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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-10-05

IT, The president has issued his
proclamation converting congress in
extra session October IL, and the cause
assigned is the need of the proper APP
preparations TO carry on the govern
ment. In their economy, last winter,
the Democratic house spent large sums
of money making Investigations of Re-
publican office holders, with very little
effect and realizing to themselves very
little political capital, and they cut
down the regular appropriations fol
running the governmental machine SC
that the army has been without pa,
since July and the navy but a little less
time and the department of justice is
now without means To defray the ex
penses of the United States courts
The other departments are but little
better off. The duty of the house i
now to supply the financial deficit Great
ed by the last house. They have TO Oh.
game first, and there is likely To be 4
very bitter contest over the speakcrship
so that the public business is not lkel,
to be much advanced before the rcgu
lar session.
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said per cent il to be cast upon the original
amount of the premium notes, without reference
to any payments, and To he paid To the treasurer
OF SAID company, ut his Office in Montpelier on or
before the nth day of November, 1877.
For more than twenty five years after the orga
niZatlon OF the company, fifteen per cent. of the
premium notes, paid in advance, was sufficient to
pay all the losses and expenses of the COMPANY
during that period and leave a cash surplus large
enough to carry out all the policies then in for,fc
provided that the future losses were no larger
proportlonally than in the past. But the late ex.
cesslNe LOSSES have exhausted the fifteen per cent
paid on each members note in advance, leaving
members whose policies are running out liable to
an assessment of five per cent, agreeablv to the
provisions of the fifth section of the Act OF Incor.
porahon, found on each members policy. The
hiteen per cent paid in advance on the premium
notes Is now pay ing for three years and nine
months, leaving one year and three months To he
met 10y assessment.
The directors have laid this assessment ON "A
strictly mutual principal, collecting nothing ON
ms assessment until the advance pay is exhaust
ed.
Since the LIST of November, 1876, each member
insured has paid twenty per cent. his note, and
unless the losses are even heavier than they have
been (Which hardly seems probable), the amount
VIII pay all losses and expenses for five years.
l;y order of the directors.
2lw3 SAMUEL WELLS, Treasurer.
JASON DAVENPORT General Agent Farm.
ers Mutual Fire Insurance Company for Addison
County.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-10-05

Certified by the Sea-" the last issued
novel in the Tribune series, is a work
of uncommon interest, and will take
high rank in the class of stories TO
which il belongs. The plot is simple
and the movement direct, the recount
ing of the life and adventures of two
castaways-a man and child-on a
wonderful island in the Southern Pacif-
ic, forming the burden of the story. In
such work. where small opportunity
is afforded for the introduction of side
characters and localities, an author must
possess an eXuberant imagination and
he skilled in its use, TO preserve, in even
AN ordinary degree, the readers inter
est in the long record of the daily life
of a casiaway hero and heroine. TO say
that Col. Cleveland has succeeded in
doing this, however, would be less than
true: he has done more. His charac-
ters are drawn with a strong and deli
cate hand; his sense of the dramatic is
keen and true; his descriptions of the
marvellous of nature are word paint
ings of remarkable glow and spirit. Al
together, "Drifled by The Sea- is sto-
ny TO be read and enjoyed by every one,
old or young, who ever read and enjoy
ed the reading of "Robinson Crusoe' OF
the "Swiss Family Robinson" OF
Charles Reade's "Fonl Play"-and who
has not? The price is only 10 cents.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-10-05

~ The public debt statement pub
lished ON Tuesday shows decrease of
the total indebtedness of the nation of
$685., 1924 after making an allowance
of 81 100000 for congressional appro-
priations at the coming special session
of congress. The decrease during the
first quarter of the fiscal year is $3.50.
96S.39. After making the regular pub
lie debt statement Secretary Sherman
issued comparative statement of the
condition of the treasury October / .
this year and last year This state
ment indicates at II glance all impor-
tant changes in the amount and kind of
the various securities, indebtedness,
currency, legal tenders, coin, etc.
Some ofthe most striking features of
this report may be seen by the follow
ing comparison: The amount of cur
rency in the treasury is now about
fourteen millions; last year about
twelve millions. The amount Of legal
tenders now held for redemption ofcer.
tiflates of deposit is eight and hall
millions greater than last year. The
amount of coin has increased from six.
ty-fve and half 10 over one hundred
and nineteen millions. The amount o.
coin actually owned by the government
is fully twice as great as that held ,
year ago. The outstanding legal ten
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-10-05

