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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-01-25
WOMANS' TEMPERANCE COL.
UMN.
Must the Prohibitory Law be
O Dead Letter |?

There is no greater evil with which so.
ciety has to contend to-day than the Ii.
quor traffic. In every town the liquor
shops are admitted to be unmitigated
nuisances. They breed disease, ignorance,
idleness, poverty, crime and death. They
cost enormously, but are valueless. They
afford not one iota Of compensation for the
property, happiness and life they destroy.
They are curse, a complete curse, with
out any mitigating quality. They are not
convenience except to crime. They foster
nothing but depravity. They pay in moth.
ing but in waste. Then why do they exist?
The people of Vermont,by their represent.
atives, have SAID they shall not exist.
They have recognized the evil, and have
forbidden it, And yet in nearly every
town in tho state the fearful trade goes
on almost unchecked and unregulated.
The people see the law violated see re.
spectacle, christian people refusing to
exert an Influence against it ; see the off,
GERS OF the law utterly regardless of the
duties they have sworn to perform, aud
shielding in every possible way the break.
ers OF the law ; see legal talent perverted,
with almost uniform success, to clear the
accused rumseller and as the sum and
result of all, they sec the law made con.
temptible, the officers of the law it's
strongest contemncrs, and the respectable
citizens the aiders and abetters OF the
law-breakers and aw.despisers Must
this always be SO? Cannot the eyes of
the people be opened to the fearful con-
sequences Of this selfish apathy aud in.
difference to the greatest evil Of modern
times ? The only hope seems to be in
the continued and determined labors of
women. who, almost alone, have the con-
science and the courage to battle against
the liquor traffic. Let us pray that they
may have the perseverance also. M.
Middlebury, Jan. 10, 1876.
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CnILDLIKE CANDoR.-The following
incident is revealed by the Petsrsburgh
(Ya.) Inder "Some days ago an sffable
life insurance agent of this city had oc.
casion to issue policy to lady from
tho country, and asked the usual ques.
tions prescribed for the examination.
Among these was the query, what dis.
ease did her father die of Imagine the
surprise of the affablo agent when she
made the reply Whisky He said, by
way Of smoothing the matter down i
reckon he must have had some disease,
madam, congestion, perhaps, of the brain,
neuralgia of the heart, or something like
that No. she answered deliberately,
he died of whisky and nothing else
would be the truth and whisky was
the disease that the agent entered on his
papers Who wouldn't like to have an
affectionate, truth-telling daughter, to
spread his posthumous fame.
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Middlebury, Jan. 10, 1876.

The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union met in the Congregational church
Jan. 10. The president opened the
meeting by reading from the scriptures
the 9th Psalm. Mrs. Rowly followed
in earnest prayer for the young men of
our town, that they might be saved from
the death ofa drunkard, and for the rum
seller tempting our loved ones to ruin.
In absence of the secretary, Miss Mary
Steele, Mrs. Sturtevant was elected sec.
retary pro tenn. After the adoption Of
the secretary's and treasurer's reports, the
Chairman vf tho prosecuting committee
reported the liqior case that came off
last week, where the "vctim" was in,ox
icateu whcu arrested, but was rurfreiy III
nocent when the jury brought in their
verdict
Madame Steele read an interesting ar.
ticle entitled, What is in a Name"
which We hope will appear in the Won
ans Temperance Column.
Mrs Tuppor gave an enthusiastic ac.
count of the meeting OF the Grand Lodge
of Good Templars in Brandon. She
spoke earnestly of the juvenile work aud
Of her intention to devote herself espe-
cially to the work for the young. She
now called the attention Of the ladies to
the Vernon Witness a temperance pa
per published iu Burlington. speaking of
1t as an able paper and very necessary to
those who desire temperance news of the
r.. hot 10
ty subscribers it could be obtained for
fifty cents per year.
Mrs. Button felt impelled to speak of
the impoverished state of the Woman's
Temperance treasury, stating that the
Union was in need of money for many
purposes. She suggested that an entertain.
ment of some attractive character be CIV
en- by the ladies fol the purpose OF raising
funds. A committee on entertainment
was accordingly appointed, consisting of
seven persons. Miss Potter, Mrs. Barker,
Mrs. VIM. LangwOrthy, Mrs. r. Vain.
wright, Mrs. Upper, Mrs. L. Beckwith
and Mrs. Sturtevant.
Mrs. Sturtevant remarked that the
State Christian Temperance Union had
recently sent memorial petitionipg for
the suppression of the sale of liquor at
the Centennial also that Miss Anna G.
Park Of Bennington had been elected by
the executive committee Of state to re-
port the woman's temperance work in all
its phases to the chairman of the exeou-
tive committee of state, to be reported
by her to the chairman of Woman's Cen.
tennial Executive Committee.
After remarks by different ones in ep-
couragement Of what was being done
throughout our land for temperance, the
meeting closed with singing.
AIRs. +. A. STuRTEyANr,
See. pro tenn.
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Wealth.

