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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-01-04
A TEXAS TRAGEDY.
Five Wen Killed and Two MortaIIy
Wounded.

Particulars of the lynchng and sanguinary
street fight at McDade, Texas, are as follows
The trouble began at ll:30 p. NJ, when
Henry Pfeiffer, Wright McLemore and
Thad McLemore were taken from saloon
in McDade by fifty masked men and carrie
a mile into the brush, where they were
hanged to tree Thad McIemore hal been
arrested early in the evening on charge Of
burglary. The other two happened 20 be
present when the lynchers arrived. Pfeifer
wa, under indictment for horse theft.
The next day six men, friends and relatives
of the men hanged, went to McDade, picked
a quarrel with Tom Bishop and George
Million, and fight with shotguns and revol-
vers ensued. Jack Bayley and Asa Bayley
were killed, and Hayward Bayley was badly
wounded. The remaining three escsped.
Willis Griffin, of McDa'e. while assisting
Million and Bishop to defend themselves, was
shot through the head and mortally wounded
by Harvard Bayley.
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HUNTING ACCIDENTS.

JOHN MARTIN, of Elkhart, while preparing
for hunt shot himself dead.
IN letting down q rail of fence, W. S
Moore, of Freedom, o., was killed by the
discharge of his gun, the rail having hit the
hammer.
JERRY DUNEvANT, of Christianburg, Ky 3,
became so excited when his dog freed a coon
that he fell from chestnut tree and suffered
fatal injuries.
AFTER living sixty-hve years and accumu-
lating property, John Hurley, of Fultonvile,
n. V, hanged himself because his family
would not live and sleep in one room.
c.. J. KERN and Cornelius Lake found the
body of a man i'll the kankakee marsh Ind,
leaning face downward across his gun. He
was in mud up to his waist.
AS he failed to return home at night, search
was made for the seventeen-year-o son of
William Carroll, of Nandalia, Ill. and he was
found in the woods with one side of his head
blown off. CT Sc by him lay his empty gun.
HENRY STORY of Fayetteville, Tenn, al
ways carried whisky flask in his game bag.
He became e'ated while hunting at his UNI
usual good luck that he drained the flask, lost
his way, fell into river, and was drowned
IN the Calumet Swamp, near Chicago, II
hunter shot u duck and hurried after it. He
stepped into the mire and but for timely as
sistance would have been suffocated. The
water was up to his chin when he was res
cued.
Two boys of Marion county, W. Va, Rich
arl Anderson and John Griffin, went out
hunting with but one rifle. When Anderson
spied some game, in his excitement he grabbed
the rifle from Grifn's hand and accidentally
shot himself dead.
LOUIS FERNANDEZ and Carmen Liva, six
tean-year old lovers, lived in Brownsville
Texas. Their parents Directing to the match
they tied themselves together and plunged
into the river. The mother of the girl on
learning the news, also jumped into the river
and was drowned.
THE thirteen-year-ol son of Joseph Burns,
of Chacon, Texas, while preparing for a hunt,
accidentally shot his sister Bessie, killing her
instantly. Her younger brother, wild with
grief, ran out of the house and has not been
heard of since. He was last seen on the
prairie seven miles from home.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

