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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-07-04
DIED.
HOIT-ln West Addison, June %, 1854, Edwin
Hoyt, son of Il. Hoyt aged % years. N
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Established more than quarter of century.
Is one of the largest and most successful Com.
mercIal schools in the State. Has 10. 900 gradu.
ates in successful business. Teaches Stenogra.
ply, Type writing and Telegraphy in connection
with complete and practical business course
For illustrated catalogue address CARMEL Il Car
hart, 81 Il 81 North Pearl St., Albany, N. Y.
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NOTICE.

To whom it may concern: The subscriber will
apply to the next session of the Leg islature fo
an extension of charter for a ferry between Ar
nold's Bay. Panton. w., and BARRIERS Point, n
Y.
c. W. ALLEN.
PantOn, June %, 1854. 1881
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WANTEDy

by an old and prominent life company "a man who
has large acquaintance through III is district,
and who is energetic, thorough and who is will
ling to devote his entire time to the h'usn ess. to
act AS general agent To such man are induce
ments will be offered, combining sala nv or guar
antee. All policies lncontestabe and non for
letting by their own conditions, after three pay
ments. Endowment policies at life Tates. Pop
ular plans. Experience not necessary, but those
who have had experience, and are successful,
ana desire to change, will find 1t gre lily TO their
lnteres! to correspond with us before making any
arrangements. Address
21.4t Drawer %, ALBANY r. o., Y.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-07-04
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FRIDAY. JULY 4, 1881.
Travellers Guide.

|Fains pass Middlebury station at the
rs given below:
|ING NoRTH-Exrress, 1896 a. m. /; passen-
|7:50 a. M; mail, 1923 y. m; (: express,
Ip. m.
|ING SoUTH-Mail, 9:55 n. m; passen-
|4:57 p. m; mixed as far as Brandon.
b. m; express, 1920.
kIJs CLosE-North, 2:55 and 7:40 p. M;
h. $3.50 a. m. and 7:40 pm.
y Central Vt timetable on last page.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-07-04
=. CHANDLER,
PENSION ATTORNEY

PENSION ATTORNEY,
RIPToS, VT.
After June may he found at his Office, first
door. up stairs east Of the post office.
EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY.
From S to 6. Correspondence carefully attended
10 when stamp Is enclosed.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1884-08-28
Couldn't Tell a Lie.

Coming up in cable car last
night from Cotton Grove avenue
an elderly man remarked to his
companion:
"They may beat Jim Blaine, but
[ doubt it."
"Why?,.' was the respone.
"Well, [ judge the man by the
boy. [ knew him down in Penn
sylvania forty years ago. He was
a most charming lad, and he had a
way of gliding along in the world
as if he was creased. He and |
were hauled up in school one day
for stealing apples during recess
and we agreed to tell the same
story and stick by each other
When the teacher asked me what
had to say I made the explanation
that had been agreed upon, but
Jim elaborated his story at great
length. He was an orator ther
as we'll as now, and when he haC
got through the teacher took mt
by the ear and said:
81 am panied to discover tina
you are a liar and then he pelteC
me over the head with ferule
just as I began to holler jim
crept up to the teacher and begged
him to stop, saying. I'll forgive
him and [ hope you will. [ beal
him no ill-will.' The teacher wa
so impressed with his magnanimi
ty that he hit me once more fo
luck, and then ordered me to m,
seat. 1t may be possible to bea
that kind of fellow, but he neve
was downed in those days"
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1884-08-28
Unprejudiccd Testimony.

A well-known northern writer
who uses the signature OF m.
Quad" has been travelling in the
South the last two or three
months, making himself acquaint-
ed with the people as they are,
and communicating the results of
his observations to the Detroit
Free Press. In one of his recent
letters to that widely-circulated
journal, he says: 81 seek to inves-
tlgate carefully, and to study these
people thoroughly, and [ ain ready
to say to any Industrious, sober
agriculturist in the North who
wants a change that the South is
the place to come to. She offers a
dozen advantages where the far
West offers one. Here is the gar
den spot Of the United States.
Here are the people who are neigh
borly in every sense of the word.
The past is the past with them.
No matter how you fought or how
you vote, you will be treated hon
orably and frankly. We talk of
our enterprise in the North, but
here towns are springing up al
most daily, great coal and iron
mines are being opened, new rail
ways are threading tine country,
new farms dot the hillsides, and
the spirit Of "boom'' is catching
every town and corner. More
money will be made to the square
acre in the South for the next ten
years in agriculture than anywhere
else in the world. She has the
climate, the fertile soil and she ie
getting the immigrants and tbs
workers by every train
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1884-08-28
welded AT NINETY.
A Jolly Old Pair in the Blue
Grass Country.

