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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-04-13
COMMISSIONERS NOTICE The

Aundersigued, being appointed by the Hon.
Probate Court for the District Of Addison, Com
missioners, to receive, examine. and adjust all
claims and demands of all persons against the es-
tate of Nelson Branch. late Of Whiting, in said
District, deceased, and all claims exhibited In
offset thereto, hereby give notice that we will
meet for the purposes aforesaid, at the late dwell
ling house of the said deceased, on the 10th day
of May, and 18th day Of September next, from
one o'clock Pm. until four O'Clock p NJ, each
of said days and that six months FROM the 18th
day of March, A. D. 1875, is the time limited
by said court for said creditors to present their
claims to us for examination and allowance.
Dated at Whiting, this 18th day Of March,
A. d. 1875.
ELISHA RICH. }oo,,,.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-04-13

The old Pavilion hotel at Mont
pelier, is now fiat. and The work on the
new walls commenced. The work will be
pushed vigorously forward, and the
present prospect is that the hotel will be
completed ready for guests in the early
autumn.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-04-13
This is TO GIVE NOTICE THAT

l. have given my son, Horace I. Chadwick,
his time during the rest of his minority, and that
1 will claim none Of his wages, nor pay any debts
Of his contracting, after tdis day. April s. 1875.
Avs LEWIS B. CHADWICK.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-04-13
Grants Daughter Nelly.

She was hardly pretty girl, except
with the loveliness Of fresh youth, but her
side face-she has retrousse nose and
round chin-is charr ingly piquant Her
chief beauty is her arms aud neck, which
are perfect in contour and white as ala.
baster. This beauty OF form she inherits
from her mother, who has such pretty
foot that the young officers on her hus-
bands staff used to compete FOR the honor
Of helping her in and out of her carriage
just to see it, The only accomplishment
Nelly ever boosted of was dancing, and
that she did divinely. She was not
literary or artistic, or conversational, and
she never pretended to be; but when
Charles Sumner, her fathers enemy, died
she went out to the green house and gath
cred with her own hands flowers for the
cross she sent to his coffin. So it was for
such little acts-ior sort of sincerity
about her that despsed to assume what
she did not possess-that people here,
even without any personal acquaintance,
had an affection for her, and they regard
her with an interest far removed from idle
curiosity - Washington Letter.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-04-13
1)l ED.

In Waltham, April 9Th, Nathan Griswold, ESQ.,,
in the LIST year of his age.
In Middlebury, March 80, of pneumonia. So
phia ;. Farnsworth, wife of MIR. A. II Farms
worth, aged Gl years.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-04-13

NJ ARRIED.

At the residence of Capt. +. NJ. Shaw, Wey-
bridge, March 3 l, by Rev, DR.. kitchel, Arthur
d. Everts Of Watham, and Ella d. Willard of
Wcybridgc.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-04-13
Tor SALE.

L The Selleck house on Main Street south of
Mrs Tiiden's. The location is central and beau
tiful. The house is one and half stories high,
has eight rooms aud pantry, good cellar and
cistern. The lot has about ffty-ive feet front.
The place will be sold at reasonable price, and
will be rented until sold subject to vacancy on
sale. Inquire Of l.. f. KNAPP.
MddobHry, Vt. Ave.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-04-13

At the corner of Spear aud Harrison
streets, San Francisco, an explosion of
giant powder occurred, Wednesday, in
frame building adjacent to Hathaway's
bonded warehouse. The walls of the
warehouse were crushed in, and number
of frame buildings occupied as saloons
and dwellings were blown to pieces, and
in few moments the whole was one mass
of flames, A number of men, women and
children were crushed by the falling
ruins, and some persisted in the flames. 1t
is impossible at present to ascertain the
number Of lives lost or persons injured.
The fire is now under control, being con.
fined to the immediate vicinity of the ex-
plosion. The loss in the bonded ware
house is not less than 100000. Adjacent
property burned, consisting of hay, barn,
coal shed, saloon aud dwelling, perhaps
$4,000 more Three bodies have been
taken out thus far, and it is thought that
there are several others in the ruins.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-04-13

"A young man named Magoon has
just died at Newport from the effects of a
severe freezing, few weeks ago.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-04-13
New England Labor Troubles

