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Vergennes.

r. b. Benton is suffering with rheuma-
matism.
And now it is boy baby at II. E.
Goodyear's.
Mrs. V. Spooner died Monday morning
about l o'clock.
One of the twin girl babies of Fred
Coe died last Saturday.
Len. o. Allen and Emma Scott are to
be married this week.
C. L. S. Pierce started out Wednesday
evening for Wisconsin,to sell arctic over
shoes.
f. II. Bacon of Waltham has gone and
got married without telling his friends
much about it.
Apples are selling at $l.50 to 81 a bar
rel and there is no great call for them
at that price.
Miss Ella Bradbury has proved herself
an adept at handling the gun, she having
shot four wild ducks on Lake Champlain
last Monday.
Alexander Mech has opened a coffee
and tea store in the Chas. Adams block
on Green street. He intends to keep gro
ceries as well.
G. w. Ross is to sell his brick resi-
dence on Elbow street at auction next
Saturday. 1t is fine location and has the
modern arrangements inside.
Potatoes in some localities are rotting
badly. On the loan and sandy lands
they seem to be routing worse than on
the clay. They are selling low.
An effort is being made to secure the
services of the Rev. Mr.. Hibbard to pre-
l.. IL, IL L. &.
quite popular and many hope he will
come.
Byron Murray, cashier of the bank of
California, San Francisco, was in town
Saturday. He is looking well and lots of
his friends missed the opportunity to
greet him.
f. j. Wheeler, who has been visiting
at his fathers. f. Wheeler, has returned
to his Western home. He has first
class position as superintendent of rail
road division in Colorado.
Hon. G.. w. Grandey and Jesse were at
the reunion at Montpelier last week.
The general made some very interesting
remarks and was repeatedly desired to
90 on. He is one of the older legislative
warehouses in the State.
Miss Delevan of Weybridge occupied
the pulpit at the NJ. +. church last Sun
day. Prof. Shaw of the graded school
read service at the Congregational church,
and at the Baptist church in the evening
the children held harvest festival of
song, which was very interesting.
W. C. Bradbury and G. F. Kimball are
in camp at Apple Tree cove. and Friday
of last week the camp was visited by
Judge Learned, Rev. MIR. Hubbard, Hon.
F. E. Woodbridge, F. A. Woodbridge.
Esquire Smith, 5. 5. Gaines and Capt.
Wilson of Troy, n. Y, and enjoyed the
beauties of the scenery, broiled duck,
chowder dinner, etc.
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Whiting.

The latest arrival is fine boy baby at
Il. j. Ketchum's.
Rev. w. NJ. Mayhem has returned
home from Waltham. Mass.
Mrs. Mary Cudworth has gone to Poult-
ney to visit friends for few days.
Mrs. Mary Goodell has returned to her
home in Salem, Washington county,
n. Y.
Judge Abel Walker was the only rep
resentatvive out of the twelve now living
here that attended the reunion at Mont
pelier.
And now there is to be another butcher
cart in town. Daniel Wait holds the rib
bons over the sorrel PAGER that pulls the
old cart around.
Several strangers attended the Congre-
gational church last Sunday. They
could not have come at better time, for
a finer discourse was never delivered
from the desk than that Mr.. Mayhem
preached last Sunday. The singing, es-
pecially the first two pieces, was fine
Every one present was well pleased, es-
pecially the strangers and minister. In
some things it is a hard matter to bea
this choir; they take so much pride il
being on hand promptly. especially tn,
gIay-haired leader.
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there. when it is notorious that tens of
thousands are so enslaved by vicious
appetite as to be incapable of helping
themselves. Indifferent to the nature of
their surroundings, dead to every pro-
gressive aspiration. How can we reason
ably complain of any minor evils while
this gigantic one continues to hamper the
nations advance at every step; while
this vast drain continues to carry OIL
capital one years application of which
would solve every social problem that
perplexes us?
If this is not a practical question, then
there is no such thing as practically. 1t
is the one overs hadowing evil whose ex-
stence of necessity prevents the success
of reform efforts In all other directions.
1t is said that the condition of the work
ing classes is unsatisfactory, that they
do not prosper as they might; the an
swer must be that they can never utilize
their opportunities until they are freed
from the curse of rum. If it is said that
our politics are corrupt, trivial. mean, 1t
must be assumed that our politics are too
deeply entangled with the liquor traffic
to be other than what they are. Ii sanl-
tary questions are concerned, rum stl II
stands in the way of Improvement. III
religious progress is discussed, the fact
remains that the saloons empty the
churches. If education is considered, it
is notorious that the same degrading
agency seduces thousands of our youth.
Wherever we turn short.we encoun-
ter this subtle and sinister agency. 1t is
a blight which lies heavy upon our civil
iZation. and which will have to be cleared
away before that civilization can become
an object of just pride and satisfaction.
And the question at issue really is wheth-
er this great evil shall be dealt with sum-
marily, or shall be approached by slow
degrees. All sensible men are agreed as
to the necessity for getting rid of it. but
opinions differ as to the best method.
Meantime. it proceeds without the least
misgiving or conjunction, never check
ing itself giving full play to all its my
Rad influences, and opposing to reform a
solid and brazcn front. Its safety thus
far has consisted in the want of harmony
among its opponents. This has given it
time to establish itself and grow strong.
But sooner or later it will be necessary
for the intelligent and progressive ele-
ments of society to drop all lesser enter
priscs and combine in one determined as
sault upon that vice which is to-day the
heaviest clog upon progress. and the
deepest disgrace of the nineteenth cen
fury.
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Personal.

