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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-04-27
From Washington.

THE Washington grand jury returned in
dictments against William Pitt Kellogg, for
receiving money while a United States
Senator for services rendered in relation to
a contract with the United States, and
against Thomas j. Brady, for receiving
money while second assistant postmaster
general for services rendered in relation to
a contract with the United States.
AT the annual convention of the National
Academy of Sciences, held in the national
capital, leading scientists from all parts of
the country were in attendance, and papers
of scientific interest were read and discussed.
Professor o. G. Marsh, of Yale college, was
elected president.
THE statue of the late Professor Henry,
the first secretary and director of the Smith
sonian institute, which has been erected
on the Smithsonian grounds, was unveiled
In presence of a large number of spectators.
The ceremonies consisted of music, includ-
ing chorals by the singing societies of the
District, an address and the unwilling of the
statue by Chief Justice Waite, and an ora
ton by President Noah Porter, of Yale col
lege. Many eminent scientists and public
men were present. and the audience was very
large. The statue is of bronze, of heroic
size, mounted upon a granite pedestal, and
was executed by W. w. Story, Congress ap-
propriating $1,000 for the purpose.
The entomologist of the agricultural de-
partment declares there are no signs what
ever of phylloxera in the samples of invoice
of grapevine cuttings furnished by the
New York Custom-house and imported from
Madeira.
THE committee appointed by the secretary
of the treasury to examine the books, ac-
counts and moneys of the treasurer's Office,
in connection with the transfer of that office
from Mr.. Gilfllan, late treasurer, to Mr..
Wyman, the present treasurer, completed the
count of the assets after nineteen days
work. An excess of three cents in favor of
Mr.. Gilfllan was found.
president ARTHUR has returned to Wash
ington from his Florida trip in improved
health.
A SITE for the Garfield Memorial hospital
has been purchased for $37, 900 in the suburbs
of Washington.
Mrs. FRANCES r. PHILLIPS, the wife of the
solicitor-general of the United States, fell
dead of apoplexy the other afternoon while
preparing to 90 out.
The commissioner of pensions has issued
a circular warning pensioners and applicants
for pensions that INSCRIPTIONS persons are
travelling throughout the country claiming
that they are authorized TO represent the
commissioner of pensions. No special ex-
aminer or other person employed by the pen
sion Office is authorized TO receive money,
either as fee or expenses, and all such exam
liners are provided with certificates bearing
the signature of the commissioner of PEN
sions and the secretary of the interior.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-04-27
The Ohio legislature has adjourned.

FIVE Swedes we're capsized while sailing
on Lake Washington in Wyoming Territory.
and four of them drowned, the survivor
clinging to the BOAT until it drifted ashore.
COWBOYS to the number of 800, employed
on ranches in the Pan Handle district,
Texas, struck for an increase of wages from
$50 to $50 a month, and threatened to kill
any new mel employed.
d. II. MARSHALL, United States marshal,
was killed by outlaws in the Indian Terri
tory, and several prisoners in his charge
were freed.
LARGE prairie fires are reported from Da-
kota.
KATE KANE, the only female lawyer in
Milwaukee, threw a glass of water in the
face of Judge Mallory, in the criminal
court, and was fined $50.
DURING a fire in Grand Army hall, Sacra-
mento, Cal, its west wall fell outward and
crushed the adjoining one-story saloon,
carrying all its occupants into the cellar,
killing and w%ounding many persons. At
midnight six dead bodies and twelve injured
persons had been taken out of the ruins,
while a number still remained in the fatal
pit.
TWENTY-FIVE buildings, comprising almost
the entire business portion of Aurelia, Iowa,
have been burned, the total loss being
about 100000.
A HEAVY snow storm in Nebraska and
Wyoming has Frustrated telegraph wires in
every direction and impeded railroad travel.
THE schooner Two Brothers capsized off
the California coast, and all hands, com
prising the captain, five sailors and q pas
senger, were lost.
A CIRCUS exhibiting at Dover, Del, was
attacked by crowd armed with rifles and re-
~volvers. The crowd opened fire on the
wagons as they were being hauled to the
depot for embarkation, accompanied by a
guard of showmen. Eight or ten of the
circus employees were shot, Charles Hender-
son., one of the proprietors, receiving wounds
which it was thought would result fatally.
Dissatisfaction with the show was the cause
of the attack.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-04-27
South and West.

