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Plain and OInaIu
PLASTERING.

I'M f subscriber takes advantage OF the Press AZ
| a medium by which to inform the citizens o.
this and adjoining countie. that he is prepared t.
undertake the
PLASTERING OF HOUSES,
IN sny STYLE that may be desired, from Coat to
three, Hai Finish, White Coat OF Heavy SKIM
Cornices and Centres run, and Ornaments stuck
il desired. None but first-class workmen will be
employed on work that may be entrusted to me.
CLSIERYS CEUENTED AM GUARAN-
TIED TO nom.
| hereby tender my grateful acknowledgement
for the liberal patronage have received since
commencing business, and hope by strict adhe.
renee to duty to merit continuance OF the same.
5sc- All communications addressed to me at
ChGrlestoNn, ". Va, viii receive prompt atten-
ton &. FRANK GALLAHEk.
March rs, 1870
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New ICStablishm cut.
WOODWORK

| IGHT d MITCHELL have for sale Cosrnolipe.
IL Fasollne and Stumps Liniment
March 81, 1877.
lGHT MITCHELL have for sale Garden
i IA Seeds 10 papers sod BY the bulk Early York
by the o. Trophy Tomato by the on. Silver
skin Onion BY the ".
March 81, 1877.
IGHT MITCHELL have just increased their
i ! stock Of Fine Pocket Cutlery. Best Pen
hives from 81. 50 to 25cts.
March 81, 1877.
lGHT 4 MITCHELL have every variety Of
i i Flower Seed, also some roots and bulbs for
sale. March n 1877
lGHT MITCHELL have every variety n
L 4 French Note Paper, Gusireceiyed new lot.
March 81, ls77. '
GORGE 7. LIGHTS Circulating Library has
" all the late Works in and will receive net
weekthe very latest for only 10 ets per reel.
March 81, 1877.
ME-: LIGHT would like for parties 10 retur,
years ago. '"'ee
March 81, 1871
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IN 10 gallon Kegs, for sale by
j May u. g. W. T. KEARSLEY.
I IME.-Fresh burned stone lime for whit
j 4 washing, just received and Tor sale by
May y, 1873. GEO. W. T. KEARSLtA
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Dawn II. COcKRfLL. JOsgPH II. CocERILI
DAVID II. COCKRlLL & son,
Architects and Builders.
CHARLESTOWN, JEFFERSON COUNTY, VA.

OUR exPerenccin the business which weadver-
~ tise to conduct, and our thorough acquaint-
ance with it in all its branches enable US toassure
the public that any work entrusted to us will be
executed in the most workmanlikc manner, and
with the utmost dispatch. Having stood to their
posts in the Confederate army during the four
years struggle which it so manfully encountered
they have located in their native county, where
their services are offered in building up The waste
places. and incarrying outpractica
Particular attention given at all times to the
drawing Of plans and specifications; and in the
construction Of
EONETRTCAL STAIR VA VS.,
where calculation is required. they are confident
thatthey cannot be surpassed by any uorkmen in
the Valley Of Virginia,
g@S> Being well known in the community, they
deem unnecessary to say more, than that orders
left for them will receive prompt attention.
April9, lS6S-tf
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REMOVED.
The Confectionery Store
EsD
BAKERY
NOTICE.

A LII persons are hereby warned not TO trespass
" on my Vineyard and Orchard. The law will
be enforced against all offenders. Parents are
earnestly requested to warn their boys or they
NAV be injured. Night plunderers will receive
special attention by armed guard. No admit
lance on Sundays to any person.
Ahg. s, iS74-tf. J. J. II. STRAITH.
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An InfaiIibIc Cure!

UST received, direct from New York, cos
~ STAN1iNE'S PERSIAN HEALING Plhi
AR SOAP, for toilet, bath or nUrsery, and 81.
In,ailible Remedy for all cutancous diseases.
May 10, 1871. &. W. TKUSSLLL
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General Fire Insurance Agency

ID EPRESENTING three OF tho leading Com
II panies doing business in jefferson County,
West Virginia.
PEABODY OF WHEELING,
CONTINENTAL OF NEW YORK,
ETNA OF HARTFORD
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Mrs. Willie l.. IxabIc,

WILL resume her Instruction IN Music
W Instrumental and Yocal-to pupils DO rri
vate and in class, the let Monday ~ Septem5.
FOR information as 70 terms Of tsition, &c, an
at her residence.
August ), ls7G-tf
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DCkNETT'S Cod Liver OIL, Brobmers G.
ID Liver oil, WiIbor's Cod Liver OIL and G..
Liver Cream. .Old bY LOTT a MlICHELL
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w DOL Wanted.
Notice.