The troubles in the New England cotton
manufacturing cities continue, and grow
worse rather than better. At Lowell
strikers and employers seem equally
resolved to stick it out the spinncrs OF
various other places have been assessed
for help to the strikers. There is still
some trouble at Fall River, the $50
hands in the Montaup mill having stopped
work, Tuesday, on account of some dis.
agreement about wages. At New Bed
ford nearly all the section hands and
weavers of the Potomska mills struck
work, Wednesday,-the former on 2
disagreement in regard to wages, the latter
because one of the committee they sent to
demonstrate with the managers was
discharged. At Great Falls, n. H., the
strike still continues, and only about 20
Of the sou who struck have returned to
work. The mule spinners held meet
ing, Tuesday, and pledged themselves not
to return to work until their former wages
were restored, while the manufacturers
declare that no advance shall be made,
and there is little chance for settlement.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-04-13
GomMtecInNERS' NnTICE

The undersigned, having been appointed by tho
Hon. Probate Court for the district ofNew Haven
commissioners, to receive, examine and adjust all
claims and demands of all persons against the e.
tate of William Hanson, late of Starksboro in said
district, deceased, and all claims exhibited in off,
set thereto, hereby give notice that We will meet
for the purposes aforesaid, at the dwelling house
Of Widow Anna Hanson, in said Starksboro, on
the ith day of May and Sd day of August next.
from o'clock p. N. until 4 o'clock, p. NJ, each
of said days and that six months from the LIST
day of March, A. D. 1875, is the time limited by
said court for said creditors to present their claims
to US for examination and allowance.
Dated at Starksboro, this 10th day Of March,
D 1875. l. l.. STRONG, Ia.
MYR0N SMALL, 0o"f D.
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COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.

~ The undersigned, having been appointed
by the Hon. Probate Court for the District Of New
Haven, Commissioners, 70 receive, examine, and
adjust all claims and demands Of all persons
against the estate of Thomas Morgan. late Of New
Haven, in said dis%rict, deceased. and all claims
exhibited IN offset thereto, hereby give notice
that we will meet for the purposes aforesaid, at
his late residence in said New Haven On the LIST
day of May and LIST day of September next, from
o'clock NJ until o'clock NJ, on each of said
days, and that six months from the 10th day Of
March, D 1875, is the time limited by said
court for said creditors to present their claims to
us for examination and allowance.
Dated at New Haven, this s0th day of March,
A 1873
JOSEPH r. NASH
3 THERON NJ sTURDEvANr. cOmr'.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-04-13

Mr. Beecher's declaration Of the "im.
possibility" Of the charge that he made
improper proposals to Mrs. Tilton is con-
frmed by the judgment of her neighbors,
and all who know her well,-her husband,
and an intimate friend or two of his, per-
haps, excepted. No woman could have
been selected whose appearance, history
and character would have stamped a
greater degree of impossloility upon the
story of the scaudal,-Cin. Commercial.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-04-13

A MURDER CoNFEssED.-David W.
Keaneney. who has been arrested for kill
ing his father, Michael Keaneuoy. at Pc.
tersham, Mass ,contosscs the deed. Ho
says that his father had chased his broth
er into the woodshcd, aud was pounding
him numerically for a slight improperly,
committed on Faster Sunday, whereupon
he (David)rushed to his brothers defence,
aud Selling flatiron, struck his father a
blow with it on the back Of the head. Da-
vid is lad about sixteen years old. Ac.
cording to his statement the elder kean-
euey was very brutal in the treatment Of
his boys, beating them on the slightest
prOyocation.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1875-09-23
DON'T Forget to sow the rive.


While all has been said that could
be said, in favor of rye for fall, winter
and early spring pasturage, enough
has been said TO convince the most
skeptical that it pays. Rye is hardy
and certain crop, and rarely fails. Rye
sown early in the fall will endure the
winter frosts better than almost any
other grain. Another advantage is,
that it affords such an early and abun.
dant supply of green food in the spring.
when it is so much relished by stock
BY having patch of rye adjoining the
feed lot, the cattle may be kept yarded
longer and thus give the grasses in the
pasture time to get large, and strong
enough to afford a good and nutritious
bite for the stock, and all danger of in.
jury TO them, or injury to the land by
the tramping of it when too wet, will
be avoided. By all means sow some
winter rve.-Er.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1875-09-23
Save the Corn Fodder.

