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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-01-02
MANY Rich Woman

With the exception OF the aged widow
of A. T. Stewart, the richest woman in
her own right in New York, says the De.
troit Free Press correspondent, is Miss
Catherine Wolfe. Miss Wolfe believes in
making good use of her money, too, and
has given away great deal for benevo-
lent purposes. She is known as phi
lanthropist as well as a millionairess, and
doubt if any other New York woman
is held in higher esteem. The next
wealthiest woman, probably, is Miss
Paran Stevens, who succeeded to very
large estate at the time of her husbands
death. Mrs. Stevens likes the enjoyment
that can be got out of money, and for
that reason she takes care of hers. 1t is
reason, too, that operates vigorously
on most people who have money. There
are many other women in New York,
mostly widows pretty well on in years,
who have a great deal of money of their
own. and keep tight hold on it
women who can count their fortunes any
where from 81, 600, 5000 up to $15, 000,
600. Most of them have a special desire
to elude the tax man, and they generally
make it effective. Those whose money
is in real estate can't help pay
ing taxes but where the in
vestment is in personal property it is
mighty hard to get anything out of the
owners. A few object to paying taxes
on the ground that they are not allowed
voice in saying how the taxes shall be
spent, but in nine cases out of ten the de-
sire to get the best of the tax man is based
on the broad, general principle of beat
ing the public treasury any way that it
can be done. A good many men act on
the same principle, and some are mil
lionaires, too. Mention being already
made of Mrs. Stewart, word may be
said about the solemn mansion she occu-
pies on Fifth avenue. 1t is still the most
notable residence in New York, so far as
appearance goes, but almost gruesomely
lonely. Hardly anyone is ever seen GO
ing in or coming out. There is scarcely
sign of life at the doors or windows,
either day or night. Faces are never
seen there, and the shades seem never to
be raised. The life within must certainly
be quiet to the point of dull monotony.
And as it is on the most bustling part of
the avenue, with business now gathering
all around it, the interior suggestion OF
inward dullness is all the stronger.
However, while it suits the widow of the
millionaire to live in that way, it may be
that no one else has any reason for criti-
cism or comment.
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The Cancels Love for Tobacco.

Knowing what do about camels, says
Soudan letter to the London Times l
fear the brutes will do as much 70" us as
the Nile whaleboats in the way of MAIN
ing and invaliding our men. Perhaps 1
am Rrejudiced against camels, for being
a non-smoker myself have just dis
covered my camel is an inveterate lover
of the weed. Let any one smoke pipe,
cigar or cigarette in the compound called
stables and the camel will follow tie
smoker about, place his nose close to
the burning tabacco. inhale the fumes
with a prolonged sniff, swallowing the
smoke, then throwing his head up, with
mouth agape and eyes upturned, show
ing the blood shot whites, will grunt a
sigh of ecstasy that would make the for
tune of low comedian in a love scene.
This is the plain, unvarnished fact, easy
of corroboration.
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NEWSY GLEANINGS.

A sIXTEEN-EAR old boy in Troy, n. H.,
recently hanged himself in his sleep.
THE emperorof Austria is noted for having
the largest collection of pipes in Europe.
THE Germal reichstag will discuss this
winter the abolition of capital punishment
A GAME of lnseball was played in Boston
on recent Monday night by electric lights.
ALL the Atlantic cable companies have re-
duced their charges for messages to forty
cents word.
THE rate of mortality in the United States
navy is much less than among the dwellers
upon the land.
THE recently elected new mayors of Cam
bridge, Chelsea and Lynn, Mass, are all
under thirty years Of age.
THE French government is having thirty
vessels built, half Of them in private docks
Fourteen will be iron-clad and cost S@o,oOo,-
600.
Young banana trees are growing finely az
Los Angeles. Cal, and in some OF the smell
tered valleys there viii be quite large crop
of fruit this year.
THE spot where, according to the latest
accounts, William Tell didn't shoot the apple
ON his sons head, is marked by big monu-
ment sixty feet in height.
In Prussia, during 1888, no fewer than i, 6!S
marriages between first cousins were record
ed l47 between uncles and nieces, and twenty
six between nephews and aunts.
NUMBERS of sheep and pigs are being
killed in sections of Dakota by wolves, packs
OF which have been prowling about IN the
vicinity of Bismarck, particularly III the
mountains.
/ A STURGEON weighing 600 pounds was re.
Gently caught ON the Pacific coast Its head
weighed ninety four pounds and its mouth
was twenty-five inches across 1t could al
most have swallowed a man
A NEVADA miner and capitalist recently
returned from Alaska, reports the finding
| there of a remarkably rich marble quarry, IL
which, strange to say, were both red ano
white marble Of the finest quality.
DEPOSIT of vitreous earth has been dis
| covered on a farm in the western part of Lon
| don, n H., about five miles from Concord
city proper. Large quantities of the deposit
are being sent to Haverhill, Mass, where n
/ is used in the manufacture Of glass
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NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern md Middle states,

