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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-09-17

A parliamentary document gives the
certified expenses of members returned
at the last English general election.
The costs, of course, vary according TO
place and circumstances. The lowest
are about S25 in small boroughs.
But some, especially in counties, 20
over $4,000. At the last general elec-
ton, six years ago. tina total cost was
over 81, 500, 900, or an average OF SIl 500
for each one of the $50 members.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-09-17
ADDISON RAILROAD
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
MInDLERIIRN .

MIDDLEBURY.
Congregdiionai-Corne Pleasant and Main sts
Rev. g. i. Hooker, pastor. sunday services AT
10: IS An and 100 PM Thursday evening
prayer IN ,cting at 1900.
Uefbodist-North Plcasantst. Rev. Nj. II. Mead,
pastor sunday services at 10 40 A. NJ. ana
100 PM. Thursday evening prayer meeting III
ZOO Glass meeting on Friday evening at :ao.
Episcopal-St. Stephens Church-Maln-st. hcv.
VIM. j. Tillcy, rector. Sunday scnool AT IL
AM, sunday services at 10 AS AM. and 100 Pm.
Roman Cdthoiic-Wcy cybridgc-st. Rev. T.. Gun
ningham pastor Sunday services, alternate SAP.
baths High Mass at 1000 AM; Nespers ana
bencdiction at & 80 Pm.
EAST MIDDLEBuRY.
Nethoiist- -- pastor. sunday scrVices
at2:OOPM
vERGENNEs.
Bapfisf-Rev. David +. Estes, pastor. sunday
services at 10: iJ AM and 700 Pm. weekly
nravcr meeting on Thursday evening Mt ZOO
Afthotiist-iiev. II. n. Munger, pastor. Sunday
crviccs at 90 and 100 Pm. Weekly prayer
meeting ON Thursday evening at ! :OO
EDiscopdl-St. Pdurs ChHrch-Rcv. f. s. flsher'
ector sunday services at 10: 45 AM and ;OOP.M
Friday evening ut 20. e,
Mission Chapel-Dr. II. A. 1ngham. sunday
services at lO:i5 AM. anu i:uo f'M. "oeh'9
prayer meeting ON Thursday evening. .-
Roman CdthOiic-Rev. i. Cunningham, pn,s.v,a, na
cryces, alternate Sabbaths; Hlgh MASS III io'oo
AN; Ncspcrs and benediction at y W f;M.
COnqreqdfiondt-Rcv. George E lail, l,as.p,I'
Sunday services Mt 10 45 AM. and 100 I'm. Wech-
v prayer meeting ON Thursday evening NJ 'oo'
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-09-17

L ETRAC the Great We.
gctahle Pam Destroyer aud
Specific for lniiammalions,
liemorrhagcs. v onnGs, Cnt-.
lirnises, Burns, spfam~. &c..
&c. stopping the ilpw OF
blood, relieving NJ once the
pain, subduing the inillm
nation. fastening the heal.
ing and cnringthe disease 50
rapidly ms 10 excite wonder,
admiration and graft udc.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-09-17
RAILROAD TIMETABLE.

TRAINS LEAVE MIDDLEBuRr.
o,;,o Sou,b. Going North.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-07-28

