The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-02-18


wholesale boot and shoe mandatory,
three retail boot and shoe stores, two har.
ness shops, two grocery aud provision
stores, one furniture warehouse, one tim
smith, three backsmiihs. two wagon
makers, one grist mill, one paper mill,
one planning mill, one meat market, one
spectacle factory, four churches, one post
Office, one graded school, two BARRIERS,
two liverics, one photograph gallery,
three mllincrs. two lumber yards, one
sailor. two lawyers, two doctors, eight
tauglc-ioot mills and jail.
A convention of Sunday school workers
was held at Benson, Feb. 4th and 9Th.
Rev. II. N. Holmes Of Benson. presided
and Hon. i. Howard Kellogg was Sccrc-
tary. A Rutland County Sabbath School
Association was formed, with Ben X.
Chase Of Rutland as President, anl Edgar
j. Bliss Of Brandon rs Secretary. Rem
arks were made by Prof Scely Of Mid
debury College and Rev. g. Il. Ilawlcy
of Pittsburgh. The attendance on each
session was large and the interest increas-
ed continually. Schools were represent
cd from Orwell, Sborcham, NIiddlebury,
IIubbardton, Castleton, Rutland, Fai-
haven, West Haven, Putnam n Y, and
Plattsbursh, N. Y.
Two freight thieves who have been
operating for long time on the New
| England roads, including the Vermont
Central, have been arrested for stealing
from the Boston and Albany freight de-
not. in Worcester, Mass, and there held
to answer at the Superior Court in May.
They gave their names as Edward War
rem and John Washburn at first, but now
profess to be from Woodstock, Vermont.
Washburn says he is twenty-one, and that
his real name is John Haggerty. War
rem says his name is Edward Smith, and
that his father is wealthy business man.
The two thieves have stolen much freight
from various points in New England, and
have been very large dealers in butter and
like articles that they have picked up
about the country. Very likely their
stories concerning their origin are untrue,
and that the good town ofWoodstock has
had no part or lot in raising such disre-
putable persons.
SHARP PRAcrIcE.-Somcbody writes to
the Montpelier Journal as follows
llessrS. Editors The publisher of the
Vermont Chronicle pursues the following
course to increase the circulation of his
paper He writes to some influential
member of the Congregational church in
each town, asking him to send the names
of members of the church who take re-
ligious papers, and the name of the paper
thew take; and also the names of MEM
bcrs who take no religious paper. Con-
scouently he gets the names Of all mem
bers who are heads of families, and he
sends his paper with note attached, say
ing he is goips to send four papers free,
"if you want them to continue send ST.
so, and that will pay for year" lie
also pays the postage at Windsor for n
quarter, and the postmaster's receipt ac-
companies the papers. When the per-
sons appear at the post office for their
mail they object to taking the paper as
they have not subscribed for it, and do
not wish for it. They are told that the
, postage is paid for the quarter, and prob
ABLY when that time expires it will stop,
if they do no., in the meantime send
in their subscription. Thus it goes on
for two months, when the publisher very
coolly says that unless they specially or
der it stopped, and pay for the time that
. it has been sent, he shall continue to scud
it to those to whom it has thus been sent
The scheme is adroitly planned, and
well calculated to deceive. 1t is a spc
cics ofpetty pilCcring which is worse thar
;. sheep stealing, and done by the publish
. err of religious paper, which should be
+. the instructor and guide of one Of ;ht
largest religious denominations in the
State. The man who will pcrpetratt
such swindle should be booted from the
State, and his paper from the home o
every Christian family. The publisher
/. Of secular paper would not dare 10 dc
o such thing MS this.
. One or THEN.
O LlrrrLL's LIylNG AGE. The number
of the Living Age, dated rcSpcctivcl,
Y Feb. Sth and Feb. 18TH, contain tn
f following noteworthy articles; -. Mr.
s Froude's English in Ireland, by W. +. II
c Lecky, Macmllans Magazine The Elm
;. peror Alexander and the Policy of Rus
S sa, British Quarterly Review; lleroism
|, by G. Kingsley, Cornhil Magazine
J. Some curiosities of Criticism, Fraser
Magazine Paganin, Good Words; Tn
y Three Interests in Old English I.itera
u turc, Contemporary Review "An Ugl
:. Dog Cornhill Magazine The Empero
!, Napoleon, Economist Brantome, Corn
r. hill Magazine Overwork, Saturday Re
view. DR.. Carpenter on Mental Acquisi
h ton and Inheritance, Spectator togethe
le with instruments of his Little Scren
c. IIighness," translated from the Platt
DcmSch of Fritz Reuter-, and Of "rh
Two Brothers," by NJ, NJ. Erckmanr
= Chatrian. poetry ard miscellany. TIL
OF first number of January began new vo
o' umc and new series, with entirely ne
y serials, atlording an unusually exccller
opportunity FOR the beginning Of new sui
at scriptons. The subscription price OF til
lie Ga page weekly magazine is IS yea
b. or for SO any one Of the American s
It. magazines is sent with The LIyING AC
al for year. LIrTrLL AND GAY, Bosto
70 Publishers.
r.
The APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE YEA
of Secretary Boutwell, has ,ransmitt'
r. to the House detailed statement, fro
x. which it appears that the entire avail
:" bic appropriations for tine current Use
c, year, requiring eighteen millions uue.
J." pended balance of the previous yea
ar were Sl5T. Ill. 0I0. of which there ",