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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-10-12
South and West.

DURING political quarre at Liberty,
Miss, A. w. Wilmington, sheriff of Amite
county, was stabbed twice in the back by
Eugene McElwee and killed. McElwee was
surrounded by a crowd and shot to death.
IN Bapti.t church at Comanche Texas,
aftert the pre- aching was over and the congre-
gregation had gone to a creek to witness
baptism, Robert and William
Butcher, brothers, who had remained
in the building, became involved in a
quarrel with one Harris, and Robert Butcher
was shot dead with a shotgun by Harris
William Butcher and Harris then engaged in
a struggle for the possession of the gun, dur
ing which Harris was fatally beaten.
THE first annual meeting of the Lumber
Manufacturers association of the Northwest,
which includes practically all the wealthy
and leading firms engaged in the trade, was
held few days ago in Chicago 1t was
resolved to take steps which would check the
wholesale destruction of forests, as they can
not stand the present drain.
Jun, the notorious Indian chief who has
given so much trouble recently in the South
west, and in Mexico, was drowned a short
time ago while drunk
SIX negro section hands quarreled and
fought over game of cards with one Ned
Bradfield, n ar Providence Station, La. and
the quarrel finally resulted in the six negroes
roasting Bradfeld over fire so ba lily that
he died. All six were arrested.
A PROMINENT farmer named Beguhn wa;
hunting near Menomenee, Wis, when he
thought he saw bear, and fired. Invest
CATION showed he had killed his brother
A MILWAUKEE dispatch says that S. H.
Seamans, secretary of the National Millers'
association, taxes an encouraging view Of the
outlook for the -four milling Industry in the
crop year which is now commencing.
Two young men-cous,ns named Austin
Guthrie and Franklin Meyers in
the milan Territory about girls affections.
Both were on horseback, and drawing knives
they attacked each other with such ferocity
thai 10th soon fell from their horses with
fatal wounds
JACOB ELMER and Charles Hinsley, two
stage robbers, belonging to gang that killed
Messenger Collins on August 10, were over
taken by Sheriff Paul and posse ten miles
from Tues IN, Arizona. Elmer WAS kille and
Hinsley wounded. The latter csc lpel into
the mountains, bat was pursued, found and
killed.
ALL the North Carolina COME ieIate dead
reposing at the Arlington cemetery, near
Washington, have been disinterre1 AMI taken
to Raleigh for re-iItermen'.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-10-12
VERY OLD PEOPLE.

Dr. Oliver S. Taylor, of Auburn, n. V, the
only surviving member of the Dartm- nth
college class of lSOS, is 100 years old.
Ephraim Sheffield, of Oak Bluff, Ark, was
in his lO3d ytarwhen he died. His father and
his two brothers all lived more than ninety
years.
For sixty years Mrs. Rosa Davis, of Jeffer
sonvie, KY, was n slave. She has just died
at the age, according to her friends of l20
years.
William Sullivan, of Urhana, Ohio, who
died recently a. the age of ninety -four years.
FOUGHT in the war of 1872 and also in the
evil war.
After married life of sixty-seven years.
Amelia Sanford, of Milledgeville, Ga, died
recently i'll her ninetieth year. Her husband
Is ninety-two.
w. J. Barlow, of Live Oak, Fla, is 102
years old. His father lived to the age of lOd,
and his grandfather, it is said, was l36 years
old when he died.
Walter Evans, who died recently at Read
ing, Penn, aged ninety year, wa, bachelor,
and wealthy. He never left ais farm, fearing,
he said, to meet a woman.
Judge Thomas Stewart, of Warren county,
New Jersey, had seven sons. One of them
is still living at the age of So. The Others
died at 80, IS, -, IS, 50 and 90,
The sister of Mrs. Lydia Mu ford, who died
at Hanover Neck, \. j., aged ninetv-one
years, is living in Monmouth county, and her
age, it is said, exceeds century
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-10-12
MARVELLOUS AND INDUSTRIOUS.

