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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-06-06
RriSfoI RcfnU Market.
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The activity In the Wool market continues and
prices are gradually tending upward. Old stocks
are prctty much sold up, but new clips has been
arriving quite freely from California, Texas.
Kentucky. Missouri and Georgia, and fat
sheep Wool from the West and neighboring
hands of dealers and manufacturers, and the de
mand for Wool has not been so active for many
years. Manufacturers have been selling goods
quite frecly, and are stocking up with all aVaila-
ble supplies of Wool. There is scarcely any
stock OF Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan neeces,
but buyers are now turning their attention to the
clip OF these States, and supplies will DO coming
forward in a week or two. The sales have been
i,OOO,OM lbs for the week. The transactions in
clude 6O,OOO lbs Ohio and Pennsylvania hecces at
Shai0c, and Y and Xxx are held from 3sa4Oc per
lib; $500 lbs Michigan, New Hampshire and
other neeces at 3lL u 500; 100000 lbs Kentucky,
Missouri. Georgia and lake at from 20 a Sc, and
washed combing fleece at 81 a 4Oi $4,000 lbs un-
washed and understandable deeces at 22aS0c,
including considerable fat sheep wool in this
range; 100000 lbs. spring California at 29k a Sac,
including large line choice Northern Wool at
80 a 3sc. and one clip at 34c; $1,000 lbs. fall Cali.
lornia at Ii a lSc; 2O0.OO0 lbs. Texas at % a SOC
100000 lbs. Territory Wool at 20a233S; $4,000 lbs.
Of Yia3Sc per Id; 100000 lbs secured al 3la70c
1900 lbs noils ut 80 ia38c, and $1,000 lbs sorts on
private terms. Canada combing has been in
demand with sale of 10000 lbs at 36c per ID. In
cape Wood sales of 800. 600 lbs at about 1917 a Ice,
IN bond, 10000 lbs. Cape on private terms: "a,
w lbs. Australian at 40 a 42c; 5000 lbs. Austral.
IAN % private terms; 10000 lbs Valparaiso carpet
At about lie; 10000 lbs, Monteyideo at SOC, and
lv,vo lbs. Banda Oriental on private terms.
lhere Is now very little foreign Wool on hand.
but IL prices go up much higher Il will leave a
margin for importing Wool nom Great Britain.
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Consumption Cured.

An old physician, retired from prac-
tce, having had placed in his hands by
an East India missionary the formula
of simple vegetable remedy for the
speedy and permanent cure of con-
sumption, bronchitis, catarrb, asthma,
and all throat and lung affections, also
a positive and radical curc for nervous
debility and all nervous complaints, af-
ter having tested its wonderful curative
powers III thousands of cases, has felt it
his duty to make il known to his suffer-
ing fellows. Actuated by this motive,
and a desire to relieve human suffering,
L will send, free of charge, to all who
desire it, this recipe, with full direc-
tons for preparing and using, in Ger
man, French, or English. Sent by mail
by addressing with stamp, naming this
paper, W. w. Sherar, 149 Powers
Block, Rochester, N. Y. l2eow1.
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NewspapOrial.

The Burlington Free Press has donned
a new dress, and INT much i'm
proved in appearance. The Free Press
is a good paper, and affords a refresh
ing contrast to its sensational and row
dy neighbors in the Queen city.
The Bristol Herald is a new candidate
for fame, originated right here in oui
county. 1t is a seven-column paper,
with "patent outside" like so many OF
the recent papers which are fighting
against odds for existence. The first
number starts the new venture off well,
being we'll edited and with Il good va
riety of matter. 1t is published by
Wilson Brothers, formerly of Winooski,
We trust the Herald will find fortune
and the Bristolites kind.
W. have received the second number
of the Sunday Crucible, started recent
ly in Burlington. The Crucible is a
go~od-looking paper, presenting no
startling novelties in journalism. We
learn that ii is to oppose the piohibitoly
law, which, we fear, will not commend
it to the better class of readers. Bur-
lington has about all the a%nti-prohibi-
tory law papers it needs.
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WASHINGTON NOTES.

