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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-07-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and Middle statss

THEE men were killed by the cavinc ir
of an embnnkment at Newmarket. N. II.
COLONEL RoDELING has resigned his
position as chief engineer of the East River
bridge.
H. w. H1GHAM, the English bicyclist, de-
featej John S. Prince, the American cham
Tion, in twenty-mile bicycle race al
Rochester N. Y. Time, III. 9m. 57sls.
At the Pennsylvania Republican State
convention in Harrisburg William A. Liv.
sey was nominated for State treasurer and
jerome B. Niles for auditor-general. In the
platform adopted protection doctrines are
vigorously upheld; suggestion is made
that the surplus revenue of the nation be
distributed among the States; the admins
tration of President Arthur is approved, and
the withdrawal of the trade dollar from cir
culation is favored.
PARTY of five masked burglars, after
binding and gagging two families living
near the First National bank at Franklin,
N. Y, forcibly entered that institution, blew
open the safe with dynamite AMI secured
about $1,000 in silver The explosion tore
out nearly the whole front of the building
and set fire to the papers. The money of the
bank was in another safe.
AFTER balloting nearly a month for United
States Senator in the New Hampshire legis
lature, a letter was received from ex-senator
Edward H. Rollins, the Republican caucus
nominee, withdrawing his name as cand.-
date. The largest number of votes received
by Mr.. Rollins at any time was 1875, and the
lowest 10; necessary to a choice, 1872.
Ex-TRUsTEE RUFUS S. MUM, one of the
most prominent citizens of Lansingburc,
N. Y, was found dead with his throat Gu
from ear to ear. He had been sunstruck q
short time ago land had ever since complained
of a pain in the head.
ORANGE JUDD, the well-known New York
agricultural publisher, has failed.
ADyICEs from the cattle centers in the
Southwest indicate that the drive this year
will reach GOO, 900 head, against $50, 900 last
year.
AN explosion of $500 pounds of powder
in Duponts powder works, Wilmington
Del, killed the foreman and laborer, and
injured another workman.
A HEAVY flood which visited Springfield,
VT, and vicinity, destroyed grain, roads,
bridges, houses and other property, doing
damage estimated at $4,000.
LIGHTNING struck a schoolhouse at Under
hill, Vt, and b.dly shattered it. All the
children were more or less injured, some re-
naming unconscious for several minutes.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-07-20
SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA.

yellow Observation-Disclosures Voi' auoI
The yellow fever at Callso and Lima il
causing serious mortality. A correspondent
at Callao writes: 1.-THE authorities continual
to employ every means known to moderrI
science to fight the germs of the IN; CHI feared,
epidemic, which, thfnks to this zeal, has NOD
broken out with the Violence which was a
first feared. The city at night appears hkd
vast tn 'ampnent. from The number Of
bonhrts Kept burning"
A strong and somewhat prolonged earth1
cuale las been experienced in Cal a. II
did no carnage, al Ugh l. caused ucl|
alarm among the iowuspeople. At 30 thu
same morning m c slightlr mo enlenf
was felt in Lime. Two earthquakes ocl
ct red in Valparaiso III rapid succe on I
g:h5 I. M. The second shock was the st. o ige |
Of the two. and il aused some alarm.
A new volcano has appeared at Servia, sly
miles from Villavicenc.o, i'll the state O
Cundinamarca. The smoke from it caa bj
seen at a great distance in the day time. an
at night it elects a column of smoke en-
flame Those who have visited it could MOI
approach close to it, owing to the heat.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-07-20
PENSION SwINDLERS CAUGHT.
Bureau Clerk and an Outsider Arrested 70
Mean Frauds.


