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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-02
ROBERT BURNS BY MOTION

The chestnut gelding Robert Burns by
Motion. son of Daniel Lambert. was bred
i'll Salisbury. VT, and is six years old thi,
season. He was sold at the Kellogg sale.
New York, March. 1855. by Joseph
Battell, and has taken a record of 2:4l
in his first race, trotted at Flushing. l.. l..
May 3lst last, which he won in three
straight heats. Below is the summary
FLUSHING, MAY 3l.-Purse $3.50.
Robert Burns, CHI e F Burns..... 80.
Lizzie b m. \ >mith.........,.. .... ;
BABY Bill Oh z. Burns...............3 , 4
sarah, b IN. Fl smith. 1
Time, 24l-2 4G-2 -.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-02
BISHOPS HAMBLETONIAN.

GRANVILLE. y. !. March 30. l>s6.
Eduor Register In regard to the stall
lion Bishops IIambletonian. would say
that he stood here about that time. 1919
and l>2U for the service of mares at
ten dollars. and never anywhere else.
He was never harnc>>ed: only ridden Tor
exercise. Yours. (. B. FINCH.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-02
SECOND LETTER.
NEW YONG NInrch u

NEW DIRK. March 2G, 1856.
Ny Dear SU:-Iou are ripht. m
memory. when wrote Mr.. Batteu. b,
ing in fault. ! then could not find a g,
by of my catalogue of September. Isl:
Now that have it before me, find n
dam of Long Island Chief to have bee
Lady Erwin by a Morgan Horse. Wa
lace l. wrong in this. 1t was Lady F.
win that trotted against Rosetta i'm , 3.
She was 1913 hands. The particulars {
her pedigree were given me by Mr.. ;. |
BOVINE of Long Island. from whom
bought three of the produce of Toront
Chief. the two filleS of Sontap beiu
Selma and Lambeth. Who the Morpa
horse was that sired Lady Erwin ha,
no means of knowing.
Trusting that this reply answer, vol
queries and your purpose. am
Very respectfully yours.
\. b. CONGER.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-02
LADY ERWIN AND BLACK WARRIO|
SON OF kILBURNs BILLY BY sLAoI
HAWK
No. 4OG Pine st.

NEW YORK. March 2G. lSS6.
EFHor RcgiSter:-ln reply to yours
the 9th inst. which would have be,
answered sooner had my catalogue be,
discovered at an earlier date. Ina,
now to say that Pet, whose name W
changed in that catalogue sept. ~
heireSs, and got by Black Warrior. h
the following note under Tecate by b,
Abdallah; "Black Warrior was by X
burn Billy, he by Hills Vermont Bla
Hawk"
Hoping that this will satisfy your i
curry remain. very respectfully voul
A. 3. CONGFR.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-02
:. +. WTTHERELL
SOUTH NuREInnEwnck. Me

Ed0"r H'gi>tr:-lour, of the the 22d
i received. and in answer to the first
question would say that Jonathan Bos-
worth died in 1926. we'll REMEMBER the
stray colt which came into hi en-, io>u
She was nice. round. plump mare
weighed about 500 lbs. ; had the appear
ance of the Morgan breed OF horses.
Now | wrote You hat thi~ was the moth
er of the Witherell Horse. but it was not
the case; the first colt ,hc had was the
mother of the Withcrell Horse. but what
horse sired her j. no, known. She was
a fine built animal. weighed 100 lbs.
was light >orrel and in many places in
her name and tail sprinkled with white
hairs. The horse was about her weight
and nearly the same color: he was CON
,dered fast for those days: he would
trot mile in four minutes and that was
considered fast at that time. You ask
what representation was made a. 10 her
blood when my uncle bought her. Now.
he did not buy her, but raised her from
the little stray colt that Bo>worth took
up, whose blood no one knows anything
about. You want 10 know about the
story about the dam of the Witherell
Horse being sired by the Dolphin, owned
by Mr.. Savage of An>on will say
there is no truth in the story. But the
story was told Il number years ago that
the Witherell Horse was sired by the
Dolphin; but such was not the case, for
| knew all parties. The story arose in
this way My uncle took the mare up to
Arson to the old Winthrop Messenger,
then standing at Arson, kept by Mr..
stone; and the horse got kicked and his
front leg broke, and they got service by
helping him; then my uncle left the
mare with Mr. Stone to make sure of a
foal, and Savage reported the story thar
he bred her to the Dolphin. But this
has been sifted out and savage backed
out of his statement and thus the story
fizzled out. You ask me if was old
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-02
WITHEREll MESSENGER.
SOUTH NORRIpGEWOCK. Me.
M


