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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1878-01-04
CTATE OF vERMONT-DIsTRIC1

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In Probate Court, held at Middleburv, in said
District on the goth day OF December A. ID. Is,
Gus III. Capron, guardian unto Alfred H. hnd
Lucy NJ. Capron, of Leicester in said district I'M
nofS, makes application in writing 10 this court
stating that ii Will be beneficial to his said war,-
to sell all their interest, egatees under the pl4
visions of the last will and testament OF Ji,h.,
falne, late of Leicester deceased. in the real g.
tate Of the said deceased, consisting OF the nom
farm of said deceased, containing about 100 acre.
also the East or Pond Lot, SO called containirs
100 acres; ami the Greek Meadow, so called con
tanning about 10 acres; and the Swamp Lot COZ,
tanning about 10 acres, ali situated in Ieice,.,.
aforesaid that the proceeds thereof may be put al
interest on invested in stocks or real estate FOR H.
benefit Of his said wards; and prays said coUl.
for license to sell the same
Ihereupon it is ordered that said application la
referred to session of said court to lie held al III
the Probate ohcc In Middleburv, in said distinct
on the 2lst day Of January 4. ID. ISIS, at ~
o'clock IN the forenoon, for hearing and decision
thereon aud II is further ordered that nntce i,
gwen 10 all persons interested, by publication Of
notice Of said application and this order there. III
lhree weeks successivelv in the Mildlchnrv E...-
ster new spapcr printed at Alildlcbury, breyion,
To said time of hearing, that they may appear "a
SAID time and place and show cause il ANY In,
may have. why said license should nat la
granted.
by the Court Attest;
~ SAMUEL T.. COOKE, Judxc.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1878-01-04

John Bonner X Co., ono Of the oldest
houses on Broad street, New York,
have just failed with about $500, 900 la
biliiies. A large number of indlvidn-
ais aud firms are sufferers by the fail
IRE. John Bonner has left for Canada.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1878-01-04
PLUG TOBACCO!

Merchants Iobacco Company, Boston,
MAKE the hest sold or used. ONE DOLLAR
lawful money, in each sixty.pound box. TWO
DOLLARS in one Of the caldes in each case.
sold by grocers and Tohacconists generally. Ask
for this, and get the best chew or smoke That can
be had.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1878-01-04

Heavy floods and gales are reported
in the South. Railways and telegraph
lines have suffered much in Virginia.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1878-01-04
MARKETS.
Middlebury Retail Market.
FRIDAY, JANCARA I. 1878.
Watertown Live Stock Marke
For THE WEEK ENDING JAN. I. 1878.

Market Beef-A few choice ss.0Oas.9j extra lisa
10; nrst quality 6.OOa0.15; second qualify 5.OOa
s5,15; uirl quality si50as5.OO.
Prices OF Store Cattle-Working oxen per pair,
nom el00. 100. and us.
Mich Cows and Calves lrom S25, 50a75.
learings Sl0asO; two years old iinas; three
years Old 2ia4z.
Western fat swine 5a5 &c. per III.
Sheep and Iambs-In lots =. %, - 5OaS3 each;
extra s3.ada5.5O per heat or from sa5 3.lc per
Ia.
Veal calves sac lee per 10.
Hides, iallow and skins-Brighton hides Sc
per H.. Country hides. l.sa7 "a per H. Brighton
tAllow uc per h. country tallow Saj lac.
Pelts 1acasi.s5 each. Calrskms iOalic per ID.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1878-01-04

IT- The New York legislature as
sembled OH Tuesday and both houses
promptly organized with Republican Of
GERS. Governor Robinson's annual
message was read. This document III
dicates reduction of the state debt
during the year of ,35S,s43.4l, at
which rate ii will soon be totally exlin-
guished. The governor claims that
there has been improvement in the pris-
on management, gives an encouraging
account of the educational institutions
in the state, recommends new charter
for New York city, calls attention to
the subject of life insurance aud savings
banks, but makes no recommendations
as to the particular legislation requisite
simply expressing the trnism that 1t de-
serves considerable attention at the
hands of the Legislature. lie INDUCED
in his little fling at President Hayes
title to the office he holds, Just TO put on
the record, perhaps, that he is Demo.
Graf and friend of Samuel Tilden.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1878-01-04

