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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-04-18
CROP REPORTS.
--latest FsetHrns 10 the department of
Agriculture.

The April returns of the department of
agriculture at Washington make the winter
wheat area about 27,G0O,OOO acres This is
nearly the breadth sown of the previous crop,
of which between five and six per cent. was
subsequently plowed up, leaving 800, 600
acres to be harvested Comparing with the
area harvested, the present breadth is an
increase of five per cent. The present
area is greater than that of the census
year by more than 100000 acres The in
crease is about $4,000 acres on the Pacific
coast and nearly i"OO)J acres in the Southern
States. There is a small increase in the Mid
die States, and a slight decrease in the Ohio
basin.
The condition of wheat averages ninety
five, 100 representing Il full stand unimpaired
vitality and medium growth. In April,
1883, the average was eighty, and eighty five
in April 1851. The April average of the large
crop of lSS2 was lOl. The State averages are
as follows: Conn cticut, 10l New York, %:
New jersey, %; pennsylvania, 80: elan are,
M: Maryland, l p; Virginia. 10l NORTH Ca
dina, 1p!: South Carolina %: Georgia. n:
a ALBANIA, s.; Mississippi, 90; Texas, lOl Ar
Kansas. 81; I, nncssoe, 81; West Nirginiq, NJ;
kentIc,iy. 9S: Ohio, IS: Michigan, "a: 'lndi-
ana. %; Illinois, s.? Missouri 81 Kansas, lOl !;
Calf Gmia, III; Oregon, 1O2.
In Michigan, New York and Connecticut
the fields were protected with snow ON the LIST
of April in some places foot in depth Sub
sequent condition will depend on the weather
of April. No serious winter killing is report
ed except in Alabama. On low and wet areas
some injury is reported throughout the entire
breadth The superior condition of drilled
wheat is attested almost without exception.
The area i'll rye is nearly the same ms last
year, the average being ninety-nine per cent.
Condition average, nmcty-seven per cent
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-04-18
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

TENNESSEE now has thirty -two cotton mills
THE Philadelphia medical society has barred
out lady doctors.
THE finc-wool sheep of Canada are giving
place to CoarSc-woOl breeds.
WITHIN five years Denver has grown from
-. 600 to I5t inhabitants
PETROLEUM in paying quantities has been
discovered in mton, iowa.
IT costs New York about 800. 900 a wear to
light her streets and public buildings.
SERGEANT MASON, who shot at Guiteau, has
quit the show business and gone back to Betty
and the baby.
LA SCALA the great theatre in Milan, is now
lighted by electricity. Two thousand Edison
lights are used.
ENGLISH capitalists are buying up all the
black walnut timber i'll Ohio, Indiana, Mis-
souri, and Iowa.
THE scaifold ON which John Brown was
hanged was recently sold to syndicate of
rcnc-hunters for $40
SAN Francisco will put up buildings cost
ing 81 ,OOOOO in Golden Gate park for the
worlds fair in 1857.
The new enrolment gives the German
army ON "A war footing 49,, 100, besides $40,
{, 0 of the landsturm.
FoRTY-SIX bodies were cremated at Gotha,
in Germany, last year About Sl44 is the
charge for each cremation.
The new city hall in Philadelphia has al
ready cost Ss,24l 900 and is not yet finished
One of its features is Il clock tower which is
to he 3 % feet high.
FRANCE in lss2 produced ~ 800, 0O0 bottles
of champagne of which 2,6GG, 800 were con-
sumed in that country, and 100000 were
sent TO the United States.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-04-18
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

NINE PATTI has decided not to sing in Lon
don this spring.
Mrs. LANGTRY returns to New York short
ly to play "Pygmalion and Galatea."
d. d. LLOYD. the editor who wrote the play
"For Congress" has gone to Europe,
THE gross receipts Of the seventeen per
formances of MaplcSon'S opera company in
san Francisco are stated to have been S-O5,-
600.
The statement that Theodore Thomas would
conduct concerts at Concy Island the coming
summer is contradicted. He sails for Europe
in June.
KATE FoRSYTH. the actress. lost several thou
sand dollars worth If personal effects by the
fire Monday afternoon Ill the ST George Hats,
New York.
Mr. PALMER. of the Union Square theatre,
New York. told n reporter i'll Paris that he
had paid Bronson Howard more than ,Oll
for his authors rights in 1.-The Bankers
Daughter
GUSTAV AMBEpG. the manager of the ITALIA
company, of New York, is negotiating for an
American tour of the famous Meiningen COM
pany that made such a sensation III London
few years ago.
Ar the Berlin Theatre Royal last year there
were tweutv-seven representations of Shakes
peGrean plays. Seven of his plays were
ted. There were eight, representations
of Schiller and three of Goethe.
WHEN not acting, Joe Jefferson leads
pleasant life on his plantation of ten thousand
acres in Louisiana in the region occupied by
the Acadans, fishing and painting, and sur
rounded 10y colony OF grandchildren.
An organization known as ''The New Eng
land Musical Charitable Association has been
formed 10y the theatrical managers of Boston,
lis object being To care for sick members of
the profession who derive no benefit from any
other society
THERE was a novel dramatic performance
in London recently, when the members of a
deaf mute mission presented ''The School for
Scandal and The Sorrows of Mr. Snooks,7
entirely in the sign language and TO an au-
deuce of mutes.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-04-18
PROMINENT PEOPLE,
GENERAL GRANT still hobbies about on