AHEAvY storm wrecked a great portion of
the village of Zeumbro Falls, MINI. For q
long distance the fronts of the houses on
both sides of the main street were crushed.
Tom BAILEY (colored) criminally assaulted
after numbering her threw her body in a
well. He was taken from Jail by a crowd
and hanged.
Two men, named Johnson and Donnelly,
quarreled at Stockton, Cal, about a wagon
sale. They fought with knives in a grocery,
and settled the dispute definitely by killing
each other.
GEORGE ScHEILER, proprietor of the bar
In the Newhall house. Milwaukee, was ac-
quilted by the jury of the charge of having
set fire to the building.
Tue Minneapolis MINI city council has
raised the cost of a liquor saloon license from
500 to 81 500.
The destruction by fire of the Abernethy
furniture factory at Leavenworth, Kansas,
resulted in fatal injuries to one man, who
leaped from a window, and a loss of 10000.
WILLIAM DORSEY, of Montgomery, Ala.
mistook his wife for a burglar, i'll the dark.
and shot her dead.
TWENTY-FIVE head of cattle,
sold in Chicago, brought an aggregate of
$37, 500.
FoRTY-FoUR cities and towns in Illinois
voted upon the liquor question. Seventeen
declared for prohibition and thirty-one for
license (of which six were for high license).
A FREIGHT train was wrecked by running
over a COW near High Point, N. @. The
engineer was instantly killed, and the fire.
man and a brakeman were seriously injured.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-04-27
LIFEsS HEROES.

Not alone is he a hero who is brave where
cannon thunder,
Or with ardor hastes to mingle in the carnage
of the strife;
Greater deeds by noble soldiers oft elicit
naught of wonder,
For the field whereon they act them ia the bat
tlefield of life.
fair in song and story,
Who most merits from his fellows glowing
tributes to his might;
Oft a higher, purer hero acts a partHnknown
to glory,
Acts it simply as his duty, struggling bravely
in the right.
triki ng ventures, deeds uncommon, feats of
rash, instructive daring,
Do not always mark the presence of a courage
real and true;
Better far the reasoned labors of a heart no
efforts s%paring,
First, to know what act is proper, then that
act, with strength, to do.
Call him hero, if he wish it, who in storm or
confagration
Risks his life in deadly peril to preserve a
friend or foe.
Yet the deed, though brave, may cost him far
less trouble and v~exation
Than the slightest manly effort to restrain
his passions low.
Fen ignoble men, and hardened natures
coarse and wholly brutal,
Sometimes spurred by love of plaudits, seem
to act Il noble role.
But their aim is base and selfish, and their
claims will e'er prove futile,
If they wish their names, as heroes, fairly
wrought ON Honor's scroll.
See the oft-recurring struggles-daily COM
bats, trials bitter,
That beset the faithful Christian, striving
for celestial crown;
better, filter
To receive our cheering plaudits-win a last
ing bright renown?
Some there are, both high and lowly, who
repine not when they're smitten,
Cheerful while sheir spirits culver meath
Affections heavy rod.
These ale heroes, brave and true ones, and
their names are ever written,
Not on fleeing human records, but in vol
umos penned by God.
"A. Merlin, in Boston Pilot.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-04-27
Bargaining With a Pump.

Some thirty years ago an intemper'
ate man was reformed by being re-
fused one cherry. Penniless he went
to the public house n morning where
he had sqnandered many "A shilling, tc
get a drink "on tick" The landlady
refused to trust him. Seeing a plate
of luscious ripe cherries on the bar, he
asked for but one. "Save your money
and buy your own cherries" was her
surly reply. q WILL" he said, and he
did. His wounded pride forced him to
reflect; reflection insured amendment.
From that morning he was reformed.
The following story tells of II flannel
weaver who also was induced by a
surly answer to reflect and then to
make a good bargain with a pump.
This man had saved a guinea for the
purpose of having a whole weeks dis
sipation. He began on Monday, spend
ing three shillings per day for seven
days; on the morning of the eighth
day he was burning with thirst, but
his money was gone. He went to the
back door of the place where he had
spent his guinea, to beg a pint on
trust.
Judy, the landlady was mopping the
passage; he stood looking at Judy,
with his cracked lips, parched tongue
aud bloodshot eyes, expecting her 10
ask him to take Just a drop; but she
did not, and he requested her to trust
him for only one pint.
With IN indignant look of scorn and
contempt she replied: Trust theei
thou dirty, idle y%agabond! Set a step
in this house and l will dash this mop
in thy face"
The poor wretch hung down his head
in shame. He was leaning against a
pump; and after IA little study began
to talk to the pump:
"Well, Pump" he said, 81 have not
spent a guinea with thee, Pump; wilt
th)u trust me a drop?'
lie lifted up the handle, put his
burning mouth to the spout and drank
his fill; this done, he again said to the
pump:
THANK thee, Pump; and now, hear
me, Pump. | will not enter IA public
house again for the next seven years;
and, Pump, thou art "A witness"
The bargain was kept, aud this man
afterward became a respectable manu-
f~acturer, and often said it was a grand
thing for him that Judy threatened to
dash the mop in his face.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-04-27
laughed slightly, as he said by way of

