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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-02-01
All Extensive Land Swindle.

California settlers on the Mexican land
grants are good deal excited over an
attempted land grab on the part Of
the Central Pacific railroad. By all
precedent in departmental ruling, as
well as by the decisions of the courts,
this class Of lands have always been held
as reserved and subjected to pre- EN- ptions
and homestead location. 1t was lately
discovered that case in which the rail.
road had beth sides had gone by default
in the United States circuit court in Cal
iiornia, and was in the supreme court oil
the United States. Upon this the settlers
sought to employ eminent counsel to de.
fend that case to prevent a decision evi.
IDENTIFY desired as a precedent. Through
their attorneys they made application to
a prominent Western lawyer and ex sen.
ator, who, by letter, agreed to defend the
case. Later developments reveal the fact
that he had received a retainer from the
railroad company, on the other side oil
the same case, and that he had himself
made motion to advance that same case
on the docket, which had been denied.
Still more receot developments show that
a late officer, very prominent in the land
department at Washington, is interested
In the same matter, and that he, too, al.
though in the employ of the settlers, has
received fee Of 81 900 from the rail.
road, and his receipt for the money in
San Francisco. As the Mexican grants
cover about one seventh of all the lands
in the State and about oue.fourth of all
the choice lands; as the settlers have
lived upon and improved these lands for
years; as thousands of them have paid
for their lands and received duplicates
and patents for themthe attempted fraud
is really of huge proportions A hun.
dred million dollars would not cover the
amount involved.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-02-01

The weakness of the political method
of the work is that as generally conduct.
ed, it is spasmodic. There is a great
"hue and cry" week before election, to
be followed by dead calm for as many
months This ought not to be among the
friends of temperance. The liquor traffic
is itself well.nigh perpetual not only ac-
tive during weekdays, but disposed, if
no obstacles were interposed, to monopo.
lize every night, and Sundays as well.
All prohibitionists who would cherish
reasonable hope ofreaping a satisfactory
harvest at the polls and in legislation must
be vigilaut in seed'sOwing throughout the
year. Such seed-sowing is now the work
for the hour.-Nat. TEN Adrocate.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-02-01
WOMANS' TEMPERANCE COL.
UMN.


The vice of intemperance is one of 50
frightful mien that to be hated needs but
to be seen. But those Of US who have
been more remote from centers of traffic
have seen and read enough Of the crimes
and misery which follow in its train to
rouse our indignation and lead US to wage
unccasing warfare against this monster.
And we have every reason to expect sue
cess, even though the enemy RACES as be
always will when his craft is in danger.
We all recollect that the few who com.
menced the slavery agitation were called
fanatics. Our lamented Lincoln said
he was careful to be on the Lords side
and then he knew the Lord would be on
his side. b. B. K.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-02-01

Mr.. John Bright has made a speech
at Birmingham which must have re.
minded his hearers of old times. He
demands the abolition of the law of pri.
mogeniture, and an extension of the
suffrage in counties. These ideas or
measures bave long been identified with
the radical section of the liberal party
in England, and it is just possible that
they might afford basis for that "pol
10y" which the leaders have been hunt.
ing for, high and low, for two or three
years past. But for Mr.. Bright's in-
different health, and his disinclination to
accept office, we might expect to see
him prime minister after Mr.. Disraeli's
ministry comes to an end. But Mr..
Gladstone is not more ardent ad-
mirer of wood chopping than Mr.. Bright
is of salmon fishing, aud it is not at all
probable that he will ever consent to
take upon his shoulders the anxioties and
labcrs of the premiership.-N Y. Times.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-02-01
Where does 1t all come From :?

