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Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1886-04-22
ANECDOTES OF BUTLER.
His Four-Hundred Dollar Bang uet
The Irishman and the monkey.

A Washington letter says: | heard
the first true version Of the monkey and
hand organ story which has been pri-
vately told in army circles here now
and then, but not always correctly. 1t
comes To me from high treasury olli-
cial, who had something to do with the
settlements Of Gen. Buffers army ac-
counts. These accounts were very large
and some of the items seemed out of all
nature to the expenses probably incur
red. After Butler, however, explained
them, it Was seen that they were per-
fectly right and proper. There were SO
many of these strange items that But
Ter was called to the treasury to look o.
yer the accounts with the officials. One
New Orleans item objected to was
banquet, Post Office st. Charles Ho-
tel-$400.'
Now said the treasurer, it's all
right, Gen. Butler, for you to give as
many banqnets as you please, but L
don't see how, in justice you could ask
Uncle Sam to pay 500 for supper
which you choose to give to the post
master at New Orleans al the st.
Charles Hotel there
oh said Gen. Butler, with laugh,
That item is easily explained. BAN
quet,' is the New Orleans name for
street, and that S40O was spent for fixing
the street between the post office and ST.
Charles Hotel
After the laughter over this item had
subsidized, the treasury official said ::
We'll, Gen. Butler, have no doubt
these accounts are right, and if you
will explain satisfactorily one other
item 1 will pass them. Here is a charge
of $50 tor hand organ and monkey.
Now what possible use hand organ
and monkey would be to the United
States Government, or TO you as its
General, cannot see.'
Gen. Butler then told the following !:
Il can also explain that hand organ and
monkey item. 1t was the hottest time
of my campaign about Baltimore. The
rebels were very close mouthed, and /
could get no inside news OF the doings
of the rebels. One day L saw a great
crowd gathering round man with a
hand organ who had a very large mon
key. AS / drew nearer / noticed that
the man playing the organ looked very
much like smart Irishman whom l
had among my soldiers. / said nothing
but went back to my headquarters, ard
calling up the Irishman, in whom l had
perfect confidence, gave him some mon
ey and told him 20 go and buy out the
musician. He did so. He bought tho
hand organ, the monkey, and the mu-
sician'S clothes, and paid $50 for them.
Dressed in these, sent him out as a
spy. He travelled all the surrounding
country and gave me some very valu a.
ble information. This information was
worth thousands of dollars to the Uni
ted States Government, and,' conclud-
ed Butler, you can thus see why it paid
the United States to pay $50 for hand
organ and a mOnkey.'
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1886-04-22

The city of New York embraces an
area of "a, 1894 acres. Within the city
limits are 500 miles of public roads, eX-
elusive of parks, and to clean these ST.
100, 900 was expended i'll the year 1885
Seventy-fye Thousand dollars is an.
nually spent in removing snow and ice
alone.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1886-04-22

CARDS. "A large assortment of Sun
day School cards, Easter cards and
Birthday cards, just received at the
Journal Store. IF
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1886-04-22
'PN-7 - - as ADVERTISING RATES. 9 e e 2
square ysS .4Ss y ! s &
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One inch makes square, Administrators
and Executors Notices $50. Transient adYer-
tisements and locals 10 cents per fihe for first
insertion and cents per line for each Rdsiiti0n7
- - ana .laiyrlanI alaE .nra1n..
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-06-18
borse Department.

The Middebury REGISTER now for more
than year has been giving much original
and valuable information upon Morgan and
other celebrated horses. 1t intends to con.
tinue publishing such information from week
to week, giving at least II page to its Horse
Department When sufficient material has
accumulated we expect to place ii in .book
form, publishing first our volume upon
the Morgan Horse, and afterwards Reg
lister of the more distinguished sires and
performers. In the latter we hope to include
all 80 performers, with their breeding, SO far
as can be ascertained; also to distinguish be
tween things that are known and things that
are not known, in every pedigree. In all cas-
cs the evidence upon which the pedigrees are
based will be given to the public through the
columns of THE MIDDLEBURY REGISTER. This,
we are satisfied is what the public wants and
ought to have. Many judgments are better
than one.
THE REGISTER by reason of this extensive
information and this method of giving il, is
rapidly becoming Indispensable to all breed.
crs and horsemen. 1t should also be an OK
cellent medium for advertisers, especially
those dealing in Morgan horses.
Preserve your files, for they will form, with
the full indexes thereto, Il most valuable and
available cyclopcdia of horse matters.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-06-18
Mr.. THORNE WRITES CHAPTER

