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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-05-26
Written for the Register
ON RELEIPTOF THE FIRST WILD
FLOWERS OF SPRING.

Beautiful howcrsl What tales ye tell
Of your wild homes, in woodland dcl
What joys ye give-what hopes ye bring
o lovely barbingers Of Spring.
l seem to see the grassy brink
OF the bubbing spring whore the blue bells drink
Where pebbles lie in tho depths below,
As pure and white as the driven snow;
Where darts of gold from the May-day sun,
Part the green shade whom the days begun,
And the joyous notes Of the early bird
Through the echoing woods are sweety heard.
And hear, as in blissful dream,
The babbing song of n mountain stream,
Tossing its spray, with an pns IN hand,
Among the shells and golden sand
Beautiful fowersl The wild G sips
The honey-dew from thy sw ct lips,
And queenly fern with nodding plume,
Bends low to catch thy sw, 1t perfume.
Sweet flowers, l bless tho little elf
Whoc gathered yo unto himself;
gth to me, more precious far,
Than gold inain with jewels rare,
Though from dear friends | am apart,
These flowers will whisper to my heart
Sweet zephyrs fon them morn aud even
And watt their perfume up to hi-ven.
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MARRYING AN AcToR IN CHINA is about
the most dangerous indulgence possible
in a young woman. Actors haven't any
social standing at all there they and
BARRIERS are the only classes excluded
from competition at literary examination.
Yet when Yang Yeh.lin, a celebrated
tragedian, woke an undying passion in
the breast of young woman OF wealth,
and in spite of warnings, the two would
marry, the mother Of the girl consented,
for she feared her love-sick daughter
would die, and with that sanction, it
might have been expected that social
ostracsm would have been the worst
consequence of the wedding, which was
duly celebrated. But the che hsien (mag-
istrate) of Shanghai felt differently.
Yang Yeh.lin was accused of abduction,
arrested and tortured, and his wife, who
persisted that there wasn't any abduction,
was like wise prisoned and punished,
though less severely 1t is said the Can
ton guild in Shanghai, to which the young
~enan's family halonsna. gave 10000
tacls to the magistrate to behead the ac-
tor whose alliance had disgraced them.
So far however, the che-hsien dare not 60,
but what he might-and the might for
evil Of Chinese mandarin is great-hc
did He ordered the wrctched Yang
100 blows with heavy bamboo on the
ankle bonc-had him strung up for twelve
hours by the thumbs, with the arms re-
versed and crawn up behsnd the back,
the effect being, Of course. to strain and
partly dislocate the shoulders, and he al
lowed to be fixed round his neck an in
genious color which presses on the apple
sense Of choking and irritation, aggravat.
ed continually by the inevitable cough
Rumor says that Yang was able to bribe
his lailer with G200 to free him from the
last incumbrancc but certainly the first
two punishments were enough for marry
ing handsome girl on her own proposal.
Tho girl herself got 100 blows an the face
with leather strap, the effect of which
is, OF course, to reduce the features tenn
poraily to pulp. One native journal, the
Shampoo, joined with the foreign press in
denouncing the magistrate and the Can
tonesc, aud is threatened with dire ven-
geancc, which however, the support of
the British consul makes their enemies
fear to attempt Meanwhile the actor
and his wife lie in Jail, or did when the
London Times correspondent wrote the
letter that told the story.
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How SHOULD A LADY FAsTEN Her
STOCKINGS ? CARRIERS, OR WHAT-liow
shall woman fasten her stockings so as
not to interfere with the circulation Of
blood, or spoil the shape of the le-that
is, what measurs shall be taken to pre-
vent shrinkage and warpage Of the le--,
let US see--of the Honi soil qui nal y
penSe? After the most careful research,
as far as our limited facilities would allow,
we arise from our explorations and hum
bly, tender the following suggestions
Wear them short, and let the tops bub-
BILE over the shoe in form Of lace, Ia
beer.mu
If you will have them long, rut muci.
lage inside and stick 'em to you.
Have them long enough to tie about
your waist, using the knot 70. a paner.
Edge the tops with steel, and fasten a
load-stone to your corset.
Fasten 4 strap to each stocking, extend
them gracefully up each side of the body,
and attach, with blue ribbons, to the ear
rings.
Pin them to some other article of
clothing in their immediate vicinity.
Hold still, nov: : we are doing this for
your own good.
Fasten them to a nail and 60 bare
footed.
Attach a small balloon to each stock
ing.
Make them out of material that will
draw up.
If you are thirty-five and unmarried,
make hole near the top Of each stock.
ing and button it to your knee.cap.
These are all the methods that suggest
themselves to US at present, and Of the
number some one or more may be deemed
worthy of adoption. We have taken .
sudden and lively interest in this matter
and shall not rest until the needed re-
form is brought abou. Woman's limbs
shall not be hampered, and knotted, anc
deformcd, if we have enough inventive
faculty to bring to light new and health
full ways of wearing the stockings, ant
we think we have We shall continue
our investigations into this subject, ever
at the hazard Of getting our neck into th'
matrimonial moose. What the women o
this country most need is not suffrage, ,btI
symmetry not rights but nationality
not place in our legislative halls, but
place to fastcn their stockings. Let al
true.hearted men join with us in scare
for that place Charlton (Mo) BrunS
lricker
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In the 1918 oranges of Iowa it is said
that there are no less than $4,000 wom-
en-, each of whom is entrusted with q
vote. The women are thus rapidly pre-
pairing for the ballot by instruction in
parliamentary practice, debate and gen.
eral business. There are some 1000
oranges in the country, to which belong
nearly 100000 women.
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The queerest object in nature is
Spanish bsggar, for these beggars beg on
horseback, and it is an odd thing to see
a man riding up to poor foot-passenger
and asking aims. A gentleman in Val
paraiso, being accosted by one Of these
mounted beggars, replied, "Why, sir, you
come to beg of me, who have to go ON
foot, while you ride on horsobach p,
"Very true, sir" said the beggar, "and
l have the more need to beg, as have
to support my horse ss well as myself"
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} DESTAURANT.

