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Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-11-08

There is no better food Tor
chickens than skim milk.-Chi-
cago journal.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-11-08

A BrIdge 0Ver the NIsNIosIP'
nj river at New Orleans, where
The river is 2,40O feet wide, is
protected. An engineer pro
poses seven spans Of 800 feot
each, one TO he a draw. The
piers are to be creosoted piles,
driven in clusters, and heavily
capped and cased in iron. The
depth Of uater will DO no OBJ
.e as-ahA-niles can be spite
lsioTs-axtimated eosf w1ff be
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-05-25
II RACE.

The course was open, and the young athlete
With folded arms stood ready there;
No time had he his gathered friends to
greet
There lay the ordeal he must dare.
His well-knit frame spoke high for health
and power
His teeth were set, and in his soul
A purpose fixed, hat from the starting
hour
His aim should be a gilded goal.
Love was there, but he would not hear her
voice;
And friendship strove his heart to keep,
Twas all in vain, his heart had made it's
choice
The world had golden fields to reap.
He cried "Ill bear no ballast in this
race
Life's loves and cares, I pass them by
Yonder is the prize, be it mine to trace
The measured distance or TO die"
AS cleft the air with spirit all afame-
Sees him out-distance his compeers
Jaded and worn, and yet his eyes proclaim
A swelling heart as conquest nears.
Cheers for the racer thunder 10 the sky;
His soul despised them, for he knew
They would have cheered him had he went
to die
All that he longed for was in view.
Alb! yes, he runneth we'll who runs for
gold;
He left behind him life's purest joys,
The race was long and he was growing old,
Rut cfin ba hard 4ba e;ra,,'- ro;oo
Then came the end, he conquered in the
strife
Shook hands with death like all his
kind
He beat the record in the race of life,
And then he left the prize behindl
William LVle.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-05-25
Stories of the Cyclone.

Some of the stories told concerning the
work of the cyclones in Wisconsin and ILL
nois are almost beyond belief, yet their truth
is so well vouched for by many witnesses
that they must be accepted as trustworthy.
At Kellogg's Corners, Wis, the cyclone which
n few minutes later visited Racine with such
disastrous result swept n millpond dry.
carrying the water in q binding sheet to
the barn of Charles Herrick, which was
literally deluded, and a cow stabbed
therein was drowned. A new brick school
house at Aztalan, Jefferson county, WIS,
was destroyed by hail. The stones were as
big as eggs, and came down in such numbers
and with such velocity as TO make the build
ing look as though it had been destroyed by
n cannonade. Mrs. Northrop and her son,
who lived on a farm in Racine county, near
Union Grove, were standing at a window
watching the cylone, when they noticed that
the funnel was coming toward them with
cellar, and had no sooner landed on their
feet than their house, a substantial frame,
was picked up like n balloon and carried over
their heads a long distance down the road.
The residence of Mr.. Page, southeast of
Springfield, ILL.,, was demolished and every
outbuilding blown down. Some of them
were carried completely away, especially Il
large ice-house, of which no yestige could be
found within a radius of a mile. Mr.. Page.
with his family, took refuge in the cellar OF
the house on seeing the approach of the cy-
clone. They had a narrow escape from being
crushed 10 death by the foundations of the
building, composed of brick, which came
lumbling in upon them, seriously bruisine
Mrs. Page. The house would at times rise
several feet off the ground, but, strange to
say, with the exception of being unroofed il
settled down almost on the old
foundation. Near the house, and in the
track of the forbade. were foui d
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-05-25
South and West.

