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Drnnkard. Try Jesus.

Men may sign the pledge, and with
out religion may perscvcrc in the path
OF temperance, but to make the reform
alton sure thing, they must be created
anew in Christ Jesus. Then they are
safe. was happy, the other dav. to
find that the result of Mr.. Moodv's large
experience and extensive observation is
that in his mind. Christ in the heart i,
the salvation of the inebriatc. or
course we rejoice to have other means
to save men from intcmpcrancc. but we
have little faith in any remedy but
Christ crucified. While that earnest
5l' brother was urging Christians to this
ing of the grounds of our confidence in
the sovereign remedy. | found it in
John iv:13, II where it is recorded OF
Jesus that he "said unto her, whosoevcr
drinketh of this water shall thirst again.
but whosoevcr drinketh of the water
that shall give him, shall never thirst:
but the water that shall give him shall
be in him well of water springing III
into everlasting life." With this we'll
of living water in the soul, what does a
man want of rum? Water, such as the
people drew from Jacobs well, might
not quarrel with whiskey. Men who
drink either water or whiskey thirst
again and often, but they who drink OF
the living water Christ offers never
need any more-they never thirst again.
The soul-craving is met and forever.
This water that Christ gives takes away
the fearful appetite for strong drink, or
what amounts to about the same thing,
imparts power to control it. The sight,
the scent, the thought of rum may dry
the palate and awaken some thirst, but
the water in the soul moistens il imme-
diately, and the awful temptation is re-
sisted. The man who undertakes TO re-
form without this living water in the
soul is always liable to fall. If he does
refuse the cup, while the result is in
many respects happy, it does not save
him from death. 1t is better to perish
Il temperate man rather than drum
kard, but why perish when there is no
need of it? Why not live forever, a
good and noble man? Beloved friend,
you have tried to reform by your own
strength. Your trust has been in the
pledge. Now try Jesus our Savior.
Test his power.-[ Vermont Chronicle.
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The toad, which is so often condemned
in this country, and alas, so frequently
DESTROYED by bad boys in New England,
is. it seems, appreciated in Europe,
where the careful people have found out
what an Invaluable aid he may be 10 the
farmer. Once Il week a "toad market
is held regularly in Paris, TO which these
little animals arc brought, carefully
sorted, aocorted, according TO their
strength and size, and packed by the
hundred In baskets of damp moss. The
market Is never overstocked, and those
of moderate size find ready purchasers
AT prices ranging from sevcnty-fve to
eighty francs per hundred. The major
iiy of them are bought up for use of
English market gardens, and il is stated
that orders are on hand for the purchase
ut those rates of every basketful that
reaches the market. Onco let them ac-
hieve money value here, and the poor
things will no longer be wantonly step
ped on, or pounded to death with
stones.
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CHURCH DIRECTORY.
MTDDLEBUR1'

