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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-31
Clearing Stump Land.

\ correspondent of the Country
Gentleman writes from Michigan:
We have here thousands of acres of
what is called "stump land"-land
from which the pine timber has
taken by lumbermen. Tle term
"stump land" is no misnomer, for
there are often hundred pine stumps
to the acre. From a field of eight
acres in sight of me as l write, 600
stumps have iut been pulled. When
exposed to the weather pine decays
very rapidly, and one would suppose
that few years after the timber was
cut the pine stumps could be easily
pulled; but such is not the case. Long,
stout roots are required to support a
pine tree 100 or $50 feet high, and ma
ture strengthens the roots by saturat-
ing them with resinous pitch. This
saves them from decay, and pine
stump. forty years after the tree has
been cut, clings to the ground with al
most the same grim determination as
when first cut. But in spite of this,
stumps from twenty to forty inches in
diameter can be pulled with a good
machine at cost of fifteen or twenty
cents each. A man who owns a good
stump puller here has just finished a
job of 1,SOO pine stumps at fiftt en-
cents each for pulling, and the same
price for burning. These stumps were
all standing en- thirty acres of land,
and many of them were from three to
tour feet in diameter.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-31
Women as Indian Fighters.

DR.. Edward Egyleston's historical
paper in the Century on Ind an War
in the Colonies" says of the heroism
OF the wives of the pioneers 1.-The
women of those times developed q
readiness and C. urage as remarkable
as that of the men. The Swedish
women near the site of Philadelphia,
while DO ling soap, were warned that
the Indians were coming They took
refuge, soap and all, in the fortified
church, blew the conch-shell horns to
warn the men, and when the Indians
tried to undermine the builling la He'd
the Scalding soap upon them, and 50
saved themselves from destruction
until their husbands arrived. The re.
nowned Hannah Bradley, of IIaver-
hill, in Massachusetts, who had more
than her share of captiv.ties and ad-
ventures, killed an Indian who was
rushing into the open gate of her hus-
bands garrison, by throwing boiling
soap up N him and VIII the savages
came to capture her tn I'd time, she
saved herself by shooting the foremost
one dead. In 1876 the battle which
Talcott was fighting in defense of
Ilad,ey was decided by the prompt
ness of the women, who loa led
with small shot and nails IA
cannon that had just arrived from
Boston and conveyed it to the defend
ers; these discharged it, to the dismay
and rout of the savages. A story is
told of a maid-servant in Dorchester
who defeated an Indian single.handCd
by the use of mu sket and shovel
ful of live Goals. A young girl in
Maine shut door and held it. and
thirteen women and children ha time
to reach a block-house while the In
dians were chopping down the door
and knocking down. though they did
not kill, its defender. Twelve years
after Bickford's ingenious defense of
his house at Oyster River, some women
at the same place initiated it. There
being no men in the garrison, they
fired an alarm, looseled their hair to
appear like men. and used their guns
SO briskly that the savages fled. In
1712 Esther Jones saved Heard's gar
rison, in the town of Dover, in New
Hampshire, by mounting guard and
calling so loudly and confidently as to
make the Indians believe that help
was at hand. The stalwart Experienc re
Bogarth, of Dunkard's Creek, in Penn
sylvania, in hand-to-hand fight in a
doorway, in which two white men
were killed, slew three Indians with
an AK"
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-31