Iaughed sIlghtIy, aS Tie SaIu Dy way Ut
introduction:
Dear Mrs. P%ierrott, this ismy wifel"
and in the same breath Miss Kate said,
Aunt N ell, dear Mrs. Pierrot."
Later that day, when Mrs. Pierrot
described the scene to her husband, his
look of con sternation afforded her
some satisfaction; and when he said,
Nevertheless, NOR annie, l still think
he was Just the man for Miss Kate"
his cara sposa responded: 49,.
"And so do /, my dear Pierrot! y
st. LouiS Illustrated Magazine.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-12-13
Taxes in Nebraska.
Lincoln Journal.


An item appeared yesterday morning
stating that many taxpayers who go to the
county treasurer's office to pay their taxes
are somewhat surprised to find that they are
on the delinquent list and that interest has
been running against them since October ~
The citizens who impaired this unforlGA
tion, somewhat hastily given publicity by
the reporter, must have jumped at this very
erroneous conclusion on hearsay, and GER
tainly had not paid their own taxes for the
year, or they would have known better.
The fact Is that the taxes of '83 do not be-
come delinquent until next May.
The last legislature passed law providingl
that the taxes for each year shall become due
the LIST of October Of the same year, and de-
linquent the LIST Of the following January,
after which time they will bear ten per cent.
interest, with a penalty Of five per cent.
The attorney general decided, however.
that the taxes for 1888, having been levied
under the old law. must be collected under
the old law. They will therefore not be-
come delinquent until May LIST.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-12-13
CRIME.

Samon confesses being the murderer
of James Ruddy and child and Mrs. Ford,
at Laconia, n. H. Samon says he killed
Mrs. Ford at 8 O'Clock ON Saturday morn
ing, but did not attempt to outrage her.
She was killed in a drunken squabble. She
showed signs Of life for about ten minutes,
and he made several attempts to bring her to
life. Failing, he became frightened and
chopped the body and put it into the trunk
and started off to dispose of the body, md
he carried it to Ruddy's, where he was
somewhat acquainted. He then left the
trunk in front of the house, where it
remained for two hours. He took
it into the house about dark and
during the night he became nervous and
could not sleep. When it was near morning,
and he had no opportunity to dispose of the
the body, he concluded upon plan of kill
ing the Ruddy family and burning the mousse,
thereby destroying the evidence Of his guilt.
CAUGHT IN THE MACHINERY.
SamueI Wilson, An erhplOye of the
Kansas City milling company, was caught
in the machinery and shockingly mangled,
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-12-13
The Mexican Land Grant,

In the circuit court of the United
States at Denver, the United States filed an
amended bill in the Mexican land grant
suits. 1t sets forth that the original Mexi-
can grant was 81, 600 acres; that in 1869 or
1870 survey was made and the original
boundaries fraudulently enlarged to include
!, 900, 900 in New Mexico, and nearly 800,
C0O in Colorado. Objection was made in
1876 and the case was decided In the
supreme court, which, AZ those
interested thoroughly substantiated their
claim and the title was granted them on ap-
plication; subsequently investigations point
ed strongly to the belief that the land had
been fraudulently obtained, and the present
suit was brought by the government to va
cate the title. The new bill gives specified
details Of the history Of the frauds alleged TO
have been practiced in procuring the title,
and duplicates EX-United Senators Chaffee
and ChicOtt, of Colorado, and Judge HoI-
ly, deceased, of New Mexico. The old
bill conceded 500, 900 acres, hence the new
bill.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-12-13
and his left side torn open, exposing the
heart. He lived but short time.