A NEW Y DIRK mercantile agency gives re-
ports from 1000 correspondents in twenty
two States, showing that 3l6, 249 worxmen
are out OF employment, and that wages have
been reduced from ten to thirty per cent
These twenty-five States employ nine-tenths
OF the worlImen of this country. The num-
Der of men on strike is 1850. In detail it
appears that $1,000 iron workers are idle, as
are also $1,000 makers of clothing, 1000 cot
ton operatives, and "a, 900 wooden. There is
no work for 5000 makers of boots and shoes,
nor for 1900 cigar makers, 4, 700 glass max
ers. and 1000 silk weavers.
A PITTsBURG PENN dispatch says that
the coal miners oil along the Monongahela
river-nearly 1000 men in all-struck for an
advance of one-half cent per bushel in the price
of mining. At Amsterdam, n. Y, 1900 EN-
ployes in Sanford q Sons carpet mills struck
against a reduction of ten per cent. in their
wages.
GENERAL SHERMAN was prominent
speaker at this years anniversary of the land
ing of the Pilgrim Fathers. celebrated by the
New England society, of New York.
EGBERT EARL, an Albany a. " sales
man, his wife and their two children, were
found unconscious in their sleeping rooms,
having been asphyxiated by coal gas Mr..
Earl and the youngest child were dead. Mrs.
Earl and the other child were restored to
consciousness.
HARRIGAN 81 Harris Theatre Comique,
one of the best-known places of amusement
in New York, was completely destroyed by
fire the other morning. The theatre was
situated on Broadway and was originally a
church. The total loss is about $500, 600 with
no insurance and nothing saved.
A FIRE destroyed the greater part of the
business section of Cambridge, n. Y. The
aggregate losses are about 500, 900.
| GOVERNOR CLEVELAND held his farewell
reception to personal friends at the executive
mansion in Albany. 1t was his first social
as distinguished from the legislative receptions
which have been given by him, and about 20(
guests from Albany, Troy, Buffalo and
| Syracuse were present
DURING the recent heavy gales numerou:
disasters to shipping craft occurred at various
| points along the Atlantic coast The suffer
ings of the crews from cold and exposure il
some Instances were very great, and severa
lives were lost. Nearly dozen schooner
were reported wrecked
A DISPATCH from Fall River, Mass, tn,
great mill city, states that the mills are al
running, the operatives are all employed, anc
there is no talk Of strike or reduction o.
wages.
ADRIAN GURNEE, a well-known storekeepel
of Park Ridge, n. j., was attacked in hi
store while counting his days receipts anc
murdered by u colored man named Sisco
The murderer's motive was robbery. SiscC
escaped, but was captured in Paterson.
THE British ship Lornty was run into b,
the ocean steamer Cornwall, in New York har
bor and sank in twenty minutes. All OF
board the Lornty scrambled safely on tn
Cornwall The loss of ship and cargo
about 100000
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South and West.

INSTRUCTIONS on the track wrecked train
near Purvis, Miss, and the engineer and fire
man were kilel
GEORGE w. WALKER, one Of the most
prominent lawyers i'll Northern Virginia,
committed suicide. He had lost leg in the
Confederate service, and suffered much from
pain in the stump.
RAILROAD traffic in Colorado has been
seriously impeded by a snow blockade; many
cabins have been crushed in by the weight OF
the snow, and business in some places has
been partially suspended
ELIJAH MARLING a wealthy resident Of
Wheeling, w. Va, was bound and gagged in
his house by three masked burglars, and
burned terribly with red-hot poker to make
him give up his money. He was tortured
for three hours, and had forty three burns on
his body. Numerous robberies, accompanied
by brutal treatment, have occurred r. GENTLY
in Wheeling, and general feeling OF inse-
curity pervades the city.
The secretary of the Garfield National
Monument association, j. II. Rhodes, Of
Cleveland, reports that the contributions te
the monument fund up to December 10 were
Sl32, 3yJ.64.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-01-02
WISE WORDS.

