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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-06-19
FRUIT AND CROP PROSPECTS.


= ltoCuSIs nave appeared IN great numbers
,il ~ i1oui'''ha' ouU no uaii'age Is reported as
'o..
The Tarboro On. c. Southerner says: EN-
couraging reports reach us from every section
of the entire State concerning the crops
FARMERS of Waskom, Texas are complain
ing OF too much rain Grass looks unusually
dne, and corn and cotton are doing well.
THE Hessian fly has crossed the Rocky
mountains over into the Pacific States. where
1t is doing great damage to the growing
wheat.
Atr,n,vc Toxos ,ro,l doolou o..;..o.
this wears wool elm in that state at 60 oo0.
600 pounds, notwithstanding the great loss of
sheep by the cold last winter.
Ep.ecuopurpc ,ors 1-o..o. .h;z $4,000 t
Secretarv Sims ,f tha S4ato i v,,.S seasoI i
cuItnro 60 w. H. - L. 10 Doalu . vi asli
go y M ,il l.. .Io nus nu reports from
them has soar s;,ry, f TN u'i ho' oiie Vi
50 go VI P0o''
WORN, IN sc,,,d ~ IiYY ~ tne army
So s;i, 80 P POI y. VI itIliois; "a uesPaCcn
Yort nnon tbe haat a. ti d. tII "oi Ia - d.
for "a ,lonne 70 m w. 49, AZ VIC - Wy - wv
80" N' W. W ouii'i si'"U ue'n"Sc'
REVIEW OF the crops in tennessee is a
iair statement OF their condition in the ad-
joining southern states. Good prospects for
an abundant harvest OF hay and small grain
are assured by recent rains. 1t is too early
W roin, posi.iNe oPii.ioll on 'he corn crop
az. iAii'Vs',e otutuu'u suiIS up tHe crop
condltlons OF Michigan after careful investi-
gatlon, as follows; "A talr crop of apples, a
Ilght crop OF pears and cherries, no peaches,
very iight crop OF small fruits, heavy
crop OF nay, ana an average crop OF all kinds
OF gram. feach trees were winter killed"
THE outlook for the tobacco crop of 1885
does not present a single discouraging fea-
ture. A despatch from louisville: The crop
is not late in starting The plants. though
the buds were belated by the tardy spring,
are IN a satstact ny state of forwardness, and
III most sections. II not all, there Is an
abundant supply.
GEORGIA exults in its magnificent crop
prospects In all lines, they saw. the Weld
will be very great A field of wheat in Tay-
lor county averages four feet five inches in
height. PlumS. peaches and apples in
Laurens and johnson counties are breaking
the trees with their ght of good fruit.
They say the recent rains were worth -, OOO
bushels of oats to Talbot county alone.
A PEACH tree nj Shelby Y C. continues
to Noon for siY succossi, ,yls
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-06-19
Middlebury Register
FRIDAY. JUNE 10, 1856.
NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle states.

THE Rev. Daniel Denison Whedon, late
editor Of the Methodist Quarterly RerieU,
died a few days ago at Atlantic Highlands,
N. j. He was born at Geddes, N. Y, in 1905
JOHNSON G. PECK, aged forty-one years;
Rufus Clark, aged fifty-two years, and John
Stott, aged sixteen years, who were burned
at the fire in Danbury, Conn, which destroyed
Beckeres hat factory, died soon after from
the effects Of their injuries William Beck
erie and several firemen were not expected to
live. The pecuniary loss was estimated at
$500, 600
SOME of the mills in Pittsburg, Penn, have
resumed work with non-union help. Other
mills have signed the scale of wages demand
ed by the strikers and are running full.
A FAREWELL dinner was given in New
York to Hon. S. S. Cox, recently appointed
United States minister to Turkey.
FIRE in Syracuse, N. Y, consumed John
Q. Smiths tin factory, causing an estimated
loss of 500. 600 Frank Edwards persisted in
the flames, and Louis House was run over
10y an engine and fatally injured.
THE bill to apportion Pennsylvania into
Congress districts was passed by the State
senate on the 10th over the governors veto.
SENATOR BLAIR was renominated for the
United States Senate by the caucus of Re-
publican members of the New Hampshire
legislature at Concord. He received 10S
votes, his principal opponent, ex-Secretary
Chandler, receiving 81; necessary to a choice,
100 The nomination was equivalent to
election.
THE Pennsylvania lower house refused on
the 18th to pass the congressional apportion-
ment bill over the governors veto, although
the bill had been so passed in the senate on the
previous day.
Two sons of William Leahy, of Grand
Manan, Me, twenty and fourteen years old,
were drowned there by the upsetting of a
boat,
A COLLISION between two trains near Nor
ristown, Penn, resulted in the death of an
engineer, conductor and fireman, and severe
injuries to several other railroad employees
THREE children of Henry Altmeyer, of
Farentum, Penn, applied match to a can
of refined petroleum. The oil exploded and
two of the children were fatally burned.
JAMES H. RUTTER, president of the New
York Central and Harlem River Railroad
company, died few days ago, at 1rvington-
on-the Hudson Mr.. Rutter was born at
Lowell, Mass, in 1886, and had been connect
ed with railroads since boyhood.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-06-19

