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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-01-18
The First Umbrella.

The umbrella was seen in the streets
of Glasgow by DIR. Jameson in 1882,
on his return from Paris. When he
commenced unfurling it crowds OF
people followed him in amazement at
the spectacle. About 1889 an attempt
was made to manufacture umbrellas
by Mr.. John Gardner, father of the
present Mr.. Gardner, optician, Buchan.
nan street. "SeneX' had in his hands
the first umbrella that ever was made
in Glasgow. 1t was, indeed, a very
clumsy article. The cloth was heavy
oil or wax glazed, lined, and the ribs
were formed of Indian cane, such as
shortly before this time, ladies were &C,
customed to use as hoops to extend
their petticoats. The handle was mas.
sy and strong, and altogether it was
load to carry.-Sc0tttSh american.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-01-18
NEWSY NOTES,

FLORIDA Strawberries are held at s. a quart
in New York.
The output Of silver at Leadville, Col, the
past year was SIS 600.
THE free scho lis of Texas have q fund of
S3,2S 900 and 33, O0O0OO acres of land.
COLORADO ranchmen own nearly 1000 900
sheep and half as many head of cattle
THE New York elevated railroads carried
more than $1,000, 900 passengers in 1888.
TWENTY young ladies belonging to one
Philadelphia church have been married this
winter
The Florida sponge crop now amounts to
about one hundred and sixty thousand dol
lars year
1T is estimated that gold and silver was
mined in 1882 about as in 1853. when S:}2,-
800 900 gold and $40, 500, 900 silver were taken
from the earth.
THE copper product of 1883 was 10000
600 pounds, against 81 900, 600 pounds in SS2,
but the value was only $1,000 900 against
$4,000, 900 last year.
THE official report of the committee APP
pointed to investigate the earthquake on the
island of Ischia fixes the number of persons
killed at 2,3l3. and of the seriously wounded
at 762.
A TALC mine has been discovered at san
Antonio, Lower California. This substance
of which the ordinary soapStone is va
riety, is used in giving a finish to wall and
other fancy paper, and has hitherto been i'm
portei from China.
A HILARIOUS statistician Of Cincinnati
finds that in 1888 the telegraph reported to
the papers 727 suicides in the United States
of which 2l5 were for melancholy, seventy
two for domestic infelicity, sixtyfour for
disappointed love, lSS for insanity and forty
six for ill health
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-01-18
INFECTED CATTLE.
Report of the COmmissiOn-Its Rec.
concentrations.

Judge French, assistant secretary Of the
Ieasury, has transmitted to the House the
report of the cattle commission. The COM
mission recommends that the national gov
eminent shall prevent the shipment north
ward out of the area infected with Texas
fever of all cattle whatever. excepting from
the beginning of November to the begin.
ming of March, Attention is invited by
the assistant secretary to the recon-
mendation of the commission, that the
secretary of the treasury shall be EN-
powered to order the slaughter and
safe disposal of all imported herds that may
he found to be infected on arrival in the
United States, or that may develop a dan
gerous contagious disease during a quaran-
tine; that he be also empowered to have all
ruminants other than cattle and all swine
imported into the United States sub jected to
inspection by veterinary surgeons, and, if
necessary to prevent the spread of contagious
disease, slaughtered or submitted TO quaran-
tine until they shall be considered disin-
fected; aud that an appropriation of 81 800
600 snail be made TO defray the expense of
preventing a further spread of the lung
plague among cattle in this country and of
stamping out the plague now existing.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-01-18
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