Those who become wealthy in this
country, as general thing,nre men of fru-
gal and industrious habits and moderate
desires, and men who spend less than
their incomes. 1t will readily be seen
how man may become rich or poor, by
the following facts. If a man spends %
cents day, a very small sum, it amounts
in year to SO, in ten years to S129,
and IN fifty years to $4,000. If Re spends
o. cents day, it amounts in a year to
$50, in ten years to $3.50 and in fifty
to $4,000. If he spends 27l cents a
day, it amounts in u year to 800, in ten
years to $1,000, and in fifty years to
$4,000. Ifa man spends 81 81 day,
which is not large in these times of ex.
travsgancc and slavish habits it amounts
in year to $500, in ten years to $4,000,
and in fifty years to $14500O. Now
suppose a person saves those small sums
daily instead of spending them, is it 10.
easy to see how simple the process is, of
growing rich Suppose a man saves and
lays up Sl,37 per day for fifty years, he
then has fortune of S145,000. The
above facts, worthy the attention of ev.
erybody, solve the whole mystery. They
explain how man may make or keep
himself poor, and also how be may easi.
ly become rich and affluent Frusality
is the key to wealth.
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Temperance Effort in st.
Adams.

A circular bearing the signature Of
seven Of the most prominent and respect.
ed citizens OF st. Albans has been sent to
the liquor sellers in that village. 1t in
forms that hody that after much patient
consideration o. the whole subject, in
which they had carefully revised the
causes OF former failures to execute the
law successfully, they had agreed upon
plan of operations. They appeal to the
rumselers to desist from the traffic and
warn them that if they do not heed the
appeal, the law will be enforced against
them. By this warning they do not ad.
nit that such consideration is due from
the authorities or any portion of the pub
lie, the law being constant notice, but
give it in order to show that they seek
to oppress no one and to destroy any hope
that their effort is only raid" which
will soon have spent its strength. Be.
lieving that they do kindness to each
seller himself when they compel him to
abandon a business so lraught with evil
to the public, and having no motives but
the most unse6sh public spirit and be.
nevolence, they pledge to the seller, to
each other and to the public unyielding
fidelity to the purpose for which they are
combined, confident of the sympathy and
co operation Of all good citizens of every
party, name or creed With
this example before US, good citizens, is it
hard to see our own line of duty? BE.
fore finishing the reading of this extract.
has not some messenger from heaven
whispered to you {" Go and do likewise?
If six meu in Middlebury would unite
themselves for this work, how long would
intoxicating drinks be sold in this town
Shall we not arouse to a sense of our dan.
ger and our duty? Ii.
Middlebury, Jan. 10, 1876.
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DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pei.
lets are so compounded from concentrated d
principles, extracted from roots and
herbs, as to combine in each small gran.
ule, scarcely larger than a mustard seed
as much cathartic power as is contained
in any larger pills for sale 10 drug stores
They are not only pleasant to take but
their operation is easy-unattended with
any gripping pain. They operate without
producing any constitutional disturbance.
Unlike other cathartics, they do not rem.
der the bowels costive after operation,
but, on the contrary, they establish o
permanently healthy action. Being en-.
tirely regeta6le, no particular care is re.
quired while using them.
$500 Re,card is offered by the Propri.
etor to any one who will detect in these
Pellets any calomel or other form OF
mercury, mineral poison or injurious
drug.
They are sold by Druggists.
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The National Flag.

