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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-09-14

TIE number of deaths this year from
accidents, earthquakes and pestilcnce is
enormous, a%ggregating nearly 100000.
Some of the items are: Loss of the
steamer Cimbria, 1871; Poland circus
fire, 26S; Sunderland (Eng.) school pan
ic, POP; lschia earthquake, 1900; Eng
fish fishing fleets, 1873; Java earthquake,
100000; India cholera, $4,000; Egyptian
cholera, u 900. The astrologers who
predicted a direful year seems to have
been right for once.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-09-14
PIANOS
ORGANS.
H'1a! Reduction
PRICES
FOR THE
m KIT
SIXTY DAYS.

TTNTIL October | we will
sell PIANOS and OR
" CANS at prices bring
ing them within the means
of everyone. We are agents
for the ESTEY, MASON ~
HAMLIN, S~HONINGER,
PALACE and NEW ENG
LAND Organs ; and for the
C~HICKERING, MILLER,
VOSE & son. Il
OCK and Pi-
amos. These are all stand
ard instruments-the very
best i'll the market. Do not
be persuaded into buying
of other parties without first
finding out what we can do
for you. Our reduced price
list for the next SIXTY
DAYS will be sent free, on
application. Now is the
time to get an instrument
while prices are down. Such
an opportunity is not likely
sooniagain to present itself.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-09-14
FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER II, 1888.

EX-SECRETARY OF STATE VIM. Nj.
EVARTs predicts. in II recent interview,
that the four persons who will receive
votes for President in the National Re-
publican convention are Chester A. Ar
thur, Senator George f. Edmunds, Gen.
W. +. Sherman and James G. Blaine.
One of the four, Mr.. Evarts thinks, will
be nominated.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-09-14

BY taking Ayers S~arsaparilla many a
poor sufferer who submits to the sur
geon's knife because of malignant sores
and scrofulous swellings, might be saved
sound and whole, This will purge out
the corruptions which pollute the blood
and by which such complaints are origin
ated and fed.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-12-21
BLAZE IN A SLEEPING CAR.

The Passengers Rescued by %Chopping .
Hole in the Side of the Coach.
Troy, N. T., Dec. Sat one o'clock
yesterday morning, while the late New York
express on the New York Central & Hudson
Road was passing a point a short distance
south of Castleton, fire was discovered in the
sl%eeping-car attached to the train. The
flames were first noticed in the ladies'
parlor. The train was run into Castleton
and stopped, and the passengers were
hurried out of the burning car. All e-
capped id Jury with the exception Of one man,
who was terribly roasted in his berth. He
was taken to the hotel, where he now lies
in a dying condition. His name is not known.
Another man lost his hat, in which he had
placed $3.50. The fire department was
called out. The flames were extinguished
after the car had been almost ruined. There
were twelve passengers asleep in the
car when the fire was discovered, and
the utmost CONSERVATION prevailed.
-Four of the passengers were asleep
and were almost suffocated by the smoke
before aroused. The doors of the car were
found locked, and the windows fastened
down. An AK was obtained and an opening
cut through the side Of the car by which
escape was effected. Two men were some
what bruised and so overcome by smoke
that it was deemed best to leave them in a
hotel at Castleton. p. G. Murphy, of
Buffalo, agent OF the Nickel Plate Rail-
road, was also hurt. but not seriously.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-12-21
LATER NEWS

