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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-12-22

sar A clergyman lost his hat one evening
and was obliged to 60 home with shabtier
one, which was left in the place of it. Next
day the hat was returned by the penitent ap.
proprietor, who said "I'll never take min
ister's hat again. You can't think what queer
things I've had running through my head
ever since put that hat on"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-12-22
vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and gravity
for wisdorn.-Addison i.sI'

SELECTING CoTToN-SEED.-A Mississippi
planter has on exhibition at the Atlanta Cot
ton Fair, bale of cotton, pronounced by
many good judges, as the finest short staple
cotton ever seen in Atlanta. His especial
hobby is the selection Of his seed. 1t is not
question of different varieties, but of good
and bad seed of the common variety. He
has the seed of the best stalks selected every
year for planting; and he claims that it is
by a judicious selection of seed that the cot.
ton can be made better. 1t is needless 10 say,
remarks a. critical observer, that as "a rule,
the selection of seed and guano, as we'll as the
methods Of culture, are matters of accident
and not of exact study. There is no reason
why the greater part of the inferior cotton
that sells for or cents, might not, under
careful system OF agriculture and manipula.
ton, be made to sell for 10 and II cents.
Careful agriculture, if need be scientific agri-
culture this is what the South needs quite as
much as manufactures and capital. The
samples of cotton are not a very great sttrac-
ton to the Southern farmers who visit the ex.
hibition, but the lessons that are to be learned
from the experiments that have produced
them are the most important lessons, by all
odds, that the exhibition can teach.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-12-22

Why SOUTHERN CorToN FACTORIES Pros.
peril is stated that the cost of placing
a years cotton crop in the New England
market is s10S,6O0,OOO, of which over $780,
100000 is paid for freight and insurance. Is
it any wonder that Southern cotton factories
are prosperous, when by working up the pro-
duct of their fields at even less cost than it
can be done in Massachusetts and Rhode
Island, and selling their cloth at their DOORS,
they can save more than onehalf of the total
expense mentioned above, or say, S5O,0OO,-
OOO.-Rochestsr (M Y,) Morning Herald.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-12-22

paS The SCOT of soft, or rather bituminous
coal, busted upon onions when wet with dew,
is said to be remedy for the maggot. The
moeher fly closely resembles the house fly. As
SCOT is good fertilizer, nothing is lost by the
application, even if it does not always eles.
troy the maggot. Ifsoot from this variety of
coal will destroy the maggot, it might be we'll
to try SCOT derived from the burning of pitch
pine or other soft woods.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-12-22

SOUTHERN FORESTS. The Southern States
are awaking to the realization of the richness
which exists in their vast forests. The New
Orleans Democrat estimates that Louisiana
contains more than II ,000,0 900 acres of wood
ed land. The saw mills have made little i'm
preston upon this vast supply of timber,
which comprises large variety of valuable
woods. Most of it, too, can be easily mar.
keted, thanks to the bayous and watercourses
with which the State is so literally provided.
Since the increasing scarcity Of Western tim
Der becomes apparent, large purchases Of tim
bered lands have been made in. Alabama,
Tennessee, Georgia and North Carolina. 1t
is to be hoped that this splendid possession,
the importance of which the South is JUST be-
ginning to comprehend, will be managed with
more care than has been bestowed upon the
forests of the North and West. This country
must learn the science of forestry sooner or
later, and now is good time to begin.-Bos'
ton Economist
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-12-22

The RUINS OF NINEvEH.-There were
four sites of the royal Assyrian residences
discovered on the left side of the Tigris, in
what was considered Assyria proper, and
which were in the time of the preaching Of the
prophet Jonah, within the metropolis Mime.
veh. These are Kuyunjik, Nebi Yunis,
Nimrud, and Khorsabad. There are other
important ruins within what consider to be
the radius of that 'great city,: such as va.
rinija, Balawat, Karamlais, Bahshika, and
Sharifkhan. Taking the oblong distances Of
these different ruins together with Kuyunjik
and Nebi Yunis on the western limit, NiInrud
on its southern border, and Khorsabad on its
northern side, they make the size Of the old
city around about sixty miles, or three days
journey, as mentioned in Holy Writ; because
twenty miles are reckoned in that country,
according to the travelling Of pedestrian,
about days journey. In all these mounds
there have been discovered Assyrian rem aims;
and at Balawat especially the famous bronze
gates and temple dedicated to the god Of war
Assur. nazir-pal There are besides these
mounds, several others, scattered all over the
above. mentioned space, which must have been
formerly temples or watch-towers to guard the
several quarters of the great town, with gar
dens and orchards enclosed.
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MAGAZINES.

