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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-01-01


TRUSTEES SALE OF VALUAgI
i HOUSEHOLD AND KITCHEN Fun.
TURE on MONDAY. JANUARY 4: 1874
10 O'CLOCK A. NJ, On THE PREMISES, %
MIR OF SEVENTH AND HULL STkEETS-h
virtue OF q deed Of trust executed 10 the rcs:
signed by Johu j. McPhearson bearing date on
3ist of January, 1873. duly Of record in Cbes..
field County Cour, clerks cEce, Deed-Boo
page 220, shall (oeing required so TO- dol ssl
public auction. on The premises. The entire stohi
HOUSEHOLD d and x lTCHLN FURNlTUEF.cGt
BEDS, BEDDING,
= CROcKEkY,
TABLES, CHAIRS,
STOV-S, CLOCKS,
KNIVES aud FORKS,
TABLE-LISES,
PICTURES, ICt-BpX,
and many valuable articles too numerous to me-
ton.
The sale vii! take place pr" IMPLY at the hor
above mentioned. at McPhearspn's horel aud Ia.
Iaurant, corner of seventh and hull streets. Ai:.
chester, Va. WILLIAM AMBERs.
de 80 Tlu.tet
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BY Wellington Goddin,
Real Estate Agent and Auctioneer,
office corner Eleventh and Bank streets.

GALE ATaAUCTION OF TWELVE
SIOTs NnDUVAL's .ADDIT!0N, NEARLY
| OPPOSITE TO HAM CEMET Ek1--7Wili 6esolo
I'm of January, S75. at 3h o'clock P. III. twelve
handsome BUILDING LOTS located as above, 90 o.
ioInIng the Two new tenements recently erected ply
~ W r. STyler and Mrr. Tyler. These lots are
wen adapted for persons Of small means to build on
TERMS: At sale. ~ oonn,N .rct,on,eo-
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HOLIDAY GOODS.
DLASK BOOKS AND STATIONERY
FOR THE NEW YEAR.

Resides BLANK BOOKS Of our own manufac'
ture, we keep good stock oflower-priced BLANK
BOOKS of northern make. but of excellent quaiit5
for the price: with STATIONERY Of every de-
scripton required fer the office and counting-room
Our DIAkILS, ALMANACJ, and CALENDARS
for the year 1875 are ready.
ito On WOOODHOUSE & PARHAM.
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DIeHMOND TRANSFER COMPANY
LII AND G ENERAL RAILROAD TICKET OF
NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, and WEST pid railroad
and steamship lines. Tickets to and from all points
In Europe via Cunard Line.
RATES SAME AS AT DEPICTS.
Passengers aud baggage called for, and baggage
checked from hotels and residences u destination
on all tickets sold by US. Latest styles Of PLEA.
SURE CARRIAGES for hire. Agents on all trains
to receive checks OF passengers and furnish trans
portaton. For correct information, through tick
cts iSLEEPING-CAR SECTIONS, and STATE.
ROOMS, apply at OFFICE S26 MAIN STREET.
a. w. CARRIER.
Branch ticket Office at Exchange and Ballard
HoteL oe 26-3m
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E'OR CHRISTMAS, 1874.

