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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-02-10
The Important Question.

Of all loathsome diseases catarrh
stands pre-eminent. 1t renders its VIC
tim as disgusting to himself rs to others.
And the most humiliating of all Is the
consciousness that his presence is ofIen-
sive to those around him. Ii any disease
deserves the name of universal, il is this.
Dietetic errors and the follies which
fashion imposes upon us tend to foster
and disseminate 1t. To the pitiful cry
OF its victims, "is there any cure for
Catarrh ?" there is but one answer con-
sistent with Christian reason. God has
never sent one evil into the world for
which he has not sent the remedy. For
the greatest of all spiritual and moral
evils, the Great Physician has prescribed
q potent and never-failing remedy. He
has given explicit rules for the treatment
and preservation of the spiritual and
moral man, hut lie is silent in all mat
ters relating TO the physical man. 1t
would be an unwarrantable detraction
from His beneflcent character to suppose
that He has afflicted the greater portion
of humanity with an incurable disease.
The day of plaques is past. The God of
Christianity is God of Love, of Mercy,
His message is "good will to all men,"
The earth and all contained therein was
intended by the great Designer to sup
ply mems wants; and surely he has no
creator wants than remedies for his in
firmities. Science is rapidly proving
that the earth is fitted to supply mans
utmost need. New medicinal plants
are constantly being discovered and new
properties developed from those already
known. For catarrh, the most potent
remedy yet. discovered is DR.. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy. Its efficacy has been
tested in many thousand cases with uni
form success. Cases that had been re-
peatedly pronounced incurable, readily
yielded to 1t. In confirmed or obstinate
cases, DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
cOvery should be taken in connection
with the use Of the Catarrh Remedy.
Full particulars in Pierce's Memoran-
dunn Books. They are given away by
druggists.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-02-10
A Governor Found In Hogshead.

A good natured philanthropist was
walking along the docks one Sunday
morning, when he found boy asleep in
a hogshead He shook him till he was
wide awake and then opened the follow
ing conversation:
"What are you doing here, my boyr'
II slept here oil night, sir, because
had no other place to sleep in"
GLOW Is that? Who takes care OF
youl"
"My father drinks, sir, and | don't
know where he is. | have TO take care
of myself, for my mother is dead; she
died not long ago" And at the men,
ton of her name the boys eyes filed
with tears.
"Come along with me, I'll give you n
home, and look after you rs well "a |
can"
The child thus adopted on the wharf
was taken to happy home. lie was
sent to common school, to CONNER
cial school, and afterwards employed as
q clerk in the store of his benefactor.
When he become of age his friend and
benefactor said to him:
"You have been q faithful and hon.
est boy and man, and if you will make
three promises, l will furnish you with
goods and letters of credit, so that you
can start business at the west on your
own account
"What promises do you wish me to
maker" inquired the young man.
"First, that you will not drink intox-
icating liquors Of any kind" ~ agree
to that" "Second, that you will not
use profane speech" "Iagree to that"
"Third, that you will not become q pol
itician." 81 agree to that"
The young man started in business at
the west, and by minding his own busi-
ness. In q few years he became rich
man. At the close of the war he came
East, and called upon his friend and
adopted father. In the course of a happy
interview the philanthropist asked his
adopted son if he had kept the total abb
stinence pledge. eyes SIR" was the
answer.
"Have you abstained from the use of
profane speech?"
eyes, Sir" said the man with empha-
sis.
"Have you had anything to do with
p0litics?" The visitor blushed, and
said; "Without my consent was NOM
mated for governor of my state and
elected. l am now on my way to
Washington to transact important bust
ness for the state"
Did ever hogshead turn out so good
thing as teetotal governor before ?
1t had to be emptied of its wine before
it could be shelter for the little Arab
who ran wild in that Wilderness of mar
bic and mortar, the great city of New
York.
The streets and wharves Of the great
metropolis of commerce invite mission
airy effort, and the writer hopes that the
little waits afoat on the wave Of outward
life will not be neglected.-[G, W, Bun
oay
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-02-10
Alcoholic POisons,