PfNpLEToN.-Senator Pendleton, of Ohio,
mas been twenty-seven years in public life.
WOODWARD new member of Con-
gresS from Wisconsin, Representative Wood
ward, was once page in the House.
TLToN.-TheCdore Tilton is living quietly
IN the Quarter Latin, Paris. near the school
OF me art, engaged buSily in literary work
NANDERrILT.- H. Vanderbilt has
gwen Men sonier, the greatest living French
FAINTER, commission for a picture the price
10 be AiO,O JO, about S2U,OO0
HUNTINGToN.-Mr. c. F. Huntington con.
trolS 200 miles Of railway. He is sixty
live years Old and is very healthy. His for
Tune Is estimated at fifty millions and he has
only an adopted daughter.
WEsToN.-E. z. Weston, the American
PEDESTRIAN started from Westminster Bridge
London recently, TO walk fifty miles "A day
Tor 100 days, to illustrate the physical ad-
Nantages OF temperance, a crowd of diStin-
gulshed doctors and eminent clergymen and
benevolent barons and fair ladies gathered
10 SIC nm oil, AMI he started TO the strains
OF Temperance hymn.
BLAKE.-isr. Blake, inventor of the tele
phone tIansmitter so much used lives i'm n
pa atial home in the suburbs of B jston and
ailusts him-e'f by working as an amateur
blacksmith and machiniSf. He serves his
guests win huge glasses of beer holding three
Dol les each, and another of his Ieculiarities
T. The wearing of shoes of odd designs, of
winch he has an enormous assortment
1ENNYsoN.-DEnycOu the poet Tenny-
sons addition to his name since being made n
hron, is the name of an ancient Norman
talnliy from which the Tennysons claim de
cent, the poets uncle, Charles Tennvson
having obtained royal permission TO assume
the tame. The POET laureate is reported to
he worth something over amillion dollars
He is described as having a strong, but
seemed, wrinkled, and puffy face and brig hit
eyes; he is partially bald; stoops and shut
iie5: dresses carelessly, and ha; a generally
rustic alIearance. His family consists Of
his wi and two sons, Hellam and Lionel
Liol el has given up the name his father has
made famous TO assume that of Turner in
order to inherit the estate of an uncle, which
is valued ut 5000 a year. The poet lives
mostly at FarIingford in the isle of Wight,
bu he has another residence in Surrey, called
Aldworth, which enters into his title.
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THE PAST YEARS CROPS.
Estimates of the Agricultural De-
partmcnt.

Mr.. J. r. Dodge, the statistician of the
agricultural department, has just completed
preliminary estimates of the principal crops
of the country, for the year 1888. They show
that potatoes as we'll as all other roots and oats
have grown luxuriantly and yielded large'y.
The average yield of corn per acre for the
past year, Mr.. Dodge says, is nearly TWEEN
tv-three bushels, or more exactly by preimi-
nary estimates, 22.7, which is twelve per cent.
less than the average yield for a series of
years, or l,55l ,066, S;5 bushels This stands
for the quantity of the present crop The
quality, he says, is another consideration.
If soft corn is crbbed in Masses
and after few weeks of mild and moist
weather is badly injured, or even spoiled, it
does not change the fact that the corn was
grown and harvested. 1t is doubtless true,
that the quality of corn north of the parallel
of forty degrees is worse than for many
years, increasing practically the amount Of
shortage indicated by the number of bushels
The wheat crop, Mr.. Dodge says, is slightly
in excess Of 400, 900, 900 bushels, and the cot
ton product, as shown by the December re-
turns, is about GOO, 900 bales
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Make Il Beginning.

Remember in all things that if you do
not begin you will never come to an end.
The first weed pulled up in the garden,
the first seed in the ground, the first
dollar put in the savings bank, and the
first mile travelled on a journey are all
important things; they make begin
ming and hold out hope, Il promise, a
pledge, an assurance that You are in
earnest in what you have undertaken.
How many poor, idle, hesitating out
cast is now creeping and crawling on his
way through the world who might have
held.up his head and prospered if, instead
of putting off his resolution of industry
and amendment, he had only made a be-
ginning.
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC

OVER S1.O00,000 have been lost in San
Francisco theatres since 1850.
Lolita, the American actress, on her open
ing night in London, achieved only par
tial success"
TEN members of John McCullough's pres
ent company have been with him for from
three to six years.
"SUwANEE RIVER" by 500 performers, is
the first thing on the Cincinnati minstrel fes-
tival programme.
SYDNEY RossENFELD, the dramatist, and
Miss Genie Holtzmeyer, of Rice's opera COM
pany. were married in New York.
PAsDELOUP has introduced an innovation
at his orchestral concerts in Paris. All the
violinists are obliged to stand while they
pay.
EsNERALDA" has been played over 400
times by the Madison Square theatre New
York companies. The receipts in the English
capital in five weeks reached upward of $27,-
0OO.
KATE CLAYTON and her husband, Mr..
Charles A. Stevenson, have purchased for
10000 Mr. and Mrs Mexico Rankin inter
est in their Third Avenue theatre in New
York.
JOACHIM, the violinist, is to receive $4,000
in America for 100 concerts. Patti received
that sum for twelve operas. 1t is said that
Jeanne Samary, the Partisan favorite, has
declined an American engagement of $780,
600.
MISS CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG has been
resting in New York city after her concert
I 'ur, which was in every respect a gratifying
success. 1t is quite probable that she may
sing in opera before the close of the present
season.
In the matter of music the English and
most other European nations are far behind
the Teutons. According to statistics recently
published there are 800 towns in the German
Empire possessing orchestras and choral so
cities that give concerts in the season.
Mr.. THEODORE THOMAS has at last been Sc
lected as the director of the Buffalo musical
festival next spring. 1t is reported that Ros-
sini's Stahat Mater" the whole of Mendels-
Solns music for the Midsummer Nights
Dream and possibly Bruch's Fair Ellen"
will he given. A matinee of childrens
choluses is also proposed.
AFTER playing Hamlet in Philadelphia, Mr..
Henry Irving sad to a reporter: ACTORS re.
gard success in Hamlet as the blue ribbon of
the stage. You may therefore imagine that
| am more than delighted that the first time
played Hamlet in America it was received
with Such spontaneous enthusiasm. Neither
Miss l. rry nor | ever acted to q more fervid
house"
Il WAS talking some time ago. SAYS
George Alfred Townsend, ''tO prima donna
who is in receipt of a very remarkable salary
Tor woman, and told her about n Young
lady who wanted to become a singer The
prma donna said: ooh, tell her to take a hus-
band no matter who he is. This living
acne, detached from love and family life.
rowing from city to city. never will make
one happy. A woman must ray a penalty
lar greater than man-for not consentjng 10
b. loved
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Washington

Hon. GEORGE A. POST is the youngest mem
her of Congress. He is twenty -nne years
old. At twenty-five he was mayor of Sus-
quehanna, Pa
SPEAKER CARLISLE has laid before the
House a message from the President trans
hitting the report of the secretary of state,
and communications, documents and papers
relating to the trial. conviction and execution
of Patrick O'Donnell.
SERGEANT MASON, who shot at Guteau,
will settle in Washington as a shoemaker.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR received six gold
headed canes and six silk umbrellas with gold
and silver handles among his holiday pres
entS.
Mr.. BLAND, chairman Of the House com
mittee on coinage weights and measures,
favors recoining the trade dollars into
standard dollars and thinks that the present
coinage of the latter should not be stopped. Mr.
Bland is of the opinion that a mint ought to
be established in the Mississippi Valley, and,
because of the advantages offered at st.
Louis favors that city as the place to be
selected.
FOR the first five months Of the present ifs
cal year the total internal revenue collections
amounted to S5l,219,43S, being S1l ,343. 97l
less than during the corresponding period of
last year.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-01-04

FRIENDS Of Colonel Henry r. Rathbone,
prominent resident OF Albany, N. Y, but
for some time past living in Hanover, Ger
many, were shocked at receiving cable dis
patch announcing that he had shot his
wife dead and then MORALLY wounded
himself Mrs Ratlibone was daughter
and Colonel Rathb)ne a steps)n of the late
United States Senator Harris, Of New York.
When Lincoln wa assassinated Colonel
Rathb)ne and Miss Harris were the
only other occupants Of the Presidents
box at Ford's theatre, and Colonel Rathbone
tried TO intercept Booth, and was stabbed in
the arm. Colonel Ratlb bone was about forty
eight years OLD, aud five or six years ago
went abroad W tn his family. He was said
to be biect to fits of vio.ent temper.
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Foreign.

A PANAMA dispatch says that the English
steamer Severn exploded her boiler at Car
thagena, killing seven men and doing con-
siderable damage
A MARRIED woman named Van der Linden
has been arrested at Leyden, Holland, charged
with having murdered in the last few years
sixteen persons Her victims were nearly all
members of her own family. She insured
their lives first and received the insurance
money after their deaths. The woman has
confessed her guilt 1t is SUI posed that she
poisoned five of her own children.
In formidable riot between Orangemen
and an opposing faction at Harbor Grace,
Newfoundland, three men were instantly
killed and several others MORALLY or severely
wounded. Several detachments of military
were sent by steamer TO quell the disturb
ance.
A ROME dispatch says that new American
cardinal will he created in March
NORMAN LoCKYER, n noted English scien-
tist. declares his belief that the recent re-
markable sunsets witnessed in Europe and
America were caused by the Java earth
quakes
LATER reports state that during the fight
between Orangemen and an opposing faction
at Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, four per
sons were killed, eight mortally wounded and
eighteen or twenty slightly hurt.
The French government has decided again
to prohibit the importation of American
sailed meats until the French chambers have
pronounced upon new bill.
THE dragons stationed at village in the
province of Volhyma Russia suddenly at
tackled and plrndered the Jews of the vi
cinity. A rabbi and several Of his confreres
died from injuries received.
A BANKING house at Antwerp, Belgium,
has failed for s2.00O00l.
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QUEER SUICIDES.