The cyclone which struck Kansas City,
No., demolishing more than fifty buildings
and killing several persons, also ragged with
terrible effect in other parts of Southwestern
Missouri. The owl of Orongo was entirely
destroyed and six persons were killed
and thirty-three were injured. Five
persons we're killed and ten or
fifteen rounded at Macon City.
Joplin and Carthage escaped with very little
injury, but the storm passed up the Spring
river, moving everything in its way and kill
ing and injuring people and stock. The track
of the cyclone, which Travelled in a north
e~as.erly direction, was about POO yards wide.
A reporter drove for several miles through
the country along the track of the storm,
and found everything within its confines
swept away. Many farmhouses were entirely
destroyed. About eighteen lives in all were
lost.
A TORNADO which struck Sturgis, Mich,
swept away everything before it for half q
mile in width. Chauncey Gilman, a farmer,
sought shelter, with his three children, in a
barn, which was carried away and all four
killed. George Runyan's house and barn
"CiS OiOhu uOWu anu MS family seriously III
jured.
A FIRE at Bartlett, Dakota, destroyed
twenty buildings occupied for business pur-
poses, including several saloons and gam
bling houses. Loss $4,000. Some saloon
keepers moved their bars into the street and
kept on retailing drinks while the flames
were raging.
WHILE two burglars were attempting to
rob the store of Burchard & Lake in the lit
tie town of Benz, Mo-, they were discovered
by the young son of Mr.. Burchard and n
companion. The robbers turned on the
young men and shot and instantly killed
Burcbard. His companion then fired and
killed one of the burglars. The other fled.
but was captured by a pursuing party and
lynched.
THREE hard characters, named Ca son, AFRO
alleged to have murdered, near Delaware
Bend, Indian Territory, a short time ago, two
white men named Blankinson and Hiddleson
and an old negro named Wiley. The other
day Marshal Menshon, of Fort Smith, Ark.
and Constable Cutler, of Grayson county,
Texas, attempted to arrest the Carsons, but
they showed fight, and exchanged a dozen
shots with the officers. Marshal Menshon
was slightly wounded. All the Carsons we're
killed except their father, who was released.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-05-25

several huge logs which had evidently been
n part of some log house, but which Mr..
Page had never seen before and did not
know whence they came. The wagon stand
ing near the house was carried several rods
away and turned upside dow without being
much damaged. The residence of Super.
visor Grubb, in the same neighborhool, was
unframed, but n summer kitchen was thrown
out of shape. The stove, which was heated
at the time, was carried about 200 yards and
lodged in n straw stack. A fire followed,
md the barn and other buildings adjacent
were consumed.
Near Dawson, further east, the tornado
was very violent. Along its track nothing
could be found that had not been damaged.
In all the fields were dead horses and cattle.
Trees were Frustrated, fences blown away
and the roads in some places blocked. In
pnc place a haystack in n shapeless mass i'm
peded travel. 1t had been blown from an
adjoining field. The cyclone at Dawson and
other points, according to the testimony of
eye-witnesscs, presented the appearance at
times of a vast ball of fire. and shaped as a
funnel. II seemed TO possess heat and power
at the little end. Nothing of human con-
struction could survive its touch.
A few miles north of Virginia, ILL.,, a hedge
fence was raised root and branch and carried
away. A big pile of railroad ties lying near
the track was scattered far and wide. On
Springfield Round Prairie q horse was found
with n piece of rail through his body. At
the residence of Major Hess, one and a half
miles east of Springfield, the chimneys were
tumbled and the windows broken. In one
of the windows sat a large wooden bowl.
This was split midway, one half being left
in its original position and the other half
carried off by the cyclone. At one place a
loci of geese were found naked, their
feathers having been stripped from their
backs and hung upon a hedge.
At Grafton, sixteen miles southwest of Jer-
SEVILLE, ILL.,, large stone we're lifted off the
bluffs and hurled with tremendous force into
the Mississippi river and upon the town be-
low, causing the utmost CONSERVATION and
fear among the inhabitants. The Wabash
track was covered for several miles with
stones thrown by the force of the wind from
the bluffs. A car of stone weighing
1900 pounds was lifted from the track, and
the stone scattered in every direction. Mi
chael Larned was taken up holly and
carried away. Search was made and his
body found in a culvert of the Wabash rail
way, a distance of one hundred yards from
where the storm struck him. His head and
face we're split in two, and his body badly
bruised. Large pickets were carried a long
distance and driven into trunks of trees.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-05-25