GENERAL GRANT still hobbies about on
clutches.
DYSPEPSIA and neuralgia torment United
States Senator Edmunds.
Rosa BoNHECR's pictures are always sold
long before they are painted.
THE youngest son of General Robert +.
lee, Bob, is quiet farmer. He lives near
Richmond on the James river
GENERAL FREMoNT's health is not bad, al
though several newspaper reports have repre-
sented that he is failing. Mrs. Fremont, who
is in Washington, is in excellent health.
d. o. MILLS has been given vote OF
thanks by the California legislature for his
gift to the State of piece Of statuary repre-
senting columbus before Queen Isabella"
MR.. GEORGE AsHwoRTH, of Lowell Mass.
is SAID to be dest Odd Fellow living in this
country. He is more than eighty years Old
and has belonged to the Order siXty-one
years.
MRS. ROGERS, the Texas cattle queen. is
fifty years old. Her husband, twenty three
va ) her junior, gave up preaching: but she
permitted him to be elected to the Texas leg
lslaturc.
GOVERNOR MURRAY, the enemy of Nor
monism in Utah, was born in Kentucky, and
is a half-brother of Governor Crittenden.
He is six feet three inches high. He was
brigade commander at the age OF nineteen
AMI a general at twenty one
Mrs. JAMEsG. BLAINE j. tall AMI not Slim
and she is grave and dignihel in manner
Born in New Englgnl and well educat ii, she
met Mr.. Blaine in Kentucky, and was his first
love, Her companion and Cous II is Miss Ali
gail Dodge, the Gail Hamilton of ltera-
| tuTe.
HENRY GEORGE, author of Progress and
Poverty" began life a printer; later he be-
came a sailor, then a reporter ON the Sacra-
mento Record the owner OF the san Francis
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-04-18
Carolina Silk Culture.

"We are pleased to learn" says thu
Raleigh On. Co. Netos, THAT the success
of the colony of silk culturists recently
planted is assured. The colonsts already
settled are entirely satisfied with their
prospects, and many more are expected
soon to follow them. North Carolina is
the home of the mulberry, and there is
no reason why the State with to-Gay's
advanced knowledge of the sub ject
should not gain as great wealth from the
rearing of sillworms and the manufac-
ture of their produce as New Jersey, for
instance, the leading State at present in
silk manufacturing"
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-04-18
South and w est.

JOSEPH MEDILL. Of the Chicago Tribune
made an argument before the Senate com
mittec on postollices and post roads in favor
of The reduction of the present pound rates
of postage ON newspapers issued from the
Office of publication.
DAVID KELLAR. pilot of the steamer Sciota.
which coldcd with the John Tomas at Mingo,
Ohio, ON the night of July t. lNS2. has been
sentenced by the Federal court at PaIkcrsburr.
W. Va. to two years imprisonment and to
pay a fine of 500 for manSlaughtcr Tho col
lision resulted i'll the loss OF seventy lives.
CLEvELAND's municipal election resulted
in Republican victory by about 5000 ma
jority.
b. T. q. HUBBARD. cashier of the First
National bank of Monmouth, ILL.,, lost $780,
600 of the Institutions funds by speculation,
and compelled it to suspend.
ALL amusements have been seriously affect
ed in Cincinnati 10y the recent riots. strangers
keeping away from the city. and women be
ing afraid to venture out at night.
REPORTS from Ohio. Indiana and Illinois.
show the condition of the wheat, clover, timo-
thy and apple crops to be favorable, and the
peach crop unfavorable.
THIRTY buildings, mostly frame structures
occupied as stores and dwellings, We're de
stroyed 10y fire at Hampton. Va. resulting in
total estimated loss of 100000. Several
persons We're injured. This is the third time
Hampton has been swept by the flames.
ELEVEN negroes We're in a skilf ON the river
at Nicksburg, Miss, when their frail craft
upset and six of them were drowned.
A MATERIAL advance in prices for wheat
and pork has taken place in Chicago.
JAMES FLEETWOOD and his wife. an aged
couple living near Rardan, ILL.,. We're found
dead in their bed with their threats cut. The
house had been ransacked. A hired man was
arrested.
THE secretary of the California state Ag-
ricultural bureau predicts an unexampled
wheat crop for the Pacific coast.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-04-18
ODD SUICIDES.