DAILY, the one-armed pitcher of the Cleve-
land club, has been suspended for cause,
withoutpay.
GOVERNOR CLEVELAND, of New York wit
messed a recent Chicago Buffalo game at
Buffalo
WILL WHITE, the Cincinnatis fine pitcher,
was baptized one Sunday afternoon recently.
The immersion took place in the Ohio, near
Dayton, KY, where he resides. The officiat-
ing minister was the Rev. William Smith, of
the Second Advent denomination.
WILL WHITE holds to the theory that base
ball players should face different pitchers
with different style of bats. Hesays it is folly
pitching. The Boston club one year had sew
eral sets of bats, which they used according
to the style of pitching they faced.
THE Providence team short time since
:. Chicagoed " the Philadelphians by 2S to o.
This was the fifth time the Philadelphans
have been beaten by similar scores. The Buff
faloes beat them by 25 to 5; % 10 4, and 81 to
d; and the Bostons by 90 to 4. The defeat by
the Providence club is the worst on record.
FREDERICK w. THAYER and George
Wright, of Boston, who claim to own the ex-
elusive right to manufacture the safety masks
used by baseball catchers, have begun suit
against the Spalding Brothers, of Chicago
for damages to their patent rights, and an in
junction restraining them from manufacture
ing the masks was issued by the United States
court.
AT Columbus Umpire McNichol was hit in
the throat by foul ball in the seventh inn
ing of the st. Louis Columbus game, and was
unable to call out his decisions after that. On
the following day Manager Phillips, of the
Columbus club, stood by him and called out
strikes, balls, etc, which McNichol whispered
out to him. This is no doubt the first in
stance in which two umpires have OBLIGATED
at once.
GAME of baseball was played at Water
bury, Connecticut, few days since between
the New York league and Monitor clubs, re-
sulting in favor of the former by score of
II to g. Connor, of the New York club, but
formerly of the Monitors was presented after
the first inning with diamond ring by his
friends in that city. Mayor Kendrick made
the presentation speech, and Conner responded
with a three base hit
LEAGUE CLUB RECORD.
The official record of the league champion
ship games played up to the 18th Is as follows:
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-31
DANGERS OF THE DEEP.
Fatal Steamship Collisions in the
British Channel and Elsewhere.
TWe0ty-three Persons LOSING Their
Lives and Two Vessels Sunk.

A collision occurred at 3 o'clock in the
morning off Eddystone Light, in the English
channel between the French steamer ST. Ger
main, Captain Bonneau, bound from Havre
for New York, and the steamer WOODBURY.
from the East, by the way of the Suez canal.
The WOODBURY. sank Immediately after the
collision and eighteen of her crew were
drowned. The st. Germain which was dis
abled by the collision, arrived at Plymouth,
where she landed her passengers and those
who were saved from the WOODBURY..
The steamer WOODBURY. foundered three
minutes after the collision 1t was a fine
starlight night and the sea was calm. The
WOODBURY. was being lowed. She was struck
on the starboard quarter. There was no time
to lower her boats and only eleven of the per-
sons on board were saved. Those who were
drowned were sucked into the vortex caused
by the sinking of the steamer or became en-
tangled in the wreckage. The st. Germans
bows were completely stove in and her fore
compartment filed with water. The greater
portion of her passengers were transferred to
the tugboat Recovery.
The St Germain had 462 passengers on
board, including fifty nuns on their way to
Texas, and a crew of 122 persons. The cap,
tain of the St German, finding that water
was pouring into the forehold with fearful
rapidity, ordered sail to be rugged over the
damaged portion Of the vessel in order to
check the rush of the water and reduce the
pressure on the bulkhead The officers of the
st. German sighted the tug-boat Recovery,
which was towing the Woodburn, at 2:3O A.
NJ, and thinking she was the only vessel
which it was necessary to clear, the st. Ger
mains helm was ported in order that the
steamer might go under the tugboat's stern.
They had no idea that there was ship astern
in tow.
The st. German will go into dry-dock for
repairs. From marks on her bows it is APP
parent that the st. German went right
through the Woodburn, literally cutting that
vessel in two. A panic ensued on the ST.
German after the collision, and her passengers
insisted upon being transferred to the tug
Recovery.
At about the same time the steamer
Palermo, bound from Hamburg to Lisbon,
collided off Ushant with the steamer Rivoli
bound from Bilbao to marlborough The
latter steamer sank and five persons were
drowned. A thick fog prevailed at the time
of the collision.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-31
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.


