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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-04-24
Democratic Style in South Carolina

In the United States court the trial of
Grant and others tor violating the laws
in relation to the elective franchise,
begun last Friday. The defendants,
fifteen in number, are all Democrats.
The trial will consume several days.
Eight witnesses for the prosecution tes-
tilted that on the 18th of last October
the Republicans of BarHwell county,
the scene of the election riots two years
ago, attempted to hold a meeting in
support of the election o fRobert Smalls
to Congress; that when the meeting as
sembled four or five hundred Demo-
Gratis on horseback, in red shirts and
fully armed, galloped up, firing pistols.
and took possession of the meeting.
The chairman was thrown from the
stand, and the red shirt riders rode over
the benches on which many of the peo-
pie were sitting; that after a better or
der had been restored through the
Democratic county chairman, the Re-
publicans proposed to withdraw and
hold a meeting somewhere else, and the
Democrats would not allow them to do
this, but insisted upon their remaining
and dividing the time, which they were
compelled to do in order to prevent q
riot. The witnesses further testified
that OH account of the manner in which
the Democrats acted OH that occasion,
and the threats made afterward, the
Republicans held no other meeting dur
ing the campaign in the county. The
result was that a county with fully
2OOO Republican majority gave a Dem
ocratic majority of over 1000. Nearly
all of the witnesses have haan drivan
from home and dare not return.
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For the Register.
The Man wich dident bleeye IN
Drunken Voter. ,
BY FREDDIE BUNCH.

Once there was a man wich dident
bleeve in drinkin VOTER cos heed TUX
a noshen into his he'd that VOTER was
wecknin to the boldly, so he drank
logger beer oil the time and told every
boldly that was the way to be a senii-
marian. But one day he see q peece in
a paper witch said that logger was morn
ninety per sent VOTER. lie was nifty
tux down and sed heed oil along thought
that logger was to thin for the human
sistum, and he lade in a big kag of
wine. After heed drunk the wine
most oil up he told a kolege professor
he gesscd a mar which drank wine wud
live to be a hunderd and 90 years old.
But the kolege perfesser he told him
that wine was atty per sent waiter.
Then the man he felt ollie bad and he
asst the kolege professor if The dident
kno of a drink witch dident have no
wotter in it. Then the kolege profess
er he laft and he sed he gest absloot al
keholl wud fill the bill. The man he
sed heed get sum and fill his bill, so he
went to q pothekerry and bot a pint OF
absloot alkeholl and wen he got home
he drunk it oil up. Then he laid down
on his bed and kolled his wife and chill
dern round him and he sed, "mi wife
and Children line goln to die cos I've
drunk so much wotter oil mi life. Lurn
from my sad fait to eschu drunken wot-
ter" Then he dide and his widder and
orfuns felt drefie bad cos heed ben a
good huzband and father.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-04-24