The congressional library is again
swelling beyond the limits of the space
assigned to it. The collection includes
near y 500, 900 volumes, 800, 600 pieces of
music, 200, 900 pamphlets and between
100, 600 and $50, 900 specimens Of graphic
art.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-06-19

Indian schools in Nevada. There are nearly
LOO Indian children between six and eight
cen wears old in that State.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-06-19
Washington.

RECENT callers at the White House were
General Logan and members of the Iowa
Editorial association, on an excursion East
Among the scribes was J. IL. Hubbard, an
Iowa editor who was once President Cleve-
lands teacher in Clinton, n. Y.
FURTHER appointments by the President:
Postmasters-E. z. Rutherford, at Clarks-
vile, Texas; Martin V. Daggett, at Tuscola,
H.; Charles H. Adams, at Allegan, Mich.
VIM. II. Bennett, at Long Branch,
n. j.; Benz. F. Louthain, at 10
gansport, Ind. James V. Ward, at Cherokee,
Iowa; b. f. Ross, at Cohen, ILL.,; Edwin w.
Coils, at Martinsville, Ind. Collector of In
ternal RECONCILIATION II. Marlborough,
for the Fourth district of North Carolina.
United States Marshals-Edward NJ. Boykin,
for the district OF South Carolina; Robert S.
Kelley, for the Territory of Montana; Thorn
as jefferson Carr, for the Territory of Wy
oming; ROmulo Martinez for the Territory
of New Mexico. United States Attorneys
John Catlett Gibson for the Eastern district
of Virginia; Gustavus Van Hoorebeke for the
Southern district of Illinois; Anthony c.
Campbell for the Territory of Wyoming PEN
sion Agent-Robert Taylor, at Knoxville,
Tenn. Register of the land ofice-Geo. X.
Warner at Tracy, MINI. Seven receivers of
and Offices i'll the West.
ADDITIONAL appointments by the rresl-
dent 10 be United States marshals-Fred-
erick ii. Marsh, for the northern district of
Illinois; Henry c. Urner, for the southern
district of Ohio To be collector of customs
John F. Robinson, for the district of Alex
andria, Va. To be collectors of internal reve-
nue-lsban Hess, for the fourteenth district
of New York; Alfred c. Parkinson, for the
second district of Wisconsin. To be sur
veyors of customs - John II. p, Voor-
hees, for the port of Denver Addi-
son Cole for the port of Albany.
Ex-Mayor Fox, of Philadelphia, to be super
MT Of ha min at philahalnbia ~
lores Romero, of New Mexico, to be agent
for Indians Of the Pueblo agency in New
Mexico. William A. Walker, of Wisconsin
to be agent for Indians OF the Green Bay
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-17
Female Traits in Arabia.

The Arab women, s~crupulously veil
ed when in the more crowded thor
oughfares, are much in public. Some
times, writes a correspondent of the
San Francisco Chronicle, the drapery
drawn about the face parts L little, if
the weare is pretty and knows it,
which is rarely the case-that is, the
beauty and not the consciousness of
the fact. 1t may be taken as a rule in
all Mohammedan countries that the
more earnestly q woman tries TO con-
ceal her face the moro hideous her
ugliness, for it often happens in Cairo
and sometimes in Algicrs that the ac-
cidental falling of the veil reveals the
unsightly lineaments OF Il negress from
Soudan.
Most Of the Arab M trip along
the streets seemingly unconscious of
observation, carrying their little effects
tied up in q handkerchief, nov and
then stopping to inspect the shop win
dows or to purchase a pretzel of a
street vcnder, for the Germans have
imposed their beer with its indigesti-
bic concomitants on the French colon
les and not always to their advantage.
Now and then one by the intentness of
her look through the parted drapery
suggests a difference of social strata,
or at least n disposition to a little
harmless Irritation. The blending of
French and Algerian voice is not such
as to delight the moralist. There are
Moorish and Arab cocottes who drop
the veil and assume the carb and CO.
quettish of their Partisan SIS
tiers, and prove themselves no mean
rivals either in personal charms or the
Establishments that make voice at
tractive. These are, however, except
ional. for the life Of the Arab has not
been such as to refine his features.
which are hereditarily hard and strong
l. marked, into many of the types
which modern civilization recognizes
as beautiful.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-17
The Germans as HEAVY Eaters.

