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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-09

DURING an alteration between two physi-
clans in Saybrook, Ill.,, DR.. George Barton
struck DR.. Harvey t. Harris, whereupon the
latter drew a revolver and shot his opponent
dead.
JUDGE GEORGE w. WARD, editor of the
Abingdon VA Examiner, was shot by Will
liam White ln1ependant candidate for the
State senate. relative Of White and an
other man also fired upon Ward, who re-
ceived nine wounds, and was reported in a
critical condition. The trouble grow out of
an article in Judge Wards paper.
JAKE Flowers, a drunken colored man.
tried to assault three co'ored women near
Summervllle, s. c., and after failing III each
attempt burned down their dwellings. One
of the women was caught by Flowers while
fleeing from her burning building and fatally
injured. Flowers was shot dead by a con-
stable.
In n fire which destroyed one Of the build
ings of the insane asylum at Warm Springs,
Montana, three inmates-two men and q
woman-were burned to death.
BISHOP CLAwsoN, n prominent Mormon
of Salt Lake City, has been found guilty of
polygamy under the provisions of the United
States law forbidding plurality OF wives,
and has been sentenced to imprisonment.
Other Mormons similarly found guilty, es-
capped punishment by pledSing obedience to
the law.
FOUR men were caught between coal cars
at Cleveland, Ohio. Andrew Devir was in
stantly killed, Patrick McMannon fatally in
jured, and James Guilty and Owen Gala.
CHER seriously but not mortally injured.
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

JOSEPH JEFFERsoN'S oil lest son is about
thirty-six years Ole, his youngest not as many
days
EDWARD LLOYD, the famous English
singer, is an enthusiastic devotee of cricket
and lawn tennis.
"DoN CESAR" is the latest operetta which
has scored a success in Berlin. Of course it
will make its way hither.
NINE. MARIE SELIKA, the colored prima
donna, of Boston, has finished her studies
abroad and is on her way home.
NINE. GERSTER will soon begin concert
tour in America, at Boston, under the man
agement of Mr. Henry L. Abbey.
MAURICE GRAU has contracted to pay
Sarah Bernhardt 500 a performance during
her coming years tour in America.
OZARK DAYS" Hugh Conway's novel, has
been dramatizcd and will be produced both
in London and this country this season.
MISS MINNIE HAUK has signed a contract
with Mapleson to join his company in this
country for the forthcoming opera season.
HERR LEwITA, the Austrian pianist, has
been engaged for six months tour in
America. He will take part in Nine. Ne
vada's concerts.
AMONG the productions shortly to occur at
the California theatre will be a dramatiza-
ton of Admiral Iorter's novel, called ALLAN
| Dare"
VERDI now shuns hearing music sung or
/ played, whether his own or anothers. He
/ never touches the piano, but frequently huns
TO himself simple old Italian songs.
THIRTY actors, twenty coryphees, forty
chorsters, 40 auxiliareS and thirty stage
hands are employed in each performance of
the Comedy of Errors in New York.
WILLIAM TERRIss, the actor, who came to
America with Irving. lately rescued a boy
from drowning in the Thames, and was re-
warded by the Royal Humane society with q
gold medal.
A THEATRE was stolen at Naples not long
ago. A manager built small house, and
after giving performances in it a few months
departed. When he returned he found that
some one had had the theatre taken to pieces
and sold tie timber.
THE earliest use of the word "pianoforte, ~
so far as is known, was in a playful dated
May 10, 176l. The piece announced was
The Beggar's Opera The bill read: "Aliss
Buckler will sing a song from judith, ac-
comanied by Mr.. Dbdin upon new instru-
ment called p.anoforte. '"
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Foreign.

Two Cuban leaders have just been killed
by the Spanish troops in Cuba
THE Turkish losses in the ten days fight
ing at Dwakova were two hundred men. The
Albanians lost 1000 killed.
A FIRE in Iquique. Peru, has destroyed
the most important portion of the town, very
few business houses escaping. The estimated
aggregate losses reach S2,OOJ,OOO
HEAVY floods, with great destruction OF
property are reported throughout the eastern
portion of Switzerland.
A LEADING Paris paper says that Russia
has decided t. recognize the union of Bull
garia and Roumelia; that Germany has Of
fered no opposition to the union, and that
Austria makes the compensation of Servia
and Greece a condition OF her assent.
Az area of 25JJ miles in India has been
devastated by heavy floods Many lives have
been lost aul great amount OF property de-
stroyed.
IL a recent fight with the Hovas, in
Madagascar, the French were repulsed, with
loss.
THOMAS LUMSDEV, a wealthy Canadian
farmer and stock raiser, was gored to death
by bull which he was driving to an exhibit
ton at Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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DYING OF STARVATION.
DepIOrahIc Result of the Fish cries
Failure i'm Labrador.