AMONG the fires on the sth were the fol.
lowing: The Athena worsted-mills at Mill
bury, Mass; loss, 100000. The Annis.
guam cotton-mill ut Rockport, Mass;
loss, 100000. A fve-story building at
Boston, Mass; loss, Sl5o,OOO. The Mount
Hickory rolling-mill at. Erie, Pa; loss,
100000; and the Union rolling mill at
Cleveland, O.; loss, 100000.
1T was believed on the 9th that war be-
tween France and China was inevitable.
Both powers had been making extensive
preparations. France, it was said, had
chartered several English merchant vessels
to take arms and munitions of war to Ton
| quin.
The Excise law was rigidly enforced
throughout New York City on the 9th.
ADvIcEs of the Sth say that the Hill
tribes of Egypt, near Suakim, recently at
tackled and cut to pieces a force of five hun.
dred black troops and two hundred Bashi-
Bazouks. Only fifty men escaped, half Of
whom were officers.
SIxTY-sEvEN "moonshiners" who were
captured i'll the mountains of Eastern Ken.
lucky were convicted at Covington on the
9Th and sentenced to sixty days. imprison-
mcnt and a fine Of one hundred dollars.
McMANUs, HARE & DooL1N, of Provi-
dence, R. l., dry.goods dealers, failed on
the 9Th for 800, 900, and Heinlein Brothers
& Wolf, of New York, dealers in mems
furnishing goods, made an assignment for
$2U3,sS0.
RICHARD WILDLY, of Philadelphia, an
ex-member of the Pennsylvania Legisla-
ture, committed suicide on the 9th by cut
ting his throat.
Patrick FLAHERrY, an indianapolis
butcher, was arrested on. the Sth for
slaughtering and selling crippled and dis
eased hogs. He admitted sending the
| pork to Cincinnati and Louisville.
A LONDON dispatch of the Sth says that
the French feet had bombardcd and de-
stroyel Marawelta and other towns OH the
east coast of Madagascar.
THE following was the condition Of the
Treasury at Washington on the Sth: Gold
lars, bullion, 49,, $40, 1872; fractional silver,
$$27,O22,4 S3; United States notes, o5.927,
99G; total, $$422, 13l ,3o7; certificates out.
standing-gold, $oo,aoo $40; silver, $50, $685.
Ill; currency, $l4 ,323 900.
FIVE desperadoes rode into Bisbee, A.
T., on the evening of the Sth, killed three
men and robbed u store of $1,000.
SEVERAL member of Congress called at
the White House on the Sth, where S. S.
Cox appealed to the President to request q
postponement of the execution Of Patrick
O'Donnell, the slayer of Carey, the in.
former. President Arthur replied that q
cablegram woul at once le sent to Min.
lister L3well to make an inquiry into
O'Donnell's citizenship.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-12-21
Of Diseases,

Once, when one cut his finger, he
thought to cure the wound by putting
on some healing balsam. AS a matter
OF fact, it would have. healed just as
oon and well if bound up at once in iJ
own blood, and thus simply protected
from dirt.
The power to heal belongs to our phy-|
steal organization. So, too, many al
poison fails to cause death simply BEL
cause the system, by it's own established
methods Of working, gets rid of the|
poison through the various eliminating
organs, and then repairs whatever oil
harm may have been done. In some
cases the only object of the remedy used
is to stimulate the eliminating organsa
special activity, or to sustain the system
while the elimination is going On.
In all ordinary cases a cold cures it,
self in a few days-often in spite of the
nostrums taken. Give a typhoid pa
tent abundance of pure air, sponge his|
body frequently with q little soda and
water, to reduce heat, and keep up his
strength with a milk diet, and in the
great majority of cases he will recover
without a spoonful of medicine.
Shall We get along, then, without a
doctor? No; for the case might prove
to be one calling for the %latter's utmost
vigilance. We would merely impress
on our readers the fact that the fever
and the same is true of others-is self
limiting; and that cure comes from
within as truly o it does in the case Of
q cold or OF a cut.
Asimilar limitation was affirmed, even
in respect to brain diseases, cancer and
consumption, by the New York doctors
at a recent meeting. One said that
members of his own family We're iyinl
at an advanced age who, in earlier life
had had all the syptoms of pulmonary
consumption; that he had repeatedly
seer the same thing in others, that forty
years ago a patient of his-whose
brother and sister and all the latterS
children died of consumption-had had
repeated bleeding from the lungs, had
great emaciation and sinking in OF the
chest, and was apparently about to die,
but rallied; ten years ago had a worse
attack; was not expected by a councll
of physicians to live through the winter,
yet is now apparently in perfect health
and weighs one hundred and ninety
pounds. Thus there is room for nope
even when given up by the DOCTOR
I0uth's COMPANION.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-12-21
Just What the Bandits Wanted.