DAVID s. RAwLINS, OF Philadelphia killed
himself 10y beating his head with a stone.
Miss MARY THOMPSON. OF South Abingdon,
Mass, hung herself because she was suffering
from neuralgia.
AFTER bequeathing her body to the doctors,
Eliza Fitzpatrick, of Sandusky, cut her throat
with handsaw
BEYJAMIN BUCKwALTER. of Lancaster
Penn. hung himself because he imagined he
had wronged the Mennonite church. OF which
he was q member.
HAVING had poor crops for several years and
lost considerable stock, james Nanvire, of At
lanta, became discouraged and killed himself
with shotgun.
AFTER having married three husbands,
Mrs. David butcher, of Sullivan county, y.
Y, killed herself because, rs she said, none OF
them came up to her expectations,
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-04-18

THE wife of President Gonzales, of Mexico,
hauing left her husband for alleged ill treat
ment, is now living in Houston, Texas, in oh
security, having tried to support herself by
keeping IA millinery shop and failed. She is
the mother of ten children.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-04-18

A TwICE-coNvICTED felon has been chosen
speaker Of the Queensland parliament.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-04-18
Foreign.

PREMIER GLADSTONE made a powerful
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-10-24
Temperance Fable.

Some rats once assembled in a large
cellar to devise some method Of safely
getting the bait from tasteel trap, which
lay near, having seen numbers of their
friends and; relatives snatched from
them wits meirciless Jaws. After many
long speeches, andthe proposal of many
elaborate but fruitless plans, a happy
wit, standing erect, said, ut is my opin-
ion that if with. one paw we can keep
down the spring, we can safely take the
food from the trap with the other"
All the rats present loudly squealed as
sent. just then they were startled by
a faint voice, and a poor rat, with only
three legs the other leg having: been
cut off in the .trap,) limping into the
ring, stood zip to speak: "My friends, l
haXe. tried the method all of you, pro-
posed, and you. see the result: I have
lost one of my legs. Now let me, .sug-
gest a plan to escape the trap: let it
alone"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-10-24
Temperance Work in the Family

- : -, =. @- - = ,t A
Mrs: d. II. Gray in Union Signal
MY. heart aches when l look at the: con-
dition of society. to-day. Why is. it that
the:gay, fast young. MANTLE young
man that is helped home in; the small
hours. of the night again and again by
some friend, and quietly put to bed by
parents. until he has recovered from a
drunken spree:-why is, it, that after
coming to himself again, and carefully
making his toilet, he can walk into the
homes of some Of our best families and
take with him our pure, good girls?
Why is it that girls when demonstrated
with on the subject will SO earnestly
DECLARE, che is always a perfect gentle
man. 1n,my presence as If the gentle
man'could be put off and. on like a Sun
day coat! He is either a man or a brute
WHY isit-what is it, but a faulty. edu'
cation,,a lack Of perception of true, no.
BILE principhsg Mdthers,-cah we, com
NIT our daug lighters, pure, guileless girls
into the care.eff q ma whose breath is
not only scentedwith liquor, bat whose
character ID blackened with sin? Gan
we affordto bowand smile onthe young
man, and encourage his attentions, sim,
EpH because he belongs to good fanaily
delud,ng ourselves and them "'tn 'h'
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-10-24

idea that he will settle down by-and-by.
and make a good steady man?
Young woman, it is a dangerous ex-
pertinent to marry a man with the en-
thustastic idea of reforming him, avery
slight foundation on which to risk all
your happiness. Let a mother demand
OF a man that hebe pure, temperate and
upright before he is fit for their society.
and we shall see a change in these mat
tiers. AS mothers can we be so blind as
to even carelessly neglect intrenching
our daughters firmly in the principles
OF temperance? They go out from us
as the future wives and mothers of our
nation, and shall we permit them to 90
with loose, indefinite ideas of right.
temperance and TRUTH No! Let all
chat is true and noble within us be
aroused to action, and whatever we
neglect, let it not be the culture and
right training Of our children, lest some
day we may feel the pllghting curse
falling upon our own household; find,
zoo late that Through wine they erred
IN vision and stumbled in Judgment
and have altogether gone out of the
Way."
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-10-24

