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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-06-17
El0cuti0n and OratOry.
MARY L. SHERMAN.

There is now i'm the United States no
one school of oratory of such recognized
superiority over others as to give il au-
thority in this branch to say what are
criterions of teaching good attainment.
Only the prestige of University school
could do this, and the only school in
this country having that authority
ceased TO exist on the death of Prof.
Lewis b. Monroe, Dean of the Boston
University School of Oratory, and au-
thor of the series of school readers in
this part of the country.
His successor, IL. II. Raymond, carries
on his school in the same method, the
difference beingithat he does not include
in the new course composition, rhe-
toric and kindred branches of literature.
and that his school is not a part of the
University.
The old University school was, how
ever, in existence long enough to give
its methods, chosen with great care
from the different European masters
by their pupil, Mr.. Monroe, to many
teachers whose success i'm voice-culturc
is known to all who have come under
their training; but these teachers have
as yet been in such demand in special
schools that their methods are as vet
unknown in our public schools, though
the various editions of his Readers,
contsining these methods are used
without attempt to follow the physical
and vocal exercise which the book was
written to cultivate. AS we'll hand one
who has not had music lessons music
book of instructions with the command
to teach.
The principles of voice-culture, of
gesture and expression, exist in ma.
ture as distinctly as the principles of
music or mathematics, and have been
as distinctly systematized and reduced
to an art gesture byDel Sarte, and wis.,
IDLE speech by Alexander Bell. A
knowledge of these principles Is soon
attained; practice only will make
speakers and readers. But any one
having sufficient love for the art TO be
faithful In practice, may after the attain.
ment of these fundamental principles,
apply them himself TO unlimited excel.
lence in elocution or oratory, and to
the constant benefit of health, since all
true voice-culture involves physical ex-
ercises for strengthening the lungs by
deep breathing, and all the muscles of
chest by artistic action.
Purity and strength OF tone, power
to locate or project the voice to make II
the servant of the brain and heart,
the different meanings of the same
gesture in different planes, the signifi-
canoe of different angles of vision, the
carriage of the body, the mutual rela-
lions of the speaker and audience, all
have definite, simple and natural prin-
ciples of Interpretation, that no reader,
speaker, nor singer can afford to be
Ignorant Of.
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GENERAL NOTES.

Henry Dudley, colored man 55
years old, was convicted of vagrancy
at Frankfort, KY, the other day, and
sentenced TO be sold into servitude for
one year.
A woman committed suicide in Paris
the other day by cutting her throat with
razor. She wished to see herself die,
and had placed mirror at a certain
angle for this purpose.
Some members of the Boston Brokers'
Board have been doing heavy bust
ness during the past few months. One
brokers' monthly checks have ranged
from 81 10000 to $2.OO0,00
Twenty iron furnaces in the Lehigh
and Schuylkill valleys alone, which
were inIactiveloperat alton fortnight ago
will 60 out of blast in a few days. 1t
is said the present condition of the iron
trade warrants grave apprehensions.
Most of the hotels at Saratoga and
Lake George are either now open or
will be open this week for the season.
This week those in the Adirondack re.
gion will be ready for visitors. Every
thing promises driving season at the
summer resorts.
The great rainfall of last week flood
ed the Ohio river and its tributaries to
an cxtent almost unpreced ented. From
Pittsburgh to Wheeling, a distance OF
80 miles, especially, great damage has
been done. The loss of properly and
crops is placed at 81 ,0O0, 200. No such
freshet has occurred in June in the Ohio
valley since 1910.
The city authorities of Philadelphia
have adjusted compromise between
the Mayor, who has prohibited in toto
the use of fireworks on the Fourth of
July, and the small boys of the city,
who desired unlimited license to make
explosive and pyrotechnic nuisances of
themselves on that glad day. They
have consented to the firing of Chinese
crackers on the anniversary, but prohi.
bit all other fireworks and toy pistols.
The concession is deemed insufficient,
but they can demonstrate the capacities
Of fire-crackers for making a racket in
way hitherto undreamed of.
A colored man and his little bow of
ten years were hoeing cotton at Amea.
Their became separated from bis 'A bow w.
After while he heard his boy shouting
for help, but could not see him. Start.
ing In the direction in which he had
last seen him, he found the lad on the
ground In the coils of three black snakes.
On his appearance tho snakes prepared
to fight him, and seeing that they would
soon choke his little boy tn death, he
took his pocket knife and cut the one
that had made the little fellow very
uncomfortable cravat into half dozen
pieces by inserting the knife next the
lads necki and cutting upward. He
then caught the others by the head, and
with his knife cut them In two or three
pieces. He was bitten several times.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-06-17

