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TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1876.

EWe have it upon good authority
that some one was told by friend that he
heard that Gov, Page said he was going
to fix this little railroad difficulty right up
within thirty days. He didn't say when
he should begin to count the thirty days,
but the assurance is gratifying to those
who have been afraid they wouldn't live
to see the end of it if it got into the
| courts
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J. D; SMITH uII,i }cOmr.
COMMISSIONERS NOTICE

~ The undersigned, having been appointed
by the Hon. Probate Court for the District of Ad-
olson, Commissioners, to receive, examine, and
adjust all claims and demands Of all persons
against the estate of William b. Atwood, late of
Cornwall in said District, deceased and all claims
exhibited in offset thereto; and six months from
the I'D day of April being allowed by said court
for that purpose, we do therefore hereby give no.
tce that we will attend to the business of our
said appointment at the dwelling house of the
widow of said deceased, in Cornwall, on the LIST
day Of June and the End day of November.
next, from o'clock, p. NJ, until 4 o'clock, p. NJ
on each Of said days.
Da ed at Cornwall this Sd day of May.A D.
1875.
EnlAp SANEnpn
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COMMISSIONERS, NOTICE

- The undersigned, having been appointed by
the hon Probate Court for the District Of Addison
commissioners, to receive, examine and adjust all
claims and demands Of all persons against the es-
tate Of Jabez Markham, late Of Hancock in said
district, deceased and all claims exhibited in ose.
thereto, Lereby give notice that we will meet for
the purposes aforesaid, at the dwelling house of
John b. Andres, on the 18th day Of June and LIST
day OF November next, from o'clock N until
clock N, on each Of said days, and that six
months from the 4th day Of May, 1876, is
the time limited by said Court for said creditors
to present their claims to US for examination and
allowance.
Dated at Hancock, this 18th day Of May,
D 1875
EHUD DARLING
J0UN ii. ANDREWS. Comm'rs
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4 GENTS WANTED !

N Reliable men to sell the Weldon Low Wa
ter Alarm Guage; eommends itself at sight. Con-
troll of counties given. Engineers or those ia
miliar with steam boilers preferred. Address,
P o. Box 20i0, Boston, Mass. lO-4w
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St~To judge from the newspaper ac.
counts oC the sayings and doings of the
Sioux delegation who have come to
Washington to hold pow.wows with their
Great Father, the noble red man is not
entirely free from dyspepsia. They are
dissatisfied with everything, and grumble
accordingly. One Of their grievances is
that their hotel accommodations are moi
suitable, the Commissioner having quar-.
tered them in moral concern where
whisky is not dispensed. What are the
troubles of white men compared 10 this I
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l)ll ED.

In Salisbury, May Il, Of pneumonia, Charlie:
L. Everts, aged &c years
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DEPORT OF THE CONDITION

OF THE
NATIONAL BANK OF MIDDLEBURY,
At Midllebury, in the State Of Vermont. at close
Of business, May I, 1915
RESOURCES.
Loans and discounts, Sl69l2s IL
u. 5. Bonds to circulation, 200 600 90
u. 5. Bonds on hand ca 200 90
Other stock, bonds and mortgages, 5000 90
Due from approved reserve agents 2s4i6 So
Due from other National Banks, 22,353 II
Real estate, furniture and fixtures 5000 20
Checks and other cash items, LAPS &C
Bills Of other National Banks 1900 90
Fractional currency Gncluding nickelsl, 1880 60
Specie. 10 90
Legal tender notes, l5495 OO
Redemption fund with L. S Treasur-
CT & per cent of circuation), 1000 90
ToTAL, 1923, 1875 II
LIABILITIES
Capital stock paid in, 5000 900 90
Surplus fund. 1864 81
Other undivided profits 72,sl9 81
National Bank notes outstanding III O3O 90
Dividends unpaid, 63l 90
Individual deposits subject to check, 42,425 "a
Demand certificates oi deposits, 1883 80
TorAL, s52s,725 IL
STATE OF VERMONT, |, John @. yelling.
County of Addison, IS. ton. Cashier of the Ma
tlonal Bank of Middlebury, do solemnly swear
that the above statement is true tn the best Of my
knowledge and belief
JOHN g. WELLINGTON, Cashier
Subscribed and sworn to before me this nth
day of May, 1875.
CHARLES E PINNEY, Notary Public
CuTcct-attest;
g JOIN y. H STEWART. : Directors.
]. q. WELLINGTON, y
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r. SAYRE would inform th,