A recent Wa hington dispatch says:
For some time Pension Commissioner
Dudley has suspected that mischief was
afoot, in consequence of the discovery
of changes in the dates of pension cases
al owed. Chief Rathburn, of the spe-
clal agents, was directed to look into
the matter and he discovered that
some one in the pension Office was
carrying on a swindling scheme with the
help of an outsider. The plan of operations
was for the government employe or en-
ployes, If there was more than one guilty
clerk, to ascertain from papers when the ap-
plications for pensions were to be allowed.
Upon this information the applicant was adj
dressed and informed that if he would employ
Mr.. j. G. Alamet, who had peculiar facilities
for hurrying up ng-delayed cases, his claim
could be speedily settled favorably, in consid-
GRAFTON of a fee. In combination with Mr..
Alamet, who was working the nefarious
scheme outside of the department, was, 1t is
charged, Mr.. j. j. Alley, a clerk, who fur
nshed the necessary information, procur-
ing lists as complete as possible of cases
discovered a number of persons who were
induced by A'amet's promises to pay out
money, one man having given $780,
The two men, Alamet and AL
ley, were arrested by the marshal.
Commissic ner Dudley is of the opinion that
the two swindlers have not secured large
amounts. The employment of persons Of
this kind is absolutely useless, as the COM
missioner says that there is no agent or out
side solicitor who can do more than the
claimant himself, after the papers have
been filed, and that in the order of their
recent all applications are attended to as
speedily as possible.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-07-20
DEATH IN THE STORM.
Tornado Wrecks the Town of Soldier,
Kansas--Ten Persons Killed and In

Tornado Wrecks the Town of soldier,
Knnsas--Ten Persons Killed and In-
iured.
The town of Soldier, situated on the line
of the Kansas Central railway, about sixty
miles west of Leavenworth, in Kansas, has
been demolished by tornado. The business
portion of the city was destroyed and ten
persons killed and wounded.
During the day a hot wind had been blow
ing from the prairie, but about O'Clock
dark clouds formed in the southwest, and
later the heavens were lit up by continuous
lightning. Shortly before 10 O'Clock P. NJ.
the clouds grew blacker, and in few min
utes terrific tornado broke upon the town,
coming from the southwest. Two farm
houses were first torn down, and then path
was cut by the wind through the center of
the town. Fifteen residences and business
houses on the east side of Main street we're
literally scattered broadcast. From thence
the wind seem to jump over two blocks,
and then again wrecked four houses. one of
them containing W. Owens and family.
Mrs. Owens and an infant child were in
stantly killed, the last named being carried
some distance from the house. In the main
portion of the town, where tie wreck was
worst, Mrs. A. Walters Mrs. H. Channel
and Mr. Harper were also killed and many
wounded. Mr.. CHANNEL and Mr.. Walters,
whose wives were killed, were both badly
wounded about the head, the last named
fatally. George Simpson and Frank Harper
were also badly injured.
During the storm five cars of the Kansas
Central road were blown from the track
and demolished. The pecuniary loss is
placed at 100000.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-07-20
STORIES OF ANIMALS,

In dwelling house that was burned near
North Adams. Mass, three children were
sleeping. their parents being away from
home. The house dog succeeded into get
ting into tie children's room and rescued
them with great difficulty, as two of them
had tainted.
As a dog in South Bend. Ind, was quietly
gnawing bone, rat crawled out from
under the sidewalk on the opposite side of
the street, and, rinning close up to the jaws
of the dog. made off with the bone before
the astonished dog could recover suffic emily
to pursue it.
A boy OF Luther, Mich, on his way to
school met bear, and hastily climbed a
tree. He chung 10 his dinner pail, but as
bruin sat at the foot of the tree patiently
waiting for him to come down, he finally
tossed the pail to him. The bear gulped
dow the contents of the pail, and then le:s-
urely walked off.
A dog at Newcastle, Penn, was for
twelve years the inseparable companion of
Sidney Davis. Davis died recently, and
after search IL III vain for his master, the
dog finally sett ed down in his armchair and
av a ted his coming. 1t required stratagem
TO get him to take the smallest quantity of
foo !, and he gradually pined away and died.
Rochester robin has built its nest on the
main frame of engine $40, of the New York
Central railroad, between the left forward
The engine runs daily between Rochester
and DE Witt. The bird kept faithfully at
work as circumstances permitted, and, hav-
ing completed the nest, she now occupies it
even when the engine is running.
A Boston lady had a dog which when it or
its friend the cat wished to go into the kit
chen, stool by the door and allowed tie cat
TO jump upon its back. The cat could then
reach one paw oyec the latch, and by press
ing the other paw on the thumbpiece, was
able TO open the door. The cat would then
drop on the dogs back, and ride into the
kitchen in triumph.
Two coon dogs belonging to Tim Buckner,
| North Carolina negro. visited the court
room during the trial of their master for in
citing riot, and sat by his side. After he
was sent to Jail they took up their station at
the Jail yard door. During the entire term
of his Imprisonment these dogs did not stay
away night from theirpost They relieved
each other during the day to get food but
at night both were constantly at the door.
The townspeop'e have now built kennel for
the dogs near the jail door, within sight of
Buckner's window.
One of Georgia's most successful fruit
raisers is j. L. Ellington, of Palmetto. He
has novel and interesting way of keeping
worms from his trees. All over his orchard
are cd gourds, boxes and cans placed on
stamps, fences ana trees. These are the
houses of the worm-destroyers, which are
the little bluebirds, 70 numerous in Georgia.
For five years he has been petting and raising
! these birds and to-day has about 500 The
bluetird eats no'hing but bugs and worms
and can whip the English sparrow.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-07-20
GUITEAU'S SISTER.
The Charges of Cruelty Which Mrs. ScO-
Vile Makes Against Her husband.


