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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-01-18
THE SHIPPING CONVENTION.
Tho Delegates Elect Officers and Call
ON the President.

The delegates to the shipping convention spent
this morning in a conference with the House
merchant marine ard fisheries committee, and
upon their return to willard Hall, at II O'Clock,
the session Of the convention was resumed The
committee on resolutions made a report recon-
mending the passage OF the bill allowing 80 cents
per ton to American-built vessels for each LOCO
miles Travelled. Also a resolution in favor OF hold
ing in this city unconstitutional centennial celebra
tion in 1889 and a worlds exposition IN 1892. The
report of the committee on permanent officers
recommending the choice OF the following named,
was adopted. President, Gen. Jos. Wheeler, Ala
bama; vlce-preSidents, Ambrose snow, New York;
L. NJ. Merritt, Florida; Geo. A. Kelly, Pennsyl-
vania: Jno II. Geer, Iowa; Thos. L. Thompson,
California. The present representatives from the
different states were reelected. Chas. S. Hill. OF
bit, OF New York, treasurer. AT O'Clock the del
egates went 10 the White House and call,d on the
President p A session was held ia the afternoon.
Before the delegates went to the White House
they listened to addresses from Mr.. Buchanan, OF
New Jersey, and Col Fred Conkiln, or New York
Mr.. Horatio King and Mr.. John ii. Magruder. the
representatives OF this District In the League, We're
again reelected.
AT the Afternoon session OF the American Ship
ping and Industrial League yesterday resolutions
were adopted expressing appreciation OF the recent
report or the secretary of the Navy and their
thanks for his patriotic and economic act" A
committee OF three was appointed TO inform Sec
retary Whitney OF this action. The evening se5-
sion was well attended, and the program pub
lshed In yesterdays STAR was carried out.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-01-18

TRE ENTERPRISE sailed yesterday from New York
for Boston. The Ossipee will sail to-day from
Portsmouth en- route for the West Indies
The NEW CHIEF CLERK, Mr.. j. j. Feeks will en-
ter upon his duties as Chief Clerk OF the Bureau OF
steam Engineering OF the Navy Department on
the 1st OF February.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-01-18

To KEEP THE Ex-CONvICTs OUT-The Treasury
Department is informed that number OF liberated
convicts at New Caledonia are on their way to this
country. The collector Of customs and the COM
missioner OF immlgr alton at San Francisco have
been notified to look out for them and to prevent
their landing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-01-18

ARMY ORDERs.-MaJor Henry c. Hasbrouk, 4th
artillery, relieved from duty as commandant of
cadets at West Point February /, and ordered to
report to the lieutenant-general for Instructions
MAJOR Hamilton s. Hawkins, 10th infantry, Or
dered TO duty as cOmmandant OF cadets at the
Military Academy, relieving Major HasbrOuck
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-01-18

The PRESIDENT has appointed John Evans to be
notary public for the District.
The BOARD OF SUPERVISING INSPECTORS Of the
United States began its annual meeting to-day in
the CorcOran Building
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-01-18
MORE DEATHS REPORTED N rExAs.

FcRT NORTH, TEN, Jan. lS.-1HO reports OF
freezing death were received last night la add-
tion 10 those sent out Monday. tramp whose
name is unknown was found sun near itnrierta-
negro named John jackson and another oolored
man were frozen 10 death near Waco. No reports
OF loss OF live stock IN the Pan d. Handle lave been
received as Yet, although the loss Is kBOwa 10 be
great. one rancnman In 1arrant county lost ten
head OF fine stock out OF a small herd.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-01-18

NAVAL ORDERs.-Ensigns John G. Tawresey and
Theodore c. Fenton, and Carpenter NJ. +. Roberts,
ordered to the Galena. Commodore John Irwin
Chief Engineer Montgomery Fletcher and Lieut..
w. d. Bose, detached from duty on the board OF
Inspection and survey at San Francisco and
Johnston, detached from the torpedo station and
ordered TO the Galena. Carpenter ID. NJ. W. Nash
detached from the Galena and placed on waiting
orders.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-01-18
TIE FAyoREp YELLOWSTONE VALLEY.