Feb. 20, lNS6.
Editor Register Yours of the 18th is
received. and in answer would say that
the horse you describe was raised by nv
uncle and was called the Witherell Horse
He died in Mr.. Fassett's hands years ago.
The mother of the horse was of unknown
pedigree. She was taken up in the dead
of winter by Jonathan Bosworth of this
town and my uncle bought her. and this
was the mother of the Witherell Horse.
The horse was sired by the old Winthrop
Messenger. Hope this is satisfactory: if
you wish for more on the subject will
answer any questions you ask me to,
know all about this horse ever since he
was toaled. But no one knows the blood
of the mother of the Witherell Horse.
respectfully yours.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-04-29
THE LAST DAYS OFSLAyERY.
Negroes Caught with Molasses-TiSer Tails
Slaves and Sewing Machines.

Negroes Caught with Molasses-Tiger Tails
slaves and Sewing Machines.
Recurring to the landing of the Wan
derer, says the Atlanta Constitution,
the last American slave ship, at Jekyill's
Island on our coast in 1854, Judge
Henry Tompkins says: Il met an old
negro in Chatham Comfy, where L was
holding court. who was brought over
on the Wanderer. He said to me
Dee got us wild 'lasses. Dee glib us
'lasses lick um up. Dee spill UNI
on plank-we Grail up 'ee plank, and
lick UNI 'lasses, lack zee toll hog wild
con- Which goes to show that even
in its primitive shape tafiy is very TAX
ing"
Judge Tompkins, continuing the
casual conversation, said at would be
interesting to know if any Southern
slaves were spirited over to Cuba at
the close of the war or thereabout and
sold in Cuban markets. There was
some talk OF it at the time. A few de-
termined men might have easily
punched hundred negroes on the
Florida coast and slipped over in sail
ing vessels to where each slave would
have brought good prices in gold.
81 knew a man." he went on to say,
"who actually saw few years since the
slaves in the possession of Tiger Tail,
the Seminole chief who lives in the
Florida swamps. 1t was Judge Faulk-
ner of New York. He and party of
friends were in an unexplored lake one
day when they saw long dugout,
holding four Indians and three negroes,
issue from an inlet and skirt along the
lake. The negroes were rowing and
the Indians lying lazily on skins, which
they were carrying to market. They
accosted the chief, who told them
frankly they were his 'n:ggers. He
was told with particularly the story Of
emancipation. he replied:
Ugh! Injun niger no free!' and
motioning to his slaves they bend to
the oars and the dugout glided into
another inlet and was lost to view"
Tiger Tail seems to be quite an orig
inal Seminole. A sewing-machine agent
drifted into his dominion one day and
set up machine in Tiger Tails tent.
The old chief, with great deliberation,
watched him put it through its PAGES.
ho theu aroSe, DTuSneu tne agent 10
one side, and seating himself adjusted
his feet in the treadle. He started the
wheel and found he could make it go.
He sewed up one piece of cloth and
down another and then gravely and
critically examined his work. At last
he appeared TO be satisfied that il was
all right. He then turned quietly to
his wives, who had watched the pro-
ceedings with interest, and kicked
them, one after the other, out of his
tent.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-04-29
The Sun.

The sun is about $1,000, 900 miles
from the earth, not 95,000,000 as was
popularity supposed ten years ago.
Computations made at the last transit
of Venus across the suns disc had es-
tablished the latter figure, though not
exactly. A sun spot measuring one
second of distance is $50 miles in size.
No telescope can deal with smaller
spot The speaker had seen spots with
the naked eye. A spot large enough to
be seen with the naked eye must meas
ure 100000 square miles. How long
the sun has given out heat, astronomers
are not yet able to tell. 1t has prob
ably been for million of ages. We see
the marks of the suns heat in the
depths of the coal mines where lay the
vegetation of ages ago. The pores of
the sun are something wonderful in
their nature. The millions of these
pores are about all of the suns sur
face which can be ordinarily seen
through q telescope. The chrome
sphere, which is stratum of red hot
hydrogen 1900 miles in thickness, can
only be seen during an eclipse. Then
there is the wonderful corona which
varies in size at each eclipse. One seen
from Pixies Peak was estimated at To-
100000 miles in size.-ProC. StcUt, IN
Rochester Democrat.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-04-29