IN BANKRt PTCN IN THE DIS
A IklCr Court Of the United States, for the
district of Vermont.
III the matter of Elisha p. Hitchcock, bankrupt
70 the creditors OF said bankrupt, and all others
whom II may concern The undersigned assi9 nee
o. me estate OF SAID bankrupt hereby gives notice
said district, that the second and third general
meeting Of the creditors Of said bank rupt be held
at the ofllce of W. e.. Ncazey, In Rutland
IN said district, on the iih day OF February A. ID.
ISIS, AT 10 o'clock A. NJ, before W. q. Nealey,
Register 10 bankruptcy. for the purposes named
IN The eth anil 2eth sections Of the BANKRUPTCY
Act Of March ?, 1867, aud this is also 10 give notice
thnt have fled my final account "a assignee OF
saul bankrupt and that at said time and place |
shall apply to said court for the settlement of said
account, and for discharge from all liability as
assignee Of said estate n accordance with the pro.
visions OF said 2sth section.
Dated at Rutland, Ia said district, this 81 day
of January, 1878
10 J. w CPANrp< As.iguas
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1878-01-04

- The "rehypoihecation' which
the failures OF Meter Il Go. and Bon
ner Il Co., in New York, have made
known to the public, seems TO consist
in The REISSUE of bonds received AS col
lateral security for loans. For in
stance, Bonner T. Co. loaned sec, 900
and received as security bonds to the
value OF $4,000. These bonds, which
they should have kept safely for the
owners, were used by Bonner Il Go. to
ncgotatc loan of ,000 for them
selves. That was hypothecating them.
1t would seem that this kind of opera
ton is rather risky business for the
owners of bonds and not entirely safe
to the fraudulent operator.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1878-01-04

x9 Lord Bcaconsfeld, as representa-
tive of the British government, and in
behalf of the Porte, has made inquiries
at st. Petersburgh as to whether Russia
would be disposed to enter into peace
negotiations. The Russian government
ii ia reported has given its reply, and the
mediation is courteously declined. Now
the English have only the two alterna-
tives of war for themselves or peace
purchased at the price of pocketing q
humiliating enub. AS for Turkey, she
can very easily enter into negotiations
OF peace on her own account BY apply
ing directly to headquarters, and can
have peace by submitting 10 the term.
imposed.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1878-01-04

Ciarke's 7'oothaehe Drops cure In
stantly.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1878-01-04
Send for Reduced Price List Of
nj ASON&HAMLlN
Cabinet Organs.

New and splendid styles; Prices reduced $40
to ESQ each, .his month, NOV. ls7O. Address
MASON Il HAMTIN ORGAN CO., BOSTON,
NEW YORK, or CHICAGO.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-05-30
How Edison Amuses Himself.

Edison, the phonograph man, is wretch
cd unless he invents half dozen things
every day. He does it just for amusement
when regular business isn't pressing. The
other day he went out for a little stroll
and he thought out plan for walking on
one leg, SO as to rest the other before he
had gone square.
He hailed a milk wagon and told the
driver of little invention that had pop
ped through his head just that moment
for delivering milk without getting out
of his wagon or even stopping his horses.
A simple force pump, with hose attached,
worked by the foot, would do the business
Milk men who dislike to halt for any,
thing in their mad career because it pre-
vents them running over as many children
as they might other wise do, would APP
preciste this improvement. Edison ism t
sure but that sausage and pigs feet could
be delivered in the same way.
He stepped into hotel office, and OBJ
serving the hrnailiations which guests en-
countered III seeking to obtain informa-
ton from the high toned clerk, he sat
down in the reading-room, and in five
minutes had invented hotel clerk to
work by machinery, warranted to stand
behind the counter any length of time de-
sired, and answer all questions with
promptness, correctness and suavity-
diamond pin on and hair parted in the
middle if desired.
He went through the barber shop of the
hotel and as he did he sighed IN think that
with all his genius and creative magma
ton, he could never hope to equal the
knight of the razor as talking machine.
This saddened hun SO that he went home
and invented no more that day.-Cincias--
natl Saturday Night.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-05-30
Loss OF the Eurydicc,

