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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-12-12
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

JUDGE DAVID DAVIS is under medical treat
ment for the purpose of reducing his enor-
nous bulk.
Mrs JULIA WARD HOWE is at the head of
the women's department of the New Orleans
exposition.
LIEUTENANT GREELY has promised his
wife that he will never go to the Arctic re-
gions again.
THE death of General England after ninety
six years of life and eighty years of military
service, leaves General Whichcote the sole
surviving Peninsular officer named in the
British army list. General England made all
his campaigns before Lord Allie, marle-now
the only Waterloo officer in the army list-re-
ceived his first commission.
MARK TWAIN, writes a friend, sis I'M
doubtedly destined to be the richest of Ameri.
can authors No man has made 50 much
money in the short space of time as he has
done. His wife has large estate and to-
gether they now have more than 81, 900, 900
He is a sharp business man, increasing his
pile all the time by good investments well
as by new books and lectures, and as he is
still on the right side of fifty he will probably
turn his present million into other millions
h.afOra ha 1iaS -
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-12-12
ALLEGED VICTORIES.
Remarkable Chinese Achievements
that are Claimed in TOnquin.

A Tien-Tsin dispatch states that the Chi
nese claim the following successes:
October 2.-Captured the forts and city of
Lohg nan Hsien, in Tonquin; sunk a French
gunboat after an engagement. The elders of
over twenty Christian villages rendered their
submission to the Chinese commander.
OCTOBER S-The French were defeated at
Hoo-wei, Tonqun, the French commander
shot himself, the troops were demoralized
and fled.
NOVEMBER 13.-The Black Flags repulsed
three French attacks upon Scum Kwan. The
same day the French were defeated at Tam
sui
NOVEMBER 19.-The French, including
Turcos, were forced to take refuge in the
woods near Scum kwan. At Formosa the
fighting continued for six hours. The French
losses were very heavy, including two superior
officers. They lost several guns and We're
pursued to the water side, where four French
launches were sunk.
The Chinese in Kam-gs, province Of Ton
quin, succeeded in defeating the French, the
latter losing seven officers and their general
being severely wounded. The same day the
French made an unsuccessful attack upon
the Chinese positions at kwan-yin-Kio
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-12-12

SURGEON GENERAL HAMILTON, of the
United States Marine hospital service, in his
annual report says that during the year
ended June 80, 1884, Al, 751 patients received
relief, of which number 1905 were treated
in the hospitals and 3l,673 at the dispense
ries. A suitable hospital for sick and dis
abled seamen at New York is greatly needed.
For the payment of pensions the present
quarter ST, 000,0 600 will be required.
A GREAT social sensation has been occa
stoned in Washington by the runaway mar
riage of Miss Mary Willard, a society belle,
with William Paxton, a poor young patent
lawyer. The young lady was engaged to be
married to George Simpson, New York
banker, and 800 cards had been issuel for
her wedding a week hence Miss Willard and
Mr. Paxton had know each other long time,
and her approaching marriage to the New
York banker was against her wishes hence
the elopement
THE President has sent to the Senate a
large batch of nominations covering appoint.
ments made during the recess, inciuling
hugh McCulloch, of Maryland, to be secretary
of the treasury; Frank Hatton, of Iowa, to be
acknowledgement: John Schuyler Crosby, of
New York, to be first assistant postmaster
general; James Harlan, of Iowa, to he presi-
ding Judge of the cont of commissioners of
Alabama claims, and Walter o. Gresham, of
Indiana, to be circuit judge of the United
States of the Seventh Judicial circuit
THE returns from the electoral colleges of
the States have been received by the president
of the Senate.
EX-CoNGREssMAN BOTELER of West Vir-
ginia has heen appointed pardon clerk in the
department of justice
THE solicitor of the treasury has ordered
suits to he begun against Captain Howgate's
sureties to recover Sl330OO which his ac-
counts show he owes the government How
gate, it will be remembered suddenly disao-
peared and has not turned up.
THE chief of the bureau OF engraving and
printing reports that during the year S, l94,
GIG sheets of notes and securities, represent
ing SOS, $40, lOS and II, 1877 407 sheets of in
ternal revenue and customs stamps wer,
completed, and that the bureau expended
$979,30l
AT meeting of the House postoffice COM
mittee it was resolved to push the postal tele'
graph bill, which provides for the contract
system of postal telegraph; a bill to regulate
mail contracts, which is intended TO guard
against any repetition of the star-route
frauds; a bill fixing the rate of first-claSs
matter letter postagel at two cents for an
ounce or fraction thereof instead of the pres
emit halfounce rate and other measures af-
fecting the postal service
FROM various sections come reports of great
depression in the iron and steel industries
and kindred trades. There have been great
many shut-downs in shops and factories all
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-12-12
NEWSY GLEANINGS,

