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Vermont Medical Society.

The annual meeting of the Vermont
State Medical society was held at the
Pavilion, Montpelier, October 10 and
IL. The meeting was called TO order
at 1880 o'clock, by the president, Geo.
Dunsmore, and after few preliminary
remarks, the journal was read and APP
proved. From this report it is seen
that the society is out of debt and has
some funds OH hand-a very good con-
dition for these times. DIR. Putnam read
a paper upon the life and last illness OF
DR.. j. Q. Dewey, of Montpelier. DR..
Dunsmore, the president, read an adj
dress, "Work an Incentive to Success"
The doctor showed by his familiarity
with history that no great achievements
had ever been accomplished without
patient and persevering labor, and that
we have no reason to expect ever to
reach the hill of fame by any other
means.
DR.. G.. b. Billiard read paper upon
forceps in labor, wherein his views con.
llicted with standard authority, This
was a clear and practical paper and ellie.
tied lively discussion, DIR. Billiard
maintaining the position he had taken
DIR. w. II. Hutchinson read lengthy
report of the American Medical associ
alton, held in Chicago, last June.
DIR. L. III. Townsend read paper
upon the germ theory of disease.
The discussion upon this paper sup
ported the view that definite kind OF
poison was necessary 10 develop any
particular kind of disease; thus the poi.
son of scarleiina never generates ".
phoid fever or amy other zymoiic dis
ease.
Papers We're read upon diphiheria
by Drs. II. X. Clark and H. $. Calder
wood, giving the history, symptoms
and treatment. Ii was evident they
had read extensively and observed
closely all the phases of the disease. DR.
Calderwood gave the general history %
iifty-five eases with eleven deaths. Al
buninuria was found in forty-lve eases
saliva acid in most Of them.
DIR. G. i. Thaycr gave a verbal histo
~ of the epidemic as il occurred in Bur
lington during the last summer. |
prevailed upon the hill and in the val
ley, among the rich and the poor. II,
reported one very interesting case o
diphtheriiic laryngitis treated with lh'
AtOmizer successfully.
| i ne utsclssloil upon these papers wa
very interesting and The mode Of treat
mcnt varied somewhat, but none claim
ed any specifics. Some differed as (,
its being first constitutional or Il loca
disease.
DIR. j. Draper, of the Vernon
Insane Asylum, WIS unable 10 he pres
eDt, but sent paper npOD the Patio
genesis of Insanity; read by the score
fairy; referred.
DR.. Kidder reported case of hcmar
ihrosis in which he used the aspiration
successfully without the formation o
pns; also another case of hydatid eys
of the liver, from which he drew from
ten 10 eleven onnncs of fluid. Others
reported "a variety OF cases In which III,
aspirator bad proved useful iDstru
ment.
The nominating committee reported
the following board, and the same wer,
elected:
President, &. NJ. Chandler, of Mont
pelier; vice president, q. b. Billiard
of st. Johnsbury; treasurer, s. Put
nam, of Montpelier; censors, II. ID
iIolton, l.. G. Butler, s. Il. Brooks.
The sshi,'anDnal meeting will be held
IN Brattleboro,
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IY The administration, and especial
ly Secretary Evarts of the cabinet.
are just now in Il very lauglable pre-
dicament. Previous to the last presi-
dental election, it was favoritc hobby
with Schurz, Evarts and other indie
pendent Republicans and retormcrs,
that reform was necessary because that
corrupt old sinner, Simon Cameron,
had so much influence in the govern
ment. Now these reformcrs are in
power under President Hayes admins
tration. And after adopting civil SER
vice rules SO stringent rs to be almost
ridiculous, and after they have almost
destroyed their party TO live up to them,
they agree to give the English mission
to Pennsylvania, and promise to appoint
whomever the Congressional delegation
propose. Whereupon the Pennsylvania
delegation unanimously propose Simon
Cameron, and the administration must
appoint him or break their promise.
Their position is an embarrassing one,
certainly.
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said per cent is to be cast upon the original
amount of the premium notes, without reference
To any payments, and 10 he paid to the treasurer
OF said company, at his office in Montpelier, on or
before the lltl day of November, 1871,
For more than twenty live years amer the orga-
nizaton of the company, fifteen per cent. of the
premium notes, paid in advance. was sufic lent 10
pay all the losses and expenses of the company
during that PERIOD aud leave a cash surplus large
enough 10 carry out all the policies then in force,
provided that the future losses were no larger,
proporlonally, than ia the past. hut the late en-
cessiye losses have exhausted the fifteen per cent.
paid on each members note in advance, leaving
members whose policies are running out liable 10
nm assessment oil i've per cent, agreeably 70 the
provisions OF the hlh section of the Act OF incor-
poration, found on each members policy. The
hiteen per cent. paid IN advance on the premium
notes Is now paying for three years and nine
months, leaving one year and three months 10 he
mel by assessment.
The directors have laid this assessment ON a
strictly mutual principal, collecting nothing ON
e,l,
Since the LIST of November, 1876, each member
insured has paid twenty per cent. on his note, and
unless the losses are even heavier than they have
been (Which hardly seams probable), the amount
VIII pay all losnes and expenses for i've years.
by order OF the directors.
2Iw3 SAMUEL WELLS. Treasurer.
JASON DAVENPORT, General Agent Farm
ers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company for Addison
County.
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The New United States Supreme Cour
Judge.