lshed, When a man who dares to raise
his voice against the proceedings of
such a caucus or convention will be
Stlgmatlzed as a traitor. Even now if
Il man takes part in one of those farces
he dares not express his personal pref
erences after the adjournment lift at all
clashes with the work of the conven-
ton, for fear of being called a hotter.
All honor to a bolter if by that name is
meant the man who will not smother
his manhood and his sense of honor
and acquiesce in a shameless bargain
and sale of offices. The man who goes
into such q convention is in no way
bound by the convention unless it's ac-
tlon IS just and honorable, and the del
egate who will acqu1esce in shameless
fraud although opposing it in the con-
Ventlon, is in a measure responsible for
the fraud. Upon what principle of
morality is q man bound to support
measures out of a convention which he
opposed with all his strength in the
convention? IT the measures were
WRONG, defeat to the opponents of those
measures does not make them right,
and 1T is a privilege, more, it is a duty
that every man owes to himself and to
the community in which he lives to
bolt the whole proceeding, caucus,
convention, ticket, platform and all.
Let the people go to the polls and smash
the machine, politicians and ali, and
elect agood, clean, straight ticket. Men
who are competent and trustworthy,
men with clean hands and clean records
and not chronic office holders who be-
long to the bread and butter brigade
and who have no business in the world
but to hold Office and draw their pay
To the Voters of Jerauld County.
A Peoples Mass Convention is called
to meet at Washington Springs on Sat-
urday, October 25, 1884, for the purpose
Of plating in nomination a peoples
ticket for county offices and for the
consideration, of such other matters as
may come before it.
O. o. ENGLAND.
in. Rich,
w. A. MILLER,
o. j. MARSHALL,
|. S. BINFoRD,
WIN. BREMNER,
j. o. GRAY,
E. A. SowERwINE.
GORDON MCDONALD,
N. e. WILLIAMS,
NJ. W. NEsMITH, and
others.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-10-24

OoAANC4SkOlks
Haste to the window, Jonathan,
Where is MY cane? Dear me!
Why, what an orful racket's there.
What kin the trouble be?"
Them colts of Jimmt Green's-you guess
In tryin' to run away
Have throwed their load all over
From the hilltop, did you say?!"
wei, here's your coat, and Jonathan,
You'd best go up the hill,
For mayliap srnthin or nutller
Has happened to James of i'll.
And here's your hat, too, Jonathan;
Your staff stands by the wall,
lie this about your throat, and John,
Be keerful you don't fall"
dead? Why yes, Salina, he was
Fen almost, when 1 reached his side,
He only gin a gasp or two,
Turned part way over anu died.
He might a lived if only
On the ground he'd a got that knock
But you see when he fell down
He came right oil tie solid rock.
He'd been Il whippin them horses,
Them as seen it, said, a sight,
But then he'd never a dcne it
If he hadn't bsenso tlte.
His wife Is eenamcst crazy,
1 told her. arter talkin spell,
She orter be reconciled tew
The will Of the Lord. Ahwell!
1t didn't du no kin o. good,
She just sOt there and cried;
l CUES 'twould a made your heart ache,
If YOU had only hearn her side.
And ] got to thinkin it over
AS ! was u cummin hum,,.
'Twant so much the will o. the Lord
AS twas the cussed rum.
SUMMONS couldn't but think
What il our,JOhn tew night
Was lyin as Jimmy Green is,
So, still II cold and white.
I reckon ! haint been doin
Jist as I'd orter a dun;
What if the Lord, in His vengeance:
Should visit it Of, our sol?
Wall, I've made Iii my mind
AS how I've bin in the wrong,
And that I'll jine the other side,
Tho life's best days. are gone.
1 won't Syn another license,
By help of God on high.
I'll work for prohibition, yes,
And vote it till I die.-[1lbbie j. Sherm
Warsaw, N. Y.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-10-24