The Southern Democrat is always in
favor of State rights, but the meaning
of that phrase it is peculiarly hard to
define. In one mood and under one set
of facts he explains il by saying: CAN
we want is to be let alone - when
another set of facts occupies his atten-
ton, to be let alone is Just what he does
not want. He wants the National Gov
eminent to protect him from the yellow
fever, from the cattle plague, from the
cotton worm, and he wants it to pre-
vent the colored people from leaving
him to cultivate his W cotton and rice
fields, just as twenty-five years ago he
wanted it to catch them and send them
back after they had run away. But
when the National Government pro-
poses to look after the election of its
own officers so as to nsu a fair vote
and a fair count, the State rights States
man is stricken with a frenzy of alarm
and wrath, and talks wildly about bay
onets and iron heels, and the subvcrsion
of the constitution, to which he sudden
ly displays an attachment hitherto I'M
suspected. State rights seem to be, as
nearly as we can make out, the right to
demand that the National Government
shall act the part of a guardian without
authority, that the States shall have
rights without duties, and the Nation
duties without rights. A Mobile paper,
which is shocked at the national cleo
tlon laws, a,ks Congress to enact that
no Mississippi steamboat shall carry
northward more than fifteen negroes at
a trip. That is its remedy for the ne
gro exodus; it is identical with Kear-
ney's plan to stop Chinese immigration.
1t would not interfere with State rights,
though it proposes to do for the States
what they ought to do for themselves,
that is to keep their useful population
at home. If the Southern statesmen
will give their attention to the problem
of making their States desirable places
of residence, they will not be troubled
by emigration. Give the negro secur-
ity of life and personal and political
freedom, and he cannot be enticed or
driven away. Continue to deny him
these advantages, and he will find his
way to a new home, though the steam
boats should refuse him a passage
Worcester Spy.
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IL is an ungracious task when all
orator-a fiery, fiorid orator like Voor-
hees-gets to throwing his arms about
and scattering fine language and stir
ring figures, and telling us we are in
the vortex of a whirlpool, and that the
hour of mortal peril to our institutions
is here and all that sort OF thi ng-to
bring him to book and ask him what
it's actually all about. But this In
diana statesman has plunged about so
wildly, and made such alarming asser-
tons about our mortal peril, that it
will not be amiss to state that what he
is beating the air and bowling himself
red in the face about is simply the
existence Oflaws which were made 10
prevent such q cheating in elections as
that by which Democrats carried New
York in 1868; laws which have never
worked Inconvenience or harm TO any
but criminals, and which have been
very effective in giving us an honest
ballot and fair elections. And here
are these howlers, who have profted
for years by the most barefaced cheat
ing and repeating and ballot-box stuff
ing, and who are IN possession of Con-
gress to-day only through frauds and
outrages of the most Infamous charac-
ter, trying TO fire themselves up with
this twaddle about everything we hold
dear being drawn down and dashed TO
pieces in the vortex of a whirlpool, be-
cause there's a law of Congress to pre-
vent their cheating at elections. Could
ANYTHING be absurd?-[N. Y.
Tribune.
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NERAL NOTES,

Lord Chelmsford has defeated the
Zulus and relieved the garrison at
Ekowc.
One hundred and sixty-three illicit
disiillers accepted amnesty, Tuesday,
In the United States Circuit court at
Nashville.
Last Tuesday John u. Pcarce, post
master of Bristol, II. l., was shot in the
heal Willie. in bed. II is suspected that
he attempted suicide.
The Cl,ildrcn's Aid Society of New
York city, aided by charitable gentle
met, is engaged in the noble work of
findlhg homes in the west for destitute
bo, uf that city.
Messrs. Fry Il Perry of Maine suffer
a loss of $4,000 10 S75, 900, by the
rise i'll The Connecticut river washing
a large quantity of unmarked lumber
over IA boom at Blood Sound,
The bailey Hotel and livery stable at
Ticonderoga were burned last Satur-
day night. The house was built in
place OF one burned four years aeo.
Loss about $4,000; insurance small.
Olney l.. Carpenter has obtained d
verdict for 81, 2S0 and an extra allow
ance against the Boston aud Albany
railroad for injuries received by being
hit by a mail bag at Chatham, N. Y, in
January last, which MANNED him for
life.
Rev. Geo. Bowers, for sixteen years
pastor OF the Congregational church al
Coonville, N. j., was arrested in Bos.
ton for alleged forgeries to the amount
of nearly $1,000 at Coonville. He was
accompanied TO Boston by a married
woman of a neighboring parish.
Ex-Governor John A. Dix died al
his residence in New York city las,
Monday night, after a painful illness
He was nearly eighty-one years old
His public career was long and varied
and his services during the war of the
rebellion were valuable and highly ap.
preciated.
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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-04-24

Young ladies in Moscow think moth
ing of shooting a fellow in polite soci-
ETY.. Three weeks ago a young noble
man named Bairaschewski was seated
at home in his salon, entertaining a few
intimate friends. In the midst of a
lively conversation the door suddenly
opened, and there entered a young lady
named Praskowia Katschka, about nine
teen years of age, handsome and pre-.
possessing, a member. moreover, of a
well-known and noble family In the
wilma district. Perfectly calm and
self-possessed, she gracefully saluted
the visitors present In the chamber.
Then, drawing a revolver from her
pocket, she deliberately shot Bairas-
chewski through the head, so that he
fell TO the ground dead instantaneous
ly. So rapidly and coolly was the deed
committed that all was over before
any n In the salon attempted to infer
pose. Praskowia made no attempt TO
escape, and permitted herself to be or
rested without the slightest resistance.
II Is said that two days before his ss-
sa~ssination Bairaschewski received a
threatening letter from the Executive
Committee of the Revolutionary Socie-
ty, which he handed TO the police.
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washington Notcs.

