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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-01-21
PREMIUMS.

New subscribers may have the numbers Tor 1850
only.
To any subscriber, new or old, we will furnish
the peri9dicals Tor 1879 at half price.
All orders 10 he sent 10 the publication once
~ secure premiums apply promptly.
The Leonard Scott Publishing Co.,
an B1RCLAY ST., NEW YoRR
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-01-21

Rich in fat producing material be-
yond all other foods and medicines are
Malt Bitters.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-01-21
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NIL Tor conducting the most profitable busine
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Knvis so easy to learn and our instructions ar
SO simple aud plain that any one can
make great profits from the very start. No one
can fail whois willing TO work. Women are as
successful as men. Boys and girls can earn
large sums. Many have made at the business
over one hundred dollars in single week
Nothing like it ever known before All v h en-.
gage are surprised at the ease and rsdidity with
which they are able make money. You can en-
gage In this business during your spare time at
great profit. You do not have % invest capital
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ready money, should write to us at once. All
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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-01-21
En- graved Work.

Parties In want Of engraved Visiting Cards
Wedding Cards, Invitations, Monograms. or any
other work in that line, are respectfully informed
that they can have their orders filled in the bes
manner and at low prices at the Register Office
abstraction guaranteed.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-01-21

Its virtues are objectionable and its curative.
character absolute, as the writer can personally
TESTIFY both nom experience and observation
Among the many readers of the Review in one
part and another OF the country, 1t is probable
that numbers arc afflicted with deafness. and TO
such II may be said, write at once to Haylock 4
Co., Dey Street, New York. enclosns el. and
you Will receive by return remedy that will ca
able you to hear like ANYBODY else. and who 50
curative effects will be permanent. tou VIII pcy
er regret doing so." fEditor OF the New York
Mercantile Review. Sept. Is. 1850.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-01-21
MARRIED.
DIED.

At st. Adams. Tuesday. the attendance was
good receipts light, market dull. We quote win,
ter butter 20 to - cents per h. selections % cent?
PSr 10. Very little fall butter Offering. !"
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-01-21
9RHANE!!E FOR SALE F.!

A child can play IT, es hymns, Operas aud
songs. Aay music eau be added Price slei cosl
eco in Boston. To be seen at the PLATERs,
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-01-21

ITO ADvEkTIsERS.-Low Rates for ad-
L verlising in go good newspapers sent free.
Address GEO. p. ROWELL Co, 10 Spruce St.
y. V
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-04-21
w, Z. AZ G.. II. TX
Jackson County Responds in
Good Style.

GOOu style.
Correspondence of the Register.
JACKSON G. H., w. Va, Aprill6
A very enthusiastic meeting was held
to day, in the interest OF the Wheeling,
Parkersburg and Charleston Railroad.
]. l.. Armstrong, Esq, was made Presi-
dent, and Maj. II. c. Flesher Secretary.
The meeting was addressed by. Hon.
John ii. Riley, W. A. Parsons and
others. Mr.. Riley having attended las
q delegate) the railroad meeting held in
your city on the 18th inst, gave a brief
statement OF the proceedings Of said
meeting, and stated that from the best
information he could get, and the active
interest manifested by the citizens OF
Wheeling, Parkersburg and other points
along the line OF the road, he had
no doubt that the road would be
surveyed and put under contract in less
than three months, provided the counties
through which said road will pass, will
procure the right OF way and raise suf-
flcient means to pay expense OF survey.
Appointments were made for a series OF
meetings in different parts OF the coun-
ty. Mr.. j. l.. Armstrong was elected
Treasurer, and committees were APP
pointed to collect money, receive sub
scriptions, and procure tight Of way,
etc. A subscription paper was circu-
lated in the meeting aud 500 raised in
a few minutes. have no hesitation in
saving that in less than ten days, one
thousand or fifteen hundred dollars will
be raised in this county. / never knew
our people so determined not to let this
opportunity slip of getting Jackson
county "out OF the woods" Wheeling,
Parkersburg and Charleston may de.
pend on this county doing her whole
duty. JACKSON.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-04-21
A MISTAKEN POLICY,