tended to supersede the old tribal au-
thority, under which crime was very
lightly punished. This wo believe is
the first case under the new policy,
and the Indian has gone to the Peni-
Tertiary. 1t will be long step to-
ward the ultimate civilization of the
Indian when he is made amenable to
law. The restraints enforced by legal
penalties will have very healthy in
fuence upon him. 1t is well also that
he should be made to know some Of the
obligations as we'll as the advantages
of society, and that civilization has its
Penitentiaries as we'll as its Pleasant
places.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-04-29

A PHILADELPHIA paper says that the
churches of that city pay less for music
than do any others in the principal
cities of the United States. IL is esti-
mated that nearly $780, 900 is expended
annually upon the choirs of the go
churches 6 Philadelphia, which would
show a cost for each choir of about
$500 year. The paper asserts, how
ever, that the majority of the choirs do
not cost even that amount, and that the
'ceses are very rare where organists are
paid 81 900 or over, and solo singers
more than $500 or 5000.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-04-29

M. PAsTEUR has been visited by a
young man from Geneva who was bit
ten by rat which had been inoculated
with rabid virus in the laboratory of a
local scientist. The rat escaped, but
was caught by the young man, whom it
bit in one of the fingers. The animal
died in nigh state OF rabies.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-04-29

The story is told on the Pacific coast
that Chinaman, discharged on ac-
count of the boycott, turned to his late
employer with an air of genial and inn
personal regret: 30, yes; Ilishman ask
Mclean man send away Chinaman.
That all right. He go back to China
pretty good. Bimeby Ilishman send
Mclean away. Where you go?"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-04-29

ALFRED KRUPP owns probably the
largest business in the world depend
ent on one individual. The works with
in the town of Essen occupy more than
500 acres, half of which are under
cover. According to census taken in
September, 1891, the number of hands
employed by Mr.. Krupp was 1865,
the members of their families 40, 77G,
making 65,3S persons supported by
his works. Mr.. Krupp owns SAT iron
mines in Germany. He owns four sea
steamers, and there are connected with
his Essen works 43 miles of railway,
employing % locomotives and $50 cars,
90 horses, with 191 wagons, and 40
miles of telegraph wires. with 80 sta
tions and 50 Morse apparatuses The es-
tablishment possesses grand chemical
laboratory, a Photographic and litho-
graphic atelier, printing Office with
three steam and six hand presses, and
q binding room. The establish
ment even runs a hotel in Essen.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-04-29

Mrs. DINAH MULoCH CRIAK's hus-
band is the editor of Macmillan's Nag
azi'ae Ho is younger than his wife by
a good many years. Although not
famous, like the author of "John Hall
fax, +" he is clever enough. His father
was . Scotch doctor of divinity.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-04-29

IT is not generally understood that
the "Three Little Maids from School"
business in the "AIikado" is q neat
travesty of very common English GUS
tom. Mr.. Gilbert having satirized near
ly every phase OF British character,
seized on this domestic popularity of
English singers always being seen
together in couples or trios, and,
though no did not dress them alike, he
made them do the same thing and
echo each other just as they do in real
life. Now the "Mikado" has directed
attention to these eternal threes. every
body is saying the London girls are
copying Gilbert's idea; whereas, it is
nothing of the kind they are simply
going about in trios, as they have done
from time immemorial.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-04-29

BETWEEN Tallahassee and Carrabclle,
few days ago, Tallahassee gentle
man counted, in distance of thirty
miles. fifty-three trees that had been
struck by lightning so recently that
they were not yet dead. Using this as
a basis for an estimate, he concluded
that Florida loses annually over 500.-
600 feet of lumber destroyed by light
ninu
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-04-29
Whe Tras Ycrtheruer.


