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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-04-14
An Old Wite,s Valentine.

The old wife stood at her garden gate
The eve of st. Valentines day;
She watched for the post, that like Fate
Just stopped and then ga!loped away;
Just stopped, and Then, la tho waning light.
Passed over the hill and out Of sight,
Her grandchild tugged at her shawl and gown
And her daughter called. sweet and clear.
Mother come in, for tho cakes arc brown,
And tho boys and father arc here"
'Ah, yes" che said, "and the night is cold;
quite forget that I'm growing old.n
At breakfast lay at tho fathers place
A letter as white as the snow;
Ho looked at it with curious face,
And said, "Now want to know p'
rho boys ali smiled; the mother grew
Der face AID throat crimson hue.
lie opened the dainty letter then,
And 10 IN it's satiny fold
Was painted rose, snd torget-me-not
And lilies with hearts OF gold;
And, under the whole just one sweet line
Forever, forever, tiny Valentine"
He touched Tho note with a tender care,
And he went to his sweet wife'e side;
lie sroked with his hand her snow-white hair
And he kissed her with loving pride,
Saying, with smiles nd misty tears,
"My Valentine through fifty years.'
ooh, boys" he said, with youthful pride,
AFTER fifty years of life,
If you fnl In your hone, and by your aile,
fair AMI a faithful wife,
Count your lfo lucky, as count mine,
And Loyalty kiss your Valentine"
Mary A. Ccrr.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-04-14
Wet aud Dry Thuaderstorms.

A correspondent of the Londou Times,
writing from Trsnsvaal, Sonlh Africa,
says: Every afternoon tremendous
storms of thunder aud lightning burst
upon us. These were OF two kinds,
the wet and the dry. Tho first ia harm
less, though noisy; the second ,x, ,eed
ingly dangerous. During the dry thun.
derstorms, which were prevalent
toward the end OF October. the light
ming seemed quite Supplying. 1t was
unaccompanied by either wind or rain.
The angry fisshes were followed almost
simultaneously by awful crashes of
thunder, which seemed to shake the
earth. One or two tents were struck.
and the grass was set fire TO IN several
places in sight of our camps. but no lifa
was lost, only some arms damaged.
Tho dry thunderstorms were soon Col.
lowed by wet ones. Tho rain, mixed
up with enormous hailstones, sonsed
the thirsty earth. and every little crack
ON the veidt bore its burden CT water to
the yaal, which rose and became i'm
passa5le.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-04-14
rnMluSt.


In New York there arc about fiva
hundred venders OF sawdust, having a
capital of two hundred thousand dol
lars invested, and doing business
amounting to two hundred thousand
dollars annually. Forty years ago the
mills were glad to have the sawdust
carried away; twenty-five years ago it
could be bought at fifty cents load,
but the price has been increased until
now it brings three dollars and half
load at the mills. 1t is used at the
hotels, eating groceries and
other business houses. 1t is wet and
spread upon foors in order to make tho
sweeping cleaner. Plumbers use :
great deal about pipes, and builders to
deaden walls and floors Soda water
men and packers OF glass and small az
ticles of every kind use it, and dolls
and some living creatures are more or
less stuffed with it. Washington
Market takes two or three loads a day,
great deal is spread on the piers, and
stables take many loads day. Yellow
pine makes the best sawdust, as it is
the least dusty, and has good, healthy
smell. But any white wood dust will
do. They make great deal OF black
walnut sawiust, but it will not sell, so
it is burned.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-04-14

The lion tanner attached to men
sgerie at Edinburgh, after the lions had
been fed, was leaving their cage, when
he slipped and fell. This accident
proved an Irresistible temptation to one
OF the lions. who, although 1t had al
ready dined, made a rush at him and
seized him by the fleshy part of the arm
above the elbow. Being recalled. how
ever, to sense of propriety by sharp
blow, the lion loosed its hold, leaving
only the marks OF its teeth on the arm
of Its victim. The lion tanner having
dressed tho wound himself, subsequent.
ly reappeared in the menagerie and put
the animals through their usual per-
formances.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-04-14
TRAINS LEAVE MIDDLEsuRY.
PoST-OFFICE NOTICE.

