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L Il & Il L NOTICE s.
SsTATE OF VERMONT,

rhcbc Carpenter OF terrisburg, in SAID coun-
ty, having filed hsr petition 10 the Addison
County Court neat 10 be held at Middlebury
" thin and Tor said Addison County, on the flrst
Tuesday of June A. ID. 1883, setting forth in sub
stance that She was married to David Carpenter
January lst 1919, that since said m rriage she
Cohabited with said David at Charlotte in said
State until May 18Th, 1919, when he wiitnly de
serted her, and since then has refused To live
with her or support her; that she mas resided in
said County for more thar live years last past
wherefore she prays for divorce from the said
David and the custody other son Frank .. Car
penter during his minority.
1t appearing that the said David is without
said state 50 I'll tt said petition cannot be served
upon him, 1t is ordered that he be summoned To
appear and answ er the foregoing petition. ON
the first Tuesday of June a. ID. 1885, 10y the pub
LEGATION OF the substance OF SAID pelitOi together
with this order, III the Middlebury Register "A
public newspaper, published in Miudleburv.
aforesaid, three weeks success sivey, the last ul
when publications TO be III least six weeks prior
to said tcim OF said court.
Dated at Middlebury, aforesaid this 18Th day
OF March y. ID 1883. 10
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT, CLERK.
GEO. W. GRANDEY, ATTY.
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STATE OF VERMONT,
II


John Parant of honkton, in said county, hay
ing filed his petition to the Addison County
Court. next To be held at Midi eburv, within and
for the Junty of Addison. on the first Tuesday
of June, A. ID. 1888, setting forth in substance
that he was married to sofa Jodoin ON the 9Th
day of February, a. ID. 1850; that he has resided
in sal county for the past year; that the said
sofa witully deserted the said John on the 18th
day of March, a. u. 1854 and ever since that
time has refused to 1--we with him. Wherefore
he prays for divorce from the said Sofa.
1t appearing that the said SOFA is without SAID
State so that said petition cannot be served upon
her, II Is ordered that the said Sofa be sum
moned 10 appear and answer the foregoing peti-
ton, on the first day of the next term of said
court next to be held at Mddlebury, aforesaid,
ON the first Tuesday OF June a. d. lSsS by the
publication of the substance of said petition to-
gether with this order, in the Mildlebury Regis
ter, pubic newspaper, published at Middle
bury aforesaid, three weeks successfully, the
last of which publications to be at least six weeks
prior to SAID term OF said court
Dated at Mddebury aforesaid, this Sd day of
April, A. ID. lss3
II RUFUS WAINWRIGHT, Clerk
j. j. ENRIGHT, Attorney.
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L E G Al MOTTO s.
STATE OF VERMONT,
AIslIsnn ntafrf.f -

In Probate Court, holden at Mddlebury, on
the l0lhday of March, A. ID. lSs3.
Nathan Ryder, administrator of the estate
of Stlman Brown, late of Whiting, in said
district, deceased, makes application to said
court for license to sell all OF the real estate OF
SAID deceased, representing that said sale is
necessary for the payment of the debts of said
deceased, in which petition all OF the heirs re
siding in this Stale joined.
Whereupon, ii is ordered by said court that
be heard ON the 10th day of April, A, ID. lssS
at 10 O'Clock Il. m. at the Probate office in Middle
bury and, tits further ordered, that all persons
notice of this application and order thereon
three weeks excessively in the Middlehury
Register, printed AT Middle bury, before said Tim,
ofhearlng, that they may appear NJ said time
and place, and. II they see cause, object thereto
by the Court-Attest,
10 JOHN &. Stapleton, Register.
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TIE date of the Cars coronation has
been fixed in May. Already the revolu-
tionary party in Russia has issued a
proclamation announcing that their
preparations to meet the coronation are
complete, and that they have every hope
of success in fully carrying out long-de-
vised plans. The proclamation contains
swarning TO all persons that they must,
if valuiDg their personal safety, keep at a
distance from the Car during the cere-
mony of the coronation.
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SPECULATIONs regarding the next
President continue to be made and pub
lshed. A Washington correspondent
writing to the Philadelphia Press. says
that he has no doubt that the Republican
candidate for President will be elected
in 1884; that none of the old candidates
will be prominent in the convention
General Grant and Mr.. Blaine not caring
to be. and Mr.. Conkling being so unpop-
ular that he would scarcely get his own
vote; that Senator Edmunds, whom he
believes to be as great man as ever sat
in the Senate, is too well known to be
nominated. Judge Miller of the SUI
premc court is, he thinks, the best man
The Republicans can put at the head of
their ticket and Frye of Maine the
second.
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Meeting of Town Superlntendents.