In January, 1885, his big scholars
gave Wilson County school teacher q
ducking He has just received $4,000
damages. This was in Kansas.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-04-29

The Black Hills Oak Times re-
cords the conviction of a Sioux Indian
in an American court for an attempt to
murder another Indian on Indian ter
ritory, the trial having been held under
the provisions of law paused at the
last session of Congress which was ia
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-04-29

"OcH" said love-sick Hibernian,
"what recreation it is to be dying of
love! 1t sets the heart aching SO del
icately there's no taking wink of
Shape for the pleasure of the pain"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-04-29

CHARLES, DEAR" she murmured, as
they strolled along the other evening
and gazed upward at the beieweled
armament, (which is Venus, and which
is Adonis ?"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-04-29

In Crofi'ut's "Life OF the Vanderbilts"
is told the following: "The suit of the
half-craZy 'Cornele' to break the Com
modore's will was approved by several
of his sisters; and two of them did not
like William H., the chief legatee, and
had not for years been on speaking
terms with him. But, after settling
with 'Cornele, he voluntarily gave all
his sisters $500, 900 each in addition to
their bequest. He drove around one
evening and distributed this splendid
largess from his carriage-he himself
carrying the bonds into each house in
his arms and delivering them to each
sister in turn. The donation was ac-
companied by two interesting incidents.
In one case the husband said: will
lam, I've male a quick calculation
here, and / find these bonds don't
amount to quite 100000. They're
$50 short, at the prices quoted to-day.
The donor smiled and made out
his check for the sum TO balance. In
another case husband, after counting
and receipting for the 100000, fol-
lowed the generous visitor out of the
door and said: BY the way, if you
conclude to give the other sisters any
mere you'll see that we fare as well as
any of 'em, won't you?' The donor
jumped into his carriage and drove of
without replying, only saying, with a
laugh to his companions; Well, what
do you think of that p"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-04-29

CHEAP prices have been the ruin of
the Photographic business. Competi-
tion, instead of being the life OF the
trade, has been nearly the death of
photography. Still an active man with
a camera can make money. Mr.. Ball,
of Peterborough, Ont, has solved this
point. He took So bill, photographed
it, and from the negative made twenty
other 50 bills. He found it very easy
to make money, but the difficulty was
in passing it. He got rid of a few of
the photographs, and just as he was get
ting his hand in a detective nabbed him.
1t is too bad that the prosecution of
such noble art as photography should
be subjected to annoying interference
on the part of the law.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-04-29

The aged poet, John G.. Whittier
he is 20 now-retains all his neatness
and tact of expression. There is now
going the rounds stanza he wrote and
sent recently to Gloucester firm who
had named fshing-schooner after
him. Here are the lines:
Luck To the craft that bears this name of mine
Good fortune follow with the golden spoon
The glazed hat and tarry pantaloon;
And wheresoe' er her keel shall cut the brine,
Cod, hake, and mackerel quarrel for her line.
SHIPPED with her crew whatever wind may
blow
Or tides delay, my wish with her shall so,
Fishing by proxy. Would that it might show
At need her course, in lack of sun and star.
Where ice5ergs threaten AMI the sharp reefs are
Lift the blind foas on Anticostis lee
And Ayalon's TO ks make populous the $ a
Round Grand Manan with eager finhy swarms
Break the long Gains end cham away tire
storms.
John G.. Whittier is not the greatest of
poets. But he is poet, and he in one
respect surpasses greater men. He
can write on contemporaneous sub
iects-as witness his poems before the
war-without making them ridiculous.
Few poets can accomplish such feat.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-04-29

THE death of Mrs. Julia T.. Smith
Parker, the last of the Smith sisters of
Glastonbury, so prominent in the in
terests of woman suffrage, has brought
to light one of the first petitions ever
presented to Congress for the abolition
of slavery, from the ladies of Glaston-
bury, and presented through John
Quincy Adams in 1888. Six of the
Smith sisters headed the list, with
some 400 other Glastonbury ladies
following. The names of their de-
scendants are prominent in the anti
slavery movement all over the country.
The state chronicle., 1886-11-18
Tar Heel Liniment!