II
observation-disclosures Pleasant and Main sts.
Rov. T.. r. Hooker, pastor. Sunday services at
10: Is AM. and 90 Pm, Thursday evening prayer
Nethodist-North Pleasant-st. Rev. w. H. Row.
SOM pastor Sunday services at l0:l5 AM. and
90 PM. Thursday evening prayer meeting at
90 Glass meeting on Friday evening at I 30.
Episcnpul-St Stephens Church-Main-st. Rev.
lanes Il Franklin, rector Sunday school at 80
AM, sunday services at IL 100 AM. and :O0Ph.
Roman Cdtholic-W -Weybridge-st Rev. p. Gun
ningham, pastor. Sunday services, alternate Sab
baths High Mass at 10 90 AM, Nespers and bene-
,uction at q 30 Pm.
EAST MIDDLEBURf.
Methodist - -------, pastor. sunday
services at .: 100 PM.
vERGENNEs.
Bapfist-Rev. Charles Hibbard, pastor Sunday
services at lO:i5 AM. and 1900 Pm. Weekly
PRAYER meeting on Thursday evening at 100
Jfeihodisf-Rev. II. n. Munger, pastor. Sunday
services at | . 90 and 100 Pm. weekly prayer
meeting on Thursday evening at :00
Episcopdl-Sf. PduFs Church-liev. c. !. Chaplin,
rector Sunday services at 10: 45 AM and Pm.
Friday evening at 90.
Mission ChGpet-Dr. II. A. Ingham. Sunday
services at 10 45 AM. and 1900 Pm. Weekly
praver meeting on Thursday evening.
Roman Catholic-Rev. p. Cunningham, pastor.
Services, alternate Sabbaths, High Mass at 10 90
A.M Vespers and benediction at 90 Pm.
Congregdtiondl-Rev. George Il. Hail. pastor.
Sunday services at 10 4j AN. and 90 PM. Week
ly prayer meeting on Thursday evening at 200.
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TABLE TALK.-'In all attempts at
refinement, one cardinal point should be
kept in yiew,-that manners were made
for men, not men for manners. Nice
customs, courtesy 10 great kings, and
the. greatest of these is convenience.
Most rules will be found to serve con-
venience, and there is no good breeding
where etiquette is not observed for this
end, the order and comfort of all con-
cerncd, not for the sake of defining ones
social position. When any one begins
to study manners as set of arbitrary
rules, followed because every other
desirable acquaintance does the same,
politcness breeds a sort of pharisaism
that the best bred persons look down on
on as supremcly vulgar. Ifany mistress
of a house looks here for rules that will
aid her TO affect trihe more of style
than her neighbors sho will only be dis
appointed. II any woman wishes hints
how TO reduced her household TO regu-
laIity and make her children neat and
genlle In habits, 1t may be that she will
not find this chapter in vain" FIX
tract from the Home Cook Book.
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SINGING THE GosPEL.-Shortly after
the visit of Messrs. Moody and Sankey
TO Scotland, little boy passed along
the streets of Glasgow, in the evening,
singing "There is fountain filled with
blood.' a Christian policeman joined
in the song. AT the end of the police
mans beat, he asked the boy if he un-
derstood what he was singing. SO.
yesl" said the little fellow, II know il
in my heart, and it is very precious"
A few evenings afterwards, some one
said TO the policeman, ''Do you know,
a woman was awakened and saved BY
hearing, the other night, hymn SUI g
by policeman and boy"
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We may drink ourselves TO death,
and that, OH an atheistic hypothesis, is
nobody's business; but society has
supreme right to protect itself from
those who would waste its wealth, III
crease its taxes, smite down its citizens.
beggar its homes, and eat ont its NOR
ais. Without this right ii is no society;
has no claim on lis members; and is
fully at the mercy of the bad aud the
strong. If society has no right TO pro-
tect itself from the rum-tratlic, il has
none to protect iIselI Tom ihc slave
traffic; nor from the traffic in virtue
nor from the traffic in obscene litera-
ture; nor from the trafiickers in our high
places, who barter legislation for gold,
or who work their way into Office with
bribes, or rule the country with rings.
Ii il is right for Boston TO throw its
shield around the rum-traflic, to make
it respectable, TO draw from ii reve-
me, il is right for China to lcgalize the
opium-trafiic, and derive from ii n rev.
enuc though il send poverty and disease
and death through the empire, and re-
store the universal reign of hcathenism.
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The supreme court of Georgia has
decided in the case of a murderer that
'to be too drunk TO form the intent to
kill he must be too drunk to form the
intent TO shoot" This decision will moi
be welcome TO those criminals who
steep themselves with liquor whenever
they wish TO do some dastarlly deed.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-12-28