At the annual meeting of the Addison
county town superintendent, on Tuesday
last, there were present:
From Brdport, Miss Anne Huntley.
Bristol, A. ID. Searls.
Ferrisburgh. DR.. q. +. Collins.
Middebury, Ezra Brainerd.
Orwell, Geo A kimball.
Panton, +. T.. Sears.
Ripton, \. Alison McIuiyey
Salisbury, DR. O. NJ. Bump.
ShOreham, DIR. &. W. Howard,
Starksboro, l.. q. Ferguson.
Waltham, W. ID. Woodman.
Weybrdge, q. Il. Chlds
The following eleven towns were not
represented: Addison, Cornwall. Gosh
Ell, Granville, Hancock, New Haven.
Nergennes. Whiting. Leicester, Lincoln.
Monllton. Geo. \. kimball was chosen
chairman and Ezra Brainer,l. secretary
The following board of county eNamin-
ers were elected by ballot: Geo. A. Kim
ball, a. Il. Clark of Nergennes C.. ID.
Mead of Middlebury. Thursday. April
10, and Wednesday, November 81. were
fixed as dates for the public examinations
OF the present year. Ii was voted not to
require any teacher to pass an exanina-
ton in Physiology and Hygiene the
present school year. The following
committee were appointed to recon-
mend suitable textbook in Physiology
and HYGIENE as authorized to be taught
in the public schools by the last Legisla-
ture; Geo. A. kimball, O. NJ. Bump
Ezra Branerd. The same regulations
and the same requirements, as hereto
fore, were adopted for the public exam,
nations. After agreeing upon a list Of
question for the written examinations
the meeting adjourned.
EZRA BRAINERD, Sec.
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STATE OF VERMONT,
- Addison District. So


Be ii remembered, that at n session OF the Pro.
bate Court holden at Middlebury, within and for
SAID District, on the 18th day OF March, \. d.
1888.
Present, Hon. Lyman f. Knapp, judge.
whereas, Il certain instrument in writing, I'M
der seal, purporting to be the last will and
ment OF Sarah Jones' late of Shorcham, in
said district, deceased, having been this day pre-
sented to said Court OF Probate, and duly filed in
the Probate Once Therefore, it Is ordered.
that all persons interested in the estate of said
deceased be notified to appear before said Court
the Probate Office in Middlebury in said District,
on the 10th day.oi april, A. ID. 1885, at 10 O'Clock
a. m,by publication of this order three weeks sue
cessivcly previous thereto, in the Mildebnry
Register, Il newspaper printed at Mildebury
aforesaid, to show cause, if any they may have,
why sad instrument III writing should not he
proved and allowed rs the last will and tesla
ment of the said deceased.
II JOHN &. STAPLETON, Register
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CTATE OF VERMONT,
~ District of AIdison -


he II remembered that at II session Of the Pro
bate curt holden AT Middlehury, within and for
said District ON the 2id day ul March, A. ID. lSSS
PRESENT; Hos. LlMAN T.. KNAPP, IL DGE.
Whereas lohn l.. Buttolph, administrator OF
the estate OF Sarah l.. steele, late OF Middleburv
in said District, deceased. has this day present
ed Ia said Court his petition in writing setting
forth, that il Will be necessary Ia sell n part OF
the rea estate of said deceased, ior the payment
ol the debts and charges of administration; and
also that IL Will he beneficial for all parties in
terested therein 10 sell the whole of The real es
tate OF said deceased, and therein max ing APP
plication Ia said court for license to make such
sale. And said John l.. Buttolph having pro-
duced 10 said court the assent in writing of all
the heirs residing in this STATE interested in said
real estate.
1t is ordered that all persons Interested in the
estate of said deceased. be notified Ia appear
before said court, at the Probate Office IN Middle
bury, IN said District ON the 10th dav OF APRIL,
a. u. lsSi, at 10 O'Clock Il. M, by publication OF
TINS order, three weeks successfully in the
Mlddlcbury Register, newspaper printed at
Middlebury aforesaid, to show cause, If any they
may have, why said liceuse should not be
granted. IL
JOHN c. STAPLETON, Register.
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STATE OF VERMONT,
- Addison District. ~
Middlebury on the