HIGHEST Cash Price paid for Wool b.
May 3, ~. JAS. LAW. HOOP i'm
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LIME FOR SALE

HAVE Tor ssle al the Old Furnace lot
4 fkESHLY-BURNED LINE. OF the very b.,
quality. ,. W. STlilDEE.
April IT,, l577-tf
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BARBER SHOP.
Perfection of Light.

rVHE only absolutely safe iluminator to use in
any Lamp. IT cannot be exploded. Elaine,
the family safeguard.
WARDEN g. OXNARD,
Pittsburg, Pa.
For sale bv GEO. ". 7. KEARSLEl.
Dee. 4, 1878.
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Old Books

[ LID Newspapersand Old Paper texeeptbro..
" and Rags, wanted, for which tba Ii'uNh
market price, IN CASH, will be paid al tho cues
oo'' 10 1917 FKEE PRESS OFFICE
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Ct tasnk God circulated Ben Butler IN
the House two years ago, with pious junction.
d,youtly rolling his weather eye upward aud
ehrius With the other at the reporters gallery,
tha, the newspapers d.d not make me ~
" No." said a member Of the journalistic fra
t.rui,y, 81 il they had they would have made
a bstter lob of 10.
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NOTICE
TIN AND SHEET IRON wopy

ROOFING AND SCOUTING A SPEcI.r,
Ny Iinware will be sold at the loit,p 49,. !
Trade will be taken in e1chan Tor air II, . ~,
JES- Remember the Second Door. '''-
JAO. 5. EASTLIDAY
HP'" - i'''' Agent
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% makes a mau mad 10 81 up softly IN the
middle Of the night, uoislc,sly open bottle oi
beer, hear it's ga>sy foam escaping, aud, dcs-
pa.r.usy ummiug bis thumb over tAe nozzle,
squirt Gac LITTLE stream Of beer all over lis
wifes face.
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BLACKSMITH DEPARTMENT

Of his shop and that he is now prepared to exc
cute all kinds Of work in his line OF business
WAGON-MAKING conducted in all its branches.
Wagons and Buggies REPAIRED at short notice.
Satisfaction guaranteed. My terms shalt be very
low, to suit the times. Thankful for past favors,
respectfully ask tor a con tiuuance of the same.
Hacks, Buggios and Horses at LIVERY
HAULING Of all kinds done at short notice. All
kinds of produce taken for work. shop Sam
uel street. near the Wood Yard Of Washington
and Lippitt.
Feb. >, lS77-tf G.. w. SPOTS.
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ProGessional Notice.

INNE CUTLERY-Pen Knives from cents
/ to 81. Sold By light a MITCHELL
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-08-31
A Grouse Filtration,

In the breeding season, the cocks se.
lect some hollow fallen tree, and strut.
ting up and down, beat il with tbei,
wings, making muffied. drnmmino
sound, that can be heard for half n mile
The beat is at irregular intervals he.
ginning slowly and measuredlv- and
gradually increasing in ouickness untiI
Il ends in roll. III the bird succeed
in finding a dry log, perfectly hollow
and we'll placed. his tattoo of weIcome
can be heard a mile, and is one of fine
pleasantest of woodland sounds II ha.
the same accelerated pace and is abnn,
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-08-31
The FAMINE in British India.

The New York Times, after careful
examination by correspondents, thinks
that the famine in British India is of a
much more serious character than the
one which was so successfully met a
few years ago, or it has been permitted
by official apathy and neglect to secure
very alarming headway. Already
the loss of life is placed at the enormous
figure of halfa million, and afler such
a mortality as that, it is hardly proba-
BILE that an equally direful visitation
of pestilence which follows in the track
of famine can be avoided. The Orissa
famine of 1866 cost million and a halt
of lives but after the revolution of Off
cial incapacity which attended the in
yestigation of that calamity, it was
thought that no such sacrifice of human
life to starvation could ever again be
possible. II seems to have been the pol
icy of the government of the presi-
dency of Madras, in which the famine
chiefly RACES, to make light of the emer-
gency which it was apparent some
months ago they would have TO meet.
The folly of their rash optimism has
been demonstrated too late, and the
British cabinet is placed in very
unenviable position of being ready to
sacrifice thousands of lives in Europe
to obtain an ascendency in India whose
continuance il is unable to Justify by
proofs of vigorous and humane admin
istration.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-08-31
A Word to Physicians.