and his left side torn open, exposing the
heart. He lived but short time.
Charles Haley, who has been EN-.
ployed as chief of the Northwestern railway
detective service, has been arrested at Chi.
cago charged with compromising felony.
The general claim Is made against Haley tina,
he has been directly connected with an or
ganized gang of monte sharps, and by CIV
ing them his official protection has shared
In the money obtained from the gullible
| travellers.
In the trial at Unionville, Pa, of
Mutt for the killing OF Dukes, the morning
session Of the second day was entirely occu-
pied In the examination of Jurors summond
! to serve on the case. The panel embraced
eighty jurors. Fifty were examined and
but one secured out of that number. The
attorneys for the prisoners stated they
would base the defence entirely on the
theory of emotional insanity. They have
summoned large number of witnes es to
prove that the prisoner has been peculiar
from infancy, and that he was imbued with
an uncomfortable desire to take life. The
trial promises to be long drawnout and ex-
citing.
Frederick NJ. Ker, convicted of EN-
bezzling some $40, 900 from the banking
house Of Preston, Kean & Co., Chicago,
was taken to Joliet to serve asentence of ten
years. Ker was captured at Lima, Peru,
by one of Pinkerton's detectives.
Fred Burke, a prisoner undergoing
an eleven years sentence In the Riverside
(Pa.) penitentiary, attempted to escape by
crawling through sewer, but before reach
ing the mouth he was overcome with gas,
and when fonnd was in an unconscious con-
dition. 1t is thought that he will die.
Near Anderson, Ind, John J. John
ston was. shot by Coleman Hawkins
and dangerously wounded. After the
shooting Hawkins returned home and shot
himself, dy ng instantly. Both were wealthy
farmers. The trouble arose from dispute
about ditch between their farms.
A bloody tragedy occurred near
Nashville. l.. c. Teton (white), farmer,
fatally cut a negro boy named Tom, and
was in turn shot through the head. Both
died.
The trial of James Mutt for killing
N. l.. Dukes. was changed from Fayette to
Allegheny county, and has been set for the
first Monday in January.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-12-13
Pumpkin Pie.
Pock's Sun.

These are the days of that glorious
American institution, pumpkin pie. The
hotel or restaurant pumpkin pie is net
the Slmon-pure article. 1t has had too
many foreign airs added to it. 1t may
be good, and it may pass for what it is
intended, but it can't hold candle to
the pumpkin pie our mothers and grand
mothers made. just look atthe differ
ence in the two brands. Mothers had
a nice short crust with an edge about
an inch deep and in this was u plump
measure of pumpkin ''pulp" mixed
with nice fresh eggs, milk and just
enough spice to give it flavor. 1t was a
picture of a blooming, healthy pie. II
makes mans mouth water to think of
it. The store kind of pumpkin pie has
Il sort of sickly second-cousin counte-
nance and is scarcely over an eighth of
an inch thick, with crust on the bot
tom that almost breaks timers shears
to cut it. As for taste that has to be
imagined, as it is Il. sort of go-aS-you-
please flavor between tan-bark and Gin
namon. Then again, 100 store pies
will be made out of an ordinary twenty
cent pumpkin. Each pie is cut into
eight pieces about the size of two fin
gers, which sell for five cents each.
This brings forty cents for pie, or $40
for the product of pumpkin. This
leaves the store-keeper $50 50 profit on
his pumpkin, and as the crust is thin
with no shortening in it, eighty cents
ought to cover this cost, leaving an
even S39 profit on the transaction! A
slice of mothers pumpkin pie the size
of your two hands that's the regula-
ton cut in homemade pie, and an inch
and half thick contains more real pie
than dozen store pies, and there is no
danger of any. trouble from indi-
gestion after eating it. There should
be some action taken by the legislature
to prevent the degeneration of this
great American instirution-the pump
kin pie. If this Is not done, future
generations will read in history of a
dish now so highly priced by patriotic
citizens and grleve to think that the
building of the pumpkin pie of their
is q lost art.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-12-13
The Great American Bird.
Louisville Courier-Journal