THE population of London now exceeds
1000, COO
THERE are 1,19S convcts in the Ohio peni-
Tertiary.
The best skilled workmen in Naples get but
thirty cents day.
The loss of registered letters last year
amounted to one out of every ~ ,195.
CLERGYMAN'S fee at recent fashionable
wedding in New York last week was 81 900
THERE are living in New England upward
OF thirty persons who are over 100 years of
age.
OVER 100000 cords of timber are manu-
tactured into shoe pegs in this country every
year.
ACCORDING to the Lisbon Official Gazette
Portugal has 5000 solders-big army, little
country.
THERE are $500 Indians on the Colville
agency, Washington Territory, most of whom
are farmers
ACCORDING to the land Office report there
have been 400, O0J farms taken up by settlers
the past year.
DURING the dry season, now about to be-
GIN, $4,000 men will lie employed ON the
fanana canal.
The value of taxable property in Tennessee
is now S226, S44, lS4, an increase OF Si,2OG,3ll
over last year.
new SustOll uOllS9 uU ClnclilIlutl HIS
cost Si,64l 43l, exclusive of the 500, OOJ paid
for the ground.
The hop cropis much larger than last year
The gam on the Pacific coast is said to be
$4,000 bales Of $50 pounds each.
The first church in Newbury, Mass which
was established nearly 250 years ago, has re-
Gently installed its twelfth pastor.
The three heaviest animals shown at the
TAT stock show in Chicago weighed respec-
lively 2,24O, 2, 70J and 3, 30 pounds,
OUR navy, it is stated, now contains |. Sol
commissioned officers, or one officer to every
hive men and forty-tive officers to every ship.
The pauper authorities of Paris say they
shall have To support or help 4O6, 900 persons
IN 1850, and that the work Will cost s., O0O, 90
The population of Nevada is steadily
dwlndling away. The Carson Tribune esti-
mates that there are now not more than l2,-
OOO voters in the State
THIRTY ONE men in Arizona have sent a rep
resentative equipped with their photographs,
10 search thu Eastern cities for women will
ing to marry them.
The losses from fire in the United States
and Canada during November are estimated
at S7,9OO0,u. For the eleven months of the
year. the losses are put at SOL 100000.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-12-12
NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern md Middle stntc,.

THE body of Laura G.. Clancy, an actress
was burned in the new crematory, Lancas-
ter, Penn
HOWARD SULLIvAN,a colored boy of seven
teen years, was hanged at Salem, N j., for
the murder of pretty Ella Watson, a fifteen
year-old girl, last August. Sullivan crept
behind the girl as she was walking through
the woods, killed her with a stick and then
robbed the body
FRANCIS d. MoULToN who came promi-
nently before the public as the "mutual
friend" in the celebrated suit of Theodore
Tilton against Rev. Henry Ward Beecher,
died the other day at his residence in New
York of paralysis of the heart aged forty
nine years. Mr., Moulton was active in the
promotion of dairy farming, and during the
recent presidential campaign worked hard for
the election of General Butler.
THE annual benefit performance given by
theatrical managers in New York for the
benefit of the Actors Fund, was attended by
Governor Cleveland and party, who occupied
one of the private boxes at the Academy of
Music. Governor Cleveland came down from
Albany in a special train and returned at
once to the State capital after the perform
ance
AN explosion of dynamite at the residence
of Stephen Young in Stafford, n. H., re-
suited in the injury of eight persons, four of
whom were not expected to live. The house,
with all its contents, was destroyed. Mr..
Young was having a well dug near his
house, and the dynamite was intended to be
used in blasting.
CASUALTIES occasioned by falling through
the ice are being reported. At Rondout,
n. Y, three boys were crossing the ice on a
pond when they broke in and were all
drowned
THE overweighted floor of malt house in
Geneva, n. Y, suddenly fell carrying down
nineteen men a distance of twenty feet and
burying them under the malt and timbers
One man was killed, another fatally injured,
and several others were badly wounded
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-12-12

