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The Dead. House Of Munich.

There is law in Munich dating from
time anterior to the Kings, and insti-
tuted by Count who had an intense
horror Of being buried alive, which re-
quires that every person who dies shall
be placed in house for the dead, and
there remain for three days previous to
burial. To ring on one Of the fingers
of the dead wire is fastened leading 10
. bell SO that any movement of the hand
arouses the attendant. In the past hum
dred years two or three cases Of waking
in the house have occurred. During
the cholera epidemic in 1866, when
the house was always fill, lady one
night awoke from her sleep and rushed
out into the street, frightening so terri
ribly coachman, who believed her to
be ghost, that he died at once. The
lady recovered and the coachman
took her place on the bier in the house
Of the dead.
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RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

Tho University of Sydney, New
South Wales, has had . bequest of
$4,000.
The Reformed Episcopal Church
has determined for the present not to
60 into the foreign missionary bust
ness.
The Boston Aldermen have or
dered thorough examination of the
sanitary condition of the, school houses
in that city.
Bishop Bedell is of opinion that if
ministers would only speak the truth
in funeral sermons the demand for such
discourses would be rapidly dimin-
ished.
Among the one hundred different
sects and denominations represented in
New Zealand are "The Church of the
Future" with seven members, and
1.-THE Church of God" with seven
teen.
Extremists in the Reformed Epis-
copal church hold that the Office of
Bishop should be limited to ten years,
after which. if not reelected, each
Bishop should return to the ranks of
the clergy.
"A row over the COMMUNICATING
question has broken out in q church at
Saco, Me-, where the pastor refuses to
of1ciate unless wine can be used, and q
majority of the congregation has voted
against its use.
"A colored Baptist Church at Au-
gusta, Ga, has split on the color line,
fho h1o obo 1oo1o ~ a. That thu ,o,,ln<<oo.
put on too many airs, and the mulattoes
that the blacks did not treat them with
due consideration.
An anonymous donor has offered
the sum of $40. 900 as the nucleus of an
endowment fund for a new bishopric in
North China. The Archbishop of Can!
terbury has accepted the offer and APP
proved the proposed new see.
The revision of the New Testament
is now substantially completed, and the
new version will probably be published
during the coming summer. One OF
the peculiarities of the revised text is
the arrangement by paragraphs in &C
cordanoe with the sense, instead of the
division into chapters and verses of
King James edition of the Bible.
Bishop Lay, of Easton, Nd. thinks
that sit is grave question whether
there can be any religion without a Sc
we're morality. Conversion, experiences,
rejoidngs yes, apostolic ministries,
laying on of hands, holy sacraments,' -
he SAYS, "are little worth unless they
make us to keep our bodies clean, to
tell the truth, to pay our debts and to
show mercy to the poor.'
Manchester, England, with popu.
lation of 500, 900, has $4,000 adults that
can neither read nor write. The city
is straining every nerve to better this
unhappy condition of things. Attend.
ance Of children on the public schools
is compulsory. Every child under thir.
teen years of age has a seat provided
for it in some neighboring school. A
large number of evening classes have
been opened by the School Board, ane
are largely patronized by the children
of the factory operatives.
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How to Breathe.

