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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-05
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

ABOUT 100000 pennies were coined in
the United States last year
THE manufacture of candy has reached
value of S32 600, 600 worth yearly.
AN animal half horse and half greyhound
is a curiosity of Mount Sterling, Ohio,
DAKOTA this year is counting on a crop of
wheat from 20, 000,0 600 to 30,0J0,O00 bushels
THE entire system of street cars throughout
the republic OF Mexico is owned by one man.
A GERMAN company with a capital of
$40OO0O is about to engage in the Angora
goat business in Texas.
ABOUT POO fruit cars are necessary for the
transportation of California products of
orchard and vineyard to Eastern cities.
APPLES suitable for shipping to Europe are
likely to bring good prices this 5 ason owing to
an unusually short crop across the water.
IT has been discovered that the monkey
wrench was named after its inventor, John
Monkey, and thus another question of vital
Importance is settled.
The electric light is said to be fiat failure
in London, where S25,OOJ,OJO has been in.
vested by siXty-two companies, all founded
in 1882. The promoters got S4,OOOOO0.
AMERICAN corn will be welcomed in Italy
this year, since the crops have suffered from
cold and unseas, nable weather. Both the
wheat and vines have suffered severely.
In Kansas alone the wheat crop is estimated
at 40, 600 900 bushels, enough if sold at seventy
five cents per buShel to give thirty dollars to
every man, woman and child i'll the state.
THE various State boards of health are
issuing circulars giving instructions for the
prevention of cholera, which are distributed
to all applicants All the leading citles are
taking sanitary precautions.
POSTAL notes contain much arsenic in the
coloring matter, and care must he exercised
not to touch the lips or eyes after using them,
or to handle them when the hands are in a
perspiration. Government is disseminating
ham
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-05
The LOquat.

The loquat is a fruit about the color
of an apricot. one and half inches in
length and one inch in diameter. The
seeds are small and the flavor like that
of a cherry, delicate, subacid and good.
\ gentleman near New Orleans. who has
trees twenty feet in height on his farm,
declares that for eating fresh, for sauce
and for pies the loquat has no superior.
The fruit does not easily pull from the
stem, and in order to ship a long dis
lance, the stem must be cut 50 as 10
avoid breaking the pulp. The loquat is
gown from seeds with tie greatest case,
also from cuttings and layers. In form
it is globular and one and one-fouuh
inches in diameter. 1t begins to ripen
in April and continues until the first
week in July.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-05

1t is singular fact that nearly all our
national airs are composed, arranged and
put before the public by actors " Star
Spangled Banner" words by Key, ar
ranged to music by Ferdinand Durang,
an actor; Home, Sweet Home" words
by John Howard Payne, an actor, music
arranged by Sir Henry Bishop; Dixie, "
words and music by Dan Emmett, ne
gro minstrel; Hail Columbia" words
by Hopkins, music and first sung by Fox,
an actor; 1.-THE Bonnie Blue Flag"
words and music by Harry Mccarthy, an
actor; "The Suwanee River" words and
music by Foster, first sung by f. p.
Christy, negro minstrel; "Hunters Of
Kentucky" words by Woodwork, first
sung by N. NJ. Dudlow, an actor.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-05
THE NATIONAL GAME.

O'RoUKE, of Buffalo, leads the league in
batting
IT is stated that the Boston management
are $50 GOO ahead
THERE were thirty-seven home runs in the
Chicago series.
KANSAS CITY has the fever, and large
crowds attend the Union games, even China
men turning out to see the national sport.
The Columbus club has a mute pitcher
named Dundon He was recently fined ten
dollars for showing his contempt for an UNI
pise by signs.
The finest game ever played at Newark, y.
j., was that recently between the Domestic
and lrOnsides clubs, the latter winning. after
fifteen innings hal been played, by too.
THERE was not one double figure score in
the Providence Boston series-an unprece-
denied record. The scores are well worth a
second glance: Boston victories %, 81,
Al, 40, IL, b, Is; Providence vic
tories 2-l, 4-3, 20, &c, 5-4, 10, 81,
90, 10
THE attendance at the Boston Providence
games seventeen, including a tie game was
1888, There were nine games in Provi-
denCe, attended by Il, sos, and eight in Bos-
ton, attended by 39,5S5. Tine Boston's share
of the receipts was sufficient to pay the sala-
ries of all the players and attaches for the
season.
AT Syracuse, n. V, while mines
selected from the Herald and Stan
/ ddrd were contesting game of
ball, Charles H. Hawkins, pitcher for the
Herdld men, broke his right arm just above
/ the elbow while in the act of de ivering the
ball. Three years ago there was but one such
accident on record. Now there are four.
O'DoNYELL, the pitcher of the Youngstown
| o. club, recently showed what may be done
/ by making a bail curve on it, way fl ON
pitcher to catcher. He set up three poles in
straight line One of the end poles was ten
feet and the other was eighteen feet from the
middle pole ODonnell stood SO that his
hand in delivering the ball was close to the
pole which was the furthe,t away from the
middle one and he repeatedly pitche the ball
so that it passed to the right of the middle pole
and to the left of the pole beyond before it
reached the catcher's hands.
At the end OF the eighteenth week the II '-
ord of the League clubs in the championship
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-05
South and West.