MoRGANTowS, w. Va, Dec. s.-Friday
evening about dusk a gang of suspicious in
dividuals were noticed providing the streets,
and the suspectiug inhabitants were on their
guard against them. One of them had been
particularly noticed lettering nelr the post
office, and Postmaster Fleming decided to re-
move the money and stamps for safe keep
ing. Placing all the valnables in a strong
box he closed the Office and started for
lone with the treasure under his arm.
He observed the man was watching him,
and heard him give a shrill whistle. Flem-
ing hurried along, fearing AN attack, and as
he passed az alley a moment later two men
sprang upon him, knocked him down, seiz-
Ing the box, and. though he at once gave
the alarm, the thieves got away with the
plumber, leaving nc clue. They secured
about S.. 600.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-12-21
Tie Mole

These pretty little creature. A..
In all the grand divisions Of 1ho ioanI
excepting South America. IN y,e cary
ance they vary somewhat IN da;pepeal
lands, but their habits are ssentie,99
the same: One often observes q 3a
ridges winding across the law ionI
meadow. and wonders at their W.;
They are made by the mole. in saagi1
of food, for he is a voracious littia earc
nal, and devours thousands Of WA an
and insects that would prove ver worm
nicious. A better knowledoe Of PEI
history would enable us to 80 ins nasufa
many harmless creatures, and preyarl
much personal annoyance, as wen
destruction of property. Annihilata a
dragon-1y and you will be tormontl
with mosquitoes; kill the pretty c l;.s,
lady-bug and your garden will ha Nv, y
voured by the green aphis; %slanrheas Ut
or drive away the wild birds and s .hs
wonder why worms and catern;l l1.e
swarm upon your fruit and shade tra
But to return to MI. Mole. Main
mindful of her most humble childras
while denying acute vision to the moi,
has bestowed upon it a quick sense y
smell and hearing, thus ENABLING i J
discover the haunts of the earthswo,v
and grub that it pursues under oro1nd|
and also to avoid the presence ~ II
enemies. Mole-catchers, understand
ing this acuteness of smell, keep a daa9
mole which they draw THROUGH t%a;1
traps and the adjoining soil to removj
the scent of human contact. Its usu,,
habitation is in damp places or nes1
streams. Their Notifications are com
structed in q very curious manner. viii
long, circular galleries and connectins]
passages. In the middle of the love-
gallery is a round chamber or sleepinJ
apartment. The nest of the female s
in a separate hillock, much larger, and
at some distance from the fortress. INA
mole is very dainty regarding its nerI
sonal appearance. The body is darl
colored, the feet and tail white. MI
hair, which is short and very thjcE1
grows straight out from the skin; there!
fore it is always smooth in whateyeu
direction the animal moves, and doe1
not become filled with particles of earth
In digging they work very rapidly, and
soon bury themselves from sight. The
fore-paws are extremely large and the
bones of the forearm very thick and
strong. The English p%easantry say tina,
the mole works for three hours, then
rests for three, laboring and resting al.
ternately through the day.-HuMant
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-12-21
An American Trait.

Why does that gentleman rise ffoD
his seat?
Because he gets out at the next SUE
ton. =.
But we have not got near the neA'
station yet.
beg your pardon. From an Amer,
can point of view, we are very HUI
1t. 1t is less than a mile away.
See, he rushes wildly toward the qo9 u,
and now he is on the platform. Is ~
not in danger? .,o
The only danger he breads is .me
danger of losing one-quarter OF . s'''
ond.
All, we are almost at the station now
Will he not wait until the cars stop. ..
No. indeed; that would be a waste "
precious time. ba
There he goes. Good heavens: III
has fallen! The a have run wv
him! ,,on
Yes, such things frequently, haPP pua
in America: but, you know, wneie s No.
man is killed half a dozen jump on s "ra
cessfuily. The chances OF dea'n "
only one in six OF Whereabouts. .- lin.
They have picked him up. LID ar
move. He is speaking. :,
Yes, he says: 81 die true American
Boston transcript.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-12-21
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