The three most common causes of ILL.,
filed lungs. in children and in young
ladies, are stiffness, silence and stays.
First, stiffness: sedentary life, and
want of exercise. A girl is kept for
hours sitting on q bench writing or
reading, to do which she must lean for
ward; and if her teacher cruelty at
tempts to make her sit upright, and
thereby keep the spine in an attitude
for which Nature did not intend it, she
is doing her best to bring on that dis
ease SO fearfully common in girls
schools, lateral curvature of the spine.
But practically the girl will stoop for
ward. And what happens? The lower
ribs are pressed into the body, thereby
displacing more or less something in
side. The diaphragm in the meantime,
which is the very bellows of the lungs,
remains loose; the lungs are never
properly filed or emptied; and an ex-
cess of carbonic acid accumulates at
the bottom of them. What followsP
Frequent signing to get rid of it; heavi-
ness Of head; depression of the whole
nervous system under the influence of
the poison of the lungs; and when the
poor child gets up from her weary work,
what; is the first thing she probably
does: She lifts up her chest, stretches,
yawns and breathes deeply-Nature's
voice, Natures instructive cure-which
is probably regarded as ungraceful.
You may as well try to cure lame
horse by galloping him as to cure dis
eased lung by working it. But where
the breathing organs are of average
health, let it be said, once and for all,
that children and young people cannot
make too much noise. The parents
who cannot bear the noise of their chill
dren have no right to have brought
them into the world. The school
mistress who enforces silence on her
pupils is committing unintentiOnally,
no doubt, but still committing-an
offense against reason and common
sense. Every shout, every burst of
laughter, every song-nay, in the case
of infants, as psychologists well know,
every moderate fit Of crying-conduces
to health, by rapidly filing and empty
ing the lungs, and changing the blood
more rapidly from black to red. that is,
from death to life.
II seems to me that few centuries
hence, when mankind has learnt to fear
God more, and therefore to obey more
strictly those laws of Nature and Of
science which are the will Of God-it
seems to me, say, that in those days
the fashion Of tight lacing will Be
looked back upon a. contemplate
and barbarous superstition, denoting .
very low level Of civilization In The
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Defensive Power Of the Eve.

In the early part of the present CEN
fury boy, about seven years old, had
q very narrow escape from being de-
voured by q wolf. That boy lived to
become minister of the gospel, and
ultimately Bishop. In mature life lie
told the story of his encounter with the
wolf, as follows:
"My father lived in the Province of
Canada. when the country was new and
wolves were numerous. One summer
afternoon had gone to the fields with
q man who was drawing rails with q
yoke of oxen. He set me to watch
gap in the fence, to keep cattle out of
field of growing corn. While he was
gone with load of rails sat down by
the side of large stump, at the edge
of the woods, and had nearly fallen
asleep, when heard something walk
ing near me in the leaves. It was q
soft, cautious, creeping step, and not
that of cattle breaking the brush under
their hoofs. l sprang to my feet, and.
turning round, perceived very large
wolf close beside the log which had
been felled from the very stump where
l was standing. The wolf was looking
directly at me, evidently intending to
spring upon me before should discover
him. was nearly half a mile from
home, and most of the way was through
the woods. The man drawing the rails
was nearly as far away. I knew that
an attempt to run could not enable me
to escape, SO sought deliverance in
the following manner:
"A few days before my father had
given me little book, which contained
an account of Hottentot, who. in an
encounter with q lion, had faced the
ravenOus beast and looked steadily in
his eye, until the lion turned and left
him. at once thought that if I looked
the wolf steadily in the eye l should be
safe. I therefore placed my hands
upon the stump that was before me.
and fixed piercing gaze upon the
fierce, flashing eyes of my antagonist,
and there we stood.
1.-The wolf, however, soon sprang
upon the log, with his head toward me.
advancing several slow steps. fully
believed that if did not turn my eye
from his would be safe.
"The struggle was an awful one.
For half an hour we stood face to face,
| nuu eye W CyCs Will Ouly dUOuC SlA A0ct
to separate us. The bright sun shone
in upon us, with its dazzling light on
the one side, and the dark, dense, deep
wilderness on the other side. l saw no
living object but my deadly foe, and
heard no sound but the faint and dis
tant reverberations of the oxman's care.
less voice. But distinctly heard his
voice in turning round his oxen. after
unloading his rails. 1 had filth, and
hoped for the man with his moping
oxen to arrive; but oh, how long! Sus-
pense was agony. Yet, knowing that
to waver was death. 1 nerved myself up
to an unflinching and defiant gaze at
the beast, which stood thirsting for nv
blood, and could have killed me in
moment. Here was calm though child
like intelligence confronting brute force.
The former conquered, for it held out
till the oxman came up, and the wolf
ran away.
1.-The large and flourishing town of
Coburg, Canada, now stands on the very
spot where this scene occurred."--
Golden Days.
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Foreign Intelligence.