In lSl7 DR.. James Edmunds, Il very
distinguished English physician, deuy-
cred a course Of lectures upon the medi-
cal use of alcohol and stimulants for
women, in New York city, which were
published. He says:
50 II is admitted by every one that al
cohol is the cause of more than half the
insanity we have. am not so familiar
with the facts on this subject here as l
should naturally be at tbe other side OF
the Atlantic. I know this:
that Lord SALISBURY, the chairman Of
our commission on lunacy in England,
has said in parliamentary report on
the subject, that six out of ten lunatics
in our asylums are made lupatic by the
use Of alcohol. 1t is a fact which cannot
diseases ioI lhe" tdisa3 se7sxGses OF me
tissues OF the body, are induced directly
by the use of alcohol, and that as a gen
eral rule you may say that where YOU
have alcohol used most largely and most
frequently, there these diseases and de-
generations in the tissues of the body
become most marked. Icould give you
very authoritative facts bearing upon
this matter from sources which are moi
opeu to the imputati0n of any kind cf
moral bias, as the utterances of some OF
our temperance friends may be open to.
"Now, recollect that food Is that
which puts strength into a man and
stimulant is that which gets strength
out of q man; so that when you want TO
use stimulant, recollect that you are
using that which will exhaust the last
particle Of strength, with facility
which your body would not otherwise
part with them. If man takes pin;
Of brandy what do we seet 1t intod-
Gates, 1t poisons him. OF course you
know intoricdnt il modification Of the
Greek word to1icon. The man who Is
Intoxicated is poisoned; we simply use
q Greek instead of Saxon word for II.
We see man intoxicated. What are
the phenomena we see then? A man
lies on his back snoring, helpless, sense-
less. II you set him up be falls down
again like sack Of potatoes. II you
try to rouse him, YOU get nothing out OF
him but grunt, Is that the effect OF
stimulant, do you think? I should
think it Is the effect of paralyzer that
you have-mind, and body, and nerve,
and muscle all equally and uniformly
paralyzed right through. Al
cohol in a large dose is narcotic poi
son, which paralyzes the body and STU
pifies the mind. If a man takes a some
what larger dose, what do you see them
You see that snoring and breathing
come to an end-y0u see that the
soft, flabby pulsation of the heart ceases;
that the spark of life goes out, and the
man cannot be recuscitated.' In fact
there are more men killed, so far as ]
know English statistics, more men poi
soned i'll that way by alcohol than are
poisoned by all other poisons put TO-
gether. We have great horror Of ar
senic and fifty other things; the fact is
that all these other things are mere
bagatelle in relation to the most direct.
absolute, immediate, aud certain poison
ings which are caused by alcohol"
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-02-10
Stretching Things TN Texas.

"You'd hardly now believe what /
am going to tell. In Texas we use raw
hide straps, or thongs, for traces, and
in wet weather they do stretch amazing
ly. Why, often in damp weather at
home I've hitched up two horses and
drove down the hill from my house in
to the creek bottom for sled load OF
wood. 1 have loaded the wood and
many times driven back home and un-
hitched the horses and the sled would
not be in sight" GLOW did you get
the wood home, them" asked.an In
quisitive bystander. "Oh, 1 just tied
the ends of the traces together, and
threw them over post, went knock
ing about my work, and waited until
the sun shone out. Sometimes it would
be moro than two hours before that
sled load would get home, but you'd
see her crawling up the hill at last,
gradually approaching as the rawhide
traces shrunk up into their proper
lengths. Yes. Texas is n great country,
you bet.'
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-02-10
DIR. Reynolds in Saginaw. Mich.

We see by the papers that the grea4
temperance reformer is at work in Sagi-
nav, one of the worst places In the
world for intemperancc. 1t is seaport
town and the centre of great lumber
district, and filled with all classes of
transients; saloons on every side; sa-
loon-kcepers for aldermen, sheriffs, con-
stables and policemen! Think OF it
But change has come. Hundreds are
signing the pledge nightly-mayors,
judges, lawyers, mechanics, choppers,
sailors; all are rallying and putting on
the red ribbon. Let every true heart
pray for the success of the temperance
cause. Take care of temperance and
every good will follow. Our criminal
courts will be without business, our 20
lice without occupation, and our jails
without occupants. believe In per-
sonal devil, and his name is Rum! Lei
Gods people rise up as one man and
cast him out.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-02-10

A RACE FOR LIFE.-The Burlington
Qa.) Hawkeye says; A couple oftramps
waylaid wealthy farmer in Louisiana
county and springing out upon him de-
manded his money or his life. He
showed them a clean pair of heels, and
they went at it. They chased him half
a mile down through the toughest lane
they ever stumbled over, then the whole
crowd dashed through brier hedge and
went painting and sweating across an
old corn field; then the chase struck
for the woods and went wheeling up
steep hill, while the tramps pressed
hard after him with bloodshot eyes and
shortened breath; then the retreating
farmer dashed across q frozen creek,
and the tramps, following, broke
through, but got out and chased the
fugitive through blackberry patch,
across forty acre stubble field, over
another hill, down a ravine, across n
stamp field, and finally they. overhaul
ed him in the road, searched him, and
fou. that he didn't have nickel, not a
solitary red cent. And il they weren't
the maddest tramps!
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-02-10
Widder Green's Last Words.