1t has been announced that the Labrador
fisheries have proved failure, and that the
inhabitants along that inhospitable shore are
starving. The news came by way of st Johns,
n. f.. fishing schooner having put i'll there
bearing for the governor petition from the
inhabitants of Sandwich bay stating that they
were starving and imploring assistance before
the winter sets in. The captain states that
already snow has fallen on several occasions.
Cod and mackerel seem to have vanished
from the waters. The porgie fish have been
so scarce that the oil factories have not been
able to obtain sufficient to keep them run
ming, AMI have consequently closed up for the
season, throwing out of employment a large
number of persons. These have seen living
on what they could beg. Articles of food
have long since reached such fabulous
prices as to be entirely out Of reach
of the poor. The supply of flour is entirely
exhausted. Scurvy has made its appear
ance and many have died with it. The suf-
fering of the women and children beggars all
description, the little ones dying in the arms
of mothers who have no food to give them,
and cold and exposure complete the list Of
woes. Several ships will be necessary to meet
the demand, as the famine extends along the
entire coast Provisions and fuel have been
sent to the unfortunate people.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

GENERAL LoYGsTREET is keeping hotel
at Gainesville Ga.
QUEEN VICTORTAs private fortune is esti-
mated to be $50, 0O0,OJO
SAMUEL j. TILDEN has had 1S7 books read
to him during the rast eighteen months.
LORD CoLERIDGE, England's chief justice,
intends to come to America again shortly.
CANON FARRAR, of England, ArchdeacoD
of Westminster, is at present in this country,
lecturing.
ROBERT BROWNING, the English poet.
though now seventy-three years old, insists
that he is coming to the United States
Mr.. MOODY, the evangelist, is somewhat
stouter than he was in the earlier years Of his
work, and his head sinks farther down be-
tween his shoulders.
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NEWS SUMMARY.
ro.,crr nud ruIddIo States.

THE British yacht Genesta has added a
third trophy to her victories in this country,
winning the Cape May International Chal-
lenge cup in an ocean race which lasted nearly
two days, and resulted in an easy victory for
the cutter.
THE Grant national monument fund up to
recent date had reached $50, 5J2.
GENERAL EDWARD f. JONES was nomina-
ted for acknowledgements by the New York
Democratic State committee in place of MIR.
Flower, declined.
THE Massachusetts, Greenbackers ut their
State convention in Boston nominated full
ticket, headed by James Sumner for gov
ernor.
THE owner of the British yacht, Genesta,
refused $4,000 for the craft, but offered to
sell her in New York for $4,000.
THE famous collection of orchids belonging
to the late Mrs Morgan was sold at auction
the other day in New York. Nearly 400 of
the 1000 plants were sold on the first day,
and brought about $1,000, siXty-five of them
bringing over S25 each. The highest price
paid for single plant was $3.50
THE Massachusetts Republicans, at their
State convention in Springfield, renominated
Governor Robinson, the remainder of the
ticket being: Oliver Ames, for lieutenant
governor; Henry B. Pierce, for secretary of
state; A.. w. Beard, for state treasurer and
receiver general; Charles K. Ladd, renomi-
mated Tor auditor; Edgar H. sherman, LOT
attorney general The platform demands
the suspension of the silver dollar and the OK
tension of tho principles of the civil service.
Ex-Governor FRANKLIN j. MOSES, of
South Carolina charged with obtaining money
under false pretenses from prominent citizens
of Boston, has been sentenced to three years
imprisonment.
Mr.. WILLIAM PAGE, the painter, and
formerly president of the American Academy
of Design, died the other day at his home
near Tottenville, N Y, aged seventy five
years.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-09