There is reason TO believe that
large percentage of drunkenness among
men and women is caused by physici-
ans prescriptions. That many obsti-
nate cases have been brought about in
this way, can be proved beyond a
doubt. There is, however, a marked
improvement of late, even among ply
sicians, who are giving the subject
much thought, and the result of which
is favorable to the disuse OF liquors in
their practice.
The eminent physician, DR.. Muzzy,
says: "That alcohol is poison to our
organization, is evident from observa-
tion. 1t is that substance, in whatever
form it may be, which, when applied
to living surface, disconcerts life's
healthy movements. Such poison is
alcohol; such in all its forms, mix il as
you may. 1t is never digested and
converted into nourishment." Says
another: II have come TO the conclu-
sion that alcohol, as medicine, may
be wholly dispensed with, and the
more speedy and thorough restoration
to health and the prolongation of life
be insured Baron Liebig also says;
Beer, wine, spirits, ETC., furnish no
element capable of entering into the
composition of blood, muscular fiber,
or any part which is the seat of the vi
tai principle" These and many others
furnish testimony which is indisputa-
BILE, and il may be hoped that soon all
physicians will protest in like manner
against the use of liquors in their prac-
tice.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-08-31
Tunnel Under the English Channel.

Several geological surveys have been
made of the proposed route of the tun-
mel under the English Chanuel, and the
opinion of scientific men appears TO be
that there are no faults or assures
which will be likely to interfere with
the work. The tunneling machine in
vented by Brunton will be used; this
apparatus works similarly to an augur,
and the pieces excavated fall to an
endless band which carries ii to the
cars in the rear. Ii is stated that by
this machine drift-way, seven feet in
diameter, can be advanced at the rate
of about a yard and quarter per hour,
at which rate il would only require two
years to pierce the channel through,
the boring being made from both ends,
and provided that no delays are occa-
stoned by leakage or change in the
hardness of the chalk. The company
is now fully organized, and work has
begun on the French side of the cham
mel. As the tunnel with is approaches
must be about thirty miles in length, it
is certainly gigantic undertaking, and
its completion will be hailed as a new
triumph of engineering science.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-08-31

The Graphic thus illustrates the tre-
mendous earnestness with which the
editor of the New York Sun sticks to
the great bottom principle which un-
derlies that paper:
There was a circus in the Sun Office
this morning. The editor rushed in,
his face as white as a sheet, and his fin
ger stuck through copy of the Sun,
which he was clutching in frenzy OF
righteous Indignation. "Send in Null
lins,' he remarked as he passed
through, and the ill-starred wretch soon
appeared. "Blockhead and horse
thiefr' exclaimed the excited chief,
stricking the table liercely with his par
apluie: elbow often have told YOU
never TO say President Hayes, and yet
| find it in the bennington article this
morning without the de facto handle or
the fraudulent tail? You goll-danged
ripety-rap; ding-dong your blighted
idiocy to blankety blank I'll ding
dong your donged laundering bling to
blangationl YOU" A blue va
por softly passed out through the door,
and after the chief passed from the Of
flee, ten minutes later, they found only
four buttons and strip of singed cloth
where his doomed victim had stood.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-08-31
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
MIDDLEBURY.

MIDDLEBURf.
CONCENTRATIONS Pleasant and Main SITS
Rev. +. p. Hooker, pastor. Sunday services al
10 As AM. and 80 Pm. Thursday evening prayer
meeting at 80.
Bfefhodist-North Pleasant st. Rev. w. ii. Row.
som, pastor. Sunday services at 10 45 AN. and
7 80 Pm. Thursday evening prayer meeting AT
I 80. Class meeting on Friday evening at 7 30.
Episcopal-Sf. Stephens Church-Main.st. -
rector. Sunday services at 10 80 AM.
and OP.M
Roman Cdtholic-Weybridge Rev. p. Gun.
ningham, pastor. Sunday services alternate Sab
baths, High Mass at 10 90 AM Vespers and bene-
dcton at 80 PM
EAST MIDDLEBURY.
Nefhodisf-Rev. ii. Vandecar, pastor. Sunday
services at 2 00P
vERGENNEs.
Bdptisf-Rev. Charles Hibbard, pastor. Sunday
services at 10 As AN and 1880 Pm. Weekly
prayer meeting on Thursday evening at 80.
Mefhodist-Rec II. N Munger, pastor Sunday
services at 80 and 4 80 Pm. Weekly prayer
meeting on Thursday evening at 7 80.
Episcopdi-.S. PduPs Church-Rev. c. /. Chaplin,
rector. Sunday services at 10 IS AM. and 30 M
Friday evening at 80.
Mission Chdpei-Dr. ii. A. Ingham. Sunday
services at 0:45 AN and 80 Pm. Weekly
prayer meeting on Thursday evening.
Roman Cdfhoiic-Rev. p. Cunningham, pastor.
Services, alternate Sabbaths, High Mass ut 10 90
AN, Vespers and benedicton at 00P.M.
Congregdtiondl-Rev. George +. Hall, pastor.
Sunday services at 10 As AM. and Z: 80 PM Week.
ly prayer meeting on Thursday evening at 80.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-08-31
Bran Influence.