The policy, which the htcliigencer SC
warmly approves, Of sending agents into
foreign countries TO bring immigrants
into the State, has some very formidable
objections.
The first is that in most countries
such agents would not be allowed to
pursue such mission. The laws REQ uire
parties who become agents for such pur-
pose to be residents OF the country, and
TO obtain 4 license therefor. All others
are looked upon as suspicious eharac-
tiers and swindlers, and could have no
influence in forming companies for emf.
grafton even ii they could evade the law.
The second objection to the plan il
that an intelligent agent of foreign birth
can operate with much more effect from
the State and LOCALITY in this country
to which he desires TO attract immi-
grants, than ii he were in his own coun.
try, Being on the ground, his repre-.
sensations cary with them a weight
they would no, have ii he were regu-
lsriy engaged in the business of taking
people from their homes and under.
stood to be making that his means of
livelihood. The best way is for the
party at this end of the line to operate
through an agent at the other.
These are the views OF Mr.. Lurz,
who has done more toward increasing
the foreign population of West Virginia
than any man in it. He took pains to
condemn all such propositions as that
advanced by the hatelligeneer, while the
matter was being considered by the
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-04-21
THE PARIS MONETARY CONFER
ENCE.


The French Minister Of Finance said
in his opening address to the lnterna-
tional Monetary Conference, cit was
not question OF discussing a treaty by
which some would gain and others lose;
it was simply a question Of forming in
good faith, and with knowledge OF the
subject, decisions equally favorable to
all parties"
But, after all, it is a question OF a
double or single standard, while some
want one and some want the other;
some would be more or less protited by
the one which would more or less dam
age the other; and it is the impossibility
Of forming decisions equally favorable
TO all" that will most probably prevent
any agreement. Those countries which
regard their interest as lying in the
double standard will agree, and those
whose interests are in the single stand.
ard will agree, and the two factions will
simply agree to disagree with each
other.
That is the way it looks at the OPEN
ing OF the conference. They have tackled
a question that has never yet been an
swered, how it is possible to adjust even
an approximate ratio OF silver to gold.
To fix its value by edict is to defy the
laws oftrsde. 1t is true that every ma
ton can declare, as We have done, that
silver shall be legal tender, and receivs-
BILE for ali debts, public as well as priv
ate, and that silver dollar OF eighty
seven cents shall be accepted as Of equal
value with gold dollar that will pass
anywhere for one hundred cents; bat
such legal tender is restricted to the ter
ritorial limits OF the nation making the
enactment, 1t could have no effect on
international exchanges.
II a bi-metallie standard, based upon
the equal value Of gold and silver coins
Of the same denomination could be es-
tablished by concert between the several
governments interested in the matter,
and silver could be Invested of its fiuc.
tuating quality, there is no doubt but
much good would be accomplished
thereby. 1t would be a ten strike for
America and other silver producing
countries. But while France and the
Cnited States are ready to join hands in
such scheme, the other States of Eu-
rope will give il the cold shoulder
England's Commissioner ia there as a
spectator only. Germany has sent a
delegate with the proyiso that such step
does not commit her at all to the deci-
sion which may be reached. The tone
adopted by these and other commercial
nations seems to preclude the possible.
ty OF an agreement upon q bi-metallie
standard, or upon any other treaty
which will become universal.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-04-21

THE Chicago Inter OccaIi, speaking OF
the girl who has attended at q cooking
school, says: "lmsgine a fellow who
has 81, Mt years at a boarding house or
hotel, meeting such girl as that at an
evening entertainment, He goes to the
opera, for instance; in the front row OF
the dress circle he discovers a young
lady with diamond earrings and jew
elled opera glass, wearing at her throat
an ornament bearing the monogram T..
G.. T.. Chicago College OF Cookery
How his heart leaps and his mouth
waters az the sight! He makes inqui-
ries, finds she is engaged, perhaps mar
ried, great demand for that style OF
young lady; hears there are six more in
the same class, and dashes out to find
them; dozens are ahead of him, the mail
carrier is loaded down with letters on
the routes that lead past their doors,
and the air is heavy with the perfume
OF notes smelling OF jockey club and
heliotrope.'
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-04-21

Legislature last winter. The very
carefully matured scheme which was
presented to the Legislature last winter
is IL the hne Of a thorough and sys-
tematic advertisement Of our State both
in this country and abroad, as well as
affording facilities for immigrants COM
ing in and being brought into the State,
which will prove Of more value when
put into practical operation than any
irregular and irresponsible operations
OF uncertain agents.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-04-21
BJNrs FOR THE STATE FAIR.