Correspondence Turf, Field and Farm
Some five days since | received a copy
of the June number of Vdlloce's uonthIy
from the office of publication. Not hay
ing seen even the outside of number of
it for some months, had the curiosity to
sent to me with an object Skipping over
the "borrowed departments. " found the
first editorial headed Evolution of the
Trotting Register" Mr.. Wallace COM
mences by saying The story of the
American Trotting Register is the story
of more than thirty years of labor evolv-
ed out of nothing" With that as his
capital, he first commenced on running
horses He accepted everything and
anything in the shape of pedigree. no
matter from what source it came. as be-
ing true. He worked with great care
and precision and everything in the
shape of pedigree that could be had up
To the close of 1870 he had. When 10 and
behold, he says. "the truth began to
dawn upon Us that the whole work. pub
lished and unpublished, abounded in mis-
representations and frauds" 1t must
have been Il terrible blow to him. Let's
see, from the close of 1870 to the present
time is lG years, and, as he tells his read
ers, the Register is "A story of more than
80 years of labor, there must have been
II years of hard labor right in the prime
of his manhood wiped completely out of
existence. 1t was truly a sad realization,
but like general after battle, he mar
shaded his forces and found that the ell
tire thoroughbred department, horse foot
and dragons, was irredeemably demon
allied, but the trotting supplement of 100
pages in the first volume of the stud
book, though badly demoralized also
(few bad taken sufficient interest in it to
find it Out), lit seemed to be more highly
priced by the great mass of breeders than
the body of the book itself" This was a
most encouraging fact, and he continues
I'VE travelled all over the country, gath
ering information from all sources and
securing the cooperation and assistance
of breeders. We were received with a
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-06-18
Thorndale. June Z. lssG
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE NOR
RlLL HORSES.
THEIR ORIGIN AND PECULIAR CHARACTER
ISTlCS.

Allen W. Thompson in spirit of the Times.
\ celebrated family of any breed of do
nestle animals generally takes its name
from sire. noted either for his individu-
al merit or for the family he originates.
Sometimes, and indeed not unfrequentlv.
ternal side. But the family we propose To
speak of took its name from the sire. He
was foaled in the spring of 1911. the
property of James Heath of the town of
Walden, Caledonia county. VI. When
four months old he was purchased by
Eben Perkins, a resident of the same
town. Mr.. Perkins kept him until he
was two years old, and then snapped
him to French Morrill,, then of Danville,
Caledonia county, Vt. Mr.. Morrill, kept
him until he died, in August. lSG2. being
eighteen years old at the time of his
death. His pedigree has always been
given rs follows: Sire. Jennison Horse
grandsre, Young Bulrush Morgan ;
great grandsire, Bulru>h Morgan
great, great grandSire, Justin Nor
gan dam by harrington Horse. he by the
Vance Horse, he by Imported Messenger.
This short pedigree, which has been so
universally admitted to be true, will, we
think, be found incorrect in at least one
very important branch. This Vance
Horse we do not believe TO have been IA
son, or grandson,o of Imported Messenger.
1t is perhaps within the range of probable
tiles that he was great-grandson, but we
have serious doubts about this. We hope
to be able in few months at longest to
give the true pedigree of this horse. 1t is IL
matter at least of considerable interest to
know whether the originator of this fam
lily of trOtters had strain of Messenger
blood or not.
On the side of his sire there is a dispute
about the pedigree of the JennisOn Horse
There are those who deny that he was by
Young Bulrush Morgan and set up the
claim that he was sired by horse known
in his neighborhOod as the Daniel Dana
Horse. The facts as claimed by this party
are that the dam of the Jennison Horse
was couple with Young Burush Morgan
and supposed by her owner To be in foal
by him, but that he left her some six
weeks after at the village blacksmith
shop to be shod, and while absent the
smith discovering her to be in heat, and
Others present noticed it, and this Dana
Horse being near by, the boys took her
and coupled her with the Dana Horse /;
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-06-18

