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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-01-23
Fate of n Chinese Parricide.

Just outside the west gate Of Shan,
city is small hamlet where lived an GA
man and his son. The latter made it a
practice of calling upon his father for
cash whenever he was in want of it, IN
til the thing got rather montononous
for the father who demonstrated with
his son, and being saucily replied to,
the father attempted to apply "paternal
correction" on his son; the son in rage
then caught hold of the door bar and
brought it down with such force upon
the fathers skull that he cracked it and
killed the old man. The neighbors
hearing the row assembled at the door
of the house where the murder was com
mitted and captured the son as he was
endeayoring to escape. The members of
the fathers clan were then called to-
gether, and at solemn conclave it was
decided to administer on the spot the
law set aside for PARTICLES, instead of
appealing to the magistrate which in
variably causes much delay, and per-
haps the murderer might effect his es-
cape in the meantime. So the parricide
was bound hand and foot, and just with
out the ham ct n hole was dug, and the
wretched murderer consigned to its
depths The mud was thrown into the
hole and the members of the clan stamped
by turns on the grave until it was level
with the ground, and so without leaving
a mound or any mark to point out the
parricide's grave, the assembled crowd
dispersed 81 emily to their daily avoca-
tons. The above occurred not week
ago. Ctiesial Empire.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-01-23
THE YEARS CONSULTATIONS.

When January's cold is here,
And all the days are chill and drear;
When air and earth are thick with snow,
Leaden above and white below.
Then let us, as we face the blast,
Give thanks for blessings in the past,
And lovingly remember
Dear days of sweet September
When February's sleet and hail
Cause men to shiver and to quail;
When on the ice and through V1,snow,
Slipping and stumbling morta
Then as we grumble and complain,
Let us, to soothe the biting pain
OF days so dull and sober,
Remember bright October.
When March is February's heir,
And snow and slush is everywhere;
When fierce winds hustle us about,
Putting our hopes of spring to rout;
Then let us sweeten every day
With thoughts of blessings passed away,
And thankfully remember
That golden, fair November.
When April, foster child of March,
Sulen instead of gay and arch,
And giving frowns in place of smiles,
On agony fresh sorrow piles,
Prolonging winters gloomy reign;
Then let u.s. as we bear the pain,
Look backward and remember
Bright days of mild December.
-Ne,C York Sun,
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-01-23
Carrying the Electoral Votes to Wash
ingtOn

The law requires that two certified
copies of the electoral vote Of each State
shall be forwarded to the president of
the Senate one by mail and the other
by a messenger, who must come to Wash
ington and deliver it in person before the
first Wednesday Of the succeeding Jan
uary. This is to guard against the posi-
bility of accident by which one might
fail to reach its destination. The law
allows no compensation to these mcssen-
gers for their time, but pays each of
them twenty-five cents per mile for the
distance, according to the usual mail
route from the capital to his State, the
meeting place of the electors, to Wash
ington. At the treasury writes
Washington correspondent to the
Cleveland Herald, more out of curiosity
than anything else, procured from the
discussing clerk :he figures below, show
ing the distance from Washington to
the various capitals, and the amount
paid to each messenger The mileage
was fixed many years ago, in the days of
the stage coach, and has never been
changed. The luckiest man is the Ore
gon messenger, who receives $77G. 80,
and the unluckiest the Maryland man,
who has to be content with $1,000.
The distance figures are interesting,
conveying as they do a pretty clear idea
of the extent of this country of ours.
From the capital of Florida to the capt
tai of Oregon by the way of Washington,
which is but little out of the line, is
more than four thousand miles nearly a
sixth of the circumference of the globe.
The figures are arranged with reference
to the distance from Washington
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-01-23
Making Pictures Under Difrerculties

