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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-09-12
Local News.
Beautiful weather.

Barrett. Of the class of 'S2, has left
this college to enter Dartmouth.
John Chapman is teaching n select
school in Bridport this fall.
"A large number went from here to
the Pittsburgh celebration yesterday.
%. G. Mcintyre, of the class of 80,
has left his eia3 here and returned to
Dartmouth.
The track upon the fair ground has
been dragged and put in order for the
fair next week.
e. p. Holton is doing some nice
work in engraving letters, in a'Iargc
variety of styles.
The Freshman class thus far matches
out to the number of one dozen, with
further dim prospects.
Dawson, who left the class of 20
on account of i'll health, Is back in col
lege this fall, entering 80.
&C. eB. Moody is stopping in town
a few days. having completed his en-
gagement at Cambridge.
Stewards new block is fast recciv-
ing the finishing touches, and will soon
be ready for occupancy.
We wait four or five copies Of
the Register of date Aug. 20, for which
payment will be made.
Stories of slaughtered cartridges
are now circulating, DIR. Plumley as
usual contributing good share.
~
Brew stdfi 4 60. have received a
new light of glass for their store front,
to replace the one recently broken.
1t took the school children a small
fraction ola second to read the sign
'No school to-day" last Monday morn.
ing.
Rev. Geo. f. Hall, of Vergcnnes,
will deliver the annual address at Adj
olson County Fair, Thursday, the 18th,
at p. Nj.
Where are the guardians of the
cause of temperance? On Thursday
the drunkards seemed to be on carni-
val. We only ask for information. !,
/y-F. f. Whipplc, of the class of 10,
is quite sick with diphtheria. lie was
New York this fall.
Rev. j. Il. Franklin, of st. Ste,
phen's church, will preach at East Mid
dlebury next Sunday afternoon at
halfpast three O'Clock.
Our sporting men arc speeding
their horses on Hammond's track, pre-
paratory to surprising the-patiyes at
the fair pcxt vsskT'QH6
Mr.. C.'H. Kirby and family, OF
st. Louis, who have been boarding at
w. G. Langworthy's this season, re-
turned home on Wednesday.
On Wednesday Fletcher Chapman
and Wallace Dewey went to Port Hen
ry to play with the band of that plac,
at the Pittsburgh celebration yester-
day.
WIN. Danyew's promising young
colt got loose in his stall the other nigh
and stuffed himself with oats, and i
now suffering for his greediness, but i'm
proving.
The Good Tempiars are talking O
giving an ice cream sociable in th,
north park some evening during In,
fair, OF which due notice will be givei
by small bills.
/<The wife of w. w. Thomas is awaN
./dp the mountains, endeavoring TO es
cape that dreadful malady, hay fever
and will probably not return until tn
early frosts appear.
-Pickerel 9shhe Htbe creek seem
to be qulfet I ebfessfuU sport nova
days. Charles Chapman, G. NJ. Good
nough and others report captures o
considerable size.
There was social shop" at Negus
hall on wednesday evening, a larg
company being present and all havin,
good time. There was an orcheslr
OF five pieces 10 attendance.
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Making. % per cent.
Said per cent. to be cast upon the original
amount of the premium notes, without reference
To any payments. and to be paid to the treasurer
Of said company at his Office in Montpelier, ON or
before the 18th day of October, 1879.
In October. 1878, our plan of insuring
changed from the advance pay to the annual
assessment plan. This change was made to meet
the demand of the times, growing out of the ex-
IRENE scarcity of money and the utter impossi-
bility of iorecasting, even approximately, our
aggregate losses. Our members will be notified
either by letter, or by our agents. of the exact
amount of their assessment and we ask all our
policy holders to wait until notified before max
ing any payments.
The policies on which twenty per cent. of the
premium note mas been paid in advance, have TO
their credit amount In excess of this assess
ment. and will not be called ON to pay under this
assessment.
Those policies are nearly all included in the
following numbers: from number g,i56 TO
number l0l.570.
by order of directors,
GEORGE w. LESLIE, Treasurer.
Montpelier, VT, August ~. 1870. 2iw3
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A card

To all who are suffering from the errors and in.
discretions Of youth, nervous weakness, early dc
cay, loss OF manhood, ETC., will send recipe
that will cure you. FREE OF CHARGE. This
great remedy was discovered by a missionary in
South America. Send selfaddressed envelope
10 the REV. JOSEPH t. INMAS, Station d, New
York CITY.
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flihhltbrrg Rrgistrt
FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER ~, 1879.

