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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-11-02
lie Loved the Lightning.

The other day, during thunder
storm, man came into Milwaukee
saloon, and hurrying up to the bar, he
said excitedly.
"Give me glass of the best brandy
in the house. | need it,"
When the glass was filled, he held it
between his fingers and said:
"Stranger, | don't drink, but this is
a fearful storm, and man is likely to
be struck by lightning; brandy is n
non-conductor, and have never been
struck by lightning, from the fact that |
always drink brandy during a storm"
After he drained the glass, he rolled
his eyes around the room once or twice.
"That was vivid flash, just now,"
he said. Lightning is dangerous
element, but to me it is also glorious
element; its flash is sunshine to mine
ears. Stranger, love the lightning !;
it lulls me to sleep at night; it cheers
me when in the morning awake. Give
me another glass of brandy"
AS the bar-keeper poured out the liq-
uor, he said:
"Denjamin Franklin solved the mys-
terry OF lightnlilg, but boforo lao haw
his kite he drank pint of old cognac.
Sometimes think l am old Ben, draw
ing the lightning from the clouds and
bottling it up. That was magnificent
peal" he said, as the thunder resound-
ed with fearful crash. 81 look at cv-
erything in scientific light. l came
from a scientific family. Partner, can
post you little Oh lightning" he said,
with a knowing look. "Whenever a
thunder storm comes up, drink two
or three glasses of brandy, and you
have better protector than lightning
rod. Better take glass now"
He smiled as the barkceper took a
drink, and went on:
"Lightning is produced in the follow
ing manner: When the two clouds,
charged with different kinds of electric
ity, approach each other, they exchange
their fluids, and this gives us the flash,
or lightning; the shock makes big
noise, and we call it thunder"
He looked around the room and saw
that the back door was open. He knew
if he unlocked the front door the wind
would blow il shut. and he smiled, this
lover of lightning did, and he was hap
py.
"Now," said hc, 81 will illustrate my
last remark"
lie stepped out, and as he passed the
door, it was unlocked
"There, away TO the south, are two
big black clouds approaching each 9th
err
The door was slowly but surely blow
ing shut.
"Soon they will meet and will sec
another display of my beloved element
Oh, let the rain pour in torrents; lei
the lightning flash with its aerial splcn-
dor; let the thunder
There was slam as the door blew
shut, and the barkeeper heard no more
He saw that his scientific customer was
in no hurry about returning, and as hC
opened the door the truth dawned up
ON him. AS he looked up the street
and saw no one, he realized that the mai
who loved lightning had gone from hi'
shop forever.-lThc Courier.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-11-02
Gong for the Doctor.

A jolly old German farmer rode to
town after physician for his wife, who
was very sick. lie dsmounted from his
horse III front of saloon Just as the BOYS
inside had begun to make merry over the
first keg of buck. lie approached and
looked cautiously around the screen.
The foaming glasses were held high
above the heads of the jewellers, as one
of the number pronounced toast appro-
pirate to the occasion. The silent watch
er licked his lips and wished his errand
to town had been one not requiring so
much despatch. lie was turning re-
luctantly away, when the crowd saw
him.
"Hallo!" they shouted, "thcrc's Fritz.
Bring him in"
lie was laid hold upon and hauled up
to the bar, all the while protesting.
"POys, vos in quick hurry. Ole
woman sick. vos come nit der toctor
sooner as lightnin'."
"Wcll, you can take some buck while
you're here, and kill two birds with one
stone, was the reply.
"Yaas, | kill Won chicken nit coople
o. stones, und der ole woman die init
out der toctor. don't forget myselfuv
it, eh!'
"Oh, she won't die. Buck beer don't
come but once year, and you've got the
old woman all the time. Fill 'em up
again"
"Yaas, | got her all der time, but cx-
posen she got dead, don't get her any
more sometimes. It's peter to get NIT
der toctor seldom right away"
But he didn't go. AS one glass after
another was forced upon him by the
reckless crew, the object of his crrand
was floated farther and farther from his
vision, until it was carried out of his
mind altogether, and his voice untinged
with anxiety, joined in the drinking
songs, and arose above all others.
Thus he was found by his son late
that night. The boy grasped him by the
sleeve, and said:
"Fader, COON home."
Fritz turned, and at sight of the boy 9
great fear arose in his mind, swept ava,
the fumes of beer, and brought him tC
sense of the situation. In an awe
struck tone he asked:
"Yawcup, how you vas come here
Vas Something's der matter?'
"Yaw," replied the boy.
: "Vcll, spoke ub about it. Vos der ole
| NOu sllc-tttttt
can stann der best. Don't keep YOU
fader in expenses, poy. Shpit it oud
Vas We n coople of orphanses, Yaw
cup?'
"Nein," answered the boy, "you vo
annder. A leedle baby come nit de-
house."
"Vos dot so? expose it vos not 5,
soon already. Vell-vell, in der middl,
oflife We don't know vat's goin to turn
up next. Man exposes und Gott sup
poses. Fill up der glasses"
The boy ventured to ask the old mai
,, why he had not sent doctor.
"Vot. Did she want a toctor? Petite
she tole me so. got him pooty quick
Ncvars mind. l save more as ten tOlla
,, toctor bill on dot baby. Whooraw fo
the leedle baby. We Won't go home til
/, ycshterday."
l Fritz came at last, and was in tow
|; again after q couple of days after SOM
medicine. The boys couldn't get hin
back again, though he said to them:
"YOu bate ten to my peesness now
Z | go back and votch der ole woman do
she don't got dwins, by sheeminy. She
4 got her spunk up like evcrydinks.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-11-02
A Petroleum Item.