Pints aud quarts of filthy Catarrhal
discharges Where does it all come from
The mucous membrane which lines the
chambers Of the nose, and its little glands,
are diseased, so that they draw fron the
blood its liquid, md exposure to the air
cl lnges it into corruption. This life.
liqnid is needed to build up the system,
but it is extracted, and the system is
weakened by the loss. To cure. gain
flesh aud strength by using Dr.. Pierce's
Golden Medical discovery, which also acts
directly upon the glands, correcting
them, and apply DR.. Sage's Catarrh Re.
medy with Dr. Pierce's Nasal Douche,
the oply method of reaching the upper
cavities, whore the discharge accumulates
and comes from. The instrument and
both medicines sold by druggists and
dealers in medicines.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-02-01
GTATE NORMAL SCHOOL

~ RANDOLPH, VERMONT.
ABEL f. LEAVENWORTH, A. M, PniScIPAL
Assisted by Four Capable Graduates of Nor
nal Schools from three States.
New Features for Fall Term, 1873. Capacity
of building doubled. Model and Preparatory
departments added
Fall Term opens fourth Tuesday in August
Spring Term, first Tuesday in February.
SEND For CATALOGUE.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-02-01

Cats, foxes and weasels have always
enjoyed the reputation of being remarka.
bly, sly, and thoy no doubt deserve it !;
but nothing can surpass the slyness With
which woman. surprised by an unex.
pected caller, will slip set Of false teeth
into her mouth,
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-02-01

A Danbury man, wishing to engage
several bushels Of potatoes from a party
in the suburbs. asked a neighbor what
sort Of man he Was. "Well," said the
conscientious neighbor, II do not know
very much about him, but l should think
be would mako tip top stranger"
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-02-01
OR SALE.

Ny store and stock Of goods, tho barn and
eighteen rods Of land connected with the store in
the village of Brooksvilc, are now offered for
sale, cheap, for cash. Tho post-ofiice is kept in
the building and can be had, without doubt, by
the purchaser. The store is only few rods from
tho railroad station that there is little expense
of transportation. HENRY JACKSON.
Brooksville, VI, Aug. II. 1875. 22-tf
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-02-01

"A mans wife, in New York, Sas
seized with cholera, and died. The poor
husband, to assuage bis grief, drank al.
cohol. While under its influence be
seized his dead wife by the hair of her
head dragged her across the room in high
glee, aud tumbled her into a coffin.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-02-01

The Christian Temperance Union of
Boston has voted to call a ministerial
temperance conference in that city in
March. AL ministers Of the gospel iu
New England will be invited. Various
questions bearing upon the relation of the
Church of Christ to temperance will be
discussed, and by eminent talent, it is
hoped.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-02-01
DERSONAL NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that all officers,
sailors and soldiers, wounded, ruptured or in
jured in the late rebellion, however slightly, arc
entitled to a pension and thousands of pensioners
are entitled to an increased rate Apply immc-
diately through DIR. e. b. JACKSON
Late Surgeon, L. s. Navy.
No. New Chambers St., n. Y. 2l-ly
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-02-01
ENARM FOR SALE.

l. Farm for sale containing two hundred and
forty acres, said farm is as good dairy stock
farm as there is in town, with plenty Of good
grain land, will keep forty cows that amount
Of stock. The farm lies one half mile north Of
New Haven depot and cheese factory. Tho cheese
factory has good reputation as any ono In the
state There is q thousand dollars worth Of pine
and hemlook timber on the farm. There will be
sold with tho farm sixty head ofeatte, if wanted.
All will be sold at bargain, and two-thirds Of
tho purchase money may remain on mortgage for
term Of years.
T. VI. STURTEVANT.
New Haven, VT, Noy. ~, 1875. aGtf
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-02-01
4 tABINET MAKER.

E. [. STEWART
Is prepared to do all kinds Of work in the line of
cabinet making, manufacturing the and re-
pairing the old, at reasonable prices Shop over
Martin Langworthys machine shop, the
freight depot. Attn
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-02-01

Buggins thinks that dynamite is con
traction for die any minute.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-02-19
A Beautiful Answer.

when the Emperor OF Germany vas
lately ON visit in q asdistant portlon Of
his dhminions lie waas welcomed hy the
scheoi Ghildrgp OF tie village. After
their speaker had made q speesh fol
them he thanked them. Then taking an
orange from plate he asked:
"To what kingdom does this belongr
"To the vegetable kingdom, SIRE" re,
piled. the little gipls
The Emperor took a golden coin from
This pooEeS and holding Ii upa asked;
.And.ta what kngd0m does. thiss be,
longr'
"To the mineral kingdom, sire," re-
Piled the hbtle'glrll cr ag - l!I
sand TO what kingdome dnt i belong
thenV asked the Emperor.1 11
/ Tho little girl coiored deeply, fol
| Ishe did not like to say the yanimaE king
ldom," as he Thought she would, lest HI
Majesty should be offsnded,i when {
bright thonght came, and, she said, with
radiant eyes: sl1i.sa 8 H7i G
/ $40 Gods kingdom, sire.n a
pha Emperor was deeply moved. A
tear stood in his eges He placed hi
Iihand on the child's head aud said, in thu
Pmpst devout manner: edl E4t rt a.
"Grant that may be- accounted, wor
thy Of that kngdom.a ts
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-02-19
"A Mountain of Salt.

