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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-01-09

The Y0uth's Companion says: Some
time ago We gave our readers "a brief
sketch of the wonderful power of coca
leaves, when chcwed like tobacco, to ar
rest the waste of the system and to keep
up its nervous tone and vigor. DR..
Smith, in his "Peru as it isl says
When used in moderate quantities it
increases nervous energy, enlivens the
spirits and enables the Indians to bear
cold, wet. great bodily exertion and
want of food to surprising degree with
apparent ease and impunity."
In 1850 two men buried in mine
eleven days were kept alive by the small
amount of coca they had with them.
The natives of Peru make a three days
Journey over the mountains with no
other support, and reach their destina-
ton without exhaustion.
The recent discovery that the most
difficult surgical operations can be per-
formed on the eye without causing
pain, by simply dropping in it a little
solution of the active principle of the
coca, has given it new interest, and we
add the following, gathered from the
New York Medical Record.
"The leaves resemble those of the tea
plant, and in fact, the active principles
the alkaloids, as they are termed-are
essentially the same. The trees grows
wild in the mountains of Peru and Boil
ivia, and is also cultivated in high lati-
tudes. In 1854 the annual product was
valued at two and one half millions of
dollars. The leaves are worth in Peru
seventy-hve cents a pound. They have
been used by natives from remote an
tiquity. The high esteem in which they
were held is seen from the fact that they
were among the offerings to their gods,
and it was believed that the latter would
not be propitious unless the priests
chewed the leaves during the ceremonies.
1t is estimated that thirty million pounds
are now annually consumed by eight
millions of people, each using two or
three ounces day 1t is about twenty
five years since the discovery of active
principle (the alkaloid) and of the pro
perties of the latte. Its present name,
cocaine pronounced cocoaine), was then
given it. 1t crystalizes in four to six
sided prisms. 1t unites with acids 30
form various salts. The salt now used to
deaden sensibility is the muriate of CO.
caine. Like all the alkaloids, it is a
poison in large doses, the symptoms being
cerebral excitement, complete paralysis
of sensibility, tetanic QiXed) spasm, and
death. 1t is thought that theme (the
alkaloid of tea) may have the same anes-
thetic properties, and be substituted for
it. Caffeine-the alkaloid of cofIee-is
also radically the same"
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-01-09
LATER NEWS

DIR. RUDOLF TAUFzKY, a prominent New
York physician, during fit of insanity
brought on by JEALOUSY, shot his young wife
and then turned the pistol upon himself, in
6icting a mortal wound His wife's wound
is not serious.
ABNER CoBURN, governor Of Maine in
1862 and 1863, died at Por land, few days
ago, aged eighty-tw6 years
Two men boarded a passenger train at
Rising Sun, Md, and with revolvers drawn
went through passenger car, relieving the
passengers of their money and valuables.
After getting considerable booty they jumped
Off the train and disappeared in the wooCA
Two residents of Oxford, Penn, were caught
in the woods and taken to Jail at Elkton.
DIR. JOHN MAXWELL, who murdered thres
of his four children by poisoning them, hanged
himself in Jail at Springfield, Ohio.
( Mr.. d. L. MOODY, the evangelist, began
series of revival meetings, lasting ten days,
Richmond, Va. Large crowds attended
the meetings
SEVEN men were found frozen to death
on the road between Niobrara and Long
Pines, Neb
DETERMINED upon obtaining revenge be
cause officers of the Baltimore and Ohio rail
road had arrested her husband for robbing
freight cars, Mrs. Mary Beck put on male
garments and succeeded in wrecking an ex-
press train near Grafton, w. Va, with thu
loss of olives and much destruction of prop
erty. She was arrested and admitted her
guilt.
II. KIDD has flel notice of contest for
the seat of George w. Steele, of the Eleventh
Indiana District. Mr.. Kidd charges that
votes in his favor were cast out by the Re
pubicans. This is the first notice of a con
test in the next Congress that has been
filed.
GENERAL CAMPENoN, French minister of
war, has resigned because he is dissatisfied
with the Tonquin campaign.
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South and West.