The leading, and probably most in
tcresting feature, of Appleton's journal
for January is an illustrated article de-
scriptive of the building of the great
New York and Brooklyn suspension
bridge, by Mr.. Charles Carroll, writ
ten in so graphic and charming a man.
ner that it possesses marked interest bv
virtue of its style, Independent of its
theme; and, as the erection of the
bridge is one of the greatest engineer
ing triumphs of the age, the description
of the peculiar methods employed will
be studied with profound attention by
every reader. The illustrations are nu-
merous and good. Among the other
articles in the number we find a very
readable paper by Writ Skies, entitled
"CEristmas in Wales" Mr.. David
Kcr tells of an adventure on an Iceland
moor; Charlotte Adams has dramatic
sketch of Il pathetic incident in an Ital-
ian playhouse; there is a good descrip-
ton, spiCed with personal adventure,
of the remarkable Portland beach eng
lanD; paper by Eugene Benson,
GLOW got my Titian;" and one by c..
T. Cranch, which, under the title of
"Scrmons in Stones," describes an &C.
centric New England stone-breaker of
a theological turn of mind. There is a
light and flashing sketch, "Arachne and
Penelope" by NJ. +. W. S., which gives
some delightful pictures of women at
embroidery, and at the same time ex-
plains the purposes of the new Decora-
tive Art Society of New York. There
is an amusing trifle by Mr.. Matthews,
called Paragraph Five" designed for
a parlor play at the approaching holi-
days; and Mrs. Gage has history of
the so-called Cleopatra's Needles. There
are the serials, "By Celia's Arbor" and
"Chcrry Ripe" short stories; poems
and the editorial department making.
as usual, a varied and well-contrasted
bill of literary fare.
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A Shore Line engineer informs oor-
respondent of tho Madlsonville, KY,
Times that young man with his head
out at the car window went to kiss his
his grandmother good bye, and the train
pulled ont so fast that he kissed an old
negro woman at the next station,
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"Papa," said bright Springfield boy
just home from slight-of-hand enter
tainmcnt, 81 wish | was a conjurer.v -
"Why, my sony" 'I would turn You
into rat, call up the cat. and wouldn't
have finw
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,NIDEON 4. CLARK,

u ATTORNEY AT LAW,
1872 Lasalle st. Room SO,
/ Residence South Chicagol CHICAGO, ILL.
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 Messrs. Stewart a
Eldredge, Middlebary, Vt.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-12-28

A woman one hundred years old,
sick and destitute, was found wander
ing about the streets of New York, a
few days since.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-12-28

Weston, the American pedestrian,
recently, in London, performed the ex-
traordinary feat of walking one hum
dred and seven miles without single
rest.
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A number of colored people at Wash
ingion have formed an organization TO
remedy, ifpossible, excessive mortality
among cOlorcd people In that section.
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JASON DAVENPORT, Fire lnsur.
81 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'sStore. 49
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A little Florida boy tanned an aliga-
tor to come to the shore and take food
out of his hand; and one morning the
alligator took the food and the little
Florida boy too.
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CTATE NORMAL SCHOOL, RAN
- DOLPH, WI. ABEL L. LEAvEswoRIH, A.
NJ, Principal. Eighty-onc Scholarships. Fall
Term opens fourth Tuesday in August Spring
Term opens second Tuesday in February. send
Tor catalogue. Ayl
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A haretooted little hoy stepped on a
Doe, and soon after said TO his mother:
"Ma, didn't know that hccs had splin-
iors in their iails!'
There are seventeen villages of Pue-
bio Indians in New Mexico, and all are
law abiding citizens.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-12-28

~ W. GOODELL & DOLLHOUSE,
". Carriage and Furniture Painters and
Grainers. Place of business James Donahues
shop, opposite the School House, Middlebury. Vt.
Middlebury, July ~ ISL. lGtf
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< TATE NORMAL SCHOOL,

- CfSILE1ON, VI.
WALTER E. WARD. PRIsoIPAL
Fall term commences August 81. Spring term
commences February 8, 1871.
u5- Each town is entitled to one free scholar.
ship.
Address the Principal. 17m9
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A. w. JUDD, Manufacturer and deal
Es er in all kinds of American and Foreign
Marble, Granite Work, &c. With Old Middle
hurry Marble Co. ltf
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Dricsbach, the once famous lion la
mer, died on his farm recently, poor
but contented man Of seventy,
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DANIEL Il. BEATTY'S
PIANOS AND ORGANS.

From T.. Parson, Drookyille, Kansas;
"The piano came safely yesterday, we find il all
that fancy painted and you promised The instru
ment Is handsome and lis tone Is pure and full
i see no reason why, with ordinary care, Ii may
not last lifetime. Those who, like me, cannot
AFFORD to pay five hundred a thousand dollars
for Il 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 be the possessor Of frstclass organ or
piano"
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Wharton county, Texas, has 1850 vo-
ters, only five of whom voted against
prohibition.
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RAILROAD TINE TABLE.
POST OFFICE NOTICE.