KATE CLAYTON will revive the picturesque
melodrama, The Sea of lee" the coming
season.
LIZZIE WEBB CARY, sister of Miss Annie
Louise Cary, will appear next season as so
prano singer.
ACCORDING to report Patti received $4,000
for three songs at the soiree given by Alfred
Rothschild recently.
THE Oldest piano in North Carolina is at
Raleigh. 1t was made in 1880 by Muzio,
Clement & Co., Cheapside, London.
CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG, late in Septem-
ber will enter upon a series of farewell per-
formances to be given throughout the United
States.
AN amusement company, with a capital of
100000, has been organized in Dallas, Texas
for the purpose OF encouraging theatrical
business
DION BoUCICAULT is at work on new
Irish play, which will be produced at the new
Star theatre, New York, during the Christ
mas holidays.
ONE of the features of Haverly's spectacular
minstrel entertainment next season will be
60 The Princess of Madagascar" which is de
scribed as "a comic opera in black"
GEORGE RIGNoLD, who figured in this coun-
try in the character of King Henry " and
was heralded as remarkably handsome man,
is now prominent manager in Australia.
Gus PIxLEy, brother of Annie Pixley,
the actress, although only a lad of fourteen
years of age, is considered the most clever of
all the young comedians on the Pacific coast.
P H. CowEN, the London composer, who
is a rival of Sir Arthur Sullivan in higher
realms of music than those of Patience"
and " Pinafore," will visit the United States
in November
Mr.. AUGUSTINE DAILY the New York
manager, has been especially successful in his
provincial tour this season with "7-20-S."
new comedy from the same source will
open the regular season in New York, about
the first of October
ITALIAN opera tenors are becoming as
luxurious and exacting in their demands as
prima donnas. M. Tamagno lately asked
$685. for six months season in Paris and
Signor Massini's modest price for similar
period would have absorbed S150,00O.
Mr.. CowEN will conduct his own oratorio,
" st. Ursula" at the first concert given by
the New York Oratorio society in New York,
on November D. Cowen will probably
remain in America this winter and conduct
several of his compositions in different cities
of this country.
Upon entering theatre in China a gentle
man of means can, with perfect propriety,
order the production of any play he chooses,
just as an American gentleman may order
what dishes he pleases in an American restau-
rant, the editor of the Chinese-Am ericdn,
Wong Chin Foo tells us.
THE report is confirmed of the betrothal of
Miss Nellie Fortescue, the favorite actress of
the Savoy Theatre company, London, to Lord
Arthur William Garmayle, the second and
oldest living son and the heir presumptive of
Lord Cairns. The young lord is not yet
twenty-five years of age, having been born
December 81, 1861, and has for long time,
by his pronounced love for theatricals and
constant association with lights of the stage,
been in disfavor with his noble father, the
earl.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-31
HUMOR OF THE DAY.

Beauty is but skin deep, at the drug
glsts' varying prices per bottle.-Ihe
/tdge.
Yeast compares his clearinghouse
mistress to a frOntiersman, for the
reason That she lives on the boarders.
The Newton (Iowa) formal thinks
the new electric wire fence will be
splendid around melon patch. 1t
will be so shocking to the boys.
The scientific angler is the man who
goes fish 'ng with $25 worth of tackle
and comes home with twenty-five cents
worth of fish.-Norrist0ton Herald.
He talked namely of the arts,
And said some things about the muse,
But all the point that he could make
Was in his pointed, tooth-pick shoes.
Merchant 1rGreler.
Jealousy is so rampant now that
man can't Chase his hat down street
without being accused of running
after the presidency.-Water}o o.
Serrer.
A young lady, who has probably had
reason to doubt the veracity of the
male biped, says patches of lies are only
equale by the lies of baches. boston
Transcript.
Why is it that a chicken will wan
der around and never begin to scratch
in dead earnest until she gets ON the
bed containing the most expensive
flowers in the garden Puck.
"Why do you call a stupid person
stick?" asked ROllo one day. And
Rollo's father said he didn't know, UNI
less it was because one end was of no
more account than the other.-Argo-
aldut.
A young woman in an Ohio town
has married her brother's wife's father.
When last seen she was busy with
compass and a dictionary trying to
study out what relation she was to
herself.-Peck's Sun.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-31
THE WAR IN TONQUIN.
Annam's Capital Stormcd and Cap
tured by the French.