All kinds of stock like corn fodder.
Horses and colts are particularly fond
of it. Those who keep race horses
frequently strip the leaves from the
corn stalks, cure them, and save them
for their horses when in training.
They think it helps their respiratory
organs. But cattle and sheep are
equally fond of corn fodder. A change
of food is rellshed and appreciated by
all kinds of stock. The human family
is fond of variety of food, and the
brute family is undoubtedly equally
fond of it. Well cured corn fodder is
very healthy diet for stock, aside
from being so much relished.
Now is the time to save the corn
fodder. Before the stalks have turned
yellow, before the frost has come to
wilt and injure the broad leaves: as
soon as the kernels have hardened, go
into the corn fields and cut it and
shock it. Put up the shocks well SO
they will stand erect and shed the rain.
The corn viii DC all the better TO be
put up secure this way, and the leaves
and stalks will make the best kind OF
feed for stock. Ii is true, there is a
pretty large yield Of all kinds of stock
food this season, but much of the hay
was saved in a damaged state, and a
change from hay to good corn stalks
will be appreciated.-Rardl World.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1875-09-23


No subordinate grange is prepared
to be represented in a county grange
until its members fully recognize their
moral obligation to stand by and sup
port arrangements entered into, if
within their power to do so; and if
not able, they should frankly say so,
that the other members may know that
their action is not from indifference to
their obligations. OF all the other
main objects of the order we are al
ready assured; now let tho subordi-
nate oranges take up the subject of
cooperation and make it study and
a success. Do not wait for coop
Grafton TO come down to you; it
win never come to you from that d.
rection; but take hold in the subordi-
nate grange, where it must originate,
and build upward to splendid sue
cess.--Ner Era.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1875-09-23
Distances Between Trees.

We quote from an exchange the
following estimates of the proper dis
tances to be left between shrub trees
and shrubs when setting out an or
chard or garden. We think it Is worth
preserving for reference:
Standard apples, thirty feet apart
each way. In poor soils, twenty-five
feet may be enough.
Standard pears and cherries, twen-
ty-fve feet apart each way. Cherries
will do at eighteen feet, and the dwarf
growing sorts, Dukes and Morelloes,
even at sixteen feet.
Standard plums, peaches. apricots
and nectarines, ten to eighteen feet
apart each way.
Ounces ten to twelve feet apart
each way.
Pyramidal apples, cherries, pears
and plums, ten to twelve feet apart
each way. The greater distance is
better where land is not scarce.
Dwarf apples (bushes), six feet apart.
Curraats, gooseberries and raspber-
ries, three to four feet apart.
Blackberries, six TO seven feet apart.
Er
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1875-09-23

Another duty each member owes
both 10 himself and to the agents of
the order is, other things being equal,
to do his business through him, and
believe his statements, rather than
those of men whose interest it is to de-
stroy cooperative business. 1t would
seem that il would not be possible for
a case to occur where any good Patron
would discard the statements of a
brother, and accept as truth tho state
ments of some agent interested in SELL
ing him a machine. Fortunately for
our faith, and hope for humanity, those
instances are rare--though not entire
ly wanting. A letter received day
or two since, mentions a case of a
member of the order, and man of
usual intelligence, where a machine
agent accideutly (O staid over night,
and before morning sold machine for
eighty-two dollars more than the broth
er could have purchased the same ma
chine for from his agent, not dozen
miles away.-A.B. lSn.ed1ey, an Helper
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1875-09-23
Illinois State Agency, P. of H.

A. Houston g. Co., State agents for
the Patrons of Husbandry of Illinois,
have card in our paper this week.
Young and enterprising, with ample
capital and thorough knowledge of
their business, these gentlemen arc
steadily building up an enviable repu-
tation. Parties making consignments
of grain to this firm, can rest assured
of prompt sales and quick returns. AS
the State agents aforesaid, they gave a
bond for $4,000, and their references
are among the wealthiest men in st.
T.ouie-Er
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1875-09-23

The following letter from w. S. Han
ma, State Lecturer. is addressed TO the
Kansas Farmer:
have now travelled over ], 800 miles
visited thirty-three counties, twelve
county oranges, spoken and given the
unwritten work over fifty times, dur
ing the last two months. / find we
have about thirty county oranges, ard
that there are half dozen more ready
to organize. Many counties have trans
acted from one thousand to fifteen
thousand dollars worth of business,
and one of our dozen grange stores
having sold nearly $4,000 worth of
goods.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1875-09-23
About Washing Dishes.