"Tm goin' to die," says the widdcr Green.
I'm goin' to quit this airthly scene;
II amt no place for me to stay
In such world as Ills to-day.
Such works and ways Is toomuch for me
Nobody can't let nobody be.
The girls is flounced from top to toel
An that's the hull o. what they know.
The men is mad on bonds and stocks,
TweSrn @Gd1 and shS9iin ,1 In and picnin Dck'
Ef amt laid on my. final shelf.
There amt eretur but knows to-day
never was n lunatic anyway.
But, since crazy folks go free,
I'm dreadful afraid they'll hang up me!
There's another matter that's pesky hard
can't go Into neigbor's yard
TO say How be youY or borrow pin,
But what the paper'll have IL in;
We're pleased TO say the Widder Green
Took dinner Tuesday with Mrs. Keene,'
Or, Our worthy friend, Mrs. Green, has gone
Down TO Barkhamstead to see her SON.
Great Jerusaleml can't stir,
Without n raisin' some feler's fur?
There amt no privacy so to say,
No more than ii twas the Judgment Day.
And as for meetin'-I want to swear
Whenever put my head in there
Why, even Old Hundreds spilled and done,
Like everything else under the sun;
II used TO be so solemn and slow
Praise to the Lord from men below
Now IL goes like gallopin' steer
High diddle diddlc there and here:
No respect TO the Lord above,
NO mOre'n cf lie was hnnd and glove
With all the creatures He ever made,
And all the jigs that ever was played.
Preachin', too-but here Pm dumb;
But tell you, what I'd like il some
Eff good old Parson Nathan Strong
Out o. his grave would come along,
An give US a stirIin' taste of fire
Judgment an justice is my desire.
'Tain't all love and sickish sweet
That makes this world nor 'tother completes
But law! I'm old I'd better be dead
When the worlds turnn over my hcnd
Sperets talkin' like tarnal FOOLS
Bibles kicked out o. deestricl schools.
Crazy cretures murderin round
Honest folks better be underground
So fare yc well; this airthly scene
Won't no more be pestered by Wilder Green"
Shoe and Ledthel' Reporffr.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-02-10
POST OFFICE NOTICE.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
MIDDLEBURT.

MIDDLEBUR1.
CongregdtionGACorner Pleasant and Main SITS
Rev. f. p. Hooker, pastor. Sunday services nj
10 As AN. and 90 PM. Thursday evening prayer
meeting at 90.
Methodist-North Pleasantst Rev 5. Wash.
burn, pastor. Sunday services at 10 As AM. and
80 Pm. Thursday evening prayer meeting at
90. Glass meeting on Friday evening at 90.
Episcopal-.Sf Stephens Church-Main-st. -
rector. sunday services at 10 80 AM.
and 0OPM
Roman Cdtholic-wey ybridge.st. Rev. p. Gun.
ningham, pastor. Sunday services. alternate Sab
baths, High Mass at 10 90 AM, Vespers and bene-
diction at 80 Pm.
EAST MIDDLEBURY.
Mefhodisf-Rev. ID. +. Brooks, pastor. sunday
services nj 2 :0OP.M
yERGENNES.
BdpfiSf-Rev. Charles IIibbard pastor Services
in town hall. Sunday services at 10:45 AM and
JPN. weekly prayer ineetiuy On Inursuay eve
ming at 100.
services at l 80 and 100 PM. Weekly prayer
meeting on Thursday evening at 90.
Episcopal-ISt PauPs Ch1rch-Rev. c. l. Chaplin,
rector Sunday services at 10 45A.M. and 90 PM.
Friday evening at 7 30.
Mission Chdpel-Dr. ii. A. Ingham. Sunday
services at 10 AS AM. and 7:P.M. Weekly prayer
meeting on Thursday evening.
Roman Cdfholic-Rev. L. Cunningham pastor.
Services, alternate Sabbaths, High Mass at 10 90
AM, Nespers and bcnediction at 90 PM.
CONGREGATIONAL - -, pastor. Sun
,lay services al 10 10 AM. and O0P.M. Weekly
prayer meeting on Thursday evening at ;0O
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-02-10
A Card.
/. NJ. TRIpP, ESQ.