Louisville Courier-Journal.
Toa northern mans eyes there is moth
ing more interesting than "driving tur-
keys to market in Kentucky. From
about election day, in all northern
cities, until New Years Day has come
and gone, the turkey is truly the great
American bird; but we seldom think
about where the thousands upon
thousands of turkeys come from. am
prepared to take oath that Kentucky
supplies them all. In one days ride in
Bourbon county believe l saw 10000
turkeys. They are punched together in
droves of from 100 to 1000, their
wings chopped, and then driven leis-
urely to market, like great droves Of
stock. l am told that nearly every
town of any size in Kentucky has its
turkey abattoir, where these fowls are
properly prepared for the more impor-
tant city market. The inkling 1 got of
the matter will always bring with my
Thanksgiving or Christmas turkey
pleasant pictures of corn fields studded
with girdled, gathered corn, of blue
grass fields, and of smooth, sinuous
pixies crowded with these fowls of the
festival time-all in q land of opdfent
plenty lying placidly beneath an au-
tumnal Kentucky SUM-. II
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-12-13
Senator Ingalls, Homestead Bill

The bill introduced by Senator In
gals to amend the homestead laws provides
that section 2301 of the revised statutes be
amended to read as follows: Nothing in
this chapter shall be so Construed as to pre-
vent any person who availed himself of the
benefits OF section 22S9 from paying mini
mum price for granting land SO entered any
time after two years from date of entry,
and before the expiration of five years, and
obtaining patent therefor, as in other
cases, on making due proof Of COM
pliarce with the homestead laws up TO
the time of making proof; that notice of
intention to make final proof under the
homestead and pre-emption laws, as re-
quired by the act Of March 8,
1879, shall not be given, nor shall
final proof under said laws be made until
after twelve months from the time when the
entry or filing is recorded in the local land
office, as provided by law, irrespective Of date
of settlement on the land prior to such en-
try or filing; that the first section of the act
of May Il, 1880, providing for the accept
ance by the local land offices of relinquish-
ments of public land entries, and re-enter-
ing Of land without action by the commits
sioner general of the land office, be and the
same is hereby repealed.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-12-13
WASHINGTON.

Two Kentucky ladies prepared and
sent to Speaker Carlisle beautiful original
device in flowers and satin. 1t consisted of
gavel in the shape of George Washington
Ratchet resting on a messy stump of a tree
in such a manner as to show both sides and
the handle. One side was composed of
beautiful flowers, and on the other hand
pointed to the satin through the center
blade where, ON white satin, appeared, in
illuminated old English letters, the follow
ing:
''May your eye be as keen as the blade of
Ratchet,
When worthy members rise to catch it,
And your rulings true as steel to match 1t,
And lawful business to dispatch it,
The deputy commissioner of internal
revenue says the internal taxes already
collected for the present fiscal year are at
the rate of $123, 900, 900 per annum. He
estimates that the collections for the entire
year will amount to $3.50, 200, 200. This es-
innate includes between $4,000 200 and
81, 900, 900 to be collected as special taxes of
April and May, but does not include the in
crease anticipated from spirits forced out by
law.
Senator Plumb introduced bill pro-
viding that every nom commissioned officer,
private or other person discharged from the
army during The war of the rebellion within
two years of the date of enlistment, ON &C
count Of disability incurred in the line of
military duty, shall receive a warrant for
160 acres of land.
The president sent large number of
recess nominations to the senate on the 9Th,
among them Walter Q. Gresham, to be post
master general.
The tenth annual reunion of the
national association of veterans of the Mexi-
can war was begun ON the 9th with a large
attendance. General Denver, of Ohio,
president of the association, called the as
sembly to order and introduced Capt. Mer-
rick, who delivered an eloquent address Of
welcome, which was responded to by Gen.
eral Denver.
Charges that there has been misap-
of portion Of $1,000 provided
by the last congress to reimburse the Chero
kee nation for certain lands, have been pub
lished recently. The substance of the
charges are that in the distribution fmoney
by ex-Congressman Phillips, Of Kansas,
500, 500 was retained by him, and he (Phil-
Lps) stated to the Cherokee council that he
retained the sum to pay two government
officials for influence in securing the appro-
priation.
Secretary Folger was confined to his
house by illness on the It'll.
la meeting of the citizens of Indiana
residents of Washington was held in the
office of J. C. New, assistant secretary of
the treasury, for the purpose Of taking
steps for having the republican presidential
convention held at Indianapolis.
The condition of the treasury on the
9Th was as follows: Gold coin and bullion,
S2l6, $40, 776; silver dollars and bullion,
sl29, $40. 1872; fractional currency, S27, 022,-
1873; United States notes, $50, 927 1886, total,
ss4a2, 131. 347; certificates outstanding, gold.
$50, 0OO. OiO; silver, 800, 265, III; cu1 ency,
sl4, 325 900.
FOREIGN.
CHINA. !
II 10 cpn,i offiri.Ilv announced that