A quaint old couple with whom
all Lexington claims kinship, says
Lexington KY letter, are DIR.
and Mrs. Chinn. "There was a
newspaper man from Chicago
down here once and he wanted to
see all the curiosities, SO they
brought him to see me-" said the
old lady good-humoredly, recog-
nizing the fact that she is consid-
cred one of the characters of the
Blue Grass county. Aunt Kitty
Chinn came here in 1902. She re-
members visit made to st. Louis
in 1919, and the festivities of the
other day brought back to her the
memory of a barbecue she attend
ed on the Dunlop place when pres-
ident Monroe was present. Won
derful are the staying qualities of
this Blue Grass country is the
conviction forced when, after lis
tening to this old lady's vivacious
"reminiscences, the visitor learns
from her that she is % years old.
DR.. Chinn has just turned into the
nineties. 1t has been less than
ten years since these two old peo-
pie have joined fortunes. They
had attended the same church
for more than fifty years and had
been on friendly terms all that
time. One day, as Aunt Kitty
tells the story, she received let
ter from the doctor in which he
reviewed their long acquaintance,
and proposed that the few remain
ing days they had to spend in the
Blue Grass country should be
passed together. She need not
go to the trouble of a formal re-
ply, he wrote her, but if the pro-
posal was distastefHl she could
simply send back the letter. Ii
she retained it, he would under
stand that she looked favorably
on his suit The next Sabbath
when the old lady's carriage drove
up in front of the church DR..
Chinn stepped calamity forward
and helped her out. Doctor -
she said, 81 have received your
letter and have kept it." The fol
lowing Tuesday the aged sutton
called, and on the Thursday after
there was a Blue Grass wedding.
Such was Aunt Kitty's latest TO-
nance.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1884-08-28
Don't Comprehend.

The Rome Courier says Allan
ia had what they called a "high
tea" celebration of the anniversa-
~ of the burning OF. the Kimball
House. The Constitution says,
at was about the biggest day At
Iapta has had within our memo
~" We don't know exactly what
"htgh tea is, but we will not
question the assertion that some
Of the parties participating felt
that it was very big thing, and
perhaps they have not gotten over
the feeling yet. We are also puz-
gled to know why they should cell
citrate the burning Of SO important
and valuable part of the city as
the Kimball House.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1884-08-28
MORMONS MASSACRED.
Several of the Polygamists Killed in
Kentucky.

A Couries-Journal special dated
Nashville, Aug. 18th, says:
can organization established by
Mormon elders, in Lewis and Hick-
man counties, this State, about
three years ago, was broken up on
Saturday by the killing of all
the elders by a band of masked
men. Mr.. Depriest, United States
mail carrier between Ivy Mills and
Centerville, Hickman county,
gives the following account of the
massacre: The elders were
holding q meeting at
Conder's farm, Cane Greek,
Lewis county, Sunday morning,
when twelve masked men on horse
back rode up to the house and or
dered young man named Hutson
and young Gender to surrender.
They showed fight, when one of
the masked men knocked Gender
down, breaking his skull. Hutson
fired at one Of the masked men, who
died, and was afterwards found to
be Dave Hutson, a citizen Of Hick-
man county, who lived at Brush
fork, on Beaver Dam. The mask
ed men then shot and killed two
of the Mormon elders. The third
elder ran towards the woods from
which the firing was soon heard.
The elder, not having been seen
since, is supposed also to have
been killed. 1t has since been as
certalned that the masked men be-
fore going to Conder's house stop
ped at the house of man name
Garrett, near Conder's house,
found a Mormon elder there, and
left two masked men in charge of
this elder. Shooting was heard
there shortly afterward, and that
elder has not been seen since.
When firing commenced at Con
der's house one of the elders hid
behind Mrs. Gender, and in shoot
ing at him Mrs. Gender was
wounded.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1884-08-28
A Baby Arrested.
Walton News.