MEMORIAL services were he'd throughout
Utah in honor of the Mormon elders recently
murdered in Tennessee.
GEORGE JONES (colored) was hanged at
Dawson, Ga, for assaulting white woman.
The presence of State troops with two cannon
prevented anticipated trouble
THE Anti Monopoly Greenback- Labor par
ty of Illinois met in convention at Blooming
ton delegates being present from most of the
counties of the State The indianapolis
National platform was Endorsed and
a resolution was passed favoring fusion with
either of the leading parties, as the State
committee should deem best, upon the basis
of half the electoral ticket for Butler and
West. A State ticket was nominated headed
by Jesse Harper for governor
THE First National bank, of Xenia Ohio,
has suspended. Its cashier speculate1 in
grain and left for the West owing SO, 900 tc
the bank.
AT the Nebraska Republican State conven.
ton in Omaha Governor Dawes was re
nominated by reclamation and the national
ticket was indorsed
THE First National bank of jamestown,
Dakota, has failed.
THE Adrian Mich. Savings bank has sus'
/ pended.
THIRTY-TwO negroes were taken seriously
/ sick on a plantation near Eufaula. Ala. from
eating of pig that had been bitten by mad
/ dog. All the sick men had symptoms of hy-
drophobia.
Two THOUSAND Piegan Indians are dying
from starvation in Montana owing to an in
sufiiciency of rations.
SEVERAL persons We're killed and great
damage was done to property 10y tornadoes
in Dakota, Illinois, Kentucky and Indiana.
A TRANSFER steamer was upset during q
hurricane on the Ohio near Evansville, Ind,
and from ten to fifteen persons were drowned
FIVE colored men were hanged the other
day. as follows: John McKesey, at Selma
Ala. for numbering his wife; Scip Holley
at Tuscaloosa, Ala, for numbering his EN-
ployer, young planter; Berry johnson, at
Shreveport, La, for wife murder; Josh Der
ryman at Natchitoches La, for the murde
of another coored man, and Willie Williams
at Franklin, La, for murder.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-05

Beside the cases embraced in the foregoing
table there are about five thousand entries on
which action has been suspended until an ex-
animation can he made by special agents
These entries will average about one hundred
and fifty acres of land each. Acting Com
missioner Harrison says that no doubt there
are thousands of other fraudulent entries, but
that the office can only investigate those
which are brought to its attention by settlers
and others.
Entire counties are reported as being fenced
in Kansas. In Wyoming more than one nun
bred large cattle companies are reported as
having fencing on the public lands. some of
these companies are reported to be English
and others Scotch.
Referring to the practice of large compa-
MES making fraudulent entries on lands ile-
galy fenced, Ma ior Mckenzie, of the Land
office. said These entries are made along
the streams that run through the land. Cat
tie men will employ men to herd their stock
and then will give fifty to hundred dollars
to each one to make an entry for lGO acres.
When he has secured his patent it is under
stool that he must transfer 1t TO the party
who advanced the money. Many of the cat
tie dealers will not employ men unless they
will agree to make the entries
"A common fraud in New Mexico, Arizona,
California. Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Utah
and Nevada is practiced by means of the
Desert Land Act. That act provides that in
selecting $40 acres of desert land twenty five
cents per acre shall be paid down, and that
persons entering the land shall be allowed
three years in which to pay the remainder.
Instead of taking desert lands the practice is
to take the very best land. Parties hold il
and get the use of it for three years for COM
parativey nothing, and then they continue
to get the use of it while it is in dispute.
Complaints from settlers come from nearly
all the Western States and Territories.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-05
NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle states.

