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STATE ITEMS.

Several small liquor dealers In Char
lotte have been fined.
Mrs Martin Kivelin Of Rutland, IL
9th
Charles A. Samson, late of the North
Troy Palladium, Is 10 manage the new
paper al Swanton.
The Western Vermont Masonic
Union is 10 hold its seventh annual
meeting at Brandon, January 18th.
There are but eight cases on the
docket OF the Chittenden county
supreme court for the January term.
The catalogue OF the Now Hamp-
shire agricultural college shows thir-
teen students from Vermont In atten-
dance.
G. IL. Carpenter, of Enosburgh, took
three thousand pounds of honey from
fifty swarms of bees the past season.
The Congregational church ut Wood.
stock celebrated the ono huudredth
anniversary of Its organization last
week Monday.
The rains of last week greatly sweIled
the streams near Bellows Falls, and the
Connecticut river rose eight feet in one
night.
The total number of immigrants
landed at New York during the year
ending June 30th, was 385,O47, of
whom 304 were bound for Vermont.
\ commercial travellers association
has been organized In Burlington.
The association gave banquet at the
var Ness house on Saturday evening.
BurliDgtou's leading drug firm,
Wells, Richardson & Company, has
done business the past yearIof $780,.
900. This firm pays 800, 0cO annually
for advertising.
An attempt has lately been made to
set fire to the house of Dwight b.
Thomas, chief of police at North Ben.
nington. The act is believed to have
been inspired by those Interested In the
sale Of liquor, as Mr.. Thomas has been
active in the recent liquor prosecutions
in the village.
A young man at Holland has kept an
account of the income of his fathers
farm farm for the past year. From a
$4,000 farm they have sold 800 worth
and have paid out but $50 for hired
help. Besides what they have expepd.
ed they have had their living and have
as usual bountiful supply an hand for
winter.
Lansing Mills, who owns four-fifths
off the Weldon House, st. Albans.
bradley Barlow the other fifth, Offers
to sell his share for $24, 900, and give
"a, 900 to any yarty will run thelhouse
an strictly temperance principles.
The house cost over 1926, 900. He saws
it will never be reopened for apy pur.
pose 30 long as he holds the property in
his hands.
ssThe decision at the coroner's INQUEST
on the body of DIR. j. G. Stillman. re.
Gently found dead in the street at North
Pownal, is that he died of suffocstion
and exposure. His mouth was full of
mud. 1t is believed he fell from his
wagon, his horse having slipped and
fallen; and that In the struggle to get
up the horse kicked bis face and head.
the wounds upon which were not fatal,
though rather severe. Thei idea that
he was murdered is not entertained.
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The AMERICAN NATURALIST The
December No. of this valuable scientific
magazine has the following interesting
table of contents: Demerara; A sketch
of the progress of Botany in the Unit
ed States In 1880, by G f Bessey !;
Effects of Reversion TO the Wild State
In our Domestic Animals, by ID Ca
ton; On the Microscopic and General
Character of the Peach Tree affected
with the "Yellows," by W X Higley I;
Intelligence in a Snail; Botanical
Notes from Tucson. The Editors Ia
BILE has an interesting editorial ON Biol
ogy as Profession; Recent Literature
notices several new books and pamph.
lets of interest; the General Notes are
full and valuable as usual. The pub
fishers, Nc Gala Il sloyely, Philadel-
phia, offer enlargements and improve.
ments for the coming year, and IL will
undoubtedly prove to most persons in
terested 10 natural science the most
useful American publication they can
obtain.
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EWe have received a copy of a
"Memorial in favor of the Hennepin
CanaW proposed water way sixty
Eve miles long to connect the Missis-
sippi at Rock Island with the Illinois
and Michigan Canal at Hennepin.
The memorialists want the govern
ment to build the canal. They show
that it would cost less then four mil
lions Of dollars, while it would save the
monopoly-stricken western farmers
more than eight times that sum yearly.
The memorialists want us to give the
measure our "active support" 1t
strikes us that If such enormous profits
a. the above are possible on such a
small Investment, it is the best thing
offering for private capital. 1t is
strange that the memoralists are not
sharp enough TO take advantage of this
splendid chance to make anywhere
from five hundred TO eight hundred
per cent dividend on capital yearly.
We don't think government ought to
steal tnis bonanza from private CAPT
talists.
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NEW YORK, 1882.

