as their tempo
rary home. The post was established
February 20. 1856, and prior to that
time the locality was known as Canton
ment Mexican, and also as Cottonwood
Springs. According to information
given by Brevet Major General William
| II Emory. Colonel of the Fifth Cavalry,
August, 1869, the commanding officer at
the time, the location is latitude 40 de-
grees, longitude from Greenwich 100
degrees, 30 minutes The postoffice
is at Cottonwood Springs, Nebraska,
twelve miles distant the nearest
town or settlement. The quarters
are for FIVE companies, built of
logs. with single roofs; a portion Of the
buildings are entirely frame well chinked
and spacious, with large windows. The
post obtains water from the Platte river,
about six hundred yards distant, and the
wood is Supplied by contract. The land
Il not arabic, and no timber, crops or
vegetables grow there. Three miles from
the post tho gFaGs is good. The soil IS
sandy The Platte river rises in April
and falls in July, and is fordable about
seven months in the year. The climate
is very dry. The estimated average
monthly temperature for twelve months,
ending June 30, 1869, was 81 degrees 81
minHtes The sanitary condition of the
locality ia eEceedi gly good The post
commands the buffalo range TO the
south. aud will be a cavalry station
OF Importance as long as there
are hosule indians on the plains The
Modoes will undoubtedly become dis
gusted WITH this locality IN q very short
ume, because If the rigorous weather
~ the winter; and it is barely possible
that a lew Of these will decamp and be,
come outcasts, or affiliate with rowing
sayages in a more temperate zone. One
reagon given by the Modocs for their
clandestne departure from the klamath
reservation was that they suffered Sc
verely from the cold weather in that
region and could not become aecgs-
toned to Il They will hnd the chilling
influences Of Aebrasks winter far
more uncomfortable thaR anything OF
the kind experienced at klamath. The
report is current in official circles that
the Modoes will eventually be located in
the Indian Territory-tbe land Of plenty
where tbousssss ST red men have Gre
ated pleasant homes.