l. NJ. TRIP, ESQ.
Dear Sir: The Womens' Christian
Temperance Union request that you use
yonr utmost exertions that every person
found intoxicated upon our streets may
be arrested while so intoxicated, that
such persons may be compelled to dis
close from whom they obtained the
liquor causing such iutoxicatiou. Not
that We would especially seek to punish
such intoxicated persons, but that we
may seek the seller, against whom we
would make complaint. We make this
request, not that you have not done
your duty i'll our opinion, but that you
may be reminded Of our sympathy IL
the cause of temperance and good order.
Yours respectfully,
Womens' Christian TEN. Union.
Middlebury, VT, Feb. G, 1877.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-02-10
Cultivation of Rice in India

People unacquainted with the East
are apt to imagine that rice is the prev
alent cultivation and food Of the popula-
ton, but this is Tar from being the case.
Rice is rather what white bread is in
Scotland and Ireland, not the general
food, but rather an occasional luxury;
@thGhRgh .hoh ilian tho IN. ,~h;test broad at home
preferred 10 tIu me- ~ntritious brown,
leads all classes in Asia to esteem rice
more highly than any other cereal,
though containing much the least nutri-
ment ofall. When, too, it is considered
that rice can grow only on water, and
therefore on levels where water can be
supplied with certainty for some months,
it will be obvious that in country of
very irregular surface the area capable
of being so irrigated must be Very limi-
ted. Thus in the district of Coimba-
tore, for instance, ont OF nearly mil
lion and half acres of cultivated land
there are little more than 10000 acres
producing rice; necessarily then the lat
ter must be the food of a minority. In
a delta region, like Tanjore, or great
river valley, such as that Of the Ganges.
the proportions are different, yet insig-
nificant in the total area of the country.
Still, poor food though it be, rice sup
ports its millions, more probably than
any other grain, and, albeit, such races
are ever deficient in pith and manhood,
and "wet" villages in India ever the
abode of Brahmans, and centres of in
trigue and roguery, as revenue officials
we'll know. Most beautiful, delightful,
and refreshing to look upon Is n wide
stretch of rice cultivation-how refresh
ing none can tell who have not seen the
network of tender green plots, separa-
ted by ridges of darker grass, lying set
amid brown or yellow sunburnt up
lands, with troops of snow-white pad
dy birds flying about or standing knee
deep in the grain.-[Fraser's Magazine.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-02-10

A policeman PAGES his lonely beat in
the early morning. 1t is :. a nipping
and an eager air. and with a shrug
he buttons up his overcoat more tight
ly, and wishes himself beside some rud-
dy CRATE. In the dim twilight dark
object crosses his eyes. He approach
cs. II Is a woman. She sits on the
curbstone, shivering with cold, and
moaning over bundle in her arms.
The policeman takes the bundle and
unwraps it. He finds it contains Eau
infant frozen TO DEATH" And what
caused this horrible scene in real life2
Drink. "The woman" say the news
reports, all too coldly, sis tho wife OF
drunkard, whose cruelty drove her
into the streets to beg. She was m-
able either 10 feed or warm her child,
and the baby died of cold on its moth
er's breast" What a theme for tenn
perance lecture!
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-02-10

SCARCITY OF MONEY. - There is no
doubt but the present condition of all
kinds of business is fcarfuiiy depressed,
and it behooves every family to look
coming on when children are liable to
Group, whooping cough, etc. Coughs
and colds will prevail everywhere, and
consumption, with other throat and
lung diseases, will carry Off many.
These diseases should not be neglected.
Doctors bills are expensive, and we
would advise our people to use Bos-
chee's German Syrup. 1t never has
failed. One bottle al 75'cents will keep
your whole family well during the Win
ter. Two doses will relieve any case.
Sold in all towns in the United States.
and by your druggist. n. F. Rider.
80 "
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-02-10

A correspondent writing from Essex,
says, " Ii the good of the state requires
stringent law for destroying dogs to
preserve the sheep, the morals Of our
people must be at low standard ifrun.-
sellers are allowed TO destroy our young
men, for the sake Of the profits OF de
liquor trade" He thinks il quite lime
for the guardians Of the public welfare
to stop this unholy trafflc, and recon-
mends organized efforts In the different
towns TO execute the law throughout the
state A good idea. Organized effort.
well conducted, Is usually successful in
a good cause. Bat be not weary in web
doing. Our young men are Of more
value than sheep. And the rumsellegs
who are running them are certainly do
Ing more injury than dogs Vermont
Witness,
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-02-10

