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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-05-06

JUBILEE ORGANS. -There are max
ers who seek to earn and fix a reputa-
ton for first-class work which shall be
for all time. Among these may be no.
ted the Mendelsshon Piano Company,
manufacturers of the popular Jubilee
Organs, which are rapidly becoming
known, and which do not fail to hold
every inch of ground they once occupy.
So thorough is the inspection of the
various parts, and OF the whole, that
when an instrument goes out of the
house guarantee of five years-long
enough to break down and wear out
two common organs-is given the pur-
chaser. The Juoilec Organ is eminent.
ly an organ for The people, Louis
vile, KY, Commercial.
Having had occasion TO purchase Or
gans of this company for our own per-
sonal friends, and having found them
to be all that was claimed for them
after years of thorough trial, and hav-
ing repeatedly visited their factory
in New York city, we are pre-
pared TO assert, from our own
knowledge of the manufacturers and
their organs, that their work is not ex-
celled by any manufacture now in the
market.
In short, the Mendelsshon Piano
Company's instruments are eminently
the peoples organs, and are worthy OF
the enviable reputation they so cer-
tainly enjoy. We cordially recon-
mend them to the confidence and pa
tronage of the public; we advise them
to communicate with the company, al
its' headquarters in New York, and
look over their circular and price list
1.-THE Independent.
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q The Rutland Herald and Globe
says that the change recently made in
the Middlebury postoffice has inspired
a few papers in this district to hold Col.
onel Joyce responsible for the removal
OF Colonel Tracy and the appointment
of his successor. We have most of the
papers OF this district among our ex-
changes, and we have yet to see one
which holds Col. Joyce responsible for
Col. Tracy's removal. The cause of
Col. Tracy's removal is sufficiently
obvious without laying il Col. Joyce.
We have heard of individuals who
charge MIR. Joyce with taking undue
means of making a place for the man TO
whom he owed his nomination last year,
but there are very few who believe it.
AS for his responsibility for the appoint
ment of Col. Tracy's successor, no one
has thought of imputing any blame to
Col. Joyce for that. He had perfect
right, as our political appointments go,
to secure it for his friend if he could.
On the other hand, the people of Mid
dlebury have perfect right to manifest
their desire to retain Col. Tracy, and
to object to having their post Office ar
bitrarily used by Col. Joyce to pay his
debts. They are perfectly competent
to select postmaster for themselves,
and would be most happy to do it with
out assistance from Col. Joyce or any
other outsider.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-05-06

nsfeIlow Birthday BooL

. This beautiful little book. which h,s
just been published at Boston. contains
on the left-hand pages carefnl sclec'
lions from the prose and poetical wr;.
tings of Mr.. Longfellow. On zach
right-hsnd page are the names of w oova
or less distinguished Individuals whose
birthdays are given upon that page.
Inc selections were made by Miss
Charlotte Fiskc Bates, who is very ia.
miliar with all of Mr.. Longfeliow's
writings; and she has succeeded in
making the selections in many ipstan.
ces express some trait or fact IN the
history of the persons named upon The
opposite pages, thus giving to the book
peculiar interest and value. The
book contains the latest portrait of Mr.
Longfellow, which is said to be one OF
the most satisfactory ever made
There are also twelve choice iIlustra.
lions, one for each month of the wear
The book is printed upon sized paper
30 that the blank spaces upon the right
hand pages are available for the wri
ting of autographs, the volume thu
forming a happy combination of gift
book and album. We doubt not tina
1t will be found very satisfactory il
many families as a convenient RECORD
of the birthdays of relatives an,
friends, each being indicated in tn,
handwriting of the person whose birth
day Is there stated. At the end of tn
book is an index of birthdays, which
when filed up, will facilitate referenc
to any of the names contained in tn
book. Altogether, il is a very delight
ful little volume, which can hardly fai
to have large circulation. The pric
of II is only dollar, and IL can be pre-
} cured of the local booksellers, or /
case of failure there, directly from th
publishers, Houghton, Miffiin & Co
} Boston, Mass.
Seeing and Thinking, by Prot. w. X
Clifford, F. r. s. No. % of the Hun
T boldt Library of Science, price Is cents
J. Fitzerald & Co., Publishers, 143 At
Ave., New York. Among the younge
, generation of scientific men, none CAV
fairer promise of attaining the yer
highest cminence than the author {
this work, Professor Kingdom Clifford
: of the University of LONDON, who die
year or two ago. And the work is i
: every respect worthy of his fame, b,
ing singularly clear exposition Of th
, leading principles of the physiology {
mind. II is in brief an easy introdu,
ton to the science OF Psychology
Files Of the library for sale by VIM. {
Alden.
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ANOTHER WASTE BURNING LoCoMo.
TIvEs.-The9 utilization of anthracite
waste, of which there are q hundred
millions Of tons around the mines and
breakers in Pennsylvania, is q most de.
sirable accomplishment, and the Globe
Company's inventions Will be of i'm.
mense benefit to all railroads using
anthracite coal for fuel. They have al.
ready refused the offer of one railroad ia
Pennsylvania for the exclusive use OF
their anthracite waste-burning patents
on the engines of that line. Although
that company offer ten per cent annual
ly on the entire capital of the Globe
Company, the manager would not re-
strict the use to one railroad, but decid-
ed to build locomotives exactly In ac-
cordance with the Globe Company's
plans and patents. These locomotives
will not differ materially In outward
appearance from the general style in
use, bnt be SO constructed internally as
to run with great economy and clean
illness to the advantage of all owning
railroad stocks and the comfort and
convenience Of the travelling public.
That the enterprise of the erection of
the Globe Company's Locomotive
Works will be exceedingly profitable
cannot be doubted, as the knowledge
OF the Globe Company's patents Is ex.
tended. The stock, In the Judgment
of many, will exceed In dividends any
ever paid by the American Screw Com.
pany. -[Boston Journal.
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STATE ITEMS.