1t is estimated that there will be S3,-
100000 available Tor the payment of the
arrears of pensions during June.
A recent bill provides that when any
officer below the rank of v~ice-admiral
has been ID years in the service, or is
G5 years old, he may be retired at the
discretion of the president.
A resolution by Representative Cox
provides that if treaties between the
United States and Russia be found To
discriminate unjustly against Hebrew
citizens of the United States resident in
Russia, the president be requested to
take action to have the treaties amend
ed.
The Democrats In Congress held a
joint caucus Monday afternoon, and f.
nally accepted the report of the Confer
ence committee, which recommended
the passage of the Appropriation bills
with certain provisos, calculated TO pre-
vent the use of the army at the polls,
and the payment of marshals and SUI
pervisors out of tho public funds.
Capt. Blackford of the capitol police,
acquitted recently of certain charges,
hoo bSSh NiohiiSrtu iiOhi bcfNlCC ny
Clark, architect of the capitol. He
urged that,D Democrats had been kept in
office under Republican rule, and no
sufficient reason existed why he should
be replaced. Mr.. P~hallabrick has been
elected captain o. the capitol police.
The Republican senators held a eau
Gus Monday afternoon concerning MIR.
Bayard's bill to repeal sections $50 and
82l of the revised statutes. The first OF
the sections repeats the "juror's test
OATH" There was practical unanimity
In the caucus that this section shouldbe
repealed. The other section authorizes
judges of United States courts to exer-
else their discretion in regard to
challenges of persons drawn as Jurors,
who participated in the rebellion. The
opinion of the caucus was that this Sec
ton had never been abused and is not
likely TO be, and therefore II should
stand. No other question was brought
before the caucus. Ii is considered adj
visable to defer action on the new Dem
ocratic measures until they are present.
ed In Congress.
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rR-The committee appointed to in
yestigate the affairs of the dcfunct
Champlain Mutual Fire Insurance
Company have not yet made their
report, but will probably soon do so.
An examination of tho books, ii is said,
has satisfied them that the business OF
the concern was moi mismanagcd, that
there were no "~stcalings," and that
none of those who had the handling OF
it ever made a dollar out of it wrong
fully. There is no evidence of imrTop-
err risks being taken. The fact seems TO
be that the company received such a set
back by reason of the unprecedented
losses from fire during the year or two
preceding its demise, that it found ii
impossible to meet them promptly with
out mourning debts, and the business
was stopped as soon as it was found
that it could not be continued without
increasing loss. Like many another
business in the past few years, the COM
pany was simply unfortunate. The in
vestigating committee will advise that
an assessment of fifteen per cent. will
be sufficient TO pay the debts. 1t prob
ably will if all the premium notes
prove good, but If, as is most likely, a
large portion prove uncollectable,
another assessment will be necessary to
cover the deficiency together with the
added expense of the second assess
ment. 1t will probably be found in the
end that the directors estimate of n
twenty-five per cent. assessment was
not'really too high. 1t is said that the
report of the investigating committee
will impute no blame to the officers of
the company, except that Hiram At
kins, who is nothing if not censorious,
will insist upon charging the directors
with negligence in attending TO their
duties.
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STATE ITEMS.