THE late William L. Schafrer, a Philadel-
pha bachelor, for over fifty years bank
cashier, has left in the following remarkably
brief will an estate valued at more than ST.
600, COO: 'T do hereby give and bequeath to
my sister, Elizabeth Schaffer. all my real and
personal property of whatever description.
Much damage has been done to crops in
various sections of New England and the
Middle States by heavy frosts
INVESTIGATION of the vaults of the sus-
pended First National bank at Albion, n. Y,
shows that Warner, the absconding presi-
dent, had made a clean sweep, leaving moth
ing of value.
COUNTERFEIT silver dollars of unusually
fine execution have been circulated in New
England.
ALL the prominent railroads are at war,
and the New York papers say there is hardly
a road of importance between the Atlantic
and Pacific coasts that has not cut both its
passenger and freight charges below schedule
rates.
SAMUEL ROBERTS, for years the contiden-
tial clerk of Charles Parrish a coal operator
at Wilkesbarre, Penn, confessed to being a
defaulter in the sum of $4,000. Roberts,
who was man of prominence in social and
religious circles at Wilkesbarre, made an as
signment in favor of his employer
AN immmense crowd witnessed the attempt
of Jay -Eye-See to beat the best time ON rec
ground Brooklyn The horse failed in his
attempt, however, being unable to trot better
than 2:121&, and Maud $. still remains mon
arch of the trotting turf.
THE political campaign in New York has
opened by a meeting of Irish Americans ia
vorabe to the Democratic ticket. Mrs. Par
nell, mother of the land league leader, was
present, and speeches were delivered by United
States Senator JONES' of Florida, Congress
man Collins, of Massachusetts, and others.
ONE-IIALF the business part of Adams, N.
Y, has been demolished by fire. Fifteen
business places and many law and other of
fees were burned out. The total loss is esti
mated at 100000.
PoMPEY GRAHAM, colored resident OF
Montgomery, n. Y, died few days since al
the alleged age of 1l9 years
YELLOW FEVER has appeared in New York
an unknown man dying OF this dread disease il
one of the hospitals,
/ GOVERNOR WALLER, Of Connecticut, ha!
written a letter declining a denomination.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-05
Washington.

A CALL for SIC, 900 900 of bonds of the
three per cent. loans of 1852 has been issued
by the treasury department The principal
and accrued interest will be paid at the treas
ury September 80.
PROPOSITIONS relative to low rates for gov
eminent telegraph service have been pre-
sented by the united telegraph lines to the
acknowledgement in view of the plans for
the establishment of n postal telegraph sys-
tenn. The Western Unions statement that
government received the benefit Of its lowest
rates was disproved.
THE ostmastergeneral has appointed Judge
w. T. Otto and j. 5. Crawford, superinten-
dent of foreign mails, to represent the United
States at the Quinquennial international
Postal congress, which Will soon assem-
bic at Lisbon, Portugal The rep
resentativcs are endowed with author
ity to conclude and sign such modified postal
union conventions or treaties as may be
agreed to by them, subject to the approval
of the postmastergeneral with the advice
and consent of the President of the United
States.
The United States consul at MarSeilles re-
ports to the state department that a pitiable
condition of affairs exists there owing to the
ravages of cholera, and appeals for aid from
this country. He says that mo description
can picture the wretchedness and restitution
that already exist"
THE secretary of the interior has appointed
sixty-two special examiners for the pension
Office at an annual salary of 81 600 each.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-05

The record of the twelve American .AsSocl
4tion clubs at the end OF the eighteenth week
was as follows;
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-11-13
Legislative Notes.