OCHILTREE.- Congressman Tom Ochiltree
is the first native Texan elected to Congress.
WILDE.-Oscar Wilde is TO marry Miss
Constance Lloyd, the daughter of an Eng
fish barrister, it is reported.
ARNOLD. - Matthew Arnold will return
from his Western lecturing tour in time TO
sail from New York for England, February
81
Ell MAHDI.-The False Prophet is tall,
and of a coppery red in color. He is forty
years old His battle-cry is no protection
for Christians, and no government taxes.
MCCRARY FIX Secretary McCrary has
resigned his circuit judgeshp to give his at
tention to the Atchison and Santa Fe Rail
road company mt the rate of S35,OOO year.
TAYLoR-Judg Ezra B. Taylor, who now
represents Garheld's old Congressional dis
trict, is tall, slender man, with a long,
sandy beard, cold gray eyes, and intellectual
features. He has the reputation of being a
good story-teller.
Core oRAN.-W. w. Corcoran, the Wash
ington philanthropist, on his eighty-tifth
birthday, received the decoration of the an
cient order of Melusne, founded in 11S6, by
Queen Sybille, wife of King Guy de Lusig-
nan, king of Jerusalem. 1t is essentially
benevolent and scientific order.
WELLER Congressman Weller, who rep
resents the Fourth district of Iowa, is one OF
the drolest chara cters in the House. he Is
universally known as Calamity Weller" on
account of the many defeats he has sustained
in his political career. He was born in Con-
necticut and went West in 1859, and located
in Iowa, where he titled the soil in the day
time and studied law, politics and religion at
night. He was elected as a Greenbacker.
GoRDoN.-General Charles Gordan, gen
orally known as "Chinese Gordon" was
only thirty. years old when placed in
command of a division of the Chinese
army. He always went unarmed in
battle, even when foremost in the breach,
directing his troops by waving little cane.
AS he was uniformly victorious in his en-
gagements, his Chinese soldiers considered
the cane TO be a magic wand which insured
his protection and their triumph.
KRUPP-Herr Krupp, the great German
gunmaker, whose works are said to have
turned out 10000 cannons is described as a
tall and rather steIn-looking man, with slop-
ing shoulders, long neck, and full white
beard He is delicate, nervous, and intellec-
tual, and looks like a clergyman. His only
son and heir, Fritz Krupp who will succeed
to an estate valued at S4O,0)0,O00, is an in
ventor of considerable ability, and is thor
oughly familiar with his fathers business.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-01-18
How Time. Tables are Made,

The american Tourist says that in
stead of timetables being changed with
pen and paper, as many suppose the
entire running arrangements of all
passenger and freight trains, their
crossing of other tracks or passage of
other trains, stops, and lost time are
calculated by simple, common pins and
spools of different colored threads. Be
fore timetable or schedule is pre-
pared, the time-chart is first perfected
10 prepare time-chart a large piece
OF drawing-paper is first stretched on
a smooth surface and mounted on an
easel The chart is ruled either for
two, five, or ten-minute time by hOri-
zontal lines and perpendicular cross
lines. The "time" is marked above
the horizontal line, and the distances,
or stations and terminals, down the
first perpendicular line. For illustra-
ton, II midnight is the mark on the
first horizontal line, and each hour is
marked until the twenty-fourth, or the
following midnight hour is reached
on the last horizontal line. Between
the hour lines the space is divided into
minutes and graduated as fine as de-
sired. On two-minute chart the
space between the hours is divided into
ten minutes time, and the ten minutes
time into two minutes time The
hour lines are made heavy and the
lesser lines are of a lighter shade to
distinguish them. The one terminus
OF the road-Milwaukee, for instance
is marked on the first line beside the
first time mark, II midnight. The
other stations follow down the perpen-
dlcular line until the other terminal is
reached. Then all is ready to prepare
Tor the running arrangement, provided
the pins and threads are ready. 4
blue thread means passenger train, a
red thread freight train, and if the
trains of other roads use part of the
track they are designated by differ
ent colOred thread. 1t is calculated
that the running time shall be, say,
twenty-five miles an hour, and for the
purpose of illustration the tracing of
one passenger train will answer the
purpose of explaining them all y
passenger train leaves Milwaukee at 3
a. m. The pin is placed on the hOric
zontal line at the s a. m. time-marl
and the end of the blue thread fastened
thereto. If the train runs without
stopping for fifty miles, the blue thread
is stretched over opposite to the sta
ton at which the stop is made, and
directly under the 10 Il. m. time-mark,
another pin is stuck and the blue
thread wrapped about it to keep it
taut. If this is stop say, of forty
minutes, the blue thread is stretched
to the 1910 a. m. mark on a direct
line with the same station, and another
gin stuck and the blue thread wrapped.
The train starts, and its entire course
is thus timed and distributed along
the road. If the railroad has, say,
forty or sixty passenger trains running
daily, the time-chart when it is COM
pleted, looks like great spiders web
stretched out with pins. But little
work then remains to transfer the
time and stations to the timetable,
and the schedule is ready for the prin-
ter,
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-01-18
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Murders, EEangings. Suicides, Rail-
road Disasters and Losses by Fire
i'm 1SS3.