Swanton celebrates the ~"gellorious
|ith' THIS year.
Mrs. George Graves, of Rutland, an
aged lady, fell last week, and broke
one hip.
The body of Chandler McNali, who
was drowned neal Colchester Point
light, has been recovered.
The house of. G.. NJ. Mansfield, of
Richford, was burned last Thursday.
Loss $1,000; insurance $500.
Swanton is getting excited over boat
racing, If one can judge from the
amusing reports given in the Courier.
Paddy Collins, of Burlington, for
stealing a pair of shoes of II. A. Mooney,
got sixty days in the House of Correc-
ton.
The COW of Elisha Kingsbury, of
North Fairfax, was recently shot
through the neck by some unknown
person!
Mrs. Matilda Beckwith of Sutton, re-
Gently had $50 stolen from q bureau
drawer which stood neal an open
window.
Hon. +. j. Phelps delivered the adj
dress at the class day exercises of the
Boston University School of Law,
Tusday afternoon.
Charles Gee, of North Springfield,
was severely cut in the head while
moving buildings for MIR. Avery, by
a lever OIL the capstan flying back.
Two St. Adams ladies recently
walked to Highgate and returned, q
distance of 20 miles, in ten hours, al
lowing hour for rest AND dinner.
The horse of Cyrus Sargent, of st.
while hitchcd, and ran away, bringing
up with a broken leg and badly smashed
buggy. The horse had TO be killed.
James Griffin, of Bratleboro, fell the
other evening from the sidewalk into
the old Revere House %celler, and struck
his head on a rock, being picked up
insensible. lie was not seriously i'll
jured.
One day last week as w. Wakefield,
of Wcstfield, was returning from
Lowell, some person shot at him with
n revolver, the pail passing through his
hat, cutting the hair and leaving a small
ridge ON his head.
A female child was found last week
Thursday on the road leading from
Swanton to Highgate, where it had
been left, with only a piece of bed tick
ing and All old sheet around it. The
child was cared for, and is doing well.
A week ago last Sunday Thomas
Connor, of Brattleboro, and Patrick
Horn got to quarreling as TO who paid
for some cider they had partaken of
when Conner knocked Horr down, and
his son kicked him until he made &
crack in his skull about two and one.
half inches long.
The other morning Jonah Aldrich
of Mechanicsville, tied his horse to {
staging post, when the animal rubbed
its bride of, pulled down the staging
became frightened, and ran. Aftel
smashing the wagon, clearing itself o
its harness and running several miles
IL was caught uninjured.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-06-06

One of the most remarkable Deeora-
ton Day speeches made this year was
by the venerable Gen. Schuyler Ham,
ilton during the ceremonies attending
the decoration of the statue Off Abra-
ham Lincoln In New York. II was
very short, Ike Mr.. Lincoln's Grafton
at Gcttysburgh, but il was to the poiDt.
Gen. Hamilton said:
con Decoration Day last year, lat
the foot of Abraham L%incoln's statue
! defended the practice OF decorating
with flowers the graves of the rebel
dead ilnpartially with those of our dead
comrades. My. heart is not in thbse
words. They were spoken in a fiji oi
sentimental generosity aroused by mis-.
representations of prominent rebdls
! beg To apologize for those remarks.
| would now urge that no member loI
Abraham Lincoln post lay u flower Sr
the grave of a rebel. They were rebdl,
III 1861; they are traitors now. Az
winter long they have been plottinl
treason in the halls of Congress. Thi
same hearts burn and the same armi
can be welded as in 1S61-and man,
of us live again to WELD them if nee
essary."
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A Bourbon View.

The issue, as the Democrats now
make ii in congress, cannot be kept too
prominently before the public view.
They ask that the army shall not in
%terfere with, be present at, or in any
way take part in elections; that super
visors, marshals, and deputy marshals
shall not have the power to summon
the army for any purpose; shall not be
authorized TO make arrests without due
process of law; shall not receive pay
for political service: They propose
that the supervisors shall serve only as
officials witnesses at election to secure
evidence for the legal and regular pros
ecution afterwards of all fraudulent
voting. Stripped of all humbuggery
which congressman have thrown about
IL, what could be fairer or more proper
than this propositionO Cd [Brattleboro
Reformer.
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UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT. The com.
mcncement programme of the Univer-
sity of Vermont and State Agricultural
College at burlington is as follows:
June %, baccalaureate sermon by Pres.
ident Buckham address by Rev. L. r,
Chamberlain, of Norwich, Conn, be.
fore the Society for Religious Inquiry
23d, commencement concert by the
Germania Band of Boston; oath, com.
pany drill on the parade ground; Phi
Beta Kappa Society's annual meeting
alumni meeting medical college alumni
meeting; associate alumni celebration
with an Grafton by Rev. DR.. George b
Spalding, of Dover, N. H., and a poem
by. VIM. III. Bliss, of Rochester; Junior
exhibition; 25th, commencement ora
tons, corporation dinner and the Presi
dents reception; 2Gth, examination foI
admission to the University medica
college commencement, with an address
by DIR. III. ID. I%Iolton, of Bratlleboro.
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GENERAL NOTES.