The convention of railway mail SUI
perintendents, before lis adjournment
on Saturday, adopted resolutions high
ly commencing the action of the post
masier-general in extending the regis
try system to third matter.
The first treasury warrant for the
payment of the arrears of pensions was
signed Tuesday, and IL is believed that
the back pensions can he paid as rapidly
as the accounts are made up at the rate
of 81 ,5O0,00 a month, unless unex-
pected appropriations should be here
after made by Congress-.
Captain Brown, commanding the
United States steamer Alaska, which
was sent TO Sitka to protect the white
residents against a threatened outbreak
on the part of the Indians, reached Vic
toria, V. J., last Thursday on his re-
turn. He reports to Secretary Thomp-
SOIL that he found at Sitka no outbreak
on the part of the Indians, and no indi-
cation of any. Secretary Thompson has
directed Captain Brown TO return to
Sitka and remain there until relieved
by the Jamestown. which will leave
San Francisco early in May for that
place.
The House Committee OH Coinage,
Weights and Measures Monday author
lied Representative Warner, of Ohio,
to report 10 the House for printing and
recommittal the bill which was EN-.
braced in the petition recently filed b,
him providing that subsidiary or frac-
tional coins shall contain their pro rata
of silver on the basis of that contained
in the legal-tender dollar, namely
421 1-2 grains, Troy. The measure fur
Their provides for the conversion oil
fractional coin into coin certificates o
$40 and upwards, and also for the issn
ance of fractional currency as low a,
25 cents.
Mr.. Wilson, the United States Consu
at Brussels, in a dispatch to the De
partment of State, reports the meeting
of the Belgian Society of Politica
Economists, at which the commercial
policy of the United States was freel,
dicussed. More or less desire wa
manifested TO return in Europe to th,
protective policy, under which the Uni
ted States now enjoyed so large a shar,
of prosperity. The significant problem
that formed the staple of discussion
was how to overcome the almos
boundless resources, agricultural an,
mineral, of the United States. Ii is no
deemed practicable to aflix a high tar
i'll on American products. .
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-04-24
Consumption Cured.

An old physician. retired from prac-
tioe, having had placed in his hands by
an East India missionary the formula
of a simple vegetable remedy for the
speedy and permanent III of con-
sumption, bronchitis, oatarrb, asthma,
and all throat and lung affections, also
a positive and radical cure for nervous
debility and all nervous complaints, af-l
ter having tested its wonderful curatiye'
powers in thousands of cases, has felt id
his duty to make il known to his suffer-
ing fellows. Actuated by this motive,l
and a desire to relieve human suffering
] will semi, free of charge, to all who|
il, 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, LAC Powers
Block, Rochester, n. Y. l2eow1.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-04-24

SrNnAY AFTERNOON $500 a year
Springfield, Mass.) for May opens will
The Rooms Width, a poem by Eliza.
beth Stuart Phelps. Then comes an ar.
ticle which calls for careful perusal and
is of special interest to thinkers, by
Pres. John Bascom of the University oil
Wisconsin, formerly of Williams Col.
lege. 1t is entitled The Kingdom OF
Heaven. Prof. Francis A. Walker OF
Yale College, superintendent of the
census, writes of The Present Standing
of Political Economy, a subject on
which he is n recognized authority. The
Humility of Positivism is by the writer
Of The Two Methods of Changing
Creeds in the March number. II. l..
Rogers has a second article OH the Nor
mons. Mrs. Helen Campbell writes of
the tenement house question as seen
from the standpoint of the Jerry McAu-
ley mission. Mrs. Julia McNair Wright
tells of some experiments in economy
by both cultured ladies and laboring
women as related by Miss Jane Hclp.
The deep religious tone of the character
of another of the great scientists, Sir
Isaac Newton, is shown in an account
of his life.
There are two short stories, one by
Julia G.. II. Dorr, and those who have
been reading Calvin the Sinner will be
interested to know that Cicily is mar
ried in this installment.
The shorter articles include an ac-
count of the mirage In Colorado by AL
fred Terry Bacon, of the origin of our
year and months as at present arranged,
A Night ON the "Bitter Lake." with
contributions from Rev. DIR. Tucker and
Mary Bradley.
The three departments, The Still
Hour, Literature, and Editors Table
conclude the number. In the last nam
ed we find Outstanding the Churches,
Some Abuses of Journalism, and the
Current Crazes.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-04-24