MAILS ARRIVE.
rom Ripton, Granville, Hancock, East
Middlebury, Cornwall, West Corn.
wall and Bridport.. ................ IBIS A. NJ
Way mail from north ................ 9:5I T.. NJ.
New York, Rutland and Albany.......4: 10 A. NJ.
Way mall iron sOuth.................3;25 ~ =. NJ.
MAILS CLOSE.
way mall going SOUTH. .... :30M
y ly mail going north. 2: 80 i. N.
FOR Ripton, Granville, Hancock, East
MiddlcDury, Cornwall, West Corn
wall and Bridport.. rt....................4 100 l.. NJ
.iosed mail Tor Boston and Rutland.... LAO Z. NJ
closed mall for New York and Albpnr 7:45P NJ
MAILS ARRIyE.
trDm New iIavou, the North, New York. Bost on
ard tho wost through Burlington, 80. Pm.
From Now llaven, tho south, New York, Bos-
on, unl tho West. w l.. III.
From RlGimond, hulungton, Huntington Cen
er. and 5tarksboto, 100 p. VI. Mondaya Wcdnes-
ays and Frilavs, at 80 u. nj.
trO,n Lincoln, j q. NJ.
From South 5tarksborV three times week ir.
gulariy
.egularl
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-04-14

All work warrantsd. Club orders amounting
to 10 returned nee. Ny knives repiated when
worn, At half price. W. :. AID IN wifi act agent
hze. tor send postal FOR price eards.)
shop over Ksse.' store. nuiland. VI. near depot.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-04-14

All the evidence at present attainable
makes the distance OF the sun from the
earth 02. So. 600 miles, With probable
error OF ole quarter OF ons per cent. OF
225 600 miles.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-04-14

The talent OF success is nothing
more than doing what you can we'll;
and doing well whatever you do, with
out thought Of fame.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-04-14

Last year there were $50 persons
killed and 32s injured through boiler
explosions in the United States.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-03-16
FACTS AND FIGURES.

Seventy patents were issued to
women from the United States Patent
Office last year.
In Gold Hill, New, houses and lots
which a few years ago were valued at
from So, 900 to So, 600 each are being
raffled Off
Major Eaton, the corn pepper and
seller of Lowell. Mass, has popped, in
thirty years of business, three thousand
bushels of corn, seasoned them with
three barrels of salt. aud made $4,000
a year.
The fastest passage ever made un-
der sail from Hong Kong to San Fran
cisco, has been accomplished by the
Wandering jew, n Maine built vessel,
which covered the distance in thirty
four days
The oyster fishing and packing in
dustries of MARYLAND and Virginia give
employment TO 40, ,691 hands who re-
ceive wages to the amonnt of 56, $685.
444 yearly. The amount invested in
this business is SO, soc, 976.
Under the license system New York
receives annually S537, 17S, %, Phila-
delphia, $153, ,616.S2; Chicago, S263,-
$40. 65; Boston, $26z,845; Louisville,
1924, 203.2 21; San Francisco, S420,-
1920; st. Louis $3.50, 036.99, and Gin
cinnati, $40, ,393.27.
According to Herr Richard Andreo
there are 6. 139, 900 Jews in the world.
Fivc-sixths live in Europe. Asia has
1872, S47. The greatest proportion is in
Roumauia, or twice rs high as in Rus
sa. Norway, he says, contains only
thirty-four.
During 1881, at the Philadelphia
Mint alone, 80, l74,635 new coins wore
made, viz. 2,200 double eagles (S20);
3,S77, 100 eagles ($10); 5,708, 800 half
eagles; $50 SD pieces $50 quarter
eagles; 1900 gold dollars; ?, 163, ,975
silver dollars; 10, 975 half dollars; r.
975 quarters; "a, ,975 dimes; 1855 five
cent pieces; 1,0Sl ,575 three cent pieces;
39,211,5 575 cents, and $50 "trade dol
lars " Total value, $40, 976, 1864. To
count these pieces, twenty-four persons
would have to work nearly nine hours
every week day in the year, and count
one piece every second.
There are 300, 600 dogs in our State.
What is fed to those dogs would make
10000, 600 pounds of pork net. At six
cents per pound this would bring So
400, 900. This sum would build 3, 400
schOol-houses at 81, 900 piece. Nash
UiIIe Bdnncr. Yes; but just imagine
every man waking in the morning TO
find himself without a dog-no dog TO
kick. Allowing one dog to one man,
there might be 100000 suicides as the
result of the disappearance of the 300,-
600 dogs, not to mention the universal
despair of families and the starvation of
millions Of fieas. Once you 60 into sta
tistics, there is no making an end
Louisville COUTjer-,IOatYHdi.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-03-16
CONDENSED TELEGRAMs.