lie Butter-makers of Mddebury and vicini.
ty, and especially his old customers that he will
pay cash for Prime Butter at Beckwith CO. ;:
Mondays and Saturdays hereafter, at the stand
formerly occupied by X. T. Bristol.
Middlebury, May "a, 1875. loft
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East HUDDARDToN The following an-
ecdote, which has come 10 me from re.
liable source, and an eye witness, is writ.
ten up for the first time, for the uewspa-
per. Over twenty years ago, there lived
in Sudbury, Rutland county, w., fam.
lily by the name Of X. One Of the boys
grew to be quite youngster, and was very
fond Of rehearsing pieces, which he had
committed to memory. That same person
has .prnun To r,,a"hooI ""I - r-~ -.;e;-e
medicine in town adjoining Rutland
During the winter school, there was to be
a religious lecture in the school house and
two or three girls Of this family remained
at the school house while the brother
went home. Returning, in the edge OF
the evening. with the pail and supper for
the girls, he went up to corner where
they were sitting, and setting the pail on
the desk before them, he discovered a
young man sitting near, who he supposed
was one OF the scholars. Advancing i'm.
medateIy in front Of him, taking hold of
his collar with one hand, and gesticulat-
ing most energetically with the other he
rehcsrscd as follows:
81 do defy thee.
Thou foul idolator Hast thou not scornod
The armies of the living God serve
BY me lie will avenge upon thy head
Thy nations sins and thine Armed with his
name,
Unshrinking, dare meet The stoutcst foe
That ever bathed his hostile spear in blood
Upon that he said, Come out here"
and jerked the young man out upon the
floor. Stepping back, the stove door
opened, and the light shining upon the
strangers face, revealed him as the min
iSter mho ~as 10 lecture. The lecturer is
now Mr.. X, not thousand miles from
Poultney- Globe.
A RUNAWAY TRAIN ON TIE SIERRA Ne.
vApAs The California papers describe
the recent exciting experience Of an over.
loaded train Of .wenty-threc freight cars,
filled with oysters from the East, as it
came down the Pacific slope Of the Sierra
Nevada mountains The train came
along all right until it struck severe
down grade near New England Mills,
where the brakes proved insufficient to
hold, and it acquired momentum which
alarmed the train men. The two power.
lul locomotives at the head were reversed
and every exertion PIT forth TO check the
speed, but without avail. BY tie time
the train had gone three miles, tearing
around curves and shooting down the
grades, it was running at a speed estimat.
ed at fully forty miles an hour. The men
had settled upon the conviction that an
other mile would put an end to their
train running forever. They were how
ever, cool and collected though facing
death. Suddenly man sprang out upon
the track and waved red flag, signal
to stop. This added to the certainty of
conviction that terrible accident must
soon take place. Additional power was
evoked from the engines, additional efforts
made at the brakes with strength in
spired by desperation, and at last the
speed began to slacken, and the train was
brought to halt 10 time to prevent it
dashing into the wrecking train at work
near Clipper Gap.
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* Charity is good thing, and char.