An artist for an illustrated newspaper
thus describes his difficulties during the
Franco Prussian war: "Of the trouble |
have taken to get these sketches you can
have no oneeption. The plan | have
been obliged to adopt is this: walk
about quiet, apparently noticing all the
goods in the shop windows. When
see anything make memoranda on small
bits of tissue paper, perhaps in a cafe,
or while appearing to look at the water
at the top of a bridge, or on the side Of
an apple, with a big knife in my hand,
pretending to peel it. These little mems
| roll up into pills, place them handy in
my waistcoat pocket, to be chewed up
or swallowed if in extremis. When get
home at night, first making sure that l
am overlooked by way of the window, L
unroll these little pills, and from these
mems make complete outline on thin
piece OF white paper; then paste these
sketches face to face, trim the edges, and
it looks like plain piece of paper; but
hold it up to the light and the sketch
shows. SO | make memoranda all over
1.-THE times of trains starting, prices of
articles, or extracts from newspapers.
When | get to u place of safety, soak
these pieces of paper in water, pull the
sketches apart, and from them have made
the sketches l have forwarded to you.h
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-01-23

A celebrated Judge, on riding up to a
tavern, was surprised to see the land
lords daughter, girl of eighteen, put
one hand on the fence and leap over it.
DO that again, my lass, and I'll
marry you!" said the judge, possessed by
some whim such as row and then seizes
the most staid of men. The girl, with
out moments hesitation, again put her
hand on the fence and jumped back
again.
The Judge was as good as his word 4;
for in year or two there was an old
fashioned wedding at the old tavern.
Mrs. Barbauld, upon whose early
Lessons" and Hymns in Prose" our
grandmothers were brought up, once
jumped up a tree to escape a too-persist-
ent woorer. When girl, she was noted
for her lively spirit and bodily activity.
She could climb and jump as well as the
boys of her fathers school.
Her gymnastic feats and the roses on
her cheeks made deep impression upon
a rich farmer He called upon her father,
DR.. Aiken, and begged him to consent
that the youthful Letitia-she was but
tfteen-might become a farmers bride.
go and ask yourself, " answered the
doctor, pointing to the young lady, who
was walking in the garden. He went,
pleaded his case, and was refused, He
demonstrated, urged, and become so i'm
Fortunate that Letitia climbed up tree
by the garden-wall dropped into the
lane, and left her suitor, astonished at
her singular way of running from lover.
The disappointed man lived and died
a bachelor. He was not reading man,
and was never known to purchase any
book but The Works of Mrs. Barbauld, u
which, elegantly bound, adorned his
parlor during life. Youths Companion.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-01-23

The aggregate number Of miles trav.
ersed by the messengers is 43, S74 and
the total mileage paid IS, 46s. 90. The
average distance of the thirty eight cap.
itals from Washington is S0l miles To
bring the 40l electoral votes to Washing,
ton costs an average of $2l.12 apiece.
Blaine and Logan carried the most re
mote States, and the cost of bringing
their 1873 electoral votes was SIS, 2J9. IS,
an average OF $2S.01 each, while the 2ls
votes for Clevc and and Hendricks cost
but 50, l6S, Is. or $l4,53 each, a small
fraction more than half.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-01-23

Paste it in your hat that people of tho
highest position and greatest importance,
as rule, make the least trouble.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-01-23

He Is great man who can sacrifice
everything and say nothing.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-11
FOR OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
MOTHER HENTo HER CHICKENS.


Cluck! cluckl Come, come, my little dears
Be quiet now-pray do!
The other fowls are peering round
10 get peep at you.
There comes old Granny Dorking now
With Madame Specklemore:
"A body'd think they never saw
Il brood of chicks before.
And here's the rooster Featherlegs
A-peeping down at me.
And nearly twisting off his neck
To see what he can see.
So you must act your prettiest,
And nOt be bold or rude;
i wouldn't ike to have them think
I've Matched noisy brood.
Cluck! cluck Come now, get off my back.
Stop all your naughty tricks,
And creep beneath my wings again
Like well-bred little chicks.
Some day, when you can run about
Nou'l ind the world il wide,
And then you may be very glad
. To run 10 me and hide.
You'll find it's full of foxes too,
And other ugly things
And you'll he glad enough to come
And get Leneath my wings.
Oh, yes, the world is very wide;
1t stretches far awsy
Across the lane and on this side
Beyond that stack of hay.
And far across the duck-pond there,
And past the corn-crib, too;
And when You learn to run quite fast,
I'll stroll out there with you.
Cluckl cluck! Come now, get Off my back
Stop all your noisy tricks
Ind creep beneath my wings again
Like wel-bred little chicks.
Helen Whitney Clark, in Golden DUR
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-11
&" KYANIZING."
The Process by Which Posts Are Made
Indestructible.