MAILS ARRIVE.
From Ripton, Granville, Hancock, East
Mddebury, Cornwall, West Corn .
,y"v mail from north $3.50 A. NJ.
We,yy Yort Rutland and Albany 1880 A. NJ.
New Youl B: Is and 6 90 p. NJ.
xyav mail from south, :ij T.. NJ.
MAILS CLOSE.
Way mail going south, g.3O a. ~
Way mail going north, =, 3;Vo l.. NJ
For Ripton, Granville, Hancock, East
NTiddlebury, Cornwall, West Corn
cl".ed mail f,r Iioston and Rutland, b 30 L. NJ.
,,iosed mail for New York and ALBANY, I As Z. NJ
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~ TEV EMS HO u s f..
y VERGENNES, VT,

s. $. q A l n f S, PROPRIETOR
Carriage to and from depot Good Livery con-
nected with the House.
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DARDWELL HOUSE.
ID RUTLAND, VT.
j. ". CIR A NJ PT0N, PRoPRIEroR.
Good Livery connected with the House IA
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Cure for toothache. Forceps,
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IAMES NJ. SLADE, ATTORNEY
81 AND COUSELLOR AT LAW, and solicitor
and master in chancery. Onice in Brewster's
Block, Middlebury, Vt.
Middlebury, Vt, April g 1877.
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A DDISON HOUSE LIVERY STA
ABLE. ID. Rider. Proprietor. First class turn
furnished on short notice. Prices reasonable.
Middlebury, Vt. 5tf
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From n. Gilbert, Doud's Station, Iowa.
"Organ Is received. The accomplished organist
who gets II 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, anu purity OF tone,
have never known its equal. Ii Is, emphaticaly,
the best organ for the least money.
have sold many other makes OF organs. some
oi when thought could not be equalled. but. like
king Saul, your organs are head and shoulders
above sieirs IN the leading elements that constitute
a complete organ" 46yl
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nENSlONS. j. S. CHANDLER,
i PENSION ATTORNEY, Ripton, VT No pen
SION no pay. State case and send stamp for reply.
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4, A. STURTEVANT,
LIE Attorney at law. Office over Clay's store
in he new block.
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AGENTS WANTED, but where 1 have none,
Large discounts made 10 have them Introduced In
new localities. Send for illustrated Advertiser
toatnlogue,) containing testimonials from persons
some of whom you may know, sent free. address,
DANIEL r. BEATTY, Washington, New Jersey.
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MCLEOD & S NIT III &C l. A | M
lM AeKNTS. Mddlebury, Vt, 6if
T. n. MCLEOD. H. +. SMITH.
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BUSINESS CARDS.

NLEN HOUSE.-EAST MIDDLE
" BURY, Vermont 3bm3 HENRY r. FARR.
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E f. SMITH, ATTORNEY AND
~. COUNSELLOR hT LAW. Office with
Stewart 4 Eldreuge, Middlebury, Vt.
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YMAN +. KNAPP, ATTORNEY
Ia AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW. Office at
The ofiice of Register Middlebury, Vt. is
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VIZ II. KINGSLEY, DENTIST.
w Up stairs in styles new Block,
ii MIDDLEBURY, VT.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-12-22

The best thing for the hard times 10 prlo's
X Soar. u Eool lo tne laNnlrN oNh 9r le1el -.
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ANOTHER WIFE MTRDERER.
Van Dykes Last Hour -Pror,nity In the
Cen and rIety on tho ScanuId.

