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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-12-05
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Mr.. MOODY has been holding revival ser
vices i'll Detroit, Mi h.
ZACHARY TAYLOR turns up as a Congress
man-elect from Tennessee.
Mrs. MCELRoY VIII be the mistress of the
White House again this winter.
HENRY NJ STANLEY is lecturing in Eng
land on the horrors of slavery in Africa.
GLADSTONE, Tennyson, Professor Bla .lle,
Charles Darwin, Mrs. Browning and DIR. o.
W. Holmes were all born in the year 1903
MIR COUGH, in recent lecture, said that
in the course of tifty-two years he had deliv-
cred 5000 addresses, and had spoken at bnt
three political meetings.
STRAUSS, the comp )ser OF waltzes, enjoys
the felicity of receiving many letters telling
him of matrimonial engagements made by
lovers under the spell of his music.
FREDERICK ARCHER, the lea ling English
jockey, arrived in New York recently. lie
lost his wife not long ago Archer rode the
American horse lroqouis to victory in the race
for the Derby.
JUDGE ALBION W. ToURGEE, the author,
is being examined in supplementary proceed
ings at Mayvile, n Y, for an accounting OF
property. He is financially in trouble, hav-
ing lost large sum OF money in publishing
our Continent.
EVERYBODY has heard of 'Nasbya Q.ocke)
of the Toledo BLADE, but few could imagine
how he looks He is the shaggiest and most
uncouth specimen Of manhood that can well
be thought Of He is short ana very broad,
and his face is a red, red sun.
DANIEL LAMONT, Governor Clevela1d's
private secretary, is little man, witt IA
brownish re / mustache and very bald head.
He was for a long time reporter on the Al
bany Argus and of late years has reported
the sessions of the legislature for that jour
nal, as well as writing occasional editorials.
He attracted the attention OF Mr.. Tilden
when the latter was governor.
BLoNDIN, the famous tight-ropa walker, Is
now sixty and slightly gray. but H. is a;
clever and daring as ever ON the ropa. II Is
now more than "A quarter of a century since
he first crossed the Niagara river, and he
looks back To that feat as the greatest of his
life His home is named Niagara Villa The
rope ON which he walks at exhibitions is two
inches in diameter, made of hemp boun
around core of steel. His balancing poles
run from thirty seven TO forty pounds
in weight, according to the height at which
he performs which ranges from forty to l0J
feet He has never yet had fall, and only
one slight accident. He was called Blondin,
by the way on account of the color of his
hair, his real name being Jean Francois
Grayele.
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NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle states.

A FIRE ut Waynesburg, Penn, destroyed
several business houses and the Independent
office.
ONLY ths,e veterans of the war Of 1912 met
in New York to celebrate the one hum
dred and first anniversary of the British
evacuation of the city.
HUGH J. JEwETT has been succeeded as
president of the Erie railroad by John King,
Jr. A new board of directors has been chosen,
and the wages of employees are to be generally
reduced.
DANIEL SHEA, Of New York, a bad tenn
pered old man of seventy, quarreled with
Mrs. Margaret Miller, a neighbours wife, and
killed her with one thrust of penknfe. The
old man was arrested.
Two starving sailors of the pilot boat Tus-
ley who had been without food for sixty
hours, were picked up at sea and brought to
Delaware breakwater They had been COM
PEELED to feed on the flesh of dead comrade
and had suffered intensely from cold. The three
men had started for shore i'll skitf after
putting a pilot on an outward bound steamer,
and had been driven out to sea.
INTENSE excitement was caused at Middle
town, n. Y, BY the failure of the Middle
town National bank, organized under the
State banking laws in 1859 and considered
one OF the safest institutions in the State.
The failure is due to the president, Thomas
King, accepting drafts irregularly from Ben
jamin ID. Brown, a Western grain spcculator,
who failed and made assignments to the
bank.
MARY ]. Brown, Philadelphia colored
woman, fifty years old, is gradually turning
white.
GOVERNOR CLEVELAND has returned with a
polite note of declination fine Newfound-
land pup sent him by an enthusiastic Brook
lyn admirer. The governor has also declined
to attend n grand banquet at the Philadel-
phia academy of music.
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South and West.