The Process by which Posts Are Made
IndestructibIe.
In agricultural and other journals
thirty or forty years ago, much was said
of "Kyanizing." a process by which
wood is rendered insasceptible of decay.
How long the process had then been
known, the writer is unaware; in the
United States Patent Office report of
1861, it is stated that Mr.. Ryan, Of En-
gland, endeavored many years ago.
to have it generally adapted as q means
of preserving ship timber. Originally,
a solution of corrosive sublimate was
forced into the wood, but other and less
expensive agents We're afterward en-
ployed with equal success. Sulphate of
iron, or copperas, sulphate OF copper,
or blue vitri0l and chloride of zinc are
some of the chemicals thus used The
philosophy OF the process is, that the
albumen contained in the wood, sub
stance similar in properties to white of
egg, possibly indentical with it, and
peculiarly liable to decay, is converted
by the chemicals into an insOluble COM
BOuhNt WY liluCl ttS lllC dlDullltu Or
gelatine Of hide is changed in the pro-
cess of tanning. Thus rendered insoiu-
BILE, instead of being, as before, an in
citing cause of rotting of the woody
fibre, it surrounds and protects every
cell and particle with Waterproof in
destructible coating, and so prevents
decay.
On the Slater farm at Greece Center.
is a board fence built in 1852, the posts
of which were Kyanized There was at
that time an establishment in Rochester
where the process was carried on, but
by whom, or how long a time, | do not
know. Probably business enough was
not done to make it n financial success.
Mr. Gilbert Kishlar. whose father owned
the Slater farm, and built this fence, in
forms me that some of the posts were
elm, too tough, and some were chestnut
too brittle and wOrm-eaten to split.
They were sawed tapering from six
inches square at one end TO two by six
at the other The chemicals, said to
have been copperas, with an admiXture
of some other ingredients, the latter
possibly of no great utility, were forced
by machinery, while boiling hot, into
the pores of the wood, until the timber
was perfectly saturated throughout. On
a small scale, perhaps boiling the butt
ends of the posts in solution of cop
peras, might answer, several posts
being stood upright in large kettle and
treated at once. The posts of the fence
In question were set in holes varying
from two and half to three feet deep,
small stone being used to fill in. Coal
tar was put on the ends of the boards
and across the centers where nailed to
the posts. The fence now, is fully
thirty-two years old, but Mr. Kishlar de-
clares that but for the preparation many
OF the posts would have lasted not more
than five Years.-Ameyican RUral Home.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-11

Repetition is sometimes the only way to
imp Truth upon the mind Accord
ingiy take nktice that DR.. Pierce's Pleas
ant FuPpgatTe Pellets" (the original Little
Liver fllisl Hontinue to be wonderfully ef-
fective in aBes of sick and nervous head
ache, constipation, indigestion, rush of
blood to thS head, cold extremities, and all
ailments fr!sing from obstruction OF the
bodily 1untuons. Their action is thorough
yet gentls, and the Ingredients being en-
tirely vegetable, they can be taken with
IMMUNITY INTO the most delicate stomach
All druggists.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-11
Young Mon. Read This.

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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-11
BACON.