MILES CITY, MONT, Jan. la-The storm In this
portion OF the Yellowstone Valley IL not 80 violent
east of here The greatest snow fan Is about lC
inches, light and dry, drifted by wind ana eXpJs-
ing the elevated ground All reports from siock
range are favorable. No loss Yet The cold has
been intense, but Is now moderaJing and 30 above
zero. Stock went into the winter Ia line condition
The general belief Is they Will come through all
follows.
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oowARDry ooSDucr or TWO You~G MEN.

John Olney Was found In A snoS-sirtft near Mara
thon frozen dead. Miss May Hennlng and a boy
named Julius twelve years OF age, started in a
sleigh 20 attend party IN company with two
young men. When the storm struck them they
lost their way, and the young men deserted the
lady and the boy, and reached farmhouse IA
safety. The deserted pair remained out In the
storm all night, and IN the morning they were
found partially covered with SNOW. The young
lady will lose both legs, and the boys hands aud
feet were badly frozen. lie saved from death
by the brave girl: VINO wrapped MIN IN the only
hlankpf laf fhana
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RAILROAD BrocK.pEp FOR A WEEK.

BOONE, Iowa, Jan. lh-The worst hlockadet
road in Iowa Is the 1t. Louis, Des Moines anc
Northern, which has not had a train over ITS I'm,
since last Wednesday and liile prospect Of hayins
one FOR several days yet The last train left TIM,
city for Des Moines "Wednesday, and the trail
from Des MOnes was oyertaken 10y the snow
storm and remained stuck In a DRIFT two nile
from that city, the train hands being obliged ID
walk back. An attempt was m. 9e to open the
road Friday, but after plOwing L. miles the secOnS
storm filled the cuts once more aud tie train ha.
been showed IN since then. The towns along tns
road are cut OF from the outside world.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-04-13
A Much Needed Book,

A work is soon to be published in Lon.
don called "a History of Art Sales.
The motive of the book is to give in a
tabulated form lists of pictures sold,
artists. dates, prices, vendors and buyers.
The value of this book will be to preserve
the history, prices and descent of pict.
ures. But why cannot similar book
be gotten up here at home, where SC
many important sales have taken place
recently and others will be occurring al
intervals2 According even to foreign
authorities who have come hither to ex.
anime into the matter, much of the
choicest modern work is owned in this
country.
Nowhere outside their own country are
the modern French masters better repre-
scented, and some, like Millet, are even
better represented here today than in
France. In modern Dutch work, too,
this country Is quite well off, especially
New York, where some of the best ex-
amples of Mesdag, Maris, Mauve and
others are found. AS these are liable to
change hands any day history of their
value and experience, together with that
of the work of our own leading artists,
would be quite in order about this time.
Boston Advertiser
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-04-13
A Land Ever Poor.

India is fearfully poor today, and find
internal evidence that it has ever been so.
There has ever been the few who coined
gold out of muscle and crystallized sweat
into gems. The few here was perhaps
smaller than in any other country. 1t
built its palaces and tombs of wondrous
beauty, but there is absolutely no sort of
monument of past people or masses.
These have ever lived in squalor. their
mud houses melting under summer
rain; their little accumulations vanishing
in the smoke of their poor funeral piles.
Oppression has SO sunken into their
natures that they have no conception of
anything else If eels were half as fond
of being skinned as these people are of
being ground down they would wiggle
from their mud houses into the frying
pan. Like spaniels, they delight in lick
ing the hand that smites them.
There is nothing in this land to make
it one of wealth, but everything to make
it the opposite. Its climate enables its
people to live on what would be starva-
ton elsewhere, and to clothe themselves
in some light cloth alone. Such people
never could be rich. They have been
able to manufacture articles at almost a
nominal cost whose rarity in Europe
made them of great value, and Europe
imagined these things were riches, where
as their very cheapness here was evidence
of the poverty of the country. Garter H.
Harrison in Chicago Mail.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-04-13
COMMISSIONERS NOTICE-Estate OF
- william IL. Ellis.