ECLECTIC MAGAZINE.-In variety of
topic and excellence of quality the on
tents of the September number of the
Eclectic are fully up to the high stand
ard of this periodical, and no other
magazine of the month is more reada-
BILE. The list of articles is as follows:
1.-THE Early Life of Thomas Carlyle"
by James Anthony Froude; "Reminis-
cences of Prison Life :" ''Italy: Her
Home and Foreign Policy" by "A. Gal
"Strange Players" by Dutton Cook
"Leon Michel Gambetta;" "Concei Il
ing Names" "Tbe Origin of Religion
Considered in the Light of the Unity of
Nature" by the Duke of Argyll; "Old
Dreams" Ga poem), by f. w. Bourdil-
Ion; "Kith and Kim" a novel, by Jes-
sic Fothergill, author of "The First
VIOLIN" chapters XIX and XXI; "a
{ iborisn Exile Eighty Years Ago;"
"From the Cambridge Lectu- e Rooms
-Bonaparte," by Professor Seeley /;
"The First English Poet" by William
Allingham; "On the buying ofBooks,"
by a Bookworm; "a Peep at French
Schools" by James Bonar; "Curiosi-
ties of Criticisms; /" GLOW Some Au-
thors Work ;'iLiterary Notices Foreign
Literary Notes; Science and Art; and
Miscellany. Published by E. II. Pei
ton, % Bond street, New York. Terms,
SIS per year; single copy, 40 cents;
Trial subscription fof three months, 81.
The September Atlantic contains
three new chapters of Mr.. HowelPs
new serial story, "Dr. Breen's Prac-
tice." A very noteworthy article is
that by Mr.. +. L. Godkin, "The At
tempt on the Presidents Life" which
discusses with great thoughtfulness and
ability the motives and object.of the as.
s~assination. John Fiske co ltinues his
instructive and engaging series OF
neurological articles with one entitled
''Koshchei the Deathless, or the Dif1u'
sion of Fairy Tales." The second part
of Mary Hallock Foote'S sto y, "Ir
Exile" confirms the exceedingly pleas
ant impression which the first par,
made. II. II. continues her interesting
series ofNorway articles with an essay
on "The Katrina Saga" which is par
story, part essay, and part poetry, al
thoroughly delightful. All housekeep.
ers will be interested in the very charm
ing sketches Of Housekeeping Here
AFTER" by James V. Sears. j. Bran
der Mathews discusses the "Dramas o
the Elder Dumas" Rev. William
Chauncy Langdon contributes a papel
on the Culture of Harvard Divinity
School," DIR. Holmes contributes TIT
Phi Beta Kappa poem which he recent
ly read at Harvard; and Miss Edith NJ
Thomas al attractive poem entitled
"Harvest Noon" Tho remainder o
the magazine contains notices of some
of the more important new books, Al
unusually interesting and varied Con
tributors' Club, and a running discus
sion of the books of the month. A
thoroughly good number of this stand
ard magazine. Houghton, Mifiin &
Co., Boston.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-08-26

L. We notice in some of our ex-
changes a tendency to criticise our
common schools, and most of them de-
serve it. The difficulty with our COM
mon schools is that our country dis
tricts are determined to pay the least
wages for which q person can be hired
to "teach" the schools. In a district
where $1.75 per week has been the us
ual weekly wages, if a committee can
succeed in screwing an applicant down
to $1.5o they are gratified by the sp.
proval of the whole district. In five dis
tricts out of ten the teacher knows that,
no matter how much pains and brains
she has used, nor how excellent a school
she has kept, the next conner who will
underbid her by a quarter OF a dollar a
week can cut her out of her situation,
even if the new conner has never taught
q school before. Under such circum-
stances any teacher would be foolish to
exert herself to keep a good school.
The way to have good district schools
is to secure and keep good teachers by
giving decent wages. just so long as
school districts elect committees to rep
resent only their meanest and most
contemplate side on the n question
of wages, SO long will the friends of
education have to mourn over the inef-
f~iciency of our schools.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-08-26