Dispatches confirm the reports received from
Paris that General Bouet, of the French forces
had succeeded in capturing Hue, the capital
of AMMAN. The attack was made jointly by
the French fleet and land forces, the former
attacking from the river and the latter, under
General Bouet, making a detour from the
north. The Lynx was the first vessel to enter
the rivers mouth. Her guns were directed
against the numerous forts and batteries, and
within two hours she had silenced seven guns
The Vipere also entered the Hue river and
furnished efficient assistance.
The land attack was confined the first day
to cutting off a few of the outlying posts, the
advance being directed by General Bouet in
person. On Sunday general advance was
made, the black flags being driven back
after five hours of sharp fighting. The loss
of the Annamese was nearly 300, while that
sustained by the French was very slight 1t
was decided to storm the city of Hue the fol-
lowing day. The fleet proceeded up the
channel and began the bombardment at day
break A feeble reply was made by the native
forces, but their batteries were wretched-
~ manned. Shortly before 2 o'clock all
the guns except a half dozen were
mute and the troops in the be-
ssieged city seemed panic-stricken. The
Vipere then shelled the town for nearly three
hours. A large quantity Of powder was ex-
ploded by shell, and great many persons
were either killed outright or frightfully
wounded. The ruins of the building took
fire. and as brisk gale prevailed, the at
tention of the Annamese was directed to ex-
tinguishing the flames and preventing a gen.
eral conhagration.
AT this juncture the fleet ceased firing and
the land forces were ordered forward. They
made fierce onslaught upon the demoralized
garrison and carried everything before them.
The loss of the Annamese is calculated at 700
killed and many wounded. The French loss
was trifling, but a few soldiers receiving
sliUht wounds
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-31
Army Punisliments.

In different sections OF the army
various expedients were res orte to for
the purpose of correcting minor of
lenses. What particular shape the pun
ishment should assume depended very
much upon the inventive faculty of
the field and staff, or of such officers
of the line as might have charge of
the case.
Before taking the field few citizen
sneak thieves were discovered prowl-
ing about among the tents. These
were promptly drummed out of camp
to the tune of the "Rogue's March,"
the whole regiment shouting in deri-
sion as the miserable fellows took to
their heels when the procession reached
the limits of the camp, where they
were told to be gone and never show
their faces in camp again on pain of a
more severe handling.
If, while we were lying in camp, a
man refused to GO his duty he was at
once taken to the guard-house, which
is the military name for "lOck-up."
Once there, at the discretion Of the
officers, he was simply confined and
put on bread and water, or else ordered
t. carry log of wood, or a knapsack
filled with stones, "two hours on and
two off," day and night, until such
time as he was deemed to have done
| sufficient penance. In more extreme
cases a cOur.martal was held, and
the penalty of forfeiture of a pay
due, with hard labor for thirty days,
or the like, was inflicted.
One day, down in front of Peters,
burg, a number of us had been max
ing frien lly call on some acquaint-
ances over in another regiment. AS
we were returning home we came
across what we took to be a well, and
wishing drink we al stopped. The
well in question, as was usual there,
was nothing but barrel sunk in the
ground; for at some PAGES the ground
was so full of springs that, in order tc
get water, all vol had to do was to
sink a box or barrel and the water
would soon collect of its own accord.
STOPPING down and looking into the
barrel in question, Andy discovered a
man standing in the well, engaged in
bailing out tie water.
nat ne dO'ng down tnere IN
that hole?" ask d some one Of our
company.
"Why, said the guard, who was
standing near by, and whom he had
taken for the customary guard of the
spring, "you see, comrades, our
colonel has his own way of punishin'
the boys. One thing he won't let him
do-he won't let 'em get intoxicated.
If they do they go into the go. her
hole. Jim, there, is in the gopher hole,
now. That hole has spring at the
bottom, and the water comes in pref
fast; an if jim wants to keep dry
he's got to keep dippin' all the time, or
else stand in the water up to lis waist
and Jim isn't so mighty fond O
water, neither. st. Nicholas
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-31
FASHION NOTES.