Yesterday afternoon, an oil man with
crude petroleum dripping from his
clothes, and legs enclosed in high boots,
entered the Derrick Office and said:
"Want an TEMP
"Tve got the durndest item you ever
heard tell oil. l struck an lie well on
my lease Monday, an she flowed a
stream of lie hundred feet high
straight up for half an hour. Then she
kinder died down-onc of my drillers
was standing over the hole, when she
suddenly spurted up again, and, blast
my eyes, if it didn't take that driller
right up with 1t. The stream was Il
powerful one, you see, am he went up a
hundred feet. You've seen those little
balls us dance about on the top of those
little squirting fountains such as they
lave in the cities? Yes, wal, that's
the way this ere thing acted, an he's
dancin' about like chaff in n flaming
mill. What do you think of that unw
"IIow long has he been up there?"
"About four days and four nights"
"llc must be very hungry by this
time. Doesn't he come down to get
something to eatY'
"Why, we 'uns just put plate OF
hash in this stream of lie, and it takes
ii up to him, you see. An it's mighty
handy, rs he finds his victuals ready
creased, and he doesn't need any but.
ter"
"But he must have frozen TO dcatl
before this time"
"Why, man, we've sent him up oi
the same stream bed and bedding, I
small stove an wood, AN we're goins
to build him small house, am then III
can live there rs comfortable rs /
prince" $500 tthf
His face was as innocent of deceit a
n piece oftanned leather, and when h,
asked TO have his name pnt down as
deadhead subscriber for information h,
had given, we didn't have the heart Il
hurt his feelings by refusing = ron Cit.
Derrick.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-11-02

A good story for the times, be it true
or untrue, is that they tell about the
head of the French Rothchilds. During
the days of the last Communist uprising
in Paris, two of the rcd-capped gentry
called upon him and said:
"Daron, the Commune rules France
now, and you, like other rich men,
must divide your property among your
poorer fellow countrymen."
"Ah," said the Baron, sis that SOL
Pray tell me how much am supposed
to be worthv
"About forty millions of francs"
Sand how many people are there in
FranceT
"About forty Millions
"And must divide my wealth among
them?"
"Yes, Monsieur"
every well, then, here are two francs
for you. You have got your share, and
may go; for, of course. you do not wish
10 take any one else's."
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-11-02
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