VERMONT MEDICAL SoclETY.-The
semi'annual meeting of this society will
be held at the city Of Vergennes on Fri.
day and Saturday, June Path and 25th,
commencing about noon on Friday and
continuing during the evening and q
part of the following day. The vice.
presidents address will be delivered on
Friday evening. Papers on various
medical topics are expected from Drs
Richmond, Peck, Putnam, Goodall
Holton, Grinnell, Woodward, Eddy
Briggs, Braley, Sherw God and others
The members Of the society resident In
the city propose some pleasant enter,
tainment for the society during the SEES
sions. Important business is to come
before the society. The railroads will
extend the usual courtesy of fare one
way to all who attend and the hotels
will furnish free carriages TO and from
the depot. Trains arrive from the north
at 9,04 and 11.46 A. NJ, and from the
south at GA A. NJ. and 1862 p. M.
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The storm in central Iowa, Sunday,
was very destructive. Hail stones the
size of goose eggs fell, killing much
live stock and poultry. In Des Moines
q Baptist church was struck and large
hole burnt through the roof. Crops
were levelled. Near Rising Sun half a
dozen houses were blown away. A
man named Erickson was killed and
his wife and child were blown quarter
of mile and the latter was severely
injured. John Walters home was de-
molished and his child killed. Many
families took refuge in cellars. In
Camp township four houses were blown
down. In Grant township Douglass
Johnson's child was killed and several
houses wefo demolished. The damage
by hail was greal. Near Monteith,
stones tore many shutters TO splinters.
In that vicinity crops were beaten into
the ground and much live stock and
poultry killed. At Cazy farm houses
were blown away. The bridge at
Somerset was demolished and flour
mill nnroofed. Six inches Of hail fell.
One house was swept away and another
unroofed. Near Adair Robert Trow-
bridge aud Herman Rathbun were kill
ed by lightning. At Norwark two
houses aud four barns were destroyed.
Passing north of the river the storm
cloud sucked up water and took all the
planks from bridge.
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Rich Praise.

Letter from Paolo Marie, the great
PriIna Donna of French and Italian
Opera:
MEEDELssoHN PIANO Co., NEW YORK:
Geutlemen-I am delighted with
your Upright Pianos. Everything seems
possible with them. They have such a
powerful tone, that / can imagine my
self playing upon Grand, and yet
they are susceptible OF the most delicate
shades of expression. Their musical
quality is lovely and for an accompani-
ment to singing, l wish to use only a
Mendelssohn Piano. Wishing you
every prosperity, / am,
Yours respectfully,
PAOLO MARIE.
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LITERARY NOTES.

Coon COMpANY-(3.00 year:
Springfield, Mass.) for May has long
installment of "In tho Land OF the MIDI
night Sun" by Lieutenant Frederick
Schwatka, commander of the Franklin
Search Expedition, in which he begins
the account of the great Arctic sledge
journey, the longest both in distance
and time ever attempted. IL was al
sent from its base eleven months and
half and traversed distance of over 8,
200 miles. To quote from the narrative
Lieut.. Schwatkas own words:-
| "With less than one months provi.
sions we were separating ourselves by
an icy desert of four or five hundred
miles from all chances of rescue, with
eighteen human and forty-four brute
mouths TO be fed, in region where
over a hundred men, led by as expert
enced leaders as IL was possible to pro-
dueo In y country famous for its arctic
heroes, had persisted; there to spend
possibly a year, and under the most
favorable circumstances not less thar
nine months, TO make laborious and
thorough search TO determine the fate
of those thad had thus died.
"Reccolections of My Childhood ii
Old Japan" is by native ofthat coun
try, young lady now pursuing her Cd
ucation in the United States. 1t is per
, haps more detailed account of life in
japanese family under the old regim
than has been before published.
The fiction includes stories by Mrs
,, Rebecca Harding Davis and Miss Katl
. arine Darlington, and an installmcnt c
"Mildreds Caprice" the new serial ste
= ry begun in the last number.
e Mrs. Gen. Lew Wallace has cannon
!, the Pueblos," a subject on which he
. residence in the southwest renders he
competent authority. Octave Than,
q under the form of q colloquy discuss,
e "Creeds" with characterized thorough
4 ness. Mrs. Lizzie w. Champney writ,
!. OF "The Alhambra and its Master-M
!. gician." One of the poems has for
subject Old Abe, the famous war-eag
!. of a Wisconsin regiment, that died r
Gently. Other articles and poem
I round out the number.
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Friday night as the mail train arrive