JAMAICA RUM.
APPLE BRANDY,
CALIFORNIA BRANDY,
FRENCH BRANDY,
s OrCH and IRISH WHISkEYS,
CALIFORNIA and FRENCH oh AMP AGNES,
SWEET CATA&BA WINE,
BUCKS VIRGINIA WINE,
TABLE SH aRRY,
COOKING SHERRY,
with the usual assortment Of NUTS, RAISlNS.
CURRANTs, CITRON, ORANGES, LEMONS,
deis j. p. KIDD, TIT Broad street.
THRISTMAS PRESEN rs
FURNITURE, FURNITURE, FURNITURE,
CARPETS, CARPETS, CARPETS,
CLOCKS, BIBLES, PICTURES,
FRAMES, FRAMES, EhAhEs'
CHRoMOS, CHROMOS, CHEOhOS.
LOOKING-GLAssE>, LOOKING-GLASSES,
CATHOLIC PRAYER. BOOKS,
CATHOLIC PRAYER-BoOKs.
A full line Of the above goods always on hand.
Parties i'm want would do well to call and examine
my stock for any Of the above gooos nefore purcha-
sing will sell BY weekly or monthly instruments
II required. WILLIAM DaFttoN,
ne 16-3m 1893 Main street,
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FINANCIAL.
NOTICE. Of matured or past
IN due bonds of the city of Richmond are hereby
notified that payment OF the same will be made
upoa demand on and after the 4th day OF January,
1875, upon presentation at the ONCE Of the Au-
ditor. t-
Interest on the same will cease from and after
the 31st recember- 1874.
BY order OF the Commissioners Of the Sinking
Fund. A. NJ. KELLEY President.
J. B. RoysTER, Auditor and secretary.
de 21-tJa 10
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THESAPEAkE AND OHIO RAIL-
" ROAD.-On and after SUNDAY, December
Is, 1874, PASSENGER trains will run as follows:
FROM RICHMOND.
SIS A. M. MAIL TRAIN.-For Gordensville
Charlottesville. Staunton, Covington, and al
intermediate stations daily Except Sunday ar.
irving at Covington at 7:20 P. M. This ral
connects at Gordonsyille for Orange, Culps per
Warrenton, Manassas Alexandria, Washington
and the North, and At Charlottes Vile for Lynch
burg, Bristol, Knoxville, Chattanooga, and th'
4:i5 P. NJ. ACCoMMoDATIoN TRAIN.-Fo.
Gordonsville and all intermediate stations daily tex
cspt Sunday, arriving at Gordonsville at SIS
$40 P. N. CINCINNATI EXPRESSION Cor
louisville, Charlottesville, Staunton, Goshen, Mil
boro' CovingtoR, and all stations west Of CoyiBg-
ton daily (excepL Saturday, arriving at Huntington
at 5:25 P. ID. This traiI connects ct Gordonsvills
for Washington, Baltimore. and the North, and
for Lynchburg and the South !; and at HUI ting
tor with steamers BosIona and Fleetwood for Gu
cnnati and all points West and Southwest arriving
at Cincinnati at ID.
Baggage checked through.
For through tickets, rates, anc Information, ap
ply at S26 Main street, Ballard and Exchange Ho
lei, or at the companys Office, Broad street and SIX
teeuth. q. w. MACFARLAHE.
Assistant General Ticket Agent.
W. &. WICKHAM, Vice-Presideut- de IL
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ROCKS, STATIONERY, &c.
1875. POSTAGE FREE 1875.
j. T. ELLYSON,

j. T. ELLYSON,
NEWSDFALER AND BOOKSELLER,
l112 MAIN STREET, RICHMOND, VA,
will send any of the following papers and maya
lines to any address ipostdge paid on receipt OF
The prices annexed which are the publishers, low
EST rates. The EDUCATIONAL JogRNAL, WIN any
1925:
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= s7'1# MANCHESTER.
st' City government.
J, +. R. Chiles, Mayo.
a. G. Atkinson, Commonwealth 5; Attor-
ney. s,s.- d. jess,,4,. 81 g
Henry Fitzgerald, Sergeant.
W. T. Lithgow, Commissioners OF the Re
venue. il, - .-lt.-.-4s-ys = .sl!|1a -
J. W. Bronaugb, Jr.: Treasurer.
james NJ. Graves, High Constable.
James A.. Lipscomb, Chief OF Police. Z
j. B. Walden, auditor aud Clerk to the
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-11-23