On, sweet church bells the earth Is fair
and death and winter we beguile.
When life and spring together share
The glories of this sunny isle.
Along the landslip lovers walk,
And, hand In hand, smile out their sighs
AS sweetly silent, oft they talk
The language of the loving ewes.
Ring out sweet bells! See ships 90 past
With swelling sail and foaming bow
day pennons stream from tapering mast,
And rails to the waves dip low.
And, loyeliest of them all, oh, see.
:, racing and plunging through the foam,
Towed By the sweathearts' hands at home.
The Queens brave ship, the Eurydicel
Ring slowly. oh, bells The earth Is white
All ghostly white with sudden snow;
Dark in the air as if with night,
And bitterly the wild winds blow.
cruel squal has blown away
The lovers VOWS, The lovers signs,
Gone In the glory Of the day;
lhey cannot see each others eyes.
The blessed sun shines out again,
We seaward turn. All. where is she.
Ploughng so gaily through the main,
The Queens brave ship, the Eurydicel
Twas passing knell, and we know it not;
Twas the cloud OF Death, and we never
knew.
And the sunlit waves dance DER the spot
Where lately home in hope she flew,
Ring on, oh bells! this solemn day!
Shine white, oh snowi beneath our feet
Three hundred souls have passed away,
And heaven hath sent its winding sheet.
- Pdlaifg Fair
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-05-30
A Lonely Funeral.

The Kansas City MOI Times sketc
this fearful picture 1t was raining, and
the streets were gloomy and uninyiting.
An express Wagon headed the procession,
in which sat gray-halred old lady be
meath an old umbrella, whicil partially
sheltered her and the driver from the rain.
She was bowed with grief and sorrow,
and wore that tired weary aspect of Ge-
spair which betokened hopelessness. just
behind her was rough coffin, of plain, I'M
dressed pine-a pauper's coffin. What il
contained could be guessed by Inference
In a lumber Wagon, just behind the
coffin, came family of children, drenched
with rain and shivering in their wet
rags. But they were ali crying, and bow
ed with anguish. 1t was q sad sight, and
told tale of poverty. and sorrow in Ian
guage which spoke louder than words.
An aged widow, too proud to give her de-
ceased colsort pauper's buria,.
A sad and sorrowful family IN borrow
ed Wagon. No frinds, no hearse, no coffin,
but rough pine box, no carriages; moth
ing but drenching rain, a dreary jour
ney. and q gloomy return. IT was the
most affecting funeral that ever passed
through the streets Of Kansas City.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-05-30
A Cork Concert.

The concert in question was given in
Constitution Hall-a building somewhere
between Bond and Tenth streets. Mr..
O'Gallaher. we will call him, with his
daughter, the Infant Slppho," were the
performers. A very small audience had
come aimlessly into the half-lit hall,
seeming to remain solely because going
out would involve some exertion. The
ticket-takcr slumbered profoundly. Why
not, when nothing but inertia was re-
quired OF him9 One spasm Of galvanic
action had aroused him: five dollar bill
was presented, and the miserable taker
found when all too late, and three good
and true dollars had been given in ex-
charge, that the Y was a base counterfeit.
The programme announced that Mr..
O'Gallaher, pianist and professor of music,
would have the honor of appearing for
the first time before an American audience
and would perform the extraordinary feat
of executing piece on the piano-forte
and flute at the same time. His daughter
whose wonderful triumphs of genius
before the nobility and gentry of Great
Britain and Ireland had won for her the
title of the ''Intant Sappho, I" would have
the honor to appear in some other favorite
songs.
A large screen stood before the piano,
there was slight movement at the rear
of the stage, and figure scuffled across
| it and disappeared behind the screen. The
audience reused up AMI made 81
multapeous movement to the front seats
Something was about to be done, certain
! ly. Not just yet, however; the 'some-
| Il I'll ~ 20 lry
hoarse whisper was heard "Fetch a
candle here A candle, / tell vel" A
moments pause. "Oh,-it all! Phwy
don't we fetch a candle2"
The audience Uttered; but the candle
was fetched, and the occult mechanism
adjusted amazing continuance of
false hands which enabled Mr.. Q'Gallaher
to bang an accompaniment to the dismal
foot toot which he evoked from the
wheezy flute. 1t reused the dull little
handful of listeners, and they were entire
ly responsive when the infant Sappho
confronted them as erst she had stood
before the mobility and gentry of her
native land.
"Be3ad, It's foine infant of its age,
that p said rude person in the hall.
Perhaps his admiration was pardonable.
The infant namesake of her of the impas-
stoned Tyre was an overgrown girl of four
teen, with hair in corkscrew ringlets, her
dress Of fiimsy white stuff not falling
| much below the stout knees, which were
draped amply, however, in pantalets long
enough to meet the sandaled slippers on
her well grounded supports, they might
| be called.
Poor Infant Sappho tear it was not
| her first experience in such q reception as
she had that evening, for she did not
seem to mind the laughter or the "chaff,'
at all, but sang her funny and her doleful
ditties in way to arouse feelings precise
" the reverse of those their authors had
| intended.
Mr.. O'Gallahers entertainment was not
| repeated in New York. He disappeared
from public view as SO many of his kind
had done mechanical hands and ALL.
Matilda Despard, IN Harper's Magazine
| for Jane.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-05-30
Vanity.