THE CATHOLICS OF New ENGLAND
In l77G there were about 40 Catholics
in Boston. The first church was built
in 1903. In 1925, there were 10000
Catholics, one-half of whom were in
Boston. 1877, statistics of the church
in New England are ms follows: One
archbishop, 6 bishops, $40 priests, 500
churches, lG7 chapels and stations, 2
colleges, lGS ecclesiastical students, %
academies and select schools, Sc parish
schools, 10 asylums, 6 hospitals, and n
population estimated at 100000. There
are in Boston 80 churches and chapels,
l Portuguese, | Italian, German,
under the direction of the Jesuits, Sg
priests, IA of whom are Jesuits, con-
vents, asylums and hospitals, contain
ing l,275, and caring in the course OF
a year for $50 patients; 9 parochial
schools, taught by 80 sisters and II bro.
theirs and containing l,GSG pupils.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-10-05

All the indications are that the Sara
toga centennial celebration of Bur-
goyne's surrender, at Schuylerville, n.
y, will be monster affair. An exhi-
bition of machinery, wares, agriculture
al products, merchandise and works of
art will be made, the goods to be sold
at auction on the conclusion of the eel
ebration and the proceeds devoted to
the monument fund. Among the vice
presidents for the centennial celcbra-
ton are eX-tiov. John b. Page and
Lieut.. Gov. Rcdticld Proctor, Rutland ;
r. j. Phelps. Esq. Burlington; Hon.
Henry &. Root aad Major A. b. Valcn-
tine, Bennington; Hon. NJ. 5. Colburn,
Manchester: ex-Gov. John w. Stewart,
Middlebury; Hon. Frederick Il. Wood
bridge, Nergcnncs.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-10-05

There was IL sharp squabble in the
the Episcopal diocesan convention OF
New York, Thursday night, over the
election of delegates to the general con.
veniion. Every man chosen was high
church-liev. Drs. Dix, Beach, Cady
and Seymour, and Mcssrs. Hamilton
Fish. Livingston, W. A. Davies and
Stephen Il. Nash. The election of Dr.
Seymour (who was once defeated ioi
the election of bishop of Illinois because
of his riiualism) was obtained by what
i'll political convention would have
been termed sharp practice. lie carried
the clerical vote each time, but laitN
were against him. On the final ballot
he had II majority of the lay vote, bn
there was not aquornm present. With
out regard to this fact the president o
the convention declared seymour elect
ed, and moved and carried an adjourn
mcnt, against the protest of the indig
nant low churchncn.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-10-05

BUSINESS FoR EVERY ONE.-Our at
tention has been called to II new cook
ing ntcnsil, recently invented, which
makes baking pleasure, instead of a
dreaded necessity: the inventor of
which has conferred an everlasting
blessing upon every housekeeper. We
refer to the Patent Centennial Cake
Pan, with which, by raising hook
You can remove the sides of the pan
from the cake without breaking or in-
juring il. How annoying il is, after ma
king up nice cake TO have il break to
pieces getting il out of the pm-this
can never occur in using the patent
Centennial Cake Pan. II can also be
converted into plain bottom pan for
baking jelly or plain cakes, bread, etc.
They are sold exclusively through
agents to families and every housekeep-
er should by all means have them. A
splendid opportunity is offered to some
reliable lady or gentleman canvasser OF
this county TO secure the agency for d
pleasant and profitable business. Fol
terms, territory, etc, write TO l.. Il
Brown a Co., PA and PIG Elm street
I Cincinnati, Ohio.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-10-05

The October number of the American
Naturalist opens with an interesting
sketch of "rhe Surface Geology Of
Eastern Massachusetts," by w. O.
Crosby; "Pseudis, the Paradoxical
Frog" by S. w. Garman, follows with
an illustration. Edwin A. Barber, in
his paper "On the Ancient aud Modern
Pueblo Tribes of the Pacific Slope of
the United States," cndcavors to an
swer the cni2matical question, "Who
were the architects of the ancient and
extensive prehistoric stone structures
which abound in New Mexico, Arizona.
and other portions of the SouthwestY'
). w. Williston discusses, CON amore.
'"Thc American Antelope" John a.
Ryder touches closely upon the Oar
winian philosophy in his Claws of Dig
ital Rcduction;" and David $. Jordan
closes the list of longer papers with a
very complete article "On the Distri-
button of Fresh-watcr Fishes" The
recent publications relating to natural
history are fully and carefully reviewed
by the editors fourteen pages are de-
voted TO new discoveries and advances
made i'll the various sciences of botany,
zoology, microscopy, ctc.,-the whole
closing with scientific news and pro-
ceedings of societies. Published by III.
o. lloughton Il Co.. Boston. Terms:
$500 year, 80 cents a number.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-10-05