LeGrand b. Cannon of Burlington has
been made vice-prcsdent of the Delaware
Il Hudson Canal company, to succeed G.
F. Young, resigned.
Rev. J. Mervin Hull of Ludlow. who
has been at Windsor for several years as
pastor of the First Baptist church and as
chaplain of the State prison, on account
of poor health has been compelled to re-
sign his charge and take years rest.
A. NJ. Shaw. better known as Josh
Billings died at Monterey, Cal, at 10
O'Clock Tuesday morning, of apopleXy.
The dy will be embalmed and sent
East. Mr.. Shaw was once resident of
CastletOn, this State. and is well known
through the country as humorous
writer.
The death of John p. Howard at Lon
don, Eng, Saturday is announced by pri-
vate dispatches. He was a native of Bur-
lington. but passed much of his life in
New York city and abroad. In New
York he was well known, being engaged
in the hotel business and large holder
of real estate. Mr.. Howard was very
liberal to the university of Vermont and
his gifts to Burlington will aggregate a
fourth of a million dollars. Among his
benefactions is the main building of the
university, Howard park, the opera
house to the home for destitute children,
the monument to Lafayette and many
other public charities. His executors are
his attorney, Lawyer Davis of New York
city. and A. G. Spear of Burlington. His
property is estimated at $1,000 900. and
the whole is bequeathed to two sisters
living in Burlington and neice in Paris,
France. Possibly he leaves some money
for Vermont soldiers home, a project
he has long contemplated. He was new
er married. His body will he embalmcd
and taken to Burlington for burial. 1t is
expected to reach there some time next
week
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East Middlebury.

II. Dewey and wife have gone West to
see their daughter.
Mrs. Sidney sumner is sick and has as
yet improved but little.
As yet there has been very little rot
ting of potatoes in this vicinity.
Teams are passing quite frequently
with apples for the cider mill.
Lewis Landers wife, who has been
sick for a long time, is slightly better.
The corn crop did not reach its usual
maximum here. Some was overtaken by
the frost.
Mrs. Derby is at her son James, quite
sick and feeble. Her years render her
recovery very improbable.
Rev. 5. w. Bidwell has for several
weeks been troubled with an abcess on
his leg. extending to the ankle and foot.
At times it was swollen and painful, keep
ing him from church several sundays.
Among the sick ones for the past week
or more has been l.. Russell. who in
heading off some cattle sprained his knee
Joint and is able to be around but little.
His son Clarence was very sick. but is
recovering. Charles Carr has been i'll
with fever, but is now convalescent.
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County Notes.