Mrs. C. S. r., Mansfield, Ohio,
writes: The dislike to dish-washing,
so common among housekeepers and
girls, arises mainly from the fact that
it is so injurious to the hands. Ii is a
serious objection to the work, as in
the minds ofmany the preservation of
pretty hand is Of more Importance
than many cups and platters. By the
use of what we call swab, we have
so far obviated the difficulty, that the
washing of the dishes is preferred to
any other household work. The swab
may be made on any smooth, round
stick, about foot long, and an inch
in diameter. About two inches from
one end cut a groove; take candle
wickipg, white carpet-chain, or even
strips of strong cotton cloth, and cut
or fold about eight inches in length !;
tic this material firmly into the groove
at the middle, and turn down and lie
| firmly at the end of the stick, and you
viii have machine" which viii last
many weeks, and go into boiling soap
suds, or even I've, without cringing.
In washing the dishes we have yes
sci of hot soap suds, and another, not
scalding hot, of clear water. We wash
and rinse the dishes, placing them to
dry on a cloth spread on some convent
ent shelf or table. By inyering few
cups Al first, the other dishes can be
leaned upon them loosely, and more
conveniently, and with less injury to
the edges, than upon "a rack when
dry they will be brighter and smooth
er, than by any amount of rubbing
1t wonld appear from Mrs. RS note
that the dish swab is not generally
known: they are kept in all house
furnishing stores, and we give an en-
craving of the kind sold there, but of
course homemade one will answer
quite as well-EG.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1875-09-23

The following sensible remarks on
State Grange officials are from the
Farmers Friend, published in Penn
sylyania:
State Grange officers, as rule, are
honest and honorable men, but like
other men, liable to err. They are not
the rulers. but the servants, of the sub.
ordinate oranges, their official actions
being justly open 10 the Inspection aud
criticism of all goodPatrons. This, how
ever, should be done in a proper man
ner, for the general good of the order,
and not merely for the sake of finding
fault. No officer should be charged
with dereliction Of duty or misuse
of official power without positive
evidence of the truth of the charges.
1t is the duty of State Grange officers
to transact their official business in
such manner as will bear close scru-
tiny at any moment by any member OF
the order, and they will then have no
cause to fear investigation.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1875-09-23

"Advance Grange, '--Eagle Township.
NJ. CAMP, Secretary, sedgwick City.
"Ninnescab Grange. "-Ninnescah Township.
THos j. MAcREpiE, Master.
zarah McClung, Sec'y., Clear Water.
''wakulla Grange, Eagle Township,
C. S. Zimmerman. Secretary, sedgwick.
"Prairie Gem Grange, Waco Township.
V. 9. Cartwright, Master.
b. York, sec'y., Wichita.
s'Aiiica Grange, ''-Aiiica Township.
John Kelly, Master.
J. r. Mcyiclser, Secretary, Attica.
ssYosernite Grange, "--0hio Township
j. J. Williams, Master.
J. D. Malcolm, sec'y., Ohio Center.
"cem Grange, Park Township.
Frank J. Canton, sec'y., PARK CITY.
ssDelano Grange, ''-Delano Township.
Matthew Scully, Master.
r. Il. Lawrence, Secretary, Delano.
s.Ciarion Grange''--Lilceln township.
W. II Nazel, Master.
s. CLARK. Secretary, Clarion.
.scrant Grange, ''-Grant Township.
1hos %. Hoss. Master
Kate NJ Perrin, escretary, Wichita.
JoHS WAND, Master.
Geo. W Dennis, sec'y., Wichita.
'spieasant Hin Grange''-Delano Township.
Harry Martin, Master,
d. w. keith, secretary, Nlchlta
''waco Grange, '-salesn Township.
Edward Gee, Master.
d. o. WILSON, sec'y., Waco p. o.
Rockford Grange. '--Rockford Township.
j Hcut Minnich, Muster.
j. Hafbauer, Secretary, III Paso.
pheasant View Grange, = Onion T,owns,hip.
C. W. c. Jones, Secretary, Delano.
''Ilinois Grange Illinois Township.
VIM. wikeG, Master,
Alex. j. Gard, Secretary, Wichita.
''Home ge''-wichita Township.
Geo. NJ. Jordan. Secretary, Wichita.
payne Grange, Payne Township.
A. G. Cobb, Master.
James Wilson, Secretary, Greenwich p o.
.'cowskin Grange''-sreeley Township.
jas. +. Barnett, Master,
Frank Dale, Secretary, Eldridge.
zorro Grange, Near Ten Mile Post.
II. b. WikoG, Master
MA. RALPH, sce'y., Wichita.
"Minneha Grange, '-Minneha Township B..
George Mason, Secretary, Wichita.
eden Grange'-waco Township
VIM. Simpson, Master,
A. j. Smith, Secretary, Wichita.
''Mount Hope Grange Township.
T. III. Randall, Secretary, Mount Hope.
Harmony Grange. ''--luinon Township
III. II. Post, Master,
g. w. Steenrod, Sec Y, JalnesDurgh-
"Seltzser Springs Grange '-Minneha Township
I. J. Minor, Master
J. ID. Fox, Secretary, Minneha.
'sGreenleaf Grange '-Gypsum Township.
4. w. Waters, Master.
1hos L. Preston, Secretary, FL Paso.
sswide- Awake Grunge '-Grant Township.
W. z. Siocum, Master.
r. Sasseen, Secretary, Wichita.
sFairview Grange''-Payne Township.
5. H. Hayden, Master.
Geo. Lent, Secretary, Clarion.
Evergreen Grange, - Minnesota Township.
W. 7. Likely, Alaster,
J. r. Morrison, Secretary Wichita.
"Union Grange - Union Township
H. NJ Rice, Master.
L. s Eell Secretary, Eidridse.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1875-09-23