The Eating Saloon in Sheldons Block, which
Is so long been the popular resort of hungry
sitors in this village, formerly kept by Mr..
|enry Sheldon, and latterly by myself, is kept
\ in rst-class condition in every respect, and
fepared to furnish every luxury in their season.
fsters kept constantly on hand, and warm
|eals furnished at all hours. The continued
ktronage of the public solicited.
ISAAC f.. GO0DROW.
IMiddlebury, Nov |, 1873. s;ly
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How GERRIT SMITH RUINED MAN.
"A large propotion of men never can or
will accumulate or keep capital The
best illustration of this fact that we have
ever met is that of Gerrit Smith and his
schoolmate The latter, on the death of
his father, came into possession ofa farm,
with house furniture, stock, implements,
and all things necessary to a comfortable
home and paying business but he sold,
lost by the sale, sold his next home, and
the next always losing, until he was land.
less and very poor His old schoolmate,
who was giving away his large pstrimony
in small parcels to landless men, gave
him a house and lot but took the precau-
ton to deed it 10 his children. For a
N,ile the restless man was happy in his
new home, but SO, grew tired of it, and
wanted TO sell out When he found that
it was not in his power to render himself
aud family homeless once more, he exclam.
ed in great bitterness; There Gerrii
Smith has ruined me lie believed this
and never iorgave the man who had pre-,
vented that which would surely have
made his fortune
Taking care OF Il baby aud sewing hut
tons on wife's shoes were adduced in
trial the other day, as evidence tending
to show husbands affection for a wifi,
whom he subsequently shot.
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Balem Lead Company.