MtDDLEBuRY.
COMMUNICATIONS Pleasant and Main sts
Rev e. p Hooker, pastor. Sunday services al
10; ;45 AM. and 90 pm. Thursday evening prayer
meeting az %.
Mefhodist-North Pleasantst. Rev. W. II. Row
som, pastor. Sunday services at 10: 40 AN. and
700 PM Thursday evening prayer meeting al
I 100. Glass meeting on Friday evening at 80
EpiScopdi-Sf. Stephens Chnrch-Main-st -
-, rector. Sunday services at 10 30 AM
and }: 90 PM.
Roman Catholic-Weybridge-st Rev. T. Gun.
ninghan pastor Sunday services. alternate Sab.
baths, High Mass at 10 90 AM, Vespers and bene
diction at o 80 PM.
EAST MIDDIEBURY.
Mefhodisf-Rev. II. Nandecar, pastor. Sunday
services AT 2 90 PM.
vERGENNES.
Bdpfisf-Rev. Charles Hibbarl, pastor. Sunday
services at 10:45 AM. and 7:30 Pm. Weekly
prayer meeting on Thursday evening at 80.
Mefhodisf-Rev. II. n. Munger, pastor. Sunday
services at 80 and 80 Pm. Weekly prayer
meeting on Thursday evening at 80.
Episcopal-St PdnPs Church-Rev. c. !. Chaplin
rector Sunday services at 10 As AM and 80 PM
Friday evening at 30.
Mission Chdpel-Dr. ii. A. Ingham. Sunday
services at 10 :45 AM. and 1880 Pm. Weekly
prayer meeting on Thursday evening.
Roman Cdfholic-Rev T.. Cunningham, pastor
Services, alternate Sabbaths, High Mass at 10 VI
AN, Vespers and benediction at 90 PM.
Conqre0afiondi-Rev George f. Hall, pastor
ly prayer meeting ON Thursday evening at 1880
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-11-02

An honest English farmer, while har-
vesting, kept his gun near him to shoot
pigeons. Seeing one, he reached out
and took the gun by the muzzle, but, in
drawing it toward him, by some means
the gun went of, and the contents pas
sed near his head without iniuring him.
AS soon as he had sufficiently recovered
from the shock he fastened to the house,
and informed his wife of his narrow
escape; at which the good woman, who
is noted for her economy, raised her
hands, and exclaimed, in tone of re-
gret, "Sure, and it's pity the charge
was lost"
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-11-02

"I tell you that perseverance, and
pluck are bound to win." said a Cam
den man in cigar on Saturday night.
"Look at the history of our country"
he continued, "and take for illustration
the following: Twelve years ago Dan
Rice brought his circus into this town.
lie was not successful. Since then this
plucky man has been tackled by the
sheriff of every county he went into.
Everywhere he failed and all seemed
hopeless. But what did the man dol
Why, sirs, he went to the grand old
Bay State; he persevered, and to-day
he Is the governor of Massachusetts,.
There's an illustration for you."-[Cam-
den Post.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-11-02

Two other letters were written with
in two days after that In both of which
Nell was mentioned, the deacon saying
in one of them, that IL she had money
she would go away, and in another that
il she had not her children to take care
of, she would defy the ID to catch
her Three letters, one written Octo-
ber s, the other October IA, and the last
October lG, will he put in as evidence
they contain offers as high as $3.50 ia
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-11-02

Few people realize that there is as
much difference in the quality of mus
ical instruments as there really is.
From the immense sales and fattering
testimonials received by Mr.. Daniel
f. Beatty, of Washington. New Jersey,
we are forced TO the conclusion that his
pianos and organs are first class IN
every particular. Before buying, We
would earnestly recommend all ia
write TO Mr.. Beatty. See his advertis
ment in this paper. 81
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-11-02

T.. T. Barnum recently told man
whom he had been obliged to discharge
for drunkenness, that il he would join
the Red Ribbon Club and keep his
pledge for three months, he would take
him back and give him and his wife
good situation as long as they lived.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-11-02
lNIDEON Il. CLARK,
VI ATTORNEY AT LAW

u ATTORNEY AT LAW,
1862 LaSalle st. Room SO,
Residence South Chicagol CHICAGO, I'LL.
MONEY LOANED for eastern parties on FIRST
mortgage security on improved real estate In and
near Chicago and South Chicago at rates netting
ten per cent. per annum to the lenders.
Reference by permission TO Msssrs. Stewart 4
Eldredge, Middlebury, Vt.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-11-02
DANIEL f. BEATTY'S
PIANOS AND ORGANS