Although the country is u hundred
years old this year, the national flag is
not 1t is a fact not generally remem.
bered that the United States flag, as We
know il, was not definitely settled on un.
til 1918. Vicissitudes Of the American
ensign previous to that time were numer
ous. The flag which Washington un.
lurled at the head Of the continental army
at Cambridge one hundred years ago, was
a cross between the English and our pres
ent one, having red stripes, but the Brit.
sh union jack in the corner instead Of
stara. That was the flag our foretathers
fought bled and died under until about
year after the Declaration Of Indepen-
dence. June II, 1777, Congress de.
clarcd that on and after September II
of that year thirteen white stars in cor
ner and thirteen red stripes should be the
American flag. This was our present
flag, and was first unlurlod at the SUR
render of Burgoyne. Until 1874 there
was no change, but then, Vermont and
kentucky being admitted as states, two
stars and two stripes were added We
fought the war of 1912 with seventeen
strjnes hrt y Tho St".n- L~,"- ~ ha Ad-
mltted pretty fast it became evident that
either the flag wonld have to be made
immense or the stripes would soon be-
come too thick to leave any white if enc
was added for each state. And so in
1918 Congress finally resolved that the
number of stripes should be restored to
thirteen and so remain, but that one star
for each new state should be added to the
galaxy in the blue field in the corner.
Since then the flag has remained I'M
changed, and in that form received the
great baptism Of blood in the civil war
which will consecrate it to all future
generations Of Americans -SprinQfed
UHon
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WILLIAMSON.
My sister dear--the thoughts bring,
AS flowers to deck this spotless page.
POrchance may seem like those that spring
From roots that feel the blight of ago
But at the mention of that word
My sister youth awakes again,
And ploacant memories arc stirred,
or days unmarked By care or pain.
And Mary-my most fer.ent prayer
Is, that thy life may ever be
As calm as when the summer air
Is sleeping on the moonlit sea -
Bright us the day gods earliest glance
Sweet as song at midnight heard
And gladsomo as the rippes dance,
Whom by the soft-winged zephyrs stirred
Should pain or sorrow ever shrcud
The blessed light of thy young years,
May hopes ofTulgencs through the cloud,
Beam on thine heart, though seen through tears
May faith tho dark illusion break,
And lovo wipe Of each tear that fows,
As morning breezes gently shake
The glistcning dewdrops foom the rose
May puritys white robo be spread,
In ample fullness round thy form
Earth's choicest joys on thee be she'd
Life's sunshine thine, without the storm
And when the things of time and sense,
Shall fade as stars when day is dawning,
Oh, may thy soul soar gladly hence,
TO bask in Icayon's eternal morning
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When Capt. Collier of Brooklyn was
converted. he knocked in the heads of
bis liquor casks, and emptied their con-
tents into the sewer, and absolutely re-
fused to let the old liquor saloon, except
with covenant that it should not be used
in the liquor business.
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NORMAL SCHOOL

y RANDOLPH VERMONT.
ABEL Il. LEAVENWORTH, A. NJ, PRINCIPAL,
Assisted by Four Capable Graduates Of Nor
NAL Schools from three States
New Features for Fall Term, 1915. 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.
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OR SALE.

Ny store and stock of goods, the barn and
eighteen rods Of land connected with tho store, IN
tho village of Brooksville, are now offered for
sale, cheap, for cash. The post-onice is kept in
the building and can be had, without doubt by
the purchaser. The store is only few rods from
the railroad station that there is little expense
Of transportation. HENRY JACKSON.
BroOksvillc, VI, Aug II. 1878. 22-tf
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-01-25

A delinquent arrested for drunkenness
was asked in the Police Court what he
had done with his money. Invested it
in lots" was the reply. "Wbat lots ?"
was the next question. "Lots Of whisky"
he replied, with "a serious face,
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-01-25
.ARM FOR SALE.

Farm for sale containing tao hundred aud
forty acres, said farm Is as good dairy or stock
farm as there is in town, with plenty Of good
grain land, will keep forty cows or that amount
Of stock The farm lies one half milo north Of
Now Haven depot and cheese factory. Tho cheese
factory has as good reputation AS any one in the
state. There is n thousand dollars worth Of pine
and hemloek timber on tho farm. There will be
sold with tho farm sixty head ofcattle, if wanted
All will be sold at a bargain, and twO-thirds Of
the purchase money may remain on mortgage for
u term Of years. .......
T NJ. sTURTEVANT.
New Haven, VT. Nov. %, 1875. 3Gtf
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A single grog shop often breeds more
sin and misery in week than minister
of religion can counteract in year.
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seERSONAL NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that all officers,
sailors, and soldiers, wounded, ruptured or in
jured in tho late rebellion, however slightly, are
entitled to pension, and thousands of pensioners
are entitled to an increased rate Apply imne-
diately through DIR. L. B. JACKSON,
Late Surgeon, L. S. Navy.
No. New Chambers ST., n. y. 2i-ly
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CABINET MAKER.