According to revised statistics, the
whole number of murders committed in the
United States in 1SS3 was ,G91, against ,4G7
in 1882, and ,2G5 in 1881. The causes were as
follows: Liquor, 1876; jealousy, 2lS; self-de-
fence, 1G; quarrels, G@3; insanity,57 infanti-
eide, 80; Iatricide, Z; matricide, 3; fratri-
eide, 49, resisting arrest, Sc; killed by thieves
and highwaymen, 141 thieves and highway
men killed, SO; unknown, 1873; criminal out
rage, 6: duels, 3; by poison, "a.
One hundred and seven hangings occurred
in the United States last year, against l2l in
1889 and so in 1881. By States they were as
follows: Illinois, 3; District of Columbia l:
Pennsylvania, 3; Massachusetts,, /; New
York, &; Vermont, 1; New Jersey, 2; Mon
tana, 2; Ohio a; Indiana, 2; California, l;
Texas, z; Maryland, 3; Arkansas, 1G; New
Mexico, 2; Indian Territory, 2; Alabama 3;
Georgia, -; North Carolina, 5; South Caro-
lima, Z; Virginia, Z; Missouri, 2; Mississippi,
81 Florida, /; Louisiana, 8; Tennessee, 2;
Kentucky, 3. OF this number "a were whites,
81 colored all hanged in the South, Indian,
l Mexican and Chinaman.
There were 721 suicides in the United States
in 1888. of which the causes were: Melan.
choly, 215: unknown, 12S: business losses, IS;
liquor, &c; insanity, los; domestic infelicity,
u; ill-health, 4G; disappointed love, O..
Railroad disasters in the United States
reached the number of 775 in 1885, against
$50 in 1882, and ,0i0 in 1881. The whole
number injured were l,116, against / ,115 in
1852, and 527 in 1881.
Total losses by fire in the United States last
year We're: S4l ,5t4, $50 Following is the loss
by months January. $4,000: February,
S2,203, 900; March, g, 04s0O0; April, $2,0S0,-
600; May, S2,66l 600; June, S2,352, $50; July,
S3,901 200; August, S4,3G0, 900; September,
S2.600,O00; October, S3,570,0OO; November,
S136,OOo; December, 3,353, $50.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-01-18
FOURTEEN LIVES LOST.
ShipWreck of n Vessel on the New
Jersey Coast.

The bodies of Captain Thompson his wife,
and five of the crew of the bark Elmira we're
washed ashore on the barren reef which
stretches from Life Saving Station No. IS to
2l on the New Jersey coast The crew of
station % heard the bark's guns early in the
morning. A few moments later the vessel
struck the reef head on. Six or seven at
tempts were made to shoot a lifeline To the
sinking ship, but before the line could be
made fast the sea, which was running noun
tain high, threw the vessel broadside on the
beach.
1t was but a few moments work # the
breakers to crush her in Thousands of pieces,
and all on board-eleven seamen and the wife
and child OF the captain-were plainly yisi-
bic to the horror-stricken coast guardsmen
before the sea swallowed them Fragments
of the wreck were swept over the bar into
Egg Harbor Inlet and filtered the coast for
distance of fifteen miles.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-01-18
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.
had 1925 deaths last year,

INDIANA had IA ,925 deaths last year
IowA's new capitol cost over 100000.
CHURCH music is not difficult to a choir.
CoCoANUT culture is being tried in Florida
Do LEWIS says: More sunshine ladies'
OVER 5000 Canadians are engaged in the
lumber business.
A NEW Work florist claims TO sell 10000
rosebuds every day.
THERE is one lawyer for every 700 people
in the United States.
THE orange CROPS of Florida are now
worth Over 81, 501,OOJ
TALMAGEs church has !, 1869 members, or
Ala more than Beecher's
INDIA ink according TO Chinese writers,
was invented :, 1861 b. G..
KANT potash salts is dug from beds 800
200 feet below the surface
AT the great Vanderbilt ball in New York
100000 was spent for flowers.
CoCoANUTs, as well as pineapples and
oranges are grown in Florida.
A New YORK liquor seller shows the APP
propriate sign of "A Horn
MOBILE is trying TO run Off the tramps by
inhicting heavy penalties.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-01-18
She Had Changed Her Opinion.

80, you dear, good mother " chirped
Birdie McHennepin, do you really
mean to say that | can marry Gus De
Smith,"
81 do" replied Mrs. McIIennepin
"You have my full consent"
"But, mamma, you said only yester.
day that you couldn't bear him." pur.
sued the daughter.
"Well, have got something like an
eighty-one tor grudge against him,
and for that very reason l have con.
cluded to become his mother-in-law."
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-01-18
PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
How Some OF the Surplus Money May
be Disposed OF.