Ludlow young people lave a tcle-
graph line. KY
The fret tow of the season came into
Sunday, from whitehall
burlington physicians report so
many cases of eye disease as to
amount almost to an epidemic.
A sturgeon weighing eighty pounds
was caught recently, between the North
sister Island and Long Point, Grand
Isle. s-ta--..-
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Central Vermont rail-
road will be held at st. Adams OH
May Is.
There are 1000 pupils In the Bur
lington public schools. There are 81 In
the high school and 134in the grammar
school.
Rev. j. A. Johnston of the Ludlow
Baptist church, has received call to
the pastorate of the first Baptist society
of Nashua, N. ii.
The houses and barns of Sarah Park
hurst and Peter Lafisn, in Brandon,
were burned last Friday afternoon,
both fires being accidental.
Brattleboro boasts of an industrious
young man who takes the Matrimonial
Journal, and keeps up regular CORE.
spondence with 80 or 40 girls.
B. Sawyer received severe injuries In
his head, kuees and sides by the flying
pieces of an iron pulley that burst II
his mill at South Vernon the other day
Rev. John c. Edgar, pastor of thu
Congregational church at HubbardtoD
died Friday of heart disease. Mr.
Edgar was one of the six hundred wht
rode "into the jaws of death" at Balak
lava.
John Denham, master mechanic o
the Champlain transportation com
pany at Shelburn Harbor, has recoiv
ed the appointment of United State
steamboat inspector for Lake Cham
plain
The prison commissioners have de
cided to build an addition of forty fee
to the workshop of the House of Cor
rection. This has been found neces
sary on account of the increase of tn
business ofthe contractors, M, r Brow
& Co.
The Ludlow Tribune tells of hem
egg down in that vicinity, laid the pre-
ceding Sunday, which bears aroun1 thu
large end in irregular though perfect,
legible characters slightly raised, thu
words "World ends 1881" The Tri
bune neglects to say who is the arts
that put the words on.
S. NJ. Waite, the Brattleboro defaul
ter, is slowly improving, though ulcer,
still form and break on his lungs. L
he continues as well as he is at present
he will undoubtedly be taken into
court at Windsor, May 18th. 1t is gen
orally understood and is unquestiona
bly, the fact that on being arranged he
will plead guilty.
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Champlaln Valley Homeopathic socIet,
ANNUAL MEETING.