The season for our agricultural fairs
has arrived. and while there is but lit
tie change in the system of giving pre-
miums, the managers may make some
progress in popnlarizing the exhibit
tons by using care in the selection of
committees. The idea of giving a
premium upon a monstrous pumpkin,
or melon, or vegetable of any kind
having nothing TO recommend it but
extraordinary growth which may not
be anything more than an accident, is
about as sensible as ii would be TO
award the American fat girl, weighing
500 pounds, a premium as the best
woman. Exaggerated growths of corn
or any crop do not necessarily repre-
sent good culture or intelligent farm
ing, any more than an unusually fat
animal represents good breeding.
What we want in our fairs is an award
upon intelligent, profitable culture and
successful breeding and feeding. The
premiums must be given for The sense
that produces, the care and Judgment
and skill of the individual, and not to
the thing itself The breeder who can
show high grade steer which, at two
or three years old, can be sold for more
profit than two or three scrubs of the
same age, has done more for the farm
ers of the State than the man who
shows the monstrous premium fat
steers, the cost of which he does not
know, and the profit of which cannot
possibly be demonstrated. The wheat
or vegetable grower does something of
mere practical utility for his country
when he can intelligently show profit
able culture for each acre, than all the
monstrous growihs exhibited at fairs.
And this. brings US 10 the remark,
while not flattering TO the 'dear peo-
ple," is yet true, and it is this: That
so long as public sentiment demands
monstrosi,ies, so long as fat and size
are necessary in the show rings, so
long will premium lists ignore in
telligent and profitable culture and
breeding.--hdasdS Farmer.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1875-09-23
PATRONS N SEDGwfCK COUNTY
DISTRICT GRANGE p. Of H.--wichita,
"Advance Grange, De

e. A. Dorsey. Sec.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1875-09-23
NATIONAL CRANGE-BUsISEss OFFICERS
DUDLEY w ADAMS, Master, wauikon, Iowa.
.. III. KELLY, sec'y, Georgetown, d. c.

ssKaDsas Stnte Grange'' Business Officers,
NJ 4. Hudson, Master, Napoleon,
p. b. Maxson, Secretary, Emporia.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1875-09-23

]. EXTON,
1875. 1875.
SMITH & PITTENGER,
Dealers in
Lime, Plaster, PIastering Hair,
Cement. Stone & Coal.
We now offer to CONTRACTORS, DEALERS,
BUILDERS. FARMERS and CHANGERS Lime
at bottom prices, and we will endeavor to always
Keep Large Stock On Hand
Special inducements offered to parties buying in
large lots.
OFFICE on DOUGLAS AVE near DEPOT, ct
sign of BARREL LIME on SCALES, or OFFICE
painted FRONT in RED, and at No. A Main str.
Gi We us call before buying elsewhere
I Is SMITH q PITTEN0ER.
FURNISHING GOODS.
W. j. Hobscn. Morgan Cox.
o. K Ell A H.
|HOBSON q COX