Mr.. Ammons has been sheriff
for a long time, and has made
many arrests, but not until last
Sunday morning, little before day
has it been his duty to arrest a ba-
by. Mr.. A. L. Allen, who married
the young widow of Mr.. Jesse
Perkins, separated from his wife
recently, and on last Friday he
carried away from her by force
their little infant boy only six
months old. Mrs. Allen came to
town on Saturday and employed
Maj. Arnold to get her child from
her husband. A writ of habeas
corpus was sued out, and upon an
additional affidavit made before
Judge Giles, that the child would
likely be removed, an order was
directed to the sheriff to arrest the
baby and bring him before the
court of ordinary to be disposed of
as the law directs. Mr.. Ammons
says the little fellow war crying
like it's heart would break when
he reached Mr.. Aliens, but that he
hushed crying as soon as he took
1t in his arms and started with it
to its mother about three-quarters
of mile away. The mother
seemed to be perfectly elated when
her child was restored to her.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1884-08-28
A Wild Man in Georgia,

A Columbus special says news
BY the steamer Amos Hays from
the lower river says that the wild
man captured in the Ocheecee
swamp, near Chattahoochee, and
carried to Tallahassee, did not be-
long to the Florida asylum, and
all inquiry proved unavailing to
identify him. He had been swim
ming in Ocheecee Lake from is
land to island, and when taken was
entirely destitute of clothing, ema-
ciated and covered with phe-
nominal growth of hair. He could
give no account of himself, and
thetheory is that he escaped from
the asylum of some other State
and spent his time in the woods
living on berries, etc.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1884-08-28
FARMING PAYS.
Commissioner Henderson's State
ment that Farming Don't
Pay in Georgia Denied.
Atlanta Constitution.

Commissioner Henderson has
made the most astounding discov-
cry recently, and has announced
the fact to the correspondent of
the Savannah Times, that farming
does not pay in Georgia. He fur
Their says that he has never pub
lished the fact before because it
would have a tendency to prove
dlscouraging. This is very weak
statement to come from the com
missioner of agriculture, and when
the readers hear how he pro-
poses to remedy the matter, the
public will see that he does not
understand the situation.
"The farmers" he says, should at
once begin system Of retaining
with peavines, and clover where
the latter will grow. That done
with judgment the State will again
blossom like a rose"
The commissioner deserves a
medal for the PRONUNCIATION of
these statements. The formula
ton of these opinions has proba-
bly, cost much labor. But are they
true?
On the other hand there is no
state in the union where farming
pays better. 1t is true that but
few accumulate wealth, but we
know of no farmer In the State
who attends to his business prop
erly that is not making a
good living; he can accumulate
money by being economical, and
does In seven out of ten Instances.
Georgia has a greater variety of
crops than any other State in the
union, and to say that the farmers
of the State cannot make it pay is
a reflection on this class.
Notwithstanding this statement
of the commissioner, we can prove
by record that the farmers of the
State of Georgia have made COM
paratively more clear money and
lived better since the war than in
any State in the United States.
If the commissioner really be-
lieyes what he says, and has no
better suggestion to make than to
advise the use of peavines, then
he had better keep the matter
quiet. The suggestion is supreme
ly ridiculous. We challenge the
commissioner to make good his
statement, and we put him on no.
tice that we propose to show that
any farmer in the State who raises
his own provision crop and exer-
cises diligence and ordinary ener-
gy is making money.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1884-08-28
Standard and All Sorts.

A gentleman rode up to small
boy sitting on the fence in front
Of his home and inquired if he
lived there.
'"I try to" was the response.
"Well, my boy, I want to know
what time it is; can you tell me?"
eyes, l kin; l wuz in the house
jist five minutes ago, and the old
clock wuz pintin' at 'leven."
"What kind of time do you
have?'
80, we have all kinds"
"But | mean, do you have solar
time or standard time?"
CHATS what l said. We have
all kinds"
81 don't understand you"
Don't yer? Well, come to our
house and live awhile and yer'll
learn. My sister Sal she has
standard time, that's the clock; |
has city time, that's the town
clock; the hired girl has sun time,
that's watchin' the shadders, and
pap and nam have a h-ll OF q
time; that's what they're dom IN
there now, and I'm setting on the
fence till they gi5 her reggerlated
By gosh, you hadn't better wait
round here if you don't want to
hear sumthin' strike, and strike
mighty durn hard"
The man rode away rapidly anc
the boy kicked another plank OF
| the fence.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1884-08-28
How a Lady Should Act When Scre-
naded.