BRACE UP.-There is serious meaning
in this expression. That wearied step,
languid eye and feeling of general las
situdc, come from "spring sickness"
Be assured, n serious, and perhaps fa-
tai disease is close in lis wake. The
system wants cleansing from winter
impurities; the sluggish blood needs 10
be sent in n swift current through the
veins. "Favorite Remedy" will do
this; it will give new vigor to tho body,
brig Illness to the eye, a glow to the
co%untcnance and elasticity to the step.
One dollar a bottle. Every druggist
has it. DR.. David Kennedy, proprietor
Rondout, N. Y.
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9lihhlthurp Rtgmtf
d AUGUST 2e, 1881,
THE PRESIDENT.

The latest news from Washington in
dictates that the condition Of the presi-
dent has reached an alarming stage,
and fears are expressed by those
competent to Judge that his death is
only a question of q few days. How
ever, while there is life there is hope,
and stranger things have happened than
his rallying from his present state
would be.
The infamed parotid gland was lanced
Tuesday, and some relief given. His
stomach seems to have recovered its
use, so that he has for the past few days
taken sufficient punishment. His bowels
have shown a tendency to break down
under the work which the enemata
have given them. But the worst
sy mptom is the formation of another
abscess on the face, which seems to in
dictate a worse form of blood poisoning
than was thought probable. The next
three or four days will tell the result.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-08-26

ErThere is nothing more disgusting
and more disgraceful than the way the
Washington correspondents of the
caily papers pad out their reports of
the presidents case with lying and
absurd rumors, unless il be the editorial
comments of many of the papers found
ed upon those lying rumors The
presidents case has been in the best of
hands IRON the beginning, and his
treatment, according 10 the best unpre-
JUDGED medical authorities, has been
perfectly correct. But because after
receiving a wound extending over a
foot into his body from a large bullet
which was fattened and jagged by
striking against a rib, he does not at
once recover, his physicians are made
the target for the foulest and most I'M
reasonable abuse. 1t would be less
r~eprehensible If the correspondents
and editors knew what they were talk
ing about, for in that case they would
perhaps be more reasonable; but as II
is, the whole of the hostile criticism
from the ponderous nonsense OF the
New York Herald TO the laughable ig'
norance of the Rutland Herald and
Globe, is little short of criminal. The
people have to depend upon the papers
for their views of the case. What
then, must be their feelings when they
are told in effect that their beloved
president is being murdered through
the incompetence of his physicians
II the president lives this will not be SC
much matter, as the people will be able
to form a correct judgement Of the
editorial capacity in medical matters
But suppose, through conditions of the
wound and OF the presidents physical
state at the time he received 1t, which
no man, however skilled, can fully un'
derstand, the worst happens, what ter
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-08-26
Wdtert0trn Lire Stock Market.
FOR THE WEEK ENDING AUG. %. 1881.

Market Beef-A few choice $500 extra, 7,75
q 500; first quality 6.50a7 90; second quality 5.O0a
5.75; third quality $4.75.a $500.
Prices of store Cattle-working Oxen per pair,
from &lO0, 13oal90.
Mich COWS and Calves from $2O,35as45; farrow
cows, $l5a30.
Yearlings, s7al2; two years old. 14a95; three
years old, 20a45.
Western fat swine, live, 7 3-4c per lb.
Northern dressed hogs, s l-2c per pound.
Price of Sheep and Lambs in lots, $3.50 a $40
each extra s4.O0a$5.J0. or from 4a5c per ID.
Veal Calves 81 Z per lb.
Hides, Tallow and Standardization hides,
Sc per lb.; Country hides, sas I-2c per Id.
Brighton tallow, 8 cts. prlb.; country tallow
4 @.
Pelts from 100 to LIS each.
Calf skins IL per Id.
CLASSIFICATION CT CATTLE AND SHEEP.
n. B.-Choice grade includes nothing but stall.
fed LOO TO 1,4O0 lib. bullocks. Extra and first
quality include the best large fat oxen. Second
ard third quality include oxen and two and three
year old steers.
Sheep Extra includes Cossets, and when
those of inferior quality are thrown out.
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A Race for Life.