THE SOUTHERN TORNADO. The de-
tails of the storm effects in Walter
borough county, 5. c., recount a large
destruction of valuable property and
life. The work was accomplished in
less than two minutes. The tornado
was almost as violent in Alabama. 1t
swept cross the state from Otto
through Lee county, tearing down
houses and uprooting trees en- route,
and plunging into Georgia. A woman
was caught by the whirlwind while
running to her house and carried fifty
yards in the air. The cyclone appear
cd in a circular cloud that was seen
two miles of and came with a decp
humming sound. The loss is heavy,
the flooding rains washing the cropped
fields ont till they were as smooth as
the sidewalks. Railroad travel from
Atlanta toward Alabama is stopped on
two roads.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-04-24
Guilty Of wrong,

Some people have a fashion of con-
tusing excellent remedies with the large
mass of "patent medicines" and in this
they are guilty of wrong. There are
some advertised remedies fully worth
all that is asked for them, and one at
least We know of-Hop Bitters. The
writer has had OCCASION TO use the Bit
ters in just such a climate as we have
most of the year in Bay City, and has
found them TO be first-class and
reliable, doing all that is claimed for
them.-lTribune.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-04-24
No More Hard Times.

If you will stop spending so much OH
fine clothes, rich food and style, bur
good, healthy food, cheaper and better
clothing; get o real and substantial
things of life every way, and especially
stop the foolish habit of employing ex.
pensiye quack doctors or using so
much of the vile humbug medicine that
does you only harm, but put your trust
III That simple, pure remedy, Hop Bit
Lers, that cures always at q trining cost,
and yon will see good times and have
good health, See another column.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-04-24

EY-The recent attempt on the life of
the Gar has been followed by a ukase
appointing governors general for six of
the most populous districts of Russia
with unlimited despotic powers to ar
rest and punish all persons who may
be suspected or known to be guilty of
holding sentiments or performing acts
dangerous to the state. The secret and
formidable body of Nihilists will proba-
bly, retaliate with further assassinations,
aud all things look as if Russia was OH
the brink of a destructive revolution.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-04-24

IL The "dander" which the rebel
talk and doings in Congress has raised
to a considerable height throughout the
North is rapidly calming down under
the conviction that all the nation has to
contend with is set offools who would
have their own way ifthey could get 1t
by threatening talk, but who become
quiet as lambs when they see that they
are attracting a little attention. The
North will never be ruled by rebels.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-04-24

II There are some people who re-
fuse to take bills of the defunst Nation
al Bank of Poultncy, believing them to
BIO worthless. Such persons do not I'M.
derstand the workings of the national
bank system. The bills of the Poultney
bank are as good az they ever were,
and as good as those of any other ma
tional bank. Under the law establish
ing the national banks they are required
to purchase and deposit with the Uni
ted States treasurer United States bonds
to C u their circulation, and are al
lowed to issue bills only to the amount
Of ninety per cent. of the bonds so de-
posted. In the event of failure of n
national bank, the treasurer of the Uni
ted States redeems its bills, selling the
deposited bonds for that purpose, and
the value of the bonds being so much
in excess of the amount of bills issued,
there is no possible chance of loss to the
holders of the bills. Neither need they
suffer any inconvenience or trouble from
their possession, because the bills are
not obliged to be called in and redeemed
at once, but are just as good as ever to
circulate, and no doubt many of them
will remain in circulation for years be-
fore they ultimately find their way to
the treasury for redemption. This Bit
of experience should convipce even the
widest opponents of ''bank monopo-
lies" that no system of state banks can
compare in security and usefulness with
the national banks. Under the old sys-
tenn, when a bank failed, as a rule only
a small proportion of its bills could be
redeemed, the holders of the balance
often suffering a Ntal loss.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-04-24