Warranted PURE WHITE LEAD
fell-known throughout New England as the
IHITEST FINEST, and BEST.
LEAD TAPE, 5-S in. wide, on reels for
Irtain Sticks
LEAD RIBBON, from l-2 to in. wide,
! reels for builders.
LEAD PIPE, of any size or thickness.
At lowest market prices for goods of equal
ality. Address
52m3 SALEM LEAD CO., Salem, Mass
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"What would our wives say, if they
knew where we are :" said the captain OF
a schooner when they were beating about
in deep fog, fearful Of going ashore.
"Humph, l shouldn't mind that" replied
the mate, "if We only knew where We
were ourselves
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-05-26

Among the gentlemen in St. Louis who
have been reached by the temperance
reform movement is Col. Nat. Claiborne,
a leading criminal lawyer and local po.
ltician. He addressed a large audience
recently, which included many of his old
friends and boon companions. lie said
in concluding;
81 am now temperance man, not by
any pledges made under oath (; | belong
to no temperance organization. | am not
ashamed to admit to night, in the presence
of this audience, before people among
whom have lived for twelve years, that
| have taken pledge before a higher
throne than this earth owns. have o
consciousness that | will keep that pledge
because | feel that | stand at last, after
forty years of my most precious life te
sin and its pleasures, upon the rock o.
safety"
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ing perceptible. Wine dealers like com

ing perceptiblc, Wine dealers like COM
ct years
During fourteen days and nights the
sky was clouded, AMI the comet obscured I;
but it was there. The old schoolmaster
was sitting in his chamber close by tho
school.room. The Bornholm clock, which
had belonged to his childhood's home,
stood in the corner, the leaden weights
neither rising nor falling, the pendulum
motionless the little cuckoo, which had
formerly cone forward cuckooipg each
hour, remained back in its place silent ;
all was still there the clock had ceased
to go. But the old piano, which had also
pertaincd to tho home Of bis childhood,
still possessed life; the strings coald re.
sound, although somewhat hoarsely, the
melodies of whole human life and
thereby the old man kept in mind so
much, both pleasant and sad, in the long
row of intervening years, since when as a
child he had gazcd op the comet, until
now it was again here. He remembered
what his mother had said about the shaw.
ing in the light; he remembered the
beautiful soap.bubbles, each denoting for
him a year, he had said. How bright,
how full of colors, only the right and
joyous he saw therein; child.play with
youthful delight; the whole world seemed
to open for him in the sunshine, and out
into it ho was to 60 Future bubbles
AS an old man he heard in the tones oi
the piano melodies Of the past Retro
spection bubbles in all the color tints ol
memory. He heard bis grandmother
knitting song;
'Surely no Amazonian
The first stocking knitted
Then resounded the ditty, sung to hin
in CHILDHOOD by the old servant:
MANY danger for him,
Along the life path,
Who now is so little
And SO little knowledge hath
Now he heard the melodies Of his frs
festal occasion DOW soft, pathetic tune
brought tears to the old mans eyes; nov
came psalm melody, now a merry song
bubble after bubble, as when little boz
he blew them from soap.water.
His eyes were fixed upon she window
out there upon the sky a cloud glidec
away, and he saw in the transparent al
a comet, its glittering nucleus, its lumin
Gus trail.
1t seemed like yesterday evening whci
he saw it before, yet whole rich humal
life lay between that time and the pres
ent. Then he was child, and locke,
through the bubbles forward ;" now tn
bubbles showed in the backward gaze
He felt the child mind, the child faith
his eyes shone, his hands fell upon tn
keys it sounded as if Il string had bro
ken.
"Oh come and see," shouted the neigh
bor; "the comet is here. The sky is s
beautifully clear Come out and have
good view
The old schoomaster did not answer
He had gone for good view, his sou
was away on greater orbit than tha
through which flies the comet that nov
again was gazed upon from palace an
from cot from the crowd upon the stree
and the lonely wanderer upon the path
less heath. His soul was looked upo
by God and the dear ones gone before
those for whom it had longed. d.-Iia'l
Christian andersen
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A Detroit female of Just twenty-five
was married to her fifth husband lately.
All the gentlemen are alive and the first
four are doing well
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A wealthy merchant having expert
enced some hard reverses which caused
his bankruptcy, was met some time after
his misfortune 10y friend, who asked him
how he was getting on. pretty well, "
said he, al am upon my legs again"
"How already ?" "ies; have been
obliged to part with my coach and horses,
and now must walk. "
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-05-26