Every style of plaid and check will
be worn.
Felt and velvet bonnets will be worn
to the exclusion of plush.
Pointed or tapering crowns for bon
nets are no longer fashionable.
New round bats have stiff high
crowns and straight or rolling brims.
Wool batistes in che ks and white
and black mixtures will be much worn
this fall.
Heads, wings, breasts and crests of
birds are the favorite ornaments for
fall hats.
The long Newmarket coat and the
Newmarket bonnet, jockey style, go
together.
Grays, browns and indefinite shades
Of blue or blue-green bid fair to be very
popular.
Small shoulder capes or collars with
full plated rullles are among the late
novelties.
Cray and brown in various shades are
the favorite colors for the new felt
hats and bonnets.
For travelling and utility suits for
fall wear, che ked and hair-l ned fan-
neis will be mu n used.
Crushed strawberry is no longer
fashionable, shot blue and plum color
having taken its place.
Colored silk mtts are embroidered
in self colorS a ross the hand, the wrist
and on the top, which reaches to the
elbow.
Nuns yelling was never so popular
as at the present time. 1t is usel in
all shades for dresses worn both by
misses and young girls.
Much of the bedroom furniture is
now of light woods, owing to the pre-
vailing fashion that the tone of the
room be light and CHEEKY.
Two apron overskirts-one long and
| square and caught up on the left side,
the other full, short, rounded and
much Topped over the hips-are seen
upon importations from Paris.
Cunning little low-necked, short
sleeved dresses for children are made
of pink blue and strawberry sateen.
surah, chambery or linen, embroidered
or plain, over plated waists of white
muslin or guimpes with sleeves.
New autumn cheviots, tweels,
serges and basket cloths are mostly in
plaids, in even or irregular patterns,
and in quiet neutral tones of fawn
color, nuns gray, pale golden brown,
and the like, enlivened by stripes or
dashes of scarlet and gold.
The London Queen reports depart
IRE in the style Of skirts of young
ladies' ball gowns, the hitherto indis-
pensable waterfall drapery beng re-
placed by skirts of tulle and net ar
ranged ballet fashion in floun es of un.
equal length, viii h are trimmed with
perpendi .ular rows of satin ribbon
fastened lightly upon them, producing
pretty and novel effect.
The number of mantles of thin bro
caded material upon transparent
ground has notably increased Of late.
These materials are chiefly brocaded
sill, gaule, with raised designs in silk,
velvet, or of finest silk grenadine in
raised patterns of satin. The mantles
are in the shape of pelerines, large
iichus or elegant pelisses. They are
lined with gold, mauve, or scarlet
surah and the effect Is exceedingly
, rich and stylish.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-31
A TERRIBLE AFFLICTION.
/ North CarOlinian Losing His Six
Children Within a Week.

A Fayetteville IN. CO. dispatch says: Mr..
James z. Knight, of Chatham county, has
lost all of his six children. Three of them
were taken with diphtheria last week and
died in quick succession. Yesterday two Of
the remaining three children were playing in
the yard, the mother being inside the house
with the youngest. A scream caused her to
hasten out, only to find the children in the
agonies of death, they having been bitten by
a rattlesnake. When the distracted mother
returned to the house she saw that large pot
of boiling soap had fallen from the fire and
burned or scalded the baby beyond recovery
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-31
AdamascObite.

Adamascobite is the local name of a
mineral which is said to be found in
only one place in the world, and that
is the State of Missouri. The stone is
very peculiar In its structure and
properties. Its cutting power is dia-
mond-like, cutting away steel very
rapidly. and still retaining an exceed
ingly line edge.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-31

A Cincinnati firm had for years kept
in a drawer all the counterfeit money
received in the course of business. and
the other night a burglar got in and
took every cent. 1t is supposed the
burglar will write an indignant COM
munication to the press as soon as he
Gains sufficiently to handle a pen.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-08-29
INTERESTING TO LADIES.

Our lady readers can hardly fail to have
their attention called this week to the latest
combination of Improvements in that most
useful Of all domestic implements, the
Sewing machine"
AS we understand il, a machine for fam
lily use should meet first of all these re-
quirements; 1t should be simple in its me-
chanism; it should run easily; it should DO
wide range Of work; it should be as near
ly noiseIess as possible; it should be light,
handsome, durable, and as cheap as is con-
sistent with excellence throughout
These conditions the Light Running
New Home" certainly meets. 1t has also
several very important and useful attach.
ments and motions of its own, which 90
far to make good its claims to popular ia
vOr.
The New Home" specially recommends
itself to purchasers on account Of its supe-
rior mechanical construction, ease Of man
sgement and reasonable price. Over half
a million have been sold in the last three
years, all of which are giving universal sat.
isiacton. This unriyalled machine IS man
utactured by the NEW HOME SEWING
MACHINE co, 30 Union Square, New
York, who wish US say that all who will
send for their new illustrated catalogue
and enclose their advertisement (printed on
another page, will receive set Of fancy
advertising novelties Of value to those col
Letting cards, sc.