The pension of ii. w. Whittemore of
Brooksvlle has been increased from 81
to sc month.
The marriage of Miss F. +. Clark of
Orwell and Frank III. Chapman of Rut-
land is announced to take place at the
brides home on the 2lst inst.
The selectmen of Shoreham L +.
Moore and II. w. Merritt-otfer a reward
of $500 for information that will convict
the thief or thieves that robbed Mr.. G..
n North's store last week.
These were the quotations at the New
Haven market on Monday: Butter, Is
and 20 cents; cheese, o cents; eggs. u
cents; live poultry, IL and II cents
dressed poultry, ID and l6 cents; pota-
toes, % and 81 cents.
The Green Mountain Pulp Co., whose
mills are located on the falls of Otter
creek in Weybridge. are negotiating with
Otis F. Smith of this place to supply
them with spruce timber for another
year. The company's business is lively
now, though dull the first of the summer
and pulp to the amount of thirty tons q
day is turned out. During the month OF
August they paid the G. V. K. X. nearly
$1,000 for freight. Mr.. Smith has now
got into the company's hands all the log:
cut last winter in his Goshen job and put
into the creek here.-BrdndOn Union.
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The Bristol Meeting of Preachers and
Teachers,

This is the programme to be followed
at the Methodist Preachers and Sunday
school Workers. meeting of the Burling-
ton district, which will be held in the
Methodist church in Bristol on Tuesday
and Wednesday, October 20 and 81
TUESDAY AFTERNOON.
80 Organization of Meeting.
9 100. Review of Drummond on Law in the
Supernatural World; NJ. NJ. Curry.
245. Review of the Benevolent Statistics of
Burlington district; NJ. b. Mead, j. W. Bennett.
80. How Can Evangelists be best UTILIZED?
f. widmer, j. b. Wood.
rs. Church Membership of Children; L. A.
Dibble, j. Il. Metcalf.
700. Sermon, "Buainess in Religion; NJ. D..
Jump.
WEDNESDAY MORNING.
900. Devotion Serv ice, led by j. A. Heath.
Disciplinary provision for and utility OF a fin
ancial plan in Church Work; A. II. Nash, S. M.
Wilbur, L. Marshall.
What is Pastoral Fidelity? S. d. Elkins, Il. T.
Sutton, A. Osburn.
What can be done to increase the circulation
of our Church Literature, with reports from pas
tors? j. g. Perkins, ID. Perry, }. 5. Mott
How to make our social meetings success 7.
G. Potts. M. A. Wicker, J. G. Richmond
What is REVIVAL? q. A Kerr, j. e. Walker.
How to Bring People to Church, j. W. Quin.
Ian, l.. o. Hathaway.
Will the Epworth IIymnal be Success2 ii
f. Austin, +. Cameron.
SUNDAY SCHOOL sECTION-wEDNEsDAY AFTER.
NOON.
30. Is the Teachers Meeting Practicable?
Mrs. j. j. Noe, +. II. Dclevan.
should Public Review of the Lesson be had
each Sunday; if sO,by whom. J. L. Barker, II. NJ
Seely, j. c. Langford.
How can supply of Sundayschool teachers
be maintained? Il. W. Gregory, Miss Lucy Lee
The organization of our Sunday schools into
Mis- siouarv Societies, j. j. Noe, j. II. Bond.
shall we encourage frequent sunday school
concerts l.. Ii. Lord, L. l.. Walker, NJ Hitch
cock.
What are the best methods of raising funds fol
5. 5. work? Mrs. l.. A. Dibble, j. G, Goodng
Mrs. NJ. f. Allen.
100. Sermon by J. II. Bond, followed by ex
hortation and prayer service.
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WeybrIdge.

G. r. Thorne is convalescent.
G. |. Cady of Calais is in town, visiting
relatives.
A. j. Stow and +. II. Stewart are in
New York.
Mrs. Polly Sampson is visiting friends
in Middlebury.
Mrs. W. b. Hurlburt spent Sunday
with her daughter in Poultney.
Mrs. g. II. Sprigg continues quite i'll,
as does also Robert Warner with intlam-
matory rheumatism.
Rev. Mr.. Austin of Vergennes preach
ed an able discourse here last Sabbath
to large congregation.
The Weybridge Temperance Union
will hold its meeting for October at the
NJ. +. church on Tuesday evening, Oct,
20. A full programme will be presented,
consisting of music, select reading, reel
tations, etc. Question for discussion
" ReSoloed, That an Independent prohibit
ton party is necessary for the final con-
summation of the temperance REFORM"
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ONE thing at least was made pretty
clear at the Montpelier reunion, and that
is that whoever seeks to superccdc Mr.
Edmunds as Senator must fight for the
place, and must do it personally in the
legislature. If the Montpelier gathering
had any real value ii was in giving the
people of the State better appreciation
of Mr. Edmuuds. OF his speech at the
banquet the Boston Herald says:
Senator Edmunds has rarely spoken
more felicitously and suggestively than
in his remarks upon the Senate. The
hunor. the human feeling and the senti-
ment. which are either out of place or
not given their true place in his speeches
in the Senate, pervade this response, and
give charm to it without detracting
from the dignity of his style or the
weight of his phiosophic observations
upon the value of the Senate to our sys-
TEN of government.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-16
Centennial of Addison County.