An eight-legged calf is the produc. of
Bourbon county, Ky.
A CAT was born near Auraria, Ga, recent
~. with two heads. 1t is lively and healthy,
and can yowl with one mouth and maui with
the other.
The LARGEST log ever brought into any of
the sawmills in Paragould, No, was the
smallest of four from the same tree, and
me assured forty-two inches at thu small end,
making $50 feet of One-inch boards.
a MISSOURI man has two pumpkins in his
garden, the one meas uring five feet and ten
inches in circumference AMI three feet three
inches in length, and the other five feet four
inches in circumference, and three fee; four
inches in length.
n FARMER brought a squash to kirkville,
Mo, last week, that weighed saVenty-one
pounds. He claims to have two other similar
specimens at home, growing on the same
vine, which are much larger tian the one lie
brought TO market.
ANDREW county, No, has an apple tree
measuring six feet I, ur inches in circumfer-
ence at eighteen inches from the ground.
The largest limb measures four feet and two
inches in circumference. The branches in
the widest place measure forty whine inches.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-10-12
Triumph of Surgery.

Modern surgery is able to provide a
man with new nose new lips, new eye
lids and an artificial throat. 1t can do
more it can, by the process known as
skingrafting, provide him with a new
skin. The following description of the
process isreported by an English surgeon:
The patient pretty little girl of eight,
was admitted into st. Georges hospital.
Two years previously her dress had
caught fire, burning both legs from the
hips to the knees severely. After years
treatment the left thigh had healed up;
but the right had never got better, and
presented a terrible ulcer, extending all
down the outer side. For four months
she lay there without any signs of i'm
provement. On May the child was
brought into the operating theatre and
placed under the influence of chloroform.
Two small pieces of skin were then
shipped from the back with pair of sharp
pointed scissors, and imbcdded planted,
in fact-in the granulations or proud
flesh" of the wound-two tiny atoms,
scarcely bigger than pins head, and
consisting of little more than the cuticle
or outer skin which we raise in blisters
" AonlHS VI cAposulc " inc ilol sun.
Five days later no change was visible,
and by-and-bye the operation was con-
sidered to have failed, since the pieces of
skin had disappeared, instead of grow
ing, as had been expected. But twelve
days after the operation two little white
cicatrices appeared where the seed had
been sown; and in my notes find that q
week later these were big enough to be
dignified as islands of new tissue"
The most wonderful part of it was that
not only did these islands grow and in
crease rapidly in circumference, but the
fact of their presence seemed to stimulate
the ulcer itself, which forthwith took on
healing action around its margin. Sew
eral more CRAFTS were implanted subse-
quently, including morsels from Mr. Pol.
locks arm, from my own, and from tho
shoulder of negro; the last producing
a white scar-tissue like the rest. In two
months the wound was healed, and the
little patient was discharged cured.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-10-12

DURING September the national debt was
decreased Sl4, 707, 900. IL. On the LIST inst. the
total debt was 81, 52l, 81 ,5S5.9s; cash in the
treasury, s355, 45O, 61O.Gs
A report to the United States Marine
hospital service at Washington says that
in Tapachu'a, state of Chiapas, a panic
reigns ON account Of the great mortality
caused by black smallpox. The town has
population of 10000, and 1,200 have died of
the disease, decomposition setting in in many
casesbefore death.
GENERAL GEORGE ". GETTY, in command
of the artillery school at Fortress Monroe,
has been placed on the retired list of the
army, having reached the age of sixty-four
years. He has been succeeded in command
of the artillery school Ivy Colonel John c.
Tidball, of General Sherman's staff.
THE secretary of the treasury has dec ided
that green plums are free of duty under the
new tariff act. Quite large trade in this
fruit is carried on over the Canadian border
and the question arose whether it was duti-
able under the provision which imposes a
duty of one cent per pound on "prunes,
dates and plums.n
HE total value of the imports OF merchan.
d Sc during the year ended August 81 was
SOC, 1904, 564, and decrease from last year Of
S35, 204, $40. The total value of the exports
was $500, 11o,919, an increase of sS3,3s5, 1Gl
over last year.
MAJOR T. J. ABBOTT, a clerk in the war
department, Washington, for more than
twenty years, died few days ago at the age
of eighty-four. He had always lie frugal
life, and under his pillow after his death was
found S33, 600 in government bonds.
GENERAL DUDLEY, commissioner of pen
sions, in his annual report, states that
there are living to-day almost as many veter-
ans who have not applied for pensions as
there were soldiers on the roll of the
army in May, 1855. There were 1,0OO,516
names on the rolls on that date, and there
are at the present time 962, 900 veterans
who have never asked dollar of the govern
ment. There are on file in Washington 16J,-
900 certificates of disability that have not
been acted on, simply because that number
of living veterans, who are clearly and in
disputably entitled to pensions, have not
asked for anything at the hands of the
government.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-10-12
WISE WORDS.