Gen. Harlan of Louisville, Ky., is
about torty-two years old. His pa
rents were natives ct Kentucky, and
his father, James Harlan, was the
Wing politician who represented the
Mercer district in Congress from
1886 to 1889. His father was also
secretary of state of Kentucky from
1910 to 1914, and from 1850 to the time
of his death in 1868, he was attorney
general of the state. Harlan county,
Kentucky, was named after Gen. Har-
lan's grand-uncle, who fell in battle
with the Indians at Blue Lick. In 1859,
when only twenty-four years of age,
Gen. Harlan ran for congressman in the
Fayette district on the opposition tick
eft, and after q hard fight, was defeated
by the Democratic candidate by ma
jority of only sixty-seven in n total
vote of 1871. When the war broke
out he served for two years as colonel
of the 10th Kentucky Infantry, when
the death of his father compelled him
to tender his resignation. On return
ing to civil life Gen. Harlan settled his
fathers estate, and in the same year,
ls43, he was elected Encouragement
of the state. At the close of his term
he removed to Louisville and returned
to the practice of law. Gen. Harlan is
probably the best orator in Kentucky,
and is one of the most successful MEM
bers of the bar in that state. In 1871
and 1875 he was the Republican candi-
date for governor of Kentucky. Gen.
Harlan is about six feet high, and
weighs perhaps two hundred and twen-
ty-iive pounds. He has good humored,
expressive blue eyes, fair complexion
and hair, a large head, massive, lofty
forehead. deep chest and broad should
ers.
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sion in the new fields which the South
and West have presented for new la
bors-with this expansion has come the
necessity of more extensive organiza-
ton. A national work requires for its
perlnanence national basis. What the
local conference or state association
does for the churches included within
It, the national council is adapted 10 do
for the churches in general.
The unanimity with which the states
and local associations and conferences
responded TO the invitation for the up-
pointmcnt of delegates shows that this
necessity is generally felt.
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Mihhleburp Rrgister
FRIDAY. OCTOBER 26, 1877.
,-ss- IfRoss Tweed had not to N cons;,