A Chicago dispatch says; voiuminous
bill, in suit for alimony and immediate
relief, has been filed in the circuit court by
Guiteaus sister, Mrs. Frances H. Scoville,
against George Scoville, her former husband.
The rec tai dates back to the beginning|
of their married life, and is brought down to|
date. In addition to immediate relief, Mrs.
Scovile prays for possession of the effects of
Charles Ghiteau, her late brother. She says|
that Scovile has broken all the clauses mi
the compact made between them shortly
after her return from Canada, where she|
fled last summer to escape persecut, on on a
trumped-up charge of insanity. The docu-
ment is pathetic story of hunger, hardshlps|
and persecution. Recently Scoyille made herr
munfcent offer of fifty cents day and onel
II cal, as partial support, but in order to get II
she had 20 walk eighteen blocks, after hard
days work at n sewng-machine. His treat
ment of the child. Bertha, she alleges, is so
outrageous that she p'ays he may be de-
barred from 5, eng her except at such mei
and place as the petitioner may indicated
Mrs. Scov lie S all dav.t is sworn to, and Mrt
King, her attorney, says the case will bj
contested TO the end, and every attempt will
be made to save her Wisconsin pro erty,
which, she says, Scoville is trying to securd
and squander.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-07-20
THE NATIONAL GAME.

In the Buffalo league nine there are six
10 .t-handed batsmen,
A Pro .ES IoNAL club will be started in
New Orleans this winter.
DAN OLEARY's indianapolis cub hevs
won thirty-nine of the forty-one games
played by them this seas n
The American q oci I on umI ires VIII be
paid 500 per month if the consent of tbs
eight clubs can be obtained.
SOME of the best games of baseball on
record have been play cd this season-ten,
eleven. twelve and thirteen innings being of
more than usual occurien
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-07-20
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

