The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-03-26
WASHINGTON LETTER
WASHINGTON, March q, 1880.

he u. s. Senate Is tho present Serg ant
ARMS Bright, of Indiana. II "a al.
most impossible to hear q kim .vord
aid of him by either politics' fr;euds
II foes. To look over tho list NJ an
,ointments in his depart ment. one
would think that his ofiiy Wa. created
o supply positions for enfeebled and
lIoosier nol;tic;ens rho
accounts given of sor AZ of his boorish
conduct toward resp ,ctable ladies visit
ng the Senate on pnsiness ia alike nj.
ensiyo and humi' .iating.
MIR. Bright shr uld mend his manners
,r get out Of the way.
The progro IS of experiments in the
manufacture of sorghum sugar are sur
prislng; aiso tho experiments in max
ing sugar from cornstalks. An acre of
corn ratsed in this district last year
yielded sixty-niue and one-tenth bushels
of shelled corn, and the sugar produced
from the cornstalks was nine hundred
and sixty pounds! The corn is known
as the white Dent variety; the mar
kct price Of tho sugar here is eight cents
per pound. The average amount of
product in Louisiana of sugar cane is
one thousand three hundred and fifty
pounds; good corn land will yield two
thousand pounds of sugar to the acre
made from the stalk. Add the crop of
corn TO the value of the saccharine mat
ter in the stalks, and 1t will afford a
yield of at least 800 per acre. What
crop can afford an equal profit? Ger
tainly not white beans, onions or peach
es, berries, or any of the smaller varie-
ty of fruits.
Recent experiments show that new
material is being found weekly for the
manufacture of paper pulp.
A new paper mill is about to be con-
structed in this District, built by a
number of leading capitalists of this
city, for the manufacture of paper from
pulp made of the palmetto tree. Sew
eral hundred cords have been secured
in the swamps Of Florida to be shipped
North this season and converted into
pulp. The advantages of this wood are
that it need not be ground like poplar,
birch and other species of white wood
found in the Northern States, but can
be pulped through the agency of strong
alkalies and other chemicals, at a great
ly reduced rate from the present meth
cd of pulping the species OF harder
wood now in general use. Bank note,
bond and other species of expensive
aud fine papers are readily made from
palmetto wood pulp. Transfer papers,
used largely in lithograpbing and en-
craving, are also made from the same
material. 1t is said to produce fully
as good and more uniform fabric than
is made from the rag.
The trees noted for their large YIELD
of moss, found in the extreme Southern
and Gulf of Mexico states, where thu
wood is a white color, are much more
easily reduced to pulp through thu
agency of chemicals than the timber
found further north, for the reason tina
it is not of so firm body and has ,
longer fiber than is found in most north
ern timber.
If Congress will adopt some measur,
to relieve the country of the patent nui
sance, paper would soon DO reduced
one-half the present price in market.
| Will country printers make note o
this and call the attention of their read
ers and the press to it, for it needs i'm
mediate action.
George F. Seward has got reduced
between three acknowledgements hi
position as consul at Shanghai, be i'm
peacbcd, or removed. But for til,
kindly feeling for the lato William II
Seward and his family by Secretar,
Evarts, one of these three alternative
would have been resOrted to year ago
One of the latest cases of scan. mag
in Washington is a rupture between
Senator Christiancy and his wife, tn
Young Treasury girl that q. married
when he first came here as 8 Senate
from Michigan. He, man of IS, mar
rying young girl of 10, showed him
self n fool, and If the revelations mad
by his wife as to his conduct after hi
marriage are true, he showed himself
brute, rs well. The narration given o
his resigning his seat in tthe senate ant
of accepting the position of minister t.
Peru, in order to give his seat in tn
Senate to the late Zach. Chandler, tn
man he was elected over, shows piec
of venality and shamclessness on a pa
with his brutality in beating aud pound
ing young woman who, from her age
was better fitted to BIO his grandchil,
than his wife.
Navigation has opened around tn,
1913.
The Sawyer electric light system wa
publicly exhibited in a dwelling hous
in New York city, last Tuesday eve
ming, and pronounced complete ant
flattoring success. The electric curren
was turned on at an early hour in tn,
evening, and the lamps were kept glow
ing until midnight, when the compan,
dispersed, after warmly congratulatins
the successful invcntor.
| Mir. Sawyers patents cover YER,
wide field Of inventions; his system
comprising the divisibility and contro
Of tho electric current. its economi
adaptation TO household uses and sim
| plicity in construction.
Companies have already been formed
to introduce the new illuminatin.
agent, and ere many weeks, Mr.. Saw
yer's system will have been made pub
lie in several larger cities.
Stone, the colored wife murderer il
this city, will be hanged the early par
of next month, President Hayes havin,
declined to Interfere with the law tax
ing its course.
On Thursday of last week Colonel j
j. Flanagan, OF New York, appeared
before the House committee on tina
subject and delivered very cenvincin,
and able adde's, showing why tho pro
posed transfer Of his land grant to al
opposition company should not b.
made. In his address Colonel Flana
gan stated that hundreds of thousand
of dollars had already been invested il
tho New Orleans, Baton Rouge, an,
Vicksburg railroad, and that, ii thi
contemplated robbery of their Ian,
grant took place, all this capital woul,
become dead loss; and that the com
pany was now in a condition to 90 OF
and finish the road, without askin,
government aid, provided their proper
| ty be retained. The general Opinion
here is, that the company, represente
by Mr.. Flanagan, have already wol
their aaea. that a larOa tna;orstx, ~ ~