4 VI III " IT VI Il FNIlIt,
f. /. STEWART
Is prepared to 10 all kinds cf work in the line of
cabinet making, manufacturing the and re-
pairing the old, at reasonable prices. shop over
Martin 4 Langworthy's machine shop, near the
freight depot Atm
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Lines.

WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM, by THS LATE oELBsTE A.
WILLIAMSON.
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The first duty on T-Don't forget to
cross it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-09-26

1Prinee Daigourowski Is said to have
betn killed In the recent duel with Q dis
uDguished Russian diplomatist.
~Mrs. Partington (B. p. Shil aber) is said
to resemble q farmer, and like Q farm or fs
fond OF talking over the past.
~Josh Billings Henry w. Shaw wears
his hair, visaee, and coats long, and Lives
soberly NJ Poughkeepsie.
IDr. Won Bulow when last heard from
was at Godember on the Rhine and con-
valescent from bis recent Illness.
~Parson Murray's novel on the Adiron-
dac ks II entitled, 'sThe Story the Keg Told
Me- Was IL beer or nails, Parson?
1Suange 10 relate, the gorgeous hotel
cl ERIK rather likes the Centennial tourists.
He says that they all pay their bills, and
nc AXE very little trouble.
~Last Friday New Yorker who visit
ed the Centennial In o straw hat, managed
to escaped by swimming the Sehuyiktlt,
but he ID still suffering from excessive ner-
vousness--lR BROOKLYN lyDxs.
~Alfred Johnson, the daring fisherman
who recently crossed the AtisutIc 10 Q dory
aptly named " Ceutennisl," has beea visited
81 The dooks I'm liverpool, Z ngland by thou
sapds Of people he will exuioit hie vsssel In
London sftsr his departure from Liverpool.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-09-26

S-"Parasol- holders" is the Saratoga name
Iof young men who part their hair In the
~ The Kelly motor has quite passed out
felt, as IL never possessed the popul arity ora
NO. L ooot-I Brooklyn Argus.
The man who owns seven dogs and
cant afford 70 buy shoes for bis children Is
ABOUT this time making inquiries whether
the relief societies are going 70 begin soon 10
dispense charities.-GAleI.S e7atineL
~Mrs. SwisshelTn has mingled among
the rosy, beautiful, cheerful, moral, beer
ana wlne-drinklng Germans, and comes 10
the conclusion that sour whole temperance
movement has been q mistake"
81 Benjamin Franklin, the author o.
Early 10 bed and early 10 rise" used 10 stir
MS FAMILY up at $50 a. IN. aud set them 10
work, and tnen IA the afternoon hs used 10
hours. $3.50
ga brutal EnglisLmsn, the other day,
tnrew knife al his wife, which killed babe
In her arms. The confederate Justice admin
lstered 70 the vile a severe reouke for anger
Ing her husband, ruled out the testimony
against her husband aud discharged the
prisoner, declaring there was no evidence OF
willful assault.
~They are taking evidence in a divorce
case for cruelty; the husband is under exam
lnation; his wife, Frustrated with grief IA
weeping bitterly, covering her face with
her handkerchief. "Now," saws tbe iudee
ARE You not ashamed 10 have thus brutaIly
e 1880 your Wlie, tender young woman of
~! Inc wife suddenly raises her head, 81
Deg your pardon" she soos, f2i only" And
she again gives way 10 her grief.
~A very modest young lady, who want
ed pair OF garters, addressed the shop
OF circular elastic appendages, capable OF
being contracted or expanded by means OF
oscillatir FURNISHED steel appliances, that
sparkle u ke particles OF gold leaf set with
Alaska clam onds, and which are utilized
for retaining In proper position the habili-
meBts OF the lower extremities, which In
nate delicacy foroids me TO mention"
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II q. WARNEK, Auctioneer.