SEVEN agents for the Indians in various
sections were appointed the other day by the
President, as follows: w. l.. Powell, of Nir-
ginia; John V. Summers, of Missouri; Mark
w. Stevens, of Michigan Charles Hill, of
Nebraska; Moses Veal, of Kansas; Henry +.
Williamson, of Mississippi; Fletcher l. Cow
art, of Alabama.
PosrMAsTERs appointed by the President:
b. j. Sheridan, at Paola, Kan; Robert f.
Chiffon, at Santa Anna, Cal: Edward Van
De Casteele, at De Pere, Wis; Harry $,
Parker at Pennington, n H.. 4: f. H. Spinney,
Medford, Mass. Burritt b. Breed, at Lisbon,
Dakota; Fidela kilgore, at Lorgview. Texas;
J.. r. Davis, at Athens, Ala Milton H.
Westbrook, at Lyons, Iowa; James b. Black
well, at Marietta, Ga; John Sherman, at
Monroe City, Mo. Thomas a. Gary, at Gal
weston Texas; L. f. Waggoner, at Shelby
vile, Ill; John A. Collins, at Washington,
Mo. f. T. Matthews, at bowling Green Mo.
John Flynn, at Duluth, MINI.
THERE were Glj patents issued for the week
ending on the 18th, the largest number ever
issued in one week in the history of the
patent office.
ADDITIONAL appointments by the Presi-
dent; Edward A Stevenson, of Boise City,
Idaho, to be governor of the territory, of
Idaho; William b. Webb, of Billings, Mon
tana, to be secretary of the territory of
Montana; James T. Healey, assist
ant treasurer at Chicago Presidential post
masters Walter w. McGrew at Eureka,
Kan: John c. Friend, Rawlins, Wyoming;
Isaiah Garrett, Monroe, La. Arthur d.
Glover, Olympia, Washington Territory
James BlG-r Grand Rapids, Mich.
THE President has decided that the offices
of weigher and guager in the customs service
cannot be filled without an examination under
the civil service commission. This decision
practically disposes of the case of Sterling,
who was recently appointed wegher in the
New York custom house. and then suspended
by order of the President, pending an investi
cation into the manner of his appointment.
THE President has refused to accept the
resignation Of DR.. j. b. Hamilton surgeon
general of the marine hospital service, declar
ing the best interests of the service would bt
served by retaining its chief.
SENATOR LOGAN delivered a eulogy OF
General Grant at services held in Washing
ton few days since III commemoration o.
the dead commander
FURTHER appointments of postmasters by
the President: Richard j. Ashby at Charles
ton, w. Va; James Delaney at Saint Peter
Mimi.
JOHN S. WISE, Republican candidate 70
governor Of Virginia, had an alteration in
train between Washington and Alexandra
with eX-Congressman John Amber Smith
The trouble ended in Wise's striking Smit
in the face, drawing blood
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THE NATIONAL GAME.

THE New Yorks are the first league team
to make 1000 base hits.
The St Louis Americans won the series
from every club in the association.
ALL of the Chicago players but McCor-
mick have made home runs this season.
MORE games have been won this season by
a single run than IN any season since the
league was formed.
The three defeats of the New York league
nine at Chicago practically gave the cham
pionship of the National league to the Chic
ago club.
The Southern league has developed consid-
cradle baseball talent since it was organized
last spring, and the American association
clubs are now getting the benefit of it by
buying up tho best of the players.
The Eastern New England and New York
State leagues have shown greater vitality
and tenacIty of life than the Eastern league,
and their teams are just as high-salaried as
the Eastern league teams and compare favor
ably with them in playing strength.
THE NATIONAL LEAGUE.
The last week of the League season began
with the following showing, the Chicago
club having virtually won the champion
shin.
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musical organizations like the 1--WE, Us q
Co, )" "The Parlor Match" and the "Rag
Baby" combinations. 1t is reported by
managers who have been travelling about
during the past month that the popular crav.
ing for such entertainments is beyond any
thing of the kind ever before seen.
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A GREAT CORN CROP.
Tho Yield in the United states Esti-
mated at 1,979, 900 bushels.

The corn crop in the United States having
passed the critical stage, and whatever of
danger menaced the cereal from frost being
now ended, owing to the maturity of the
grain. :he Farmers RerieiC of Chicago, has
called in reports from its l 400 correspond
ents, giving the area and probable yield in
every county in the ten leading corn-produc.
ing States, and has compiled from these the
the following estimates of the approximate
yield of the crop of 1885 as compared with
that of 1884,
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A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS.
Strange Series OF Fatalities i'm q
French Town,

A few days ago Jean Coubret, a mason liv-
ing at Nallon, France, fell from scaffold
and fractured his spine, his injuries proving
fatal. His brother Tranquillc, on returning
from the funeral with his brother-in- law
Jaillet, fell into the Bessay canal and was
drowned the brother-in-law himself losing
his life in endeavoring to rescue him. On the
following day when the bodies We're recov-
cred, the widow of Jaillet swooned away,
and, falling TO the ground, fractured her
skull. Such a catenation of catastrophes is
surely without parallel.
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....... 1,25l, SOC, 900
900 1,49G, 236, 900

Excess over last year. ........... lS4, GAO, 900
On the basis that the States and Territories
outside the ten I--Sed will produce as much
corn as they did .ast year, or 543, 400 600
bushels, and this would Dem assured from a
study OF the reports, it will give total crop
of 1879, 636, 600 bushels.
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FEDERAL FINANCES.
Last Monthly Statement Of the
National Debt.
The Cash in the Treasury and the
Coinage of the MINIS.