you aware that your sons are drifting
driiting3 The current may be still, yet
it is strong. Fathers aud mothers, do
you see the rapids below How is II
with'your children?
Every drunkard is somebody's son ; a
mothers kind hand once patted that sons
bead. The trouble was she did not see
the rapids below--did not discover the
whirlpool Of woe just ahead in which ere
long her son would be engulfed. Fathers
aud mothers, are you going to lead your
boys into this stream this fall and coming
winter BY passing around at your homes,
by your Preside, cider7 Yes, cider, for
that has proved the stepping stone to a
hundred drunkard's graves to moro young
men and boys than any other agency, In
the home circle first has the boy stepped
into the stream that has borne him on to
ruin. At the Preside, aud following the
example of father or mother, he first
learned to love not only the taste but
the effects of alcohol.
Friends, stop just a moment and con.
slider your responsibilities as parents, as
citizens This scourge is felt just as
much in farming communities as any
other. Our army of inebriates is re.
cruited to largo extent from farmers
homes. The work of reformation must
begin at home. Mothers, here is a field
where your influence may be felt, on
which your labor can we'll be employed.
Don't bring that cider pitcher around
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"that way takes all the cream out Of his
cows and completely oxhausts them 10 less
than thirty years, while by setting my
milk shallow make three pounds week,
and ny cows last seventy.6ve to a hund.
red years"
"You must acknowledge that he makes
great gain when he matches more chick.
ems than he sets eggs"
"By no means, stranger. That plan
oxhausts the hens and uses them all up
in less than ten years. | don't believe
my ueighbor has got a hen left that his
father left him twenty-five years ago,
while ] have several left that my grand.
father brought from Massac husetts."
"How have you been able to preserve
their lives SO long ?" asked the traveller.
by never permitting them to hatch
more than three chickens from dozen
eggs" replied the farmer, land l am now
convinced that have let them hatch too
many, for if | had kept them down 10 one
chicken from dozen | should have had
several hens left that my great-great-
grandfather brought over iu tho May
Flower. l tell you, stranger, this deep
setting business exhausts the cows and
hens terribly, they don't last long under
that management"
"Well, then, from what you say. you
must approve Of your neighbors plan of
setting his posts, they last SO long"
Wrong again, stranger. You see, that
plan won't do here in Whiting, you see
we have all cedar swamps here, and if we
should have no market for them, we want
to use than up faster, and my neighbors
plan Of deep setting spoiIs the market
l tell you, stranger, we are stirred up all
the time by our neigbbors deep setting
notions, and it makes him unpopular, the
best way is to d. as that old fellow down
on the Hudson did, you will remember,
stranger, how popular Rip Van Wrinkle
was, and my neighbor might have been
just as popular if he had just been the
same kind Of man. | tell you, stranger,
what with these schools more than three
months every year, these boards of agri.
culture holding meetings all around and
these deep setting fellows scattered all
around and more learning the same
bottoms farmer can't sleep more than
twenty hours out Of the twenty -four, and
| am going to go to tho Legislature next
fall and have the same laws re.enacted
that they used down at Salem. and have
all these crazy deep setting fellows burned
or hung if they don't agree to sleep at
least twenty-five hours Of the twenty. four
and let US have peace.
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For tho Register.
The First Step.