To- lfBoss Tweed had not to consid-
cradle extent destroyed his power to
injure parties against whom he holds a
spite, by statements evidently false, he
would now be II powerful engine OF
warfare for Tammany. AS it is, he
only shows his malicious desire to
work mischief. 1t seems that when.
ever any Republican or other opponent
is particularly prominent and innuen.
tial, he is induced to remember, all of Il
sudden, that sometime or other the
man was smirched by business or polit.
ical transactions with this sclf-coHfess-
cd criminal.
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sY- President Paine. of the Vermont
Pharmaceutical society, in his annual
address before the society at Rutland,
Wednesday, touches up ''qnack doc
tors" with refreshing vigor, thusly:
"Their very presence is an insult to
the shade of Esculapius, not to mention
the living presence of more modern
physicians. My experience, extending
over about twenty-ninc years, has
taught me to avoid them rs II curse to
the community. Under the generic
name of "quack' | refer especially to
that class of mountebanks who travel
from place TO place, issuing flaming
hand-bils, filling whole newspaper col
umns with advertisements (Which adj
vertisments, by the way, am told are
seldom paid for), publishing wonder
ful certificates of miraculous cures,
written by themselves and signed by
some poor, ignorant Frenchmam,
knowing absolutely nothing of the di-
agnoss of any of the diseases that afflict
poor humanity, their entire stock of
knowledge of mdteriu medico consist
ing of a pocket memorandum of formu-
las for specifics for catarrh, fevers. con-
sumption, ETC., etc, copied from patent
medicine almanacs and medical receipt
books"
lie also refers to the effects OF 'shard
times" upon druggists in language
which shows candor, if nothing else, as
follows:
F. "Now, we know that people are not
sick as much during time of depress-
ed business. Perhaps there may be
just as many cases of illness reported,
and there may be 10 decrease of pre-
scriptions, but where are the old gen.
tlemen who need tonics, and the old
ladies who require nervines, and the
young ladies with ''little hacking
coughs" and the anxious mammas who
must have little paragoric, and bot
tie of vermifnge, and some castor oil in
the house, for fear little Tommy may be
taken sick in the night? Where are
they? Perhaps some of you can tell
only know they do not patronize me
and for aught | know everyone gets
on just as well without the tonic and
the nervine and the castor oil--every.
one but the druggist"
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Eg- The Congregational Council, in
session at Detroit, Mich, marks a new
era in the history ofthe denomination
an era of expansion and steadily broad
ening work.
The delegates assembled have adj
dressed themselves mostly TO the dis
cussiOn of questions pertaining to the
interests of the churches and 10 the adj
vancement of the common cause of re-
ligiOn in this and other lands. Those
people in the denomination who have
been 50 jealous of the independence OF
the churches, and who have iancied that
ominOus and dangerous tendencies Ia
arbitrary power are concealed in the
plan of biennial council, will find little
TO justify their apprchensions in the
proceedings at Detroit. II is true that
the fundamental principle of Congrega-
tionalism is the independence of the To-
cal church; this principle called il into
existence and gave il its name. Were
this idea abandoned or seriously modi-
fed, the church as, Congregational -
would cease TO exist. But equal with
this principle, both in antiquity and i'm
portance, is The principle Of association
for purpose Of counsel and mutual sup
port. Ministers are ordained, installed
or dismissed, church edifces are ded-
Gated, church bodies are organized and
questions of church discipline are usual
ly adjusted by councils of sister church.
es.
State associations and similar ecelcsi-
asiieal machinery, sufficiently binding
10 indicate tic of union, serve the pnr-
pose OF counsel and support. If Con-
gregationslism had forever been con-
fined within lis original limits in the
East, possibly these local and state gath
erings w0nld have served every pur-
pose. But with the enthusiasm witt,
which IL has, during the past few years,
prosecuted the work Of church esien-
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ANNUAL MEETING OF THE Y. NJ. c..
A.-The eleventh annual state conven-
ton of this society was held at CAM
bridge, commencing Tuesday evening,
and ending on Thursday evening.
Owing to meetings held in other sec
tons of the state the attendance was
smaller than last year, but even if
smaller il was of interest enough to
ovcrbaance the deficiency of numbers.
A large number of friends from
abroad were present, The executive
committee, by their secretary, Henry
Fairbanks, presented full report.
Number of different places visited, 60,
number of meetings held during the
year, 80, number of different churches,
lO7, 4 places where there were no
churches, 20 different workers. No
exact number of conversions can be
given. The reports are all encourage
ing. The trcasurer's report in round
numbers showed receipts of about
$4,000, expenditures of little over
$1,000 leaving in the treasury about
$500. Not less than $4,000 shonld be
raised for the prosecution of the work
for the following year. Sufficient was
pledged from the churches and the as
sociations represented to warrant the
beginning of operations for new can
yass.
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The utmost reliance may be placed
III HUNTS REMEDY for the prompt cure
Of kidney, bladder and urinary diseases,
diabetes, gravel and dropsy. HUNTS
REMEDY cures diseases of the urino-
genital organs, mental and physical de-
bility, and pains in the side, back AMI
loins. HUNTS REMEDY has been for
twenty-five years n tayorite medicine
of family physicians.
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STATE OF VERMONT-DISTRit' r

