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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-03-02
FARRAGUT'S FLAGSHIP.
The Old Hartford to BE Placed in Good
Repair Again.

Repair Again.
The old Hartford, Admiral Farragut's
flagship, is to be repaired. 1t was feared for
a time that the historic vessel would take
her place in the rotten row beside other
hulks which have fired their last shots,
and laid up dixie old pensioners in sol
dier's home at the Portsmouth navy
yard, or some other naval station where
ships are born and buried.
1t was reported that the amount re-
quTed to repair the vessel would be in
excess of 90 per cent. of the original cost,
the limit fixed by congress for determin-
ing the question of repairing an old YES
sell But the secretary of the navy, in
view of the associations which have gath
cred about the old ship, recommended to
congress that a sufficient amount be ap-
propriated to repair her.
On the Sd of February, 1862, Admiral
Farragut sailed in the Hartford from
Hampton roads to assume the duties of
flag officer of the western gulf blockading
squadron, and for the purpose of accom-
plishing the work of reducing the works
leading to New Orleans and the capture
of that city The history of the night
when Farragut passed the forts which de-
Tended the approach to New Orleans will
always throw a halo around the old Hart
ford. Farragut, stationed in the rigging,
directed the movement in sight of the
belching forts, the efforts of Confederate
rams, the fire RATS and the conflict be-
tween the naval craft of either side, the
Hartford silencing Fort St. Phillip with
it's own guns. By morning it was seen
that the forts-St. Phillip and Jackson
were passed, and the city of New Orleans
lay at the mercy of the Yankee fleet.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-03-02

Shoemaking, shoe mending and shoe
selling are distinct branches of business
in China. Chinese shoes exhibit great
variety of shape. Except in the hob
nailed shoe for wet weather, there is
little leather used-the materials being
principally calico, silk, satin. velvet and
felt. Children's summer shoes are made
of fine open rush work, with bright lin
ing. Ladies' shoes are made and mended
by their wearers. From childhood the
girls of the upper classes have their feet
tightly bound, and they are thus, at the
cost of years of suffering, enabled to
wear shoes about three inches long The
Chinese cobbler goes from house to house,
and announces his presence with pecu-
liar rattle. Philadelphia Times.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-03-02
Duration of Infection STAGES.

The duration of the infection stages Of
various diseases is thus given by DIR. T.
F. Pearse, an English physician. Measles
from the second day of the disease, for
three weeks; smallpox from the first day,
for four weeks; scarlet fever from the
fourth day, for seven weeks; mumps
from the second day, for three weeks !;
diphtheria from the first day, for three
weeks. The incubation periods, or in
tervaIs occurring between exposure to
infection and the first symptoms, are as
follows: Whooping cough, fourteen
days; mumps, eighteen days; measles,
ten days; smallpox, twelve days; scarlet
fever, three days; diphtheria, fourteen
Herald of Health.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-03-02
ENTRE-ACTE REvERlES.

Between the acts, while the orchestra played 7
That sweet old waltz with the lifting measure,
I drifted away to dear dead day.
When the dance for me was the sun of all
pleasure.
When my veins were rife with the fever of life,
When hope ran high as unswept ocean,
And my hearts great gladness was almost mad
ness,
As hoated off to the musics motion.
How little cared for the world outside,
How little cared for the dull day after.
The thought of trouble went up like bubble,
And burst in sparkle of mirthful laughter.
oh. and the beat of it, oh, and the sweet of it,
Melody, motion and young blood melted.
The dancers swayed the players played
The air song deluged and music peted
knew WEAKNESS, no. not 1;
My step was as light as the waving grasses
That fiutter with ease on the strong armed breeze
As it waltzes over the wild morasses.
Life was all sound and swing, youth was a per-
feet thing,
Night was the goddess of satisfaction.
Oh. how tripped away, down to the edge of day!
JOY lay in motion and rest in action.
| dance no more on the musc's wave,
/ yield no more to its bewildering power.
That time has flown like n rose that is blown,
Yet life is a garden forever in flower.
Though storms of tears have watered the years
Between to-day and that day departed
Though trials have met me and grief's waves
wet me,
And have been tired and trouble hearted.
Though under the sod of wee green grave
A great sweet hope in darkness persisted,
Yet life. to my thinking, is a cup worth drinking,
gift 70 be glad of, and loved and cherished.
There is deeper pleasure in the slower measure
That Times grand orchestra now is giving.
Its mellowed minor is sadder but finer,
And life grows daily more worth the living.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-03-02
THE HARTFORD.