THE bill for q commission ON the al
coholic liquor traffic passed the Senate
March 10th, by 81 to IA.
SERGEANT MASON, who shot at Gui
teau, has been sentenced to be di shonorably
discharged from the army and impris oned
for eight years at hard labor.
RICHARD S. FAY, prominent and
wealthy BOstOnian, committed suicide by
blowing out his brains with revolver, on
board the steamer Tennessee, while on a
trip South for the benefit Of his health.
Some years ago he was stabbed by the late
DIR. Aver, of Lowell, Mass, but recovered
almost entirely from the effects of the
wound.
THE Executive COmnEttee of the So
ciety of the Army of the Tennessee have
completed arrangements for the fifteenth
annual reunion, which is to be held in st.
Louis on May 10 and IL.
r. II. CORNWALL, a trusted clerk in
the Fourth National Bank, New York City,
has been stealing for the past three months,
but has at last been found out. He was at
his post i'm the bank when the discovery was
made, and as soon as he saw that he had
been detected he confessed the ''embezzle-
ment" of some $50. 900. Cornwall is married
and has large family. He was prominent
member Of a Methodist Episcopal Church
in Brooklyn, and for several years Superin-
tendent of its Sunday school.
AT San Quentin, Cal, March Sth, an
unprovoked and murderous assault was
made by a Chinamau with hatchet on Mrs.
Schloser, wife of Henry Schloser, for many
years manager of the furniture business at
the prison. All Bing, a prisoner, had been
working for several months in the family rs
a servant, and everything, so far as known,
had been pleasant. On being let out
of his cell he went to Mrs. SchlO-
ser's house as usual, got breakfast ready
and informed Mrs. Schloser. She went in
TO the dining room, took a seat 1T the table
and commenced eating, when the Chinaman
stole up behind her and without any notice
whatever struck her three blows with a
hatche, using the blupt part. She received
one blow On the shoulder and two on the
head, fracturing E her skun.
S. H. CoNDICT, a director of the Me-
chanics' National Bank, of Newark, y. f.,
has been arrested on civil suit brought by
Receiver Frelinghuysen, bail being fixed at
$3.50, ,00O. The charge is that Condict had
knowledge of the situation OF the bank and
concealed it from the other directors. and
that the loss 10 the bank after his knowledge
was acquired was 500. 200. and that he per-
sonally profted by coneealing such informa-
tion.
TRAINS were delayed by heavy snow
storms in Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Kan-
sas, and Texas.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-03-16
Brought to Time.

A young man on street in Steubeil-
Vile, with a fez cap, a fragile cane, and
smoking a vile cigarette which awakened
a suspicion in the min ds Of the neighbors
that q dead mule was in the immediate
vicinity. stepped off the sidewalk to al
low a woman to pass.
Thank YOU" she said.
q Not at all, madame; ] assure you /
always give way to the weaker sex.
The lady slowed up when she heard
this, and came back to the young man.
- What did you observe, sir?''
a said (smile foreed) that / always
gave way to the weaker sex"
y .. All, did you, " pursued the woman,
grabbing him with a firm hand by the
throat-latch. DO you know who you
are (shake) calling the (shake, shake)
weaker sex?''
"I-ugh that is, I-mean to say
you hurt my neck-politeness is consti-
tutional in ur-ouch-family.'
"'Tis, hey! Well (shake, shake,
shake) if you think I'm one Of the
weaker sex you are off your reckon
ing"
Here she gave the young man a
dextrous flip which spun him three
times around, after which he fell under
a fence, while his cane and fer cap flew
over into. a bed Of last years holly
hooks"
Now, after this, remember young
man, you cant play no weak sex game
on me. / propose to vote before that
dyspeptic-lookihg moustache of yourn
has more than seven hairs on one side
and nine on the other SteubeHUttte
Republican
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-03-16
MISCELLANEOUS.

WAR has broken out in Bath County,
virginia, between the natives and party OF
surveyors engaged in measuring of a large
tract OF land belonging to Gen. b. +. Butler.
The surveyors were attacked by seventy
five Virginians, and, after n sharp engage
ment, in which 100 shots were fired and sew
cral persons wounded, surrendered at dis
cretion and left the country.
WESLEY COBB, his wife, and seven
children, living at Thomaston, UpsOn Coun-
ty, Ga, were recently poisoned by eating
biscuit mixed with cotton-seed oil. They
were ont Of lard, and having read that cot
ton seed oil was a good substitute, worked
some OF it up IN the dough. All who par
took were seized with violent convulsions
and vomiting, but recovery was thought
possible in each case.
JEWISH citizens of Brooklyn, n. Y.
met on the 5th, entered pr otest against the
persecution of Israelites I'm Europe, and ap-
pointed a committee TO solicit subscriptions
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-03-16
Leaving a Man in the Lurch.

1t was on n street car coming up
from the Union Depot yesterday A
man with a very hoarse voice looked
across the aisle at man with country
satchel between his feet, and said:
"Wintry day, isn't itP''
Hey?" called the other, as he put
his hand to his ear
- Seems like winter, doesn't itP'
shouted the man with the hoarse voice.
Hey? hey?" asked the deaf man.
+" He says" began a man who was
standing up, che says it seems like win
ter"
At this moment the hoarse-voiced
man rose up and slid out Of the car.
As he did so the deaf man rose up,
laid two parcels on the seat, and called
QUIT
Speaker louder-rm deafr'
''He says itseems like winter!' bawied
the man standing up.
tWho SAYS sOp'
He turned around to the hoarse-voiced
man. but that person had skipped
Who says so?'' demanded the deaf
man.
.'I-I-why, / say So
" Well. what Of it?'' Haven't sense
enough 10 know that 1t il winter wealth
er? Don't try any Of your guys on me
or I'll knock the top Of your head otf?"
Then the deaf man sat down and the
.smiddlemann sneaked out and dropped
of the car and said he would spend the
rest Of his life looking for the hoarse7
voiced man. Detroit Free Press
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-03-16
WIT AND WISDOM.

"A man born at sea cannot be proud
of his native land.
Kick your corn through a window
glass and the pane is gone forever.
In old England they.used TO hang
woman for merely hooking dress.
-Moonbeams are She strongest tim
bers used in building castles in the air.
N. o. PjcGyatne.
1.-THE baby elephant isn't an ms-
thetic, but its front legs are two and its
hind legs two too. Ptiladellhia ChJon-
icle- Herald.
If we were to follow the absurd rule
never to speak until we have something
TO say many of us might just rs well
have been born dumb.
Milwaukee is still ticl1led over the
fact that she is the windiest city in the
United States. She doesn't have To
keep a dish-cloth out on the line all the
week to dry it.-Detrou Free Press.
An Ohio journalist fired twenty-six
shots at a stuffed alligator lying on n
sand-bank, and then paid a boy two
shillings to tell him whether he was
cross-eyed or only stone blind.
If you would relish food, labor for
it before you take it; if you would en-
Joy clothing, pay for it before you wear
it, if you would sleep soundly take
clear conscience TO bed with you
"A celebrated lawyer said that the
three most troublesome clients he ever
had were a young lady who wanted TO
be married, married woman who
wanted divorce, and an old maid who
didn't know what she wanted
-It'5 a deep mystery-the way the
heart turns to one woman out Of all the
rest he s seen in the world, and makes
IL easier for him to work seven years for
her, like Jacob did for Rachel, sooner
than have any other woman for the ask
ing.
-Teacher-John, what are your boots
made of? Boy-Of leather. Teacher
Where does the leather come fromP
Boy-From the hide of the OK. Teacher
What animal, therefore, supplies you
with boots and gives you meat TO eatP
Boy-My father.-EEchange.
~" Can pa make a circus, ma?' II
don't know, Johnny. ] suppose he
could if he had great deal Of money TO
buy horses and wild animals But why
do you ask, johnny" 20, nothing
much. Only ! saw that CASTOR fellow,
that you told sis not to have anything
to do with, standing with his arm around
her at the back gate last night; and he
said to sis, Il s'pose if your old man
came around now he would make cir
cus;' and sis laughed and said: You
bet - Chicago Tribune.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-03-16
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.


Milwaukee organized six Baptist
congregations during the past year.
-Camp-meetings are only just being
introduced among the Methodists of
Australia.
Jacob Sleeper has been Superin-
tendent of Methodist Sunday-school
in Boston for fifty-two consecutive
years.
All the Princeton College boys have
signed pledge to be good and not kick
up any more bobberies, and worthy DIR.
McCosh is much rejoiced,
The Presbyterians of Ireland are
thus early making arrangements for the
Pan-Presby yterian Council, which meets
in Belfast in 1881.
j. S. Marquee, of Bogota, United
States of Colombia, a student in a busi-
ness college in Poughkeepsie, N. Y, tele-
graphed his father the other day for
permission to remain and complete
his course. The message and reply
cost S75.
1t is stated that the Episcopal
Clergymen's Insurance League in the
last thirteen years has paid S316, 600 to
the widows and orphans of deceased
clergymen, and of this sum SIS, ,552 was
The Isaac Rich bequest, amounting
to over $4,000, 900, places Boston Uni
yersity beyond the probability of fnan-
cial trouble. In commemoration of Mr..
Rieh's generosity, the university has
established in the academic department
sixty-four free scholarships, which will
be divided equally between young men
and young women.
Some of the Danes living in Lead
vile belong to religious body called
Skages, who centuries ago practiced hui
man sacrifice and still hold to it in
theory. The Lcadville colony lately
met on an anniversary occasion, and, as
a part of the rites, their leader cut him
self unceremoniously in the arm, she'd
ding bowlful of sacrificial blood.
The Witness, the organ of the Irish
Presbyterians, says concerning propo-
sition for union in the Episcopal Church:
There is room in Ireland for only one
really strong Protestant Church, as fig
ures show, and if all who hold High
Church theories would 90 to their own
place, there might be one great, power
full, useful community. the differences
between the various evangelical bodies
being capable of adjustment
The Tompkins Avenue Congrega-
tional Church, Brooklyn, of which Rev.
Geo. F. Pentecost is pastor, has had re-
markable growth the past year. At the
beginning of it the people worshiped in
hired house; now they have $4O,-
600 home free of debt, and more than
200 members have been added; while
the congregation is estimated at 1,500,
and the Sunday-sehool has 900 scholars
This shows what activity and organiza-
ton can do under able leadship and
Cod 5 blessing.-M y Examiner.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-03-16
The Man Who Ontsnrered All.

"They are making lots of fuss over
the fact that the Jeannette survivors
were compelled to live on walrus hide
for three weeks said Difienderfer
down at the club the other night;
"iust as though that was anything so
terrible. Now, if they had gone through
the hardships that l have, they might
talk. -
Cooks been burning your buck
wheats, | supposeP" said Boggs, with a
satirical wink.
"Oh I'm in earnest" said Diffen-
derfer. For instance, l was lost on a
Michigan prairie once, and for three
DAYS lived on a single field mouse
caught
"That's nothing said another mem
ber, contemptuously.
''Ain't, ch? Another time / was
shipwrecked in the South Seas. Float
ed around on a raft sixteen days, with
nothing to eat but pair of old.bootlegs
among ten of us"
"G0od, soft calfskin isn't so bad,
critically observed SkidmOre, who
claimed to have been pirate, or some
thing, in early life.
''Then, on another OCCASION" said
Diffenderfer, bracing up again after
awhile, " / was locked, bv mistake, in
a bank vault, and had to subsist over
Sunday on Government bonds and cOu-
pons.
Lots of men doing that now" said
old Bolts, gruf1iy.
q escaped from the Rebs, during the
war, at New Orleans" said the narra-
tor, growing paler and more determined
as he went on, . and for six weeks hid
in a swamp and lived exclusively on
the cast-off skin of an alligator"
. You should have boiled it," said
Gufey, calmly. That's the way l
used to do in Africa.
There was a silence that could be cut
with a knife after that for some time,
when, just as the crowd was chuckling
over the supposed extinguishment Of
the story-teller, Diffenderfer took the
bit in his teeth and made one more des-
perate brush for the lead.
g But, gentlemSn,n he continued, sol
emily, :" those were hardships, indeed;
but nothing, compared TO an experience
once endured in this city about three
years ago. Through an unfortunate
combination of circumstances / was
compelled to eat three hotel steaks in
one weeki'' And with awe-struck
faces the sympathizing crowd arose and
awarded the survivor the official cake.
San Francisco Post.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-03-16

Expressive nomenclature - James
Keene intends to call his wonderful new
colt Slander, because it goes so fast
when it gets started, ,-EIchGnqe.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-03-16

Tea that costs four cents pound in
China is sold for fifty cents in London,
according to a correspondent Of the
London SEGtiet.