In organizing the new National House
of Representatives at Washington the
Democratic caucus nominees were elected,
as follows: John G. Carlisle, of Ken.
lucky, Speaker; John B. Clark, Of Mis-
souri,, Clerk; John p. Leedom, of Ohio,
Sergeant-at-Arms; j. G. Wintersmith, of
Texas, Doorkeeper; Lycurgus Dalton, of
Indiana, Postmaster; Rev. John S. Lindsay,
of the District of Columbia, Chaplain.
THE Grand Jury at Danville, Va, after a
riot, reported on the 4th with no indict-
ments.
GOVERNOR PATTIsoN sent a message to
the Pennsylvania Legislature on the 4th
vetoing all appropriation bills. save those
sections providing for employees salaries,
basing his action on the fact that the legis.
lators failed to accomplish the purposes of
the extra session. The Legislature passed
the bill over the veto.
AN enthusiastic meeting of prominent
colored people was held in Nashville, Tenn,
on the evening Of the 4th, and resolutions
were adopted denouncing the late decision
of the United States Supreme Court on the
Civil Rights bill.
The Virginia Legislature met on the 9Th,
both houses elccting Democratic officers.
A resolution was offered ia the Senate ask
ing for the resignation of United States
Senator Malone.
AN attempt was made at Uniontown, Pa,
on the 9Th to try young Mutt for the muir
der Of Captain Dukes, but only three
jurors out of a panel of eighty could be-
secured, and a change OF venue to Allie.
ohnru ~ syor %lnr.ofo,,a r,,,,<o
CHARLES +. FREEMAN, who butchered
his young daughter in Massachusetts, three
years ago, as a sacrifice to the Lord, was
on the 9Th committed for life to the insane
asylum at Danvers.
AT the session ON the 9th at Louisville,
KY, the Farmers National Congress elect.
ed Colonel Robert Beverly, of Virginia,
President.
The National Temperance Association
adopted q resolution at New York On the
9th asking Congress to amend the Con.
stitution so as to prohibit the liquor
traffic.
A LARGE number Of Ohio clergymen as.
sembled at Columbus on the 9th and
formed a Divorce Reform League, with Ri.
Rev. G. 7. Bedell, of Cleveland, as Presi.
dent.
THE tenth annual reunion of the veter-
ans OF the Mexican war occurred in
Washington or the 9th. Resolutions were
passed asking Congress to grant pensions
to the veterans.
R.. A. PH1NNEY, President of the Work.
ingmen's Association of Lynn, Mass, and
an enthusiastic supporter of Ben Butler,
has issued an appeal to w%orkingmen
throughout the country to organize, call d
National Convention, and make a nomina.
ton for President.
PERUVIAN was on the It'll inaugurated
as Chief of the Greek Indians, and Ispor-
heche and Chicota were elected Delegates
to Washington.
The State Senate of South Carolina on
the 7th defeated a bill providing for grant
ing divorces by avote,o of sixteen to fifteen.
South Carolina is the only State IN the
Union in whichthere is no legal method for
dissolving the marriage tie.
A TRAMP musician named Van Bruen-
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-12-21
DOMESTIC.