: A mass of ninety million tons of pure,
solid, compact rock.sait, located On an
island one hundred and eighty-tive feet
high, wHich rises from miserable isea.
marsh on the route from iBrashear TO
New Iberia, up the River Teche, in Lou.
isiana, lis one OF the wonders dt the
world. How this island, containing
over three hundred acres of excellent
land, ever came into existence in such d
locality isa matter of conjecture. Veg
citation is prolific, ana the scenery is
mense bed of pure rock.salt whose ex-
tent is as yet only estimated, and scien.
titic men are puzzled to know What pro.
duced.it. - e-.s..s '--' --ar t.,t
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-02-19
THrl BABcocK CASE goes to. the iury

THE BABCocK CASE goes to- the jury
on Argument OF connsek Nothing Of a
substantial nature was produced to in
validate the testimony Of the; letter-oar-
riar MeGilL We consequently feel con-
hEmed in our opinion expressed yester-
day, .thatJoEceplayed 'a little game" for
his,own. beaeft to the amount of 1000,
by his reclaimiag those Avery and
Babcock letters from the Post-ofice
letterbox, which he SO ceremoniously
sealed, and addressed in the presence OF
Everest, and whom he made his
tool for dropping the same into
the box, and who was now
used as, a witnsss TO- that fact.
Joyce is now in the penitentiary. The
opportune discovery ofhis trick in mail
ing those letters and then feclaiming
them shows that he might well be kept
In prison for some time to the benefit of
his moral health. 'o'- as n-' 500 i
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-02-19
Pruning.

This is generally supposed to be tho
pruning season. Orchard trees geper-
ally get too much pruning. In young
trees only thin out SO as not to have the
main leaders crossing or Interfering
with one another. Or when q few shoots
grow much stronger than the rest cut
these away. Insist on all the branches
IN young trees growing only on o perfect
equality. On older trees which have
been il bearing a number OF years, it
win often benefit to cut off large -por-
tion Of the bearing limbs. By y long
series Of bearings, branches will often
venting the free passags OF ths sap to
the leaves, In such cases the sap seems
to-revengef itself by forcing, out vigorous
shoots,a long way down from the top of
the tree. It's down to these vigorous
shoots that we would cut the bearing
branches away. One must use his own
judgment as TO the adVIsability of this:
lfthe tree bears as tine and. luscious
fruit as ever, OF course no such severe
work need be done, butif not, now is the
Mme-[ Journal OF, Agriculture :; arl
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-02-19
Hungarian Grass for cowa.

The following is. the testimony or DR..
Lo ring concerning Hungarian grass: /
believe can make more milk with this
grass cut and mixed with corn'meal and
shorts than can with the best timothy
hay cut and mixed in the same manner.
And when you remember that you can
raise on. ordinary land, aby sowing the
seed Of f9Hungafian grass late in June,
from two anu tone-half to three and QUE
haiftons OF good fodder TO the acre, and
that this crop can be sown after wefhaye
ascertained whether we are to have a
good crop of hay or not, you will see the
value ot this grass. have such high
opinion of itthat ON myrown farm, this
year and last, raised from seventy five
TO one hundred tons oft for the purpUse
offeeding to my mulch cows during the
winter. - nf. -- .,,- -
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-02-19
Well Answered.