ACCORDING to Vienna telegram of
the 9TH the Roumanians were incensed b.
cause the American Minister at Vienna had
prepared treaty with that country and sent
It to Bucharest for signature. II was stated
that they considered this an unceremonious
method Of negotiating, and threatened to
pigeon-hole the document until properly
accredited representative Of the United
States was sent to their Capital.
On the 5th Prince Jerome Napoleon
Published = letteA stating that the DEGREES Of
the Government against unauthorized religi-
ous societies were not persecution, but, on
the contrary. were only return 70 The jndis-
penaabls rule OF public lev.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-04-15

When Mormon family hangs out
its washing there are general, fifteen
petticoats to every shirt upon the line,
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The East.


of the United States navy, died in Boston. He
was seventy-four years old.
HE report that q Cuban filibuster-
Ing expedition had been fitted out in the
Chesapeake is declared to be a canard.
The United States four-per-cents sold
In New York on the 5th at 1919. This is the
highest price yet reached.
On the morning of the 9Th a Philadel-
phia burglar hit servant girl, named Ella
Duffy, with Jimmy, and in return received q
gallon or two Of boiling water in his face. He
ran screaming with pain, and the valiant
maiden tainted away.
On the 9Th Philadelphia boy, who
was bitten by spitz dog eighteen months
ago, was reported to be dying from the effects
Of hydrophobia.
AT dinner party recently given by
John Jacob Aston and wife to President and
Mrs. Hayes, in New York, the viands were
served upon golden dishes worth SIS, 900.
SAWYER, the electric light man, and
DR.. Theophilus Steele, boarding with their
wives in . fashionable New York boarding
house, had . street fight on the evening of the
9th, the upshot Of which was the shooting of
DR.. Steele in the bridge of the nose and the
arrest OF Mr.. Sawyer upon the charge of as
sault with intent to commit murder. The
trouble arose in the first instance between the
wives Of these gentlemen, and they sstook 1t
up" with the result stated.
A CUBAN patriot in New York says
that, out Of regard for the feelings Of the
American Government, no more expeditions
win be fitted out in this country to help the
revolutionists.
A REPORT from the Washington Post
Of the 9Th that Nr. Tildea he'd, on the
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-04-15
From Washington.

ANNOUNCEMENT was made on the 5th
that the United States Supreme Court would
adjourn on the 10th of May, and that no ar
guments would be heard after the 10th of
April.
FROM July l to December 81, 1879,
the Government revenue receipts from spirits
distilled from materials other than apples,
peaches or grapes, were $2S, 767, rs, against
s24645, 100 during the same time in 1878.
The President approved the Star
Mail Route Deficiency bill on the It'll.
THE President has nominated William
A. Newell, of New York, to be Governor of
Washington Territory
IGNATIUs DoNNELLY, the contestant
In the Donnelly Washburn contested-election
case, has written letter to the Comm It . on
Elections of the National House of Represent.
atives, asking that the allegation that friend
OF his wrote an anonymous letter to Mr..
Springer, of Illinois, making a corrupt propo-
sition, be fully investigated.
The Military Committee of the lower
house OF Congress has appointed sub-com-
mittee, consisting of Messrs. Sparks, johnson
and Brown. to inquire into the alleged out
rage upon Cadet Whitaker, at West Point
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advice Of his physicians, concluded to aban-
don the Presidential canvass, created some
thing Of sensation ct New York, bat the re-
port was declared on the 9th to be without
foundation. To an intimate friend who
called on him Mr.. Tilden declared that he
had not been examined by any doctor, that
there had not been any conference between
him and his political associates, and that he
had not said to any one that he was not .
candidate.
DURING the night of the 9Th colored
cadet at West Point was attacked, in the bar
racks, by three masked men, bound hand and
foot, and mutilated about the ears. It was
believed the outrage was perpetrated by class
mates of the victim. The matter was being
Investigated.
THE judgment in the case of Chastine
Cox, the murderer of Mrs. Hull, has been
affirmed by the New York Court Of Appeals.
A NEW YORK dispatch of the 9TH
says gold coins, followed out and filed with
base metal, were in circulation in that city.
On the 9TH the Connecticut State Re-
publican Convention met At New Haven and
elected delegates to the Chicago Convention.
The delegation was said to be divided be-
tween Blaine. Edm unds and Washburne.
IT was reported ON the 9TH that many
of the officers at West Point believed that
Whitaker, the colored cadet, had mutflated
himself, and held that the absence of serious
injuries, as shown by . medical examination,
demonstrated the falsity Of his description Of
the assault made on him. Others rejected
this theory. and placed implicit confidence in
his story
ANNOUNCEMENT was made on the 9TH
that jackson & Morse, grain exporters, Of
Boston, had failed, with liabilities estimated
at 100000. They operated extensively in
Chicago, where, with the exception of $26, 900
borrowed from personal friends in Boston,
their obligations rest.
AT the election in Rhode Island on
the 7th there was no choice for Governor and
7 ieutan.rt ne~.--.~, sao nopuOncan candi-
dates not receiving majority of all the votes
cast The Legislature, however, is largely
Republican.
The widow of ex-senator Daniel 5.
Dickinson died in New York on the morning
of the 9Th.
In consequence of q fire-damp explo-
sion on the 9Th five miners at work In the
Preston colliery, in the Schuykill fPa-) coal
region, were severely and perhaps fatally
burned.
The announcement is made that the
New York Central Syndicate has closed out
the last Of the $4,000 shares Of stock pur-
chased Of Mr.. Vanderbilt last fall. 1t was
purchased at 100, and sold ut an average of
$50. Jay Gould is said to have secured Sc 600
of the shares disposed of on the 9Th, and Mr..
Vanderbilt had proposition from him to pur-
chase an additional block of 10O, 900 shares
under consideration, and would give him an
answer in thirty days.
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CONCLUSIONS.