There is no more common folble III the
world than vanity, nor one which renders
its possession more ridiculous, unless it is
kept we'll under the control ofgood sense !;
and, as rule, the vain person is too vain
to be conscious that she needs any re-
straint whatever; and if one should dare
suggest such necessity, true to her in
stincts, she would believe that the hint
ableness.n 1t is little curious some
times to examine into the causes OF the
weakness, which are often quite made
quate to the effect: this one is vain of
" having made himself" as the saying
goes, when the result is hardly worth the
effort; that one plumes herself upon her
conquests, when she has utterly failed TO
conquer herself; upon the family tree,
though it be nothing but sapling; upon
her talent, though IL be wrapped in a
napkin; upon her refinement, which will
not allow her to call spade a spade, but
enters no protest against the reputation
OF SANDER; upon her courtesy, which is
more precept than examine; on her sin
eerty, which is mere preaching than prac-
tice. We do not deny that little vanity;
like homeopathic dose of poison,is very
excellent in its place-enough to keep
one in selt-respect, to insure self-posses-
sion, levc of fine society, amiability, an
agreeable presence, an unblemished tot
lette; but il is more of those things of
which a little goes great way; it often
outliyes the quality which engenders it:
beauty vanishes but the empty pride it
awoke remains, conveying an impression
as unseemly as flowers upon a deaths
head; the voice loses its charm. the hand
its cunning, the brain its yigor, but nuiri-
ment has been stored for the vanity to
feed upon all the same. N fact it will
thrive upon the meagerest diet, wax lat
and lusty upon husks, and q compliment
has been known to support it 8 lifetime
1t is hard 10 say why we condone the
faults in the young, and reprobate IN the
old and middle-aged; why it seems so
much more natural and less offensive in
one than the other; why we listen with
interest to the sentimentalities of youth,
and amuse ourselves with the tender re-
of age unless it is that the
one ought to know better, has had time
to learn the value of such folly, should be
busy with higher thoughts and inspired
by nobler aims than the satisfaction OF
feelings merely personal and selfish; I'M
less we suppose it the exclusive property
of youth, together with its bloom, its
coquetries, its fallals and ignorances.
Yet it is perhaps, the weakness which We
part with last, for who of us but would
cry with the poets.
Oh when in death my heart shall break |
And rest from all its woes,
Put then some rouge upon my cheek,
And pencil DER my brows;
For would in my last rep0se,
4e AS when his VOWS he paid,
Retain upon my check the rose,
Upon my brow the shade"
HasDez-'s B0zar
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-05-30
Garden.