reputation for truth and veracity is such
! can't see how | am to be benefited by
any Endorsement of yours. At this iunct-
ure the stage drew up at the door. Mr..
Wallace closed his book and consigned
it. with my bill, to his handbag, got into
the stage and was soon numbering along
the turnpike on his way to Poughkeepsie.
By the way he shut that bag and got
into that stage could scethat he was far
from happy.
Many is the time have thought of that
visit and pictured how differently it
would have terminated if Mr.. Wallace
had on his arrival alighted from the wag-
on and introduced himself as an honest
man would have done. instead of keep
ing his seat and Glowing the country
lad and telling him to introduce him. as
he did: and instead of telling me the rig
marole about the object of his visit had
told me the naked truth. and while here
had talked and discussed the subject,
which he did not, he would have left
feeling much more happy.
The first intimation had from his lips
what he working at was when he inform
ed me the amount of my bill. He shift
ed the scenes on me-So quickly it al
most paralysed me-and the stage com
ing along as it did was like dropping the
curtain before the close of an act.
Poor man. pity nm. His lot has
been an unhappy one. He has wanted
to accomplish great and good under
taking. Taking all things into consider
alton, he has succeeded to Il much great
cr extent than any one who knew his fa-
Guilty for making enemies could reason
bly, have supposed.
He has been slow to learn. He has not
yet realized the value of truth. His Ev.
olution of the trotting Register is Just a,
full of misstatements a. was his state
ment to me of the object of his visit Il
years ago. 1t was well known then tha
he knew nothing about pedigreeS. anC
that as he says at this late day. I'VE ac
cepted what we found in the various pub
LEGATIONS as true instead of investigator.
the true from the false" simply becauS,
of his inability from lack of knowledge,
to do otherwise.
He abandoned the thoroughbred StuC
book because the field was occupied by
another party who was thoroughly con
VerSant with the subject. and there
wasn't ghost of chance for him t,
succeed. The Trotting Register was tax
en- up as his only alternative. lie ha,
the field to himself. and by his persisten
cy and untiring energy. in spite of hi
untruthfulness and i'll temper, he Ia
managed to keep it.
The trotting horse breeder, owe him
debt of gratitude for the good he has ac
cOmpliShed. but it j. a. nothing compare,
with what it might have been had n
pursued Il different policy: but unfor
tunately that is the Wallace of it,
The evening has run we'll into tn
night. have said my say, and truS
what have written may meet the eye
of that solitary breeder to whom Nh
Wallace refers, and that we may hay
the pleasure of hearing from him.
can but think that he must have bee
an awfully mean fellow.
EDWIN THORNE.
Thorndale. June :. lss6.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-06-18

the younger lady, thought, from her
fathers intimacy with Joseph Cooper
and the fact that he bred to Cooper's
horse, that the colt she referred to was a
son of Stockbridge Chief and the Blue
Bull mare Flora.
ITO he continued
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-06-18
VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF ROAD
AND TROTTlNG HORSE BREED

Patrons will bear in mind that the sec
ond installment of entry fees are due and
payable July |, and must be paid on or
before that date.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-06-18
THE ADAMS MARE AGAIN.
WAS SHE PRINCESS, 2:ao9

We have received the following letter
from Mr.. Thomson in relation to the
mare that he calls Princess:
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-12-03
Transforming a Desert.


= Some years ago Colonel Roudaire
brought forward proposal to transform
some of the deserts in Africa into inland
seas, the level Of the soil being at pres
ent about so feet below that Of the Med
iterranean. An alternative proposal
was made by Colonel Landas, who pre-
.fers to keep the sea cut and to irrigate
the desert, and so transform it into a
fertile district Colonel Landas has
actually commenced to work on these
lines. and he has just pres mted to the
French Academy of Science a report, in
which he states that he has driven an
artesian well in the desert to the depth
of 300 feet, which is now discharging
fresh water at the rate Of 1000 gallons
minute. which suilices for the irriga-
ton of 500 hectares. This area was
desert year ago, and is now fertile
and well-stocked district A secont
artesian well is now being driven, to ex
tend this work Of fertilization. m J
Post.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-12-03

There is more Catarrh in this Sec
ton of the country than all other d.
seases put together, and until the last
few years was supposed to be incura-
ble. For great many years Doctors
pronounced 1t a local disease, aud pre-
sCrlbed local remedies, and by con-
stantly failing to cure with local
treatment pronounced it incurable.
Science has proven Catarrh to be a
constitutional disease, and therefore
requires constitutional treatment.
Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured
by +. j. Cheney IL Co, Toledo, Ohio,
is the only constitutional cure now
OIL the market. 1t is taken internal
ly in doses from 10 drops to tea.
spoonful. 1t acts directly upon the
blood and mucus surfaces of the sys.
TEN. They offer one hundred dollars
for any case it fails to cure. Send ror
circular and testimonials. Address
+. j. CHENEY, Toledo, o.
~ Sold by Druggists, rs cts,
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-12-03
PuNGENT PARAGRAPHS.