5. The only proper method Of suppressing
struction Of ali diseased or exposed cattle. and
thorough publication of buildings where
they have been kept.
,sts ~ MG hss 70 now
Allegheny Mountains.
Z. 1t does not now exist in the United States.
on or near the boundary Of the Dominion OF
8. The disease now exists only in the eastern
part Of New York, in New Jersey, Pennsylva-
and the District Of Columbia. a' 'a"'' virginia
9. The general course Of traffic in cattle IN
from the West TO the East. Only few, and
ward, or into Canada from the East.
10. At the present time, with ordinary care.
cattle may pass from the Western States,
expectation into Canada, and through Can.
ada, Portland and Boston to foreign ports
without danger Of infection.
with Other csse near 9cntsc
pass from the Western States to the ports 81
New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore Tor ex-
portation without danger of infection.
to be relied upon to prevent the importation
and spread OF the disease, or to effect its extir.
Is. STRINGENT quarantine regulation. A.. -.
sential tothe protection Of this country sssinst
i il. 4 yess9ina.y Sanitary Commission;
pors Of tie esstenee Of the disease 20 collect s
Information respecting Il, and report to some
department for publication, u essential to On.
Gent action on the subject.
rate with State and municipal authorities in
preventing and Graduating the disease 81
supplying money out of appropriations 81
Congress for the purpose would be ofPeCf.
i've, and in accordance with the acts Of Con
gress in reference to the National Board Of
Heath.
isolate and slaughter infected and diseSsed
cattle, wherever found, and to award COmpes-
eati0n to the owners, would be IN effeCfivo
gfees to consider the policy and legality Of con.
ferrink such power. Very respectfully.
JoHN 6n1RAAN, oeQGGxaK !
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-04-09
GOSHEN.

Deferred Items.
j. w. Atwood has removed tc
Cornwall.
Russell A. Sessions and his bride
commence housekeeping in the house
south of the M. e. church.
Henry Sessions has removed from
Pittsford and hired Mrs. Fletcher's
place.
Isaac A. Hondcc, has bought ]. r.
McGibbon's house where y. II. Severy
has resided for the past year, and moved
into the same. o. II. Sevcry has moved
on TO jesse Whites farm, having hired
the same.
Jesse White has been absent about
a week with q car load of potatoes
Soon after he returned home, he went
to his pork barrel and found it without
pork. Some mean thief or thieves had
stolen about rs lbs. of nice pork. IL is
hoped that the guilty party will be
taken and severely punished.
Your correspondent of last Decem.
Der, in mentioning the buildings erect.
cd here in town during the season
failed to mention horse barn that had
been built by G. f. Persons, an add.
ton to A. S. BIown's barn and an ad.
dition to the barn of Nathan Capcn
ESD; by the way, the latter building
shelters some of the best sheep that arc
to be found in this part of Addison
county.
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County News.
BRIDPORT'.