The late Bishop 80, -- IT is said, was
strongly opposed; to the principles ol
tosat drSs119fbnse bas AND Wns ead
occasion, amidister, decided temper.
ance man, dineu with the Bishop, who,
pouring outa glass OF wine, desired him
to drink with him
"Can't do it, Bishop; wine is mock.
err" '''-''
stake glass of brandy, them"
"Can't do it Bishops strong drink is
,ragfng.'n H.. i-tF'"' SF, - ':aha
By this time the Bishop, becoming
somewhat excited. remarke keda to bis
guest, You II pass the deeanter to the
gentleman next to youp
/ 'eNo, Bishop, I can't do that, sWoe unto
him that giveth his neighbor drink, that
puteth thy bottle TO him.'" . e.. "a :
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-02-19

"Turning back the hands" just a hun.
dred years, we read in d New York pa
per that a man in Stratford, Conn.,, had
christened his newborn son "Thoma
Gage" Instead of politely. asking. the
patriotic father to accept q snug office, 6
delegation Of hundred and seventy
women formed in military. order AM
marched to the house with the intention
Of tarring and feathering both fathel
AID mother. Failing to gettu. however
was promptly repealed. % ~
T This time 1t was John Wilkes Booth
and it was the child that was ere.
pealed," not the name.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-02-19
Scientific Courtsh;p.

1t is said that Prof, TyndaIl proposed
to the daughter OF Lord Hamilton in a
letter beginning: :'Saccharine conglom-
|eralion. OF protoplasm. Adorable COM
bination Of matter and force! Rarest
product Of infinite ages OF evolution n 7,
and continuing in the same strain. The
closing, appeal was as follows; t'Deign,
o admirable creature, to respect that
attraction which draws me toward thee
with a, force inyersely proportional to
TO the squares Of the, distance. Grant
that we shall be made double suns de-
'scribing concentric orbits, which shall
touch each other at all points OF their
peripheries." "f fF i'7sff' @''
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-02-19

+: A Philadelphia milliner apprentice
went to visit her mother In the country
last Sunday, and when that worthy
matron beheld her child she. exclaimeds
Isabella Marie Stephens, what on airth
do you mean coming home In broad day.
light with your. gown all hajummu xed
up that way behind, ye and all bound up
that way in.froht OF We? And hain't ye
gdt no stockings ali OF, one color, that ye
hafto wear them ebfa-coloreds things?
Thought ye was going to beia milliner.
Should think ye'd married O. bar Der, and
was playing up sign.board for him DID
1 ever think one of'my girls would come
TO thisy" 7is 't't ss A''
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-02-19

based. IL the Granger movement, then,
has no other foundation than this, itis
at least equally al meritorious 90 thss
upon which its opponents reskI their
own, ,--but with this important advan.
itage, that it is. adopted. mot as ags
gressive, but simply as in self-defense.
And this clothes it with dignity to
which its aggressive. opponents can not
pretend.
But what, 1t may be asked, have poll
ticians to do with all this? Much, very
much. Legislation will be demanded of
such kind and character as. may yield
protection to these grand primary inter-
iests Of the Commonwealth, by curbing
the rapacity and restraining the power
now welded by those corporations and
combinations founded upon selfinterest
ana avarice. Granting that the Granger
element is not instituted for the pur-
poses Of q political panty, it must needs
enforce itsD nights, and defend against
wrongs by the proper appeal to the law.
making powers Of the land. To make
such appeal effective it must have in
Congress and in the Legislative halls, its
representative men, who know their
rights ana knowing lare maintain.
Such men can not make their way to
such positions without the organized
land systematic cooperation. of those
whose interests and claims they would
represent. 1t therefore behooves
politicians not to discard the Granger
element from their political arith-
metie. For they may as well ac-
|cept the assurance now that the
Granger organization is composed OF
solid men. and men who are terribly in
earnest. And such a multitude of such
men are apower in the land; and what
is more, they knoso it.
\ We have no fears that the organization
thus welding this power can be con-
lyerted into anenginesof oppressionupon
lotner material interests of the country; !;
because it is resisting on the principle
of self-defense. And if the hostile pres
sure from outside. rings aud combina-
4tions were once removed by, the enact
ment of suitable and wholesome laws,
the Granger movement would inconti-
nenlly dissolve, as to all its political as.
poets, and become no more than an or
ganization for mutual information and
Improvement in the practical pursuits
to which its members are devoted. But
until such legislative protection is ac-
corded, the Granger element must not
be despised. '.e q" "s7@ r t-'' 'r'
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-02-19

g THE Committee ON Appropriations in
the House are steadily pairing down The
expenditures, taking a million from one
thing, three millions from something
else, and five millions here and six MILL
ions yonder, SO that the footing of reduce
tions begins to look ponderous. Go
ahead. Squelch extravaganza. Com
pei economy. Bust up the rings. Turn
out all cussedness, and straightcn out
all crookedness. And the people will
rise up and call ye blessed.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-02-19