over the country, while in numerous other
instances wages are reduced.
Mr.. BLAINE has returned to Washington,
which will be his residence this winter.
JUDGE LAWRENCE, first comptroller of the
currency, has replied to charges of irregular
ity i'll his department made to the House
committee on expenditures in the department
Of Justice by J. j. Barker, n former treasury
clerk subcommittee will investigate the
matter
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-07-02

DR.. Charles William Siemens, +. k. -
is to have memorial window in West
minister Abbey.
Paul Martin, of Milwaukee, has gone
to the penitentiary three monshs for
stealing kiss from Miss Ernestine Cur
It's.
The announcement is made that Mr..
StiIson Hutchins viii soon retire from
the editorship Of the Washington Post
and engage in the manufacture of print
ing presses.
Biornstjerne Bjornsen has taken the
editorship of an Icelandic monthly, to
be published at Copenhagen. The name
of the monthly is not announced, but it
will probably be Sjcajnjrdijnaiven Moi
ntjhjly.
Almost as good a memory as Blame
was that of Cen Sam Houston, the
Texan hero. Foster, chief clerk of the
| Texan secretary of war. was presented to
| him one day in Austin and did not meet
him until three months later. when they
came together in a muddy road. Hous-
ton at once said: Don't turn o1t, Foe
ter: it isn't your fault if it rains"
NJ. Pasteur has been furnished with an
opportunity of testing his theories con
cerning rabies upon the human subject
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-07-02
Satan Reproving Sin.

Chicago Tribune (RepJ
Certain it is that there is a widespread
disgust at the promiscuous and reckless
misrepresentation and defamation to
which many newspapers resort; and be,
fore the present campaign is over, per
haps the most effective electioneering
document which could be prepared in
Blaine's interest would be to compile the
contradictory lies which have been and
are vet to be manufactured and circulated
in regard to him and his principal sup
DOrters
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-07-02
Said John \. Logan in 1860.

COurier-Journa
Every fugitive that has been arrested
in Illinois, or in any of the western states
and call Illinois western state, for l
am ashamed longer to call it northern
state-has been made by democrats. In
Illinois the democrats have all that work
to do. You call it the dirty work of the
democratic party to catch fugitive slaves
for the southern people, We are willing
to perform that dirty work. l do not
consider it disgraceful to perform any
work dirty or not dirty, which is in ac-
cordance with the laws of the land and
the constitution of the country, and cal
culated to assist men in recovering that
which is their right, guaranteed TO them
under the constitution, and the laws Of
the land"
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-07-02

Savannah News, Gen. Perry is man
of high character and marked ability
He Will make a strong canvas, and a
democratic victory in November can be
predicted with entire safety. Mr. Mabry'
nomination for ieutenant-governor will
give satisfaction throughout the state.
His many friends will rally to the sup
port of the ticket with enthusiasm. The
democrats of Florida have no reason tc
be apprehensive about the result of the
campaign, whether the republicans in
dorse the independent ticket or make {
ticket of their own.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-07-02
Revenne Reform.