\ Little GIRLS Composition, and tho
Funny Mistake She Made.
When | was a girl in school the
teacher used to give out topics once a
month for essays. One evening she
gave to Fannie Rhodes this topic
Bacon" Poor Fannie hated ESSAYS
worse than any of the others, believe
and over this subject she fairly groaned.
las if | c0uLdr' she said. But she did.
In just month from the day the sub
jccts we given out, the essays were to
be read. Fanny was among the first to
be called forward. | ought to tell you
that these monthly essays were not
passed in for correction until after they
were read. They were to be given to
the school exactly as they came from
the authors hand. So Fannie began:
BACON.
The subject assigned to me for this month
is bacon. | do not see how it is possible for
any one TO say much on such Il subject. Ev-
crybody knows all that there is to say about
IL. II is simply the flesh of hogs salted, or
picked or dried
Before she had read the close of this
sentence, the pupils were in such roars
of laughter that her voice was drowned.
She looked around upon us with such
astonished eyes that the thing grew all
the fuqnier, and the boys fairly
shouted
Even the gentle teacher was laugh
ing.
80 Fannie, Fannier she cried at
last. "Did you really think meant
porb?"
why, what else could you mean?"
said bewildered Fannie. And then we
all laughed again.
"Why, Fannie" said Miss Hender-
son, 81 thought, of course, you would
understand that | meant Lord Bacon"
Lord Baconr repeated poor Fannie,
in dismay; Il never heard of him. -
PanSy.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-11

Prom recent researches, it appears
that chlorophyl, the remarkable sub
stance to which the vegetable world
owes the color of its foliage, is made
up of two coloring matters, green
and yellow, the relative proportions
being one hundred of the former to one
of the latter. Both have been lately
obtained in the crystalline state.--Sap
francisco Chronicle.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-11

A Cough, COLD, OR SORE THROAT should
not be neglected. BRowN'S BRONCHIAL
TRoCHEs give prompt elief. % cts. a box.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-11
A PHYSICIANS ADVICE,

If you are suffering from general de-
bility, nervous prostration, sinking
spells, etc, supernduced by impure
blood, weak kidneys and liver, etc, donot
resort to alcoholic compounds, nor use
remedies that cause too great activity
of the parts affected. 1t is far moro wise
to use mild Alternative like Or. Guy
aott's Yellow Dock and SarSa-
parilIa. This remedy contains nothing
injurious to the most delicate constitu-
ton, and its use gradually builds up and
strengthens, while diuretic and cathartio
compounds tear down, wear out and de-
stroy.
Dr. GuysOttS YellOU Docl; and Sdrs1pG-
TtlId restores impaired or lost organic
functions to their normal condition, and
it invariably gives satisfaction to all who
use it.
Do not forget that any druggist will
procure the remedy for you, especially
when they find you will not be persuaded
to try some other preparation on which
they make more money. You will find
its effect most wonderful. Your old
energy will return, your natural force
come back, and you will feel altogether
new person, full of health, strength and
vigor. Former invalids speak highly OF
the preparation, and all acknowledge it
perfect health restorer, especially in
diseases of q facilitating nature having
tendency to poison and thin the blood,
thereby weakening the urinary and di-
gestive organs, and exhausting the
brain and nervous system.
By Worn out and enfeebled con-
stitutions, suffering from dyspepsia.
impure blood, weak kidneys, nerv-.
BUSINESS, ETC., can be cured by
using this remedy. Take no other.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-11

IT is not considered elegant to refer to
q man as a dutfer, but there can be no
harm in "emarking that they have a Daft
FERN India.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-11

The official residence of the Pre1i-
dent of Venezuela is called, in part imi-
tation Of our White House, the yellow
House"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-11

PIXIES TooTHACHE DROPS cure in minute, 25c.
Glehn's Sulphur Soap heals and beauties. 25c.
GERMAN CORN REMOVER kills Corns Bunions.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-11

CHIMNEY sweeps prefer to wear dark
soots This smutch can be said in their
favor.-Aaplt Leaf.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-11

WHAT is the stuff that dreams are made
orr passlonetely inquired a poet. Ia one
brief word, sir-pies
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-11
Downright Cruelty.