Woonsocket News:-The custom in
vogue of holding caucuses and electing
delegates to d convention which selects
the men who are to be elected to Office
is one of the worst. evils that could at
tach. to a free government. There is
scarcely an instance on record where
the wishes Of, the people are consulted
in the selection of officers by such a
convention. Trades are made by the
delegates in opendefanceqf the wishes
Of the people, who. send them there.
Votes.are bareained for the same as so
many bushels Of grain. and delivered,
too, and the delegate does this in the
face Of instructions and pledges to the
contrary. 1t is safe. to SLY. that not,
once in ten times do. the people get the
candidate they wish to support; but
what can they do aboutit? The caucus.
machine has issued its mandate and the
candidate is regularly. nominated.
Just as if becausea few men get togeth-
er and name .. man. for an office every
voter is bound to. support that man.
Upon what principle. OF, justice is the
caucus and. the nominating convention
maintained. )"
A call is, issued by some n for a
caucus. 4 half dozen chronic office
seekers go. about among their bench
men saying, "Be sure ard come ont to
the caucus and get there early" "They
get together a dozen or two hangers-on
and political suckers and hold a caucus
in which they elect delegates to attend
a convention to nominate atlcket. The
convention is held and the set'of dele
gates that caih do the hardest dying and
make the.most magnificent promises
gets their "man"' nominated. And what
does it all aamount:to? The caucus and
the convertioh composed Of not more
than o1e-twentleth Of the voters in the
county make. the officers for the other
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, fer the instances
are rare in which: the people. assert
themselves and electra man upon his
merits and not becrqss the machine
dictates his election. There ~ no JUS
tice, no reason, no Common sense in
sueh. an. arrangement end the time will
soon co,lniA,iaa;; unless this system is abol-
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-10-24

The November humber of Demorest's
Illustrated Monthly Magazineis exceed
ingly attractive, and displays unusual
artistic and literary merit. The 'front.'
ispiece is a fine oil picture of a bull
fight in Spain; and d photogravure of
Raphael is a charming feature of this
number. There are several. good
Thanksgiving stories, and among the
other articles of interest are "9ermuda
and its Ways" "Queer Requests" can
Esthetic Shanty," and GA New Ques-
ton in Politics." by Jennie June. The
various departments are well filled with
useful information. This progressive
publication offers great inducements to
subscribers for 1855.
Woonsocket Times:-Much dissatis-
faction is expressed among the Jerauld
county people in regard to the county
ticket nominated by the regular repub-
lican convention. The democrats of
the county have already put a ticket in
the field, and there is loud talk of an
independent ticket. IT all reports about
"snap" caucuses are true, we do not
blame the people for kicking.
The following notice is posted in ev-
cry available place in Aurora county as
a preventative to prairie fires: "Any
person caught setting out or lighting
fires in Center township will be hung
from the roof of the nearest house,
Press and Dakotaian.
The mitchell Republican learns that
a farmer Lying hear Plankinton fell off
a stalk of corn one day last week and
had his left leg broken in thirteen plac-
es above his right knee. He was climb
ing up to see if the corr was getting
ripe.
For sH':IinE.-A7goD6A pair of work OK
en-. NJ. D. Grow.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-10-24

NoTICBtFoR PUBLICATIoN.-i,arrd Office
IN at Mitchell, D. T., Oct2 1884.
ed settler : has lied notice ii. his Intention Mt to
make final proof In support of This claim, and
that said proof will be n&de before Clerk Dist.
Court JeIaaid cqlnlty, at Washington Springs, d
T., on Nov. II, 1881, viz:
DAVID K. GRIFFITH,
One Of the heirs at law of Robert Il. Griffith late
Of Jerauld Co.. ID. I. deceased who made d.
81. He names the following Witnesses to prove
continuous residepce; upon, and cultivation of,
said land, viZ:'Richafd Vanderve4,e; Peter Mel
son: Matthew Sheppard, b. r. Wiley, Jerauld
Co., ID, I. .., ;'At~. ..r%,
ol1nl5 GEo. n EyER1TT. Register.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-10-24
NOTICE OF FINAL PROOF.

NOTICE FOR .PUBIICATIoN.-Land Office
~ at Mitchell, d. T., Sept. 2, 1884,
Notice is hereby given that the following nam
ed settler has filed notice of his intention to
that said proof will be made before Register and
Receiver at Mitchell, p. I; on Noyeniber 10, 1884
viz: .. HENRY H. KIESER.
who maded S. No 1876 for the seA sec 81, town
LOG range 81. He.names the following witnesses
to prove his CONTINUOUS residence upon. and
cultivation OF, said land, viz: /. G.. Wilson. of
Parsons, Frank Il. Mcintosh, T.. Colby, L. +.
Jameson, Of Plankinton, DIT.
O3n7b&b GEO. Il. EvER1Tr, Register.