FRANK AYNER, of Green River, Wyoming,
blew out his brains because he had the rheu-
matism.
CHARLES n. MASSEY. bell-ringer for auc
tons in the town of Tesserville, H., took ar
senic because he was suffering from lame
leg,
WILLIAM OFT. of Davenport, Iowa, first cut
his tonsils and then shot himself through the
breast. He had been for thirty years a mer-
chant of Davenport
A MACHINE for drawing wire into smaller
sizes was attended by George Kellogg, a con
Wet in the lllinois state prison. He picked
up one of the loops from the coil of wire that
he was feeding TO the machine and tossed it
over his neck He was drawn down to the
block instantly with terrible force and had
only time to say " Goodbye to the convict
standing next to him before he was killed
just before committing the act he went 10 his
keeper and told him he wished TO see the war
den, and being told he was absent, he replied:
"W ell, | wanted to make confession to him
! am the man that committed the doub @ muir
der at Atlanta H. In his cell he left a let
ter ad dressed to Chaplain Rutlidge saying:
81 have been treated well in the prison |
have no malice toward any one. am limo
cent of the robbery that | am sent here for,
but it is netting else that worries me
was raised Meth dist, but what am now,
| am nothing. M God, forgive me and he
merciful 10 me. 1t is more than have been
to myself" Kellogg was about twenty years
old.
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South and West.


Mrs. OLIVE GUNTER, eighty years old,
her daughter and granddaughter residing
near Moncure n c., were murdered with
an ak.
WHILE a cage containing twenty convict
laborers was descending q shaft in the Pratt
mines near BIZ mingham, Ala, the engine be-
came unmanas cable for moment, and the
cage fell to the DO tom, dis ance of 2O4
feet and rebounded sixty feet. One of the
men was killed and thirteen others were in-
jured.
Two FIRES on the same night in st. Louis
resulted in the death of two firemen, injuries
to six Others and the destruction of property
worth about 100000.
AN avalanche of snow, descending from a
mountain near Ouray, Col, struck board
ing house in which were eleven miners, car
rying it away and burying the men under
fifteen or twenty feet of snow, rocks and
timbers. Six of the men were instantly
killed and the other five were probably
fatally injured.
A TRAIN on the Louisville, New Albany and
Chicago railroad ran into the Blue river, near
Salem, Ind, bridge having been swept
away, and seven persons were killed.
LAMPBoRN & GRAY, bankers at Alliance,
Ohio, have failed. The losses are heavy, and
many poor people are among the creditors
CHARLES HARVEY, worthless character,
murdered and robbed Henry Custel, Jr.,
young clerk of Petersburg, Ind. Harvey was
arrested. but a crowd of men took him from
Jail and hanged him to tree.
THREE men of bad character were taken
from saloon at MoDade, Texas, by fifty
masked men and hanged. Six of their friends
came to town, and in a fight two of their
number and one of the citizens were killed
A QUARREL between white men and
negroes, at Yazoo City, Miss, resulted in
three of the former being shot and killed from
an ambush. Two other white men were
wounded. John James, the leader of the
negroes in the difficulty, was shot dead while
resisting arrest.
AN outbreak of smallpox i'll the Whining
ton DELI jail caused much excitement
MRS. MARTHA SLAVES died suddenly in
her church pew at Moriah, n. y, while the
congregation We're singing.
TWENTY branch associations from various
parts of the country were represented at the
three days biennial session of the Socialist
Labor congress, held in Baltimore
ANOTHER Colorado snow slde-this time at
the Mendoza mine near Telluride carried
away a house in which were fourteen miners,
eight of whom were killed outright and two
injured.
A MAN named Boss. his wife and their seven
children were all drowned during freshet in
Hardis creek, Ind
Mrs. ELIZABETH SoMMERFIELD, q widow
and her two young children, who lived in a
lonely cabin near Beverly, w. Va, were
found brutally murdered and their house a
mass of ruins, the murderers having cut the
bodies of their victims to pieces and set fire
to the place in the hope Of concealing all
evidence of the crime.
JOHN A. CLARK, was hanged in the Bo2e-
man (Montana) Jail for the murder of Thomas
Rogers.
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A LEAP-YEAR EPISODE.
Can ! forget that winter niphf