Friday night as the mail train arrived
at South Royalton French family,
who could not speak English, found
that one of their children, a nine-year-
old girl, was missing. She had been
on board at Royalton. A brakeman
and the father went back with lanterns
and about A A. M. found the child be.
side the track just below Royalton,
where she probably fell in trying to
pass from one car TO another, as the
train was running at the rate of 25
miles An hour. She was taken to q
neighboring house, where her injuries
were found TO be severe, and she cannot
live.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-06-17
Hihhlshurp Rrglstsr
FRIDAY, JUNE II, 1881.

rwI will be pleasing news 10 those
uho have deemed the telephone the
nossession Of an impregnable monopoly,
that telephone on an entirely different
nr;uciple has been invented, which is
claimed TO DO superior in Its working
10 the Bell telephone. The new instru-
ment, of which Prof. A. L. Dolbear, OF
Tufts college, is the inventor, is OF re-
markable simplicity. No magnets are
used as in the Bell system. The receiv-
inc instrument practically consists Of
two metallic plates parallel and very
near each other, one of them being
supported at the edges and free to Vi
brate in the middle, as in the diaphragm
of the Bell receiver, while against the
middle of the other plate screw presses
80 as to adjust its distance from the vi.
brating plates. The vibrations of the
diaphragm corresponding to the sound
of the voice are produced by ordinary
electrical attraction between the two
plates, instead of by magnetic attraction
between the. diaphragm and the pole O
a magnet, as in the Bell telephone
The receiver is worked by ordinary o.
estate" electricity, instead of by cur
rent electricity, though of course tn
latter may be used between two stations
and transmitted 10 the receiver q
Estate" electricity through the mediur
of an induction coil. The advantage
of this telephone are that it work
against much higher resistances tina
tho Bell instrument, and is consequent
ly available over much greater dir
tances, being free from the troubles {
induction, and the sound of the voice
transmitted free from the bubblins
whizzing noises 80 prominent in III
Bell telephone.
If on further development this tel,
phone proves as practical and CONVEX
lent as 1t is original, it will undoubtedl
be the means of breaking down the al
surdly excessive cost which the Be
monopoly has placed upon telephon
communication, and put such con
munication more generally in the POI
session of the people.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-06-17

CSTATE OFyERMONT, lCourt OF Insol
SDistrict of Addison s.. vency.
In the matter Of Geo. l.. Towner. insolvenl
TAKR NOTICE, that Geo. L. Towner OF Bird.
mort, in the District OF Addison, at Middle
bury, In said district, ON the l4th day OF
June ISL, filed a petition for publication Of In
solyency; and thafa meeting OF creditors OF said
insel rent debtor will be held at q court OF In
saId District on the LIST day Of July 1881. at 10
O'clock In the forenoon, TO prove their debts and
choose one or more assgnees OF his estate and
any property belonging TO said debtor. TO him or
for his use, and the transfer Of any property by
him, Is forbidden by law. 1901
ID. 1881. Sl1w
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-06-17

TORNADO IN KANsAs.-An Emporia,
Kan, dispatch says: The tornado
Thursday night did great damage in
this region. In the town of Americas
every building was damaged. The I'M
tied Presbyterian church was torn TO
pieces and the Methodist church " as
blown of its foundation and destroyed.
Several houses in Emporia were blown
down and fences and other property
were badly damaged. The additions
to the state normal school were I'M
rooted and the walls torn down. Wheat
Just ready for the harvest and other
crops were blown away or beaten into
the ground by the immense quantity OF
hail. The tornado extended to south.
west Missouri. Immense hail fell over
large area, doing great damage to the
crops and windows. A water spout
broke in the town of Seven Star Spring
and carried away houses and animals.
Three women and seven children and a
man were swept away, but were oil
lodged in the bushes and were rescued
several hours after.
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O0MMIssIoNER's NOTICE,