To elevate The standard OF morals 10 q
community and better the condition Of
the race is the true sphere OF journalism.
Labor ir this direction Is legitimate, is
right-yea, more, is absolutely maud
ed. TO remain silent is to become par.
tielpan; in any and every evil that stalks
openly abroad, While an evil nay not
be reached and check d at once, yet at
tention can be called 10 it, notes of
warning may be sounded, and peoples
eyes be opened to what is going on.
Americans arc SO very busy they have
little or no time to look after the welfare
of much besides their own individual
selves and their households, consequently
enemies Of society, enemies of the home
circle, often shoot forth aud attain quite
growth before they are seen in their
true light, and by the time they are seen
their roots have struck deep in the earth,
and to uproot them is difficult. Such has
been the case in the past, such is the
case at present. There is al evil gnaw.
ing a, the vitals OF society and sappiug
the happiness Of numberless home circles
Whether in the bosom OF home or in the
heart Of society, the influence of ardent
spirits aud all kindred drinks, is pros.
tratiDg indeed language fails to portray
justly the effect Of rum drinking in a
community Who says it is not an enc.
my to any well regulated society or
home that ii steadily INDUCED in will
not completely ruin the individual or
community who handle it2 Does the
rapid increase Of crime in our land in it's
varied forms and in its uDheard Of bru.
tshness, alarm you9 Ask yourself the
cause. Most Of it is traoeable to one
source. Crime has q grea, feeder-that
feeder is spirituous liquors in all their
forms.
People of Addison county, do you see
any effects of this enemy in your midst 2
Do you behold and only wonder, only
sigh for the sins Of the people2 Are
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New York g. Canada Railroad.

Last Tuesday this road, from White.
hall to Platlsbugh, was formally opened
by grand excursion OF railroad men,
prominent local personages and newspaper
representatives. They left Albany Tues
day morning, received ovations at White.
hall, Ticoudefoga Crown Poiri, Port Her
~ and Put Kent and arrived in Platts.
burgh hungry set Of iellOws. After
dinner, and nights rest, an excursion
to Montreal was in order. The following
description Of the road, frcm the Free
Press, will be Of interest to our readers :
Though not fully ballasted, it appear
ed to be generally in excellent running
order, with snow fences up at the expos.
ed points, and little lacking but Station
houses, which are YET to be provided at E
number of stations. From Whitehall
north, the track runs along the low and
level ground, few feet above the level
of the lake, till toward Ticonderoga, it
begins to rise. AT Ii, it passes by a
tunnel through the solid rock, little back
of the site OF the old Fort. From
there on, it still skirts the lake, fol-
lowing the indentatioDs Of the shore,
till, at point in the town Of West.
port, south Of the village, the line
leaves the shore 10 avoid Split Rock
mountain and passes inlond. 1t runs
here through nlce farming country Tor
eight or ten miles striking the lake again
at Willsboro Bay. From here north, for
fourteen miles, the road is of most ex.
traordnary character The road bed is
blasted out o! the face of the precipices
for miles, at height Of some hundred
and fifty feet from the water, occasional.
ly tunneling through projecting spurs,
and crossing the ravines sometimes by
fills of solid rock and sometimes by iron
bridges. The rock cutting here, we are
told, exceeds anything of the kind on the
Atlantic slope. The rock is gneiss and
limestone, a good deal mixed and gener.
ally hard to drill. Over forty thousand
kegs of powder were burned by the con.
tractors in these cuts and tunnels, besides
some twenty tons OF nitro'g yceriDo. We
heard it said, and can well believe it,
that there is not another equally costly
fourteen miles Of singh track III a stretch,
on the continent. Where 10 wall OF
rock has been left between the track and
guarded by substantial parapets Of mas
sive masonry, All shows bold and skill.
ful engineering and thorough work, OF
course, the near scenery from the car
windows is Of the widest character. The
moro distant scenery Of the Vermont
shore, with the background of the Green
Mountains, was unfortunately, for the
mos. part, hidden by the heavy clouds,
which utterly concealed the Vermont
mountains, and seemed to sweep down to
the water, permitting no view of Burliug.
ton, or of much of anything on the east
ern shore.
Skirting the face Of Trembleau noun.
tain, the road comes TO Port Kent, aud
thence has level and comparatively easy
ground along the shore to Plattsburgh
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integrity, H. 10 far be TIC postal seivIc
is concerned, the failure is only apparent
and not real, wby should II not be so stated
in dignifed way, instead Of INDUCING
10 half column Of insane rawlings 2 The
facts are that complaints were made to
us by subscribers that The REGISTER di.
rected to points west Of Vergennes were
not sure to come by the mails in which
they should arrive. After making some
inquiry by letter il was thought best to
see what light would be thrown upon the
matter by public discussion. To that end
the mildest sort of an inquiry was made
and the editor of the Vermonter (P, ny
raves aud busters like a mailman, We
are reminded Of tho first indiguan. denials
Of exrevenuc agent Joyce, who is now
serving out sentence for completely in
the St. Louis whisky ring frauds, No one,
through the REGISTER, has accused the
VergenDes postmaster or any one connect.
ed with the Vergenncs Office, of any delin.
quency whatever. Those gentlemen who
stopped the REGISTER because it did not
arrive until the same mail which brought
the Vermonter, published three days
later, did not accuse the Vergennes post.
master with the fault, They only com.
planned Of the fact and did not attempt to
place the responsibility, These gentle.
men, stung by the annoyance Of the fail.
ure 10 arrive promptly, may possibly have
over.estimated the frequency of the fail.
ure, but when gentlemen of Mr. Elisha
Smiths standing are publicly charged
with deliberate ialsebood for simply say.
ing that certain mail matter does not al
ways promptly arrive at their office, the
verdict Of the public must be that there
is an over.sensitiveness which is at least
suspicious.
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The Shallow Side.