* Charity is good thing, and char
ity directed by the divine guidance is a
blessing TO the world. A pleasing illus.
tration is afforded by the wife Of one Of
Vermnni's wealihiest mon. We are told
that she recently said to some friends
that she hardly knew what 10 do with all
the money she had to spend, and had to
make its right disposal a subject for
prayer. And this wasn't all talk, either
as she proved few days afterward A
committee Of ladies called upon her in
the interest Of a worthy charity, which
the church had taken up. The lady lis
tened to their appeal, and was touched
She opened her splendid portemonnaie
and from the proiussion of bills and small
currency, she took out and rendered to
them the dazzling sum OF fifty cents
And that committee of ladies wept be.
cause they had so long lived in ignorance
that prayer was the means OF saving
money.
S+ 1t is somewhat suspicious to find
that the counterleiter Mccartney has
| again escaped out OF the hands of United
States officials There is an impression
that his connection with the employees oil
the Government has not been quite
credltabc to the sworn servants of the
public. 1t seems that on the occasion the
counterieter was in charge of U. S
marshal, who was bringing him from
Tyler TO Austin, Texas. The details oil
the manner in which he liberated him sell
are Dot yet known But there has Of
late been so much secret cooperation
found to exist between the persons who
break the laws Of the United States and
those appointed to detect such criminals
and bring them to justice, that it will not
be surprising if it is discovered that
Mccartney has had friends" among his
pa SaptvIc.
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NATIONAL BANK OF MIDDLEBURY,
At Middlebury, in the State of Vermont. at close
Of business, May l, 1915
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Sf-The Granite State has been run
Tor the past year by the Democracy, who
have reformed everything in that hitherto
corrupt Republican state SO that every.
body had become disguised with them,
and wanted TO try some more Republican
wickedncss. There was an election over
there a while ago. In one district Matt
Head received majority of the votes for
senator. 10 another Rev Arthur Deer.
ing was similarly happy. Gov. Weston
is Democrat Likewise four of tho Eve
councillors. OF course they are all pure.
minded, dislntefested men who do notbipo
but what is right 1t is their duty to
give certificates Of election to senators
and representatives before the latter can
legally take their seats. They looked
into matters and things with uncor rupted
eyes and they discovered tina. Rev
Arthur DeeriDg had not lived 10 the
state seven years, which he ought to have
done in order TO be New Hampshire
senator. So they threw bis votes out.
They did not know such a person as
Matt Head. There vas in that district
certain Honorable Nathaniel Head
whom they had heard of 10 fact they
had seen him and knew him well This
Honorable Nathaniel Head was the very
man whom his bucolic constituents had
in their simplicity supposed they were
voting for when they affec.ionaicly
abbreviated his name to Matt. Head.
But that was their misfortune, that they
should vote for man instead Of a name.
The governor aud council threw out the
votes for Matt Head BY singular
coincidence Rev. Arthur Deeriug and
Hon. Nathaniel Head were both Rcpub.
licans. Their competitors, 10 whom
certificates were giveu.by another singular
coincidence, were both Democrats. And
another extremely singular coincidence
was that before the rejection Of these
votes the elected senators stood seven
Republicans to FIVE Democrats, while
after the said rejection the numbers were
neatly reversed TO seven Democrats
against FIVE Republicans Another
singular thing was that in the first senate.
rial district the majority ofvotes were cast
for Frank Jones. Now this Frank Jones
was the Honorable Franklin Jones, and
to the common mind it would seem that
he ought to have been subjected to the
same rule as Mr.. Head, But the Honor.
able Franklin Jones is a Democrat, which
makes difference. There was a slight
irregularity in these proceedings Of the
governor and council in that they had no
right whatever to decide upon the
irregularity Of these elections, according
to The constitution, as that duty belongs
to the courts, whose opinions were not
consulted. On the whole it was an
arbitrary, revolutionary proceeding utter
ly indeiensible, aud goes TO show that
Democrats arc after all no better than
The wicked Republicans Of whom we hear
80 much from Democratic sources The
Republicans are very mad about it, aud
do not propose 10 stand it, though We are
glad to learn that they are going TO work
10 legal way TO secure their rights.
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Death at the Feast.

The Pail Mall Gazette says A festiv-
ity which took place the other day at
Armenia seems to have been marked by
some disagreeabe incidents. The Arme-
MAN Bishop Of Khiry, a small town near
Birmingham, was, it seems, invited TO dine
with ga Christian notable Of his do
cese. The dinner did not prove sue
cess. Late at night the bishop was car
ried home lifeless, hut it was asserted
that the prelate had merely died in fit
of drunkenness, and no notice would prob
ably have been taken of the matter had
not the pleasant delusion been speedily
dissipated by an affirmation made by his
servant before the vail of Erzeroum that
his master had been murdered. " Before
dinner" said the servant, "high words
rose between the bishop and his host, but
the other guests interfered, and succeeded
in appeasing the disputants." Late in
the evening, however, the quarrel was re-
newed, and in the height Of the discussion
the kictib suddenly extinguished the lights
and strangled the bishop. When the
candles were relighted, quite gloom was
cast over the assembled party by the dis
covery that the bishop was dead. The
story told by the servant has created some
excitement at ErzcrOum and the gov
ernor-general, who has the reputation of
being a just man, had, by latest accounts,
ordered that the body of the deceased
bishop should be brought TO that city and
examined, promising, moreover, that If
the result of the post norton examina-
ton was not satisfactory, " the Christian
notable" should be called upon for an
exclamation.
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4" SWEET SEVENTEEN