THE SUN for 1882 will make its oroo,,. 60,
revolution under the present mana eemant shis,
ing as Always, for All, big and little mean and
and Democratic. depr nu oIdpannaPpy, Republican
gent, and obtuse. THE suns iioh,' in'ei III
gnnisi a AMI w9mankind Of every sort; but its
discomfort on the blisterIng hocs Pours NOT
persistently wicked. '"oAs OF the
+, Ihe sun Of ls6s was newspaper ola new Kind
~ discarded many of the FORMS and n m,,, n,nu.
OF tue supcrnuous words and phrases 81 .i ,i
Journalism. IL undertook 10 report in rrash
s suvSinct way ali the news Of he
commenting upon affairs with The fearIessya anu f
nerin,nn, ,sas I'm The success of This eS
Cd permsaent ~ isnreess Of THE SUN Ii effect
nsw,ssspapefs. Every important ouynad a,nI
rarcn n Tas peen modified aud betered bv ny
THE SUN ofIss2 WILDE tlie s.ro,if 60.
trntnteiilng, and interesting newspsnetu 'poken'
by q liberal use of the means With pP ,,.,,
ever before III etter than
We shall print all the news. npt,ou ,,,.
rea , az shape, and measuring its imporiance
interest t tbe nsonn Yarusticf, but by It's real
House square IS not the first considera No. ,
r rmn SGh. whenever anything happens worth
Brookivn nv IN ~ III INC particulars, whether in
In IN polltlcs we have decided opinions: and are
be un1ersto no express them in language that can
men and events. That habit is The opiv ea, W
TiiB SUNS political course. wv o"iy secret Oh
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III market reports, and liberal proi,orion Of
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American MerinO Sheep Register.

The growth Of this society has in
deed, been marvellous. It was organ
lied on June 10, 1881, and now repre-
sents family of breeders extending
from Vermont to Texas. This society
now numbers over one hundred men,
bers, and over six thousand sheep have
already been registered. It is expect.
ed the number will soon reach ten
thousand, after which the work will be
published and given 10 the world.
Only about seven months since a few
of us met to discuss the necessity of
establishing National Register by
which we can obtain and preserve n
true and correct record of ali the fIocks
of the improved American merino sheen
which shall be found to be of pure ma.
rino blood. Within that time we have
not only organized into q living and
progressive body, but we have extend.
ed the circle of cooperation through
nearly all of the great wool producing
states of this nation. From Texas and
the entire line of the Mississippi states
come letters OF inquiry, and IL 10 but a
matter OF time when these INQUIRIES
shall develop into cooperative work
ing organization, stimulated with hon
est Intentions, governed by no ring or
self assuming dignity, but by Q united
purpose they viii work to produce an
Improvement and protect those who
merit reward for their own labor and
industry.
! have recently examined twelve
focks Of sheep in the state of New
York for the American Merino Sheen
Register. Two of those hocks were
registered In the Vermont State Sheen
Register, aud nine of them were regis-
tered In tho New York State Sheep
Register.
Any one desiring information can
obtain 1t from A. H. Craig, secretary
of American Sheep Register, Cald-
wells Prairie, Wisconsin.
G. r. JONES.
Hubbardton, vt.
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A YOUNG WTE's SoRRow.-The
Glen's Falls Times says that Nellie
Underwood, 18 years old, of Whiting,
recently surprised her parents by the
birth OF child. She also presented to
their astonished eyes marriage certifi-
cate which showed that she was marri-
ed last spring at Crown Point, N. Y,
to William Bacon, aged 10 years, a
student at the Granville IN. Y. militia
ry academy, and son of Rev. w. N.
Bacon of Shoreham. The husband, il
Is alleged, refuses to visit his wife, al
though she and her child are lying at
the point af death.
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Tricks Of The Trade.