Two prisoners sentenced to be hung a
Conwayboro. S. c., June 8, for murder, es-
capped from Jail by the help of a boy, who un-
locked their cells during the %jailer's absence.
Before quitting the prison they cut the throat
of a fellow prisoner, Ben Mcmillan, inflict-
ing a fatal wound.
The Democratic State convention at
Louisville is declared to nave been the most
exciting ever held in Kentucky. Hon. Proctor
Knott was nominated for governor on the
second day and seventh ballot by four-ifths
of a vote majority over Colonel Thomas
Jones. The brief platform declares that
"'our laws in relation to revenue and taxation
should be so framed as to secure equality in
the rate of assessments as nearly as possible,
and TO insure the collection of that revenue
in the most convenient and inexpensive
n
WoRD has been received from the Chinese
legation hat a Chinese consulate is about to
be established in Now York city.
CITIZENS of the United States can hereaf-
ter, by conforming to the regulations gov
erning the subject, receive the Same protec-
l1On III oWltLerldlu IcBaiuihB thciI 'luue-
marks as do the citizens of that government.
AsrArIsT1cAI statement just issued by the
treasury department shows that the exports
of merchandise during the present year will
exceed those of last year by from $G0,O0O,OOO
to S75,OO0,000. Last year their value was
$780, 900, 900. This year, Judging from the
work of the nine months for which we have
figures, the total will be from $S10,0oO,0O to
econ OOo OOO
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-05-25
WISE WOR

A cheerful face is nearly as good for
an invalid as healthy weather.
The best education in the world is
that got by struggling to get a living.
We seldom find people ungrateful so
long as we are in a condition to render
them service.
All other knowledge is hurtful to
him who has not the science of honesty
and good nature.
Envy is a passion so full of cowardice
and shame that nobody ever had the
confidence to own it.
To educate a child perfectly require
profounder thought, greater wisdom
than to govern a state.
Fate is the friend of the good, the
guide of the wise, the tryant OF the
foolish, the enemy of the bad.
The best part of our knowledge is
that which teaches US where knowl-
edge leaves off and where it begins.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-05-25
FASHION NOTES.

Gold braid is a popular trimming.
The latest fancy in gentlemen's
handkerchiefs is to have very narrow
hens.
Large black lace fchus will be worn
in place of mantles with midsummer
dresses.
Wool dresses of beef-blood color,
braided with black, are favorites with
London ladies'.
English turbans and Fanchons di-
vide the popular favor of young ladies
at the moment.
Black silk Stockings and long black
silk Jersey gloves will again be worn
with toilets of white.
The new plaided zephyrs, cool and
bright, will be Il favorite material
for children's dresses for seaside
wear.
Pretty tea aprons are made of
oriental net, with RULES of oriental
lace over strawberry surah, and also
of iicelle lace over pale blue satin.
Tulle is again used for bonnets.
Black tulle is gathered on gilt wires
for the crown, and the front is covered
with a ruche of gilt lace, or rows of
currants, rosebuds or small white
blossoms. Lac strings are fastened
on the left side by a rose OF a bunch Of
flowers.
The mos fash ,onable Of the white
dresses are tnlivened by shades of
French terra-cJtta, shrimp-pink and
tea rose. One of the daintiest of these
toilets is made of cream nuns yelling
or vigogne, with broad sash and other
satin ribbon trimmings of pale prim-
rose yellow.
Red or blue plai Is will be much
worn for ginghams and thin zephyr
lawn dresses. The skirts are disposed
in Scotch plaits and the poionaise fits
the form like armor, as low as the
hips, when a straight scarf of the ging-
ham is tied around the figure, after
first being edged with linen lace or
embroidery.
1t is not believed that the rose and
the lily can be improved by painting,
but fashion is doing a similar thing in
dyeing the pearl. This gem is now
tinted in all the new shades to match
dresses they are intended to embellish,
the colors ranging from the palest
cream and mauve to the deepest dyes
of brown, green and olive.
Some of the simple and elegant"
tailor-made costumes cost one hundred
and twenty-five dollars each in New
York, and "dressy" French morning
robes can be had for the same modest
price, the latter being marvellous crea-
tions of finest cashmere or merveil-
leuX, the entire fronts being a mas of
silk embroidery, waves of lace, ami
flowing ends of satin ribbon.
Ribbon trimmings were never worn
in greater profu ion, or showed greater
variety of material, coloring and de
sign. The more expensive of these
are hand painted, broad silk or satin
sashes, with groups of flowers, Cupid's
heads. moses, ferns and swinging gar
lants of Strawberries and vines painted
on the ends. These saShes make an
elegant finish to a child's OF young
lady'S toilet.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-05-25
Washington Notes.