JOHN CHAPIN'S liquor saloon in Bladens-
burg, Ohio, was raided by body of masked
men, the liquid contents thrown into the
streets and the fixtures destroyed. Chaplin
was struck on the head by q stone and
killed. The affair created the greatest excite
ment throughout the county.
A FIRE has nearly wiped out the town of
Talcott, w. Va.
Two planters were killed and their residen
ces destroyed by cyclone in st. Johns
parish, La.
THE official vote for President in West Vir
ginia is as foloas: Blaine, G3 0J6: Cleveland,
67,3l7; st. John, 939; Butler, $40; Cleve-
lands plurality, 4,22l.
Hon. JAMES L. PUGH has been reelected
as United States Senator from Alabama.
WINFIELD S. FRITZ with his wife. James
Rafferty,, his partner and Joseph Raymond,
n hired man. were found murdered on their
ranch in Cohise county, Arizona. Two cow
boys committed the deed IN order to prevent
the murdered persons from giving informa-
ton of the lynching of a Mexican boy, OF
which outrage the cowboys had been ac-
cused.
CONSIDERABLE alarm prevails among the
white people residing in Indian Territory
touching the action of the Cherokee legisla-
ture, which recently passed bill excluding
all white persons from the Territory.
DIR. JOHN Maxwell. a physician of Spring
field, Ohio, killed three of his four children by
means of chloroform mixed with aconite and
then attempted to take his own life by the
method. The oldest child and the father
were resusctated, Maxwell left letter to
his wife saying that he was tired of poverty
and of life, and wanted to put his children
where they would not suffer.
FRANK CASEY. a colored man, was hanged
at Little Rock, Ark, for stabbing COM
panion
THE bank of Adams e. Leonard at Dallas
Texas, has failed, with liabilities of over
S3000J0.
OFFICIAL figures of the vote in Indiana
show that Cleveland has PA 992; Blaine, 23S,-
$50; Butler, SIG: ST. John, SOS, Cleve-
lands plurality, G,5l2
WIsCoNsIN's total vote was as follows:
Blaine, l6l, IA; Cleveland, 14G, 454; st. John,
7,Gi0; Butler, 1891; Blaines plurality, II, G93.
DAVID l.. PAYNE, the famous leader of the
Oklahoma Boomers, who is known through
out the land as oklahoma Payne died sud
denly while eating breakfast at a hotel in
Wellington, Kansas.
AT a Democratic jubilee in Atlanta. Ga
five States-Georgia, Tennessee, North and
South Carolina and Alabama-were repre-
sented inthe torchhght parade Special trains
carried thousands of people to Atlanta, and
at the head of the procession were Governor
Mcdaniel Senators Brown and Colquitt, and
the special guest of the occa, iOn, Hon. Samuel
j. Randall, who delivered an address
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THE POSTAL SERVICE.
Annual Receipts and Expendi-
lures Of the POStOffice.
Facts and Figures About the Deliv-
cry Of the Mails.

A d. Hazen, third assistant postmaster
general, in his annual report TO the postmas-
ter-general, estimates the expenditures for
the service of his office for the next fiscal
year at Sl,33S, 400, an increase of S140,-
900 over the appropriation for the cur
rent fiscal year He says the receipts
of the entire postal service for the fiscal year
ended June so, 1884, were S43, 33s, 127; dis
bursements $40, 404, go, making an excess OF
expenditures of 5000, 1888 In addition to
the total expenditures, the sum of Ss19, 90
was paid on account of Indebtedness incurred
In previous years. The outstanding liabli-
ties for the year are estimated at SSI7,4Il,
which sum, added to the amount &C
tually expended, and S1,200119 credited &c
the Pacific railroad companies would make
the total cost of the service for the fiscal year
S4S,542,6ll or 50, 204, 4S4 in excess of the re
ceipts.
The decrease in receipts from the previous
fiscal year was S2,1T05G5, and was caused
mainly by the reduction of the letter rate Of
postage which went into effect October l,
1883 The appropriations for the service of
the year aggregate SAG, 746, OBJ
The total number of postage stamps,
stamped envelopes and postal cards issued
during the year was 9 166, 100 1855, with a
total value of Sal, 515,S77 The decrease in
the value of issues of ordinary postage
stamps amounted to 81 ,229, 1876. The total
decrease in the value of all issues, including
postal cards, stamped envelopes, postage due
stamps, and wrappers, amounted to 81 ,394,
442.
The weight of seconl-class matter during
the year, not including free circulation within
the county of publication was 94419,GO7
pounds, the postage on which was 81, $50, SOP,
an increase of slS4, 414 over the previous year.
The New York city poStofiice handled the
greatest weight the amount being %, so, isl
pounds.
The whole number o. pieces of undalivcrcl
mail matter received in the dead letter office,
including S,GiS pieces on hand, was 4,S43,-
099 OF this number 3l4. Tl9 were misdirected.
There were destroyed =, j39, Az letters and
l1,513 parcels of fruit, cake etc Among the
letters opened 1902 contained money, and
1904 drafts OF letters sent to foreign cOun-
tries 21O, 436 were returned as unbelievable
The total number Of letters and parcels
registered during the year was 2iG, j45, and
the amount of registry fees collected was
s9ji ,O59, an increase of $4,000. The loss Of
registered letters during the year amounted
10 one out of every 81, 79j pieces mailed. This
is the smallest average of loss which has DC
Cured since the organization Of the registry
system.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-12-05
LATER NEWS