CANrON y. Y, Dee. 2l.-Nan Dyke was
hanged to-day FOR shooting his wife in July las
at Osden-hurg. lIc was 10 years old. His wife
was the same age, and they had been married
but one week. He was working at the time for
one Claffcy Clafley had seduced TIE girl. she
had begun suit against him. and he had
settled 1t by inducing Van Dyke 20 marry her.
Van Dyke lived at Dailey's. three miles from
Ogdenshurg. While his wife was standing in
the kitchen. Van Dyke. WHO was in the wood
shed. took aim at her with n gun. fired, and
shot her through the head. She fell dead.
He then ran 10 the harm and told some
mon there that he mad shot his poor
nnd dii not know tlai the gun which ic pointed
~ ms wli' Mle loaded. tie watched the erection
ni ~" -oil"lt y.~i ,riny Hnl lllsplny-d the ut-
most iud "rrn"'. lie spent Thursday night
singing como songs. sing ian INK AMI smok-
ing. Van Dyke told Shpr.n Wheeler that no
wanted To- be- hanged 81 IL O'Clock - "a t. bo in
non Tor dinner This morning he watched
tNr.u-n window thc i'-ilu, uf the galloWs. his
rNifn standing few feet If. At midnight last
nig't he ~ AIRED cheerful AMI unconc-rneI
Int ~ noon to-day he was much depressed ire
Ileniiy shed tears and reiterated his assertions
col Innocence.
Al l2:an he was brought out and placed on
the scan Id. Whom asked ii he had anything
10 say he said: " VIII speak few words 10
these gent mon. one and all. old and young.
Bewar,' nt had company and liquor Beware ~
nad g, mrhny Tor 1t leads "a something worse.
MAY God nav" mercy on my dear soul. | am
not gully. aud am not afraid TO meet God this
afternoon"
After praycr and readings from the Scrip
lures hy M Rev. james Gardner the moose
WAS adjusted, and half a minute later the drop
fell, tn Knot had not been fastened properly.
and worked around under his chin. Van DYKE
breathrd heavily for over a minute. At 1887
ne wa pronounced dead. His neck was not
broken.
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FAINTING AFTER HER SENTENCE.
A Strange Scene tn = 8rookiyu Court Mrs
Hooper Herring for Mercy.

Mrs. Mary ID. Hooper, the beautiful and
fashionable looking woman who was convicted
OF grand larceny in the Kings County Court OF
Sessions for having stolen the diamond jewclry
OF her friend. Mrs. William Delaney OF 212
High street. Brooklyn. WIS arraigned yesterday
for sentence. She was dressed in n becoming
suit OF black cashmere. and wore an aurcolc
black hat from which dropped thin veil that
was drawn close about her face. Her eyes were
swollen with weeping. and her pale face ind-
Gated that she had passed slccplcss night.
She walked slowly to the Clerks desk and
trcmbled rs the usual questions were put to
her. She said that she was 20 years of age, and
that she had never been in prison before On
being asked whether she had anything TO saw
why sentence should not be pronounced on her
she seemed to be thinking Of n reply, as Judge
Moore addressed her. saying. 1t is the uni
FORM practice Of this Court in cases where per
sons are convicted Of crime for the first time
aud nothing is known against their preylous
character. aud the crime il not one Of particular
atro"tiv or enormity. to impose tho lowest SON
tcncc prescribed bv the statute and the lowest
s"nt"Isc IN c.,so like this is one year. That is
Mrs. Hooper buried her face in her hands.
ana then. letting her hands fall she snid nit
e9nsly; on, mercy. Judge. have mercy Have
She tottcrcd. and was about 10 fall az Ofrcor
Hamilton seizcd her about the waist and sup.
aud Just NJ she reached the door She iii. faint
ing; The slnlwart officers picked her up bodily
and carried her into the Shcriff's officc. where
she quickly recovered. She seemed to hc
crushud 10y her sentence. and said. over and
HN,t, On my poor father! II will kill-him I"
Vihccr hamilton tried in vain to shield her from
NE view OF gaping crowd that had hurried
into the room.
Her maid. Nelic Hughes. who has hecn held
ns witness. was discharged. aud the Court or
der"d that s25 be- paid TO her us she was friend
less and pcnniless in the city.
Mu h sympathy was felt for Mrs. Hooper,
Who. IN every stage OF the case since her ar
rest, has behaved like a gentiewoinan used to
tlr klndest treatment number Of politicians
81 thlS city werr formerly her intimate friends
NY. although Mark 1anipan and one or two
forward to rspouse her cause, and tile ..itnesses
subiu'nacd to prove her former reputation did
not respond. She is TO be- taken to the Pcnitcn-
tiary to-day.