The undersigned having been appointed by the
Hon. Probate Court for the district OF Addison,
commissioners, to receive, examine, and adj
just all claims and demands ofall persons against
tho estate of Ann Ahem, late OF shoreham,
exhibited in Offset thereto. hereby gySPotice that
we will meet for the purposes aiorenid. At the
on 0's the "a day o. August and ,hs d p0 asy O.
November next. from ten O'Clock A. M,
until five O'Clock ?. ~. each Of said days,
May. A. ID. 1881, is the time limited by said
court for said creditors TO present their claims
10 us for examination and allowance.
Dated at shoreham. this 10th day OF june, A.
ID. 1881. IL .
j., RUSSELL Somf
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-06-17

THE Cosr OF IT.-lf the total cost OF
sickness simply in its business aspects
were reckoned up it would be found to
be great enough In five years to pay the
national debt. The merchant has a
headache from a fit of indigestion and
loses good bargain. The lawyer does
the same with case. To say nothing
about doctors fees, etc., 1t don't pay to
be even little sick. DIR. Kennedy's
"Favorite Remedy" is friend of the
business man, for 1t clears the brain.
81 bottle, Rondout, N. Y.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-06-17

Main the most pleasant and profitable business
Unknown. Everything new. Capital mott re-
YVquired. We will nrnsh you everything.
out staying away from home over night No RISK
whatever. Many new workers wanted ~ once
Many are making fortunes al ne business, "a,
rirls make great pay. No one who Is willing 10
work fails to make more money every day tnen
ment Those who engage at once VIII nnd =
abort road to fortune. Address H. hALLkff
90. Portland. Maine.
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9fgal Hntirfs.
CTATE OF VERMONT.
~ Diatrict Of A ddiaou.

~ DIstrfct OF AddIsOn.
In the PROBATE Court holden at Middlebury
within and for said District. on the 3Oth day o
NAV, A. ID. 1881.
OF John l.. Ward, late OF Shoreham, in sal,
District deceased, has this day presented to sait
court his petition in writing. setting forth that
will be necessary to sell part OF the real estat.
Of sad deceased, for the payment Of the debts ant
charges OF administration; and also that Il viii
be beneficial for all parties interested therein Il
and therein making application to said court fol
license 10 make such sale,
IL is ordered, that all persons Interested in the
fore said Court. at the Probate Office in Middle
bury in said District on the Goth day of une A. ID
ISL at 10 a. by publication of this order three
weeks successfully previous thereto, In the Mid
diebury Register, newspaper printed at Middle
bury Aforesaid, TO show cause, IL any they may
have, why said license should notbe granted.
10 LYMAN L. KNAPP, Judge.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-06-17

COMMISSIONER NOTICE.
~ The undersigned, having been appointed by
the Hon. Probate Court for the District of Add
son, commissioners, to receive, examine, and
adjust all claims and demands of all persons
against the estate of Loren S. Peet, late OF
Cornwall in said district deceased. and all claims
exhibited in Offset thereto hereby give notice that
late residence Of the deceased in Cornwall ON the
25th day of June and 25th day of November next
from / O'Clock T.. NJ until O'Clock p. NJ, each OF
said days, and that Six months from the LIST day
OF June. A. ID. 1881, Is the time limited
by said Court for said creditors TO present their
claims TO us for examination and allowance.
Dated AT Cornwall, this 9th day OF June. A.
ID. 1881. II
N. u u TTRIdoas5TA . oom'rs.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-06-17

NM dYourselyes by making money when a
MI pgolden chance Is offered. thereby al
uQu ways keeping poverty IRON your door
- Those who always take advantage OF
the good chances for making money thai
are offered, generally become wealthy. while
those who do not improve such chances remain
In poverty. We want many men. women, boys
and girls TO work for US right in their own loca-
litles. The business will pay more than ten times
.ordin airy wages. We furnish an expensive out
NJ and all that you need, free. No one who en-
gag es fails 20 make to make money very rapidly
only your spare moments. Full information anr
al THAT is needed sent ree. Apdress sTlssoH
&Co.. Portland. Mass. lily
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-06-17