CONGRESSMAN SAMUEL j. RANDALL made
Southern trip during the holiday recess OF
Congress. At Louisville, KY, his first stop.
ping place, he was given a reception by the
business men of the city in the board of trade
and III speech stated that the object of his
visit was to study in detail the business in
terests of the South. Mr.. Randall was ac
companled by Congressman McAdoo. of New
Jersey.
THE sum of S2O, 900 was paid at Lexington,
ky., by Lee Mass gentleman for the
trotting stallion Alcyone
SHERIFF TERRY, of Karnes county, Texas
was shot and killed by Emmitt Butler While
attempting to escape Butler was killed bv an
unknown person i'll the crowd.
A FIRE has destroyed the greater part of
Pierre, Dakota A fierce wind prevailed
during the fire, and as the thermometer was
at twenty-five degrees below zero the pumps
were frozen solid and it was impossible to OBJ
tain water.
PLEASANT ANDERSON was hanged by eight
masked men after mock trial near Blakes-
burg, Iowa Anderson had been tried year
ago for murder and acquitted. The acqulttal
resulted III bad feeling among those who be
lieved him guilty, and ended IN his lynching.
de protested his innocence to the last.
A BODY of United States soldiers ATTEMPTED
to arrest number of men who had invaded
the Indian Territory for the purpose of Selling
the land. Not wishing to resort to firearms,
the soldiers used their fists and clubs, but
were badly thrashed by the would be colo
nists.
A TRAIN was thrown from the rail near
Grafton, w. Va, and the engineer and fire
man We're instantly killed, and several other
persons were injured The accident was
caused by some one who intended to wreck
the entire train.
EIGHT persons were lost and two saved bv
the stranding of the Norwega bark Lena,
loaded with sugar, on Hog Island bar, Vir-
glnia. Vessel and cargo were "A total loss.
HEAVY rains followed by floods have done
much damage i'll portions of Texas and Ar
kansas
The German bark Lii with five Of her
crew, was lost off the California coast
GUARDS at the scene of the Hooking Val
ley Ohio mine troubles We're driven from d
railroad tunnel, heavily tmbered with solid
walls of coal by an armed crowd The tun-
mel was then fired at both sides and de-
stroyed, causing heavy loss. A number OF
arrests were made
RUBE HARREL jealous lover, discharged
shotgun into a ballroom near Batchtown
~, wounding seven young people-twc
fatally.
AT Chicago tugboat explosion killed five
persons. One of them was hurled fifty feet
high against grain elevator, where the i'm.
PRINT OF his form was seen pressed in blood
on the side of the building.
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pleased at the treaty between Spain and this
country, now before the United States Sen
ate Tor ratification or rejection.
WHILE six little children were playing on
the ice in Toronto Bay, the ice gave way and
three were drowned.
FURTHER earthquake shocks have resulted
IN continued disaster and death throughout
Spain. Nelez Malaga, town of 1900 in
habitants, was Iartly laid in ruins and aban-
doned by the terror-stricken residents A
thousand houses in Albania are in ruins The
town of Albuquerque was completely de-
stoyed. The total number of deaths in Spain
is estimated at more than 1000
AT the lord mayors banquet in Dublin the
toast to the queen was received with ap.
plause mingled with great kissing.
ALL London has been greatly scared by
another dynamite explosion. The affair hap
pened on one of the underground railways
which traverse London, and two trains pass
ing at the time of the explosion were badly
shattered; houses were shaken and people
thrown down, but no serious injury upon per
son or property was inflicted.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-01-09
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC

The title of Rhea's new play is IAN Amen-
can Countess
A PERFECT avalanche OF concerts has
visited London.
LAWRENCE BARRETT's blot on the 'Scut-
eheon' was failure in Washington.
Nj. ALEXANDER DUMAS, the author and
qramatlst has been made commander of
Legion of Honor.
1T costs $500 a night to light the Grand
Opera-house in Paris and $1,000 a year to
dust and sweep it.
HENRY GUY CARLEToN's newest comic
piece Tor Mr.. Wallack is a light play, to be
chrlstened Personals
HARRY MINER has engaged Victoria Moro
SIM iora concert tour. He will send her out
travelling with company.
AN esteemed Detroit minister attacks the
stage, and declares that dog fights and
Tragedies should be classed together
THERE are twenty-five legitimate theatres
III London, supplying the public with comedy,
opera, melodrama, farce and tragedy.
HE manager of the Italian opera at Lima,
feru' has been fined forty soles about s 40
lor not raising the curtain punctually at 5
p. NJ
MILE. NEVADA. the American prima dom
ma, viii return to Europe at the close of the
season. having three offers to appear in Euro
pean capitals.
LADY ARCH BALD CAMPBELL, who is re-
lated by marriage TO the Marquis of Lorne
ana the Princess Louise, is the latest amateur
VINO intends adopting the stage as PROBES
dn.
The successful young American author,
Henry Guy Carleton, will go to England next
summer to superintend reheaIsals of The
Lions Mouth" by the Irving company. He
retains the American right.
COLONEL MAPLEsoN has signed contracts
Tor one year. with the privilege of three
more with the tenor Giannini and the basso
Serbolini, of the Milan Grand Opera com
pany, two excellent artists who Will appear
in opera in this country.
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THE WAR IN EGYPT.
General Gordon Hca- Il From II
Mahdi's Movements.