Where there is no charity there can he
no Christianity. We believe this state
ment TO be true.
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The Brooklyn Argus is Of opinion that
a kind word will always 90 farther than
a iatiron.
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\ countryman sent to Pittsburg deal
er in photographs for picture Of his wife,
who died forty-four years ago, giving a
general description of her. He inclosed
fifty cents to pay for the same. A
photograph was selected from large as
sortment, and proved entirely satisfactory
to the unsophistica'ed granger.
An Italian jury recently acquitted a
prisoner on most ingenious plea. A
tax collector of Naples absconded with
public money amounting to two hundred
thousand dollars. He was caught,
brought back and tried, but the jury ac.
quilted him because the money he had
stolen was the peoples money, and, as he
was one Of the people, he was part owner
Of that money, and of course it would be
monstrous to convict man Of stealing
what was his own,
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An exchange says that l5,72S fond
hearts were made to beat as 1854 in
Philadelphia last year.
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A French wit said Of man who was
exceedingly fat, that nature only made
him to show how far the human skin
would stretch without breaking.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-05-26

A BISHOP ON CREMATIoN.-Tha cml-
neDt prelate, the Bishop Of MauohOotor,
in England has declared himselfin favor
of cremation. At the conservation Of a
burial ground at Bolton, he said that it
had been proposed by an eminent London
physician that, instead Of burying our
bodies iu the ground-a practice which
was said to entail sanitary mischief and a
great loss of valuable land--we should
burn dead bodies; and it was now a
question Of tho cremation of bodies, in
stead of their nterment He felt sort
of shudder at the idea of burning the
dead, and yet the time might como when
the idea would become familiar to their
minds, and in hundred years OR go it
might perhaps become the custom for
bodies to be burned. People who had
believed in immortality in previous times
burned the bodies of their dead The
ancient Romans believed in Immortality,
and yet they believed in burning the
bodies of their dead. Cremation was
certainly quite as decent as the practice
of interment, for anything that he saw,
and urns containing the ashes OF the dead
were more picturesque than coflius. He
simply, however, referred to the subject
because he wished his hearers to dissoci.
ate the resurrection from physical con-
ditions. Could they suppose that it
would be more impossible for God to
raise up body at tbe resurrection, il
need be,out Of elementary particles which
had been liberated by the burning, than
it would be to raise up body from dust
and from the elements of bodies which
had passed into the structure Of worms
The omnipotence of God is not limited
and He would raise the dead whether He
has to raise or bodies out of church
yards. or whether He has to call our re.
mains, like the remains of some ancicn
Roman, out of an urn in which they wer,
deposited two thousand years ago.
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A good man will never teach that
which he does not believe
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7 IN W.T. E

hc attention of horsemen to my young stock
prse, PILGRIM. / have
red carefully for several years, from the very
fst stock in the State, and think have horse
Lat will please all who will look at him, and pny
ose who will patronize. lie may be seen at my
|ables in New Haven during the season of 1874,
kcept Saturdays when he will be at Vergennes.
Stf X. ID. RYDER.
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Il | 5. PUTNAM would inform the
"a L epeople of Middlcbury and Addison County
bat the old Cotton Mill Is in full operation, and
bat he is prepared 20 furnish carpet warp and
|attng of superior quality, Mt the lowest cash
|ricc.
Midlleburv Dec IA 1872. 3q:tf
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-11-10