n Probate Court, holden at Middlebury on the
ith day of April, A. II. lSSi.
George '. Wilson, administrator OF the estate
OF Enoch Il. Back, late of Hancock, in sand
district, deceased, makes application to said
court Tor license to sell all OF the real state of
said deceased, representing that said sale is
necessary Tor the payment of tine debts OF said
deceased, in which petition all the heirs residing
in this State Join.
Wherelpon, 1t is ordered by said court that
salu Application come under consideration and
be heard on the 23d iay OF April, A. ID lsS3. at
~ O'Clock Il. M, at the probate Office in Middle
bury and II is further ordered that all persons
Interested be notified hereof, by publication of
notice OF this application and order thereon.
three weeks successfully in the Middebury
Sster, newspaper printed at MiIdebury, be
lore sald Time OF hearing, that they may appear
al SAID time and place. and, if they see cause OBJ
ject thereto Il
JOHN G.. STAPIETON Rppistor
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CTATE OF VERMONT.

- DIsIrICt OF AUUIsOn,
GIN Probate Court, holden at MlddIeburv. on the
ith day OF April. a. d. 1883.
VIM. X Ellis, of Salisbury, administrator of
the estate of George Ladd late OF Middlebury in
sald district, decease, Il makes application to
SAID court for Incense to ecll all of the real estate
OF saldi deceased, representing that said sale >
necessary FOR the payment of the debts of said de-
state. ~
Whercupon, it is ordered by said court that
SAID application come under consideration and
be head on the 23d day OF April, A. u. IsS3 at
10 O'Clock, a. H., at the probate office in Middle
bury; and 1t is fun thcr ordered, that all persuns
interested he notified hereof, by publication of
three weeks SUGGEST vely in the Middleburv
Register, printed at Middlebury, before said
time OF hearing, that they may appear at said
t,Me anu place and If they see cause, object
thereto. il
JOIN c. STAPLETON. Register
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NOTICE OF incorporation

We, the subscribers, hereby associate our
selves together as n corporation, under the laws
of the STATE of Vermont, To be known by the
name of
1.-THE Douglas Hay-Loading Machine
Company"
for the purpose Of manufacturing the hay.load-
ing machine invented and patented by n. Il,
Douglas of ornwall, Vermont, at .Middlebury
IN tle county OF ADDISON IN SAM state and sell.
ing 1.-THE same wherever agreed upon between
said corporation and said patentee, with "a CAPT
tai stock of One thousand Dollars, divided into
shares riity Dollars each.
Dated at Middebury, this 18th day of March,
1888.
SMITH & ALLEN,
IL b. DODGE,
A. j. MARSHALL,
IN Ma. @ .
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TAR. G. II. Ii. WILLARD,
OFFICE IA 3m
OVER MRS. SHADES NIL LINERY STORE.
TOWN HALL, MIDDLEBURY, VT.
Proposals for Building.

Sealed proposals will be received at the Office
of the Clerk of the town of Middlebury, Addison
County, Vermont, until April 18th, 1853, at /.
o'clock, noon, for furnishing materials and do
ing the necessary work in the erecting of Town
Hall in said MIddleburv. according to plans and
specifications. which VIII be on file, for inspec
ton, at the said town clerks office on and after
the 9TH day of April, A. ID. 1853, until the SAID
18th day of April, 1885, at noon.
No bids will be received except for the whole
bulldog complete as specified.
Bids pI operly endorsed to he handed to the
town clerk of said town ON OF before the hour Of
noon upon the said 18th day of April, 1855.
The committee reserve the right to reject any
or all bids not deemed satisfactory.
By order of building Committee
LYMAN +. KNAPP, Chairman.
Middlebury W., April 4th, 1888. l4;.t
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FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1888.

PETER COOPER, the venerable New
York phlanthropist, whose ninety
third birthday was celebrated February
II, died ON Wednesday at the home of
his son-in-law, Abram S. Hewitt.
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STATE OF VERMONT,
Alliann niatnina =.