The attention of advertisers is called 10 the fact
that the REGISTER Is the leading local newspaper
In Addison County and has a larger circulation
n the county than any other two papers. SIS
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FARMERS MUTUAL
Fire Insurance Company.
NOTICE OF ASSESSMENTS.

NOTICE OF ASSESSMENTS.
The members of the Farmers Mutual Fire In
surance Company insured in Farmers Glass are
hereby notified that the following assessments
have been made 10y the Directors of SAID Com
pany on all notes in force in said class on the fol
lowing DAYS, TO wit.
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New Insolvency Blanks
NOW READY,
AT THE
Free Press Office.

No. !. Creditors Petition-Orde Notice, etc.
2. Debtors Petition.
.. Schedule of Creditors.
4. Schedule of Property.
3. Order Of Notice 10 Credtors-Inv olun
tary.
@. Order OF Notice 10 Crcditors-V oluntary
Z. Registers Return-Involuntary.
4. Registers heturn-Noluntary.
.. Warrant 10 Messenger.
10. Order To sell Perishable Property
ii. Adjudication ON Insolvency ON Debtors
Petition.
" L.. Adjudication of Insolvency on Creditors
Petition.
1S-1a. Proof OF Debt.
H-l5. Corporation Creditors Oath.
" ~. Vote.
" II. List of Debts Proved.
" IL. Notice to Assigne OF Appointment.
" ~. Assignee's Bond
20. Assignment by the Judge.
a. Order for I'd and Sal Meetings
~ Debtors Oath.
"a. Order of Allowance and Discharge of
Assignee.
" 2S Order Of Dividend
I" o. Schedule OF Debts and dividends.
" q. Debtors Discharge.
Orders by Mail or Telegraph promptly
filed.
The Free Press Association,
Burlington.
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ALL GOODS s0LD STRICTLY FOR
CASH,


Rsmember The place. Dyer = Block. south end OF
the bridge.
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lIcmenway's, 80 inches; Latimer's, 50
inches. Breech leaders, Wright's, 43
inches; Ilolley's, As inches; Tracy's,
As inches; IIammond's, SO inches
Aggregate difference, 10 inches in favor
of the muzzle leaders. AT the five
hundred Yards range two targets were
set up, with bulls eyes twenty-five
inches in diameter, one target for each
of the two teams. The members had
fifteen shots each, as before. Some of
the shooting was very fine. Judd
Wright made fourteen bulls eyes in his
fifteen shots. Ilolley missed the bulls
eye but twice. Mr.. IIolton on the other
side made twelve bulls eyes. But it
was early evident that the muzzle
leaders were falling behind badly.
Geo. Hammond put two bulls eyes
into the wrong target which took six
feet from the score of his side, and on
the other side one marksman missed
the target once, reducing their score
three feet. Summing up, the shots of
the muzzle leaders aggregated about
seventy feet from the center; those of
The breech leaders, forty-six feet. The
owners of the muzzle leaders are not
exactly satisfied with this result and
want TO try again. They are magnani-
mously willing to count Mr.. Hammond's
two miss shots as adding thirty feet
each to the aggregate score of his side,
that being about the distance between
tho targets, but the other side 'don't
/ Nee it,
\ \Thc shooting took place from the old
Vehement binding at the corner of the
roads beyond IIammond's, where
benches and stands had been fitted up
for the marksmen. The day was good
one, with a steady wind, aud The shoot
ing ought TO be fair test of the rcspec-
live capacities of the two classes of
rifles. Mr.. Hammond furnished
lunch for all who desired, aud in other
ways played the liberal host. There
were several interested spectators pres
sent to see the contest.
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These stoves combine many new and excsllent
features. and are acknowledged to be the lest
stoves made Besides being the best. they are also
the cheapest No one should fail 10 cali in and
see the Silver Sheen, The Paris Range. and the
Paris Royal Range.
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The Electric Light in Cleveland