Philadelphia Record.
Revenue reform is not free trade; 1t is
not abandonment of taxation upon irn-
ports; but in 50 far as it is effective 1t IS
an abandonment of the policy of protec-
ton for the sake of protection. The dem
ocratic party does not believein the policy
of protection. and it rannot safely dodge
the issue frankly made by its opponents.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-07-02
No Reason to Blush.

New Orleans States (Deml
While the States has not advocated the
nomination of Mr. Bayard, we deem his
course in this matter so thoroughly hon
est, frank and commendable that we re-
produce his Dover speech in its entirety.
In every syllable of this address is seen
devotion to the Union and the welfare of
the whole American people. He has no
reason to blush for an opinion or thought
he then expressed.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-07-02
Strong. Able and Pure.

Tampa Tribune: The nomination OF
Gen. Perry is one eminently fit to be
made. He is strong able and pure, bear
ing an unblemished record. He will
unite and soIidify the party, and if he is
supported by thorough organization and
a well managed campaign, will certainly
lead us to victory.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-07-02

Enterprise Herald He is known
throughout his section as a man of ire
proachable character, upright, public
spirited and noble. His abilities are great
as a lawyer and speaker. The impression
he makes on the public mind is that of a
conservative, Trustworthy man who will
do nothing startling but if elected will
make an honorable and reliable execu-
tive,
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-07-02

William Walter Phelps is authority
for the statement that Mr.. Blaine's letter
of acceptance will not be made public
until after the democratic conventi lou.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-07-02
TELEGRAPHIC SPARKLES,
THE LATEST NEWS FROM ALL
PARTS BY WIRE AND CABLE.

It is estimated that the June reduction
of the public debt will be $4,000.
The closing exercises of the University
of Virginia, at Charlottesville, were in
augurated Sunday night.
An attempt will be made in the senate
this week to pass the house anti-Chinese
bill as a substitute for the senate bill.
Fire at Matanzas Monday destroyed
three warehouses, with 1900 hogsheads
of sugar. Loss, $4,5OO,0O0; partly in
sured.
The Indians in northern Montana are
dying rapidly from lack of food. It is
feared they will rise and take whatever
they can capture.
The government has informed the min
lister at Athens that goods imported into
Greece from the United States must have
a Greek consul's certificate.
In the Iowa contested election case of
FreGericks VS.. Wilson, the house COM
mittee are in favor of Fredericks, demo
crat. Wilson, republican, now holds the
seat.
Some sailors at st. Johns, N. F., broke
into the Catholic church Saturday night
and demolished the furniture and stole
all the silver ornamentg. Five have been
arrested.
At the sparring match advertised fol
Monday night between Charles Mitchell
and John L. Sullivan, at Madison Square
Gardens, New York, Sullivan appeared
but was too drunk to spar.
Great CONSERVATION among Kansas
stockmen is being caused by the enforce
ment of the Cherokee laws in India1
Territory which does not allow the fenc
ing of more than fifty acres of land il
one tract. Thousands of miles of fenc
ing have been torn down and confiscat
ed
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-07-02
POSTAGE STAMPS SALES.

WASHINGTON, June 30.-A stasement
prepared at the Postofice department to-
day shows that the sales of stamps for
the quarter Of the current year amounted
in value to $40, ,278, $50. For the CORES
ponding quarter of 1888 they amounted
to $11, ,229, 191.
The "culIud" citizen is in all his glory
fish are biting and the luscious water
melon abundant and cheap.
A colored excursion left Palatka for
st. Augustine yesterday morning, on the
steamer Pastime. Both sexes and all
sizes were represented among the
excursionists.
A few nights since two pedestrians
We're vending their way leisurely nome
ward, greatly fatigued from their day.
labor, and, when they had arrived just
opposite the saw-mill, near the j., I. &
X. w railroad depot, the came upon a
huge animal, which emitted a grOwl and
made dash into the darkness. 1t was
supposed to be an alligator. As the
gentlemen were unarmed and the night
dark, the made no further investigation
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-07-02

An exchange says: In December 1853
Gen. Logan, then a member Of congress,
in a speech delivered in the house de-
nounced the martyr C0 John Brown, as a
traitor. thief and scoundrel.
The Press., 1884-03-20
A WHEAT FARM IN DAKOTA.