The question as to how far the brain
exercises an influence on the motions of
ANIMALS has been engaging scientific
men for years. DIR. Broca was among
the first TO investigate the subject. lie
proved that when man was deprived
of the faculty of speech, by a stroke of
apoplexy, there invariably existed a
lesion at the very same spot in the brain
VIZ, i'll the anterior region, and on the
posterior side of the third frontal cir
cumvoution to the left. Hence the con-
clusion that this was the scat of the fac
ulty of speech in man, and thus one
was led TO conceive a special place for
every intellectual action. Fritz, IIitzio.
Fcrrier, Carville and Duret, the most
prominent among those who have treat
cd the question, operate as follows:
They take off part of the skull of dog.
then apply electric wires to different
parts of the brain thus laid bare. and
watch the motions produced. Certain
points cause none, so that it is not the
whole brain that acts on the muscular
system, but only special points. Fer
rier operated on monkeys in the pres
ence of the London Royal Society. Ac-
cording as he touched various parts of
the cerebrum, the ape would shake his
fist at the public, raise or stretch a leg,
or cut faces. 1t was shown that in the
monkey the center of motion of the
tongue answered exactly to that to
which the faculty of speech pertains in
man. From all this it follows that the
surgeon may now know precisely the
point of the skull at which to apply a
trepan. Thus, not long ago man was
brought into the hospital st. Antoine in
Paris. lie had received blow on the
left temple, and, on coming to himself
again, could only speak with difficulty.
and then he would call a fork an UNI
brella, lamp hat, and so on. More
over, his right arm was half paralyzed.
The surgeon at once knew what he had
to do; he applied the trephine to the
proper spot, and hit upon piece ofbone
that compressed the brain. This splin-
ter was removed, and the patient at
once recovered the use of his right arm
a few days later his tongue was freed
from all impediment, and he left the
hospital perfectly cured.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-08-31
How the Present Pope was Elected.

1t was only by mishap that Cardinal
Mastai-Ferretti attained the triple crown
at all. The popular candidate was Car
dinal Gizzi, and the most powerful man
in the college itself was Cardinal LAM
bruschini. Mastai-Ferretti was only one
of a crowd, in the first ballot he hard
ly seemed to be in the running. Lam
bruschini had the highest number of
votes, and everything seemed to mark
him out as the future Pope. But there's
many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip
even in conclave and the Italians
have provcrb that, in these contests,
the favoritc never wins. lie did not in
this case. In the second and third bal
lot Mastai-Ferretri came more and more
distinctly to the front, Gizzi disappeared
from the lists, and Lambruschini fell
hopelessly into the rear. But if Lam
bruschini could only have kept open the
conclave a few hours longer he might
have displaced his rival, and perhaps
have placed the tiara upon his own
brows, or, if not there, might at least
have placed it upon the brows of his
friend Franzoni for Mastai-Ferretti
was in bad odor with the court of Aus
tria OH account of his sympathy with
the national party of Italy, and when
the ballot that made him Pope was TAX
en-, the Austrian plenipotentiary was on
his way from Vienna with veto in his
pocket against the Archbishop of Imola,
and with cardinals enough in his train
to turn the scale in favor of the Genoese
cardinal. The veto arrived a few hours
too late, and the tagging cardinals, en-
tering the Holy City the day after the
fair, found the Romans shouting riras
in honor of a sovereign whose name
they hardly knew how to pronounce.
The telegraph and the railway have put
an end to all risk of anything of this
kind happening again; for Rome it now
within speaking distance of Vienna,
Paris, Berlin, and London; and unless
the conclave sits, as il is said is'wll sit,
within twenty-four hours of the Pope's
death, and, under dispensing bull,
elects his successor in present. cdddreye
theae will be time between the an
nouncement of the Pope's death and the
day usually fixed for the holding of the
conclave for all the cardinals of Europe
to reach Rome and to give their votes.
- Macmillan's Magazine.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-08-31