Can 1 forget that winter night
In eighteen eighty-four,
When Nellie, charming little sprite,
Came tapping at the doorl
"Good-evening, miss, plushing said
For in my heart knew
And, knowing, hung my pretty head
That Nellie came to wool
She clasped my big, red hand, and fell
Adown upon her knees,
And cried: "You know love you wei
So be my husband, pleasen
And then she swore she'd ever be
A tender wife and true
All, what delight it was to me
That Nellie came to wool
She'd lace my shoes and darn my hose
And mend my shirts, she said,
And grease my comely Roman nose
Each night on going to bed:
She'd build the fires and fetch the coal,
And split the kinding, too
Loves perjuries o'erwhelmed her soul
When Nellie came to WOO.
And as I, blushing, gave no check
To her advances rash
She twined her arms about my neck,
And toyed with my mustache;
And then she pleaded for kiss,
While I what could do
But coyly yield to that bliss
When Nellie came to wool
am engaged, and proudly wear
A gorgeous diamond ring,
And | shall wed my lover fair
Some time in gentle spring
face my doom without a sigh
And so, forsooth, would you,
If you but loved as fond as 1.
And Nellie came to WOO.
Chicago Netos.
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Jay GOuld's Tomb.

Jay Gould's tomb is almost finished.
1t is of ample size, being constructed to
hold twenty bodies. 1t is elaborate in
its workmanship and finish, aud perfect
in all its appointments. The illustrious
millionaire biographer of himself is now
prepared for anything that fate may
bring. If he wants to stay at home he
has houses, lands and money galore. If
he wants to sail the seas he has Il yacht
ready at Il moments notice. And now
if he wants to die at any time or any
crazy person should blow him up with
dynamite or powder he is ready with Il
tomb warranted to hold the most rest
less millionaire and to outwit the shrewd-
est and most industrious ghouls which
New York can possibly urnish.-Phila-
delphid Times.
Some 80, 900 children are living on ca
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A company with So, 800, 600 capital is
preparing TO drain 1000 600 acres Of
land in Cameron, Calcasieu and Yer
million in the southwest corner of Louis
lana, and to make a gulf front of 100
miles of agricultural lands between Lake
Charles and Sabine pass. Steam plows
for the work have arrived from England,
capable of blowing fifty acres day.
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AS Frederick Armitage, of Orange, Mass.
raised his gun to fire at fox that was run
ming toward him, the weapon exploded pre-
maturely, and Armitage was killed.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and Middle States.
reHT convicts, under sentence

EIGHT convicts, under sentence
from one to five years, arrived at Concord,
N. H, from Washington, being the first In.
stallment of government prisoners received
at the New Hampshire penitentiary under a
contract recently made by the governor and
council for their labor. Six Of the prisoners
were colored.
ONE of the heaviest failures noted in some
time is that of Amos d. Smith a. Co, the
Providence cotton goods manufacturers
The firm have run three concerns and five
mills, the Groton manu- featuring company,
the Franklin manufacturing company and
the Providence Steam Mill company, com
prising the Durfee mill and the Steam mill
in Providence the Groton mi at Woonsocket,
and the Franklin and Merino mills in John
ston. In all these manufactures RUIZ $1,000
spindles and furnish employment for from
10000 to 1900 people. The amount of la
bilities is variously estimated at from 81 ,OO0,-
600 to $1,7(0,0O0
THE bark Mohawk which sailed from New
York for Calcutta, had to stop near New
Haven, as eleven Of her twenty men were
badly frostbitten Nine of the crew were
taken to New Haven, all having their hands
and feet badly frozen. One of the crew-a
young Japanese-was killed by falling from
aloft
GENERAL GRANT, while alighting from his
coupe in front of his house in New ork a
few days ago, slipped and fell on his side, sus-
tanning Painful injury to his leg and COM
polling his removal to bed
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Some 80, 900 children are living ON ca
nal boats in England.