'The amount of machinery necessary to plant and harvest the crops of the north west" according to the St. Paul Pioneer Press, "is enormous. The principal crop of the northwest Is wheat, and as nearly all the labor required to seed and harvest it is performed within 8 few months. usu- ally from the first of May to the first of October-rarely six everything must be done with a rush. Farmers who raise nothing but wheat cannot afford to employ help all the year around, and this fact renders it very difficult to obtain the necessary assistance when it is needed dur ing the busy season. Wages are high on account of this fact, and the wheat raiser finds himself compelled to depend upon mechanical help instead of muscle. It is questionable whether it is more profitable. To properly equip farm of even 16O acres with machinery necessary to blow the ground, seed it, harvest and thrash the grain, requires large outlay for wagons, blows, harrows, seeders, and harvesters. The total outlay necessary 10 work 8 farm of this size is about $700. This is an out lay that must be made before the farmer can realize from his first crop. It is not to be supposed that cash is required to buy all this machinery. The farmer can buy his entire outfit on credit. Mortgages are often taken, but not as rule. The agents of reapers and harvesters require no secu- rity beyond simple note of hand. Early in the spring perfect array of machine men, ,'' as the agents are called, invade the northwest to take orders. A farmer can buy Q harvester, or whatever he needs. and have it delivered in his field, set up all ready to start, evel to being supplied with twine for the binder, by simply giving his note of hand, without security, and draw ing per cent. interest. These notes run from two to three years, and are often re- newed if the interest is properly paid, Some idea of the amount of machinery sold in the northwest every year may be gained from the statement that during 1883 nearly 1,700 car loads were received at Minneapolis alone, the total number re- ceived at St. Paul an Minneapolis reach ing nearly $500.
The Press., 1884-03-20
ADVICE TO SWEATERS.

Nobody cares for the swearing of a ha- oltual swearer. His volleys of profanity nave no terror Ill them. They mean not6- Ing. 1t IS the naen who never swea,s who scares you out of your boots if once in n ll1e-tlme he does swear. So far as we can learn Washington only swore once durin0 all the eight years of the Revolutionar1 war. But that one time counted. Tt tnrn- ed back the tide of retreat, changed a rout into victory, and made things hum. But the fellow who swears on all occasions and swears hot and cold with the same mouth, the intellectual pauper who ekes out hls barren supply of ideas with an abundant crop of profanity, whose con- versatlon IS long chain Of mill privileges, and who talks as beaver works hs swearing is weak tiresome. disgnst;np So, Ii you want to swear, with any effact my boy, be very seldom about it. Be ex. elusive Tn your profanity. If yoa can't get along without it, bring it out occasion ally, like rare old family diamonds don't keep It running six or eight hours day. like the kitchen hydrant. And you won't be offended, my son-but II you observe closely you will perceive that young men, boys, fedglings of about your age, swear more than men-more awkwardly, with less point and direction. man becomes ashamed of it. It belongs to the cigarette and matinee period Of life, my boy. It is habit that fiourishes in the bread aud butter days, along some where between the hig gh school and the college, and while the blue ribbon on the diploma is bright. It belongs to what Puck so aptly calls the s'unsa!ted genera tion;" thes fresh young men. So put it away, and put on manly things. -a. l know some good men, some of the best Ill the world, who will confound it. and even dog-gone it, and in New England even deacon has been known under a terrible strain to ''condemn. But, as a rule, my son, don't do it. Don't swear. It isn't an evidence of smartness or world ly wisdom. Any fool can swear. And & good many fools do it. I, my son? An, If could only gather up all the useless, uncalle dior, ineffective swears ] have dropped along the pathway of my life know l would remove stumbling blocks from many inexperienced feet, and my heart would be lighter by ton than it is to-day. But if you are going to be a fool just because other men have been, oh. my son, what hopeless fool you will be !-R. /. Berdette.