After that traveller got out of the
Whiting mep's buggy, last week, there
cgmo along another farmer who drove q
team that was remarkable for It's sntiquat.
ed appearance, the wagon was built only
year or two after the deacon built the
tone hoss shay aud the harness was one
used By Gov. Winthrop, and the horse
was the one that Paul Revere used n
his famous ride. The farmer drew up
aud very politely invited the stranger to
ride After the stranger had clambefed
up aud seated himself in the ponderous
vehicle his curiosity was excited, nor was
it satisfied until tho story Of the rig they
were riding in was drawn out OF the farm
err, as well as the fact that the farmers
grandfather drove that team from Massa.
chusetts when he moved into Whiting
But how have you preserved this
team SO long p asked the stranger
"Why low" replied the farmer, that
team never would have lasted half the
time it has if had not stuck to the good
old ways my grandfather brought from
Massachusetts, with him. There is my
neighbor up back here, he goes in for new
ideas and new notions, and il be had in.
herited this team he would have worn it
oil out and used it up in less than fifty
years. Would you believe it. stranger,
that man actually drives over to Brandon
and back the same day, while | stop over
night twice going over and twice coming
back. l tell you such speed as fifteen
miles ip day will use up team 10 less
than fifty years"
IL suppose" said tho traveller. THAT
must be the man who believes in deep
setting"
Fright, stranger" said the farmer,
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The Late Abner Hagar.

Not baving seen any obituary notice o!
the late Abner Hagar, Esq, of Planta.
genet Mills. and having been acquainted
with him for about sixty years, feel that
| cannot do less than pay a small tribute
to the memory oi that highly esteemed
and good man, whose earthly career clos
ed ut the residence of his SOP, Albert Ha.
gar, Esq, NJ. p, on Sunday evening, the
30ih ult Mr.. Hagar was born at Walt.
dam, Mass, Of parents who were the true
descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers. be.
ing one Of seven SOUS, whose names were
Benjamin, Jonathan, Jonas, Abner, Tho
mas. Luther and Calvin. He came to
Montreal 10 the year 1900, where he re.
sided seventeen years, during which time
he evinced remarkable enterprise in bust.
ness, amassed wealth, and went occasional.
ly to England and France to make pur.
chascs. lie lived in his own house in St.
Paul street, and his manly bearing and
cheerful department gained him many
f:--1 II -,;eL. ~ -~e.-i--iy -.s. !.
the small Presbyterian church, on St.
Peter street, with his bass viol, with
which, and his well.trained voice, like
David, he delighted to worship God in
His sanctuary, In the year 1917 he re.
moved to Plantagenet, where he had, in
the year 1911, erected mills, and where
he has ever since resided. and during
which time his benevolenco and generous
aud nnbounded hospitality became widely
known. He was one of natures noble
men, and as a magistrate, administered
justice in such way as to draw towards
himself the confidence and affection c { the
community, 1t may be added that he
was siugularly blessed in his declining
years by the devoted and loving atten-
tons Of his only remaining son and daugh.
ter. whose 6lial regard for their revered
parent cannot be surpassed aud, indeed,
hardly imagined. His wife was a sister
to Mrs. Fairbanks. of St. Johnsbury, VT,
and, during the few years she was spared
to her family in their retirement from
vations and reverses met them, she proved
u hclpmeet indeed. He was an uncle of
the Messrs. Hagar, merchants Of Mont
real. His funeral was attended By many
sincere mourners, and he was buried with
Masonic bonors. His end was peace -
Montreal Witness
The older Inhabitants of Middlebury
will remember the Hagor family, and re.
member that three of these brothers we're
residents of this place. Jonathan built
the Murray brick block and was in the
book business, Thomas built the Phelps
house. Thomas and Luther were some
time 10 the mercantile business, in the
front end of the old cotton factory -
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MARKETS.
Middlebury Retail Market.
Watertown Live Stock Market
FoR rns WEEK ENDING Nov. 10, 1875.