We find in an exchange some sug-
gestions from the Agricultural Society
of North Carolina, and also from Geor'
gia and Vermont, which may serve as
hints to the projectors OF the West Vir'
ginia State Fair in preparing their cata-
logue:
The State Agricultural Society OF North
Carolina offer the following most sensl
BILE premiums:
THE YOUNG MANS "sTAR" PREMIUM
To the unmarried man under twenty
four wears of age who shall bring to the
State Fair the greatest and best variety
OF the products OF his own hands, pre-
MUM OF $50 in gold.
THE YOUNG woMAN's "srAR" PREMIUM.
To the unmarried lady under twenty
two years OF age who shall bring to the
State Fair the greatest and best variety
OF products OF her ow hands, premium
OF $50 in gold.
For the next best display by young
man and young woman, as above, so In
gold to each.
Parties competing for the above pre-
miums will be required to observe the
following rules: -,
/. Each exhibitor must furnish the
Secretary with full list of all the artl'
cles to be exhibited on or before Satur'
day, October Sth.
2. The displays for this premium
must be in position and ready for ex'
animation by II N. on Tuesday, the
18th.
8. The list OF articles fu, nished the
secretary, under Rule !, must be accom-
panied by the affidavit OF the party
making the entry, setting forth that the
exhibitor does not exceed the age pre-
scribed, that each and every article ex-
hibited is the product Of his or her own
hands, and that said articles have all
been made since the lst day oil Novem-
Der, 1880.
Printed forms of affidavit will be fur
nished by the secretary on applica'
| ton.
4. The names of exhibitors must not
appear on any of the articles. That
will only be made known after the pre-
miums have been awarded.
5. Each display will be made as a
whole, and may be arranged under the
personal supervision Of the exhibitor.
6. Persons intending to compete for
these premiums must notify the Secre-
tary on or before April list.
:. These exhibitions will be subject to
the same rules governing entries made
for other premiums, and will not be re-
moved until the close OF the general ex'
hlbition. The awards will be made by
committees composed OF ladies and gen.
tlemen, so chosen as to guard most ell
iectually against injustice and PARTIAL
~.
We End in the Country GentIemea the
following in the same direction:
Three hundred and fifteen boys COM
peted for the prizes offered to Vermont
boys under seventeen by two OF the
trustees OF the University OF Vermont
and the State Agricultural College for
the best yields OF corn and potatoes.
Frank ]. Hubbard, of Whiting, took the
| first prize for corn with l22 bushels OF
shelled: corn to the acre. Lewis 5.
Breed, OF Goshen. took the first prize
for potatoes with 492 bushels to the
acre.
In Georgia, We understand, the Stat?
Agricultural Society has every yea,
since the the war offered three prem
iums-a fine riding horse, handsome
saddle, and handsome bridle-for the
first, second and third best bales OF cot
ton produced by white boy seventeen
years of age with his own hands. II
| works admiralty
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-04-21

fuE seasons rush OF American tour
lists for Europe has begun, and is ex-
pected to exceed that Of any season
since the last Paris Exposition. The
five steamships that sailed from New
YORK last Saturday took out $50 saloon
OaSspnVprS
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-04-21

The New York Times, Republican, is
moved to remark that ''for the present
the sacred right OF Republican n,inori-
iiv, with the aid of Democrat, to take
away the Senate offices from Demo
cratic minority still trifie smaller, will
not be surrendered for any such minor
affair as filing vacancy in the Supreme
Court or voting on the several hundred
changes proposed by the President in
the civil service"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-04-21

THE relative value OF water and land
may be predetermined. But SETH
GREEN, the famous authority as to fish,
says that "an acre OF water, il properly
stocked, is as valuable as an acre Of
land in the mater Of producing food"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-04-21

TuE amusing farce entitled "Billy
Malone, the Crushed Repudiator, still
holds the boards at Washington.
Messrs. Dawes and HoAR remain in the
cast. The next attraction will be a
serio comic production, entitled Exec
utive Business" Mr.. CoSSLING will APP
pear i'm leading role.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-04-21

Dr.. RUSSELL known in this country
as Bull Run" Rus ELL, the special cor
respondent OF the London Times, is en-
route ior the United States.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-04-21
DIED.