If no money was spent foolishly
half the world would be out of work.
Exchange.
The young lady who can peel
potato in five seconds is as useful rs
the young woman who speaks five
languages is Ornamental Prairie Far
mer.
A man In New York advertises to
guarantee pupils to play the accordion
in two lessons. Crime in that city as
sumes many phases. s.-NOrriStoWa HtF-
I'D
-"Mr. Smith gone abroad, Mrs.
SMITH" "Ycs, he is visiting Canada
for his health,n "Ah, what ailcd him9"
"There was weakness in the spinal
column Of his ledger. ~ y Witness,
-Spoilt compliments: "He-"llow
do you like Signor Wilkinsonio's
voiccp Beautiful, is it not?" She
al don't think so. prefer yours.
But then. you know, | am pecu-
liarr-London Panch.
He-"You are holding that umbrella
on the wrong side to protect you from
the sun" She-"I know it, but there
is that dreadful Miss Briggs. and in
tend her to SEQ my new bonnet. y
Detroit Free Press.
-"When have cold in my head,
am always very dull and stupid" re-
marked gentleman in public. "You
are to be pitied, then, sir" replied an
other gentleman, "for don't remem-
Der ever seeing you without cold in
your head. IN Y. TclegrnnL
Physician Ito convalescent) -"You
feel stronger, do you notP" Gonzales
cent-"O, yes, doctor; very much
stronger. I'm strong enough now for
almost anything" Physician-"Then |
will send in my bill. Life.
Mamma: "Do you know the Ten
Commandments, my dcarP' Little Bess:
"Yes, mamma. " "Well, repeat them. "
II can't. mamma. don't know them
by heart. only know them when l
see then" "-Phiiadclphia Call.
-Nc uO nOb WISH W Ue uuucTStuOu
as finding fault with nature, but we do
wish, from the bottom OF our hearts.
that the luminous end OF the freely had
been hitched to the mosquito, N Y.
Journal.
When a merchant takes an article
of goods worth four dollars and marks
it at seven dollars and fifty cents, he
wants to be understood as selling out
regardless OF cost. 1t is the purchaser
who must regard cost in such cases.
NJ o. Hcdyune.
Omaha man--"No, l have trusted
a good many popular signs, and
they are all frauds. Once whom
at my home in Newton, Pa,
found four-lcaf clover, and that
night proposed to a girl, Miss Blank,
but she refused me. I" Eastern strang-
er-"Well, you see tho four-leafeC
clovor brought you good luck" GOOD
luck?" Eyes, lwish I'd found the
clover. l married her" = 0mahc
World.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-12-03
SENSE AND NONSENSE.


The death of ex- President Arthur
removes the last of the actors in the
most Interesting political occurances
since 1851. Grant, Garfield, Tilden,
Hancock, Seymour, Kelly and Hen
drlcks 6GI have all passed away since
1851, and these were the men about
whom centered all the political activ-
ity for nearly two decades. Only
Hayes remains, without honor and
without influence, a peripatetic crea-
ture of fate's sarcasm and contempt.
Louisville Times.
Whitley county. where the Repub-
lican candidate for Congress received
l,3l3 majority and secured his cleo
ton, has 953 criminal cases docketed
for the approaching term of the Cir
cult Court. OF these eight are muir
der cases. That is pretty good for a
Republican county. 1t is little sur
prising, however, that the number
OF cases should fall behind the major
ity nearly 800. Whitley Republicans
should hustle around, and at least
produce tie count by the next term
OF court.-Lonisville Times.
The Courier Journals Washing
ton correspondent says: "Mahone is
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-12-03
cIcERo'S LETTERS.