/ No shadow as yet has the young life known
/ - full O peace were the years now flown !:
( And the possible JOYS II the coming days
/ ii sr fancy gilds with golden haze.
All paths seem laid through meadow,
green
To the trusting heart OF sweet seventeen.
The air is soft and the sunshine warm:
she feels no breath Of the coming storm:
She has known no pain, or the Wild unrest
That passion works in the human breast.
rosy veil does the future screen
From the eager gaze OF sweet seventeen.
No longer a child, with gentler grace.
And a softer light on the fair sweet face,
In an unknown world does the maiden
stand,
And all around is fairy-land,
For the air is bright with a silver sheen
To the eager gaze OF sweet seventeen.
A woman at last, she has lett her TOYS.
Her simple pleasures and childish JOYS,
And the maiden win! from the years that
roll
Their last. best gift--a woman's soul:
And fair and sweet l. the futures mieu
To the simple faith OF sweet seventeen.
The lesson OF care She has yet to learn,
How joy can quickly {. sorry turn.
Aud the cup of pleasure ,he fondly sips
To dust and ashes upon her lips
How the tempter's snare may lie unseen
Meath the tender feet of sweet seventeen.
In life's great drama 10 play her part
The maiden comes with iOyouS heart,
she viii turn the leaves OF the futures book
Reading them each with an eager look,
And learn the sorrow that lies between,
UngueS>ed by the.heart of sweet seven
teen.
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Goodness i'm an Emergency.

In connection with the Holyoke horror
the Brooklyn Eagle tells this good story:
What GOODNESS may do in such cases was
once well illustrated by the great German
actor, Emile Devrient The grand thea
ter at Vienna was crowded. The En-
peror Francis. with several members of
his family, was in the imperial box. The
play, Schiller's I" Robbers" had reached
its third act, when a cry arose that the
stage was on fire. Devrient signed at
once to the prompter, who lowered the
curtain, the actor stepping out in front
of it, ere it wholly fell. In his clear.
clarion voice, he said: q There is no fire.
The emperor has been despoiled of a sig
rette of diamonds on entering the theater.
No honest man will object to being search
ed. You will pass out one by one at each
several entrance and be searched bv the
police stationed at the several doors. ANY
man attempting to go out OF order will be
arrested" The crowd, deceived by the
GOODNESS and the charge, poured out. As
each reached the door he was simply told
to hurry on and just as the last rows of
the upper gallery were fling out the.
flames burst through the curtain. envelop-
ing the auditorium, but not a life was
lost, though in less than half an hour
after the great building was in ruins.
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HE Greatest Insult Ever Offered
10 the American People.

i Erom Mr.. Bonner's New York Ledger
"But was made to believe that the
public good called me to make the secri-
fee But it must be
remembered that all the sacrifices. except
that Of comfort, had been made III accept
ing the first term. - Gen. Grants let
ter tolGen5 White
A few years ago there was a man who
had been. educated in our West Point
Academy at tfie public expense. He had
dropped out Of the army and become a
hauler of ccTd-wood to the ST. Louis
market. Common report says he used
to be found dallyiag along by the roadside
on his way home. "a
Later he was clerk in leather store
in GaleDa, very poor
He was appointed a Colonel in the
army, and promoted and promoted and
promoted, until he had the command OF
all our armies. Many persons always
thought that much, very much, OF his
success was owing to the superior opportu-
mites given him.
Finally, rank and title never before
conferred In this country were created
especially for him. He was made the
0eueTdl u the L DIL6I otdlco army
Then he was nominated for President of
the United States and elected Next he
was reelected. Elected and reelected
TO what To the highest elective office
ever created by man To an office, to
hold which, in the infancy and beginning
Of the Republic, George Washington was
proud An office which Thomas Jefer-
son and James Madison and John Quincy |
Adams and Andrew jackson gloried in
the privilege oftiIling. And now LOOK T
upon the begger on horseback the pen
piless Northumberland then, not T
for his poverty, but for his gross weak I
nesses and faults, coming out in a letter |
and splitting in the face of the whole /
American people, and insulting them in
the most odious and offensive manner, T
and prating upon the sacrifices :
sacrifices" that's the word-which he-5
S. Grant uses-the sac
'ifices he made in becoming their Chief
Out upon the poor fool !.
Who does he imagine he is? Let the i
of the whole great American
people be has insulted cover him countless +
athOms deep
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The Fair Ones.