The undersigned, having been appointed by
the Hon. Probate Court for the District OF Adj
olson, Commissioners, to receive, examine
and adjust all claims and demands of all per-
sons against theestate of William II. Ellis, late
OF Middlebury, In said district, deceased, and
give notice that we will meet tor the purpos
es aforesaid, at the Addison County Clerks
office in said Middlebury, on the 2Sth day of
April, and 18th day OF September, next, from
10 O'Clock, a. IN. until O'Clock, p. m. each
of said days, and that six months from the
18th day OF March, a. ID. lssS, is the time linn
tied by said Court for said creditors to pre-
sent their claims to us tor examination and
allowance.
Dated at Middlebury, this eth day OF April,
A. ID. 1855.
u RUFU SH WA hM comr's.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-04-13

William Warder, jr., has 26 acres of
moving, $50 of tillage, 20 of pasture,
valued at S4l4; has two oxen, six cows,
II other cattle, four horses, Is sheep, nine
fat hogs and five shoats; has for market
100 pounds of pork and 500 pounds of
butter; family of five; expense of labor,
$50.
l recommend your farmers to compare
the value of their improved land and the
amount of production with the Barnet
farmers, and when they move don't go
West, but to where the climate is good
and healthy, land cheap and productive.
Yours truly,
HENRY STEVENS.
This certainly makes good showing,
but let us quote the Boston market for
November 80. 1881:
Beef, best pieces per ID. s to 10c; pork,
do, G to &c. whole hogs, dressed, to 6 !;
poultry, s to 10; butter, key and tub, II
to Is; eggs, 16 to %; potatoes, 81 to 40 !;
beans, 80; corn, 60 to 20; oats, As to so !;
flour So to So; plaster Paris per ton, SO
to $3.50 at retail wool, full-blood Meri-
no, 5s to 60; Merino mixed with Saxon,
20 to 10; cider, per Dbl, SO to 81; cheese,
to Sc per ID.
These men made farming pay, though
they hauled their produce to Boston,
nearly 200 miles, and sold it for less than
farmers now get at their own doors, wool
excepted.
1t would be interesting to look over the
farms above referred to. Possibly the
listers valuation then would be too high
now. Possibly the sons or grandsons of
these men have gone West, for even then
CS3D, there was a rush for ''the Michi-
gan territory" and those once productive
farm were abandoned for farms "bought
of Moggs, with soil of bogs,a climate of
fogs, with buildings made of logs, living
on hogs, whose neighbors are frogs"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-04-13

The old time colored people in the
south, those who were slaves, have no
other method of reckoning dates, occur
rences, and especially births and mar
riages, than to refer them by association
to events that happened about the same
time, and it is quite common to get from
them answers about like the following:
"How old are you, Aunt Milly?"
"Wall, chile, know you hearn tell of
der fust Earthquake in Norf Caliny?
Wall. wus right smart size gal den,
an could spin an weave my ten cuts a
day for my ole nlissus. OATS how ole
l is
'How old are you, Uncle Bob?"
chow ole is? Lemme see you know
der time der stair fell. WELL OATS der wear
Miss Mary died, an ole massa glib my ole
CONAN one of Miss Mary's Sunday
dresses, an she ware'd it waitin' on der
compny der next year when ole massa
brought he's secon' wife home from
Georgian Dress de Lawd! she wur
purity"
"But, Uncle Bob, am no wiser than
l was before; you haven't told me how
old you are.
"Well, when dem tings happen wat l
was tellin' you bout, my oil est gal,
Indy was bout der same age as massa S
new wife, an me an her daddy was
chillun together, in Georgy, same time
Gin'nl Lafayette came ter 'Gusty, an der
sogers all turn out an beat der drums
and shoot off der big canyons. Oh golly
l specs Use nigh onter hundred. -
Youths Companion.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-04-13
NEW Works. EGG TRADE.
And Where the Eggs Go--Faots About
the Business-How Eggs are Packed