Especial Dispatch TO the Kansas City Journal
FIT. SCoTT' KAs., Oct. 21.-Somc in
teresting facts have been recently
brought ont in the whisky cases which
have been tried in this city since the pro-
hibitory amendment went into effect.
The first case tried attracted conaGera-
BILE attention, being understood as q
test case, but tho defendant woe induced
to openly violate the law, and the
ground was contested inch by inch.
Every advantage was taken by the de-
PENDANTS attorney, but without avail.
The verdict was guilty and fine of 800
and costs. In this case the defendant
had built upstairs what was called a
"post-office," his patrons rented boxes
and owned their own bottles, the boxes
were provided with locks and keys
when man desired drink he went 10
his postoffice, opened the box and
found his bottle filled; when the bottle
was empty he deposited so much
money in bank down stairs, which
was equivalent to the price of a bottle
of the ardent, always getting credit for
it on the "passbook" every time he
drew "check" on the bank, he pro.
ceeded to the "postoffice" and drew
his bottle. Several ordinary cases have
been tried and in every case the verdict
has been the same. One case was
where man, a well known business
man and strictly temperate, went to q
restaurant for the purpose of treating
friend. The proprietor not being In,
he called for lemonade. On tasting. It
he remarked "that is not good.
guess I'll get stick in mine." The
clerk, without a word, took bottle
from under the counter and poured out
dram of old Bourbon into the glass.
In vain the proprietor protested that
his clerk was the guilty one and not he,
the court thought different and fined
him 800 and costs. He spcnt a week
in Jail before the fine was paid. Vari-
GUS devices are used to cover the sale.
but in almost every case detection and
conviction is sure. The last case was
against one of the proprietors of q
boarding house near the Gulf railroad
depot. In the trial 1t leaked out that
he had hen coop Ia one corner of his
yard; that coop had round hole in Il
just sufficient to admit a mans hand.
Above the hole was shelf, The meney
Generally fifty cents) was deposited
on the shelf and the bottle of whisky
taken of. 1t was proven by witness
for the defense that the money was
for the proprietor of the boarding
house and the bottle placed there by
his instruction. The proprietor was
fined 500 and costs.
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RESCUED FROM William j.
Coughlin. of SoHerville, Mass, says !:
"In the fall of 1876 l was taken with
bleeding of the lungs, followed by a
severe cough. lost my appetite and
flesh aud was confined to my bed. In
1877 l was admitted TO the Hospital.
The doctors said l had hole In m
lung as big as half dollar. At one
time report was around that / was
dead. | gave up hope, but friend
told Inc of DR.. Halls Balsam for the
Lungs. got bottle, when to my
surprise, l commenced to feel better
than for three years past.
81 write this hoping every one affiict-
ed with diseased lungs will take DIR.
William Halls Balsam, and be convin-
ced that consumption can be cured.
can positively say 1t has done more
good than all the other medicips l have
taken since my sickness.
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Publications Received.