~ or ADlblSON, IS.
In Probate Court held at Mtl,llebury, within
\. ID. lSa7.
IN Instrument puiporing To he the last will anii
testament of Lucinda Bush, OF Bridpou in aai.l
smith, the executor therein named for piuh,,i..
II Is ordered by said court that all person
concerned therein he notified 10 appear at session
thereof Ia be held at the probate Office IN Nii,l,
bury, IN said district, on the 3th day of December,
\. u. Isl, at 10 O'Clock in the forenoon, ami
show cause, II any they may have, against It's.
probate of said VIII; for which purpose il il tar
thcr ordered that this order be published thrr,.
weeks successfully in the Mid'llebury Register a
newspaper printed at Middlebury, in TIL state,
previous TO said time of said hearing
Ky the tuurt-Attest
30 SNNlI Il COOKE Ju,l,,
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DIED.

FARNSW ORTII-ln Salisbury. October IS, OF
consumption, Mrs. ". II. Farnsworth. aged %
ysara and months
SIikpPARD-in Clinton, Iowa, October 4,
Mrs Bhnifa sheppard, widow OF the late Lyman
sheppard. OF ppnfon aged Is years.
.MEAD-In iiinesburgh. October 20. Horace $.
Mead.
SIIERWIN-ln Briatol, Oct. ~, Of diphtheiia.
Allie, daughter OF Harlan aud sophia sherwin,
aged ID months;
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NOTICE IN BANKRUPTCY.

~ This is 10 gire notice, that ON the 2Sd day oi
October, \. ID. 1877, warrant in bankruptcy was
issued against the estate of Myron Paige of Sail.
bury, in the county Of Addison and state OF Nei
mont, who has been adjudged bankrupt ON h
own petition that the payment of any debt
bankrupt, 10 him, or ior his use, and The trans
fer of any property by HIM is forbidden by law
that meeting of the creditors of said bankrupt to
prove their debts, and To choose one or more a
signees of his estate, will he held at court ol
bankruptcy, Ia he holden at the store Of +. ". Al
wood in West Salisbury, in the county of Addison,
and state of Vermont before W. &. NealeN
Esq, register ON the 10Th day of November, \. IL.
1871, at O'Clock AM THOMAS fAlLEN.
80 Deputy L. :. Marshal, as Messenger.
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STATE OF vERMONT-DIsTRlCT

In probate court, held at Nergcnncs, in said di
trict on the 18th day of October, A. u. 1871.
VIM. ii. bingham, administrator of the estate. ui
Charles l.. Cook, late of Concord, y. H., and hay
ing estate in said district, deceased, present. hi
administration account for examination and al
lowance, and makes application for decree ol
distribution and partition OF the estate OF said
deceased.
Whereupon II Is ordered by said Court that said
application be referred To session thereof To h.
held AT the probate Office in said Nergennes, on
the goth ,lay of November, 4. ID. 1871, for heal
ing AMI decision thereon; and 1t is further orierli
that all persons Interested he notified hereof ~,
publication of notice Of said application and uuirt
thereon, three weeks successfully in the Aidn.
bury Register, printed at Middlebury, before salt
time of hearing, that they may appear at said lime
and place, and ii they see cause, object thereto
by the Court-Attest:
30 i ID SMITH Iu.loa
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MARKETS.
Middlebury Retail Market.
Watertown Live Stock Market
For THE WEEK ENDING Ocr. %. 1877.