The Stale Journal denies that the Pres'-
dent and our friend DR.. ausH" had any
conversation such as that described by our
Washington correspondent, !" TIAoS." we
do not desire to press II upon the Doctor
whether he will or not, but we would say
that the President could have called IN no
member Of the "killing profession Jas
cynical friend of ours once styled the DOC
tors who could have better diagnosed us
case than Or. RusH. The points saia 10
have been made in the reported conversation
nv General GRANT. showing that the "'hifd
term, only injured the Republican cause
where It was denounced By the Republicans,
were so true that we had no doubt OF the
correctness of "TIMoS's" statements. Ger
tainly the report did the President no wrong,
except that he might have heard the eXpIa'
nations OF the Doctor; bpt no man could
have afforded the President more comfort IN
his unhappy condition.
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REPUBLICAN PARTY CoNFERENcE-A SCoLD.
ING IN view PoR TIE PRESIDENT Washing.
ton, November S-From letters received
here from leading Republican congressman
Ii is learned that 1t is in contemplation to
have party conference, as near as possible,
about the time of the meeting of Congress.
The purpose Of the conference will be to lay
down definite line Of policy to be pursued
during the coming session. The President,
In his views as set forth in these dispatches,
lays the blame of the recent defeats on Con-
gress, while the Republicans in that body
aseribe the disasters to'bis action. They say
that the President has made his administra.
lion TOO much personal aud too little party.
is proposed at the approaching confer
ence to have plain talk with the Executive.
Some OF the Republican members argue that
they would prefer that he should act with
the opposition than that he should continue
to claim fellowship with the Republican
party and refuse to listen to the advice of its
most trusted leaders. Among other things
which they think absolutely necessary for the
President to do Is to remove tDe inefficient
aud obnoxious o6iee-holders, such as Pack.
ara and Casey and the like, and replace then,
With proper and capable men, and that he
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TIE New SPEAKERSnIP.- Washington, No
vember S.-Crude speculatious as to the or
ganiZati0n Of the next House of Representa-.
tives arc now appearing in various quarters.
All such SpeculatiouS are entirely worthless
OF this time. In this day, when new issues,
in and out of parties, spring up almost In q
day or night, when party combinations are
formed almost In a moment, upsetting the
most deliberate and the most matured calcu-
lations, it is useless TO attempt to prognoSti.
cate twelve months and more in advance
how the next House will be organized.
There will be in the next House some new
members of the majority whose abilities and
whose personal and party characteristics will
be apt to commend them as better type of
pure and elevated Democracy than any of the
old members whose names have been alluded
to in connection with the speakershp. Seve-
raj leading members in both sections of the
country have been heard from on this sub
Ject, and they say that so far as they have
knowledge there has been no interchange oil
views on the organization of the next House
nor do they think that any conference on the
subject is necessary or proper for months te
come.
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DEATHS.

ried. In this city, on Monday the 9th instant at
ness, Mrs. SALLlE A., wife OF Mr.. I ittleherry D.
Bradley. In the forty-i year Of her age.
Died, on the 9th instant, Of Group, CHARLIE
stone, youngest child of Joseph a. and Emma G.
Blain. ,
ct O'Clock. from his fathers residence, No. 1872
Yves, Clay street. The friends of f-lnly are &c
spcctf,hiy invited to attend
Washington %. c. papers please copy.
Died, on Saturday, the Til instant, about 7
o'clock i. NJ. JOHN 4. ALLEN. Esq. at North
Wales, Caroline county, Va acet sixty-nine year.
i h. deceased was widely Known Jod ncighbor
and friend atFeclionae husband and parent, and we
trust he has gone TO a b:ttcr lind ID.
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THE PRESIDENT AND COLONEL MoSBY "A
Washington correspondent of the New
York Herald has the following:
"Colonel Mosby met the President for the
first time Friday since the election. Both
being in favor of a third term, they sat
down and discussed matters for an hour.
The congressional candidate In Mosby's dis
trict, Mr.. Barbour, who was TO yindicate the
third.term policy, was beaten by General
uunton, a Democratic member of the pres
ent Congress, who said The people Of Nir-
ginia were Internationally opposed to Il
third term. But this did not discourage the
President nor his Virginia visitor. Both
agreed that C;e,arism had nothing to do
with the result, and bis EXcelcncy was
more convinced than ever Of the policy of
keeping silent. There are those who think
and say in the Presidents presence that his
friendship for Mosby does not inspire respect
among the soldier element Of the Union
army. The President replies by appointing
additional! friends of Mosby to office. of
which fact the Colonel, Friday, had substan-
tial evidence More than that, the Presi-
dent intends visiting Colonel Mosby at his
home, in Warrenton, in a few days. This
shows how much President Grant cares for
public opinion and the voice of the press"
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The conference with public bondholderS
appointed for to-day will be held at II O'CLOCK
M. in the Senate chamber, between the Vlr'
sinia commissioners on the one part ana the
bondholders, or their duly accredited de-
nu,jes. on the other. The public will not be
admitted, as it is strictly business meeting
between the parties mentioned, but heads OF
departments and members of the Legislature
are expected to attend.
Bondholders and their deputies will be
supplied with tickets OF admission at the
Office of the Second Auditor.