Mr.. Henry, of Chester, wants all
towns having more than 1900 inhabi-
tants, and grand list of over $40, 900,
not already supporting graded or cen.
trial school, to establish central HIGH
school of not less than three depart.
ments.
Judivine is on hand with highway
bills.
Conland, Of Brattleboro, has intro
duced a licencc bill,
Cudworth wants the grand list, of
Londonderry, 1881, lcgalized,
The noXious animal bounty bill !
passed the house. According to
wisdom of this body foxes, hcdgcho
and woodchucks are worth one dol
twenty five and ten cents.
The joint assembly for the elect
OF Supreme Court judges adjour
without effccting that objcct.-Wait
to sec if they cannot pass bill reduC
their number.
Last Thursday evening, the rail-
committee held public hearing
DR.. Holton's railroad bill. Ext ..
crnor j. Gregory was on hand to
pose it.
The Forestry Commission have made
their report, worth half cent pei
pound at the present price of paper
fhe Oleomargariners, or
antics are still sendingin theil
a large number of private ..
been introduced.
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The result of Democratic victory,
If so be they have one, has THUS early
brought; forth fruits in the shape of
drunkenness riot and disorder, all of
which must be very gratifying to the
highly moral Independent and the saint
ly St. Johnite. For the past week, in
nearly all northern cities and large pla-
ees rum and disorder have held full
sway and decent citizens been subject
to insult. In Boston one Of the Jour-
nal Office plate glass doors was boken,
by the mob, because the Journal per-
sisted in proclaiming Blaine's election.
And in New York the Tribune was
obliged to take in their bullitin board
and flags, and then, to add insult to in
jury if it were possible for such fiends
to do 50, telegraphed that the Tribune
had taken in its flags and given up the
election. Even in Brattlcboro, as our
correspondent i'll that place informed
us last week and as we further learn
by the Phoenix, set of drunken "dem-
ocratic hoodlums' took possession OF
the town hall, where the citizens, OF
both parties had met to receive the
election returns, and by their outra
geous and insulting conduct drove the
more decent and respectable persons t.
their homes.
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more sonseless movement than this was
never known in American politics. 1t
is fanaticism gone to seed, rank stupid
ity that seeks to clothe itself in the guise
of high morality. And, as is generally
the case with campaigns inspired and
engineered by folly, this will have the
worst possible influence upon the cause
that il was ostensibly designed to aid.
Republicans respect honest Democrats,
but they will not be disposed to take to
their bosoms either the men or the cause
that has delivered the country over to
the enemy. Very many of those in
this State who voted the st. John tick
OF doubtless did so out Of dislike for the
other candidates, and, had they lived in
doubtful States, would have acted other
wise, So far as this State is concerned
the vote amounted to nothing except,
perhaps to create prejudice agains pro-
hibition. But in Connecticut, New
York and elsewhere the indications are
that the Prohibitionists gave the cleo
ton to the Democrats. We are not quar-
reling with the new party's main prin-
ciple, but with the method they take to
carry on their reform. The chief object
of the party is to place a prohibitory a.
mendment in the constitution of the
United States. To do that, if it indeed
within the range of possibilities at all,
will require years of agitation. In the
meanwhile the rum element will contin-
lie to exist and to work. If it is not
kept under subsection, very serious
harm may be done before the desired
amencment of the constitution is affect
ed. Wise leaders, it seems to us, would
have sought to gain their ends through
the party that is most in sympathy with
them, that is, the Republican. In that
way the control of affairs would have
been in the keeping of their friends
pending the adoption of the ideas they
advocate. Next to having the govern
ment themselves, the best thing would
be to have it in the control of friends.
Then they could work, and be assured
that they were not losing more ground
than they made, Such, we believe, would
be the course of wisdom. But they do
nothing Of the sort. Instead, at the out
set, the country is put at the mercy of
that party which is, in its traditions,
professions and practices, directly OPP
posed to prohibitory doctrines. They
have sold the whole nation out to the OPP
position, and have not even mess of
pottage to show for it.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-11-13
TWinkk2s.