BLAIR-On Monday, April Is, 1881, al o'clock
p. NJ, THoNAsJ. BLAIR, in the 18th year OF his
age.
Funeral from his late residence, corner Of
Zane and South Broadway streets, Island, to-
morrow Thursday st 10 O'Clock An. Interment
at Union cemetery, St. Clairsville. Friends are
invited to attend.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-04-21

Tue Presideu. has sent to the Senate
the name OF Gen. LoNGsTREET as U. 5.
Marshal OF Georgia. L0SGSTREET's ser
vices to the Republican party were in
directing that tremendous Rebel charge
against HANcocK's troops at Gettysburg.
Since he became a Radical he has had
Federal offices in Louisiana, Georgia,
and Turkey, and now he comes back to
Georgia again.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-04-21

President GARFIELD wants his nomi-
nations confirmed. The Republicans OF
the Senate say no. The Democrats say
yes. So both parties vote in the Sen
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-04-21
Sealed Proposals for Convict
Labor.
WEST vIEsIsIA PLsITESTIAKY,
MOUSD-ylLI.E. April 4. ISL.

AOCSD-NlLlk, ApriI y, 1891. }
sealed proposals I'll be received by the I'M
dersgned uItii II o'clock meridisn on Thur
day. May 5 1851. for the labor OF about ole hun.
dred able Bodied cJnvicS, 20 b. employed with
ia the penitentary for q term OF from three 70
five years, and tO be furnished rs follows =
convic,s on the 18Th Day Of Nay. Isl = cpnyicts
on the 18th day OF June. 1881; and 20 conyiets on
the 18th day of August, 1881. E-ch bid shall
specify the articles proposed TO be manufactured,
the number Of square feet Of shop room which
viii be required, the amount Of steam power
required and the price per day therefor. The
price per day for each convict shall be specified
and II q different price per day is stated for DIFF.
ferent periods, each period and prize must he 20
stated that one may be accepted and the other re-
jected.
II the bidder desires TO manufacture different
Glasses of articles the labor 10 be employei on
each class must be bid for separately. Each bid
must be accompanied with bond with surities
TO the satisfaction Of the Board that the bidder
viii comply with the terms Of his bid, II II n
accepted, and be sealed mp and addressed TO the
Superintendent, endersed, IBID for labor"
The Board OF Directors reserve the right 10 re-
Jet any or ell bids.
By order OF the Board OF Director.
ap5eqgt wN. l. BRIDGES, supt.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-04-21

Mr.. ex.HAYEs is supposed to be bid
ding for the nomination for Governor OF
Ohio on a temperance ticket.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-04-21

By Nod, pr asas,s. ia adcaRes, posiPGid- d o
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-01-19
oxsoLAT,oN.
BIZ PAUL II. HAYNR.

Behold! this dreary place,
Stripped of all glow and grace,
Ims roof.tree, crumbling down
Beside the dark pools edge,
Shrouded in shivering sedge,
These woodlands bleak and brownl
Once twas happy nest
home of joyful rest,
Where, like Dodona's Dove,
Tranquil, benign, apart,
Ger it's own tender heart,
Brooded the Life Of Love!
How, DER the wilted grass,
Mysterious shadows pass!
The ghost of some dead breeze
Would seem to faint or how,-
Weird, as that thrill below
Deep ocean silences!
Fen the hot summers shine
Here seems to pale and pine,
And the strong sun at noon,
Gimpsed through dim glen and glade,
Wanes to the spectral shade
Of matchmaking Moon!
Where hope and love were brave
We muse, as by their grave.
While the strange stiffness tells
More than all garrulous breath
VI fair lives merged in DEATH
Warm welcomes, wild farewells!
AL, then, is desolate?-
Nay. by the Wondering gate,
Midmost this gaunt repose,
Lovely and 1.-THE is seen,
Pure as an Elm queen,
One white, sweet-scented rose!
AS when all hopes are lost
In the soul's final frost,
Mid her dimmed, dead repose,
Sometimes to light the gloom,
"a sacred, star-ike bloomD
One rose Of memory CLOVIS!
Youths Companion.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-01-19
Rum Made From Old Shoes,