-" The Southern negro is an unfor-
tunate being. If he attempts to vote as
he wants to, he is shot or the results OF
his vote are stolen from him. He is
oppressed and cheated and robbed bv
the white chivalry on every hand.
Misery and even starvation threaten all
that the shot gun has spared in some
sections. Under the stress of misfor-
tune and persecution he is attempting
to escape from the hell his " hite neigh
bors have made for him. lie is willing
to encounter further privations to get
into a land where he can be free and
enjoy he protection of the law. BIT
now their tormenters are becoming
alarmed at the exodus and propose to
lake forcible measure to keep them.
They propose to forbid steamboats, to
carry them, and to patrol the country
TO stop them. There is nothing more
wanting to show the North just the
position which the negro holds in the
South. He cannot exercise a single
N of the rights which the constitu-
tional amendments have conferred ND
on him, except such as his white neigh
bors choose to allow him. They have
taken away his right to life and the
pursuit of happiness. He has no rights
In the courts. He has no right to vote
nor to hold office. And as if that were
no enough, we now learn that he has
mo- even the right TO escape from the
section which treats him thus. One of
b dearest rights of man is the free
dom Of changing his home and of going
whithersoever he pleases to better his
condition. No nan and no authority
whatever In this nation can legally re-
strict that right. The negroes W
that right, and if they cannot exercise
1t, why In the DEVILS name not make
them slaves in name as they are in real
ity. An awful wrong is done this race
by the country which pretended to en-
franchise them, and yet does not pro-
tect them In the rights Thus conferred
upon them. But II the government is
too weak 10 protect them in their
homes, 1t should at least protect them
against the last manifestation of inso-
lent contempt for their rights, shown
in these attempts to prevent their emf
grafton. The negro is a citizen of
the United States. and as such he
should be protected. II necessary the
whole army Of the United States should
employed for that purpose, and if
is not enough to ensure his enjoy
of his rights, the whole North
should go into the work, as il went in-
the work Of freeing him. !
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-04-24

n Atkins of the Montpelier Argus
saw a statement of some PLAIN truths,
last week, TO which he does not care to
reply, SO he vents a little personal
abuse upon the editor of this paper,
just enough to keep up the character
of the Argus. We are very grateful
that the Argus should, as it pleasantly
says, "forbear and let the deaf cuss es-
ape the spanking that we might adj
minister to him." But still a "spank-
ing" of the Argus variety can hardly
hurt as much as the corporal thrashings
which Brother Atkins has occasionally
received in times past in return for some
of those same "spankings."
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Blackwood's Magazine for An,;, :,

Blackwood's Magazine for April, re-
published by the Leonard Scott Pub.
fishing Co., Al Barclay Street. New
York, opens with the first part of a
new story, from which we may infer
that 'John Caldigate" is drawing to a
close. In "lieata" the hero goes of to
seek his fortune, and he seems likely
10 have a lively time with tho mysteri.
GUS damsel who has undertaken TO show
him the curiosities of a Mexican forest,
'My Latest Experience" describes the
treatment or ''cure" prescribed at tLe
Baths of Enghien. not far from Paris.
"Hamlet" is a long dissertation ON the
Hamlet of Shakespeare and that of MIR.
Irving. The article on Contemporary
Literature this month explains the DIFF
iculties encountered in writing biogra-
phies, adding brief notices of s,me of
the latest of such works. The conclud-
ing article of an unusually good number
considers "The Character and Import
Of the present Depression of Trade re-
garded from a Commercial and Nation
ap'' as well as a political point of view.
Price, ~ a year for any one, or only
BIO for all, and the postage is prepaid
by the publishers.