LISTENING TO EVIL REPoRTs.-Thc
longer live, the more l feel the impor-
tance of adhering to the rule which
have laid down for myselfin relation to
such matters l. To hear as little as
possible whatever is to the prejudice OF
others. 2. To believe Nothing of the
kind till am absolutely forced to it.
8. Never to drink into the spirit OF
one who cmculates an evil report. 4.
Always to moderate, as far as can, the
unkindness which is expressed towards
others. 8. Always to believe that, if the
other side were heard a very differ.
ent account would be given of the mat
ter,-ICarus's Life of Simeon.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-02-10

Nothing can be fairer than Mr.. Dan
iel F. Beatiy's mode of doing business,
and which evinces his confidence in the
superiority of his instruments over all
others. He warrants his pianos and
organs for six years, gives five days
test trial, and refunds money if pur-
chaser is not satisfied. BY this means
his instruments are brought into COM
petion with others, and invariably
come out victorious. Address all oom-
munications to Daniel F. Beatty, Wash
ington, Warren County, N, j., U. s. A
See his advertisement. As
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-02-10

LIQUOR LAws.-The Temperance Ad-
vocate says; "If pumpkin-pie produced
the deplorable results in the way of vice
and crime which proverbially accom-
any whisky and other alcoholic bever-
ages,it would be the duty of the state 10
make its manufacture and sale unlawful.
II is properly left free from such legis-
lative restriction. Broken heads, wife
beatings, and child-murders are in no
sense a sequence of the custom of eat
ing pumpkin-pie; but they are COM
mon fruifion Of the traffic in alcoholic
liquors"
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-02-10

Can't 60 to church. Why nots OF
my cough would disturb the congrega-
of Horehound and Tar" a pure yegeta-
BILE remedy, unfailing as the sun and
harmless as the summer air. Sold by
all druggists.
Pixies Toothache Drops cure in one
minute. A
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-02-10

A WINDFALL.-The Green Mountain
state has had windfall. Arunah Hun
tington, native of Vermont, who went
to Canada and amassed fortune, re-
Gently died at Banford, z. O., and Is
now found to have left fund of S202,-
600 for the benefit of the common
schools of Vermont. Rightly employed,
the income of such fund can be made
of great service, and it Is to be hoped
the large family won't quarrel over the
disposition Of their unexpected prop
erty.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-02-10
Woman's 8. Temperance Column.
"7he Lord Of Hosts 10 NTH Us, the God
ofJaco5 IS our refuoe."


To the Ladies Of the Woman's Chris
tain Temperance Union:
We, the druggists of Nfiddlebury here
by agree that we will not sell, furnish
or give away any intoxicating liquor,
wine or malt liquors in connection with
our business as druggists or otherwise,
except upon the prescription Of a physi-
clan in good and regular standing-said
prescription to be written In regular
form, and to be recorded by US, and 10
no case will we sell or dispose Of said
liquors clear.
Is. I. OWENS & Co.
Middlebury, Vt, Feb. G, 1877.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-02-10

PUBLIC OpINIoN.-The assurance OF
the certainty Of thing is always estab-
lished by public opinion. The truth OF
this may be seen in the rapidly increas-
ing reputation of DR.. A. j. Fiagg's
Cough and Lung Syrup, as a sure RENE
dial for all diseased pertaining to the
throat and lungs. In the town of Clare
mont, N. H., where Is located DR..
Flagg's manufactory, there has been
sold within the last fifteen months, 400
bottles of this invaluable syrup. Sold
by all druggists, 46.is
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-02-10

a standard medicine for curing
Bright's disiase, dropsy, kidney, bladder
and glandular maladies, is Hunts REM
edy. Female weakness, pain in the
back and loins, gravel, diabetes, intem-
perance and prostration Of the nervous
system, arc cured by Hunts Remedy.
Hunfs Remedy imparts tone and vigor
10 the constitution.
hJaUible Eye Wash improves the
eyes.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-02-10

A hen may look serene and happy as
she sits on snowdriit, wings spread out
and head up, but we all know that she's
simply trying 10 keep up appearances,
and that there Is q powerful aching
down around her heels
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-02-10

The iin.2 approaches when fellow
buys for his chum's sister highly orna-
mental valentine, the great center ofat-
traction of which Is picture of the
tabled boy who has decidedly more
wings Than overcoat.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-02-10

All kinds Of business in London are
represented to be unprecedently dull.
Failures are reported among tradesmen
every day.