st. Nicholas, for October, concludes
the fourth volume. 1t brings the con-
clusion of George McDonald's story,
Gone Astray," and of J. II. Trow-
bridges story, Oils Own Master"
There is the beginning of anew story,
entitled "a Century Ago" by Noah
Brooks. There are poems by Longicl-
low, Lucy Larcom and others. Don
aid G.. Mitchell writes about "rwo
French Story-Tellcrs,' Bernadin lie st.
Pierre and Madame Coffin, whose por-
traits are among the illustrations
Some of the other articles are these
"The Little Girl who Grew Smaller
by Emily II. Leland; Caught in the
Snow" by VIM. II. Riding; "Thc
Stars in October. November and De
ccmber;" and "lIarc and Hounds" q
famous outdoor English game for boys
There are other good things. st. Mich
olas is now issued simultaneously in
New York and London, and is getting
a large circulation on the other side OF
the water.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-10-05

tB' Brothers Merchant of the Bur-
lington Democrat and Kinslcy of the
Clipper are very demonstrative in the
manifestation of their affection. For a
long time they have been calling each
other pet names in their respective pa
pers, and few days ago they publicly
embraced upon the streets. Mr.. Mer-
chant took the initiative, it seems. That
august parsonage, known in actions at
law as "the State" thought her digni-
ty offended by the act, and summoned
both these gentlemen forthwith before
the city court TO answer charge of dis
turbing the public peace. Brother Mer-
chant was fined. Since this little
friendly episode they have returned to
their old habit of using cndcaring terms
when referring to each other. GLOW
good ii is for brethren To dwell togeth-
er in unity
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-10-05
STATE OF vERMONT-DIsTRIC1

~ OF ADDISON, SIS.
In Probate Court held at Mddlebury, in and for
the district of Addison, the 18th day of septcn,
Der, A. ID. lS11.
Edgar SANFORD administrator of Che estate of
Daniel Sanford late of Cornwall, in said district
deceased, presents his administration account lui
examination and allowance and makes applica-
non for a decree of distribution and partition OF
the estate OF said deceased
Whereupon 1t Is ordered by said Court that said
application he referred to Il session thereof, 10 lie
held at the probate Office in said Mildebury o,
the 18th day of October, a. ID. 1877, for hear
lnganu decision thereon; and it Is further orier,
uilt all persons Interested he notified hereof lN
publication OF notice of said application and order
thereon, three weeks successfully in the Middle
bury Register printed at Mildlebury, before SAID
ume oi hearing, that they may appear at said time
anu place, and If they see cause, object thereto.
by the Colrt-Attcst
>. SAINT. COOKE .Iu,loa
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STATE OF vERMONT-ADDIsON

~ ~ NJ I, 81 IN tlanccrN.
j. L. Hammond V. Sarah L. bingham and Iv
curgus NJ. Bingham
whereas, John l.. Hammond, of Orwell in said
county, has filed his petition in said court against
sarah &. bingham, Of Cornwall in said county .
and Lycurgus NJ. bingham, formerly OF said
Cornwall, setting forth that the said sarah C. and
l.ycurgus NJ, husband of the said Sarah g. on
the 10th day of August, 1876, executed to the sand
John l.. mortgage deed of n certain piece nt
land situated in said Cornwall, known AS the san
iord lot, containing seventy-one and one font IA
acres of land-a full description of said prcmisc-
with bounds, courses and distances, is contained
IN 4 deed recorded in Vol. IL, page 20 of Corn.
walfs land records-with a conditon.tor the n.
uemption of the same ON the payment of Il certain
note therein described. And praying that said
defendants may he forecloscd of their equity OF
redemption i'll said premises.
SAID defendant l.. NJ. Bingham residing without
TINS state so that the petition cannot he served
upon him, IT is ordered that he he required to
appear ON the first day of the next stated term OF
said court to be held at Aiddebury in said c"un.
y. ON the second Tuesday of December, y. II.
lS'., then AMI there To answer to said petition,
ana Tor that purpose said petitioner shall cause f.
De published the substance OF this petition ant
llils order three weeks successfully in the Middle
bury Register, printed at Middlebury, aforesaid
the last of which publications to be at lca5i
twenty days previous TO sand term of said CONT
which shall be deemed sufficient notice.
Dated At Middlebnry, aforesaid, this 81 day "i
October ISL ......
p RUFUS WAINWRIGHT, Clerk.
STEWART X ELDREDGE, Sol'rs Tor petitioner.
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MARRIED..