MAJOR GENERAL GERsHoM Mort, of Bor
dentown, y. j., was walking up Cortland
street, New York. when he suddenly fel
back and expired of heart disease AT the
time of his death General Mott was in com
mand of the New Jersey militia. He wa
born at Trenton in 1922, served in the Mexi
can war, took prominent part in the civil
war and in 1915 was appointed State treasurer
of New Jersey to fill vacancy.
Mr.. FRANK SAUNDERS, an inventor and
manufacturer was 50 much affected by the
sudden death Of his wife while on visit in
Brooklyn that he killed himself at her side
a WOMAN and her twelve-year old daugh
ter, while walking home from relatives
funeral at Oconto, Wis, lost their way i'll a
swamp and were frozen to death.
Hon. L. W. WILSON, elected governor Of
West Virginia at the recent election, has
been St rived with notice of contest by the
Prohibition candidate for governor.
JOHN JoNDRo, alleged to be l21 years old
died the other day at Arkansaw, Wis.
IT is stated that the bills for the admission
of Dakota and Washington Territories as
States will undoubtedly be pressed by the
Senators who have them in charge.
a UNITED STATES consul has forwarded
from Brazil to the state department samples
of Il drug which is said to be cure for cancer.
ONE member of the Senate Senator An.
thony, of Rhode Island) and two members of
the House died during the recess, and two
members of the House resigned.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has presented through
Minister Lowell the gold watch and chain
bestowed by the American Congress upon the
British captain who rescued the crew of the
American ship Rainier, which was lost off
Marshall islands, in Micronesia, in January
last.
TIE boiler of a French man of-war lying
off the coast of Formosa burst, killing thir-
ecnporsonS.
Two monster meetings of natives were
held in Bombay, at which resolutions were
adopted to present an address to the Marquis
of Ripon the retiring governor general of
India, and 900 rupees 100000 were sub
scribed on the spot to found an industrial in
stitution as a memorial to the marquis.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-12-05
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

THE Standard Oil company employs 90, 900
men.
The value of this years crops in Kansas is
put at Sl50,O0J,00O.
AN international inventions exhibition will
be held in London next May.
THE fruit crop of this country, according
to Marshall L. Wilder, of New York, is worth
100000 year.
THE British national debt has been reduced
about S3O,OOOOC0a year since 1880, and is
now $3.50 600.
The experiment of teaching sewing in the
girls departments of the Philadelphia public
schools is being triel.
THE total cranberry crop of 1884 is esti-
mated at $4,000 bushels, which is about TO-
900 bushels less than the yield of 1885
A FACTORY at Stockton, Cal, is engaged in
making coffee from chcory. 1t is raised near
there The crop brings at the rate of $50 an
acre.
TIE first lord of the admiralty of England,
Lord Northbrook, urges the necessity for an
addition to the English navy Of 80 torpedo
boats.
A NINE-ToY lump of COAL claimed as the
largest ever mined, will represent the coal in
terests OF birmingham, Ala, at the New. Or
leans exhibition.
WHALE sixty feet long and six feet across
the tail was found ON the shore of the Mos
quito river at st George, Me-, recently. 1t
had drifted ashore.
THE crop of peanuts in the United States
in 1851 amounted to 100000 bushels nearly
one-half of which We're grown in Virginia
They net the raiser Sl.75 Der bushel.
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A TERRIBLE PLAGUE.
Bal Water Causes Hundreds OF
Deaths in virgin n and Kentucky.