One hundred years ago next Sunday,
Oct. Is, the county of Addison was es-
tabished 10y the legislature of Vermont.
1t ext nded northerly to the Canada line,
including the present counties of Chitten-
den, Franklin. I.amoille and Grand Isle,
the whole territory now making up
some eighty townships. Two years later
Chittenden county was established, leav-
ing the north line of Addison county as
it now stands. Addison and Colchester
were half shire towns. and the first
county court was held in Addison in
March. l7SG, and excepting the next term
at Colchester. was held there until 1892.
slice which time it has been perma-
nently held at Middlebury. At Addison
the sessions were for the most part held
in the dwelling house of Jonah Case,
which was the first brick house built in
Addison. John Strong of Addison was
the first chief Judge; Gamaiel Painter
of MiddleburA and Ira Allen of COlches-
ter. the first side Judges. Noah Chitten-
den was the first sheriff. The Jail was
built with county tax of 1.-TWO pence on
the pound" of the grand list of 1893, and
stood south of and very near the present
Addison House. The court house stood
between the Jail and the Wainwright
house and was first occupied in l79S.
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Orwell.

Mrs. NJ. A. Rovcc is home from Poult-
ney for Il few days.
Warren Roberts has moved into his
new house. Wat. Wright has moved into
the house vacated by Mr.. Roberts.
G. II. Williams and wife of North
IIoosick. y. y, and b. Williams and
wife of Middle Granville, n. Y, have
been visiting at Messrs. johnson q Will
liams'.
w. o. Ray has rented the building
lately vacated by Johnson q Williams
and is fitting it up with the intention of
putting in a general line of groceries.
lie viii also build horse sheds to accom-
modate the public.
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16. 1885.

A MONTPELIER correspondent of the
Boston Herald says that lit would not be
surprising if the next governor of Yer
mont should be Gen. W. Y w. Ripley of
Rutland However this may belt would
not be surprising if some candidates be-
sides those now in the field-Lieut-Gov
Ormsbee and Speaker Batchelder-
should appear before it is time for the
convention.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-16

ONO held its election Tuesday. The
Republicans claim and the Democrats con-
cede the election of Judge Foraker, the
Republican candidate. As to the legisla-
ture the outcome is not so certain, but
the probabilities are in favor of the Re
publicans. Judge Foraker is a veteran
and a brilliant political speaker. The
Legislature just chosen will elect sue
cessOr to Senator Sherman.
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For red-hOt OratOry the South is still
way ahead of the North. In Virginia
the candidates for governor are making
a hard fight. Lee. the Democrat. has
wisely enlisted the women on his side
and when he approaches Il town the
younger of the fair ones of the place ride
him to the village. These performances
arouse the ire or envy of Wise, the Re
publican, who thus describes them in a
recent speech:
With Comanche yell and rude and know
ing discourtesy this characterization rout
swept past in trotting. pacing ambling, gal
Looping confusion to join the throng upon the
turnpike. There in martial array stood the
Bombastes turoso army awaiting the ar
rival of the chieftan. Tiny pennons of home
manufacture, at an average cost of two for
a cent were distributed to decorate the flea
bitten ears of the raw-ribbed jades. The
unpretentious vehicle is set aside; the foam
ing stallion, gaily caparisoned, is led forth;
the waddling obesity of the best horse
man" is soon astride; mimic review is
held; and with yell and boot and cheerand
threat of the mob, FitZhugh Smith advan-
ces to the head of his column with the air
of Napoleon at Austerlitz, to ride down
the enemies of Virginia" Thus advancing,
as much pleased at tin horn mimicry as a
child of IL years old with new toy, the
hero" reaches the village, passes under "A
cambria banner on which his name Is mis-
spelt. bows with the air of Cid and drinks
in the thin cheering and cheap tinse like an
old maid does attention at a party.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-16
Obituary..