From f. Parson, Brookville Kansas:
The piano came safely yesterday, we find IL all
that fancy painted and you promised. The nstru-
ment Is handsome and lis tone Is pure and full.
see no reason why, with ordinary care, il may
not last lifetime. Those who, like me, cannot
AFFORD To pay i've hundred or a thousand dollars
for name, Will am sure, thank you for saving
them the exorbitant profits of dealers in general
and making IL possible for anY industrious man or
woman to he the possessor of ilrstclass organ or
piano"
From II. Gilbert, Douds Station, Iowa.
sOrgan Is received. The accomplished organisi
who gets IL says she would not exchange IL for any
organ she ever saw or heard from any other fac.
tory, whatever the price. In mechanical skill
simplicity of construction, and purity of tone. l
have never known its equal. II Is. emphaticaly
the best organ for the least money.
] have sold many other makes of organs, some
ofwhich thought conld not be equalled, but, like
King SAUL your organs are head and shoulders
above theirs In the leading elements that consttut.
II complete organ" 46yi
AGENTS WANTED, but where have none
large discounts made 10 have them introduced II
new localities. Send for Illustrated Advertiser
(catalogue,) containing testimonials from persons
some Of whom you NAV know, sent free. Address
DANIEL y. BEATTY, Washington, New jersey
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-11-02
I ,TATE NORMAL SCHOOL.

- CASTLETON, VT.
WALTER Z. WARD. PRIScIPAL.
Fall term commences August 81. Spring term
commences February 8, 1877.
E4- Each town is entitled to one free scholar
ship.
Address the Principal. Inns
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-11-02

~ w. GOODELL Il CO.-IIOUSE,
VI. Carriage and Furniture Painters and
Graners Place of business James Donahue',
shop, opposite the school House, Middlebury, Vt
Middlebury. July 27, 1877. l6tf
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-11-02

One of those excrcscences in life, q
female slandercr, went into neighbours
house the other morning, with her
tongue loaded with new venom. There
were several women present, and the
slandercr's eye glistcned in anticipation.
Throwing herself into chair, she said: :
zone half the world don't know how
the other half lives" "That amt your
fault" quietly observedonc of the COM
pany. The slanderer turned yellow.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-11-02

JASON DAVENPORT, Fire lnsur-
- ance Agent, will write policies in the Farm
ers' Mutual and other companies represented by
NJ. j. Francisco in Rutland.
Also the Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New
York. Office at ]. L. ButtOlph's Store. 40
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-11-02

CTATE NORMAL SCHOOL, RAN
- DOLPH, VT ABEL +. LEAvENw ORTIZ, A.
NJ, Principal. Eighty-one Scholarships. Fail
Term opens fourth Tuesday in August. Spring
Term opens second Tuesday in February. send
tor catalogue. 4iyl
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-11-02

~ w. JUDD, Manufacturer and deal
lLs or in all kinds of American and Foreign
Marble, Granite Work, 30. With Old Middle
hurry Marble Co. ltf
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-11-02
RAILROAD TIME TABLE.
TRAINS LEAVE MIDDLEBuRY.
POST OFFICE NOTICE.

MAILS ARRIVE.
From Ripton, Granville, Hancock, East
Mid,llebury, Cornwall, West Corn
wall and Bridport, 900 A. NJ
WAY mail from north, $3.50 A. NJ.
New York Rutland and Albany, 1880 A. NJ
New York a:lS and o :0O Z. NJ
WAY mail from south, 3:45 Z. NJ
MAILS CLOSE.
Way mail going south, $3.50 A. NJ
WAY mail going north, 3:00P NJ.
For Rpton, Granville, Hancock, East
Middlebury, CORNWALL West Corn
wall and Bridport, 3;l5P.M
Closed mail for Boston and Rutland, 3 30 =. Nj
Closed mail for New York and Albany, 7 45 2. NJ
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-11-02

The Murphy movement has touched
Atlanta, Georgia.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-11-02

CTEV EMS HOU s Il.
- VERGENNES, VT.
y. $. q A / n T. s, PROPRIETOR
Carriage to and from depot. Good Livery con-
nected with the House.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-11-02