The latest crazo is the collection of
tobacco bags.
Josh Billings is six feet six inches tall
if he stood straight.
Count Bismark abhors steel pen and
uses a goose quill
There are 500 pieces in the $4,000
set of china used in tbs White House.
The area of public land disposed of
in Dakota last year was larger than Ell
Their Belgium, Denmark, Greece or
Switzerland.
England and Germany each make
900,O00,000 gallons of beer every year
and the United States 600,000,000.
Report says that the bones of $4,000
buffaloes have been SHIPPED from Dakota
to the East this season.
Among the stupendeous hogs within
its walls, Chicago boasts of one weigh
ing l 400 pounds.
Geo. w. Childs, of philadelphia, is
collecting money for tie restoration of
the church at Standardization, Eng
land, the birth place and the burial place
of Shakespeare.
DR.. Geo. E. Rives, Democratic can
didate for Congress in the fourth Vir-
ginia district, suffered a double defeat
on election day. He died in the NOR
ming and was beaten at the polls in the
evening.
Conductor Albright runs train from
Cincinnati to Washington, Ohio. short
ly after leaving the city, about week
ago, atall, sickly looking man approach
ed him and said: "Please wax
when we get to Glen Station
bright promised to, but when G
ton was reached he was busy al
got to wake the fellow. When
five miles on the other side of the S
Albright remembered the promis
after INDUCING i'll a little very emf 40
English, backed the train to Glen sta
ton, and walking into the coach where
the man was sleeping, said; "Here we
are at Glen station He got up, rub
bed his eyes, and answered; ~ am
very much obliged to you. | wanted to
know when | got here, so | could take
my medicine"
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Mr., G, W. Patoo of Burlington died

Mr.. c, w. Patee of Burlington died
suddenly on Friday, at Mr., L. S. Drow's
farm near that place. lie had been do
ing some work about the place aadwas
found in sheep-pen, dead, His age
was Ga.
The dwelling house and barn in Cab
OF owned by George W, Osgood We're
burned on Monday night, Nov. 3. Part
of household furniture was saved. Loss
5000; insured in the Vermont Mutual
for $500.
Some of the teachers in the public
schools of St. Jomsbury, VT, have
been notified by the school committee
that attendance at the skating rink will
be considered equivalent to aresignation.
They may teach the young idea how
to shoot, but they must not show them
how to skate.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-11-13
THU ELECTION!
Cleveland probably
the man!
Let those who can, rejoice.
We pon't feel like Ii.
Let those who can, rejoice.
We pon't feel like II.

For the past week the Republican
National Committee have been assuring
the people of the election of Blaine and
Logan, basing this upon the, assumed
fact that the electoral vote of New
York would be given these candidates.
The canvass Of the vote of that State,
by counties, began Tuesday, and up to
noon to-day nothing has been developed
to materially change the Democratic
figures, giving the State to Cleveland
by small plurality. However unpala-
table this NAV be to us and the majority
Of our readers, we see no reason to
doubt its truth, and believe that we
have been duped by all inefficient or kna-
wish committee. Possibly we judge them
severely, we hope SO. Time will tell.
1t is understood that the special COM
mittee OH the Bennington county case
will present two reports, majority re-
port fayoring James l.. Mccall of Ru-
pert and minority report favoring
John Robinson Of Bennington.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-11-13

The supreme court Of Ohio has pro-
nounced the Scott liquor law unconsti-
tutional, one effect of which is to en-
bnrrass most of the cities of the state fl
nancially, the taxes for the year having
been levied under the impression that
the law was constitutional and would
bring into the treasures of the counties
and cities stipulated amount of mon
ey. In consequence many of the cities
are already two or three months behind
in the payment of salaries. How to
obtain relief il difficult problem, the
legislature not being in session TO grant
authority to raise money.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-11-13
GANTHIS BE SOP

The Boston Star, of last Monday,
says: CAT the Prohibitory headquarters
matters were quiet, yet the few tina,
occupied the chairs looked happy and
smiled serenely."
Can it be possible that temperance
party, working for National prohibi.
tory amendment, are smiling "serenely'
over the supposed election Of Grover
Cleveland? If so, then we lose faith
In portion of humanity, and set them
down as arrant hypocrites or the silliest
blOckheads.
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NEWSY STATE NOTES AND
CLIPPINGS.

To Middlebury belongs the doubtful
honor Of having east the oulyvote Belva
Lockwood had in Vermont.
G.. A. Wilson of Tyson Furnace has
an apple-tree that on October 10th was
bearing ripe apples and blossoms at the
same time.
The Lyndon Union says that Shelf.
field Republican on election day debois.
en- an insurance receipt for 1872. in.
stead of Blaine ballot.
Daniel Gibson of Tyson Furnace was
brought before Justice Wilder at Plym
outh Union, Oct. "a, and fined one cent
and costs for giving one of bis neigh
bors, who was stoning his horse, adam
ming.