The regular animal meeting of the
Champlsin Valley Homeopathic Socie
ty was held Tuesday, May 8, at The
ONCE OF DR.. Halsey, In Middlebury.
An election of officers for the ensu-
ing year resulted in the choice of DIR.
u. M. Ockford, of Burlington, for
president; DIR. Charles Gale, of Rut.
land, vice president; DIR. Halsey, of
Middlebury, as secretary and treasurer.
The present board OF censors, Drs.
q. =. e. Sparhawk of Burling-
ton. Waugh of st. Albsns and Smith
Of Addison, were reappointed. The
subject chosen for discussion was
"Children and their Diseases accident
to the Summer Months" DR.. Ock-
ford, of Burlington, prepared a paper
on ''The Diseases ana their Diagnosis"
DR.. Arthur, of Vergennes, on "The
Care and Management of Children du.
ring the heated Term" DIR. Waugh,
of st. Albans, on" The Diet of Children
during the Diseases" DR.. Sparbawk.
of Burlingto ION "The Treatment to be
employed while suffering from the
Same" ~
| The subject was one of vital interest
to all physicians at this time especially,
being on the eve of summer, when
many precious little lives are trusted to
our care. The discussion was entered
into by all present, and much practical
experience and many valuable hints
wero given. After the subject men,
TONED had been discussed, q patient
suffering from chronic bowel trouble
was introduced. The patient was
lquizzed and the remedy seiec ID in the
Judgment of majority of those pres
ent to help the case.
| pr. Sanborn reported very inter-
estiDg case of mastiter.
DR.. Gale reported a most interesting
and instructive case of general debility
resulting from intermittent fever, in
which fresh blood from sheep or cattle
was given by enema. The method OF
giving was described infinitely and the
result was gratifying in the extreme
the patient, frail, delicate girl, build,
ing up into healthy, hearty one.
/ The president appointed Drs. Halsey
aud Whittier as delegates to the Ameri.
can Institute of Homeopathy, which
meets at Brighton Beach In June
with Drs. Smith and Sanborn, alter.
mates. Such meetings pay In every
sense of the word, and none present
but could feel that some important
facts and suggestions were picked ut
fully compromising them for the time
spent. The meeting was we'll attend
ed, nine towns being represented
The society adjourned to meet in Ver-
gennes, in August.
+ F. W. HALsEY, Sec.
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NAY:-This is the month in which
the Trailing Arbutus is sought. Also
In this month, the front gate begins to
exhibit signs Of wear. The weather
prophets guess at "balmy atmosphere"
for May, and the poet writes his usual
"Lovely May" verses for the village
paper. This is all right: but If you are
wise you will get bottle of Baxter, 8
Mandrake Bitters and use them as
directed, to ward of Jaundice, Liver
Complaint and Biliousness. consequent
upon the warm temperature of this
month. Only 20 cents per bottle.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-05-06

RUTLAND's Rich MEN.-Fo flowing Is
q list of some of the heavy property
owners in Rutland. and the amount on
which they are assessed: Redfield
Proctor, real and personal, s278, 900 /;
Vermont Marble Company, personal,
e450, 900; w. Y. Ripley's estate, per-
sonal, Ssl 600; J. M. Haven, personal,
&s2 900; Ripley Sons, personaIss5, 900 |;
z. pierpoint, personal, 90 900; Rip
g Rspk personal personal, sss, &C., n Mrs. VIII
william Gilmore, personal, sioi, 200;
Charles Clement, personal, e267 600
John w. Crapton, real and personal,
Slt0, 900; ii. II. Baxter, real and per-
sonal, Sl91 900; II. II. Dyer, real and
personal, ell0,0 900; Edward II. Ripley,
real and personal, $4,000.
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CTATE OF VERMONT,

- District of Addison, IS.
In Probate Court held at Middlebury, within
and for said District, on the 18th day Of April
A. d. 1881.
z. p. Russell. administrator of the estate of VIM
P. Russell, late Of Middlebury, in said Dist
rct deceased has this day presented to said Court
his petition in writing, setting forth that 1t will
be necessary to self all of the real estate Of
said deceased representing that said sale is
necessaryfor the payment of the debts Of
said deceased, and all the heirs residing in this
state join In the said petition.
Whereupon, il is ordered by said court that said
application be referred to session Of this court
to be held ct the probate office at Middlebury,
O'Clock a. M. for hearing and decision thereon
And 1t is further ordered, that notice hereof
be given to all persons interested by publica-
in the Middlebury Register, newspaper pub.
lished at Middlebury, previous 10 said time ap-
pointed for hearing, that they may appear at said
time and If they see cause, object thereto.
BY the court-Attest,
LYMAN Il. KNAPP, Judge.
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Homicide ut BurIingtOn,