AT the fourteenth annual reunion of the
Army of the Potomac, held this year in
Washington, the 70) veterans present were
reviewed by President Arthur in the White
House grounds. 1t was the first gathering
of the Army of the Potomac in Washington
since the war. General John Newton was
elected president of the society, receiving
1855 votes to III for General Grant. The next
reunion will be held in Brooklyn.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-05-25
HUM0R OF THE DAY.

Frogs are proficient in croakay.-
Carl Pretzel.
The donkey never suffers from soft
ening Of the brayin'.-Picayune.
1t is at the quilting "bee'' where
you hear the singing remark.-NeW
York NeuS.
The aisle of a church is not the
proper place for a sexton with squeaky
boots. He should try some other kind
of "ile."--Ne,O York Adcertiser.
The sexton rings the bell at church,
Its peals of marriage tell,
While in the church the happy groom
Does also ring the belle.
Drummer.
Where are our women drifting?
asks az anxious writer. They are
probably securing the neighborhood
for some butter and sweet milk
Drummer.
1t is the fashion this year for bald
headed people to wear their submits
so highly polished that when a fly
lights OF it he'll slip Off and break his
neck.-YonkerS Gazstte.
During the winter we feel that we
can hold our own pretty well as an av-
erage liar, but now that the circus bill
adOrns the wall we feel our utter in
significance.-Etanscille argus.
Yes, my son, it is quite commenda-
bic in you that you should wish to
see the world; but remember there are
better ways of seeing it than through
the bottom of a tumbler .-BoS,on
Transcript.
Literary Matron - "What does
Shakespeare mean by his frequent use
of the phrase, go top" Matter-of1
fact Husband perhaps lid
thought it wouldn't be polite or proper
t. finish the sentence."-London
Punch.
1t is a breach of etiquette, never I'd
be forgiven, to sneeze in the presence
of royalty, but royalty has w both
cred itself to tell "a man what to do
with his nose when he feels a sneeze
working along up his suspenders.-
Detroit Free PrSs.
Newton was not Il gourmand, but
he loved neither lettuce nor women.
We are not surprised that he didn't
love lettuce, but women well, per
hapS they were not cooked to suit him
though most persons like 'em raw
NOrriStoUn Herald.
The man that runs an auction,
And watches for a nod,
Must either be near-sighted,
Or else he's very odd.
For when you bid on something
He smiles with sweet content,
And thinks you mol a dollar
When you only nod assent.
y OnkerS Gazette.
This is the time of the year that tn
young man thinks of joining a boa
club, and, as a preliminary athleti
movement, he purchases a pair o
dumb bells. He uses these about fly
minutes night and morning for tw
or three days, and then leaves the
alone for the rest Of the year.-PucA
From the new primer: What i
this? 1t is a Young and AnXiou
Father. Has 1t a bottle in Its Hand
YES, and there's a Big Label on tn
Small Bottle. What does the Labs
spell? P-a-r-e-g-o-r-i-c. Where is TIN
Young and Anxious Father goingi
He is going to the Bawl this Evening
-NeU York NecS.
n OF papers an
IuzZling over the cause of dew. W
have stopped that long ago, for "
know the cause of due is that the tim
has expired on the last paper we CAV
at four months. That piece and se1
eral Others are all over due, and
course any business man should kno
the cause of it without read
ing a long scientific article on I'll
subject. Scientists are theorists an
how, and don't even know bushes
when they have a bill of particulars
DIlu
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-05-25

1t has been decided by an Oregd
Judge that Chinese actors are nd
laborers and that they may be pei
mitted, therefore, to enter the Unitd
States, under the law recently enacted
without passports.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-05-25

There are about six hundred CREAM
cries in the State Of Iowa and the yiel
of butter is estimated at l00,0O0,0q
pounds per anIum
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-08-02
PUBLICATION NOTICE
First publication AUGUST ;. 19