My friend was walking up State
street late one windy afternoon, when
he encountered short sermon on tenn
perance. The air was keen and cold,
with symptoms" of snow. He had
pulled his cap down over his ears as far
as possible, and buttoned his overcoat
close to keep out the singing lake
wind, and was hurrying along at a
pace that might rival Weston's, when
he nearly ran over a child not more
than four years old, who had fallen on
the sidewalk near him.
"IIeigho, sis!" he exclaimed, lifting
her safely to her feet again.
The little ragmufiin put up very
grieved lip, and was going to cry; but
stopped when he spoke kindly to her.
"Whew barefoot, and such a day
as this'-with a low whistle-''why
don't you run home, sis, and put on
your shoes and stockings, before you
freeze your toesW
"Don't dot any shoes and stotin's."
"Don't dot any, eh? How does that
happen? Don't your father buy you
any shoes and stockings?"
ooh, no." she answered, with tone
that meant "of course not" and man.
ner indicating that she considered the
reaaon amply sufficient, "no, my pa
diets drunk."-[ Morning Star.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-08-31
Poisoned bY TOadstOOIs

The Meriden (Conn.) Republican OF
Friday has the following account of IA
tai poisoning in that city: Wednesday
morning Mr.. Valentine Kane, of North
First-street, went out early into a mea-
dow near his house, and picked what
he thought were edible mushrooms. He
had them stewed for breakfast, and
himself and little son and daughter ate
heartily. Mrs. Kane and an infant, the
only other members of the family, did
not eat of them. After breakfast the
father went to his days labor, and felt
about as usual until the afternoon, when
he began to experience slight sickness
at the stomach. lie thought nothing OF
it, but got through with his work, and
at night went home. After arriving
there he he was taken with vomiting,
and became very sick. The two older
children also became sick and manifest
ed the same symptoms. The family are
poor, and did not like to send for doc.
tor until it was found to be necessary
but as all of them kept growing worse
a messenger was, at two O'Clock Thurs.
day morning, hastily dispatched for DR.
Newport. He did not come, and after
ward messengers were dispatched fol
other doctors, but none could be goI
until s A. NJ. when messenger found
DR.. TAFT and brought him to the sick
family. 1t was soon discovered what
was the matter and remedies were ap.
piled, but so long time had elapsed
after eating the poisonous 'toadstools
that it seemed impossible to do much
The two children kept growing worse
and although DR.. TAFT had summoned
in other doctors, the united skill of al
could not save them, and the little girl
named Henrietta, aged years and II
months, died at O'Clock Thursday af
ternoon, and Valentine, the boy, died
in the evening. The fathers life was
almost despaired of, but his more Wig
orous constitution stands in his favor
and it is now thought that he may re,
cover if he is kept quiet. Part of the
time he has been delirious, and during
Thursday night he got out of bed and
jumped out of the window, which is in
the second story of the house, but the
ground was not hard and he experienc
| ed no bad effects from the fall.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-08-31
A Mortgage,

In the whole range of sacred and pro-
fame literature, perhaps there is nothing
recorded which has such staying prop
critics as good healthy mortgage. A
mortgage can be depended upon to stick
closer than brother. 1t has mission
to perform which never lets up. Day
after day it is right there, nor docs the
slightest tendency to slumber impair its
vigor in the night. Night and day, on
the Sabbath and at holiday times, with
out moments time for rest and recrea-
tion, the biting offspring ofits existence,
interest, goes on. The seasons NAV
change, days run into weeks, weeks into
months and months be swallowed up
into the gray man of advancing years,
but that mortgage stands up in sleepless
vigilance, with the interest, a perennial
stream, ceaselessly running on. Like a
huge nightmare eating out the sleep OF
some restless slumberer, the unpaid
mortgage rears up its gaunt front in
perpetual torment TO the miserable
wight who is held within its pitiless
clutch. Ii holds the poor victim with
the relentless grasp of a giant; not one
hour of recreation; not moments
evasion of its hideous presence. A gen.
ial savage of modifying aspect while the
interest is paid; very devil of hope
less destruction when the payments fail.