A special to the Cincinnati Enquirer,
April 26, says: Monumental Square,
Cleveland, was lighted by electricity for
the first time tonight, and the entire in
closure was flooded with brilliant il
Elimination, which made the gas-lamps
appear very sickly by comparison. The
finest print could be read any where in
the square, and the light furnished was
more than double in power that of the
gas, besides affording much clearer
light. A Brush machine, No. Z, re-
curing 12-horse power engine, was
used. The cost of fuel to run this is 10
cents an hour. There are IL lights in
the square, which is 10 acres in extent,
each light is Is feet from the ground, is
equal to 1000 candles, and furnishes q
light equal to 65 gas-burners. The use
of porcelain shades makes only As per
cent. of the light available, and this soft
and beautiful. Each burner costs one
cent an hour for carbons. The total ex-
pense of lighting the square will be less
than $4,000 year, which effects a con-
siderable saving over gas, besides af-
fording far better light. The test to.
night exceeded the most sanguine ex-
pectations, and Cleveland is proud of
being the first city to adopt the electric
light. On Tuesday evening the event
will be duly celebrated by a public
lighting, with music, and possibly
speeches. An effort is to be made to
have the Viaduct and principal business,
streets lighted by the new light, so great
is its success deemed. The lighting to-
night is the first public lighting that has
occurred in the United States, and the
citizens who have seen the electric light
abroad say that this light far surpasses
that of London or Paris.
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The Return from Leadville.

"Why is it," asks q correspondent,
L" that if Leadville is as hard q plsce q
you describe it, we never see aEy Of To
people who go there come backw Oh,
well, that is easily enough explained.
When young man sets out for Lad.
vile he arrays himself conspicuousJ
for day or two prior to his departure,
then he has the fact of his going nd
the train he will take announced in -
village paper, and at the sppointsa
time he goes rafting down to the dsrd
in an open carriage two hours befcs
train time, and swaggers up and down
the platform while he waits, and - ID
train goes off he leans out Of the wlF
dow and yells q personal good-by Y
every body on the platform. But vnn !.
he comes back he times his return 90 J
to strike his native town by a back roae'
after dark, then he sneaks home throaG
the alleys, climbs over the back ienos
taps at the kitchen window and Des5
under his breath, to be let in, and va
he gets in he stays in bed three OF 10Y 4
days, while his new clothes are bsi15
made and the doctor is trying to co..
the blisters on his feet. Oh, its easgp
explain why we never see them oon
back; but they do come back au~
same.-HawkeVe. Bq4
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Strange Freak of a Dove.

For more than a week beautiful
white dove Of the tumbler variety has
followed Conductor Smiths freight.
train On the Old Colony Railroad daily
from Walpole to certain spot in Med.
field, Mass, where it alights on par
hcular barn, reappearing the next day
at the same place in Walpole. During
part of the way the dove flies just back
of the cab, under the pillar of smoke,
and within few feet of the engineer,
and part of the way beside the en-
gineer's window and within two feet of
his hand as he stretches it toward her.
Occasionally she falls back to the rear of
the train. as If surveying it, but only to
resume her wonted place q moment
later. The engineer has tried several
times to run away from the beautiful
bird by putting on extra steam, but to
no purpose. When the train passes un-
der bridge the dove mounts gracefully
above it, tumbling Immediately to its
place again on the other side.-Boston
Advertiser.
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Personal Appearance of St
Paul.