TAMES NJ. SLADE, ATTORNEY
u AND COUSELLOR AT LAW, and solicitor
and master in chancery. Office in Brewster s
Block, Middlebury, VI
Middlebury. Vt, April ?. 1871
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-11-02

Curiosity about trihes is mark of a
little mind.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-11-02

Agree, for the law is costly.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-11-02

A DDISON HOUSE LIVERY STA
ABLE. ID. Rider, Proprietor. First class turn
outs furnished on short notice Prices reasonable
Middlebury, VT. 5u
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-11-02

Prof. Collier if he will stop analysis and
report that he found nothing. Another
offer was made, so it will be shown, to
break the jars or burn the house 50 as to
destroy all parts under analysis.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-11-02

TOHN AVERY, Nj. ID.
eD PHYSICIAN g. SURGEON,
SrARKsBoRo, VI. l9tf OFFICE AT REsiDENc
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-11-02

IL A. STURTEVANT,
No Attorney at law. Office over Clay's store
In the new block.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-11-02

Mrs. Champlin said to the detective
that she had that day written to Deacon
Smith. The following is q copy of the
letter received by the deacon, and evil
IDENTIFY the one referred to. 1t shows
that the deacon had been visiting Mrs.
Champlin in New York. Like the 9TH
ers it was secured when the parties were
arrested at Port jackson:
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-11-02

In reply to letter of the deacon's
telling her to be true and keep things
away out sight Mrs. Champlin replied
as follows:
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-11-02

MY DEAREST FRIEND: will ever he your true
friend. Cheer up dear friend. II die for IT,
much for yourself. Now, dear, il shall have TO
go away, have no money to go away with.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-11-02
Woman's Temperance Column.
"IHe Lori Of Hosts IS Wifh as, The God
ofJacoJ is oar refuge."
Children and Temperance.

Paper read at the annual convention
of the Womcn's Christian Temperance
Union, at ST. Albans, Sept. q, 1877. by
Mrs. G.. G. Walker, of Middlcbury.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-11-02
BUSINESS CARDS.

VIZ II. KINGSLEY, DENTIST
w Up stairs in styles new Block.
IA MIDDLEBURY, VT.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-27
Columbus Communism,

COLUMBUS. July 23.-The policy here,
as at indianapolis, is to attempt to move
no freight. and to wait, giving the mob
no excuse for action. What the senti-
ment is among those men, how totally
different from mere strike OF train en-
ployes is the action here, was illustrated
at meeting OF the railroad and other
men held last night. One speaker as
serted boldly that the time had come
for the President to issue a proclama-
ton making pro rata division of all
capital among the people, and this &C.
lion was demanded as necessary at
dering spirit of the reddest Communist
and if the excuse for action ia given
what may happen is not even to be
guessed at. w
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-27
ST. LOUIS COMMUNISM.
The Terrible Threats of the st. Louis Tn.
ternatiOnRl lists.
TCincinnati Enouirer. |

ST. LOUIS, July 23.-The railroad
strike, which was not organized here
till Sunday night at midnight, has not
only held its own, but has been growing
in importance. The railroad officials
are awed at the completeness Of the or.
ganization, and know not what to do,
though hourly are inclining toward con.
cessions to the demands Of tie strikers.
AT the Union depot a large crowd as
sembled, and among them a large part
or the worst elements Of the town.
eager for an outbreak, that an oppor-
Iunlty Tor spoil might be afforded.
Terrible rumors filed the air.
and for the first time st. Louis
saw it possible that her bridge and
Iunnel might prove curse. ''They
are gong to dynamite the tunnel, and
prlng down the east side of the Custom
House to fill up the hole,' said one
man. Said another: ga little turpen-
tine and Kerosene would soon soak the
eastern approaches Of the bridge, and a
matcn would finish the work and burn
nall mile OF bridge timbers," and it is
said IL the bosses don't come to time
these measures will be put in operation.
1t was even whispered about rat in case
OF trouble the Jail, which is lust above
the Union depot, would be taken pos
session OF by the mob and the inmates
turned loose to assist in the work of
plumber and rapine. This rumor as
-sumed such dimensions that the iail
oihclals placed q battery Of six-pound-
'ers, loaded with canister, within the