When You want TO send her line by
postal card, write with the following
preparation: Ten grains of hypho-sul
phate of soda in sixteen teaspoonsful Of
water. Then, YOU see, the post-office
clerks won't know who she is. Heat
brings out the writing.
How sweet is perfect understanding
between man and wife. He was to smoke
cigars when he wanted them, but he was
to give her 10 cents every time he in
dulged in one. He kept his word, and
every time she got 80 cents ahead he'd
borrow it and buy cigars.
a woman in Story county, Iowa, re-
Gently amazed her husband by giving
birth to FIVE children, four girls and a bov.
No wonder the people get out of bed out
there to hang a man once in while.
The county would be crowded to suffoca-
ton if somebody didn't make room for
those Observation-Disclosures Hawkeye.
The Providence youth who gave his
sweetheart an opera-glass worth S25, and
arriving at the home of the fair one ar
rayed in his visiting harness, with the
inrenton of sparkling her, received the
following cheerful news from his would
be mother n-law MARY has gone to the
show with Bill Smith It's kinder gvin'
you away, but she would go.
One of our young men when he was
married didn't want to patronize the ba-
ker. He said bread tasted ever so much
better made by her dear hand. This
delighted her. But when she wanted
scutsle of coal, and he suggested that she
get it, as the fire would feel 50 much bet
Ter if the coal was brought by her dear
hands, she was Disguised Women are
20 changeable. -Danbury News.
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Passion strong ina Death

Judge Martin Ryerson Formerly one
of the Supreme Judges Of New jersey and
afterward a member Of the Alabama
Claims Court, who was buried Yesterday
proved in his later days singularly
methodical invalid. For weeks while
confined to his bed, he had been directing
his gardening operations by means of
map, showing the various plots for the
different vegetables, which he kept by
his bedside, and had been conducting a
correspondence with friends as to new
varieties of early vegetables and the best
methods of treating them. When his
death was merely a question of ii few
hours he thought it well to make provi-
sion for the funeral expenses, 50 that the
family might have no lack Of funds be-
fore the executors were able TO enter upon
the regular settlement of the estate. He
examined his bank account, thought he
detected a slight mistake, sent to have
this corrected and then drew a check for
what he considered a sufficient sum.
Less than twenty-four hours afterward
the end of his long illness had come
n. y. Tribune.
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THE ex-Empress Carlotta believes her.
self to be continually surrounded by be-
ings of another sphere, with whom she
converses. She never utters a word to
ann of her servants or attendants Her
sister-in-law, the Queen of the Belgians,
comes once a month to visit her, in COM
panyGSith herphysician. The ex-empress
receives them with cold courtesy. The
physician asks after her health. g am
very well, she replies, and turning away,
walks out of the room. She manages her
whole establishment, which is worthy of
her exalted rank, at the palace of Lacken,
by letter. There is mosaic table in one
of the grand saloons on which every day
she Laws down her commands in writing
These notes are taken by the servants at
a regular hour and duly attended to.
She draws up every day the menu for her
table, composing it with good gastronomic
Judgment, and dimes with good appetite.
If by accident any dish which she orders
is not served, she makes a note-of the fact
the next day, but never with one word of
complaint She Is very careful with her
toilette and dresses with all her old taste
and distinction, dressing her own hair
and dressing it in the fiat baadeaur which
were fashionable when she last saw her
husband and was with him in the dark
hours that preceded the bloody eclipse
and midnight of Queretaro. Her femme
de chdaabre is never admitted 10 her toll
cite; but after preparing her bath and
her dresses leaves the room to come back
only in the morning. When the weather
is fine she walks in the park-always at
IL o'clock, always along the same path,
and with q very rapid step. OF course
she is carefully watched by invisible senti-
nels, but she has never manifested any
disposition to suicide. She plays exquis-
itely on the piano, and passes hours IN
that way. She paints and draws also ex-
tremely well, and still keeps mp this art.
| The marked feature of her case Is the
absolute horror which she shows of al
company but that of her visions and her
memories. ''-