Love, like charity, covers a multitude
of faults.
A mans ruling passion is the key to
his character.
Well begun is half ended, says the
proverb, and good beginning is half
he battle.
The greater a mans wealth the broader
may be, if he but will it, the sphere of
his usefulness.
If you count the sunny and cloudy
days of the whole year you will find that
the sunny ones predominant.
The grave is a very small hillock, but
we can see farther from it than from the
highest mountain in the world.
When you fret and fume at the petty
ills of life, remember that the wheels
which go round without creaking last
longest.
We have vast number of gingerbread
young gentry thrown upon the world
who remind one of the abandoned hulls
sometimes picked up at sea with only
monkey on board.
Times of general calamity and con-
iN@i''i iA"'N ~ 'NNh liOthNli'S VI tilO
greatest minds. The purest ore is pro-
duced from the hottest furnace, and the
brightest thunderbolt is elected from the
darkest storm.
The world is the great temptcr, but at
the same time it is the great monitor 1t
stimulates our pride by its pomp and
show, its fleeing honors and prizes; it
goads men to the race, and inspires them
with covetousness and rapacity; but, on
the other hand, it is the great memento
and evidence of its own vanity and of the
emptiness of everything it offers to us.
1t is the great saddencr, the great warner,
the great prophet.
BY example, thousand times more
quickly than by precept, children can be
taught to speak kindly to each other, to
acknowledge favors, to be gentle and
unseltish to be thoughtful and consider
ate of the comforts of the family The
boys, with inward pride at their fathers
courtesy and demeanor will be chival-
rous and helpful to their younger sisters;
the girls, initiating the mother, will be
gentle and patient, even when big
brothers are noisy and needless.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-10-12
LATER NEWS.

THIS year the grape crop of the great Hud-
Jon river valley fruit district is immense.
AMBROSE DAGGETT, young man working
on the farm of David Greedy, at Liberty, Me-,
shot Ella, daughter of Greedy, through the
neck, causing instant death Immediately
after the shooting Daggett went into an
orchard near the house and shot himself
through the head, expiring instantly. Jeal-
ousy was the cause of the murder and suicide.
Daggett had been partially deranged at
times.
AT Northboro, Mass, a MN named Tay-
lor, residing in Brockton, but on a visit with
his wife at the home of Richard Eylward,
shot his wife, dangerously wounding her.
and then blew out his own brains
A STREET car at Allegheny City, Penn,
colide1 with freight train, and all its pas
sengers, twenty-five in number, were in
iured, two or three with likelihood of fatal
result.
A MORMON conference at Salt Lake City
was largely attended. Leading Mormons
impressed upon their hearers the necessity Of
living up to their religion, practicing polyg-
amy and paying tithing Apostle Cannon
presented the statistics of the church, which
showed a membership in Utah of III, 294.
The church organization embraces twelve
apostles fifty eight patriarchs, 3. So seventies
3,153 nigh priests, HOO elders, 800 bishops
and 4, 900 deacons. Arizona reports amembcr-
ship of 1924. Idaho is not reported, but has
double that of Arizona. Eighty-one missioner
les have been appointed to go ON missions to
Europe and the United States Eighteen of
this number were set apart for missions in the
Southern States. The Southern converts are
being colonize1 mainly in Colorado.
THE anniversary OF the settlement of
Germantown Penn, was celebrated at Cleve-
land, Ohio, by monster parade in the after
noon and a grand festival at night, at which
addresses were made by the mayor and nu-
merous prominent German residents.
DALLAS, Texas, has been visited by rain
which destroyed a large amount of valuable
property, including about 5000 bales of
cotton,
ALDERMAN HENRY PFAUNCKERPHoN of
Austin, Texas, and man named Jette quar-
relied, and the alderman shot Jette twice.
Jette, in falling, seized the weapon from
pHOu anu S1Db lllIil Ill une aDuO-
men. Both men were fatally wounded.
MANY thousand acres of public land are
said by an investigating agent of the govern
ment to have been stolen in the Territories
by parties who have seized the domain with
out complying with the homestead laws.
NIHIL1sT pro carnations are said to have
been issued. solemnly sentencing the car of
Russia to death because he has failel to grant
liberty TO the people.
HENRY IRVING, the leading English actor
about to visit America, concluded an I'M
paralleled parting tour of the provinces
at Liverpool The receipts were enormous
and the enthusiasm was such that the actor
was publicly entertained in every city he
visited.
NUMEROUS bands called Hos, similar to the
Black Flags of China, havJ inva led Siam.
THE car of Russia and he Prince of Wales
have gone to Sweden ON hunting excursion.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-10-12
THE SPANIARDS AROUSED.
Intense Feeling Created by King Al
fCnsO's Iet cep:iOn in Paris.