- -N'N'
Market Beef-A lew choice 1000 a 1925 ex-
ira soo you; hrst quality 7.5Oas60; second
quality o'OOat'OO third quality 6.OOa5.76.
Priees Of store Cattlo-WorkiDg Oxen per pair
from 'OO, 100, lI5a24O
Mileh Cows aid Calves from S35a63; extra e5a
30: Farrow Cows S2Oa40
fearlings SlJa21; Two yesri old lsa33; three
years old 2Ssl6.
Sheep and Lambs-1n lots 81, 2.25, ESQ, AIS,
each; extra s3.0Oa4. 10 per head, or from Aa6c
per ID lambs e1fc per 10:
Northern dressed hogs 10 l-2c.
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Over the Lake.

--Ticonderoga clergymen meet every
Monday to discuss theology and criticise
each others sermons
On the evening Of the Sd inst, "a
young man named Taguo from Arnold
Hill, was drowned at Port Kent while
intoxicated.
"A four yeae old daughter of Frank
Cameron of Plattsburgh was so badly
burned by her clothes catching fire, on
tho 9th inst, that she died the next morn.
ing.
In Clinton, on the I'd inst, three
young roughs named Ryan attacked three
other men with stones, when one Of the
assaied fred and killed one of the at.
lacking party.
The family of Indians who we're en-.
can ped last winter at the base Of Mt
Defiance, Ticouderoga, are now located at
the ontlet of LIKE George. They are Of
the Penobscot tribe. The Oldest of the
party is a dusky and wrinked old squaw
nearly a century old.
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DIED.

In North Ferrisburgh, Nov lG, A L. Wheeler.
aged 81 years.
In Richmond. Nov. Is. Alvin Eaton. aged "A
years.
In Warrensburgh, Nov. 6, of spinal
meningitis, Lucy d. Walker, wife of W. W.
Lewis, aged nearly twenty years.
In Plattsburgh, Nov. ., Martha Chase, wife of
L. H. Cooley, aged Al years. Deceased was
sister Of Dr. Chase Of Essex, Hiram NJ. Chase OF
Chicago, Mrs. David Jones Of Willsboro, and a
twin sister Of Mrs. IL. T. Lanaway of Middlebury,
Vt.
In Montpelier, October 10, Edgar ID. only
child Of Geo. w. and Lou c. Bolton. aged 10
months and &c days.
Robe his form tenderly, lay him to rest,
Fold his white hands on his still breast;
Oh, let his last slumber DO meath the sod,
Where the SUI shines brightly, where flowers
nod.
Tenderly, tenderly, dust unto dust;
To God, our Fathers care, our child We trust.
Edgar was lent us, but not given
The Savior has called him home to heaven =