And Where the Eggs Go--Facts About
the Manifestation Eggs are Packed.
"The egg business has assumed large
proportions in this city," said leading
dealer to reporter.
"Why, take our trade, for instance.
A few years ago the business was in its
infancy and when we handled 500, 900
year we thought we were doing splen-
didly, and 80 we were, but last year our
sales footed up S1,s00,O00. So you can
easily comprehend its steady growth"
where do all the eggs come from that
find their way to New York;
"Well, the bulk of them are shipped
from Iowa, Nebraska Canada and a few
from Dakota. Most of the southern
states, principally Virginia and South
Carolina and Kentucky ship to New
York, but this quality of eggs is not so
fine as those which come from the more
northerly climates and hence do not find
as ready sale nor bring as good prices.
Yes New York exported quite large
quantity of eggs few years ago to Eng
land and France, but that trade has
fallen off materially, as eggs are nearly
as cheap in those countries as here.
Large shipments of eggs are made to
Boston, but even that trade has fallen
off on account of the Boston merchants
buying direct from the farmers.
1.-The eggs we receive from Canada
find ready market; but there is one
thing which tends to hasten the sale of
the Dominion's eggs; they ship their
goods in free cases; consequently it is
much easier to effect sale to the retailer,
as he buys box and all, thus saving the
necessity of repacking Most of our
western and southern egg raisers forward
their goods to this market, where they
have to be emptied into our own cases
and theirs returned. The railroads assist
the farmers by carrying "empties' back
free. Eggs from May to September
bring from eleven to fifteen cents per
dozen, but as soon as October sets in, the
fowls are not SO productive and the price
goes up to twenty cents and even higher.
I'VE pack our eggs sometimes, but it
is very Improbable, as the retailer knows
a packed egg when he sees it. The best
way to pack eggs is the good old fash
Toned way-in weak solution of water
and lime. l have known eggs packed
that way to keep as fresh as a nut from
April to October. New York Mail and
Express.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-04-13
The CannibalA of Brazil

1t is astonishing to learn that, within
$50 miles Of the fair city of Rio Janeiro,
with its very fine buildings and its rail
ways radiating i'll many directions, there
exist hundreds Of cannibals. They gen.
orally frequent the valley of the Rio
Doce and the adjacent territory, and in
spite of missionary and trader, still wan
der about in CARELESS simplicity This
we learn from paper read before the
Royal Geographical society by Mr.. John
Stearns, who, in 1885, undertook Jour-
ney of exploration through this region.
1t does not appear that the propensity to
cannibalism Is very strong at present, fol
Mr.. Stearns passed a month among q
branch of the Botocudos, and he saw
nothing of it.
These people seem to be as little ham,
pered by conventionalism as any in the
world. They go stark naked, they sleep
when they like, hunt, fish, sing and
dance just when they feel inclined, and
eat when they can. They are allowed to
have as many wives as they choose, but,
like more civilized people, one wife and
family is generally as many as a man
can keep. They have no religious cere-
monies or sacrifices, and the only time
that the supernatural comes home to
them is during thunder storm, when
the bravest throw firebrands into the air
to appease the wrath of the Great Spirit.
Home Journal.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-04-13

Suddenly the flash of a red handker-
chief in the hands of the president is
seen. Like flash the espada, with a
long, keen, Toledo blade in his right
hand, and in his left willow stick over
which the red muleta is flung, confronts
him. The bull charges the hated cloth.
The espada barely moves. Every plunge
of the bull is upon the muleta He does
not see the man. His eyes are bloodshot
and glazing. His mouth is half open
and flecks of foam cover his neck and
legs. To this side and to that, like the
graceful waving of banner, the espada
carries the bull bodily. This play is
marvellous. Suddenly the bull has missed
the muleta; is back under it and the es-
pada. The latter vaults the animal at a
bound and in an instant is again master
The mastery is complete now.
For few moments, which seem in
terminable to the breathless crowd, the
play goes on-intellect, skill, daring the
king of all brute savagery and force, and
in twinkling the yard long blade is sent
with ''zipl' clear through the fore shout
der, the heart and (sometimes) the bull 8
body. The blood spurts from his nos
trils. He recoils. He waivers and stag
gers. He makes one final plunge, brave
in death, toward the smiling and tri-
umphant espada. His horns strike the
ground. He is in a heap and vanquished
The puntillero, dressed in black, springs
forward and forces a lance in the brain.
Three little donkeys come galloping in.
The bull is dragged upon the rum out the
reSeS muertes gate The assembled
thousands are wild with excitement
and that is all. Six bulls are usually
thus dispatched, and it will cost you
from Sc to S25, in gold, for three hours
contemplation of this form of torture
and rder.-Edgar L. Wakeman's Ha-
vana Letter.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-04-13