TRpsTEEs' SALE OF VALUABLE IMPROVED
PROPERTY. No. 1872 bIXTH STREET
NORTHWEST, AT AUCTION.
By virtue OF . deed Of trust to the under -
signed, dated August 2otS Ia3. and duly -
recorded 10 Liber No. y29, fono lcs, ct seq Ell
one Of the land records 10 and for the District Of
Columbia and at the request Of the parties secured
thereby, We shall sell a public auction, on FIJI
DAY, the 29th day Of September, A. ID. 1876, at 4
S'el0sk in front Of the premises, the following
ton, District Of COLUMBIA, to viii All that certain
piece or parcel OF ground known and described a.
berg the northern part of Lot numbered twenty
three t2S), In square numbered four hu ndred and
my Tour 44), the said northern Fart Of said Lot
Eaying . 'front.' OF nineteen (l9D feet and four a.
inches on 9th street west, and running back with
the same vidt to the rear line of said 1ot aud i'm
House.
Terms OF sale, as prescribed In said trust 9s 900
with accrued interest from August 29tn, 1875, and
expenses Of sale, in cash; and the balance at eh
tes IN ard twenty four months, for which the notes
OF the purchaser bearing interest from day OF sale
and secured BY deed OF trust on the property sold
will be taken. Conveyancins at cost OF purchase
$40 OF the cash payment will be required to be paid
tmm edfateiy after sale. IL the terms Of are Lot
complied with within eight days atter day OF sale,
the Trustees reserve the right TO rese the
At the risk and cost OF the defauting by
giving i've days notice OF such re sale In The Iven
ing Star newspaper published in ssit city.
.epis iIsEkT r F65x FOX. Trustees.
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THOMAS BOWLING, A1ctioneer.
CHAECERY SALE OF REAL PROPERTY In

By virtue Of a for the sale thereof. -
mace BY the Supreme court OF the District ofx
Coipmtia IN cause numbered 4,9z, squity@
Docket Is, Emma 6ohultze ct al VS.. George schutze
ct al the undersigned Trustee will SELF at public
auction, to the highest bidder, on MONUAY. the
9Th day OF October, lS76, at O'Clock in the after
noon, those parcels Of ground situated In Geoege-
town, ID. o., know q Lots Is and rs, in Lee Oaz-
enoves and Deaktns addition to n, front
Ing on the west side OF MONTGOMERY street. ween
Bridge and Needwo streets
Terms OF sale: One third cash; and the balsnce fn
six and twelve months, with interest purchaser 10
give notes secured to OF Trustee for de-
ferred payments. All conveyancing, &c, at cost of
purchaser. Isep36l w. WEBB, Trustee.
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A UCrION SALE OF DESIRABLE PROP
"A ERTr ON II Z NORTH SIDE OF l.
eTBB1T NORTH, BETWEEN 10TH AND
16IB SHEETS WEST, In WASHINGTON

By virtue Of a deed of trust to rs, dated SEP -
TENDER 9th. s75. Of record In Liber No. 795, ..:3
f.lio 100. one OF the land records for the Dts Ekk
trict OF Columbis, and 10y direction of the parry
thereby secured. will sell, 1T public auction. in
front OF the premises, on SATURDAY. October
9TH, 1876, at D O'CLOCK p. all that parcel OF
ground ana premises situated In said city Of Wash
ington, and known a. and being part Of original
Lot 2, In square ly7, beginning for the at q
point on l. street north distant q feet west Of the
southeast corner OF said lot, and thence ru aning
west feet "a inches to thscenfer Of the PARTITION
wall OF the two brick houses .siapding q portion
OF said Ot thence due north l0 feet thence Is
feet ~ inches, thence .ouih Is feet, thence west
fovt, and thence south te the beginning; with the
improvements tn reon. &c, consisting Of o three
etory press brick front Dwelling
Terms of sale: One fourth ca b on the cay OF sale,
or within seven days there sfer the residue in three
equal fnstalments, At g. ~ and u months from the
day Of sale, bearing interest ct ak per centum Per
annuD, secured BY q esd OF trust on the property
10 sstisfacton. ol00 deposit on ecceptan . OF
bid All oonveysncing st the cost Of the purchaser.
II the terms Of sale are not complied with within
days nom the day Of sale, we the rfsht
to resell the Irorsrty ct tbs risk and cost Of the
' ADS sw !, .ssPRwAsDs.} Trustees.
sep25eo&ds WABH. b. WILLIAMS, Aucts.