The Louisville COurjer-,JoulwdL recently
sont a staff CORRESPONDENT t. investigate the
reported ravages of a dread disease in
Eastern Kentucky and Western Virginia.
The correspondent sends the following from
Williamsburg, KY.
w. {. Lester, a prominent attorney of this
place, has just arrived from Mount Pleasant,
the county seat of Harlan where he has been
for two weeks past at the court as acting
prosecuting attorney. Mr.. Lester has infor-
nation of the prevailing plague, principally
from Harlan, Letcher. Perry, Leslie and
Bell counties. He says that in Harlan
it appears worst. 1t is most fatal and pre-
walls to the greatest extent about the head
waters of the Fork and Clover creek, in the
mountains, about twenty-five miles from
Mount Pleasant. This large territory is be-
ing terribly afflicted, the people dying very
rapidly.
In one neighborhood twelve persons died
in single day in the latter part of last
week. and there We're scarcely well people
enough to make them collins and bury them.
On Browns Creek, which rises in Harlan and
empties into the Cumberland river in Bell
county. the disease is raging with friShtful
fatality, and there is no means of keeping
a record of the dead All along the banks OF
the str, am people are sick, and physicians and
medicines, outside of herbs and roots with
whose curative properties the natives are ac-
quainted are unknown and unattanable. The
epidemic is rapidly spreading in Harlan
county. In the district covering
the southern portion OF Lctcher and
Perry, the whole of Leslie, and the northeast
portion of Bell County the plague has OBJ
Iained foothold but the reports rs to its
virulence are very conflicting. Mr.. Lester
thinks that the d, aths run up into the hun
dreds while the number of those attacked
cannot be estimated The disease does not
prevail at Mount Pleasant.
Mr.. Lester further says that no one seemed
to know the exact nature of the pestilence
Most of the people called it "huX,' and it is
probably a very aggravated form of that
disease. 1t begins with gripping pains in
The stomach, followed by a facilitating
diarrhpa and swelling of the throat and il
not fatal in three or four days the patient,
as a rule RECEIVERS. All reports agree as to
the cause of the epidemic, it being attributed
TO the use of impure water by the natives,
The season has been unusually dry, the
streams, as rule consisting only 'of
narrow threads of murky, foul smell
ing and foul tasting water. The
corn crop III all the counties named
above is good and starvation and want only
exist because the people can spare no time
from the sick to gather it, No mills are run
ming ON the smaller streams. Ny informant
had no news, except in a general way, of the
plague in Virginia ana West Virginia.
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Washington.

THE Central Democratic committee of the
District of Columbia has received a letter
from Senator Barnum saving that a commit
tee had been appointed from the National
Democratic committee to take charge of the
ceremonies at the Inauguration Of Governor
Cleveland.
THE annual report of Surgeon General
Gunnell has been submitted t. the secretary
Of the navy. The ratio of mortality in the
navy for the year 1883 was 4.55 per thousand
of force, very slight increase over previous
years The estimates for the ensuing fiscal
year amount to $225, go. There We're IN the
Hospital for the Insane at Washington,
sixtytwo dividuals-ofiicers and men of
tie navy--at the end of the year. The eX-
penditures from the naval hospital fund
amounted to Sl0j,21l, leaving balance on
hand of $S9,G.3
THE House committee on appropriations
met at the capital to map out their work for
the session. Chairman Randall and Messrs.
Ellis Townshend, Follett, and Ryan were
present, and Messrs. Keifer, Holman, and
Forney Were represented by others, The esti-
mates for six of the annual bills, namely, the
postoiiice Indian, consular and diplomatic,
army, navy and military academy bills, were
placed in the hands of subcommittee.
ACCORDING to the annual report of the
comptroller of the currency. it appears that
during the year ended November /, 1854, l9l
banks have been organized, with an aggre-
gate capital of SlG, Ol2 2JJ, and that circu
lating notes have been issued to these new as
sociatiOns amounting to 81, SCI, 30. Eleven
national banks failed during the year, al
though more than one hundred bankers and
banks other than national failed during the
same period
THE annual report on the Life Saving Sc T.
vice shows that the disasters to vessels within
the field of station operations for the last
year have amounted to 81. On these vessels
were 1888 persons, of whom 4,9}7 Were
saved, and only sixteen lost The number of
shipwrecked persons succOred was 532, to
whom ! ,3l9 days relief were afforded The
estimated value Of the vessels involved in
these disasters was $500, $40, and that OF
their cargoes s},454, $50 making the total
value of the property imperilled SO, $50, OPS.
OF this amount 5000. l34 was saved, and
81 ,439, S9l lost The number of vessels to-
tally lost was sixty-four. There We're 1Ol
casualties TO smaller crafts, such as sailhoats
lowDUats, etc, ON which Were 10 persons,
40 Of whom were saved and four lost.
THE net revenue of the Federal government
tor The last fiscal year was S;i4S, 5l9, 500 being
SO, 1G7, II less than the previous year The
net expenditures were S244, l26, PA a decrease
Of $2l PSI 1913 over 1888.
An oyerhauling of the capitol building has
taken place during the congressional recess.
Various improvements have been made among
the most important of these being the placing
of electric bells i'll every committee room in
the Senate wing with which to summon Sen
ators to the chamber.
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A NEW CREMATORY.
4 Fine Bu;iding ut Lancaster. Penn,
for the Burning OF the Dead.