Last Saturday night Frank McCul.
Tough was fatally stabbed by Albert
Mercier whom he was pursuing. Nc.
Cullough with some friends had been
engaged in drunk at saloon, and Oh
he appearance of Mercier set upon him
THE weapon was Iocket knife, and
the victim was stabbed in the abdomen
and the intestine severed. He fingered
for some time before death came. Mer
cier was arrested the same night and
on Tuesday was taken before the city
court on charge Of murder in the first
degree, to which he plead not guilty.
II the facts are as stated II was o case
OF justifiable homicide, the prisoner
having clearly acted in self-defence.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-05-06

Sherman. He is the author and inventor of his
popular System; he imparts his secret to no one;
II Is applicable 70 all classes and cases, and un
der his reduced rate, within the reach of almost
every ono.
Patients can receive treatment and leave for
home the same day. DR.. Sherman's Book on
Rupture gives convincing proofs from profes.
sional gentlemen and others Of his successful
treatment 1t lie illustrated with photograph pic
lures of bad cases before and sfter cure, and il
sent to those who send 10 cents Principal Office
I25l Broadway. N. Y. Branch once, - Mix street.
Boston. Days in New York-Monday, Tuesday
Saturday. In Boston-Wednesday.T Thursday and
Friday. 8-iy
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OBITUARY.

I Henry S. Cross, who died In Bird
port, April IA, after few hours OF
violent Illness, to whom brief reference
was made in the Register, two weeks
ago, was native of Cornwall. When
young man, he went to reside in
Waltham. The last fourteen years he
lived in Bridport.
In his earlier years he frequently
taught school. Later in life he was
often chosen to prominent positions in
the service of the town, and sometimes
elected to the Legislature. He had the
confidence and esteem of his fellow
citizens in an unusual degree. He had
strong sense of justice, a deep SYM
pathy for human suffering, and was
thoroughly awake to the great evils OF
intemperance. He was prompt to con-
tend with these evils and to utter
freely his convictions at time when 1t
cost more to be a prominent temper.
ance man than it costs to day. In re-
ligious meetings, among his neighbors
as he met them, in the use of tracts and
other printed documents, he urged the
importance of this subject. In fact he
had much of the fervor and courage OF
a reformer.
J A man. of distinct opinions, which
when asked he was always ready TO
give, he contributed much 10 the vivac.
ity and interest of the Sabbath school,
and though his views and expressions
NAV not have always seemed strictly
orthodox, they served none the less to
arouse the attention and quicken the
thoughts of others. He was close
and stimulating listener on the Sab
bath, and one on whom the preacher
could always count for sympathy and
generous appreciation. Resolutions
embodying sense of his worn as a
man and christian were lately pre-
sented by members of his class and
unanimously adopted by the whole
school. He was man of vigorous in.
tellect, wide intelligence and strong
social feeling. Full of pleasant anec-
dote, "Reminiscences and lively fancy, of
warm, rich sunshine, he was always a
most genial and entertaining compan-
ion. The people of Bridport feel his
loss. During the last few years he
seemed less active and ambitious,
sometimes even depressed, owing no
doubt, to approaching disease.
Though in his SEVENTEEN year, he did
not appear old. His death came 30 I'M
expectedly as to shock his neighbors
and friends. In the morning engaged
about bis usual duties until nine
O'Clock, In three or four hours gone.
He leaves q wife and three children
who feel the strong staff is broken.
The funeral of Mrs. Martha r.
Stevens of Cornwall, who died at the
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-05-06