Madrid dispatches give PARTICULARS of the
intense feeling aroused on account of King
Alfonso's insulting reception by a crowd in
Paris. Upon his return to Madrid the
kings reception was most enthusiastic. An
enormous crowd completely blocked the
streets between the railway station and the
royal palace. Flags were displayed in
every part of the city, and many shops
were closed. The queen went to the Es-
curial to meet the king. whom the cabinet
minister's, civil and military officers, and
many other deputies and senators welcomed
at the station. On the arrival of the train
loud cheers We're rai.ed, lasting several
minutes. Their maiesties proceeded
to the palace in carriage uncscorted.
They We're surrounded and followed by
great mass of people. The plaudits CON
tinued along the whole route. The enthusi-
asm was greatest in the square before the
Ialace, where thousands had assembled, al
most stopping the progress of the royal
carriaga.
The king appeared on the balcony of the
Ia'ace several times, and afterward held
popular reception. AT night a serenade was
given before the palace by the bands of the
garrison. Many houses throughout the
city were illuminated. 1t is estimated
that $1,000 persons attended the recep-
ton. The king ordered that no one should
be refused Abundance to the palace. The
saloons could scarcely contain the immense
crowd of arstocra's, officers, private sol
diers, students and workmen.
At one of the the aires in the evening the
audience compelled an actress to substitute
the national air for some French cDuplets
forming a portion of the play which was
royal family has Vastly increased sirce the
events in farS
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-10-12
STEALING THE LAND.
AssCu"din g rrit,Gs in the Territories
-Heizing the Pull c Domain.

A Salt Lake City dispatch says: Colonel
James Tullis, special land agent of the gov
eminent, who has been investigating the
land frauds in the Territories is in this CITY.
He says there has been some tall swear
ing done by witnesses in some of the
land offices, and that large tracts of
land have been patented by persons
who had in no wise complied with the land
laws. The desert land entry act had been
violated with a recklcssne. S that was posi-
lively astonishing In many cases it was
found that absolutely nothing had been done
toward retaining the lands. and yet what
are known and regarded as good citizens have
gone before the land officers AMI made solemn
oath that the land had been reclaimed AMI
all the conditions of the law complied
with, where, i'll ia t, no n ark made by
human hands could he found upon the
entire tract Other tracts were taken up
under the desert act that are no more desert
than the valley of the Ohio river Other
land was found To have been taken up under
growing at the time of the original filing more
fore st trees than the law requires when final
proof is to be made. The hc mesteal law has
not been fairly construed, and thousands of
acres have been patented by persons who
have not complied with one single re-
quirement of the law, and who have
given fraudulent testimony with the full in
tent ana purpose to defraud the government.
Tens of thousands of acres of public lands
are fenced of by wealthy stock raisers thus
leaving the actual settlers without n rang
for the family COW. In one instance it was
found that men livi near a city in Moa-
tana had fenced up 5000 acres of pub ic
lands and permit ed the town people to pas
ture their stock on the enclC sure for 81 per
month Ter head.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-10-12
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