First publication August 2, 1888.
Nelson w. Carlton and CIariuda
Carlton viii take notice that John
Mefkline as Dlaintiff did OH the 28tt
DAY OF July, 1888, file his petition in
the District Court, in and for Phillips
county, Kansas, against them as de-
Ienaants setting forth that on the
z4Ch Gay or November 1879, said Mel
son NJ. Carlton and CIarinda Carlton
gave q mortgage to William i. Gilbert
and Henry Gay on the following de-
ScflDed real estate situated in PhilliDs
county, Kansas, viz The northwest
quarter of section eight (S) in township
three ~ of range nineteen 49, west
OF the sixth go p. m, to secure the
payment OF the sum OF ($49O) Four
hundred and ninety dollars according
TO a certain bond and ten certain cou-
pom notes mentioned in said mort
gage, which mortgage has been duly
assigned TO plaintiff and praying
Judgment against said Nelson w.
Carton and Clarinda Carlton for the
sum of (S39S) three hundred and
ninety-eight dollars now claimed to be
due and unpaid, with interest at s
per cent. from the 2Sth day of July
1883, or that said premises may be sold
to pay the same. Now said defend
ants Nelson w. Carlton and Clarinda
Carlton are hereby notified that they
must appear and answer said petition
OH or before the 14th day of September
1888, or said petition will be taken as
true against them, and each of them,
and q Judgment for said amount, and
a decree forever barring them of any
right, title or interest III and to said
lands, after the sale thereof, will be
rendered against them, and ordering
said lands to he sold to satisfy any
sum found to b. due the plaintiff
on said notes and mortgage.
Attest: 6. A, SPAULDING,
(sEAL Clerk Dist. Court.
McelrOy & Mckay att'ys for plaintiff.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-08-02
PUBLTCATION NOTflIE.

State of Kansas, Phillips County.
In the District Court for said County.
Mary /. Vincent, plaintiff. vs.. s. S.
Vincent, defendant.
Said defendant, s. S. Vincent. will
take notice that he has been sued in
tile above named court for q divorce
from the bonds of matrimouy with
PLAINTIFF, and for Two Thousand Doll
lars as her aIlimOny and for the custo-
dy of her minor child, and must ans
wer the petition filed therein by said
plaintiff on, or before the 18th day of
September, A. d. 1888, or said petition
will be taken as true, and Judgment
for plaintiff in said action, for said di-
vOrce, alimonY and custody of minor
child, will be rendered accordingly.
Attest: G.. a. Spaulding,
Clerk of said court.
Woodwork & Davis atty forplttf. az
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-08-02
Our News Papers.

G. w. Wood has purchased the press
material &C., on which the Harlan Adj
vance was printed, and we understand
that he will start new paper at Kir-
win, which he says is to be red hot Re-
publican in politics and wide awake for
shekels.
Thornton claims he is going to make
his daily q fixture, giving Kirwin four
papers. Poor town! How can she
stand so muchP
Surveyor Bernard is said to be work
ing up project to put in a Democratic
paper at Phillpsburg with good pros
poets of success.
And now comes the report that Cham
bers & Newell, of the Stocton Record,
have tired of living off the railroad, and
are contemplating change to Marvin,
in this county.
We do not vouch for any of these
changes but only give the rumors as
they come, and if all should prove true
our people will be well supplied with
news.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-08-02
Our County FAIR.

The premium list of the Fifth Annual
Fair of the Phillips County Agricultural
and Mechanical Association, to be held
at Phillipsburg September 18th, 10Th,
and goth, is now in the hands of the
printer and will be ready for distribu-
ton about August 18th. 1t will be pub
hshed in pamphlet form, each alternate
page being reserved for advertisements,
and will furnish an excellent medium
for advertising the various business in
terests in the bounty. 1t is hoped and
believed that our business and profess
sional firms will take an interest in the
matter and furnish card and make it
complete business directory of the
entire county. The list will be cireula-
ted largely outside of the State and it
should give a good idea of the business,
as well as agricultural interests, of our
county. The Board of Directors of the
Association have secured the services OF
Mr.. Ed E. Davis as publisher of the
premium list, and he viii, as far as pos
sible, wait upon all who would be likely
to advertise add give them an Opportu-
nifty to do so, but should he not get
around address him at Kirwin.
We would be glad to see Phillipsburg,
Kirwin, Marvin, Logan and Long Island
represented in the advertising pages of
this list. And now that an abundant
crop of all kinds of grain is assured
there is no better way of advertising
our county than by having good Fair,
which can be done this fall with reason
able effort. Let everyone take hold of
this matter and make it a grand sue
| cess.