Carol doin' sech a ting as dat 1 seen
him lyin' dar in dat ar corneryarter dark,
Thursday, myself. Isaiah Carroll, what's
more, wudn't hurt a fly. l knows de
boy well. It are altogether different
wild dem odder two. Quinby's wife,
when she heerd he war arrested, she
say herself, Dat husban' OBJ mine
allays war a wuthless Niger But
Isaiah bore no sech character"
Fortified with what | had heard,
proceeded to communicate with the
lawyer who was undertaking to defend
Isaiah Carroll. 1t happened that the
name of this gentleman<was familiar to
me. had seen him once or twice at
croquet parties on our lawn. In re-
sponse to message l sent him through
my brother, he presented himself at our
house. 1 gathered directly that he was
defending Isaiah from sincere persua-
sion of his innocence. "It seems he
had seen me here, Mr.. Ordway let fall,
"when he was walking around in the
garden. / recognized him on this hint
as a protege of yours, and l made up
my mind to get him off if / could. Now
for the facts, if you please"
/ gave them to him, waxing diffuse,
fear, according to my sex's failing. But
he listened thoroughly. AS he left, he
said, with little laugh, Your cham
pionship makes me feel that / shouldn't
mind being this poor fellow myself"
He had odd, resolute, searching eyes,
which he fixed on mine as he spoke.
His intent gaze gave me the strange
feeling of only having just made his ac-
quaintance.
That is about all there is to tell of
Isaiah Carroll. Mr.. Ordway helped
him to prove a clear alibi, although
the delinquent had the grace to be sim
cerely mortified as to the manner of it.
His old mother herself was put on the
stand. She gave her testimony with
distinctness, albeit with agitation. The
prosecution dealt gently with her, even
when she repeated twice that Isaiah
war allays punctual boy meaning
a boy to be relied upon in the long
run.
1 am proud to say that Isaiah never
fell into bad company after this. The
two other wretched men, his fellow
prisoners, were convicted of the MUIR
der, and sentenced to death. 1t was
supposed that third party was impli-
Gated, but the proof of this was never
made clear.
What a long sigh of relief drew
when this narrow escape of my colored
friend was all over! Mr.. Ordway per-
sisted in calling it our case. was
modest about it, however, and refu3ed
to divide the credit with him. will
tell as a secret, however, that this was
not the last suit of Mr.. Ordway's in
which have taken warm and per-
sonal interest.-Horper'S Bazaar.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-07-28
LIGHTNING'S FREAKS.
Queer DOings of tho Thunderbolt about
tho World.

-~~~~-~
tho World.
Fred Langley was killed by lightning
at Athens, Me-, recently. He was six
teen years of age.
At Fulton, Ontario, Duncan Dawson
was killed by lightning stroke, and his
sister-in-law was fatally injured.
A daughter of Daniel Kelly lives, but
her mind is impaired, after a lightning
stroke at her home near Spring Lick,
KY, recently.
An employee of the Lochiel iron
works, Harrisburg, Pa, was struck by
lightning, and one side of his body is
completely paralyzed.
Three men were knocked down, and
a horse belonging TO Elihu Wells was
killed instantly by lightning at Rush
vile, Ind.
Leonard Falk, farmer OF Fayette
county, Iowa, took horseback k ride. A
storm coming up, he and his horse were
killed by lightning.
Peter Leonard was instantly killed by
lightning at Charles City, Iowa, and
p, J. Leonard, of Floyd, in the same
State, was killed on the same day.
While herding cattle, a boy named
Isaacson was killed by lightning at RO-
land, Iowa, and at Kozta, Jefferson
Simmons was killed during the same
storm.
Five people were killed and several
severely injured by lightning at Garrett
CITY, Ind, in a drug store where they
had taken refuge during a thunder
storm.
Frank Shupert, of johnson county,
- - lxy Bs1laA hu lfuhfnf N n
while sitting in his home by the win
dow. The whole side of his house was
torn out.
1t was twenty feet from where a son
of ID. II. Owens, of New Era, Tex, took
shelter from the storm, that the lightning
Shattered tree, but the boy died from
the shock.
Mrs. Barnes of Macomb, ILL.,, went to
bed for safety during severe thunder
storm. Lightning struck the house and
literally tore it to pieces: Although
many were standing about Mrs. Barnes
bed she alone was killed.
A cyclone struck Tallett's Prairie,
near Paris, Texas, and with it came
severe thunder and lightning. William
Rudesill was instantly killed and two
young men were dangerously injured by
u bl4uLhOA DOAbs
Lightning rods did not save the First
Methodist Church, of Altoona, Pa, for
thunderbolt doubled them up like
reeds, knocked a hole eighteen inches in
diameter in the first knee of the bell
tower. and broke off one corner of the
brick walls of the church.
In negro cabin in Warrenton, Ga,
sat woman with an infant in her arms
and six children on the floor at her feet
Lightning struck the woman in the
right temple, instantly killing her. but
doing no injury to the child. The
mother, when discovered, sat with the
babe quietly folded in her hfeless arms
When lightning entered the home o.
Mrs. William Young, of Hornellsville
N. Y, it was through an open door il
which she was sitting. Three success
sive flashes passed over her head towarC
a stove, and rendered her incapable o
muscular action. The woman suffered
repeated cramps, and for three houl
was not able TO stand,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-07-28
MY FIRST LAWSUIT,