General Wolseley has received a note from
General Gordon with the latters genuine seal
ON it. The date is December IA, and Gordon
says that Khartoum is all right A messen-
ger brought it concealed in seam of HI,
garment, Gordon estimates the Mahdis
force at from $1,000 TO $4,000. He spends
the nights at Khartoum in ceaseless
watch, visiting the outposts to see that
every sentry is on the alert During the
day Gordon sleeps. He is described as cheer
Iu. An Arab from FL Mahdi's camp has
reached Dongola. He states that the False
Prophets army is a two days march from
umderman. He recently intended to march
against the Mudir of Dongola. The chiefs
wanted him to lead the troops and charm Off
the bullets. The Mahdi thereupon told the
ehleis that he had seen in dream that the
Mudir was a saint against whom it was U.S.
less, TO fight This statement caused great
alarm in the Mahdi's camps
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Washington.

GENERAL HANCOCK has been invited by
the committee to act rs grand marshal of the
parade at President elect Clevelands inaug-
uration.
SERGEANT HoLTNoRTH, of the signal ser.
vice ut Washington, is to be tried by court
martial on the charge of conduct unbecoming
an officer and gentleman in having tamper.
ed with the private mail OF Lieutenant
Greedy.
OF forty two retired officers of the navy
now living III Washington, twenty four, or
more than one-halt are rear admirals This
number is just one-half the total number OF
retired rear admirals, and almost four times
the number of rear admirals on the active
list.
THE last cotton report of the department
OF agriculture indicates the aggregate of yield
for 1884 to be $3.50, 00J bales. The rate of
yield is much below the average.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR's New Years recep-
ton at the White House was brilliant af.
fair, the ladies toilets elegant and tasteful
and the attendance large The President was
assisted in receiving the guests in the blue
room by his sister, Mrs. McElroy, Mrs. Ere
linghuysen, Mrs. Senator Edmunds, Mrs. Nc.
Gulloch Mrs. Chandler, Mrs. Brewster, Mrs
Hatton, Mrs. Teller and the wives of some of
the justices Of the supreme court
DURING December the national debt was
again increased, the amount for the month
being $64l ,3S4.7l. This left the total debt,
less cash III the treasury, at S1,41S, 54s, 81. 40
cash in the treasury, S432, 49, 1861
THE coinage executed at the various United
States mints i'll December was: lGl ,04S gold
pieces, worth S2,3}3, G23. 80; 2,7gS $50 silver
pieces, worth 81, ~, 905. p; 4,0lS,3lO minor
coins, worth So, 429 30; total coinage, 6,977,
AIS pieces, worth 81, SO, 95S.05.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-01-09
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL

M. Combe d'Alma, member of the
agricultural society of La Gironde, has
succeeded in producing illuminating
gas by the distillation of the sea pine.
Crocodiles are the only reptiles whose
nostrils point in the throat behind the
palate, instead of directly into the mouth
cavity. This enables the crocodile to
drown its victim without drowning itself.
for by keeping its snout above the water
it can breathe while its mouth is wide
open.
Paper from the yucca, hairy plant
found in Arizona, New Mexico and
Lower California, is becoming popular
in Great Britain. 1t is readily bleached,
and has fibre almost as strong as hemp,
1t can be manufactured at about the
same cost as paper made from mixed
cetton and linen rags.
NJ. Charcot describes hysterical pa
tient who slept uninterrupted for fifty
four days. The noise of gong beating
violently at her bedside was unperceived,
yet she was able to eat and drink, and all
the functions connected with nutrition
were performed without difficulty. The
awakening was spontaneous, and found
the patient in good health. She did not
know that she had been unconscious for
nearly eight weeks.
Experiments indicate that the effect
of light upon plant tissues without
chlorophyll, such as roots, rhizomc,
blanched plants, and some parasitic
plants, is to decrease the intensity of the
respiration, more carbonic acid being
given off and oxygen absorbed in dark
ness than in light. The amount of
oxygen absorbed is, however, in the same
proportion to the carbonic acid given off
in light as in darkness.
The use of fire in the preparation of
food is peculiar to man, who has been
called the " cooking animal" A few of
the strictly herbivorous and carnivorous
animals have shown a capacity for chang
ing their diet. Thus, the horse and COW
may be brought to eat fish and flesh; the
sea birds can be habituated to grain; cats
are fond of alligator pears, and dogs take
naturally to plantain. Certain animals,
in passing from the young to the mature
state, make remarkable change of food a.;
thus the tadpole feeds upon vegetable
matter, but when it becomes a frog 1t
lives on insects.
1t is now believed, says the Current,
that the foundations of the land do not
cover the sea floor further than 800 miles
seward. These deposits are four miles
deep in places. Far at sea its surface is
covered with very small ''shell animals. "
There is patch of them in the North
Atlantic 1900 miles long and several
hundred miles wide. Their shells finally
sink to the bottom and form chalk. In
the great abysses of the ocean, however,
these shells dissolve before they reach
the bottom. Here the only addition to
the sea floor is made of wrecks, iceburg
washings, dust carried by the wind,
pumice from volcanoes, and meteoric
stones. The pumice has tloated till it
became waterlogged. The color of the
deep sea floor is red. The accretion is
infinitely slow.
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EWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle states.

AT the New York Academy of music there
was held the other evening "Grand Lodge
of Sorrow, Ancient and Accepted Scottish
Rite of Free Masonry The ceremonies con
sisted of unique funeral services held in
memory of seventy Freemnsons who had
died within the last six years.
EMAUEL BREIsT n wealthy farmer was
shot and killed 10y his son Henry, aged
twenty-one, in tavern near Klingerstown,
Penn. Mr.. Breist reproved and struck his
son, when the drunken boy drew revolver
and shot his father dead.
THERE were 1897 deaths, including 205
suicides, &c, pa births and Il y2O marriages in
New York city during 1884
The turmoil in New York city local politics
culmnlted on New Years day. when Mayor
Edison, whose first appointments of com
missioner of public works and corporation
counsel the beard of aldermen refused to con
firm. Mayor Edison gave up the keys of his
Office at midnight, and Alderman Kirk, pres
ident of the old board of aldermen, and
Sanger, the newly elected president of that
body, both entered upon the duties of mayor
each claiming to hold that Office until noon
when Mayor Grace was sworn in. Thus the
city had three mayors in one day.
PRESIDENT ELECT CLEVELAND held pub
lie reception lasting two hours at the Execl-
tive mansion in Albany on New Years day.
lie was surrounded by his military staff in
full uniform, and shook hands with a large
number OF visitors
In newspaper interview Mr.. Andrew
Carnegie, of the Edgar Thomson Steel works
at Pittsburgh, Penn, and many other indus
trial establishments, proclaims himself an
advocate of socialistic principles When
asked, Are you prepared now to divide your
wealth. Mr.. Carnegie smiled and said: "No
not at present, but | do not spend much on
myself. | give away every year seven or
eight times as much as / spend for personal
comfort and pleasures. Working people have
! my full sympathy, and ! always extend O
! helping hand. Speaking of the present posi-
ton of the worklngman. | believe co-opera
! ton is his hone
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Alleged Cure for Drunk ennesss.

1t is alleged by one who has been
cured of a consuming taste for alcoholic
stimulant that half ounce of ground
quassia stepped in pint of vinegar, a
small teaspoonful of the decoction to be
drunk in little water every time the
thirst comes on, affords a certain cnre.
In a few days the liquor craving will
have entirely disappeared. This is cheap,
simple, and harmless remedy for very
serious and expensive passion. - Chicago
Tribune.
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Foreign.