M. Mezieres, in welcoming M. Renan
at the Academy, rallied him on the con-
fidence with which he described St.
Paul as short, with small, bald head,
pale face, thick beard, aquiline nose and
piercing eyes, with black eyebrows
meeting over the nose. Nobody"
satirically remarked M. Mezieres, "had
known St. Paul so intimately, and Mr..
Scorer must be right in alleging that
you have seen him." The Debqts to day
publishes a letter addressed to M.
Mezieres by M. Renan, who cites the
authorities for his portraits, viz the
"Acts of Thecia," written by an Asiatic
priest 100 years after the apostles
death, and evidently based on tradition;
passage in the dialogue, "Philopatris-
Nicephore." St. Paul's own words in
seventeen passages in Corinthians and
one in Galatians. After suggesting that
the thorn in the flesh was rheumatism,
NJ. Renan disclaims any idea of carica-
ture, says he shall have need of inter-
cession of saints, and quotes the remark
of Capuchin friar, who, delighted with
his article on St. Francis, would say, on
hearing him blamed: "Oh, no doubt;
but he has spoken well of Francis of
Assist, and St. Francis of Assist will
save him." "There," adds M. Renan,
sis powerful intercession. I hope St.
Paul will add his in consideration of the
trouble l have taken not to represent
him as handsome man, but to depict
him as one of the greatest and most ex-
traordinary minds that ever existed"
The texts relied upon by M. Renan are
Second Corinthians, i. and 9; x. 1, 2
and 10; xi. 6 and 50; xii. 5, 7, 9 and
10, and Galatians iv. Is and 14.-Paris
Cor. London Times.
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as to prevent the washing out. The
cost of these drains is trifing. The Dig
ging should not exceed 12a cents per
rod and the other expenses are very lit
tie. l generally count 20 cents per rod
for all expenses. Now, then, SIS will
put in 25 rods of drain that will pay
for itself tuice ouer the first crop. Just
consider what comfort it would be to
cultivate that nice 10-acre lot, etc., etc.,
by blowing across those nasty, wet,
spouty sloughs, and raising your best
corn, etc., on this very land that now
mars the beauty of your field. Within
sight of the window am writing at, is
one Of those sloughs have drained in
this manner; all last season l could pillow
a crop and tend it the same as any
other part of the field, whilst above my
fence on my neighbours land, acres and
acres are lost to all useful purposes for
want of about $40 worth of drainage
and not only lost but are nursing beds
for foul odors that are both an injury to
him and his neighbors.
Another point in favor of this kind of
drainage is that the farmer can do ii all
himself without any outlay of thing, etc.
1t took years to get my neighbors into
the notion of understanding, but after
trying little they are now going into
it. Now don't want it to be under
stood that l am opposed to tile draining
on scientific principles. l am well
aware how greatly it improves the land
and stimulates growth, but 1 only ad-
vance those few crude ideas to men who
like myself have to comence with small
means, work their way through life and
make the most of the circumstances that
surround them.
Were the legislature to offer, by way
of a bonus, to reduce the taxes on all
land that was underdrained in this man
ner 10 per cent. of the amount expend-
ed each year, it would be a great induce
ment for men to improve their farms.
But it is hopeless to look for legislation
in favor of agriculture till farmers have
independence enough to send men of
their own class to represent them.
Samuel Sin',ett, IN the Kansas Farmer.
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An Enterprising Wido VI

A gentleman recently returned nV'
Nebraska makes an interesting re'a'
ence to the widow of Postmaster. 6sna'
al Alex. w. Randall. When the W.
ernor died, some years ago, be lsit y !,
widow property which she disposea !. :
for S15, 900. The most Of this sns =
vested, in company with 8 New IL
man, in a herd of cattle in Neors'' !.
Believing, in q few months, sna, q =
was likely to lose her investment =. !,
Randall went from Elmira to Neorss.s
sought out her partner, assuming = ].
debtedness of $l2, 900, and took eu, =.
charge Of the business herself, anu =
ever since managed it, and with 80 =.
ed success. For several years inc - y
Of stock have reached $1,000 real
the herd is as large again % y -
when she assumed the mansgen, 81
Mrs. Randall declares herself dellsa !,
with the situation, and, though aons !; !
q section of the State known ~, !.
large number of rough people, sac ;. :.
received only the most kind'! 'D'
spectful treatment.
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The Specter of Pestilence.