A new crematory was opened q few after.
moons ago at Lancaster, Penn. The first body
incincerated was that of a deceased lady
from Jersey City. The dedication was
interesting. First Prayer was offered
Methodist church. The building was
delivered to the society by DR.. NJ, L. Davis,
chairman of the building committee, who
discussed the subject of cremation from q
sanitary standpoint. An address followed by
Rev j. Max Hank, pastor of the Mora
Wan church, and one of the vice-president, OF
the society, who treated the subject from the
theological standpoint.
The building is a small Gothic structure
forty-ei9ht by thirty feet IN dim snsions, sit
uated in the midst OF plot of ground over
an acre in extent, which will be laid out in
walks and otherwise boautitie1. Ihe crema,
forum is divided into four apartments, tho
LARGEST of which is the auditorium, into which
the retoris open. The furnaces and retorts
are erected in the middle of the build
ing. On either side is small reception room
one to he ed for the preparation of the
hudies for in-ineration and the other as a
toilet room for the accommodation of guests,
The remaining apartment, the furnace
ROOM is in the rear part of the building. 1t
has capacity for two retorts, but at present
tnefe Is only one Ill POSITION, altnOugn lno
other has been ordered and is now in process
of manufacture. The retort now in position
is said to be the largest in the world 1t is
nine feet long, thrty-six inches broad, and
twenty four inches high at the center. 1t is
constructed of fire brick three and a half
inches thick. The retort at the Lemoyne
crematory is constructed of fire clay, AMI is
seven feet long, seventeen inches high and
twenty-six inches broad. 1t rests above the
furnace on shield tiles two and half inches
in thickness.
The system of heating differs materially in
its operation from any other plan. The fur
mace is without the usual smokestack, suili-
cient draft being obtained by an arrange
ment of flues, of which there are six on either
side of the furnace. Two pipes which run
from the outside of the rear iiue, furnish the
necessary oxygen to ignite the gas The
llames pass three times around the retort be-
fore finally escaping, securing an even tenn.
perature in every part and insuring complete
and simultaneous incineration. In preparing
the fire a medium of anthracite coal and coke
in equal quantities has been found TO give the
greatest satisfaction, intense heat and consid
cradle quantities of gas being necessary re-
quisites Experiments with hard coal showed
that it was incapable Of generating the nee
cssary heat. 1t is calculated that about one
ton of the combination fuel will be required
for an ncineraton.
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

RIsTORI is said to have been addicted until
lately to snuff.
NINE. RIsToRIs daughter Blanca is good
amateur actress, and is over thirty years OF
age.
FRANK MAYO will retire from the stage
after this season and devote himself to play
writing
Miss GERTRUDE ELLIOTT has made novel
feature of Shakespeare in The Lights o
London"
Lolita has declared her irrevocable deter
mination to retire from the stage after the
present season.
NILE. NALDA, an American has scored
great hit at the Paris Italian opera in "Un
Ballo Maschers"
IT is said that Miss Cara Morris will, at
the close of her present season III this coun.
try, sail for London.
Miss GENEvIEvE WARD will remain in
Australia until next August, when she 10.
turns home by way of China and Japan
NINE RIsToRI has been playing in Chicago
The papers of that city give high praise to
her Elizabeth. 1t was compared to Irying's
Louis XI.
EMMA ABBOTT has ordered n solid gold
crown set with ten large solitai-es, to deco
rate her head when she appears in "Semi-
ramide.n
In Philadelphia theatre one night recent
~ lady in one of the boxes drew from her
finger a superb diamond ring and threw it to
Lolita, who was playing Musette.
JANIsCH is. said to speak English better
than any other foreign actress ON the stage,
aud yet she was only three months studying
this most difficult of all tongues after the
Russian
The German comedy adapted by Mr.. Au-
gustn DAILY for his theatre under the name of
THE Wooden Spoon hai also been adapted
by a Chicago man, and it is said Mir John 7.
Raymond will produce it.