At Pantano, Wednesday afternoon,
the brakes of a flat car loaded with ties
became loosened in some inexplicable
manner, and the car began to move
down the steep grade towards Cienega.
A b%ystander jumped aboard and en-
deaved to tighten the brakes. He
| however, found them unmanageable.
| Another tried and failed. A regular
brakeman then boarded the car and
| quickly discovered that the brakes were
out of order. The car by that time had
increased its speed to fully twenty
miles an hour, and to remain upon it
would be almost sure death when the
first washout was reached. lie there
fore called to the two other men on the
car to jump, and they did. Engineer
Frank Shaw at this time was sitting on
his engine at Pantano, and attached TO
his locomotive was a a filled with
Cinnamon. He at once realized the
terrible result If this runaway fiat car
was allowed to proceed unchecked on
its way, for q score or more of laborers
were engaged far down a deep gulch
in the Cienega Pass strengthening the
braces of a broken bridge that spanned
it. They would not be able TO hear the
approaching car, and it would soon
crash through the weakened timbers
and probably crush many beneath its
weight.
AS these thoughts flashed through his
mind he pulled wide open the throttle
valve, and started in pursuit of the fast
retreating car. 1t was a race for life,
and Shaw was soon laundering down
the track at sixty miles an hour, with a
car load of terrified Cinnamon behind
him. The fiat car ahead was increas.
inglspeed at every turn of the wheels
and the grade there is very steep. The
locomotive, however, kept gaining
and finally Shaw, placing the lever in
charge of his fireman, crawled TO the
coupling rod in his hand, stood in tina
perilous position until the car wa
reached. The chasm where the mel
were working came In sight and still
the fugitive car was 200 yards away
He called to the fireman to open widel
the valve, and the laboring engin,
made a lurch that showed she had fel
the increased volume of steam. They
sped on with lightning rapidly. Thu
space between them gradually lessened
Shaw stood with the rod in one han(
and a coupling-pin in the other. Finally
the few feet intervening disappeared
and with a dexterity that m from
practice and q cool brain, the coupling
was made. The locomotive was rever
sed and The train came to a standstill
and within fifty feet of the bridge
This is the way n mar saved many
lives.-lTucson(A. To journal.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-08-26

PUT's PoINT TRoTTING ASSOCIATION
The fall meeting of this association &C.
ours at the Puts Point Trotting Park,
Crown Point, on Friday, Sept. 8.
Three purses are offered. The pro-
gram is as follows: At 10, a. M, a purse
of $50, for horses that have never been
driven for money, owned in the towns
of Crown Point and Bridport. 500 10
first, $15 to I'd, $40 to 3d,$5 to 4th.
AT 1880 O'Clock p. m, a Trotting
Purse of $75. For horses that have
never had q record better than 3 min
utes. $50 to list, 500 to I'd, $15 to 3d,$l0 to
4th. A trotting purse of 800. For
horses that have never had a better re-
cord than 1888. $40 to LIST, $50 to I'd, $40
to Sd, $40 to 4th. The above races to
be trotted by alternate heats.
The above races 10 be mile heats, best
8 in 8 TO harness, Entrance fee 10 per
cent of the purses in all cases. Races
to be governed by the National rules
In the main. Entries must be made on
or before Thursday, September 8, 1881,
2 O'Clock p. m.
All entries must be sent or delivered
in sealed envelopes, containing full
name and description of horse, with
owners nam and entrance fee, TO o. @,
Pond, Treasurer, Crown Point, MY.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-08-26

II There is nothing better calculate
ed to disgust people with temperance
agitation than the ease with with which
a movement for a 'third party" can be
organized to assist the Democratic
party, the enemy of temperance legis-
~lation, to beat the Republican party,
which is the only one which has done
anything in the way of temperance leg
islation in the northern states. This is
the sole explanation of the third party
movement in Ohio, 1t is engineered
by Democratic politicians with the
idea of depriving the Republican party
of some of its votes. 1t remains 10 be
see whether enough temperance Re-
publicans in that state are silly enough
to put their enemies in power. Prob
ably not.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-08-26