Congressman do not propose to allow the
surplus TO accumulate, if their suggestions
as to the erection of public buildings shall be
regarded, says Washington dispatch, Sena-
tor Hill, of Colorado recommends that the
government build public building for its
offices in every city which has more than 0lO
inhabitants, and claims that rent to the
amount of 100000 annually would he
saved by such an investment. Meanwhile,
bills have been introduced in the two houses
for the erection of twenty three public build
ings in different places, to cost in the aggre-
gate, over S4,OO),COO The following is a list
of them:
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-01-18
A YEARS COINAGE.

The following is a statement of the coinage
executed at the mints of the United States
during the calendar year 1888, cents omitted ::
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-01-18

PAPER powder-barrels and paper carriage
Us are made at Lansingburgh, N. Y.
National Republican., 1884-05-16
MATRIMONIAL INFELICITY.
Ono Divorce Asked For and Another
Granted-An Abused Wifo's Moving
T,I

Ono Divorce Asked For and Another
Granted-An Abused Wife's Moving
Tale.
Sarah NJ. Coon and Arnold A. wheelock
were married in Corning, n. Y. Jan. 49,
1914, by Rev. J. v. Mapes, and subsequently
came to this city to reside. She asserts that
she has ever been true and faithful wife,
and done all in her power to retain his
Affection, but, notwithstanding all this, she
declares that he has been unmindful Of his
marriage VOWS and obli gations sought tho
society of lewd women, cruelty abused and
ill treated her on various occasions, en-
couraged others to do so, and finally
abandoned her. Under this unhappy state
of circumstances, she yesterday, by her at
torney, Mr.. Warren @. Stono, applied to the
chancellor for divorce, alimony, and the pay
ment other counsel fees in prosecuting the suit.
She specifically charges as one of the grounds
OF complaint, that in the month of December,
1882, he brutally and outrageously assaulted
her, and inflicted serious injuries upon her
with hammer. Again, that on the sth
instant at No. 207 Pennsylvania avenue
northwest, he choked and beat her at the
instigation and to suit the pleasure of Mary
Vernon, his housekeeper, with whom she
believes he had unlawful relations On this
occasion he elected Mrs. Wheelock from the
house, knocked her down, and threatened to
kill her If she ever returned. She further
AYERS that through the baneful influences of
Mary Vernon, and former housekeeper
named Lizzie Hall, the affections of her
husband have become thoroughly alienated
from her, and life with him has become un-
bearable and unsafe. 1t is for these reasons
that she asks divorce.
On the 10th of February last Mr.. Daniel e.
Cahill, as solicitor for Mary Mcguire, filed
her bill Of complaint in equity against her
husband, Peter Il. Mcguire, and asked that
sho might be granted an absolute divorce
from him and permission to resume her mai
den name of Mary Boyle. They were mar
ried in this city on April IL, 1868, by Rev.
Father Walter, of st. Patrick's church. They
lived together until April, 1866, and in tho
month last named, while soiourning tempo
rarily in Richmond, Va. she charged that he
deserted her and their child. committed
| adultery with woman named Annie Thomp-
son, proprietress of house of i'll fame in that
| city, aud is now living with hor in Chicago.
The proof taken was ample to sustain
the charges made, and Justice Cox yesterday
granted her the separation prayed for.
National Republican., 1884-05-16
MURDER TRIAL.