MRIsTERsCHAFT SYSTEM OF TEACHING
GERMAN.-We have already spoken of
this work In connection with the first
number. We have now received
twelve parts, and careful examine
ton shows that this system affords a
valuable method of acquiring suffi.
cient working acquaintance with the
language for all practical needs, and
from solid foundation for thorough
study of it. 1t is claimed, and we
think with Justice, that short time
each day spent in practice by the Meis-
tershaft system will in a comparatively
few weeks enable one to converse read
lily in German. Every one interested
in German will find 1t worth while to
obtain the set of fifteen numb ers.
Published by l. X, Funk & Co., 10 and
~ Dey Street, New York.
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Abstract by pupil, of tho address
before the High School, delivered by |
Rev. Charles Hubbard:
Burmah has an area of 800 900 |
square miles, of which 10000 or 100,-
900 square miles belong to the British |
government.
Raugoon is the capital and one of the
largest cities IN Burmah: also Mauhau-
In is one of the principal cities.
Burmah lies in that portion Of the
globe where the year is divided into
two seasons, viz: the wet and the dry.
The wet seasons commence about
the middle OF May and last until the
middle of October. There is no rain
whatever from November 20 April. 1t
is stated that during the wet season the
average depth of rain fall is 200 inches,
which is ten times as much as our ave.
rage depth of rain annually.
Rice is sown during the wet season
and ripens at the end of It. Rice is
called paddy before it is husked or
thrashed, and 1t is the chief article of
diet, and great quantities of it are ex-
ported.
1t is very unhealthy at the close of
|
from the decaying vegetation; also at
that period of the year there are east
winds which are very injurious to
those who come in contact with them,
| for the reason that they bring with
them poisonous vapors, which arise
from vast tracts Of land covered with
decaying vegetation.
The travelling during the rainy sea-
son is very dangerous, on account OF
the ground being saturated with water.
The travelling is made by elephants and
boats, also on foot. But long journeys
by land are made on elephants, which
are used as much in Burinah as horses
are here in America.
Elephants are very sure footed ami
mails, and can be used with safety In
climbing mountains, and they even
climb such steep places that they get
down on their knees and use their
trunks as we use our hands in pulling
themselves up the steep activity: also
when they descend, they drag their
hind legs.
There are many nationalities repre-.
sented in Burmah; but they are
mostly of the MoDgolian race.
The Karenssseem to be the most civil.
| lized, and their religion is more like
the Christian religion than any other
religion of heather nations.
The Burmans believe in non.exis.
tencc, but they believe that before they
arrive at the stage of non-existence
after death, they are changed to ami.
mails and insects of every description,
and remain in that state an indefinite
length of time. So, for that reason q
Burman will never destroy the life OF
animal or insect, not even mosquito,
for if he does, he thinks he may be
killing his mother or some other of his
relatives.
Nearly all our common animals are
found there, and besides, there are
many other varieties, viz: buffaloes,
monkeys, eopards, tigers, lions, bears
also many kinds of birds and reptiles,
and innumerable insects, especially
mosquitoes.
Nearly all our trees are found there,
especially the hard wood trees. There
are evergreens and banyans, and few
others; but there are many varieties OF
grasses. The largest species of grass is
the bamboo. This grows to the ex-
traordinary height of one hundred feet
in the short space of three months, and
some of the largest grow twelve inches
in diameter.
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Fletcher Tarble, of Swanton, is
about starting paper in that town,
with the idea, doubtless, that his own
enormous popularity and cash is going
to run the Courier of T. M. Tobin
right off the field. Tarble, If he would
look about, would find other parties
who have done the same thing under a
similar idea, and have been woefully
fooled thereby. The first thing he
knows he will sink the whole of that
$4,000 which he is going to extract
from Tobin, and have nothing to show
for 1t but some Improbable printing
mate rial.
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II Gen. Grant is said to have be-
come convinced that Gen. Fifty John
Porter has wrongfully suffered from
the findings of the court martial, and
that he ought to be restored to his rank
and pay in the army. Ifthat is the case
history has got to be entirely recon-
struc.ed, for the country has for long
time had Its mind made up that Gen.
Porter's wilful disobedience of orders
caused disastrous defeat to the Un-
ion arms at critical time of the rebel
lion.
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u-1he evidence on both sides 10 the
disgusting Guiteau case is all in, and
there is reasonable ground for hope
that 1t may be ended within two weeks.
II the verdict is against the prisoner 1t
IL sincerely to DO hoped that the pa
tience of the people will not be strain
ed by any merely dilatory appeals on
the part of the assassin's counsel.
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Explaining the Result.