Market Beef-A few choice $9OOa extra s.OOa
8 80; first quality 7.0OaI5O second quality GOOp
$3.50; third quality S5.25as5.7j.
Prices of store Cattle-Working Oxen per pair
from 800, $50, and l75.
Mich Cows and Calves from S25, 50aT5
fearlings Sl0a2O; two years old lja30; three
years old 25a45.
Western fat swine GAG Ice. per ID.
Sheep ami Lambs-In lots s2a2 30 81 each,
extra S3.25a4.S7 IL per head, from 4aj lie pei
lb.
Lambs "a to- lac per H.
Veal calves 5a6 l2c per lb.
Hides, Tallow and Skins. Brighton hides Z l.2as
per ID; Country hides, TAI l-2 per H.. ; Brighton
tallow GAG l-2c per H.. country tillow 5a5 l.2c
Pclts soc each. Calf skins 16all per ID.
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CTATE OF vERMoNT-DIsTRICr

- OF ADDISON, SIS.
In Probate Court, held In Mi,ldlehury,wiihin ani
for said district, On the sth day OF October. A. -
1917
Ella A. Claim, guardian Of Guy NJ. Claim, OF
Hancock in the district OF Addison, minor, makcs
application IN writing to this conrt stating that il
will he for the interests of her said ward 10 sell an
his Interests IA certain real estate situated ia Han
cock, aforesaid. viz; The farm OF which Robert
Clahn, late of Hancock, died seized and possess
eel, containing about $50 acres, that the proceed
thereof may be put at interest invested in stock
or real estate for said ward, and prays said conn
for license 10 sell the same.
ThereupOn IL Is ordered that said application Ia.
referred 10 session Of said court 10 he held l the
the Probate Office in Middlebnry, in said District
on the alh day of November, A. ID. 1877, nj 10
o'clock IN the forenoon, Cor decision thereon ANA
Il is further ordered that notice he given 10 All
persona Interested. by publication OF said applies
ton ami this older thereon three weeks successive
y IN the Middlebury Register, new spaper print
ct at Middlebuy, previous 10 said time OF hearing
That they may appear at said time and place amt
show cause, II any they may have, why said h.
cense should not be granted.
BY the C0urt-Attest
% sAMCEL Il. COOKE. Judge.
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Miss word in your ear. The next fine afier-
noon that you saunter out, buy box of GLESs's
SULPHUR SOAP. That admirable purifier will re-
move every one of those pimples which detract so
much nom your beauty. sold by all druggists.
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MAISHeIIcD.

FORD BROoKS-In Brooksyille, by Rev. II. y.
| Hooker, Clarence g. Ford, OF Chicago H., aud
Miss Martha u. Brooks, Of Iirooksviile.
BENEDICT EASrO>-In Cornwall, October
II, by Rev. 5. ". Magill ID. d. MIR. j. %. Bene-
diet and Miss Alice T.. Easton, both of Cornwall
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IN DANkRUPTCY.-DIsTR or

Al Rutland, the eth day Of October, A. u. ls...
The undersigned hereby gives notice of his an.
pontment AS assignee of Elisha 4. Hitchcock oi
salisbury, IN the county of Addison and state "a
Vermont within said district, who has been all
judged bankrupt on his creditors petition, by
the district court of said district
3Ow2 j. W. CRAMTON, Assignee.
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TN OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES or

The undersigned hereby gives notice of his ap-
pointment assignee of Norman h. Rider, ni
Middlebury, in the county Of Addison and state ot
Vermont, within said district, who has been at
judged bankrupt upon his creditors petition, bv
the district court of said district.
Bows JOHN l.. BTTOIPH, Assignee.
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TN OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES or

IN Re VIM. 1T. EIIls, bankrupt
Notice is hereby given that petition has been
filed in said court 10y VIM. H. Ellis, of Middle.
bury, in said district, duly declared bankrupt
under the Act of Congress of March ?. 1861. inr
discharge and certificate thereof, from all his
individual aud co-partnership debts anh other
claims provable under said act, and that the OH
day of November, 1857, az O'Clock A.. NJ, befort
the Hon. Hoyt II. Wheeler, Judge Of said court, "a
the L. ;. court rooms in Burlington, is assigned
for the hearing of the same, when and where an
creditors who have proved their debts and oihci
persons IN interest, may attend aud show cause,
IL any they have, why the prayer OF said petition
should not be granted.
Dated ut burlington, on the 10Th day OF October
ISL. 20 u. h. SMAILEl, CLERK
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plug bears our blue strip trade mark with words
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and Portland Jobbers. send for sample to 4. a.
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Three sous of VIM. Downer loaded
Qn old gun barrel with powder at Pitts.
field, Mass, Sunday, and discharged it,
The wapon burst, killing two Of the
boys and tearing OH the hand Of The
third