The apparent decrease in the public debt
for September is SIP ,757, 06j This amount
is reduced, however, by payments of about
s7,5OOOOO due on account Of interest on
bonds. Following is recapitulation of the
last statement issued:
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ACCORDING to a recent estimate there are
2S5,00O, 900 acres of improved land, 445, 900, :
900 acres of forest and $50, 600. 900 acres Of
unimproved and waste untimbered land in
the United States.
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INTEREST BEARING DEBT.
Bonds at 4 per cent ....... S250,OO0,O)O0 90
Bonds at per cent 80 100, 43O 90
Bonds at 3 per cent.......... ia, l9O, 5OO %
Refunding certificates at4per
cent?. ................... @Sh UJJ w
cent.........1.. ......!... 1900 600 90
Pacific Railroad bonds at
per cent. ................. Gt,G23,5l2 90
Principal. ,2G0, III 4G2 90
Interest ......,........ 12,2l4, 1SS 50
Total ........... ..."$1, 272, 992, go 50
Debt on which interest has
ceased since maturity:
Principal .........:..... S3,s71, 1856 90
Interest .............. 22l, 1872 80
Total. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. S4,o92, III 81
DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST.
Old demand and legal tender
notes ............... ....... So4o, 100, oop w
Certificates of deposit. ...... 3, 900 90
Gold certificates ............ 11S,13G 80 90
Silver certificates. ........... 1886, IlG %
Fractional currency, less S.,
$40, 90 estimated as lost
destroyed ................. O,JOl, lO$ %
Principal. $3.50, ,554 IS
TOTAL DEBT.
PRINCIPAL 81 So, 32S, 4o2 ii
Interest. 2,436, l21 Is
Total ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 81, S65, 764, 523 81
Less cash items available for
reduction Of the debt. $40, ,O74 10
Less reserve held for redemp-
ton of United States notes.
500, 900 900. .............. $40, o27, o74 20
Total debt, less available
cash items ,52i S37, AIS 81
Net cash in the Treasury. G3, SOB, l06 so
Debt less cash in the Treas
ury Oct /, 1885. .......$1 AGO, o34,342 81
Debt less cash in the Treas
ury Sept. /, 1885. ......... 1,473, 692, 3O7 So
Decrease of debt during the
month as shown by this
statement. ................ 12,75I0G5 25
CASH IN THE TREASURY.
| Available for reduction of the
debt:
| Gold held for gold certificates
actually outstanding. -. e. Sis, 1871, 100 90
| Silver held for silver certii-
| Gates actually outstanding. 1856, ZIG 90
( United States notes held for
certificates of deposit act
ually outstanding ..."..... 23,1SGo 900 90
| Cash held for matured debt
and interest unpaid ....... 5,0i5,O36 Il
Fractional currency ......... 2,5Ol ~
Total available for reduc-
ton of debt ........ s?lO,927,O 74 20
RESERVE FUND.
Held for redemption of Uni
ted States notes, acts of
January H. 1910, and July
II, 1SS2 ..........-...... SlOO,OOO,OJO W
Unavailable for
reduction of
debt Frac-
coin ........~$23, ,s93 70
Minor coin 1g6, So % q. 43S, 40 05
Certificates held as cash -. 54,G67, $50 90
4. 1. mo
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s?lO,927,074 20

RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES.
Receipts of the United States for Septem.
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The Nationals of w
declared champions of q
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Total available for reduc-
ton of debt. .........

Held for redemption of Uni
ted States notes, acts of
January IA, 1910, and July
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1885-08-20
An Exploded Boom.