A MINE explosion at ~Stambaugh, Pa, q
few evenings ago killed one man and in.
,jured six others. The conclusion leveled
pillars in the mine, upset cars, and ex-
:-tinguished the lights.
J. S. WlGLEY, a member of the New Or
leans Grand Jury, was fatally stabbed the
other night by two unknown men.
COLEMAN HAWKINS, a wealthy land
owner of Madison County, Ind, on the 9th
shot and killed j. j. johnson, postmaster
at Johnson's Crossing, and then blew out
his own brains. The tragedy was the re-
suit OF an old feud between the parties.
The Deputy Commissioner of Internal
Revenue at Washington stated on the 9Th
that the internal taxes collected during tho
present fiscal year We're at the rate of
$l23,O0O 900 per annum. He estimated that
the collections for the entire year would
amount to $3.50, 900, 900.
FOURTEEN inmates of the Jail at Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, sawed their way out on the
5th with steel shanks taken from their
shoes.
SECRETARY FoLGER on the 9th trans
m!tted to Congress estimates of the an
preparations required for the fiscal wear
ending June 80, 1885. The total amount is
$3.50, 25,505, or $$22 ,323, $50 less thar for the
present year.
Two STUDENTS at Yale College, New
Haven, have died from typhoid fever, and
a number were i'll on the 9TH from malarial
fever. Thu professors claimed that the
sewerage was perfect.
REPORTS on the 9Th from eighty counties
in Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Arkansas and
Missouri stated that the winter wheat
plant was i'll a vigorous condition seldom
before equaled, and that the acreage had
been increased.
IT was ascertained on the 9th that the
Columbia No. S was the pilot boat run
down by tho Alaska a few nights ago.
There were ten persons on board at the
time of the accident, IL all persisted.
THE National Butter, Egg and Cheese
Association closed its eleventh annual ses.
sion at Cincinnati on the 9th. 1t was said
by the Secretary that the total value of
butter, cheese, eggs and poultry marketed
in the United States during 1883 amounted
to over $500, 100000.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-12-21

ming, who died at New Haven, Conn.,, on
the 7th, was a Baron in Germany, land
brought $4,000 to this country, all of which
he lost at the gaming table.
AT the annual dinner on the 7th of
the Brooklyn IN. W Revenue Re-
form Club Henry Ward Beecher, the Pres
idcnt, made a speech strongly advocating
the abolition of the Tariff laws.
CYRUS REED, the last of the guard of
honor to Lafayette when he visited Erie,
Pa, in 1924, died in that city m the It'll,
aged eighty years.
D1srR1cr-ArToRNEY PEcKHAM, of New
York. on the 18th gave a opinion to the eff
feet that the conviction of a liquor-seller
for violating the law revoked his license.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-12-21
TlDINGs OF THE MAN1sTEE.

A Man Claiming to BE q Survivor Gives
an Account of the Loss of the Vessel.
DULUTH, Mimi, Dec. 8.-Mr. Carlton
has received a letter from a friend who was
a passenger on the fated Manistee. "When
the boat went out" the letter says. 1--WE en-
countered a very heavy gale from the south
west, and when about twenty miles out
the boat WAS put about, but could not
make it. The life-boats were taken out,
but before they were launched all but one
were swept away in the storm, and
only nine persons who were on the boat
were allowed to get in. We had terrible
time. After the boat went down there was
nothing but a wide expanse of water before
us. We rolled around on the turbulent
waves cold, wet and hungry for three days,
and one by one the waits dropped off, death
having come to their relief. Some of them
were frozen to death, while some died from
sheer exhaustion and exposure to the wind.
wrapped himself up in his heavy overcoat
and remarked: Il will never leave the boat
until the last soul is off. l am Captain of
this boat, and if she is a coffin for anybody
she will be my cotfin.' After the men had
left the boat the Manistec made one plunge
under the waves, and that was the last of
her. When we left the vessel there
We're the crew and ten or eleven
passengers m board. and out of
those who started out in the boat
only three were saved and reached Hougll-
ton. The wreck occurred off Eagle Harbor,
and there was no possible chance of saving
the vessel under the circumstances At the
last, when everybody knew there was no
1or,o H,pt A{nEn,. fro,-n ~. nr1,,, s,,ck ~,
cool and collectedly as if lie was on land"
A body hoated near the shore at Pigeon
River, and f%ruitless endeavors We're made
to secure it. 1t is supposed to be a corpse
from the Manistee, but was not identified
in any way.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-12-21
A Boys Fearful Death.

CHICAGO, Dec. S.-A little boy, twelvv
years OF age, employed in the National
Lille Insurance Building, was sliding boy
like down the banniSters, when he missed
his hold and fell two stories, striking his
bead on the stone floor below. His head
was horribly crushed, and the poor little
fellow died simultaneously. No one in tho
building appeared to know the boys name.
put ne was supposed to be employed in
some OF the Offices. The body was 10.
moved to the morgue.