Beautiful EpIstlss Full OF NAturalness
Franiness and Outspokenness.
There are nearly eight hundred letters
Of Cicero now extant, besides at least
ninety letters addressed to him; and wc
know that this large collection is mere
fragment OF the immense correspond
ence that he left behind him. 1t extends
over a period Of less than twenty-five
years.. c., it gives us on the average
letter for about every eleven days OF
the last twenty-five years OF his life.
The letters are written to all sorts OF
people and are Of all varieties Of style.
Only in a very few instances does the
writer seem to have had any thought
of their being published. Their charm
is their naturalness. their frankness,
their outspokenness, 1t is difficult to
imagine what our notion of Roman life
and manners, of Roman history, would
be without this unique correspondence;
and all this astonishing letter writing
went on In the midst of every kind oil
engagement, and OF such claims upon
the writer's time and thoughts as few
men that have ever lived arc exposed
to. Cicero was deeply immersed in pol
itics, in lawsuits, in foreign affairs, in
building houses, in writing books and
making collections of art treasures, in
travelling, in actual warfare, yet in the
midst of it all he was writing letters,
long and short, at rate which only
professional journalist nowadays could
think of turning off,, Sometimes pe1&ntic
and sometimes affected in his other writ
ings, Cicero is never so in his letters.
There he is always natural, and there
you have the best side OF the man shown
us. The letters were written from his
heart-I mean the familiar letters. He
writes because he had longing to COM
municate his thoughts to his frends-in
other words, because he had craving
for the sympathy of those he loved. |
believe that will be found to be the real
secret Of all good letter writing. II a
woman sits down to write as Nine. de
Sevigne did, or as Pope did, with view
to an outside public, and only half n
thought for the friend or relative ad-
dressed, you will never get really nat
ural letters. There will always be false
ring about them. More than one book
has been published during the last few
years the author of which has been ex-
lremely careful to tell us in his preface
that it was never intended for publica-
tion; that he was very much surprised
a n -
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-12-03
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Attendance upon religious services
by students of Harvard University will
not henceforth be compulsory.
AT the Methodist Conference re-
Gently closed in Dublin Sir william
Macarthur gave $4,000 toward the
erection of new building on the
Mctho list College grounds at Belfast,
where young women may be educated.
The corner stone Of new chapel
has been laid in Welsh Mountain, Penn
sylvania. the home of the Bu6zard
gang. This will be the first religious
structure built in that region. Pills
burgh Post.
1t is encouraging to see that the
appreciation OF education is increasing
in North Carolina, where ten years ago
only $4,000 WAS spent for il by the
State, which now cxpends $500, 0OO. -
NJ Y. Witness.
Sneering critics say camp meeting
converts do not hold out. II they hold
out long enough to go to bed sober
once the novel condition will do them
good. II thcy break down after Il while
have them converted again. No harm
is done.-M o. PicdyNne.
In reference TO Harvard students.
Colonel Higginson declares that "a
poor young man who has agreeable
manners and is good at athletics has
better chance for popularity than rich
snob." How about poor young man
OF agreeable manners who excels at his
studics?- Utica OhScrrer.
Hon. William McMastcr, Of To-
ronto, gives tho Baptists OF Canada
another S2j0,00J for educational pur-
poses. They say up there that years
ago Ee love | money and clung to it,
but he was induced 10 make a large
gift and that put II COOL taste in his
mouth, and now he gives like man
putting out lire-profoundly in earnest.
Richmond Religious Herald,
Rev. Z. p. Hammond Is holding
meetings in Clristiania. Norway, in a
large hall which is crowded night after
night. The desire of tho people to hear
the truth is so great that they are re-
luctant to leave mt the close Of the
services. MIR. Hammond considers
these the most remarkable meetings he
has held in his long career as an evan
gelist.
AT Port Townsent, Ore, Mark Ten
Sui. Chinese missionary, converted and
partially educated by the Methodist
Episcopal Church, has opened school
among his countrymen. He is unusu-
ally Intelligent. has renounced all con.
nections with the flowery kingdom and
paganism, and has very good COM
mand Of the English language. He is
an earnest Christian young man, and
ls enthusiastically devoted to the civil
lization Of his race, Chicago Herald,
DR. Smith, pastor OF the First
Methodist Charch in st. Paul, found u
gang OF men paving the street in front
Of his church one Sunday morning He
asked them to stop. They did not.
Then he said that they must stop, and
right of, too. II they did not, he would
maks complaint against each indi.
vidual workman, and see that he was
arrested and punishe for breaking the
Sabbath day. At this the PAYERS took
up their tools and quit work. and the
energetic pastor walked into the pulpit
and preached with great fcrvor, saying
in the course of his sermon, that he
proposed to have Sunday observed in
front of his church il not in any other
part OF st. Paul. st. Pdm Globe.