From New Orleans the admiral was
ordered to Mobile, where the Confeder-
ates were beginning to concentrate navy.
On the 4th of August, 1864, the Brooklyn
leading with an ingenious arrangement
for picking up torpedoes, the fleet made
an attack The Hartford, with the Brook
Ign, received heavy fire from the forts.
The Tecumseh struck a torpedo and sunk,
with her commander and nearly all her
crew. Farragut dashed ahead with the
Hartford, taking the risk Of torpedos, and
was followed by the other ships The ram
Tennessee made dash at the flagship, and
the Confederate gunboats Morgan, Gaines
and Selma kept up a raking fire on her.
All this did not prevent her passing the
forts with the rest Of the feet. AS the
vessels were about to come to anchor the
ram Tennessee was seen heading for the
Hartford. The fleet was ready for her,
and the Monongahela struck her, carrying
away her PROV. The Hartford also struck
her, but sidewise, and put in a broadside.
The Hartford soon after came in collision
with the Lackawanna, losing her mizzen-
mast, and was cut to within two feet OF
the water. Nevertheless she again pushed
for the ram, and the Manhattan coming
up poured solid shot from her big turret
guns into the Confederate vessel, which
soon struck it's colors.
On the following day the Confederate
force on shore surrendered, the terms be
then the historic vessel has been in sea
service at intervals. She is now laid VI
in Mare Island navy yard.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-03-02
Florida's Opium Industry.

Florida promises to become a large
producer of opium. The poppy grows
there very readily, and larger than any
where else in the United States. Sixteen
plants will produce an ounce of opium,
and an acre should give profit of ST.
900. AS the plants will thrive among
trees, the land on which are young and
non-bearing orange orchards can be util-
lied while the trees are reaching matur-
itY.-New York Sun.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-03-02
THE WI[IRLING TORNADO.
ITS SEASON OPENED UNUSUALLY
EARLY THIS YEAR.

Map Showing the Location of the Ter
rible Storm at Mount Vernon, Ills, and
of All the Reported Tornadoes in I'LL
nois for the Past 100 Years and More.
The tornado season has opened early
this year.
The beautiful city of Mount Vernon,
Ills, is struck, with but few minutes
warming; half the houses are instantly
reduced to fragments, two scores of per-
SONS are killed and three times as many
injured. Fire follows the tornado and
completes the ruin. Over 800 dwellings
are destroyed and the suffering is great
Once more despairing humanity asks if
there is no way of discovering the law
which governs these destructive phenom-
ena no way of providing against such
loss of life? And science is Mt last able to
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-03-02

In conclusion we may repeat that there
are three certainties That tornadoes will
continue frequent in all the central section
Of the United States; that more thorough
observations and scientific deductions
therefrom will enable us to know when to
expect them, and that, with this knowl-
edge generally diffused, we may easily
adopt precautions which will reduce the
danger to n minimum.
We are indebted for the cuts appearing
in this article to Lieut.. John p. Finley's
book on tornadoes. Lieut.. Finley is one
of the best of Uncle Sans indication
officers, and has made a closer study of
tornadoes than any other living man.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-03-02

The word currant is said to be cor
ruption of Corinth, a city from which
once came all the Greek currants. The
currants, commonly called zante, are
really raisins, produced from grape that
grows no larger than peas, like the
American wild or fox grapes, and hangs
in punches only three inches long. These
grapes are dried in the sun, and then
stored in bulk, where the sugar that
exudes from them makes them into
masses so compact that they have to be
dug apart by force when wanted. They
are prepared for shipment by being put
into casks and packed into a solid mass
by being trodden by the feet of the ma
tives.-New York Sun.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-03-02

