The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-02-09


occasion. STOPPING down, he loosened
his shoe, inquiring, 'Is it not new is il
not well made Yet none of you can tell
lcdere a. pinches me- That is just the
kind Of misery Try if you can bear
pinchiDg shoe month after month il is
no more trifiing than sulky woman.
But there is no vice which may not be
conquered, and this one easier than most
others. For if you only determine to Dc
so, every influence will be in your favor,
Husband, children, and servants will vol
UNFAIRLY help you, and your reward comes
with every effort. AS soon as you sow
you reap, and wha. happy harvest
The sunshine of contentment in your
home, the love in your husbands heart,
and the confidence of the little ones who
are no longer afraid to ask you ques-
tiop. or climb upon your knee
WAsnINGroN CRY DURING THE REBEL
LION Not one street was paved for any
great consecutive distance there was not
street car in the city the Capitol was
without a dome, and the new wings were
filed with workmen. No fire depart.
ment worthy Of the name was to be seen.
and mere constabulary comprised the
police, which had to call on the United
States marines, as in 1851, when the lat
ter fired upon mohaud killed aud woun.
ded a large number oil people. The wa
ter supply was wholly afforded by pumps
and springs Gas had been in partial
use for several years, but little else was
lighted except Pennsylvania Avenue and
the public buildings. Not one of the de-
partIncnts was half finished The Presi-
dents house was belcaguercd with stable
wooden fences, and patches Of bare earth
Nearly one.half of the city was cut of
from iho rest by ditch, aud called the
Island. while an intervening strip Of mall
and park was patrolled by outlaws and
outcast-, with only bridge here aud
there for outlet. The riverside was a
mass OF carthcn bluffs ierced BY two
streets, and scarcely attainable for mire
and obstiuctions. Georgetown c2mmu
nicated with the capitol by an omnibus
line. aud there was no ferry 10 Alcgan.
dr,a to- hs remembered as such, except in
the sensitive traditions of the oldest resi-
deni>, Tnrre was show of hotel accom-.
nodatluu, on which we need not lnger in
m,itfY t.; Congressman shooting
white waiter dead iu the dining. room at
Willard's, or a President welcomed to
his Inauguration with tn, National Hotel
disease. Slavery seemed to take delight
; in pressing its exposures upon the notice
of Northern men and foreigners. There
, was slave-pen under the caves OF the
Smithsonian Institution. Nlanacled men
were marched down the avenue hand cuff
fed together TO take a Northern paper
was stigma and for an aboltionist to
lecture would have been to revive the
riots arouud the National Era Office
There were good and social elements in
, the place, but society had its depths and
t heights. 70 learn arms was common,
, aud they were used on quick occasion.
, In short,thc city was relatively in embryo
G as much as when Moore, Weld, Janson,
, and Basil Hall decribcd it early in the
! century.
4 A comparative description Of the cities
of Richmond aud Washington during the
civil war would epitomizc tho relative
vigor, constructiveness, and confidence OF
the cmbattled sections. Nothing was
built in Richmond which commemorates
the Confederate government at this day
except earthworks, and the State Capitol
E devised by jefferson, which was fnisked
the year the National Capitol was com
a menced, fell in, only a lew years after
! the close of the war, buryng court, Leg
4 isiature, and spectators in charnel o.
/ smoke and wailing.
= But the civic portion Of the national
y capitol never grew with the rapiditywhicl
it showed when mcnaced by the public
, enemy.
At an expense Of 100000 sixty
eight forts in a circuit Of thirty.sevel
> miles were thrown up, connected by thir
ty.two miles of good roadway, all o
\ which is still available for the tourist anC
. teamster. The Long Bridge, which hat
>, been opened in 1885, wGs rebuilt th'
,, railroad bridge beside it constructed th
railroad from New York doubled in track
- - the aqueduct, which has cost above So,
~ 100000, was sturdily carried on within
:, fire Of the enemy the dome was raise
: on the capitol, and saluted BY the guu
!. of all the forts as the statue Of Freedor
took its place on the summit the treas
~ - ury was all completed except one wing
- and has cost about Sc 900 600 the pest
Office was almost all built during the wal
; and the patent Office which cost $4,000
II 900, was completed in 1867. The FIR.
"a street railroad was opened in 1862. Th
a. IL fortune of the Baltimore and Ohio al'
= 900 600 Of debt had become a vast SUI
! plus by the time it distributed the FED
-, eral armies 10 their homes Commo
: schools followed emancipation. Ever
IL facility of modern comfort had been citl
-, ~ er supplied or suggested aud the privat
= :, property which had been deserted in hui
-, dreds of cases by the owners, and oilere
=. - for sale at little more that the expense {
:, flight, in 1861, more than recovered il
= - value year before the surrender Of lee
er A Maryland man whose wife drops
Of dead few days aoy, had The funeral pl
re- off one day longer to get the balance
;r his corn husked. He said it wouldn
Az make any difference to her, as she vi
ID always good.natured
a. When Persian speak up and says til
70 the Shan is an old long nosed rhinocero
Us he has just about tame, before his hes
p flies off, to send word to his wife that 81
IL needn't sit up to unlock the hall door f
u him that evening - Detroit Free Press
en- Perplexed Seheider, who had made
~ garment lcr youth and being unable
!? dispose of the surplus fullness which a