The Maine Greenbackers held thcil
state convention at Portland and nom
mated Joseph l.. Smith for governor.
Gov. Andrews, of Connecticut, has
received many letters urging him to
pardon Kate Cobb, the Norwich MUIR
dcress.
DR.. Howard Crosby stated in an adj
dress last week that his Law and Order
Society had, during the past year, closed
1870 whiskey saloons in New York
city.
A despatch dated Mandelay, Burmah,
says ''certain females of the royal fam
lily, for whose safety the royal govern
ment stipulated, have been placed in
irons and will probably.be starved"
Gen. James Shields, the soldier and
politician, died at Ottumwa, Ia, last
Sunday. He did good service in the
Mexican war, and was a general in the
Union army in the war of the rebellion.
A pack of dogs at Highland, Wa, re-
Gently attacked a flock Of sheep at night
and killed several of them, but on a
second attack the following night, the
sheep came off victorious, killing six or
eight of the dogs.
The steamer from San Francisco for
Hong Kong Monday took seventeen
Chinese lcpers who had been inmates
of the county pest house for several
months. They are shipped to China by
order of the supervisors.
An extraordinary story comes from
Lucca in Italy. A native of the place,
who had emigrated to America, sent a
remittance of 100 lire to the parish
priest for the benefit of his family. This
was followed by other sums until %, 900
lire, or about $1,000, had been sent.
The priest, however, kept the money,
and told the oma that her husband
wa dead. lie also wrote TO the man,
telling him that his family were ali
dead. The emigrant married again,
and, having prospered in business, re-
turned to his native place, where he
was accosted by a beggar boy who
proved to be his own son, and further
inquiry showed that the wife and two
children he had left behind were living
in great poverty. The priest endeav-
ored to compromise his crime by pay
ing back the money, but the authorities
would not allow it, and he was arrested.
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RThe Washington Capitol, a pap
er intensely Southern in its sympath-
les, yet has sense enough to see things
as they are, and tells the truth in a way
that should shame the Bourbon boob
les who try to manufacture public opin-
ion at the North. Here is a bit of good
honest sense, slightly southern in style:
We are forced to admit that the sec
tional antagenism of which we COM
plain is no altogether of Northern
birth, and that the Southern product is
quite as mean and far more aggressive
than its twin deformity of a colder
home; that all we suffer from financial
ly and morally came of the fools fight
the South made against the logic of
events; the frantic attack of brute force
on statistical results and the moral force
of progressive civilization. The South
was not only willing to grow rich Oh
unrequited toll, because that toll was
helpless, ignorant and degraded, but
actually legislated to perpetuate the
helpless ignorance and degradation up
on which it fattened.
The stupidity that began such q war
clings with fatal ~tenacity TO its authors.
They are now in the majority in Con-
gress, without the capacity to use the
power to their own advantage. In
their ~stupendous egotism they fail to
see that this majority, so far as the
North and Northwest are concerned,
does not originate in any sympathy
with them on the wal issues. The
strong instincts of the people, stimulat-
ed by mourning IN every household,
repudiate the authors of our national
calamities.
After all we have TO submit to the in
evitable. The Yankee brain is notlova-
BILE, but 1t is brain, and like blood, il
will tell. There is more intellectual
life, more books read and journals and
magazines taken in one New England
village than in all the South. These
much despised, narrow chested, slen-
der-legged, nasal specimens of humani-
ty, with their keen, grasping avaricc
and little meannesses, make our books,
give us our science, art and literature,
supply the material world with all its
great Inventions, cheat us TO our faces
when we deal with them, and whip us
when we appeal 10 arms.
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III There never was and never will
be safe opportunities of gaining wrong
full advantages in politics, without there
being q party ready to take advantage
of them. If federal elections are to be
deprived of all protection against
frauds, all parties will feel obliged to
resort to frauds at the ballot in order to
protect themselves against each other.
If the Democratic principle is to obtain,
the whole United States will become
simply a school in which to learn polit-
ical knavery. The human race needs
the restraints of law, and if in the exc
cution of law occasional injustice is
done, no sensible MAI would therefore
do away with the law and its restraints.
A fair and honest ballot is the founda-
ton of our system, and ifit is to be
thrown open to the ma%nipulations Of
wicked and reckless politicians, n long
step towards despoiism or anarchy has
been taken.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-06-06