Addison County, -.
In Probate Court held at Mlddiebury, within
and for said district on the eth day OF june
A. ID. 1881.
Whereas, a certain instrument In writing, I'M
der seal, purportng TO be the last will and testa-
ment OF Asahel Kingsley, late of Salisbury. in
said district, deceased, having been this day pre-
sented said Court OF Probate, and duly fled in
tho Probate ONCE: Therefore. 1t Is ordered
that all persons interested in the estate of said
deceased be notified TO appear before said Court.
at the Probate Ofiice In Middlebury, In said Dis
tlct, on the eth day OF June, A. ID. 1881 at 10 A.
NJ, by publication of this order three weeks euc-
cessively previous thereto. in the Middiehury
Register, a newspaper printed Mt Middlebury,
why said instrument In writing should not be
proved and allowed as the last will and tesla
Ii Wv LYMAN K. KNAPP, Judge.
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THE SUNNY SOUTH.

Within the next months we desire TO add 20,
90 new names 10 our already large list Of sub
scribers and have reduced the price 20 low hg
|ure that all can afford take It. We Will send II OF
trial 10 new subscribers for MONTHS for 10 cts
Interest Of the Farm and Preside. INSTRUCTIVE
and amusing. Those who want 10 know all abou
SUNNY SOUTH will ind that we mako iniorma
Address SUNNY SOUTH. Brownwood. Texas.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-06-17

The Champlain Association of Uni
versalists will meet In annual session at
Essex, Wednesday and Thursday of this
week. Occasional sermon by Rev. 8.
A. Parker, Of Bethel, Thursday fore
noon; closing sermon, Thursday after
noon, "Universalism, a pearl Of great
price," by Miss Myra Kingsbury OF
Williston. Free return checks to those
who pay full fare to the meeting on the
railroads.
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Watertoscn Lice stock Market,
FOR THE WEEK ENDING JUNE IA. 1881.

Market Beef-A few choice ss.1H: extra. 7.7b
500; first quality 8.50a600; second quality 500
$50; third quality 4455.a $500.
from $780, 130a165.
Milch Cows and Calves from s2o, 35as45; farrow
cows, $15a32.
Yearlings, $7al2; two years DID, 14a25; three
Western fat swine, live, SAC per lb.
Northern dressed hogs, s 1-2c per pound.
Price of sheep and Lambs in lots. e2.b0 a e5.oO
Veal Calves q per Id.
Hides, Tallow and Standardization hides,
Sc per lb.; Country hides, sas I-2c per Id.
brighton tallow, cts. pr h.; country tallow
&c. ~
Pets from 100 to LIS each.
Calf skins IL per ID.
CLASSIFICATION OF CATTLE AND SHEEP.
n. B.-Choice grade includes nothing but stall.
fed 100 to 1400 Id. bullocks. Extra and first
quality include the best large fat oxen. Second
and 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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Bristol Retail Market,

ST. ALBANs BUTTER MARKET, June AL he
receipts were large. market active and prices
firm. Common butter sold at Is cents per pound
good to choice 10 TO 20 cents per pound selections
Il cents per pound; quality good. Shipment 1906
packages. Eggs IA cents per dozen. .r
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RICHMOND MARKET, June 6.-The market was
brisk. Fair TO good butter sold at Is to IS centa
choice. IL TO Isl few tubs of fine al 10. Fine new
cheese sold att TO cents; potatoes, Rose and
Prolific, 30 cents.
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uVERGENNEs MARKET. JUNE l1.-Butter, Is to Is
cts, selections 10 c.; eggs Is per doz. potatoes
40 c. to 40 c. per bu. beans 81 80 to $2o5 per. bu
beef c. to G. per pound; pork C. to C. per 10
hay sl2 to sl5 per ton.
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DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN CAsTLEToN. The
dwellings of Hon. J. b. Bromley and OF
Mrs. A. G.. w. Smith of Castleton were
totally consumed by fire Saturday eve
ming with their outbuildings. The con-
tents of the houses were nearly all saw
ed. MIR. and Mrs. Bromley were absent
from home, and the house had been
closed from five O'Clock in the afternoon
until the fire was discovered. The orr.
gin of the fire is unknown. The loss il
probably from six TO eight thousand
dollars; insured in the Home and Yer
mont Mutual. This is the most de
structive fire that has occurred in Gas
Teton for twenty years.