Professor f. Ray Lancaster, lecturing
on the Struggle for Life" at the London
institution, said that considerable num-
Der of the most fatal diseases in man,
oxen and sheep were due to poisonous
matter produced in the blood which was
known as bacteria. When this poison
got into the system, the duty of the
corpuscles was to go for it, and they pro-
ceeded to eat as much as they could but
sometimes they could not attack it at ALL
The bacteria was too much for them,
with the result that the bacteria grew,
and very soon proved fatal to the body
in which it existed.
The corpuscles could, however, be edu-
Gated to deal with the bacteria, and the
future of preventive medicines would be
the education of the white blood cor
puscles. The fact that one man. by con-
slant use, could without injury take a
dose of arsenic that would kill six or
binary men was due to the fact that he
had by weakened doses been educating
and training the white corpuscles. They
could be taught to eat and hoarish under
conditions which, if not commenced
gradually, would be destructive to them,
and that was the principle at the base of
protective incubation. AS preventive
OF many fatal diseases in sheep and oxen,
incubation had been remarkably success
full. The corpuscles first received weak
ened breed or disease by incubation, and
thus when violent attack came they
were ready to receive and dispose of it.
This education of the corpuscles, it seemed
to him, was the explanation of the sue
cess of vaccination. They received a
weak dose of the poison from the vac
cine, and were in that way prepared for
a stronger dose in the way of smallpox.
He believed the white corpuscles could
be trained to receive the most virulent
poisons, and he hoped this training would
be carried on so as to deal with great
number of diseases. York Post.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-04-13
A Pleasant Person.

1t seems easiest to describe a pleasant
person by negatives, although assuredly
his pleasantness affects us as a most
positive qnality. To begin with, such a
person must not be too much ''shut up
in his own individuality" to use the
phrase of an English writer. That is, he
must not be very reserved and concen-
trated in his emotions and affections. but
have a certain responsiveness of nature
and openness of manner. He must not
be too fastidious, but able to take people
for what they are and what they are
worth to him for the passing moment
and the needs of the social hour. He
must not be of too intense nature. nor
SO preoccupied with the serious aspects
and duties Of life that he is unable to put
them aside temporarily and lend himself
/ lighter thoughts and lighter people,
Atlantic Monthly.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-04-13
0-TIME VERMONT FARMING,

~. G. G. in the Rutland Herald
ooking over my bound volumes of
ew England Farmer for 1881 and
| find communication from Henry
hs, dated at Barnet, VT, November
S3l, as follows: AS five of my
men, farmers, design to start for
bstOn market next week with por-
f the productions of their farms,
rd for publication a statement be-
pg to the individuals named below.
hlue of each farm, exclusive of
and, is set down as appraised by
of this town in 1880. William Ba-
has 45 acres of moving, % of til
md As of pasture, valued at $1,000.
5 four oxen, II cows, 20 other cat
horses, 62 sheep, 10 fat hogs, sew
|ats; has 65 tons of hay, 30 bushels
275 bushels oats, Us bushels
II bushels beans, 900 bushels of
es; has for market $500 pounds of
nd 1850 pounds butter; has FAM
eight, besides hired man seven
s; whole expense of hired help.
ID Harvey has 30 acres of moving,
illage and 80 of pasturage, valued
?, exclusive of house and lot; has
ken, IA cows, seven horses, 2S
six fat hogs, eight shoats; has 80
hv, $50 bushels wheat, 300 of oats,
BORN, two of beans and 500 of po-
has for market 1900 pounds of
nd 1900 pounds of butter; has a
of eight, besides hired man eight
s.; whole expense of hired help,
Ps Bouce has ii acres of moving.
tillage, 29 of pasture, valued at
has seven cows, five other cattle,
ses, "a sheep, eight fat hogs, four
has 81 tons hay, 60 bushels
rs of oats, 80 of corn, five of
523 of potatoes, II of turnips and
hds of flax, and has for market
Punds of pork and 600 pounds of
has family of six; whole ex-
or hired help, 500.
am Shearer has % acres of now
of tillage and 40 of pasturage,
at 5000; has six oxen, seven cows,
|r cattle, six horses, 3S sheep, 10
Is, -four shoats; cuts 80 tons hay,
lels wheat, 300 of oats, so of corn.
barley, two of beans and 400 of
IS; has 1000 pounds pork. $50
butter; family of -; expense for
clip, $50.