A TERRIBLE AFFAm.-Last week, a
large number of children attending a
school at Newark, nca Island Pond,
were taken with fatal symptoms and
eleven have died. They had all drank
of the water off brook running neal
the school house in which the carcasses
of a horse and several sheep had been
thrown. The cause of the mortality is
said TO have been diphtheria aggravated
by drinking of the putrid water. The
bodies of the little victims showed
every symptom of blood poisoning, and
became putrid almost Immediately after
| death.
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OF VERMONT

- III OF ztuu1tOH, FT.
In Probate Court. held at Middlebury, in said
district, on the 18th day of May, A. d.. 1879.
Horace Dow, executor of the last will and
testament of Deborah Dow, late of Middleburv,
in said district, deceased, presents his excci
to"s account for examination and allowance, and
makes application for a decree of the estate OF
aid deceased.
Thereupon it is ordered that said account and said
Application be referred IN a session of said court to
be held at the Probate Office in Middlebury. in
said district on the sd day of June, A. II. 1879, at
luoclock In the forenoon, for hearing and decision
thereon. and 1t Is further ordered that notice be
given to all persons interested, by publication Of
notice of said application and this order thereon
three weeks successfully in the Middlebury Reg,
lister, n newspaper printed in said Middiebury.
previous to said time of and place. and if they
see cause object thereto.
By the Court.-Attest,
lyman L. KNAPP, Register.
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CTATE or

~ DIstfIct OF AddIspn, rs.
In Probate Court held at Middlebury, within
and for said district, ON the 10Th day Of MAY, A.
ID. 1879.
OF Gould ;. Brown, late of Middlebury, in said
district, deceased, makes application to said court
Tor license to sell all the real estate of said de
ceased. representing that said sale is NECESSARY
IN part for the payment of the debts of said de-
ceased and for the interest of all concerned in
said estate.
TLereupon, it is ordered by said court that said
application be referred to a session of this court.
to be held at the probate Office in Middlebury. on
the 10th day of June. A. d.. 1879, at ten O'Clock
A. M, and it is further ordered, that notice here.
OF be given " all persons Interested by publica
ton Of the came three weeks successfully IN
me niluuleDury Register. q newspaper published
at Middlebnry. previous to said time for hear.
ing, that they may appear at said time and place,
and II they see cause, object there to.
by the Court-Attest:
0 LYMAN Il. KNAPP, Register.
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Nor1cE

~ The undersigned. having been appointed by
the Hon. Probate Court for the District of Addf.
son, commissioners, TO receive, examine. and
adjust all claims and demands of all persons
against the estate Of Alonz0 Boardman, late OF Sal
exhibited in Offset thereto, hereby give notice that
we Will meet for the purposes aforesaid, at the
dwelling house of the late Alonzo Boartlman.
ON the 18Th day of June and 18th day of December.
next, from ten O'Clock A. n. until four
o'clock p. NJ, each of said days, and that six
months from the 18th day Of June, A. ID.
1873, Is the time limited by said Court for said
creditors to present their claims to us for ex.
animation and allowance.
Dated at Salisbury, this 2lst day OF NAV,
a. ID. 1873. NELSON.
NOSES ). SHELDON. Com'rs.
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