+hon, ord d;n,o,,o+;o ;,+.roorrso ,yos enc
,ondad Vanaz,,aIo had u, tha ,,oon+;y,o
se;zad two EnGlish vessels and their cre1ys
for ollege1 trasnoss these matters were
tomrnror;l, orranood an1 now Creot
Dri,oin bos ottemnted 70 Set+,e tho
boundary onestion hv tating nossassion
of tbo wio1e oost section of Vona1reIo mn
70 tho O.inoco north and tbe cold ,,onn.
toins west Tn the Latter region most If
tba settlers are Enolish beino chiefly
miners and mine oynnrs and those an.
ooned in tho inJrstr;es connected With
1ni1ino This Observation-Disclosures tho treaty
Of 1910 which stinu,ated that he Enolisb
LIl a.o; r. tL.;t tt 20
poj,,,ar
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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-03-02

the Dixie gossip
is revived. If any
well read Ameri-
can had been
asked a few years
ago to name the
one man in Eng
land W no w as
t h o + o u G h ! y
"downed" an d
certain to never
ris e a G a / n, he
would at once
have named Sir
Charles Dixie, for
the scandal in
which he was in
volved was no
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-03-02

A lady from Nebraska was the guest Of
a Pittsburg family. AS the thermometer
only touched zero once during the winter
the fair stranger would have been home
sick but for the thoughtfulness of her
host. By an ingenious arrangement a
powerful fan drove snow dust in her face
every time she opened the front door. The
snow was banked against the windows of
her room and her meals let down the
chimney with a string. Another device
initiated the roar of blizzard, and so
soothed her to gentle slumber wherein
she dreamed of her native state. These
little attentions deeply touched the fair
guest. -Pittsburg Bulletin.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-03-02

presidency, was good natured and lazy
mulatto, of tall stature and very fine ap-
pearance, who made an excellent figure
head on public occasions, like Queen
Victoria, the real government in each
country being in the hands of
the man at the head of the COM
mons. Take it all in all, it's pity that
Venezuela cannot have peace; and if she
fights England, the case will be one of in
tense interest and some peculiar compli-
cations for the United States.
The cut at the head of this article gives
view of Caracas, the capital of the
country
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-03-02
Watering the Biyalvee.

always have your oysters opened
while you wait" said Brooklyn dealer.
"Why? Because, although you pay five
cents a quart more for them, you will
save money. 1t is the custom of oyster
dealers who open oysters the night before
they are sold to throw them into water.
An oyster will absorb about one-third its
weight in water, and so the purchaser
pays one third of his money for water,
which he can add to the oysters himself
if he wants his bivalves watered. New
York Evening Sun,
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-03-02
in the air. In all cases lie fat. in an east

in the air. In all cases lie fat, in an east
and west direction, and, if possible, take
firm hold of n large stone or tough root.
D. In the house all doors and windows
should be closed on the approach of a
wind storm of any kind. The west side
of the house is the safest; but the cellar is
safer STILL and any depression out doors
west of the house, safest of all. The
foregoing are but few of the precautions
already taught by painful experiences but
in many parts of the country the "storm
pitt is already an established institution.
In north central Georgia the traveller may
now see on the hillsides many of these dug
and rooted by the people since the great
tornado of 1884.
While as aforesaid, tornadoes were Just
as frequent in the west before its settle
ment as now, yet there are periods when
they increase in frequency, and the three
years of 1882, 1888 and 1884 appear to
have been an era of maximum intensity.
We present engravings showing the ap-
pearance of western tornado cloud and
it's destructive effects at Grinnell, la. In
1884 a tornado of extraordinary width
they are nearly always narrow, often but
q few rods wide-originated in Alabama
and swept eastward and northward some
400 miles, creating havoc over q belt some
twenty miles wide near the Etowah river,
in Georgia. One astonishing fact is well
attested; a heavy wooden sign, wrenched
from its fastenings in an Alabama town,
lodged in tree in north central Georgia.
OF course it had passed the whole distance
above the tree tops, as otherwise it would
have been reduced to splinters. In two or
three instances the end of a tornado
trunk" struck the river, and fishes were
taken into the air and carried long dis
tances. In one instance some of them fell
in the streets of Norfolk, Va.
During June and July, 1888, there was
constant succession OF minor tornadoes
in what we have named the tornado cen
ter, namely, southwestern Iowa and the
adjacent sections of Kansas, Missouri and
small The largest Of these storms began
in Dakota, and described a perfect semi
circle-eastward into Minnesota, south and
east into Iowa, and then south, southwest
and finally due west, crossing the Mis-
souri, near the line of Iowa and Missouri
This was so unusual that no explanation
could be offered; for tornado very rarely
turns back on its course, as an ocean cy.
clone does. 1t was noted as curious fact
that, while this tornado retained its full
force at its crossing of the Missouri, the
high bluff west of that stream turned it tc
the upper air-or dissipated !t-so it had
no effect west of there. In a similar way
appearances indicate that the high bluffs
east Of the Wabash insure comparative ex
emption to the jewellers just east Of them
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-03-02