"How is trade, Aunt LucyP" l in
quired, with the air of one perpetrating a
pleasantly.
The person addressed was slow to
take my remark in.the spirit in which it
was offered. Trade with her was =
solemn reality.
Things is. .goin' off," she replied,
seriously. "Slow. But they goes"
Two or three other colored persons
present chuckled, however. To them,
as to me, there existed an incongruity
between the notions of Aunt Lucy and
commerce.
Aunt Lucy was unusually old and un-
usually black. Her blackness was set
off by her white turban and white keT-
chief she wore about her neck. She
was heavily made, with delightful
chubby face, and delightful, cordial,
chuckling way of speaking. Only a
severe attack of rheumatism would
dampen her chronic cheerfulness, and
Undue the tones of her voice with a
touch of melancholy.
1t had been my own idea to set her up
in trade, with the expenditure of dol
lar or SO, in the first place, on needles
and thread, and tapes and pins, and so
on; afterward, as these wares found a
ready market, she and / determined to
90 into the confectionery line also, on a
small scale-penny cakes, penny sticks
of candy; but these latter we found to
be more useful in advertising her place
of business than lucrative. l had been
unable to buy them for less than penny
apiece, and they sold the world over for
penny, it appeared.
:" l can make ginger cakes an sugar
cakes fust rate" suggests the old wo.
man presently.
THAT will be the way, them" l say,
clutching at the bright idea" the very
thing. I'll give you the money to buy
some flour and sugar and molasses, and
You'll make the cakes and then well
see what the profit will be-"
Aunt Lucy chuckles delightedly. She
has an active soul, despite her ninety
eight years. Yes, ninety-eight ShC
insists that this is her age.
Have you had your roof mended p
/ inquire, having already left the money
= with her for that purpose.
Cant git de man ter come. / ha!
bin a-terrifyin' an a-abotherin' ob M
Isaiah ter git de man ter come-hain't
Isaiah ?" as at that junctuTe, a tai
slouchy young man entered, who die
not seem likely TO be terrified by feebl
old Aunt Lucy.
he pulled front lock In courtesy T.
me, and grinned. II has went, al
went" he averred; "an' he promise
ter come. Seems like he don't care"
myself entertain doubIs of Isaiah
zeal as q Mercury. 1 say, persuasively
Z" 1 wish you would see to it Isaiah
Then L make my adieuX.
The room contained half a doze
persons beside Lucy. She has always
number of guests, and is especiall
popular since she has kept shop, an
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-07-28
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.

PrOsaic Kitchen Rules POetized.
Veal outlets dipped in egg and bread-crumb,
Fry till you see brownish red come
Roast pork, sans apple-sauce, past doubt,
Is Hamlet with the prince left out.
Your mutton chops with paper cover,
And make them amber-brown all over.
Brou lightly your beefsteak-to fry it
Argues contempt for Christian diet.
The cook deserves hearty cutting,
Who serves roast fowls with tasteless stuffing
Egg sauce-few make it right, alas!-
Is good with blue fish, or with bass.
shad, stuffed and baked, is most delicious;
'Twould have electrified Apicius.
Roasted in paste, haunch OF mutton
Might make ascetics play the gluttop.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-07-28
TERMS, s1.bO A YEAR.
In Harvest Day,

Thro' Farmer Gale wide fields passed
just yestereve;
My week OF holiday was spent,
And idly on the stile leant,
Taking my leave
ofall tho fair and smiling plain,
Wood, vale and hill,
And ali the homely household band,
(Ihe warm grasp OF each kindly hand
Bides with me still);
And was sad. The stricken grain
Around me lay;
l could but think OF silent glade
Of buds and blossoms lowly laid
The harvest day.
'"And this is all p' I sadly said
"These withered leaves
This gathered grainl Springs hours OF bliss
And summers glory turn to this
Some yellow sheavesW
Then Farmer Gale-tDat good old man,
So simply wise
Who overheard, and quickly turned,
Said, while spark of anger burned
In his gray eyes,
lad; thou art town-bred, knowing naught
Whereof thou pratest!
For, be the flower as iair as May,
The fruit il yields in harvest day
Is still the greatestl
"And thou-thy spring shall quickly pass;
Fast TALL the leaves
From lies frail tree In harvest day
Sec that before thy Lord thou lay
Some yellow sheaves."
He went his way; mine and now
l hear the fow
OF busy lie in crowded street.
OF eager voices, hurrying feet,
hat come and so
Yet cen while flashing factory looms
My hands engage,
] see that iar-oG upland plain
It's long, long rows of gathered grain,
Its rustic sage,
And hear them say: "Let pleasures fair,
And passions vain,
And youthful follies, fade and die;
But all good deeds, pure thoughts and high,
Like golden grain,
" Be gathered STILL" Blest harvest store,
That only grows
In hearts besprinkled with the blood
That evermore-a sacred flood
From Calvary flows!
Lord, when thou caIlest, when this world
My spirit leaves,
Then to thy feet, oh, let me come,
Bringing, in joyful harvest-home,
Some yellow sheaves!
Sunday .MGgasiae.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-07-28