Ey- We occasionally hear of an in
dividual or party of individuals who
have solemnly sworn to ~"avenge" up.
on Guiteau the presidents death in
case that event takes place. Such peo-
pie are probably cranky seekers after a
little notoricty. This is a country of
law. If the president dies the whole
people of the country will avenge his
death through the law, which will hang
his murderer. To lynch Guiteau would
be to give him a Fictitious martyrdom,
which he would gladly seek, as the al
tentative to dying as a criminal and
feeling that the excavations of a whole
nation followed him. For its own good
name this nation cannot afford to have
Guiteau meet his death except as fol-
lowing a legal sentence to the halter
which he would grace SO well.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-08-26

CURED or DRINKTNG.-''A Young
friend of mine was cured of an insatia-
BILE thirst for liquor, which had so pros
trated him that he was unable 10 do
any business. He was entirely cured
by the use of Hop Bitters. 1t allayed
all that burning thirst; took away the
appetite for liquor; made his nerves
steady, and he has remained a sober
anu steady nan for more than two
years, and has no desire to return to his
cups; i know of a number of others
that have been cured of drinking by it,"
From a leading II. X. Official, Chica-
go, m.-Times.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-08-26

rible injustice these papers do to men
who deserve respectful consideration
from the fact that they are the choice of
the president and his friends, and from
their well-earned regulations in their
professions. If the president is fated
to be taken from us we ought 20 have
some better eason for blaming the
surgeons than ignorant and malicious
editorial carping.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-08-26

A New York girl stuffed the sleeve
of an old coat with straw, and placed
it around her waist as she sat in the
bay window, wrapped in the soft twi-
light. II looked all right and natural
from a distance, and drove tho neigh
broing girls mad with envy, but the
satisfaction she derived from the hug
was about as thin as strained mooDshine.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-08-26

The Rev. Chas. f. Piper, formerly
of Pittsfield, N. H.. but now of
Wakefield, Il. l., writes: az have
used Baxter's Mandrake Bitters in my
family for over two years, and as a
result have not called a physician in
The whole time. My wife had been an
invalid for years, but these Bitters
have cured her."
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-08-26

Commenting upon DR.. Woolsey's
talk, the Providence Press says: "No
student of the political problems of the
day can shut his eyes to the revolution
that is gradually taking place in the
south, or can forget what Republican
administration of the general govern
ment has done TO hasten it,"
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IMPORTANT

When you visit or leave New York City, save
Baggage Expressage and Carriage Hire, and stop
at Grand Union Hotel, opposite Grand Central
Depot. 4j0 rooms, fitted up at n cost of one mil
lion dollars, reduced to 81 and upwards per day
European plan. Elevator, Restaurant supplied
with tho best. Horse cars, stages and elevated
railroad to all depots. Families can live better FOL
less money at the Grand Union Hotel than at any
other first class hotel in the city. 14-1y
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-08-26

II The Troy Times hears that Roll
lin j. Jones of Cornwall has disposed
of his flock of Spanish merinos at 81
per head. How true 1t is that you have
to go away from home to get the news
We have heard it said that Mr.. Jones
would ask $1,000 a head for his meri-
nos and not blush at all while he wa
doing %
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-08-26

IMPORTANT TO TRAVELLERS Special
inducements arc offered you by the
Burlington Route. 1t will pay you to
read their advertisement to DO found
elsewhere in this issue. $40 W
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-08-26

Its virtues are unquestlonable and ITS curative,
character absolute, as the writer can personally
testify both from experience and observation.
Among the many readers of the Review in on
part and another Of the country, it is probabl
that numbers are AFFLICTED with deafness, and t
such II may be said, "Write at once to Haylock &
Co., 7Dey Street, New York. enclosing 81, and
you will receive by return a remedy that will en-
able you to hear like ANYBODY else, and whose
curative effects will be permanent. You will new
er regret doing So" Editor of the New York
Mercantile Review, Sept. IS, 1880.
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KEEP IT ON HAND.--No Farmer or
should do without Henry Il
Johnson's Arnica and Oil Liniment.
1t is invaluable in cases of hurts either
on man or beast.
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Fruit OF the tropics burning cline,
Thy wondroUs virtues, iadeless still,
Exert an influence sublime,
In ministering 10 human Ill;
And many q pang along our way
Banford's Ginger doth allay.