Mrs. Leaphla Lawrence Hard. whose
death we announce this-week. had reached
the advanced age of eighty nine with men
tai faculties unusually vigorous until, ten
weeks before her death, an accident tract
ured her hip, which brought pain and loss
of strength until death gave friendly re-
lease. She was born in Monkton and mar
ried Thomas Partch, esq, of Hinesburgh,
where were born heI children who survive
her-Lyman Partch of Hinesburgh. VIM.
Partch of New Haven, Mrs. G. g, Post of
Burlington, and Mrs. Munroy Parmelee of
this place, at whose house she has recently
lived. In 1867 she was married again to
Mr.. Lansing Hard of Hinesburgh, who died
about 1872, During this widowhood Mrs
Hard has made her home with her children
and but for the recent accident, such were
her mental vigor and unfailing cheerfulness
her life seemed to have promise of extraor-
binary length. Her days of suffering were
solaced by Christian faith. The burial was
at HinesbIrgh.
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STRAYED OR STOLEN

From the pasture of the subscriber in Addison,
on or about sept. LIST, 1855, two 2.yearold steers
one d ark red and the other light red roam. ANY
one who will give any information in regard to
them will be suitably rewarded.
l.. j. WRIGHT.
Weybridge VT, Oct IL, lsS5 A.;
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Safe Investments.

We believe that we offer the best loans in our
line ever submitteI to investors. This judgm ut
is not based on promises for the future, winch
always read well, hut on the fact that the second
generation of our tlve-vear mortgages Is row ma
turing and every loan is being promptly paid
when due. We have Gus Omers in all parts of
the State and among all classes OF people who
can substantate this statement. Interest per
cent. semi-annually.
S. NJ. DORIS SONS.
Rutland Vt.
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To ease a pain, to calm the brain,
Constipation TO confound,
Your nerves to strengthen, life to lengthen.
Take CELERY COMPOUAD.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-16

Nerye-life and vigOr restored in men and wo
men by using Gilmore's Aromatic Wine.
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THE Heaviest Clog on Progress is
the title of a leading article the New
York Tribune recently printed dealing
with the subject of intemperance. 1t is
worthy the careful reading and thought
full consideration of every thinking per-
son and is as follows:
Many people who pride themselves on
their practicality are wont to sneer at the
opponents of the liquor traffic as mere
" sentimentalists." No doubt there is
much sentiment in that opposition. but
it is sentiment based upon the hardest of
facts. The truth Is that if all the other
evils that aillict society are put together
they will not nearly equal in weight and
sinister effects the one enormous and uni
versal mischief of intcmperance. MI.
Matthew Arnold holds that Phlistinism.
as he calls it, is rampant in England and
the United States; but the truly humii-
ating fact in regard to these English
speaking peoples is their profusc eXpend-
lures upon intoXicants, and the place
which the business of selling and making
intoXicants occupies in their national life.
Americans spend $500, 900 600 year in
this way, and Englishmen even more in
proportion. Yet all legislative bodies
in both countries, and all journals, and
hundreds of societies and associations,
are constantly engaged in discussing
remedies for evils not only of minor i'm
portance, but many if not most of them
the direct or indirect results of this
frightful waste of capital upon degrad-
ing and demOralizing agents.
Here in New York, as the speakers at
Cooper Institute the other evening one
and all admitted, we have actually ar
rived at local government based upon
the worst and most pernicious emana-
tions of the liquor interest. We have
come to be ruled in accordance with the
views of men who derive all their power
from their success in rumselling, and
whose following largely consists of those
whose intelligence is habitually clouded
by the same poison. Ana because the
passion for rum is so strong among a
large proportion of the masses, every eff
fort to shake off this corrupt and shame
full despotism has hitherto failed, and
drunkenness and dishonesty go hand in
hand, and laugh to scorn every reform
movement.
OF what use is it to talk about poverty,
destitution, squalor, misery, here and
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