Every man, however limited his means
should contrive to have and cultivate a
garden There are three strong reasons
| for it.:
1. Working in garden is highly con-
ductive to health. The exercise is gen
tie: it is united with amusement, and by
it both the body and the spirits are invig-
GRATED. There is something in the odor
of the earth that strengthens the whole
system. Let the sedentary man take up
the pruning knife and spend an hour of
the 6lewy morning amongst his vines, or
the spade, hoe or rake and prepare or
work over his asparagus, lettuce or rad .
ish beds, and he will thus give tone and
vieor to his body and mind for the severe
studies of his desk. The teacher will
teach all the better; the minister Will
preach all the better for the mind exer-
else which the garden gives. For this
natural employment of the bones and
muscles of the system an hour or two's
practice in the gymnasium is but mis-
cradle substitute, since the health-lm-
parting exhalations from the ground, as
we'll as the interest and variety are want
ing.
3. The garden is a teacher. There.
nature is at work, producing her most
beautiful forms and transformations. No
man can witness attentively the germi-
nation Of the seed, the uprising OF the
blade, the unfolding of the flower, the
maturing of the fruit, without at the
same time becoming wiser, nobler, and
better. The vegetable, the mineral
Kingdoms here meet and work together.
To the curious every step in this working
offers something fresh for meditation.
Why, for instance, the plumula ascend
WHY does it incline toward the snnl Why
does it assume this or that tint. Why
does the sap arise in ita Why does this
ulant take to this kind of nutriment, an
other to that! Why is athorn given to
this vegetable. an acrid juice to this and
honey to thatg Why does the dandelien
shoot forth in the spring and the aster In
the autumn? Why is this leaf orbicuiar
this heart shaped, this needle-shapedi
WHY is this plant medicinal, this poison
ous9 Why IS this flower fragrant, this
scentlessf And a thousand other curious
questions constantly arise TO AWAKEN
thought.
8. The garden is source or profit. |
have known a man who realized as much
from what he sold from his garden OF one
half acre. as his handwriting brother did
from what he sold from his farm OF more
than enc hundred acres. It is said that
man consumes about sixteen hundred
hounds per annum. How much OF THIS
could and should come from the gardens
II can bly my vegetables says one
staining By, and who calls in the doctor
frequently, sscheaper than | can raise
them Not 50, indeed, answer, il You
take into account the health and instrue-
ton impaired by the grden- Then It Is
SO delightful to see our own lettuce,
radishes, tomatoes, melones, peas. beans
aud sweetcorn groTi,g. 1t is 50 pleasant
to go out and pick with your owe hands
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-05-30
Old Nj Ia France-He Has Trouble Nth
8 French Money.


88A French Money.
ATLANTA Constitution.
Use gwine ter git bankruptid eff 1 stay
heah much longern' said Old ST. after one OF
his morning excursions.
.What makes you think SOP
"Kase Use bin heah two weeks now, an
kant tell how much ten cents is in dis French
money, no way dat kin fix it,-
"What is the difficulty?'
"Dat's hit-ef dey'd only print dere 'rith-
metickS in Nunited States talk SO dat / could
git er grip on hit, l mought sorteer keep
books wild desc folks, but dey DON'T
.sOh, you win learn by and by!"
jess bout de time dat Use bnstid I'll kno'
al bout hit-dat is, I'll kno' how ter count
what haint got, an devil kno' how ter keep
what Use glib 'em! OATS jess de nine hole
dat Use tryin to keep outen.''
well, what is it that bothers you about
the money!"
ssW'y, goes out wild dis ailber piece dat
looks like er quarter to git chance; de man
in de store GIBBS me er hundred centimes, ez
he says. Den thinks he's done cheeted his
sef, but dat amt my fault. goes in next
do an buys somethin' OATS mark'd twenty
five sous, which / kno-s fun New Orleens
means cents, an fore de Lord de man takes
dat hundred confines dat calls er dollar
an makes me glib him five cents mo- ter
boot! OATS what / call highway and low
flung robbery.''
But that silver piece was only twenty
cents! and one hundred centimes make one
franc, or twenty cents, you see?'
Il heah yer, but Use studyin' now!''
..What about?"
''Dey say dat err heap OBJ dem Nunited
States bonds is helt ober dis way, don't
dey?''
so they are.'
well, all Use got ter say is dis, dat amt
no repudiashuner eff wuz fer de SLIDER bill,
but when gets home again Use fer payin'
de furrin bond-holders er hundred confines
on de doller. Use boand ter get chen sum
howl
Then he counted his money again and went
out after a pair of "galluses"