A long, lank, lean and chron &C Ant-Pot-
ash Boom met the new, fat and saucy At.
lanta Big Bold Boom, on hot, sultry day.
"Who are your" asked the B. B. B.
Boom.
II am the old Anti.POtash Boom" was
the sad reply, as the Precipitation rolled
Down, and it leaned heavily ON the B B.
Il. Boom for support.
Don't lean on me" said The B. B. B.
Boom. II may look strong, but am quite
young-only IA months old. am growing
rapidly, and am mighty weak in the knees
| am doing the work which you have failed
to do, although you arc fifty years old.
You are old, and tough, and rich, and don't
require support. But what causes you
to look so thin of late?"
"Well, | hardly know" replied the An
ti-Potash Boom. My physicians tell me
that my abilities have been over-rated and
that while trying to whip out all epposi-
ton by boast and brag, that l have proven
my inability. Old age is also creeping on
me-having fought near so years before
any one knew l was living-and now |
am unable to perform feats that others are
doing. | am collapsed; my friends have
turned against me and call me names, and
oh Lordy, how sick become at the very
sight of B b. B. Hold my head while l
die -
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Card from the Trustees.

We invite the attention of the public to
the fact that the exercises of this Institute
will be resumed on the first Monday in
September next under the control and man
agement of Col. Peter F. Brown and his
accomplished daughter, Mrs. Julia Pickett,
with such assistants in the Music and TT
Departments as exigencies may require.
We take pleasure in presenting this excel
lent corps of educators to our community
and the public We feel assured in say
ing that as teachers they have no superiors
in the country, and as to purity of heart
and character they cannot be excelled. We
solicit for them cordial welcome into our
city, the patronage of our own people and
Others who may wish their children prac-
ticaly and thoroughly educated
Re pectfully,
w w Farnum, O B Stevens,
W N Thornton, j PSharp.
i Martin, L Lowrcy,
w II Turner, VIC Wall.
T G James, 1--WE Lowrcv.
July 1876 Board of Trustees.
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REGULATOR!
Philip Pearce, Transferee, !
vs.. Rule
L. S. Batey, Nisi.

Mortgage &C., in Terrell Supe-
rior court Of Terrell county, Ga,
May term, 1885. Present, the
Hon. John t. Clarke, Judge of
said court.
1t appearing to the court by
the petition of Philip Pearce that
on the second day of o. tober,
1882, L. S. Batey, of said county,
made and delivered to George
Mcdonald his certain promissory
note for one hundred dollars pay
able to said George Mcdonald, or
bearer, due on the first day of Oc-
tober, 1883, and to secure the pay
ment Of said note, said L. S. Ba-
tey on the same day and time,
the second day of October, 1882,
executed and delivered to said
George Mcdonald his mortgage
deed to the following described
property, to-wit: Son my house
and lot containing one acre of
land i'll Terrell county, Georgia,
being about one mile from court
house, Dawson, Ga, being north
of said court house, the house and
lot being the property 1 bought
of Jas. P, Sharp and being the
house and lot in which Amanda
Seward now lives. The number
of lot on which above mortgaged
house and lot stand I do not now
remember, being the house and
lot occupied by myself many years.
Condition, that if said L. S. Ba-
tey shall pay off and discharge
said note according to the tenor
and effect thereof, then said note
and mortgage shall be void. And
1t also appearing that afterwards
to-wit on 22nd day Of December,
1882, said note and mortgage were
transferred in writing by George
Mcdonald to l.. A. Dugan, and
that said L. A. Dugan on the first
day of December, 1883, transfer
red the same to petitioner and
that petitioner is now the owner
and transferee of said note mort
gage and that the same remains
unpaid.
1t is therefore ordered that said
l.. S. Batey pay into this court by
the first day OF this next tel m
thereof the principal, interest and
costs due on said note or show
cause to the contrary, if there be
any, and on failure of said L. S.
Batey to do SO. the equity of re-
demption in said mortgaged prem
ises be forever thereafter barred
and foreclosed
And it is further ordered that
this rule be published in the DAw-
SON JOURNAL once month for
four months or copy thereof
be served on said L. 8. Batey or
his special agent or attorney al
least three months before the next
term of this court.
JOHN T. CLARKE
May 20, '85. J. C. P. G.
l do hereby certify that the
above is true extract from the
minutes of Terrell Superior Court.
j. G. F CLARK,
Jnne 20, '95. Clerk.
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DR.. Dodd's Nervine & Tonic,
A FAMILY MEDICINE.

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Melancholy, Low Spirits, Dependency,
Headache, Slceplessnesss Evil Forcbod.
ings Cold, Hands and feet. Price Sf00
For sale by j. R.Janes' Sons Draecists
Dawson, Ca. Sent by mail.