1t is of the very highest Importance
that whatever it is possible and legal to
do for the prevention Ct new yellow
fever epidemic this summer should bt
done at once and thoroughly. We arc
rapidly approaching the season whel
the germs of the disease will begin t.
fructify, and New Orleans has kept
itself during the winter and spring ii
just the condition to warm them into
life at the fit time, and so to multiply
them that there will be enough to spread
the pestilence over the whole land.
Yellow fever made its appearance
early in the month on the bark Spring
stein, bound for Baltimore from Ri,
Janeiro, and the second mate died CT
the disease, while all the crew were
taken down with it. The season has
not been healthy one in Brazil or any.
where throughout South America; and
in the West Indies yellow fever is as
certain to return each year as the hot
weather to come. We shall need the
most vigilant quarantine at all our ports
visited by vessels from the tropics to in.
sure the safety of the people, and every
city must at once take measures to
cleanse its streets and otherwise i'm
prove its sanitary condition.
For two years there has been through
out all the world an exceptional preva
lency of plaques and famines, and the
period of their frequency does not seem
TO have passed. Five years ago DIR.
John C. Peters of this city, who has
made specially of the study of the
history of epidemics. predicted that sin
1879 we may expect an outbreak of the
disease such as there was in 1888,
1919, 1S29-31, 1S41-43, 1886, and
1865-67-73." Such forecast, even
though it be made by so competent an
authority as DR.. Peters, may reasona-
bly, be received with some distrust; but
the periodicity Of these pestilences is 9
well established fact; and certainly the
present tendency seems to be the spread
of epidemic diseases.
During last year perhaps 100000
people starved to death in China; the
plague appeared in Russia; the yellow
fever devastated the Mississippi Valley
of the United States; and frightful
epidemic of smallpox broke out in the
province of Ceara, in Brazil. 1t is re-
ported, though such figures can not be
relied upon, that of the 100000 inhab-
itants of Ceara, only 100000 are now
left; and those remaining are still prey
to one of the most virulent smallpox
pestilences on record. The seeds OF
maladies which easily may be spread
through great communities are, there
fore, now abroad, and every State and
every city. especially those on the sea.
board, will need to exercise the strict
est vigilance against them.-New York
Sam
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Planting Trees-HOW a Town
May Be Improved.

About ~ years ago, a gentleman en-
gagged in business in New York Cit,
purchased farm il the interior of tina,
State, and set about improving it in &C
cordance with his own tastes and no.
tons. The farmers about him at first
laughed in their sleeves at his attempts
at :" book farming" and predicted Ger.
tain failure as the result Of his expert.
ments. Being an admirer of the beau.
tiful, his first move was to surround his
place with shade trees, and to give or
ders for their careful attention and cul.
ture. He next employed the columns
OF local paper to prove to his neigh
bors the advantages of trees, but only
for shade and shelter, but also as a
means OF protection against storms. A
circular was printed and distributed,
setting forth the matter more fully, and
giving directions as to what varieties to
plant, and how to care for them after
being set. Meetings were called and the
subject discussed, until at last the neigh
borhood caught the spirit of progress,
and tree planting mania set in. The
highways were adorned for miles, and
yards heretofore bare of shade were now
adorned with bountiful supply. The
good influence of that mans example
spread, until the leading roads in the
whole town were converted into avenues
OF shade, and an unattractive village
transformed at length into one of the
most lovely towns in Central New York.
A short time since the place was visited
by gentleman from this city-a son of
the party who first led the way in tree
planting-and it was with difficulty that
he recognized the spot. The old farm
and the neighbors' farms and the village
streets were adorned with graceful elms
and naples from 20 to 80 feet in height.
Strangers had heard of the place, and,
attracted by its beauty, had chosen it
for their home, and fine residences now
graced the shady avenues. The old
farm which his father had purchased for
sl1 900, has been since resold for 800
200, and like advance in property had
taken place throughout the town. This
gentleman "builded better than he
knew" We doubt not whether, with
Ill his farsightedness, he ever expected
such results as have followed from his
efforts. st. Paul Pioneer Press.
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A LADY of Portland, Me. has canary
bird that will faint away and fall over
as gracefully as any lady. The bird is
very fine singer, but Qike some of the
fair sex) when the least bit frightened
will stop singing and fall from its perch
in faint of the most approved sort. 1t
remains in an apparently unconscious
condition for some 10 or - minutes,
then rouses up and commences to war
BILE as though nothing had occurred.
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fullness without pain; Thursday ear felt
as well as ever; Friday morning ear
ache of the most severe kind; Sunday
evening death from acute meningitis!
Does the medical man ever encounter
any thing more dreadful than this?
And yet in the beginning there was not
even so much as an earache! Every
earache should receive early and skill
full attention. Life or function may be
lost by negligence or delay.-Dr. T. s.
Proat, IN Hospital Gazette.
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The Cincinnati Gazette tells of a
young woman of Tannerville, Ca, who
married an elderly widower, but soon
found herself in love with his son. The
matter was fully discussed, and it was
decided that the old man should pro-
cure a divorce and let his wife marry
his son. This was accomplished with
the aid OF a sympathizing court. Since
then the aged gentleman has married
his ex wife's mother, and the entire
family is happy.