BE II remembered that at Middlebury, this 2d
day of March. a. ID. lSs3, Ann Finn ot Orwell
in the county of Addison and state OF Vermont
of full age, is hereby adopted aud made heir al
law ORD. III. w. Horton OF Orwell in the county
OF Addison and state of Vermont, and said
adopted person shall hereafter bear the name oi
Ann r. Horton.
ID. II. W. HORTON,
ANN FILM.
At Middlebury. this 26th day of March, A. d.
lsSi, personally appeared ID. H. w. Horton and
Ann Finn, and acknowledged the foregoing in.
suument by them scaled and subscribed Ia
be their Tree act and deed.
Before me,
LYMAN Il. KNAPP, Judge OF Addison Dis.
A true copy-attest
LYMAN f. KNAPP, Judge.
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FIRST CLASS REPAIR SHOP.

Grateful for patronage and appreciation in the
past, he solicts the remembrance and custom OF
old friends, and would like TO make the acquain.
lance of new ones.
Middlebury, VI, April 8, 1883 4;u
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JOHN H. SARGENT

Here he will lie prepared To meet all custom
ers-old ones and new ones-who may want any
thihg IN the lines usually To he found in
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-12-21
Civil Rights AT the South.
A DARK PICTURE.

The murder of j. p. Matthews at the
polls in COpiah county, Miss, on cleo
ton day, for some reason or other
seems to he assuming Il much greater
importance than when it was new.
The democrats involved are not in the
defiant and self gratulatOry mood
which animated the COpiah county
braves at that time, but are talking of
making Il defensive statement. 1t will
be remembered that Matthews, II
prominent republican and former
ice-holder, voted the republican
ticket at the polls at Hazelhurst, and
as he turned away was shot dead by
one Wheeler, who had just before
warned him not to vote. Mrs.
Matthews, an educated woman of an
old and good Mississippi family, has
published her account of the affair, in
which she states that for the week pre-
ceding the election the favOrite south
ern practice of night-riding, whipping
and killing negroes, and turning them
out of their homes, was in full eXer-
else, and she instances the case of an
excellent cOlored man, 20 years old,
who was called out one night and shot
utdu, NHllt HIS dBCu WIG W tis StIlOuS-
" wounded, his only off'ense being
that he had said he preferred the anti
bourbon ticket. This systematic ter
rorizing was so violently carried out
that the Saturday before election the
sheriff of the county received a petit
ton from 60 white men, ''asking for
protection or orders to protect them
Selves and accompanied by affidavits
against the night-riders. The sheriff
paid no attention to petition or aft
davits. The same day Matthews re-
ceived a letter threatening his life,
and he knew that the sheriff and the
chairman of the democratic committee
had been overheard discussing the
plan of appointing him a deputy to
arrest the rioters rs perhaps the easiest
way to get rid of him. Monday there
were 500 men in line at Hazelhurst.
armed with the favorite shotgun, who
proposed to 90 to Matthews house and
fetch him out. He was taking care of
a sick daughter, and the doctor went
to the mob, told them that she was
ia n critical condition, and implored
them to stay away. Nevertheless a
deputation of 100 visited the house
with hasty notification to ''Print
Matthews" to "keep within his own
enclosures tomorrow" Matthews
answered that he was free man and
should exercise his right to vote.
That evening Congressman Bark sdale
made a speech in which he is said to
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Public Opinion.