LATER reports put the loss of life through
out Spain 10y the earthquake shocks at more
than 900 Many persons died of fright.
Severe shocks have also been felt in Austria
and Wales.
IMPORTANT discoveries of fraud have been
made in the Russian treasury at st. Peters.
burg and some of the officials have committed
suicide to escape disgrace and punishment.
ADvICEs from Tonquin report that daily
encounters occur between the French and
Chinese outposts China continues to pour
troops into Tonquin and Formosa
DURING an election riot in a Hungarian
town six persons were killed.
A CAIRO Egypt dispatch says that Gen
eral Wolseley reviewed the British expe-
dition to Gordon's relief as il marched out
of Korti. The column presented an i'm
posing sight being nearly 100 yards wide
and mile long.
A PORTION of the roof of a theatre at Cho.
let, town in France, fell during the per
Torrance. There were about 900 persons
in the audience and more than $50 were
wounded, some fatally.
GERMANY and France are not particularly
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Over 5000 patents on churns have al
eady been granted by the government.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-02-21
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.


Statistics show that women gradu-
ates are about a year older than men on
the average.
The colored people of Philadelphia
have purchased ground on which to
erect an industrial school for colored
children at cost of 100000.
Bishop Lyman, of North Carolina,
says he has ten colored rectors in that
State satisfactorily ministering to con-
gregations of their own color.
The founding of st. Peters College
at Cambridge University, England, 600
years ago, was celebrated recently.
United States Minister Lowell spoke for
Harvard.
The Methodist Episcopal Church rs
going to start another university in
Western Missouri or Eastern Kansas. A
Kansas citizen offers 100000 if they
will call it by his names
The Campbellite Church has pur-
chased $4,000 acres of land at $1.75 per
acre, and taken up 10000 acres addi-
tional near Redding, Shasta County,
Cal, on which they intend to found a
colony. The Campbellites of St. Louis
are the prime movers in the enterprise.
Chicago Times.
The annual report of the Congrega-
tional denomination in Vermont shows
that there are seven associations, 113
churches and 1928 members. Nearly
all the churches have Sunday-schools,
and some of them have two. The num-
Der of officers and teachers is 1,078, and
of scholars 8,257.
I'VE are sorry" says the New York
Independent, ''that the managers of
the New Orleans Exposition have de-
cided to keep the exposition open on
Sunday. This will expose the EXPOSE
ton, in this respect, to the condemna-
ton of the great mass of the Christian
people of this country, who regard Sum
day as a sacred day. 1t is a kind of
iberality with regard to the Sabbath
which we do not believe to be founded
in truth or best for the moral interests
of the people. "
AT the late meeting of the California
State Teachers Association A L. Ban
croft delivered lecture on proposed
new alphabet. The Sacramento Union
says: Previous to the address charts
were distributed showing the proposed
San Francisco alphabet for revised En-
glish spelling, 1884 This shows a
scheme of thirteen vowels, four diph-
thongs and twenty-four consonants.
The system may be summed up prac-
tieally in the statement that 1t is short
hand written in a long way. The char
acters, apart from the ordinary alpha
bet, resemble ordinary letters now in
use generally. Mr.. Bancroft explained
the chart at length, and claimed for the
San Francisco alphabet variety of
advantages
St. Landry democrat., 1885-02-21
The Golden Rule.

Two young lads left by one of the sea-
going steamers a few years back. They
went to country on the other side of
the globe. From the one came home to
his parents hardly ever letter. Mail
after mail came in, but the letter the
old people looked for from their boy
never came. He forgot them, or he for
got to care for them, or he did not take
pains to think of them. The other lad
never missed a mail, Week by week
arrived letter, an interesting letter,
from him in which he told them all his
state. That letter W ) a weekly 10 in
the famil, into winch it came. You
could see smile going over the face of
the mother as she took it up and said:
sit is from Jack" Ay, Jack had got
the Golden Rule by heart. He had said
to himself: eff I were at home and
had mothers or fathers love for my
boy, ] should wish him to write to me. -
And just that was the difference be-
tween the two young lads ] have intro
duced to you. The one obeyed, the
other disregarded the Golden Rule.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-02-21
A Fish Story.

..Don't founder around so!' said the
Grabbed mackerel.
Shut up Or III whale YOU said the
othef.
"WilI you do it a porpoisss, asked
the mackerel.
Not shadow of a doubt q it.
replied the other.
IL beg you be clam, gentlemen" en-
treated lobster.
ssOr eel get in hot water" cried q
sheepshead, on his mussel; and they all
went off for currents. Pittsburgh
Chronicle.
LIN condemning the vanity OF
women, men complain OF the fire they
themselves have kindIed