1t is stated that q Paris firm has pat
tnted an invention for the instantaneous
formation of steam.
Engineering is responsible for the state
ment that vessel constructed of paper
has been launched in St. Petersburg.
She is driven by steam.
1t has been calculated that to make the
D50, 600 tons of paper annually required
for the supply of the world, 43O days
medium flow of water down the river
Thames would be needed. s.,
Captain Schufeldt, of the United States
hrmy medical corps, has forwarded to
the Smithsonian institution a collection
Of some 5000 specimens of vertebrates
md invertebrates collected around New
Orleans.
An ingenious apparatus called " fire.
damp indicator has been invented in
Geneva. Every hour or half hour the
air of the mine is forced into the burner
Dy bellows and the result is registered
N the central office.
Celluloid will not be as popular in the
future as it has been, if new substance
which has been made up in London
proves successful. 1t possesses all the
hardness and brilliancy of celluloid, and
IS, beside, tireproof.
When cattle are intended to be ma
Gciously destroyed in India they are
pierced with thorn of the Arbus preca-
torius. Death ensues on the second day.
Strange to say, the pounded seeds, taken
internally, have little action.
A writer in the Journal of Science, in
an article on "Cram and It's Amenities"
claims that brainwork is not by itself
physically injurious, but that, when
within reasonable bounds, it is distinctly
favorable to long life and he enforces
his argument with some happy illustra-
lions.
A new and curious use for the euca-
lyptus tree, already famed as an antidote
TO malaria, was discovered by accident
lately in California. The leaves it has
been found, act as preventive of that
incrustation of steam boilers which leads
to their gradual corrosion and is said to
be almost the sole cause of explosions.
Dried apricots are likely to be promi-
aent article of export from California.
Heretofore this fruit has been put up al
most entirely in tin cans, but, in conse-
quence of overproduction, the canning
factories reduced the price paid to the
farmer to such figure that he was driven
TO experimenting with various processes
of drying, and discovered a method that
leaves the fruit in delicious state.
Among the various substances found
on the located human tongue after a
microscopical examination are the follow
ing; Fibers of wood, linen and cotton;
fbers of spiral vessels, fibcrs of muscle,
in one case eight hours after eating;
starch grains, cheese mold, portions of
potato skins, scales, moths, etc.; hair
from legs of bees and of spiders, pollen
of various flowers and their stamens;
hairs from various leaves, in one case the
wing of mosquito; fragments of the
leaves of tobacco very frequently, and of
chamomile flowers, etc., occur repeat
edlv.
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HORRIBLE TRAGEDY.
Mexican Mother Kills Her Five
ChiIdIe en- md DESTROYS Herself.

A Laredo Crexas) dispatch says: A gentle
man just from Lampasas, Mexico, gives full
particulars of most horrible tragedy that
occurred on Wednesday near that place.
Mrs. Valdez killed her five children and then
herself during fit of insanity.
In one of the large ranches, about twenty
miles to the southwark of Lampasas, there
,aved for four years past quiet, well-to-do
Mexican named Antonio Valdez, whose
family consisted of wife and five children,
the age of the eldest of the children being
ten years, and of the youngest two years.
The wife, who was about thirty years
OF age, had been subject to epileptic
fits and spells of melancholy of long
duration. During the past few months she
mas exhibited many evidences of insanity,
and when in such mental alteration invaria-
bly, sought'to do violence to her little ones.
On Wednesday the afflicted woman was
attacked with fit of unusual severity. When
she mad recovered from the spasm her hus-
band went to work to herd a flock of sheep
belonging to the ranch He had been gone
but a short time when his wife rose
from her couch, and with huge butcher
knife, which had been carelessly left within
her reach, commenced her terrible work of
destruction. Her oldest child, sweet girl of
ten, was first to fall victim to her maniac
mothers cruel blows her head being almost
severed from her body. With that methods
peculiar to insane persons she in quick
succession slew the other children, hack
ing and stabbing them in sickening manner.i
The frantic woman, after the five bic eding
little corpses lay at her feet, viewed them
with grim satisfaction, filling the air with
wild and weird EXPLANATIONS. Sudden
ly, taking a parting look at the
dead before her, she plunged the knife
into her own breast, reeled to corner
in the room, and fell deal. During all
the time this fearful tragedy was
being enacted the serving woman,
peon, was powerless to prevent it from
abject fear. The husband was soon apprised
of what hal happened, and his lamentations
were pitable in the extreme and he could not
be consoled In due time the neighbors came
and speedy arrangements were made to bury
the dead. Six graves were dug and the next
morning the funeral rites were performed.