wIt would be the best thing for the
Republican party to throw Senator
Conkling overheard. A man OF such
overweening pride and selfishness that
he can consider nomination by the
president of sterling Republican and
an honest, able man who happens to
have incurred his enmity, as a "grost
personal insult to himself" had better
have leave to display his senseless arc
gance outside the party. We shall bt
greatly disappointed if our Vernon
senators do not set themselves
squarely in opposition to Conkling'
efforts TO defeat the confirmation o
Judge Robertson.
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DESPERATE CAsEs.-Many of the cases
which come to ms for treatment bv
Compound Oxygen are of a class
which no physician of any school would
undertake to cure. They are, in fact,
such as have run the gauntlet of expert.
ment within the regular schools OF
medicine, and OF quackery without,
patent Is reduced TO the saddest and
most deplorable condition, and one for
which relief seems impossible. No cur
alive Treatment can be subjected to a
severer test than is offered by these
cases. And yet, In many Of these, the
most brilliant results have followed the
use Of Compound Oxygen. A record
OF some OF these cases will be found In
our Treatise on Compound Oxygen,
which Is mailed free. Drs. Btarkey u
Palen, ll09 and I'LL Girard Street,
Philadelphia, Pa. ilr
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-05-06

EFFICIENTLY committee appointed
in caucus of the Republican Senators
waited upon President Garfield to con-
FIR with him on the proper mode OF
securing harmony in the party. To
this desirable end they invited the
president 10 withdraw the nomination
OF Judge Robertson as collector of the
Port of New York out of Difference to
the feelings of Senator Conkling, whose
harmony was severely disturbed by
the nomination. The propriety of this
request will at once strike every Re-
publican. Mr.. Conkling is gentleman
of gigantic intellect and force, whose
services to the country and party,
when you come to look mp his record,
are not very extensive, consisting prin-
cipally in serving Mr.. Conkling and
those who toady the same gentleman.
He is gentleman Of strong and very
sensitive feelings, which are always
grievously outraged when he cannot
have his own way. President Garfield
knows Senator Conkling, and knows
that, unless he makes all Federal
appointments to suit him, he will Of
fend him. 1t is strange, therefore G,
that President Garfield should have
been so rash, SO injudicious, as to have
made any appointments without first
obtaining Conkling's permission. 1t is
true that the constitution makes it the
duty of the president to make such
nominations as seem to him fit to be
made, and the same instrument makes
it the duty of Senator Conkling, with
his fellow senators, to act with the
president in appointing the officers 80
nominated. Ordinarily the constitu-
ton ought to be regarded, but it is
generally recognized that when the
constitution and Senator Conkling con-
flict, the constitution must go to the
wall, in order that the equanimity of
the senator's temper may not be dis
turbed and his feelings narrowed.
Bnt we regret TO say that the president
Is 80 utterly oblivious of the necessities
of the case, 30 lost to the neod of plac-
ing himself under the orders of the
New York senator, that he fatty re-
fused to withdraw the obnoxious NOM
ination. II is even said that he en-
phasized his refusal by bringing his
DIST down upon the table at which he
was sitting with such vim as to canse
the harmonizing committee TO turn
pale and jump from their seats under
the momentary belief that AN earth
quake had struck that region. Il is
extremely painful to see the president
90 careless of the "harmony of the
party" that lie is not willing TO dis
grace himself a little for the sake of
bringing sunshine once more on the
brow of Conkling, and thus secure the
needed "harmony of the party" We
are not superstitious, but In painfully
considering what the great senator
may do In his destructive wrath, we
cannot help anxiously recalling the
prophecy that the world is to come 10
an end this year. Cannot some one
reason with Mr.. Garfield, and convince
him that the American people elected
not him, but ConkIing, as president?
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kSTATE OF VERMONT,

~ Addison County, &C.,
In Probate Court held at Middlebury, within
A. ID. 1881.
whereas, a certain instrument In writing, un
ment OF Eliza Plat, late of Mddlebury, in
sa,d district DECEASED having been this day pre-
the Probate once: Therefore, il rs ordered
that all persons interested In the estate Of SAID
deceased be notified TO appear before said Court
trict. on the 23d day OF May, A. b. 1881, At 10 A
NJ, by publication of this order three weeks sue
cessively previous thereto. in the MiddIebury
Register, newspaper printed Mt Middlebury
aforesaid, to show cause, IL any they may have
why said instrument In writing should not b,
proved and allowed as the last will and tesla
ment of the said deceased. -
LYMAN Il. KNAPP, Judge.
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efficiently Burlington lady lost
her voice. A lot of single gentlemen,
learning of the case, at once made pre-
parations to start for Burlington to find
out whether the lady was already mar.
ried or not, when they were disguised
to learn that some meddlesome doctors
had restored her vocal organs to use.