TWENTY milk dealers in New York
were brought up in one squad ON indict.
ments for selling watered milk. Nine
teen of them were convicted and fined,
and the other ran away,4gone to Join
iWinslow. This is no milk-and!water
business for a New York court. The
absconding one will probably be gath
efed in, and acquitted on the plea ofin-
sanity. .t-.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-02-19

The amount Of National Bank cur
rency in circulation January IA, 1915, was
$35l, ,e6l, ,450. On the 1st OF, February,
1876, the amount was $S42, 6s,179. This
shows a contraction of bank currency to
the amount OF IS, ,s93, ,271 during that pc
riod OF little more than one year.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-02-19

DON CARLOS, the Spanish Pretender,
is about played out. His principal army
has been routed, and the Don himself
put to fight. The end of that 'sunpleas.
antness." which has solong convulsed
Spain, seems to be near at hand. AS soor
as that is finished, then look out for .
typhooh in Cuba.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-02-19

thousand are Americans--that is, Of the
kind found In the rest Of the country. or
me Semaipaer, eighty-eight t.thousanda are
Mextcanss with more OF lhss Of arrad-
mixture efIndian blood and twentystwo
thousand srg out-apdtout red mhn, SeF-
can't. ofthe papulation can
neither read. nor write.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-02-19
How winglow Was Arrested,

= . y frr. NJ
A London dispatch of February 16 to
the N. Y. Tribune gives the following
particulars Of the great Boston torger's
arrest:
Winslow asked the Captain of the
steamer Rotterdam ii the United States
had an extradition treaty with Holland.
The Captain replied that he thought
there was such treaty. This fright
ened Winslow, who then concluded to
come to England. He lettthe steamer in a
pilot-boat, and landed somewhere on the
Dutch coast. His wife, sister and son
went on to Rotterdam. In order to battle
his pursuers, he sent a telegram to
his wife bearing date '"Brussels.n 1t is
impossible to say If Winslow really
went to Brussels, or where he was when
he sent this telegram. Winslow subse-
qaently went to Rotterdam, and thence
came on to London. The clew TO his
whereabouts was discovered by inter-
ceptlng a letter he addressed to his wife,
telling her to write him at Murrays',
the great publishers. He told her to ad.
dress her letters to s'Morton Latferts,
care OF Murrays' p ublishers." He signed
this letter "Ciifton." He himself went
to Murrays, on Monday, and wrote and
left q letter there addressed to "Mortoh
Laferts," the name he had assumed.
For this letter he, for some inexpficable
reason, called on Tuesday, when a de-
tectiye who was III waiting arrested
him. He acknowledged his Identity,
and went along quietly.
| The detective, after arresting Wins
low, took from him telegram which he
had prepared, asking his wife to join
him in London, TheadeteCtiye forwarded
this in the hope OF enticing his wife over
from Holland. The police OF Rotterdam
will seizs Winslow's luggage and send
IL on to London, SO. that 1t can be
searched.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-02-19

s,Lor sakes," groaned an old elady. in
green spectacles, as she hobbled out of
the Plymouth meeting last night, show
much wear and worry we might have
been spared IL our dear pastor mad been.
bora o woman vi BrookIyn n Argus,
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-02-19

4 A gentleman looking from his store.
window and seeing a lady pass by, finely
dressed. with the exception of her sleeves
being made OK diferent material from
the waist of her dress, exclaimed
through sheer Ignorance, 'sWhat a pity
that woman hadn't enough in bar dress
pattern to complete the suit"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-02-19

Fhisis. the, way the. Washingtan letter
writer's manafacture. thsir sensational
news out OF old materials. The Chicago
Tribune says:'
"rhe New Fork Sun, OF February 9
contains q. letter from Washington On
the Babcock scandal, which embodies
the facts, and in some ins stances thellit-
eraI language, of a. letter from the aame
quarter printed in the Chicago Tribune
Of January H. IT is rather TOO late TO
palm off old, news as sensationalS'