and travel between the two have in
creased rapidly with an advance of
friendly relations. Indeed the line
of steamers direct from New York
city to Loguayra is now the
most important owned by Americans,
and includes the best part of the ocean
steamers that still fly the stars and stripes.
This line is sort of pet with Americans,
who feel sore over the decline of their
ocean shipping; and in the seaport cities
there is strong desire to cultivate"
Venezuela.
BY CHANGING at the map the reader will
see that Venezuela occupies nearly all the
north coast proper of South America, and
that Guiana begins about where the coast
turns to the southeast. OF the three
powers which divide Guiana the British,
of course, own the most; and ever since
they acquired the rights of the Dutch to
the border strip, they have claimed that
their territory rightfully extended further
northwest. The longer the dispute went
unsettled, the more Great Britain claimed,
and on two occasions border war was i'm
minent. AT length, however, the renowned
Guzman Blanco brought the government
of Venezuela to an orderly and vigorous
condition. and insisted on settlement
He went to London and obtained from
Lord Granville an agreement to arbtrate,
and came to the United States to further
advance his country's interests. But
Lord Granvlle's successor, Lord Sal
isbury, declined to go on with the
formers agreement, and in March,
1887. the two powers were again at
swords points. Three British men of
war took position in the harbor of Puerto
Cabello, the seaport of Caracas, the
British minister went aboard one of
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-03-02

TORNADO CLOUD AT GRlNNELL, Ia.
8. Five times out of six the tornado Is
preceded by peculiar condition of the
atmosphere, which gives warning to the
observant. The heat is strangely oppres-
sive; the SUMS rays appear to have pros
trating power unnoticed at other times,
and finally, but few minutes before the
stroke, short puffs of hot wind strike the
face as if one were near furnace mouth
when the wind is shifting If the observer
of these signs then sees in westerly di-
rection a column of peculiar black cloud,
at the top of which there is a movement
like the boiling of muddy water, he may
consider Il tornado as certainty and pre-
pare accordingly.
4. If in the open field, the safest Of all
places is ditch; next to that the lee Of n
large rock or low stump which is firmly
rooted, Avoid fences Of all kinds, sheds
or trees-anything, in short, which rises
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-03-02

answer with GER
tainuy in the
Affirmative. 1t is
now proved that
the appearance of
a tornado may be
foretold with rea-
sonable certainty,
from one to three
hours in advance;
that its course
may be noted in
time for most OBJ
servers TO get out
of its track, and
that there are easy
methods of pro-
lection by which
the danger may
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-03-02
Consnmntion Of Tobacco.

NJ. Paul Leroy-Beaulieu gives figures
showing the quantity of tobacco con-
sumed in the different countries Of
Europe. The rate per 100 inhabitants is,
according to him, as follows Spain, 10
pounds; Italy, 1913 pounds; Great Brit
ain, 1873 pounds Russia, 1872 pounds;
Denmark, 224 pounds; Norway, 229
pounds; Austria, 273 pounds. Chicago
News.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-03-02

his work. The
republic was re-
stored in its in
tegrity, after the
relationships; but
Blanco is still the
ruler. He can
hold the presi-
dency but one
term at u time,
but in the inter
mediate terms the
president is prac-
tically Blanco's
clerk. Gen. Cres-
20, the recent &C.
oI1nont IF fha
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-03-02
Utilizing Apple Pomace.

Apple pomace was once thrown away
at all the great cider mills, as it was
thought to possess no value as food or
manure. 1t is now sold to be used for
both purposes. Not a few dairymen pay
good prices for it to feed to milk cows
Chicago Times.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-03-02

gion Of high val
leys and most
healthful airs,
where the human
form naturally at
tains physical per-
lection. Travellers
agree that no city
in the world eX-
GELS Caracas for
beautiful, stately
and grace T III
W o IN en-, a n d
through all the
I;r1 x.Allnx-u 80 fhn
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-03-02

II is the fashion in the highlands Of
Scotland for heads Of clans to call them
selves 1.-The Chisholm" ''Ths McNab, I"
and SO on.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-03-02

high valleys of the VENEZUELAN BEAUTY.
republic nature appears to be lavish in
her favors TO the fair sex. In climate
and general productions these valleys are
much like those California valleys open
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-03-02

The wilds of Africa have furnished a
new poison called strophantus.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-03-02
MRS. ASHTON w. dixie.
A Liberal English Woman Who La Com
ing to America.