No one was injured when the First
M. L. Church, of Greensburg, Ind was
struck by lightning, but the fresooing
was ruined.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-02-27

As they sat upon the steps he claimed
the right to a kiss for every shooting star.
She at first dcmurred, as became modest
maiden, but finally yielded. She was even
so accommodating as to call his attention to
flying metcors that we're about to escape his
observation, and then got to calling" him
on lightning bugs, at last got him down to
steady work on the light of lantern that
a man was swinging at depot in distance
where trains we're switching.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-02-27

DEATH STRUGGLE BETWEEN A CAT AND
A RATTLESNAKE.-Abou three weeks ago,
during the beautiful sunny weather we have
had which induced the trees to bud and
bloom, was walking in my garden one
morning. thinking about preparing for an
early starting for spring vegetables, when
saw large rattlesnake summing. My first
impulse was TO 60 to the house, get gun
and kill it. But looking around. saw a
very large house cat cautiously creeping
upon the reptile. Anticipating fight, and
equally desirous of getting rid of the cat,
which killed chickens, concluded to wit.
ness his attack upon the snake. The cat
crawled upon its stomach, pulling along on
its feet, whisking its tail from side, to side.
and every now and then stretching its neck
to view the snake. When about eight or
zen feet off the snake suddenly coiled up,
sprung. its rattle, faced the cat and darte1
its forked tongue out rapidly. The cat
commenced rapid circle around tn D., snake,
so fast in fact that the eyes could hardly
keep up with it, At last it got near enough
and made dart at its enemy, but through
providential reason it went high above the
snake, which also struck at the cat, thus
breaking its coil. The cat went too far and
by the time it had turned to face its foe,
the reptile was again coiled and ready for
the attack. The same method was adopted
and carried on for four or five times, occu.
pying at least halfan hour. The cat wished
to catch the snake, but seemed aware that
if it missed the neck it would be certain
death. At the sixth assault they met and
instantly the snake was wrapped in several
folds around the body Of the cat, which
used its sharp claws with deadly effect
The cat had been bitten on the head and
neck several times, and both continued to
fight The snake was torn nearly to shreds
bu; did not unloose its coil around its victim
The poison was swift and deadly, but before
the cat died it caught the snakes head in
its mouth and crushed it, and fighting they
died, the snake cnwrapping the cat in its
coils The snake measured four feet eight
inches and had thirteen rattles.-An,crica,
(Ga.) Republican,.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-02-27
UNION @. II. SOUTH