n DWIGIT-ADAMs-h South Hero, at the
Iodine spring House, september 20, by Rev. Geo
=. Guernsey, Mr.. ;. Lyman Dwight, of Whitehall
~ Y, and Mrs. Nancy Adams, oi Carson city
Nevada.
PHILLIPS JOHNS-m llinesburgh, Septcm
Der %. AT the NJ r. parsonage, by Rev. \. q
spoor, Mr.. Wyram Phillips, OF Hinesburgh, aud
Miss Carrie Johns, OF starksboro.
Ia BELLE-JODOIN-ln Hinesburgh, Sepicm
Der 80 AT the residence OF the brides parents, bN
Rev. \. q. Spoor Mr.. William La Belle and Miss
Aurelia JodOn, all of liinesburgh.
MCGOLDRICk-HlA Ann keeseyille, " Y.
October ,, by Rev. Father Barnabee, Mr.. John
McGodriek, of Middlebury, and Miss Katie T.
Ryan, of Lewis, y. Y.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-10-05
CTATE OF vERMONT-DISTRICT


In Probate Court, held at Middlcbury, within
and for said district on the 18th day at Septem-
Der, 4. ID. ls77.
Horton ". Jones, administrator of the estate
of Clarssa Scarf, late of Bridport in said district
deceased, presents his administration account for
examination and allowance, and makes applica-
ton for decree OF distribution and partition of
the estate OF said deceased.
Whercupon, II is ordered by sand count that said
account and said application be referred 10 a se--
sion thereof, to be held at the probate oice in said
Middlebury, ON the 18th day OF October, AID. ISL
nj 10 AM. for hearing and decision thereon And il
Is further ordered that notice hereOfbe given To- all
persons Interested 10y publication OF the same three
weeks successfully in the Middlehury Register.
a cMspaper published at Middlebury, previous
Ia said time appointed for hearing, that they may
appear at said time and place and show cause ii
any they may have, why said account should not
he allowed and such decree made.
Iiy the Court-Attest
- SAMUEL f.. COOKE, judge.
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DIED.

BAKER-In Weybridge, October |, Fannie Ann,
youngest daughter of Mariner y. aud Wealtha l.,
called"
NORTIIRUP-m Middebury, October >, al
typhoid fever aud hemorrhage Of the bowels, Miss
Marcia :. Northrup, aged u years.
ABERNErIN In Bristol, October !, Cornelius
Aberncthy, aged ~ years.
DANIEI.S-ln Bristol september %, of diphthe
ria, Willis Daniels, aged - years.
DASlEI.S-In Bristol, september -, ofdiphthe-
ria, Matte, daughter OF Willis Daniels, aged Z
years.
sLOAT-In Fcrri.bursh, September %, Henry
sloat, aged Is years.
BOOrH-n Feuisbursh, september 30, iielep
i. Booth, aged IA years.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-10-05

to II is stated that seven hundred
and fifty thousand people have died in
India from the direct effects of the fam
inc. lf'not ovcrstated this famine has
few if any equals in the history of the
world in respect TO dcstructiveness of
human life. 1t is an appalling state
ment and the worst of il is that ii is
probably true,
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-10-05

to The great New York witness, IN
his zeal to tell the "whole" truth and
implicate all his enemies in the ring
frauds, details with minuteness his
paying certain senators for voting in
favor of the city tax levy when the SEN
ate journal shows that they voted
against it. Which is to be believed,
the official record or this witness who
has testified both ways and now claims
that his first testimony was false?
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-10-05

ders have been reduced within year
from 1868, Az ,740 TO S35G,0l4, 1882, and
the fractional currency from about 500,
100000 to about $lS,000,0O0, making
the contraction of legal tenders nearly
Sl2, 100000 and of fractional currency
n like amount.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-10-05
Nihhlrhurq Rrgistrr
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1877.