Valuable Remedy for the Cure and Relief OF
DiarrhGa. ID Dysentery. Cholera MOrbus,
Cramps. Cramp Collie, Kidney Conn
}plaints, Gravel in Bladder. Pains in
stomach and Bowels. Rheumatism, Seu-
ralSia. Lame Stih Back, Bruises.
Sprains. NettIerash. Poison Oak, Itch,
Frost Bites. etc.
For Catarrh and Cold in the Head il
gives instant relief and is an infallibIe
cure.
-@Remember FAR HEEL LINIMENT.
Ask your druggist or merchant for 1t and
take no other. 1t is the Best. Surest and
Safest Liniment on the market Price so
cents per bottle. Sold by Druggists and
Merchants generally. Send for testimonials.
HOUSTON & EMERSON,
Sole Propt's and Manf'rs, Greensboro, \. c.
J. Y. MacRAE,
Wholesale Agent,
Raleigh, N. c. julyI-Sm
The state chronicle., 1886-11-18
Something W e Don't Like TO Tell.

Every man has an idea that engaging
in luatrimony is one thing in his life that
must be held III secret from the whole
world. and will be IN every case whore the
old folks have failed to recognize his re-
quest Well, We will grant you some
credit so far matrimOny IS concerned. .
and if by holding in secret your future
anticipations you get in possession ot-<t
priceless jewel Of your life, We clai4f .ha1
you hold fortune to begin With. 80
much the better, young man, for after
fortune comes a demand for the same To
begin with, you ar requested to visit l..
c. BagWell's Furniture Store. of course
you know Mr.. Bagwell's business, ald to
meet the desires of that little wife You are
bound to come up to the rack. In this
geutleman's store you will find the hand
soonest stock Of Chamber Suits, as we'll as
many elegant Parlor Suits, ever seen in
our city. We will not worry your patience
by mentioning the handsome and varied
articles that compose or stock, but earn
estly invite all to call and be convinced
and after examining We guarantee that
something has met your eyes which Will
not be held from the world, but will not
be proclaimed in every household. Bug
wells Is the place to make home attractive
as well a> Gt >irable for its comforts. era
dies a specially. No. u E Martin Street,
next door to Racket store
The state chronicle., 1886-11-18
AS TO GoWD ORDER.

The good order in Raleigh has been a
subject of general remark At the DO
Htlcal conventions heretofore we have
looked for them this year, dnd sar none
We have gone to police headquarters.
thinking perhaps they could give US
some information. We sought out Mai.
Chas. d. leartt. our excellent Chief
of Police, and had the following inter
view with him, we put the questions
and he answered them
ones. Major Heartt. YOU were so1o-
posed to prohibition, were YOU not:
ms. | was, and for the simple rea-
son that | didn't think it could be en-
forced, on account of the general oppo-
sition to such laws.
QtcS. DO YOU find it difficult to en-
force the law:
4Hs. Not very difficult
Ques Do you think that the law is
frequently violated in Raleigh:
4gS. | do not. We had in Raleigh
a better class of liquor-dealers than YOU
usually find in cities, and they are dis
posed to observe the law. So far as |
know none of the old dealers have at
tempted to violate the law. My police
force is very vigilant, and we have de-
tected no violations Of the law. What
liquor is drunk in Raleigh is brought
from elsewhere. or sold on prescriptions
of physicians.
[He did not mean by this that the
physicians were giving any improper
prescriptions.-ED.l
Ques. What effect has prohibition il
Raleigh had upon the mechanics and
laboring men who drank habitually, OF
The state chronicle., 1886-11-18

From Goldsboro Argus.

The Raleigh CHRONICLE completed last
week its first year under its present able
and fearless editorial management, and it
has been, we are glad to know, a year
Of prosperity and widening popularity
Brother Daniels has made the CHRONICLE
not only worthy but desirable paper,
that none can read without feeling enter
tanned and bettered. 1t should have a
place by every tireside in the land, and
that it is making rapid strides towards
such consummation is indeed pleasure
to us
The state chronicle., 1886-11-18
Death, the Reaper, Still Il ReapIng.

In Greensboro, Nov. 18th, Rev. j. G.
Alexander, Pastor of Buffalo and Bethel
Presbyterian churches, of paralysis.
Rev. Walter ". Pharr, of the Presby-
teran church, died near Mallard Creek, IN
Mecklenbur5 county, on Wednesday, Nov.
10th, Of paralysis.
In Randolph county, Friday, N"v.
12th, Mr. James Odell, aged SO years,
month and days He was the father OF
Mr.. J \. Odell, of Greensboro, and Capt.
]. u Olell of Concord
The state chronicle., 1886-11-18

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