The Germans, always celebrated for
heavy eating, furnish Us with some
curious culinary items. In the middle
ages the goose was the grand dish
among them; but they also ate crows,
stnrks. ranes herons, swans and Bit
terns-these last named dishes being
arranged in 4 circle OF honor around
the goose. The geicc OF European
yu.ture, the dogfish, the dolphin, and
even the whale, were eaten; while a
roast guinea pig was considered 4 very
great delicacy. All their foods were
highly spiced; and sauces were endless
in their variety, three or four kinds be-
ing served up with each dish. In these
sauces pepper, mace. cinnamon, cloves
| ginger. garlic. saffron and pimento
commended for the mastery. and the
| more decided the flavor the better the
cook.
OF course the great art was to ar
! range these sauces in an ascending
scale of piquancy. So great, indeed,
was the passion for highly favored
| food, that turkeys had often an allow
| ance of musk in their daily ratious.
| The most fashionable wines were those
! If Chios, Cyprus and other Greek vim
tages; but, as highly-tlayored foods re-
Quire drink to correspond, the wine
was generally spiced, and was served
under the name of hippocras. 1t was
O thought uupoiite, even SO late as
the sixteenth century, Tor = guest to
ask his host what wines he intended &c
provide, so that he might make his cal,
culations as to what lie would take
before he confined himself 10 tht
particular tippie which should place
him under the table; nor was ii thought
unpoIite in the middle OF Il banquet II
undo the girdie i'll order 10 make more
room for such tempting tid-bits as pih'
tails, barrels heads, skin of roas
goose and swan tongues. The fcas
usually commences at eleven in hi
forenoon; anu the longer the host coul,
keep the guest 1t table the better b
was thought OF; but i'll the matter o
drinking, lie was expected 10 encour
age potation by providing bacchana
liam II or. at least, by being him
self the hrst 10 become liars dc Combat
1t was with this latter object that
rich man would mix his wines; while
poorer one would c0nlrive to have hi
homely tankard strongly do5ed wit
wine, or even spirits, wneIl these ha
become scIeraL-Ch9lR6ef'S JourAd
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-17

tE,y i,.,si SIu -. 60 OF -neF
yrunted lluLly. iAey struck their
mouths witt: the I;lms OF their cFen
hands, 10 express 81. arise. Then they
babe us goodbye and mounted, and,
singing rs they rode, disappeared in
the faint gray light OF early morning.
Butch hid won thirty iicaI of cattle.
As We got breakfast the king of clubs
fell II OF Bu!ch'S right trousers leg.
What fiu.liy bcCl IT Of t!e butcher?
He was accused oi stealing cattie-a
lie, probably. Tac viligantes visited
HIN and oriered hin 10 bring in his
herder. lie did SC, but owing TO some
misunderstanding, brought him IN
dead. He was past answering awk-
ward questions. 50 the c~Nlsperated
vigilantes hung iha butcher AS L MUIR
dcrer, a cattle iniri, u whisky seller.
ana q bad nIu Gctrr".IE. WHAT? Yes.
| believe Incs divide! Butchs cattle
and goods among themselves. You
see, Butcn was dead and did moi need
cattle or provisions, but they did not
hang him to obtain his herd and goods.
OF course not. lie Was Il bad man, and
they hung him Tor the good Of the ruff
fan community (he lived sixty miles
from the Dearest ncighborhood) living
on the frontier. And they took charge
of the owneriess cattle, so that the
poor creatures should not suffer during
the following winter. -Fraas hstkes0n
an \. y. Su3.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-17