Learn to say no; it will be of more use
to you than to be able to read Latin.
When shrewd ignorance resorts to dis
honest methods, the confiding public is
apt to suffer in pocket.
Good nature, like bee, collects honey
from every herb. Immature, like spider,
sucks poison from the sweetest flower.
Begin your course in life with the least
show and expense possible. You may at
pleasure increase both, but cannot easily
diminish them.
Credit is like looking glass which,
when only sullied by breath, may be
wiped clear again, but if once cracked
can never be repaired.
There is key that will open every
lock if we know how to forge it; and so
with life, there is a right path for every
one if he will only search to find it.
Nature loves truth so well that It hardly
ever admits of flourishing. Conceit is to
nature what paint is to beauty; it is not
only needless, but impairs what it would
improve
There is sweet pleasure in contem-
platlon, and when man hath run
through a set of vanities i'll the declen-
sion of his age, he knows not what to do
with himself if he cannot think.
While what we do unquestionably in
fuences what we are, it is equally true
that what we are influences and deter
mines the real value of what we do. Let
no one then imagine that he can perma-
nently benefit his work or further his
business by sacrificing his own manhood
or neglecting other obligations.
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WON BY TEE PLAINTIFF.
Miss Hill DeclLred the Wife of Ex-
SenaOr sharon,

The celebrated Saxon divorce suit has been
decided in favor othe plaintiff. The suit, as
brought in San Frmdsco by the plaintiff, Miss
wife of Ex-Senatc Sharon, of Nevada, was
FOR divorce and division of the common
property. JudgeSullivan's decision is very
comprehensive, onaining $4,000 words.
After reviewing the testimony, he
concludes by declaring that under the
laws of California the plaintiff is the legal
wife of Sharon and as such, on the
ground of willful lesertion is entitled to a
divorce and divisn of the common prop
erty. The latter 5 estimated to be worth
$l0,000,000. The 'Tdict is a great surprise
to the San Francieo public, it having been
generally suppose, from the contradictor
character of the teimony, that the plaintiff
would have been msuited.
w. II. l.. Barns the leading counsel for
Mr. Sharon, says Judge Sullivan S decisions:
at is an entire surprise to the profession,
both as to law arl fact. The judgment, if
it stands, will nj be serious pecunary
injury to Mr.. shron, l don't think
which could be made subject to the
decision. Mr.. Shgm is greatly annoyed by
the decision, but lRs not the slightest idea Of
submission, and oiourse will appeal, and we
are confident of r0prsing the decision. The
suit brought y Mr. Sharon in the
United States Ciruit Court to have the mar
riage contract declared invalid will be prose
cuted.n
The plaintiffs ounsel will make application
for counsel fees ad IS .000p per month alimony
for fourteen moths, or since the beginning
of the case
The trial just Fought to close was begun
early in the spriIg of 1884, and on the Pacific
coast created one of the greatest sensations
ever produced b any cause that mas come
before the courts There is, in fact, hardly a
sensational featre that has ever appeared in
any trial that las not been developed in
this during the many months it has been
in progress. Attempts to shoot lawyers in
court, fainting witnesses in court NEGRO
nancy, deathbe confessions, comical Chinese
witnesses, weih negro voudoo witnesses
fierce disputes searchings for concealed
weapons, skulkhg detectives, fist fights and
perjury in endless variety have pranced
through the shifting scenes of the drama in
bewildering cofusion.
Miss Hill wanever a wealthy woman, and
the mystery of low she employed four law
yers, at regula salaries and incurred al
average expene of about $1,000 per day
was explained " the statement that regu
lar stock company had been formed to bacl
her and that n the pool was wealthy
widow and hall dozen or more OF wealthy
men who eSpeced to make handsome prof
if she won her cause On the other hand
Senator Sharon had said he would fight tn,
case through ifhe had to spend a million dol
lars. So the lawyers hourished and fought
on with arCor
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Foreign.