"Will you please tell me what is
proper for a lady to do when she
is serenaded?" In romance it is
usually written: "The curtains
were seen to futter and hand
emerged and tossed down rose"
In real life the custom is to light
the gas in order to give the seren-
aders the satisfaction of knowing
that the fair lady is awake. OF
course the curtains which have
been left open to let in the sum
mer air, should first be closed, but
nine times out of ten the girl gets
Illustrated and forgets the curtains
until the room is illuminated
Then she gives a little yell aud
crawls under the bed.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1884-08-28
Bill Nye on Phrenol0gy.

An erroneous phrenologist once
told me that | would shine as a re-
vivalist, and said that l ought to
marry a tall blonde, with ner-
yous sanguinary temperament
Then he adds: Gone dollar,please,"
and | said: "All right, gentle sci
enlist with a tawny name, I will
give you one dollar and marry the
tall blonde with the bank account
and bilious temperament when
you give me a chart showing me
how to dispose of a brown-eyed
brunette with thoughtful cast Of
countenance, who married me in
an unguarded moment two years
ago."
He looked at me in a reproach-
full kind of way,struck at me with a
chair in an absent minded manner
and stole away.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1884-08-28
His Four Wives.

In certain cemetery in a town
Of Connecticut can be found lot
containing FIVE graves, one in the
centre, the others near by at the
four points of the compass. The
Inscriptions on the latter read, re-
spectively after the name Of de-
ceased: my 1 Wife" MY II
Wife" "My III Wife," my I'LL
Wife," while the center stone
bears the brief but eloquent ex-
preston, "Our Husband"
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1884-08-28
"0ld Pearidge" COnfesses.

The Albany News and Advertis-
Gays there is a man now living
Alabama, nearly seventy years
d'lo was the first man that ever
lied 200 pounds of cotton in
Inroe county. He accomplish
athe feat in 1896, when a boy,
one Saturday. The farmers plant
Cd the green seed, hockory nut cot
11, and he picked 2l2 pounds.
de was the same boy, who, when
Dis father gave him a task Of
twenty rows of cotton to chop out,
TO a certain stump, one Satur-
|aaY and told him that he might
g to the mill pond to go in swim
ming when his task was done, dug
app the stump and moved it up ten
|l0Vs without his father eyer find
5ng it out.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1884-08-28
A LIZARD IN HIS STOMACH.
After Years of Horrible Suffering, q
st. Louis Man Disg0rges a Hide
GUS Reptile.

For the past five or six years,
says st. Louis special, John
Horan, master stone-cutter, re-
siding on Magazine street, has suf-
Tered terribly from what doctors in
ut. Louis and other cities have re-
garded as a complicated intestinal
disorder. He has twice been in
hospitals in st. Louis, and has
spent the greater part of his earn
lngs with view to securing some
permanent relief. Last Thursday
Horan was at work in the stone
yard when he was suddenly taken
Ill. Fearing that he was going TO
vomlt blood, he closed his eyes
and leaned for support on the
stone on which he was working.
He then experienced a terrible
pain in his throat. Next he vomi-
ted. On recovering and looking
around, he found that he had not
parted with a portion Of his lungs,
as the pain and sensation he expe-
rienced led him to fear he had
done, but with a species of reptile
OF surprising dimensions. Koran
Immediately called his fellow work
men, and to their establishment
pointed out the wriggling reptile
he had just elected from his sys-
tenn. 1t was stretched out on the
stone clippings by one of the ma
sons, who, on applying his rule to
it found that it was fully s inches
long. From the head to within
two inches Of its other extremity
the reptile was about Il inches
thick. 1t is now in the possession
of DIR. Y. H. Boyd, of Easton
avenue. Mr.. Horan's sufferings
for five years have been terrible.
He could not work for more than
an hour without being compelled
to rest. Often he had to remain
away from work two or three DAYS
a week. He had no appetite, and
when he did take food was rarely
able to retain more than small
portion of it. Seldom did he OBJ
tain an unbroken nights rest. He
frequently declared that he could
feel something turning around in
his stomach. The doctors told
him that his intestines were grow
ing together. Since he has vomit-
ed the reptile his brother has come
to the conclusion that he must
have unknowingly swallowed ii
when working in the neighborhood
Of Dallas, Texas, some 7 or s years
years ago, at a place where the wa
ter was impure.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1884-08-28
He Wanted the News.
Columbus Enquirer Sun.