Stockholders have a dialect of their
own that is c~aviare to the crowd. Like
the trademarks and shop" terms of
merchants, it must be explained to be
ineligible to the multitude. 1t is
pithy. pungent, scintiliating, and
sometimes rank. 1t precisely eharac-
terizes every variation and aspect of
the market. A broker or operator is
s.long of stocks when carrying or
holding them for a rise; loads" him.
self by buying heavily, perhaps in
..b.ocks'' composed of any number of
shares-say 5000 or 10. 000-bought in
a lump, and is therefore Il bull"
whose natural action is to lower his
horns and rive things Il hoist. He
''forces quotations when he wishes to
keep up the price of a stock; ''bal-
looms it to L height above its intrinsic
value by imaginative stories, fictitious
sales. and kindred methods; lakes "a
~flier," or small side venture. and does
not employ his entire capitali flies
kites when he expands his credit be-
You'd iud;ciouS bounds; ''holds the mar
ketn when be buys sufficient stock 20
prevent the market from declining;
.'milks the street" when he holds suffi-
eient stocks so skilifully that ne raises
or depresses prices at pleasure, and
thus absorbs some of the accessible
cash in the street; buys when the
''maraet is sick" from ovcr-spccula-
ton; keenly examines ''points"-the-
cries or facts-on which to base specu-
lation; .sunloads" when he sells what
has been carried for some time; has a
swimming market when all is buoy
ant; spills stock" when he throws
great quantities upon the market,
either from necessity or to ''break,"
i. e., lower the price He saddles the
market" by foisting = certain stock
upon it, and is "out Of any stock
when he has sold what he held of it. -
r. Wheaticy, /" Hnper'S Magaztne fo'
November.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-17
Books for the Guest Chamber

At one time l was staying in a house
where the guest chamber contained
among the furniture o little shelf of
books. l have often thought of them
since, with a wonder that more careful
hostesses did not provide the same.
Nights when l could not sleep, and
mornings when l waited in my room
for the breakfast bell, l dipped into
the contents-a volume or two of
poems, some short stories, and in
teresting travels comprised the whole
and l found not the least pleasant part
of my visit in those quiet moments by
the window which overlooked the
great, old-fashioned garden. Any
h~ousekeeper could spare six or eight
books from her library, and almost
any guest would bless her for the
thought. A little work-basket fully
stocked; pen, ink, and paper ready to
hand-the visitor cares nearly as much
for these as for fresh towels and extra
coverings. Tho golden rule, which is
a guide to all branches of good house
keeping, as to all branches of all BUSH
ness, N to ones aid here, and
what we care most for in another's
home we should endcavor to give the
conner to our own.-Rab Hall in Good
HolseEeeper.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-17
c3ncernirg Glover.

Every group OF organisms, every
gsnius and every SPECIES o. plant or
animal, has certain strong points
which enable ii 10 hold its own IN the
struggle for existence against its COM
petitors of every kind. Most groups
have also their weak points. which lay
them open to attack or extinction at the
hands of various enemies. And these
weak points are exactly the ones which
give rise most of all 10 further moiili-
cations. A specie may be regarded in
its normal state as IN equilibrium te-
tween structure and environing condi-
tons. But the equilibrium is never
quite complete; and the points OF in
completeness are just those where nat
ural selection has IL fair chance of es-
tablishing still higher cquiiibritions.
These are somewhat abstract state
mcnts in tici naked form: let Us see.
how far de!initenrss II cuncrcteHcss
can be given To them by appl, ing them
in detail to the case of a familiar group
of agricultural pl%ants-the ~clovcrs.
To most people clover is the name of
single thing, or, at most, OF W things,
purple clover and Dutch clover; bu. to
the botanist it is the name of 4 vast
group of little Towering plants. all
closely resembling one another in their
main essentials, yet ali differing inf
nitely IRON one another in two or three
strongly marked peculiaritics OF minor
Importance, which nevertheless give
them great distinctness of habit and
appearance. In England alone we
have less than twenty-one recognized
species of clover. OF which at least
seventeen are really distinguished
among themselves by true and unmis-
taxable differences, though the other
TOUR appear to me TO be mere botanists
species, of no genuine structural value.
ii we were TO take in the whole world.
instead of England alone. the number
OF clovers must be increased to several
hundreds. The question for our pres
ent consideration, then, Is twofold:
first, what gives the clover, as q class,
their great success in the struggle for
existence, as evidenced by their numer-
Gus species and individuals; and,
secondly, what has caused them to
break up into so large a number of
closely allied but divergent groups,
each possessing some special peculiari-
ty of its own. which has insured for it
an advantage in certain situations over
all its nearest congcners?-GrdHt at
Ten, IN Popular nctence Mohthty for
AOUe?nber.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-17
Stories Told ut the State Fair.