To permit yourself and family to
"Sufferr'
With sickness when it can be prevented
and cured so easily
With Hop Bitters!
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-11

TOMATOES were formerly called love
apples" They are certainly very soft and
easily mashed"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-11

WHEN everything else fails, DR.. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy cures.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-11

fss None genuine without bunch OF green
Hops on the white label. Shun all the vile, pos-
onous stuff with tHop or" Hops in their name.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-11

If afflicted with Sore Eyes. use DR.. Isaac
Thompson Eye Water. Druggists sell it. 25c.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-11

IT takes money to start business, but
it will stop without any.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-11

From Col. c. II. Mackey,
32d Iowa Infantry: l have
used Ely's Cream Balm
for three months and am
experiencing no trouble
from catarrh whatever. /
nave been q sufferer for
twenty years. - c. II.
MAcSEY, Slgourney. Iowa.
My son was afflicted with
catarrh; Ely's Cream Balm
effected a complete cure.
W. L. HANNAH, Druggist,
Easton, Pa.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-11

Having experienced a great deal Of
"Troubler r. from indigestion, so much so
that L came near losing my
Life!
My trouble always came after eating any
food
However light
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-11

90. .'-.. ,- Pc 49, 90
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-02-05
xmR nAExKmOnE
MORNING HERALD,
FOR 1885,

The growth Of the Morning. Herald ID cir.
culati0n and influence dnriER the year Just
closed has been 90 remarkable ~ ik IL graft
Tying. To-day IL l. recognized 80 the spFight-
Ilest, newaiest and most enaerprising paper In
the state 10 its news columns, and the abless.
most honest and most fearless in its edit0 ial
utteFances. The Morning Herald has this re-
putatl0n because Il has earned IL. Whenever
any event Of importance happens The Morn
Ing Herald has 81 account Of it, and genUr-
aliv better account than any OF its rivals
This is costly, but we find that il pays 10
spend money lavishly 70 get news and print
u 10 the best form. Whatever The Morning
Herald has TO say editorially Il says plainly,
neither party affiliations nor personal feelings
avail TO secure les endorsement Of anythsng
evil, or prevent IL speaking well Of men,
measures or things that deserve 20 be we'll
spoken OF. rhs Morning Herald, although
believing In the Republican party, never al
lows ils allegiance TO party to interfere with
ITS duty as newspaper. The Morning Her
aid gives all the news In the most compact
form, but every item gets the space ie de-
serves, whether it be 8 complete page or
couple Of lines. Its market reports are full
and accurate. The Morning Herald Is the
handsomest paper In Maryland, and has no
superior In the United States ID thst respect.
e y Published daily and will Be sent BY mail
70 any address Ia months for $500, 3 months
Tor @l.U0, months for 80 cent?
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-02-05

A SPECIAL train Of twenty-sight
cars loaded exclusively with cotton,
passed up the Delaware road through
Denton on Monday en- route for points
north. This amount Of cotton had
accumulated ct Cape Charles City be-
cause Of the scarcity Of cars to convey
It by the regular trains. The average
number shipped by this route daaly is
fifteen carloads Exchange.
Before the completion Of the Della
ware railroad to Cape Charles, near
ly oil this cotton would have been
sent to Baltimore by bay Steamers
When the route to Cape Charles and
thence across the bay to Norfolk be-
comes thoroughly equipped so that its
cars can run on schedule time, as it
will be very soon, our bay trade with
the South viii be thing of the past,
and Baltimore will be severe suffer
err lin her trade. The CAPITAL has
endeavored to point out this state of
affairs to the business men OF Balti-
more, and urged upon them sbe ne
cessity Of taking prompt measures to
counteract the movements of Phila-
delphia to cripple the trade of that
city with the South.
We, in common with our people
here, have lively interest in the
growth and commerce Of Baltimore.
We of the counties look. up to that
city for all our supplies as we'll as the
depot for the sale of our products |;
and we have right to expect that
out Of her great wealth she will foster
and encourage ell efforts made to de-
velope our resources and increase our
facilities for getting our products to
Der markets. Baltimore has not met
our expectations. The Eastern shore
trade is simply immense and natural
" inclines to Baltimore, but lie she
will take no step to counterfeit the
movements Of the Pennsylvania rail-
road to monopolise the trade of that
section Of the State, she has no right
to complain If she loses it. a COM
peting railroad from Kent Island to
Salisbury would not only retain to
Baltimore her present trade with the
Eastern shore, but largely increase it
without seriously detracting from the
steamboat traffic on our bay and riv-
ers.