nwENIY-oNE persons We're drowned In a
So'i sion between two Spanish steamers in the
naloor OF Manila, Philippine islands.
THREE of the German anarchists On trial
,or an attempt to assassinate Emperor VIII
naih We're sentenced TO death, two Others to
Ten years Imprisonment, and the remaining
three were acquitted
ALL printers in st. Petersburg are searched
nightly by the police on leaving their offices,
az Ii Grder TO prevent the secret printing of So
"A COMMITTEE has been organized in Berlin
10 raise fund for Prince Bismarck as an ex-
preston of the confidence of the nation in the
statesman.
PROFESSOR WIGGNs, the Canadian
weather prophet, says the winter of 1888 81
was remarkable for an abundance of snow as
well as intense cold, as will be the winter of
1SS+S5 Earthquakes have occurred in both
hemispheres, even visiting England, and UNI
usual Hoods have taken place especially in
Cincinnati last February, and will recur next
summer
A FORMIDABLE organization of Russian
nihilists, under the guise Of an importing
firm, has been unearthed in London.
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Middlebury Register.
FRIDAY. JANUARY 2, 1855,
HEALTH HINTS.

For nose bleeding bathe the face and
neck with cold water.
If an artery is severed tie small cord
or handkerchief tightly above it.
DIR. Warfwinge uses alum internally in
whooping cough, with excellent results,
and states that children take it without
oh 'ection, and that it rarely causes con-
stipation.
A flannel cloth wet with coal oil, and
applied at night to the throat and over
the lungs, will invariably break up the
worst cold and cough, if taken in time,
and few days care will complete the
cure.
For burns sweet oil and cotton are
standing remedies. If they are not at
hand sprinkle the burned part with flour
and wrap loosely with soft cloth.
Don't remove the dressing until the in
flammation subsidies, as it will break the
new skin that is forming.
DR.. Lolli, of Trieste, uses exclusively
the following mixture in the treatment
of diphtheria. and in sixty cases the
mortality was less than two per cent,
the malady having a duration of but
eight or ten days, and being but rarely
propagated to the mucous membrane Of
the respiratory organs Ferri sesquichlo-
ride, fifteen to forty-fve grains; acidi
carbolic@, pur., fifteen to forty five
grains mel. rose, one ounce aque
calcis, fifteen fl. ounce. The throat is
swabbed with this mixture every half
hour, adults using it as a gargle, and it
is, beside, to be taken in tablespoon
doses, diluted, every second hour. OF
course tones and very nourishing food
form most importent adjuncts to the
treatment. -HealM and Home.
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LATER NEWS

KINGsBR1DGE, N. Y, rejoices in baby
which at birth was six inches long and
weighed exactly elevenounces. 1t was, how
ever, gifted with the usual amount Of infan
tile lung power
Two thirty-five thou,and barrel oil tanks
near Elmira, N ", caught Gre and the oil
ran in every direction. At one time six acres
If oil were aflame AL the buildings on the
0lace and other property were consumed.
The loss will reach $l2i, 900
SIXTEEN business h)uses at GAINESVILLE,
Tenn, have been Destroyed by a fire.
A SPRING PLACE Ca dispatch says that
the discovery of huge veins of gold on Fort
Mountain has now bee, supplemented by the
discovery of silver in wonderful yield, in con
sequence of which thee is great excitement
IN that section, and men are fiocking there
from all parts of thec'untry."
FOUR deaths by fire we're reported the other
lay, as follows: Tvomen at the burning OF
. grain elevator in Dallas. Texas the occu-
pant of burning Hook in Bay City, Mich
and the eighteen-ye Told daughter of Farmer
Ankson in Clay county, Va, by her dress
catching fire.
THE secretary of sde has written letter
to Senator Miller, clnrman of the committee
On foreign relations, answering the objections
20 the reciprocity Spanish treaty, which is
before the Senate 10. ratification or rejec-
lion. INF. Frelinghlylen considers the treaty
rom a constitutional standpoint, and sets
| forth the benefits accruing to our agricul-
ural, commercial and manufacturing inter
ssts by the treaty.
| NUMEROUS town, n Spain were well sha
ken by an earthqu9. AT Malaga two per
sons were killed byfslling walls An officia
in the Velez TELEGRAPH office was killed. On,
person was killed aiC many were injured a
Motril The villag Of Albunuelas in Grana
da was nearly destroyed.
A FRENCH briqntine bound for Bostol
struck ON sandba off the Nova Scotia coast
and six Of her creulost their lives
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A. TIDAL WAVE.
TXvO Vessels at New Haven sunk
Caused by an Earthquake.