New YORK city will have five new theatres
next season.
PHILADELPHIA will have a music f4stiva,
on big scale IL sxt year.
JOE JEFFERSON is to commence retiring
from the stage next season.
NEW play by Anna Dickinson an one
by Bret Harte have been Submit ID TO the
Madison Square New York; management.
CARL G. p. Ga,DENE7, 60 nposer and
theorist of considerable e atlor, dieo at
Hamburg rec entity at the age of seventy-one
ANNIE P1xLEf expects to make her or a'e
success with her new play, when ehe s no"
strd WING at her summec home in Pot Stan
ley.
TIE Rev. ". II. H. Murray {" Adiron-
dack') has signed cont act with Ne"
York bureau to deliver 100 lectures the m
ing season.
CLARA LOUISE HI L -oGG. who is in Paris
has leased a house at New Ha tforc, Conn,
near her birthIl lace, and will spend the sum-
mer there.
DION BorCIcAuLr is to wife an original
dram TO- Mrs. Lang ry. Mrs. Langtrs ms
500 OoO in bank as the n proceeds q her
Am, rican t Jur.
BAgT1EY CAMpBELL's play, MY Part
ner." will be presented at the Reside NJ thea
tire, Berlin, September Is. His Galley
Slave" made iun there of elghty-thFee
nights.
IoyEss of the eyitimnte draml can enjoy
themselves t. their hearts content ths COM
ing season. At least score OF companies
will pay the legitimate alone, heaieo py
such artists as Booth, Irving, Barrett, NC
Cullough, Warde, Edgar, Rose Eytinge, etc.
Miss ADA WARD. an English actres'. and
star of conside able repute, who, IN conJunc-
ton with Miss Sara Jewet, will play Leading
Shak @ .pearan roles, supporting Mr.. George
Edgar, the coming dramatic season, mas ar
rived at New York.
SOME Of The be t known dramatic probes
SIGNALS will seek the shades of Saratoga ior
at least a portion of the hetted Term this
summer Among them may be mentioned
the following: Mss Emma Juch, OF her
Majesty's OIera cmpany Miss cara
Louise Kellogg, Signor Brignoli, Mr.. William
Crane, of Robson IL Crane, John McCui-
Tough, Signor Tagliapietra, Miss kosaloe
Beecher and Others
WE read that marie Roze is the only
singer of distinction who is not AFRAID OF
catching cold. Nilsson treats her throat as
she would sick baby. Kellogg is AFRAID 10
venture out of doors twenty four holrs De,
fore she sings. Minnie Hank goe! to bed
for days together AMI remains there In COM
plete silence. Emma Abbott has the doors
and windows OF her room hung with plahkeis
to keep out the draughts. Gerster wears
heavy shawl indoors in all weathers'
The square pianoforte appears TO be
doomed. In Germany and other European
countries it is seldom seen. and IN America
its place is being rapidly taken by the up
right, or "pianino," as the Germans more
POLITICALLY call 1t. One of the lea ling piano
firms in this city, say S the New York EremnJ
Post, recently announced that II hea elm
mated all styles of squares from lis ctua-
logue, and would henceforth manufacture
only uprights and grands. This example
should be followed by other firms, and 1T
would be we'll ii the terms pianino and par
lorlr md were generally used in place, OF the
absurd upright" and "baby gram 1.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-07-20

The Yesdegird, or Persian era, began
June 20, 632, when Yesdegird was
made king of Persia 1t was reformed
in 1875, by Jelaledin, when nearly l12
days had been lost, and. by his COM
mand, day is now added to its sos
whenever it appears necessary to post
pone the New Year that it may fall on
the day when the sun passes the
proper degree of the ecliptic.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-07-20

Deprnus and Scyllis, Cretan statu-
aries, were the first who sculptured
and polished marble.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-03-17
NUMBER %.

o chncss which merited rs il received
the confidence of their employers, and
brought them success We promotions.
So it is in every line Of work. No
boys that live luxuriously, rise late.
start out to their business in fine clothes,
with dainty gloves and canes, will ever
make their mark in the world. All
those things ere we'll enough at certain
times. but at other times they indicate,
weak natures, destitute of high purpose,
of real energy and heroism.
And Toys in this country, although
they do not belong to the nobility, as
did Napol on, have every place of honor
aud position open to them but to OBJ
tain them they must work with Napo.
leonic courage and determination. Re-
member, boys, no lazy minister ever in
spired his people, or had wide. awake.
progressive church; no lazy lawyer
ever made his mark in the forum; no
lazy merchant ever became eminent
and controlled great interests; no lazy
scholar ever produced books Of lasting
worth; no lazy artists ever made them.
selves famous by their chiscls or brushes;
no lazy General ever led great armies
To conquests; and no lazy man evei
made his impress upon his generation.
And the boys of to-day who are pos
sessed of the real courage, high inspira.
ton and true heroism which character.
lied Napoleon when he was boy will
take high places and become the leaders
and the noted men o. the next genera
ton. - Chicago Standard.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-03-17
A Hunibugging Monkey.