Mrs. Ashton w. Dixie is coming to
America to represent the advanced
women" of England at the international
womans conference at Washington in the
closing days Of March, and very naturally
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-03-02
Map of the Region in Contention-vene-
zueIa's Gold MiDes-Resources of the
Country-Something About the Pretty
Women who Live There.

]trOuDle DeuW e e II
Venezuela an d
Great b rit a n,
w h | C Ii interests
the United States
not a little, for
t h g Washington
government a few
y e ars ago con-
cluded a very adj
vantageous treaty
with G III m a n
Blanco, and trade
, 1888-04-14
Van Brake.
Translation.
Publication.

9PN conformity with the Colonial
- Law 5 SO it is hereby made
known that His Majesty the King
on the most submissive representa-
ton of the Ministry of Finances has
been most graciously pleased by
Royal Resolution of 1st Of March a.c.
to sanction an additional Money Bill
to the Budget for the Municipality of
St. Croix for the financial year from
1st April 1887 to 31st March 1888
sub Item d. 10 for an amount of
$23Y.31, passed at End discussion in
the Colonial Council Of st. Croix on
the 18th Of December last year.
Tue Government of the Danish West
Indian Islands, st. Croix the 9th April
@. 3. ARENDRUP,
, 1888-04-14
P;Oclama.

LIE og Enhver, som MATTE have
noget at fordre i Boet efter af-
d6de Overcommandersergent CARL
JULIUS WILHELM SCHMIDT
her af Byen, indkaldes herved
med 3 Maaneders Varsel til for
undertegnede Skifteret at anmelde
og bevisliggj0re deres Krav.
Ligeledes indkaldes med Aar og
Days Varsel Afd6des Arvinger efter
Loven til at anmelde og legitimere
sig,
Ch%ristiansteds Skifteret, St. Croix den
6te April 1888.
MAXEN,
est.
, 1888-04-14
acknowledgements

sgAET kjendtg6res herved i
~ Henhold til Coloniallovens 5 So,
at Diet paa FinantsminiSterietS derom
nedla4te alIerunderdanigste Forestil-
ling har behaget Hans Majestat
hongen we'd AlIerhGjeste Resolution
at 1ste Marts d.. A. at stadfeste den
af Kolonialraadet for St. Croix we'd
Eden Behandling den lite December
IA. vedtagne TillegsbevilIingtil Bud
gettet for Communen St. Croix for
Finantsaaret fra 1ste April 1887 til
3 tie Marts 1888 under Post d. 10
til BeI0b $233.31cts
GOuvernementet for de dauSk-veStindis.
Ike Ger, st. CrOix, den ode April 1888.
e.. II. ARENDRUP,
, 1888-04-14
NOTICE.

@OHE Colonial Councils Ordinary
- Meeting for Monday 9th inst,
is, at the request Of the Government,
postponed to MONDAY the 10th
inst, IL o'clock noon.
Colonial Council, St. Croix 4th April 1883.
p. NJ. ANDERSEN,
Chairman.
, 1888-04-14
ORDER OF DAY.
for the Colonial Councils Ordinary
Meeting Monday 18th April 1888.
II o'clock, noon.

l. End Discussion on Draft of Budget for
1888-S9 with Money Bills appertaining
thereto, with Committees Report and
Amendments.
9. Continuation of 3rG Discussion on Draft
of Ordinance extending the Law of End
January 1871 concerning the Inspection
of Corpses, with amendments from the
Government.
8. Continuation of End Discussion on Draft
of Ordinance containing notifications Of
the Ordinance of 18th February 1873
for defrayment Of expenses attending the
introduction OF certain labourers in the
Island of St. Croix (by Levy with Com
mittee Report.
d. Election of Members to revise st,
Croix Communal Accounts for 1886 81.
Colonial Council, ST. CroiN, 9Th April
1888.
y. NJ. ANDERSEN,
Chairman.