Columbus Enquirer Sun.
"You never ketch me a buying
no Georgia papers" said col
ored individual, dressed in the tip
Of the fashion. when l want to
get the news l go for a New York
paper"
"What New York paper do you
find best suited to your tastes?"
inquired the party addressed.
well, l hardly know. Some
times the Police Gazette is the
most interestin' and sometimes
the other picture papers. They
give you all the news, and that's
what the people wants, and don't
You forget it."
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1884-08-28
Let 1t Proceed.

We have been favored by some
one with copy of the New York
witness, a red hot prohibition pa
nor. advocating the cause of St.
Iohn and Daniel, There are great
~ issues at stake, and the prohi-
bitionists cannot accomplish much
On 50 narrow plank. Cleveland
and Hendricks will accomplish
tba reforms that this government
needs. Let the temperance boom
nroceed outside of politics.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1884-08-28
Need of the Whipping Post.
Athens Banner Waterman.

Athens Banner Watchman.
With the large mass of ignor-
Fu' ana worthless population in
|le South, the most stringent
avs are necessary. Georgia
['eas above all things else pub
I ShlppIng-post in every court
Ou'e yard. 1t will do more to
(eep down crime than all the
u'Il-gangs and penitentiaries we
establish. About one-half of
l' lazeS paid in by the whites 90
vie trial and punishment of
. criminals. Every court is
l0ened with such cases, and
/. !"llS are always filed with
l9oners' And what is the re-
' Instead of furnishing and
IT.. proving u the morals of this ele-
4' 'hey are only sent to train
r.. schools to learn new depart
III, Now a whipping post
-" not only prove a great say
N " 'he taxpayers of the state,
le,, a. the same time act as a
: VA 4, upon law breakers as moth
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1884-08-28
STATE TAX RATES.
An Important Matter In Which
The People Are Interested.
Atlanta Constitution.

LII POI ulllG runOr came to
the ears of the Constitution Iata
last night to the effect that Gov
ernor Mcdaniel would in a dav or
two make levy of half mill on
Inc state tax rates, to make up the
deficit In last years expenses, and
to provide for the 100000 of
Nuttlng bonds that fall due next
April.
HOW AND WHEN THE TAX WAS
REDUCED.
AT the end of the last session Of
the Legislature but one, the f.
nance committee, recommended
that the state tax rate be reduced
from 3 mills to q mills. This
was done. The finance commit
tee held that this levy would raise
sufficient money to run the gov
eminent.
They relied, however, on the
use OF the $750,000 to be paid in
for the Macon and Brunswick
road, being used in part to pay
the interest instead of the princi-
pal OF the state debt. Governor
Mcdaniel held that the law in
tended this money should be u.s.
cd for the extinguishment of the
debt, and not for carrying it
The money was therefore used to
take up state bonds, and the in
terest Of the debt had to be pro-
vided from other sources.
In addition to this, after the re-
duction Of the tax, the Legislature
passed the leg and arm soldiers
act, the lunatic asylum act and
the capital bill. The conse-
quence was that when the taxes
were all in and the estimates for
the year made, there was found to
be a deficit of 100000. 1t was
necessary to borrow this or see
the states credit ruined. The
money was borrowed month ago
by an appeal to the private credit
of number of citizens and the
emergency tided over.
It is said now, and the rumor
comes in such shape that we cred
it it fully, that Governor McDan-
lei has determined to prevent
such another crisis by a levy of
one-half of one-tenth of one per
cent. This will restore the tax to
three mills, where it was before
the last reduction.
While Governor McDanieps
judgement was clearly against the
reduction of the tax by the last
Legislature, he was induced by ar
guments and estimates to let the
trial be made. 1t has been made.
1t proved to be unwise and insult
ficient. 1t is said that he will
now restore the rate, and we may
count hereafter on the state being
able to meet its obligations
promptly without relying on the
personal credit Of its citizens.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1884-08-28
Amen

THE Macon Telegraph has actu-
Nv nrinted in its editorial col
a., q complimentary notice of
. LIZA Atlanta Constitution upon the
, 'I journals moving into its
law building and DOMINIC a new
1rossl But wait! That is not all.
ri, rho Constitution reproduc,s the
1rticle under the heading, ''Kind
Words from Good Judges" Let
ns sing.