~ The wheat gamblers of Balti-
more have been caught in their own
trap. They made "corner," and
have got cornered in il themselves, but
the regular dealers and the people gen
orally will scarcely weep for their mis-
fortune.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-10-05

While passing gainesville, on the
morning ofOct. /, westward bound
oil train on the Lake Shore aud Michi-
gan Southern railroad broke in two see
tions unknown to the engineer, who
halted at the crossing. The sections
collided and tank of crude oil explod-
cd. Ten or eleven cars of oil aud the
depot were burned.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-10-05
CTATE OF vERMONT-DIsTRI,r

~ OF ADDISON, IS.
In Probate Court held at Mi,ldlebury in and ion.
sad district, on the list day OF October, A. d. Isl,
Miranda Gale eXecutrix of the last will nnd
testament of Silas d. Gale, late of Goshen in said
district, deceased, presents her administration
account for examination and allowance and make
application for decree Of distribution and parti
non OF the estate of said deceased
Whereupon, 1t is ordered that said account and
salt application be referred To n session of said
court To be held ut the Probate Office, in Middle
bury, ON the 9th day of November, A. d. ISL al 10
further ordered that notice of said application ANA
I'M order thereon DE given Ia all persons interest
ed by publication of notice three weeks successive
ly III the Mid,ilebury Register, Il newspaper print
ed at Middlebury, previous to said time thai they
may appear at said time and place and show cause
u any thcy may have, why said account should not
be allowed and such decree made
l;y the Court-Attest:
"a SAML T.. COOKE, Judge
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to II is said "thc fool and his money
are soon parted and we do not lack il
Illustrations of its truthfulncss. But the
clearest case now before us is, hat OF
Walter Chaplin, Jersey farmer, who is
engaged in his fifth attempt TO find q
box containing $4,000 in specie which
he claims was hidden at Osmand's bay
in Ticonderoga in 1853, by the French
paymasters who had to desert Mont
calm. In the eagcrncss of his pursuit
he has morigaged his farm and put all
the proceeds into the enterprise. lie is
prosecuting his search by the aid Of di-
yining rods, and if his failure would
have any tendency to remove this divin-
ing rod folly from the minds of the en-
lightencd American people we should
be willing that he should suffer. But il
is probably still true, as in the days OF
the wise man, that You may "Bray a
fool in a mortar with II pcstlc and yet
his folly will not depart from him.
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III The friends of Senator Conk-
ling claim that the attack upon MIR.
George w. Curtis at the New York
State Republican Convention has no
such significance as is ascribed TO il ;
that it is a mistake to assume that he is
an opponent of the administration at
all; that his fight is Il personal one with
Mr.. Curtis only, who has been CRITICS.
ing him severely week after week. They
defend Mr.. Conkling, and in the same
breath compliment the president and
his policy. This kind of talk is incom-
prehensiblc to the average American
who has read Mr.. Conkling's speech.
Is it possible the more intelligent of
the American people are unable to I'M
derstand the significance Of plain En-
glish? Perhaps the honorable gentle
man was talking mctaphorically. AT
any rate, we are glad to learn that there
is but one opinion among New York
Republicans upon national questions,
for unity is essential TO anything like
success in the campaign.
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Eight to seven won the victory in the
late presidential contest; ten to one is
much greater odds, but we claim that
by ten to one Tcrry's Salicylc is the best
medicated toilet soap ever used.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-10-05

Miss: \ word in your ear The next fine after
noon that You saunter out, buy box of GLENN's
SULPHUR SOAR. That admirable purifier will re
move every one of those pimples which detract 81
much from your beauty. sold by all druggists
There is youth in every bottle of Ilil's Hair Dye
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TN BANKRUPTCY DISTRICT
Il Court of the United States for the District Of

Vermont.
In the matter of Norman +. Rider, bankrupt.
warrant in bankruptcy has been issued by
said court against the estate of Norman r. Rider,
of Middebury. in the county of Addison, in the
state Of Vermont, in said district, adjudged Il
bankrupt upon the petition of his creditors; and
the payment OF any debts, and the delivery of any
property belonging Ia said bankrupt To him or
To his use, and the transfer of any property BY
him, are forbidden by law. a meeting of the
creditors of said bankrupt, TO prove their debts
and choose one or more assgnees OF his estate
Will he held at a court of bankruptcy To be holden
at Mnl,llebury, in said district, the 18th day OF
October, 4. u. ls77 at 10 O'Clock A. NJ at the oiic
of j. NJ. Slade, before W. q. Ncazey, ESD, one OF
the registers in bankruptcy in said court.
% THOMAS fAILEl,
Deputy L. 5. Marshal as Messenger.