by year, becoming richer aud more valuable
The amount of heterogeneous matter supple,
to the soil by this process is many time
greater than can be supplied at the sam,
expense by any other means. Aud, finally
the crops themselves are eminently remun
erative.
The yield, in our'experience, is, of wheat
twenty to thirty bushels to the acre of oats
fifty to sixty bushels and of Bermuda hay
four tons. #.s -,
With greater experience in the adaptation
OF this system, these yields can no doubt be
increased.
The Bermuda grass hay is easily cured
and easily kept. 1t is superior in nutrient
properties to Northern hay, and is preferred
by horses to any other. 1t, therefore, rea.
Oily commands the best price.
II it is not desired to raise hay, the yetch
and ReEmnds. in .hs;.--oscsion; would .fars
nish luxuriant and rioh Passs.~s 81 -. ..,Iy
and sheep during the entire year.
In the preparation Of land for cereals the
Rebel and Tory Pea are recommended as
the best. Thoy arc vigorous growers, with
a long tap.root which loosens the soil eigh-
teen inches down The seed remains in the
ground from autumn to spring without in.
jury, and may, therefore, be sowed in the
fall with wheat, oats, &C., to succeed these
crops in the spring. The seed, too, is very
small.
THE Ash Element IS also an e1ceUent fer.
tilizer for cotton and tobacco, and for orange
and other fruit trees and grapes. 1t may
be used as above, or else applied alone, or
composted with cotton seed or stable ma.
nure, 200 to 800 Tbs. per acre.
And finally zoe pouM caution our patrons
against an impression which seems prevalent
among some of them, viz: that they can
make compound of their own which will
subserve the same purpose as our Ash Ele-
ment- Even granting that they know the
ingredients of our Ash Element (Which we
doubt) they cannot know the proportions.
The formula was originated by DIR. Ravenel
and is known only to him. And even grant
ing that the materials are all identical, the
resultant compound to the discriminating
of plant may be totally differ.
ent, just as with the same materials one
doctor may make curative and another
poisonous mixture, and one cook palatable
and another nauseous dish.
And even after getting the materials of
The best quality, and in proper proportions,
it is of great Importance that they be thor
'ughly Incorporated, ESQ that the reactions
previously spoken of may take place. and
his can be accomplished to advantage only
BY machinery specially adapted to the pur.
pose.
Otherwise, if imperfectly done, you may
De treating one stalk to- '.u'P or vuussfe
iTkall, another to acid, another to lime, and
30 on, and thus injurc the plants and destroy
lie phole usefulness Of the compound. To
use the simile above, it would be like pie
With all the meat on one side, tho mustard
IN another and the salt on another mot
very palatable.
AnOthcr important consideration. All
he materials for this compound are bought
BY our Presidents, under the supervision Of
DR.. Ravenel, and every possible prccaution
S used to get them pure and of the best
quality.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-02-27

CATCHING hAwKs.-Some one recently
asked Fanny Field and others, how to keep
hawks from carrying off chickens. My
plan is to catch the hawks. Being much
annoyed by them, set steel trap on top
of pole, set upright in the ground, and
have caught, the last year, II hawks and 5
owls. Set the trap on pole or feet
high, in the open field, 100 or 200 rods
from the house. No bait needed. Traps
use cost 35 cents apiece. I wish all farm
ers would try this. have no doubt that
farmers lose annually SIS each, from hawks
and owls, to say nothing about the destruc-
tion Of quail and partridge, and other game.
At first glanco this seems small matter,
but in the aggregate it is thousands Of dol.
lars.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-02-27

OLD IKE ARoUsED.-"Look hea, Han.
ner, you an mes bin gittin' long fo' nigh
onter fawty year aud ain taver had fuss yit,
but eff eber ketohes you pealin' taters an
scrppin' de hair often pigs feet ag'in wild
my razer, I'll wipe de Kitchen fo' up so
clean and slick wild you dat the cat can t
stan on it. Now you heah Ike preachin'
ter yer, an if you spec ter 60 ter hebben
wild my good will don't you poster my raaer
any mo-. Han me dem mushroom" And
Hannah pushed the dish Of fried hogs ears
over to the excited lord and lit out for the
kitchen, where she commenced waltz and
sang:
"An he used to scrub de handle
Oh de big front doah."
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-02-27
TCOScLUDED NEXT WEEK.1

TEXAS GRAss.-We have been shown Q
specimen Of the Concho grass, grown by
Il. G. Long, Esq, Of this place, from seed
brought by him from Texas, which certain.
ly comes nearer Offering all the desired quail.
tiles Of pasture and forage plants than any.
thing we have ever seen.
AS far as we know to the contrary this
plant first made its appearance about ten
years ago in the unsettled valleys about the
headwators Of the Concho river, in Texas.
In 1874 freshet carried down the seed
and disseminated them along the bottom
lands Of the Colorado river, whore the grass
made its appearance the following spring,
and so much were the farmers pleased with
it that many Of them have devoted their
farms entirely to its production, finding Il
more profitable than corn or cotton.
Concho grass, sown broadcast in early
spring, comes about like crab grass, but
grows more rapidly and has q much broader
leaf. BY the FIRST Of June it will attain .
height Of about three to four feet on On ay.
erase, and showing more fodder than any
grass We ever saw. The seed heads are
about seven inches long, and the specimen
shown us has seventy heads to the stool,
which would give yield Of fifteen or TWEEN.
ty bushels Of grain TO the acre. We under.
stand that in Texas, this grass is cut twice,
and sometimes three times year, yielding
about one aud half tons per acre at cut,
ting. The stubble is very heavy, and i'm
proves land almos. equally with clover.
Tallahassee FIoridtam
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-02-27

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