New Haven has been visited by tidal wave
which did considerable damage to shipping.
At IL lilo P. N. the tidal wave swept up the
bay from the south through the large fleet Of
weather bound vessels in the harbor, sinking
the schooner Onrest, Captain Reed, of AMI
for Providence from New York with SO
tons of coal, and the Bee Line Tran-
portation company's new barge
Bouquet, from Perth Amboy to Norwici,
with 500 tons of coal. The same wave abo
snapped the two large chain cables of tie
coal laden schooner Nellie Grant, Captain
Dodge from Hoboken, for Portsmouth, New
Hampshire. Otherwise, she too must haze
been sunk. No lives We're lost.
The wave was about ten feet high and
came sweeping through the darkness like
stupendous wall of water The wind hid
been blowing fresh from the south-souh
west i'll the evening and there was Egnt
sea. At IL o'clock several persons i'll tbs
city say that they felt an earthquake, audit
was few moments later that the wake
s. ruck the vessels, all of which were deepiI
the water and consequently failed TO rs
sufficiently after the wave broke on th,I
decks.
The matter Of the tidal wave creates muel
comment among mariners at New Haven
Boats were swept from the shore by it ant
vessels torn from their moorings 1t soOI
subsidized, however. Nothing like it is recalled
in the annals of New Haven.
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Battle of the Roses,

In the twelfth century popular festi-
val was held at Treviso, in Italy, in
which roses had much work to do. In
the center of the city the inhabitants
erected castle, the walls of which were
composed of carpets, curtains and hang
ings. This fortress was attacked by the
noble youths of the place, and defended
by the noble maidens. The weapons of
attack and defense consisted of fruit and
flowers, but chiefly of roses, while syrin-
ges, charged with water, or other
liquid perfumes, scattered destruction
amongst the foe. 1t is said that the En-
peror Frederic Barbarossa enjoyed this
siege greatly-perhaps more than any of
his other campaigns. Quirer.
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House..

Mr.. Randall moved a concurrence in the
Senate amendment to the adjournment reso,
luton which provides that the recess shall
last until January 5, 1885. Mr., Beach, OF
new oTk, wished 70 aepate the proP s dshat
able and the motion was agreed 70. The
House then, ut 1925, adjourned until January
5, 1885.
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SUMMARY OF CONGRESS-
Senate.

The chair laid before the Senate the Gale n
dar OF bills unobjected to, but on motion OF
Mr.. Morrill,, without further business, the
Senate, at 1910 went into executive session
The doors We're reopened at 1875, when the
chair announced his signature to the concur
rent resolution providing for holiday recess
from December "A TO January 5, and on mo
ton of Senator Allison, the Senate at 1888
adjourned until January 5, 1885.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-01-02

Honesty is not so much respected as
beauty. The toad is honest, but he has
not many admirers.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-01-02

Although newspaper reading isgrcatly
on the increase in Austria Hungary, it
is estimated that some 20, 000, 600 of the
nation never see a paper
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1885-04-15

Aside from being rank partizan and
an intimate Of Governor Carpenters
Chief Justice Wade went on record last
week as being too timid and childish to
live in Montana and fulfill the require
ments Of circuit judge. Knowing his
arrant cowardice some one concocted a
story to the effect that Henry Edmond
ston's gang had concealed themselves
along the stage line leading from Town.
send to White Sulphur Springs, and as
the judge passed by on his way to the
spring term Of court. intended to capture
and hold him in hostage This story so
completely scared his honor that he tele-
graphed and secured the sheriff and a
large posse to act as BODY guard. Thus
fifteen men had an enjo yable ride at the
expense of Meagher county, and landed
the judge safely at his destination. If
there is anything lacking with which to
remove Wade this fact surely ought to
fill the bill, and return him at once to
effete east. Such man is ont of place
in the Wild and untaimed west, and the
$500 expended on this trip should come.
from his pocket. What vast amount Of
respect Montanisns will have hereafter
for this womanish fraud