The anthropoid apes are somewhat
tacturn race, but u chimpanzee' MUIR
muir of affection is very expressive, and
quite different from his grunt of discon-
tent. A sick orang-outang sheds tears,
means piteously or cries ike petted
child; but such symptoms are rather de-
ceptive. for the orang, as well as the
chimpanzee, is . great mimic, not OF
men only, but of passions and patho-
logical conditions. Two years ago /
took temporary charge of young chin.
panzee who was awaiting shipment tc
the Pacific coast. His former landlord
seemed to have INDUCED him in pen
chant for rummaging boxes and Golfers,
for whenever attempted to crcumscribt
the limits of that pastime my boardei
tried to bring down the house, meta.
phorically and literally, by throwing
himself upon the floor and Juggling VIC
lently at the curtains and bell-ropes. Ii
that failed to soften my heart, Pansy
became sick With groans and sobs he
would lie down in n corner, preparing
20 shed the mortal coil and adjusting the
pathos of the closing scene to the degree
of obstinacy. One day he had set hi
heart upon exploring the letter depart
ment Of my chest of drawers, and after
driving him off several times, l locked
the door and pocketed the key
Pansy did not suspect the full meaning
of my act till he had pulled at the knobs
and squinted through the key-hole. but.
when he realized the truth, life ceased
to be worth living; he collapsed at once,
and had hardly strength enough left TIC
drag himself to the stove. There he lay.
bemoanng his untimely fate, and
stretching his legs as if the rigor morris
had already overcome his lower extrem
tiles. Ten minutes later his supper was
brought in, and | directed the boy to
leave the basket behind the stove, in full
sight of my guest. But Pansy's eyes as
sumed far-of expression; earth had
lost it's charm; the inhumanity of man tc
man had made him sick Of this vSie Of
tears. Meaning 10 try him, l accom-
panied the boy to the staircase. and the
victim of my cruelty gave me a parting
look of intense reproach AS l left the
room. But, stealing back on tiptoe, we
managed to come upon him uDawares,
and Pansy looked rather sheepish when
we caught him in the act of enjoying an
excellent meal. DR.. OsWatd, IN Popular
Science dJ0nfhIu
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-03-17
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

1t is said that fashionable ladies'
won't go fishing this summer unless
they can get silk worms for hait.-Raii-
ddeiDhia Chronicle.
"A man adver.ises for competent
person to undertake the sale of new
medicine, and adds that sit will be
highly lucrative to the undertaken"
An exchange says it makes woman
sick to keep secret. He must have
guessed at it, as it has never yet been put
to practical test Wheeling Joatrnat
1t was year-oldcr who asked:
Papa have you done anything down
town to-day that you think ought to
whip you for, if | were rs big as you
are p''
"A Chicago doctor advertises: ''Don't
mistake dropsy for consumption
That's right! The constant mistaking
delirium tremens for malaria is enough
Boston Post.
It's Just as well to be refined in
your conversation. Say: "Those who
indulge in terpsichorean recreation are
under obligation to remunerate the vio-
linist."
"A Georgia farmer is entertaining a
big scheme to raise watermelons on a
large scale for the manufacture of sugar.
and all the big boys in the neighborhood
are advising him to do it. Toledo An,eri-
can.
He is the greatest artist alive, and
the one courted most by society, who
can carelessly drop a lot of marking-ink
on piece Of cardboard, and after draw
ing whisp broom across it, call it
symphony of twilight, and sell it for
$40, 000.-Puck.
cit seems to me / have seen your
physiognomy somewhere BEFORE" said
fop to stranger whom he met, "but /
cannot imagine where" Every likely"
replied the other; Il have been the Gov
ernor of prison for the last twenty
years. IN. Y. Ledger.
Toto is crying very hard. "What
is the matterpn asked one of her fathers
friends. II have lost two cents that
mamma gave me-" THAT is not
difficult loss to repair" replied the
friend; ''here are two cents An in
slant afterward Toto was crying harder
than ever What are you still crying
forp" asked the gentleman. 8. am
CTtIug, Sdiu buc al blul DdUJ. DcCduSc
if had not lost two cents should now
have FOUR
A young man who had just returned
from a seven days vacation, being re-
quested to carry box up stairs, replied
that he could not, because he hadn't
strength to do it. Haven't Strength
said his employer; % how is that?n
Z" Why, you see, I've been off for seven
days. and it's fact, you know, that
seven days make one week" The young
man was given a perpetual vacation from
that establishment.
-" Wouldn't you like to have bowp"
said bold young archer, as they saun-
tered down the field, and she murmurea,
"Yes," and the absorbed archer said,
g What kind of bow would you pre-
ferp' She quivered little as she replied
archly, II think should prefer you.'
And the young man took it in. and
though he was a narrow chested youth.
he went to the target and heaved bulls
sigh.-DetroH Post.