A crop of anecdotes about horse and
cattle men have been brought out by
the state fair. One of the characters
"reminiscences is old Bob Walton. who
used to come down to Maine from Bos-
ton and buy 4 good many horses. Bob
once sold 4 horse to a man with the
assurance that the horse could make 4
mile in three minutes. The buyer
found that he could not drive the beast
a mile in less than four minutes to save
his life, and so he told Bob.
Walton" said he, You told me
this horse could 90 4 mile in three
minutes. but he can't go itin less than
four"
WELL" said Bob. "a man must be
in a terrible hurry if he can't wait one
minute"
Bob was once trying to sell q horse
to q clergyman.
..Wil he stand?" asked the minis
ter.
''Standr" said Bob. Yes, indeed.
He'll stand in front of q run shop for
you all night"
Among the cattlemen the stories are
going. too. They have revived the old
story about the Vassalborough Quaker
who told the buyer who was eXamin-
ing a yoke of cattle: THAT nigh OK is
the best OK l eve saw, and l do not
see why the off OK isn't just as good"
The man bought the oXen and found
that the nigh Ok was a good one, but
the off OK was good for nothing. He
reproached the Quaker for lying to him
about the cattle.
Friend" said the Quaker. Il did
not lie. L told thee that the nigh OK
is the best Ok | ever saw, and | don't
see why the off OK isn't just as good
but he amt"
They tell another yarn about this
same Vassalborough Quaker. He sold
a man a pair of cattle, and told hin
they had neV troubled him by break.
ing down fences or walls. The next
day after buying them the purchaser
found them III i neignbor's garden.
They had broken over the wall. ant
were tramning down the vegetable:
and eating The corn.
Lock %lcrc!' said he to the Quaker,
II thought YOU said those cattle never
troubled you by being ~hrc,chy."
Friend" said the Quaker, Il never
allow such things to trouble me-
Lewiston Ole. Journal.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-17
SUPPLEMENT.
Thinking of the Snii:crs.

We were sitting round thc table just a night
In the coy little parlcr. with the lamp light
burning l0W,
And The window blinds were C!c3sI tor the
summer AR 10 CONE
And the painted curtains NOV M like i busy
pendulum
oh, the cushions on the SOFA AID the pictures
ON Ii. WAL.
And the gathering OF comforts in tine Cd
And the whining of the pointer Iounsing idly
And the Hitting of the shadows from the cci-
ing TO the hOcr-
And they Weakened in my spirit, like the
beautiful in art.
Such a busy. busy thinking, such e dreariness
That j sat amid the shadows with my spirit
Thinking only. thinking only, Of the soldiers
far away
or the tents beneath the moonlight. of the
stirring ~tattoo's sound.
OF the soldier in his blanket, IN his blanket on
the ground,
OF the icy winter coming, of the cold, bleak
winds that blow,
And the soldier in his blanket, in his blanket
on the snow.
oI the blight upon the heather, of the frost
upon the hill.
And the whistiing. whistling ever, and the
never, never still.
OF the little leaflets, falling, with the sweetest,
sadiPst sound.
And the soldier. oh the soldier, in his blanket
On the ground
Thus / fingered in my dreaming, in my dream
ing far away.
al the spirits p~icture-painting seemed rs
vivid as the day:
And The moonlight softly faded from the
window opened wide,
A:'. the faithful. faithful pointer crouehed
closer to my side.
y y ] know that meath the starlight, though
the chilling frOstS may fail,
= the soldier will be dreaming, dreaming
Gften of Us all,
= i've my spirits painting Just the breath
.u- of a sound
c dreaming, dreaming soldier in his
lanket on the ground.
Family Journal.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-17
An Ancient Receipt for making
Thunder.

In the middle ages. anybody at all
distinguished by knowledge of science
was credited Nth the art of flying, and
indeed in many cases did not scrupie
10 claim ii. Albert Magnus was one OF
these, but refused to give particulars
to the world at large. He tells US,
however, how to make thunder. Says
he: Take one pound of sulphur, two
pounds of willow carbon, and six
pounds OF rock-salt, ground very fine
III a marble mortar; place where you
please in Il covering made OF lying
papyrus to produce thunder The COW
eriug, in order to ascend and float
away, should be long, graceful, and
well filled with this powder; but to
produce thunder The covering should
&c short and thick, and half fulI."-I.
". Alataer, IN topalar Science Monthly
Jor AOUember.