Mr.. EDrToK:-
No good general on the eve of bat
tie Issues program of his movements
snd sends 1t into the camp Of his enc.
my, but this lie what was done by your
correspondent "Friend of the Drunk
ard" last week when he called upon
the temperance voters TO rally at the
village meeting and elect none but to-
tai abstinence men for trustees. His
letter did not have the desired effect
but thoroughly aroused the opposition,
and the following is the result:
TEET0TAL. OTHERWISE.
T. N. Chapman. A. j. Marshall,
ID. Rider,
j. Buttolpb,
Gasca Rich,
Frank A. Bond,
@. @. Peck.
II "Friend of the Drunkard's" letter
had not been published we could have
elected true blue board and enjoyed
- lively . jamboree as they are having
In Bt. Adams and Bellows Falls.
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THAT ELoPEMBNT AT BRIsroL.-The
New York Sun of Tuesday has the fol.
lowing dispatch from Bristol, regard
ing the elopement recently mention
ed In this paper: "Deacon BENJAMIN
F. Sheldon of the Advent church, an
old resident OF this village, aged about
forty years, has eloped with Miss Jen-
nile Clark, aged seventeen, leaving his
wife aud family In straitened cir.
cumstances. Deacon Sheldon was In
the employ of the Bristol Manufactur.
Ing company, engaged In the manufac-
ture of collins. He has for some time
past expressed an intention 10 invest a
small capital In the boot and shoe bust
uess, and under this pretext he
recently induced his wife to sign a
mortgage on the homestead, and he
raised about 81 900 by quietly dispos-
ing of most Of his available effects.
Some three week ago Sheldon's wife
went to Brandon, VT, some twenty
miles south Of this village, on visit to
relatives. Meanwhile, Deacon Shel.
don had for his housekeeper Miss Jen-
ME Clark, an adopted daughter of his
next door neighbor, Samuel Stewart.
Miss Clark was member of the same
church with Sheldon, and pupil In
the Sabbath school Glass of which Shell
don was the teacher. On Frinay last,
on receiving intelligence of the intend.
ed return of his wife from her Bran
don visit, the couple took tho morning
train south with tickets purchased fof
New York city, where they are now
supposed to be. The wife Of Sheldon
is a woman q prepossessing appear
ance, while Miss Clark IL said to be
very plain looking. Sheldon has here
tofore borne an unidentified rcputa-
ton In this community, and his con-
duct has astonished his friends. He
had a pleasant homo on one of the
principal streets. He had managed to
sell most of his property, and leaves
his wife and childnen-two daughters,
aged nine and eleven respectiyely--in
straitened circumstances.
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CTATE OF VERMONT,

~
- Addison District, SIS.
BE 1T REMEMBERED, That alta session of the Pro.
bate Court holden at Mddlcbury, within and for
said District, on the 22l day of December, A. d.
1881.
Whereas, Wm. ii. Plat, administrator of the
estate of Ann Ahern, late of Shoreham,
in said District, deceased, has this day
presented to said Court his petition in writing
setting forth that it will be necessary to sell q
part of the real estate of said deceased, for the
payment of the debts and charges of adininistra.
tom and also that it will be beneficial for all par.
ties interested therein to sell the whole of the
real estate OF said deceased, and therein
making application to said court for license to
make such SALE
1t is ordered, that all persons interested in the
estate of said deceased be notified to appear he.
fore said Court at the Probate Office in Middle.
bury in said District, on the 10th day of January
A. ID. 1852, at 10 O'Clock a. m. by publication ofthis
order three weeks successfully previous thereto
in the Middlebury Register, a newspaper printed
at Middlebury aforesaid, to show cause, if any
they may have, why said license should not be
granted.
80 JOHN C. sTAPLEToN, Register.
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Mihhlshurp Rsglster
FRIDAY. JANUARY 6, 1882.

wOur Vermont members have
places on COMMITTEES as follows: Col.
joyce Is chairman of Pensions, Boun-
ties and Back Pay, and second on In
valid Pensions and Alcoholic Liquor
Traffic; Mr.. Tyler is on Education
and Labor and the Census; Gen. Grout
IL on Territories and Expenditures on
Public Buildings.
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n Postmaster General Howe his

n Postmaster General Howe has
for son-in-law, Enoch Totem who is
counsel for Brady and other star route
suspects. This indicates that the star
route prosecutions will be pushed with
PECULIAR vigor by the new postmaster
general, who has splendid chance to
get posted on the sublime innocence of
Mr.. Brady ct al, from their counsel,
with whom he will reside portion OF
the time in Washington.
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IMPORTANT.

Whenyou visit or leave New York CITY, save
Baggage Expressage and Carriage Hire, and stop
at Grand Union Hotel, opposite Grand Central
Depot. 40 rooms, fitted up at cost of one mil.
lion dollars, reduced to 81 and upwards per day
European plan. Elevator. Restaurant supplied
with the best. Horse cars, stages and elevated
railroad to all depots. Families can live better toI
less money at the Grand Union Hotel than at any
other first class hotel in the city. Ally