L
In the course of the Investigations OF
the census authorities appointed to COL
lect statistics of manufactures in this
city, it was found that some us4 was
made of old shoes, but exactly what use
was hard to find out. Large numbers of
old shoes were sold by rag pickers to
certain men who disposed Of them at
good price. It is we'll known that bits
OF old leather make the commercial
article known as Prussian blue, but only
a few firms manufacture it, and the new
call for old shoes was evidently for some
other purpose. In New York city and
Brooklyn about three million pairs of
old shoes are thrown away every year.
Formerly old shoes were plentiful in the
cutters of certain neighborhoods; now it
appears that they are sought after as
choice prizes in the rag-picker's line.
by dint OF persevering inquiry it was
discovered that the old shoes were used
for three purposes. First, all shoes not
completely worn out are patched,
CREASED, and after being otherwise re-
generated sold to men who deal in such
wares. Some persons wear one shoe
much more than the other; these dealers
find mates for shoes whose original
mate is past hope. Secondly, the shoes
not worth patching up are cut up into
pieces; the good bits are used for patch
ing other shoes, and the worthless bits,
the soles and cracked Jumpers" are con-
verted into Jamaica rum by process
known only by the manufacturers. It
is said that they are boiled in pure
spirits and allowed to stand for few
weeks, the product far SURPRISING the
Jamaica rum made with essences, burnt
sugar and spirits. A gentleman who
doubted the truth of this story stopped
recently alta low grog shop in the neigh
borhood of the factory spoken of
and inquired if they had any rum from
old shoes. "No,' said the barkeeper,
eve don't keep it much now; the
druggists, who want clear article, all
sell it and the price has gone up. But
we have had it, and can get some if you
want it," How many old shoes go to q
Salon Of rum could not be ascertained.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-01-19
Canary and Retriever.
fFroTn tho Spactator

A friend of mine had a pet canary,
while her brother was the owner Of a
retriever that was also much petted.
One day the canary escaped from the
house, and was seen flying about the
grounds for a few days, and when it
perched was generally on high elm trees.
At last it vanished from view, and this
dear little pet was mourned for lost or
dead. But after the interval of another
day or so the retriever came in with the
canary in his mouth, carrying it most
delicately, and went up to the owner Of
the bird, delivering it into her own
hands without even the feathers being
injured. Surely nothing could illustrate
more beautifully faithful love and
gentleness in dog than this.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-01-19

BnoDaERs came home the other even
ing not perfumed like a milliner, but
bearing about with him the odor of q
thousand sample rooms. He took of his
overcoat and threw it on the sofa, and rs
his wife took it up to remove it to it's
proper peg in the hall, a number of
pieces of cracker fell9.,lpon the floor.
"What are these ?" my love, she said, as
she stopped to pick them up. Only food
for the swallows, my DEAR" was his in
definite reply.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-01-19
HEARING MUSIC.
BY LEIGH HUNT.

When lovely sounds about my ears
Like winds in Eden's tree-tops rise,
And make me, though my spirit hears,
For very luxury close my eyes.
Let none but friends be round about
Who loves the soothing joy like me,
That so the charm be felt throughout,
And all be harmony.
And when we reach the close divine,
There let the hand Of her love
Come with its gentle palm on mine,
As soft as snow or lighting dove;
And let, by stealth, that more than friend
Look sweetness in my opening eyes,
For only so such dreams should end,
Or wake in paradise.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-01-19
A New Kind of Watch Case.

years that it has been improved and brought
within the reach OF every one; old in princi-
pie because the first invention was made and
ago, and cases made at that time and worn
ever since, are nearly as good as new Read
the following which is only one case of many
hundreds; your Jewcler can tell Of similar
ones.
MANSFIELD, PA, May 28th, 1878.
have customer who has carried one of
Boss Patent Cases fifteen years and I knew
it two years before he got it, and it now ap-
pears good for ten years longer.
r. E. OLNEY, Jeweler.
Remember JAS Boss is the only Patent
outside and one inside) covering every part
exposed to wear or sight, the great advan-
tage of these solid plates over electro-gilding
is apparent to everyone. Boss is the only
patent Case with which there is given a writ
ten warrant, of which the following is a fac
smile: