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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-10

COLONEL A. +. ROCKWELL, in charge OF
public buildings and grounds in Washington,
recommends that $4,000 be appropriated
for improvements at the White House. The
total of appropriations asked for the next
fiscal year for the expenses of improvements
and care of public buildings and grounds is
S216,960.
WEST POINT military cadet has jest been
discharged from the institution, by order Of
President Arthur, upon recommendation of
the superintendent, for haziug brother
cadet while acting as sentinel.
REDUCTION of the national debt during
July, $1,000, 590.6s.
GOVERNMENT receipts during last month
were $4,000, S0l, as against $36,32S, 724 in
July, 1882.
On the LIST inst. the national debt, less
cash in the treasury, was $1,5i3, 190,616.SO,
cash in the treasury, 1851, 536, 3i5.17.
AN exhaustive report of the cattle COM
mission shows that no foot and mouth dis
ease exists among the cattle of this country.
DURING July The various United States
minis coined 10000 gold pieces worth ST.
go 600; 2,42E, COO standard silver dollars, and
minor pieces worth S2S,SC0; total coinage,
4,357, 90 pieces, worth $3,733,s0).
REPORTS received at the postoffice depart.
ment from twenty five of the larger post
Offices show an increase in the sale of post
age stamps, postal cards, ETC., for the quar-
ter ended June 20, 1888, over the correspond
ing period of the previous year of $z32, 457
or about six per cent.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-10
ODD STORIES.

Caroline Niue elbach, of st. Lolis, twelve
year of age, died of blood poison ng caused
by wearing tight shoes.
Two brothers of Houston county, Ga.
married two ladies who were stepsisters and
first cousins. They both died. and now the
brothers have married two ladies who are
also sisters.
The first steel rail rolled in America cost
those who made it over $500,0 in expert
ments and outlay. 1t was rolled in the
North Chicago Rolling Mill company's
works in Chicago, May %, 1865.
In tie Jackson sawmill, New Orleans, q
black object deeply imbedded in n log was
found to be an eight-inch spherical shell.
NiRe inches of wood had grown over the
iron. The shell had probably been fired from
Federal gunboat during the war, as the log
came in a raft fl ON the Red river.
birth was recorded at Tuscola, ILL.,, in
which the physician certified that the father
of the child was eighty-four years older than
the mother, the former being 1O3 and the
latter nineteen years of age.
During the fifty years that Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Cornelius, who reside near Philadel-
death among their descendants, who number
twenty-three, and were all at the golden
wedding.
A novel sight in Iowa was the finding OF
hundreds of dead birds, foreign to that
neighborhood, upon the roofs of houses and
! upon the streets. They are supposed TO have
been caught in The vortex of a Southern cy-
clone and hurried North.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-10
ADDITIONAL NEWS.

News has been re eyed of terrible series
Of tr gedies at the Dakan miro near Bar.
risburg, ALI ska. Two whisky SO lers
named Rennis and Martin, gos drunk and
uncon c.ously exchanged cab'ns during the
nigh. Indians broke into Martins cabin,
where Rennie was slee ping and stole bottle
of whisky. As o as tire fact was discov-
cred the whisky men stlrte after the In
dians, and in fight with them Rtnnie was
killei II citizens in fo-ce then arrested
three of tie indians, combining them
in the guard-houss. During the tenn
porary absence of the guard the Indians
procured a pistol, shooting the former
Oh his return. They then fed. The
report OF the pistol awoke Major Givens,
formerly of the United States army, who
rushed to the res ,ue and was shot down
wounded. The Indians then took an axe
and hacked his head TO pie res, when they at
tempted to make good their escape, but
number of miners who had reached the scene
shot one of them down and arrested another.
The third escaped. The infatuated citizens
consti uted themselves a jury and hanged
the captured Indian on the spot. The next
day Colonel Barry ordered the Indian chiefs
to produce the escaI ed Indian, and he was
quickly delivered up and promptly hanged.
FIRE in San Francisco destroyed thir v
buildings compri in almost an entire b ock
and including theatre and a public ha' l.
III ag yregate loss is es ina.ed at s 90 900.
NEIGuBoRs of a reside 1t CT ArLa1sas,
! a o 1 Barke :, an ged him n his f o 1t door
yard Or killing his daughter, who had an
noun ed her inten ion of marrying a certain
man again t his W shes.
A WARRINGTON dispatch announces that
Sc rotary Lincoln is determined to suppress
the pernicious ractice by army officers of
anticipating their pay by assigning pay &c
counts to secure borrowed m )ney. as well as
the more heinous offence of assigning more
than one account for given month or
months.
The total government receipts from
customs during July were $50, 909, 29O, as
against $19,950,637 collected by the United
States from the same source during the
same month of last year. This shows an
increase of $95S, 653 in the first month OF
the new tariff law.
The London Times reports that the Irisl
National eagle has decided to call serie,
of conventions in all the counties of Ireland
with view to choosing a central executiv,
council. Arrangements are being made t,
resume the propaganda for securing an Irisl
parliament, peasant proprietary and tn
adoption of other measures desired by thu
Irish people. 1t is also intended to hold il
the autumn of 1894 general convention o
the Irish societies throughout the world.
s EVEN doco-s and forty assistants hav
been sent from India TO cope with the chql
era in Egypt.
TIE Jewish residents of Ekaterinosar
Russia, were attacked by crowd. The sol
derry had to be called out to dispense thu
rioters, ten of whom were kille,
and thirteen wounded. The tow
council of Ekaterinoslar gave the Jew
5,CO0 rubles to compensate them for thei
losses and to provide shelter for those VIII
were rendered homeless.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-10
South and West.

ARKANSAS outlaws ambushed posse in
pursuit of them, killed three of the pursuers
and then ESCAPED.
DETERMINED attempt is being made to
stop all business in st. Louis on Sundays.
SHOCK of earthquake occurred few days
ago at Gilroy, Cal. rumbling sound was
distinctly heard.
GEORGE INKsHER, widely known farmer
of Grand Forks, Dakota, was herding his
cattle when they became mixed with pass
ing herd. In trying to separate them he got
in trouble with the owner of the passing
herd, who riddled his body with bullets, in
stantly killing him.
DURING President Arthur's journey from
Louisville, KY, to Chicago, on his trip to the
Yellowstone region, the special train carry
ing his party was gayly decked with rib
bon and bunting. and was greeted at various
points along the route by cheers from large
crowds. At many stations the President
shook hands with as many of the People as
could get TO him, and in Chicago he held an
informal public reception lasting until a late
hour.
AT the Mime sofa Democratic State con-
vention in St. Paul, w. w. McNair for gov
ernor, together with full ticket, was nomi-
mated. Anti-prohibition resolutions were
passed. The platform declares for tariff
for revenue only, approves the river and
harbor bill, and calls for a revision of the
patent laws.
ID. w. PREssRIL, under arrest at Mayors
vile, La, for assaulting a little girl, was
taken forcibly out of Jail by a crowd and
hanged in the courthouse yard.
VIRGINIA has presented a claim on the
Federal treasury for about $75000o on ac
count of the distribution of surplus revenue
forty-fve years ago.
A MAN named Be'ey was on his way to
train in Chicago with his three childrtn
james, Josephine and Christine, aged re
spectively ten, twelve and sixteen years
when the horses became frightened anC
plunged into the river at the Polk stree
bridge, the draw being open. The ackmal
and Besey escaped, but the children beini
cooped mp in the vehicle, were drowned.
CHARLES HERRY LEE (colored) was hanged
at Richmond, Va, for the murder of DAME
Miller, also colored. He professed to b.
ready to die, and warned his helIers agains
falling into the crime which brought him I,
the gailows. barbara Miller, the wife o
Lees victim, is also to be hanged on tlIi
18th of September, for parljcjpc:ipg in ls
husbands murder.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-10
A Severed Hand Restored.

At Raleigh, y. c., girls hand was
accidentally chopped off. The doctor
replaced the hand, secured it with sill
yer stitches and adhesive Plaster,
bound it to broad splint, and ordered
the hand and arm kept warm with hot
flannel. The third day, pulsation was
felt in the hand the sutures were re-
moved on the fourteenth day, and the
hand was carried in sling for two
months. Now, several months after
the experiment, the girl opens and
shuts her hand with nearly the usual
strength.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-10
FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE.
Not n SinG'e Care Di severed by the Catt'
Comnission Among Am erican Cattle

Not a Sirs'e Gaze Discovered by the Cattle
Commission Among Am erican Cattle
A Washington dis atch says that in reg ard
to the alleged existence of the foot and
mouth disease amcng the cattle in this coun-
try, the treasury cattle commiss on epori
that after most extended and almost el.
haustive inc iry they have not been
able to find any trace OF ihe dis
ease. apart from herds just land, from
q reat ritain, and those here's hay Q been,
in very Sc, sc repi te until Il o infection
l. as en- ilely i appeared. The commits IN
say that in their inves & ltlon they Included
all the great stock yards wi ere cattle are de-
tanned for feeling, watering, sale, etc.; all
the great feelings bles conlt ctsd with is
tillsrits nj starch-gluC oss and other ia :
tories; all the city da 'ries here stotk yards
exist and where tie herds are replenished
I, ON srch tt ok yards, and 10 a
large extent the great di trying dis
tricts into which COWS are drawn from
the above named stock yards and lines OF
travel also up to the present date they have
made observations in the stock ards at the
seaboard, the terminal end of our cattle
traffic, and that to which all infection must
gravitate but, apart from the imported
cases above referred TO- they have teen I'M
able TO find single case of the foot and
mouth disease complained of.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-10

There are no flour mills in the Ha-
waiian islands For several years prior
to 1870 wheat growing and -four
max ng were attempted. Two mills
were bult-one on the island of Maine
near the grain distr cts, and the other
in Honolulu-but, as the sugar indus
try extended, wheat growing fell off
and the mill sites were devoted to
other uses.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-10

Great Britain imports yearly $780,
100000 worth of butter. eggs and poul-
try-a sum equal to her entire trade
in iron or wool.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-10

On Michigan avenue, Atlantic City, N. j.,
lives colored boy with the usual woolly
head of the African, but the hair is as white
snow.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-03-28

AN OLD STORM THEoRY.-A St. Johns
an instance which happened in Vermont
in 1887, in which big storm was predc-
ed, and the theory on which the
representations were based" Judge
Buckley resided in Berlin, Just across the
river from Montpelier. One member of
the judges family was son named
Frank, who was a half witted fellow, and
queer in many ways. In the summer of
1887 some friends from York State came
to visit the judge and after stop of few
days started on Saturday on their way
home, intending to stop over Sunday with
friends a few miles down the river. Frank
heard thoir plans talked over and then
said:
"You had better not start; there is roine
to be big storm that will carry ali the
bridges away. and you will have to come
back"
The sky was cloudless the gentlemen
laughed and drove on. In the afternoon
the storm began aud all that Frank had
predicted came true. One of the gentle.
mems curiosity was so excited that he re.
turned after the storm to learn if possible
how he knew there was to be such Il
storm. After much coaxing Frank prom
sed if he would come out with him he
would tell,
Going out n few rods from the house
so Wow could be had, Frank, in his
drawling way, said:
''You see that balsam troe down in that
swamp hOleP"
The man said he did.
"Wolr' said Frank, "When you see that
old yaller COW stand licking her tail round
that balsam tree you may know thore il
going to be tophet OF n storm"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-03-28

SUCCESs.-Every man must bide his
time. He must wait. More particularly
in lands like my native land, where the
pulse of life beats with such feverish and
impatient throbs, is the lesson needful.
Our national character wants the dignity
OF repose. We seem to live in the midst
of battle, there is such din, such a
hurrying to and fro. In the streets of a
crowded city it is difficult to walk slowly.
You feel the rushing of the crowd aud
rush with it onward. In the press of our
life it is difficult to be calm. In this stress
of wind and tide, all professions seem to
drag their anchors, and are swept out into
the main. The voices of the present say
Come" But the voices of the past say
"Wait!' With calm and solemn footsteps
the rising tide bears against the rushing
torrent upstream, and pushes back the
hurrying waters. With no less calm and
solemn footsteps, no less certainty, does a
great mind bear up against public opinion.
and push back its hurrying stream.
Therefore should every man wait-bide
his time. Not in lisless idleness, not in
useless pastime, not in querulous detection,
but in constant, steady, endeavors, always
willing and fulfilling and accomplishing
his task. that, when the occasion comes,
he may be equal to the occasion. And If
it never comes. what matters it? What
matters it in the world whether I, or you,
or another man did such deed, or wrote
such a book, so be it the deed and book be
well donep 1t is the part of an indscreet
and troublesome ambition to care much
about fame, about what the world says of
us; to be always looking into the faces of
others for approval; to be always anxious
for the effect Of what we do and say; to
be always shouting to hear the echo of our
own oices.-LongfelloW
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-03-28

GENERAL WoLsELEY ON ALCOHOL -
Replying to depuation of the Blackburn
temperance mission at the residence of
Major. General Fielden on the 18th instant,
he said that he had always employed the
opportunities afforded him to impress the
necessity of temperance on those under his
command. In the Red River expedition,
against the advice even of the medical
men who accompanied tho troops, he
decided that no spirituous liquors sht uld
be taken with the force; and yet no men
ever did harder work or behaved better
than those on that expedition. In South
Africa his personal body guard consisted
almost exclusively of temperance men;
and there. too, the doctors, who had
pl edicted all manner Of ills from the
absence of grog, had absolutely nothing to
do. In Egypt, again, the doctors told him
that it was very necessary the men should
have grog, and he was obliged, owing 10
the great pressure put on him, to allow it
occasionally; but it was given in very
small quantities and rarely and yet the
troops in Egypt were admirable in their
behavior. He had long held that drink
was the great source of crime, desobodi-
cnsc, and other evils in the army.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-03-28

THE TRUEST EDUCATION Wien our
puritan forefathers trained their children
carefully in thorough knowledge of the
Bible because it was ID them "The Word
of Cod they were giving their children,
unconsciously perchance, some of the
most precious elements of n liberal cduca-
tion; they were giving their children what
they might have sought for in vain at
Oxford Or Cambrdge-an intimate
acquaintance with the highest thought ol
the best minds the world has yet known
For, even taking the Bible at the lowest
estimate mt which it has yet been taken
t is literature of the very highest rank.
Where shall we find sublimer poetry than
In the Psalms of Isaiah, or grander drama
than in Job, sweeter pathos than in Ruth,
and the stories of the patriarchal age, or
truer heroism than in the record of Israel's
sufferings? S our forefathers derived
from the Bible the true culture which fills
the mind with thoughts of sweetest SAVIOR,
giving it standards of taste and conduct
which might be said and sombre indeed,
but yet could brook no contact with things
mean or ignoble or impure. And thus,
while the tone of society ut large could
endure the ribaldies of q prurient novelist
the Puritan could enjoy his Paradise Lost
and Pilgrims Progress, and find in them
genuine Ielaxation and rest. The youth
Of to-day. fresh from college, and his
sister, finished at her establishment, able
to run through all the "Ologies." and
chatter in half dozen languages, are often
far less cultured than the Scotch shepherd,
whose only companion in his solitude is
his Bible; for his mind is stored with the
brightest and purest images, his sympa
thes enlarged and disciplined by contact
with the records of humanity in its n best
aspects. Indeed, the latter not seldom
shows delicacy of feeling, tact and
power of apprecia ing the sentiments of
others, which are attributes of the true
gentleman while tho former, notwith
standing their encyclopedia Information,
will often betray lack of interest in the
highest elements of human life Il want OF
sympathy for all which surpasses their
own narrow selves, that is compatible
only with the most vulgar type of mind.
-Selected.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-03-28

ADvANCING.-We need m ore positive
ness. We need the habit of standing by
the things tha' are settled. To that end
each man needs TO have some things
settled for himself Then, when they are
settled, he must cling to them, and not to
things which are still in question or in
doubt.
The trend of modern thought and dis
cussion demands attention to this matter.
The fashion of thought lately seems to be
to regard that man the most advanced
thinker who has thought out the very
least. Mems abilities haYe been measured,
not by what they know, but by wha. they
do not know; not by what they believe
but by what they doubt. A speaker who
haranoues of the difficulties which exist
in matter and in mind will attract attention
and elicit applause, while teacher who
instructs rs in what is not difficult to
comprehend. but which is of inestimable
value in practical life, is regarded as dull
and wnadvanced.
This cant of advanced" thinkers is
leading multitudes into bogs, into impene-
trable forests. into pitfalls. Men must
"advance!' that is the cry. But whyP
What is the use of always advancingP
May it not be we'll occasionally to stand
still? Certainly, unless you know what
ground you are going to tread, you would
better not move forward. Occasionally
advancing men have fallen into wells and
other disagreeables.
By all means let US advance along
ground which has been ascertained to be
solid, and let US advance by methods which
shall secure safety with progress.
Let some things be regarded as settled
Surely if the human race has been exer'
cising It's reason through so many ages,
something must be settled if reason be
worth anything to man. There may be
subjects which men will question in some
places which no man of honor will question
in another. In all Christian and Jewish
households, pulpts and publications, surely
these things ought to be considered settled
forever, not to be reopened or discussed
namely: that there is God and Savior
and that the Bible is the word of God, the
rule of faith and practice, and that man:
moral nature is developed and purified by
obedience 10 the word of God. The chill
dren in such households should no more
discuss any one of these matters than they
should discuss the chastity of thoir moth
ers. The man who in the presence
members of such households treats an.
one of these subjects as not yet se,tled-i
he is not fool destitute of all knowledg
of what constitutes honor-is bas
seducer. Within these bounds he VIII
advances makes progress on secur
ground; but he who advances beyon
these bounds falls over prccipicc,-
Charles Z. Deems, d. d.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-03-28

Young ATHEIsTs.-A suggestive scene
took place lately in a railroad Car that
was crossing the Rocky mountains. A
quiet business man, who had been slowly
watching the vast range of snow clad
companion:
mo man, it seems to me, could look at
that scene without feeling himself brought
nearer to his Creator"
A dapper lad of eighteen, who had been
chiefly occupied in caressing his NOUS
tache, pertly interrupted, "If you are sure
there is Creator"
you are an atheistp" said the stranger,
turning to the lad.
81 am an Agnostic," raising his voice,
II am investigating the subject. take
nothing for granted. see the mountains,
l smell the rose, hear the wind; there.
fore, believe that mountains, rose, and
wind exist. But cannot see, smell, or
hear God. Therefore,"
A grizzled old cattle raiser opposite
glanced over his spectaces at the boy
"Did you ever try to smell with your
eyes?" he said quietly.
"No."
"or to hear with your tongue, or to
taste with your ears?"
Certainly not.''
Then why do you try to apprehend
God with faculties which are only meant
for material things.P"
with what should apprehend himp"
said the youth, with conceited giggc.
"With your intellect and soul; butt
beg your pardon!" here he paused "some
men haven't breadth and depth enough of
intellect and of soul to do this. That is
probably the reason that you are an
Agnostic,"
The laugh in the Car effectually stopped
the display of any more atheism that day.
Pot this is a question which cannot be
laughed or joked away. Every thinking
man in his youth must face for himself
that terrible problem of life: "What is
God?" and "What is he to mep" As a
young man decides that question his
future life takes shape Youths Compan-
ion.