Mrs. Cane is very sick with inflam-
matory rheumatism. DIR. Warner is in
attendance.
d. f. Grovcnor shcarcd his two
year old twin buck last Thursday; his
fleece weighed % - pounds.
Vim. Dryden is to let his farm
at Chimney Point. lie has pleaded
guilty, and will probably get his sem
tcnce next June.
"A new Temperance society has
been organized in town, called the
Band of Hope. Meeting on Saturday
afternoon in the town hall, the Good
Tcmplars warming the hall for thcm.
The celebrated buck, Geo. Payne
and T.. II. Clay owners, was shorn the
last of March, about eleven and one half
months growth of wool; the fleece
weighed 26 1-2 pounds.
"A. Dracy has moved back to Crown
Point; he is going TO run the ferry beat
opposite j. III. WiihereIl's. He has re-
duced the price of passage of single
team to 20 cents; of double team TO 80
cents.
The Excelsior Club, who went to
Orwell on Thursday of last week, feel
themselves under great obligations to
the Phoenix club and would like to
thank them for the kind attention shown
them while there. They would especi-
ally return thanks TO Mr.. f. ID. Girls
void, j. S. Boynton and Mrs. j. s.
Gale.
"A short time since Erwin IIeustis
of this town took his wife and child to
his fathers house and left them, and de-
parted from town. II has been asccr-
tanned that he had previously sold most
of his movable property and stock, so
that he had got together about twelve
hundred dollars of his own. In addi-
ton he had collected about the same
amount belonging to his wife. who had
pnt 1t out to interest. lie has not been
heard from since. AT the same time,
Julia kingsland, facinating young la
dy who had been in Mrs. Heustis' en-
ploy, and who had found favor in her
husbands eyes, departed from town
with the expressed design of going TO a
relatives in the West. IL has since
been ascertained that she has not reach
ed her intended destination. People
here hint that their departure at the same
time and the attendant circumstances
indicate an elopement. Much sympa-
thy is felt for Mrs. Heustis, who is a
worthy and respected woman.
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Special Notice, to Subscribers OF IN
Register.

We have made arrangements so tina
we are now prepared to make the follow.
ing offer: To every present subscriber
of this paper who will pay for year in
advance, besides all arrcarages, and to
all new subscribers paying one year in
advance we will give copy of oxen
dall's Treatise on the Horse" which Is
advertised in another column. We
have been selling the book for twenty
five cents, which will be the price to
all not subscribers. This is a really
useful and valuable work TO all horse
owners, and this offer in effect reduces
the price Of the paper to S1.25 to those
who pay in advance. Those who have
already paid in advance are entitled to
copy, which they will receive on APP
plication.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-04-09

Mr.. EDITOR:-Do your readers know
that the Ladies Library has fresh attrac-
tive books on its shelves, entirely rear
ranged and new catalogues? Thus far
the income of the Library has depended
on its membership fees. Cornwall Lii
brary has had a legacy of thousand
dollars. We are not so naughty as TO
wish any of our rich men or women to
die, besides a thousand dollars from a
live man would buy just as many books
il the donor were here to see how we
all enjoyed his gift. have been think
ing that perhaps if the public knew our
wants they would supply some of them
from time to time. We want a hun
dred new members; q library room,
with more room, light, aud air, and
firc-proof; various books of refer
ence, such MS encyclopedias, classic
poetry and prose, aliases, especially
Addison County, Thompson's Vermont,
History of Middlebury, SHADES Yer.
mont State Papers, Miss Hemenway's
new Gazetteer, and any other good
books. A library fund of course. II
would not be bad notion to have a
cosy reading room attached, furnished
with papers and magazines. If ALWAYS
light and warm would it not be the
best kind of temperance work, i. c.,
furnish counter attraction against sa-
looms for those whom Charles Kingsley
calls White Fools, and defines as those
who would rather do right than wrong
if the right be plainly and attractively
presented. We commend the sugges-
ton to the sisters of the w. C. Il. u.
At present the library is open only Sat
urday afternoons, when the ladies
would be happy TO receive the aforesaid
hundred new members, show their
books and answer questions relative to
them for yet another hundred. ii.
Miidlcbury, April 5, 1880.