Louis I<archer, the Man Slayer, In the
Criminal Court-DinicuIty in Securing
Jury.
The trial Of Louis Karchor, charged with
murder in killing James w. Grimes, whom
he found in his wife's bedroom under cir.
cumstauces showing her infdelity, was COM
menced yesterday before Justice Macarthur
in the criminal court. District Attorney
Worthington and Assistant District Attorney
Coyle appeared for tho government and Mr..
r. j. Mackey for the defendant The effort
to secure O jury to try the cause was only
partially successful. Six jurors out of the
regular panel being obtained, and they are
yet subject to challenge by the government,
which does not exercise its right until the
defense have twelve men in the box accepta-
bic to their side. Those who have been thus
accepted are Messrs. Il. A. Shuster, Harbn
ii. Kimmel, Richard Riggles, Louis Ii. Nc
Dade, Thomas +. Bell, and William h.
Daily. When the panel became exhausted the
court ordered forty names drawn from the
box, the parties to be summoned to appear
this morning, and the following were drawn
John IL. Smoot 30l7 n street northwest ;
Andrew w. Kelley, ia d street northwest !;
Henry Taylor, 400 Nineteenth street north
east; Robert Smith, $40 Sixth street north
east; George GLORIOUS, olf IL street northwest;
John It. Mitchell, 1890 street northwest !;
George Breitbarth, 4l0 Seventh street north.
| west; Michael French, 2206 NJ street north
west S. j. Fague, GIL IL street northwest; (;
Ed Baldwin, Indiana avenue, between Second
and Third streets northwest John Moran,
2l26 Pennsylvania avenue northwest; John
Il. Chappelle Chappello road; Nathan Janney,
Nineteenth and X streets northwest u.
Cromwell, 400 B street northwest; William
Wagner, 207l Pennsylvania avenue south.
east; Wm. d. Clark 507 III street northwest ;
| George NJ. Joyce. l70S Pennsylvania avenue
William Dodge, 1914 Thirteth street north
west; ID. johnson, 2733 M street northwest;
| August Schroeder, 72l Eighth street south
/. east; Charles l.. Denham, 1900 II street north
| west; James w. Decide, 1919 Thirty-second
street northwest; Albert G. Stevens, Co.
lumbia road; J. Pierce Klingle, Linnean Hill
road; Irving G. Ashby, Metropolitan bank;
Charles d. Morris, 1914 l. street northwest;
Thomas l.. Jenkins Good Hope hill; G. Il.
Kengla, Tonnallytown road; Pitt Cooke 20ll
= street northwest; L. M. Cropley, 3l5S p
street northwest; George A. Birch 2O34 NJ
street northwest James b. Rourse, Tennally-
town, ID. c.. Theodore Barnes, Georgetown
heights; r. J.. Moore, 3l47 M street north
west; Julius Lansburgh, 3l5 Seventh street
| northwest; A. IL. Jones, 2007 Olive street
| northwest; G. M. Edmonston, 31G5 p street
northwest; Lcbin S. Frey, 30i0 street
northwest; J. S. McKennoy, 1923 Dumbarton
avenue; Nathan A. FulleT CPS A street south.
east.
National Republican., 1884-05-16
Drawing to N Close.

William b. Benham, Waldo NJ. Tastel, and
William II. Porter entered into limited
partnership for the sale of "Tho Caligraph"
and instruction in connection with it. Dis
putes arising and a rupture becoming immi-
mont Messrs. BenhRm and Tastel endeavored
to secure control of tho business while Mr.
Porter tried TO retain it. In tho struggle tho
contest became warm and finally landed all
of the parties in the equity court There
Biessrs. Benham and Tastel prayed for a de-
cree against Porter that he might be enjoined
from interfering with tho business until tho
further order of the court, while Porter made
tho Game prayer as TO them. Justice Cox
heard the case preliminarily yesterday and
denied the petition Of Bonham and Tuste,
but granted that Of Porter and eNjoined the
former from interfering with the latter, au.
National Republican., 1884-05-16

David f. McElhinny and John A. wyn-
koop on the lst of January last entered into
partnership in the commission business, and
got along until recently in satisfactory
manner. Differences finally sprung up be-
tween the partners growing out of the
charge that one was using more than his
share of the firms money, which resulted in
Mr.. McElhiuny, through his attorney, Mr..
Charles A. Walter, filing a bill in equity
against Mr.. Wynkoop, praying for dissolu-
tion of the partnership. lie complains that
Mr.. Wynkoop has from time to time used
more than his share of tho receipts and
profits of the business and refuses TO render
an account for it. Judge Cox directed
temporary restraining order to issue agains
tho defendant, forbidding him to take oi
disturb tho moneys OF tho firm, and made il
returnable on the 10Th instant.
National Republican., 1884-05-16
See game to. day, Athletic Park.

A Sweet Voice Said, sect up, Horsey."
A hay wagon came slowly down Ninth
street yesterday afternoon, and when at the
intersection of Pennsylvania avenue one of
the horses stopped. The driver made IN Of
fort to start them but was unsuccessful. A
car, two herdics, and number of carriages
were blocked up.
"Hurry up" said the driver of herdic, II
wants ter move"
"Go to blazes," said tho driver of the hay
wagon, lashing the horses
Here, you move on now" said police
man coming up, and wearily leaning against
tree box.
Tho driver muttered something about
everybody minding his own business.
"None of yer lip, now, or I'll run you in"
fired up the "Bobbie."
A lady went up to the driver of the hay
wagon and asked him what was the matter.
"None of your business" howled tho man,
going around on the other side and larruping
the horses.
"Ill mako him move" said an agent the
Humane society, coming up. He put his
hand on the bit of the horse, which snapped
viciously at him and whished fly off his
body with his tail.
Get up horsey," said lady, and the horse
pricked up bis ears and moved on.