Wheeler. the man who shot Mat
thcws, the republican mail contractor,
at the polls in COpiah county, Miss, on
election day, has been elected city
marshal of Hazelhurst. The Mississ-
ippi bourbons are evidently determined
to furnish the republicans all the pOlit-
zeal capital which they could ask for
in next years campaign BrattleborO
PheniX.
The nomination of Gen. McCOOk for
the secretaryship of the senate is one
of those Fare cases where the Office
seeks the man, and not the man the
office. Gen. McCOOk indicated his will
lingneSs to accept the position if it
were rendered him, but he refused to
go to Washington for the purpose of
pulling wires in his own behalf. This
is commendable and if the same prin-
ciple were applied to other positions OF
trust in government affairs, we should
have better men i'll office and less cause
to find fault because offices were poorly
administered.-[St. Adams Messenger.
Mr. Blaine is very busy, but he will
never he president; he has lost his
grip on the confidence of the "inde-
pendent" variable voter that holds the
balance of power in doubtful states.
and even if he is lucky enough to boom
himself into the nomination he will be
beaten worse than ANY candidate since
Horace Greeley. No presidential in
triguer is likely to he nominated !; none
certainly will be elected; and Mr..
Blaine had better go on with his book
for the day of his political pride and
pomp is passed never to return Rut-
land Herald.
''The sale of liquor has nearly ceased
at Middlebury, and so good order has
not prevailed for months. The bust
ness men, becoming Disguised with the
lawlrSsnesS and drunkenness, entered
upon II crusade which promises to re-
suit in reform" So it will be in any
community when the business men OF
the place earnestly take the matter
into their hands, but so long as they
aIe Indifferent it is cup hill work" foI
both ''church and state. y Bellows
Falls Times.
Short supply of water is complained
of all over Connecticut by manufac-
turers. A Bridgeport dispatch says
mills ran Il quarter of century ago ON
streams which are now nearly dry, and
there is some ''myStery" about it. The
woodman's AK is the mystery
Springfield Republican.
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Christmas Gifts.

Some contemporaries have common
sense ideas on this all absorbing sub
iect The great secret of enjoying II
pleasant Christmas lies in not attempt
ing to make expensive presents. Do
not cXpend more money in this di-
rectiOn than you can perfectly well
afford to spend. If you do You will
find Christmas Il burden to you rather
than a season of pleasure us it ought
to be. BE prudent and .judiciOus in
your purchases. Another says: 1t is
disagreeable to think of the practice of
distributing personal remembrances as
falling into il tyranny and bore, for
mt that point it ceases entirely to par
take of the spirit of the occasion. We
deprecate the increasing eXpensiveness
of the goods annually displayed to the
public and the tendency to value
things not by what they mean, but 10y
what they cost. Elegant china and
bronzes and decorations are well for
are not the majority. Children are
happy upon small resources and tran
silent pleasures and it seems to us that
this felcitous sensibility should be
prolonged as they grow older, so that
they may he taught to get the pleasure
of life rs they 90 along all through it.
. 4
little folks, when equal eXhilaratiom is
produced by more moderate distribu-
tiOu
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have told his hearers to carry the
election if they had to do it at the muz-
zle of their guns. Mrs. Matthews
never saw her husband alive after he
left the house the morning of election
day, but she gives this narrative from
the lips of ''faithful and truthful
friends:n-
When the polls were opened my
husband went to them with a handful
of tickets, where he found Wheeler,
who was 10 act as democratic chal-
lenger, and the officers of the election.
Very few others were visible. He saw
Il gun setting in a gun-hoX. As my
husband came into the room he and
Wheeler met and had conversation,
and all say that they were not only
friendly but pleasant. In a few mo-
ments my husband said, ''Well, | have
always voted last, but this time | will
vote first - and Wheeler said, "Print,
| would not vote if | was you" The
reply was, 81 have Il right to vOte-as
much right as any of you-and in
tend to do so; - and, taking a ticket i'll
his right hand, he approached the
polls. One of the officers received the
llChtl. ulOpItu II III IHC bOAs Ctllto
his name and said, ''Noted," and ms
my husband turned from the box
Wheeler fired both barrels of his gun,
the charges striking him in the neck
and breast, and killing him instantly.
AS he sank to the floor, pistol he had
in his pocket was driven out by the
fall and fell on the floor. In a mo-
ment number of armed men came in
to the room through the trap door
from the cellar and surrounded Wheel
er. The front door was then locked,
and Wheeler and his friends passed
out at the back door.
The story indicates that the killing
of Matthews was intended from the
| first, and it is not at all difficult to be-
/ lieve that such was the case when we
consider what followed, concerning
which there is no dispute. Wheeler
Immediately took command of the
mob; at the municipal election which
| followed he was IA candidate for the
democratic nomination for mayor and
only failed of it by three votes; he
has since been appointed town mar
shall, and may hope, as Washington
correspondent observes, for higher pO-
| litical hOnOrS in state where the
murderer of Judge Chisholm and his
daughter was sent to the Mississippi
legislature, and Barksdale, who killed
/ Dixon. is member-elect of the same
body Springfield Republican.