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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-02-10
Farm for Sale

THE Farm in the southeast part
of the town of Shoreham, of late
the home place of William G. Will
son, deceased, is offered for sale
This farm is supposed to contain
147 acres, consisting of meadow,
pasturage and woodland, in desira-
BILE proportion. The dwelling
house has lately been thoroughly
repaired and modernized; and is
neat, convenient, comfortable and
commodious. The out-buildings,
though not new, are in fair condi-
ton, and entirely ample for the
wants of the farm. The farm is
we'll fenced, and has upon it
young, thrifty and bearing orchar (.
This is fine opportunity for any
one desiring a good home and a
farm with more desirable and fewer
Objectionable features, than the av-
erage of farms. If desired, easy
terms of payment will be granted.
For price and other particulars, in
quire on the premises, of
Mrs. ELIZA WILSON,
Or of E. J. ORMSBEE, Brandon.
Shoreham, VT, Jan. 20, 1886. 5tf
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-02-10
BODIES
that are fretful, peevish.

NON< 90 that are fretful, peevish.
OsC cross, or troubled with
Windy Collie. Teething Pains. or
Stomach Disorders, can be relieved
at once by using Acker's Baby Soother.
1t contains no Opium or Morphine,
hence is safe. Price rs cents. Sold by
L. HANAFORD, Middlebury, Druggist.
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NEWSY GLEANINGS.

THERE are in round numbers 7,0O0,VoO
Hebrews in the world.
LIQUOR LICENSES in st. Paul, Mimi, have
been fixed at 81 900 each.
"WATER is as dear as bread" in San Jose,
Cal, according to local paper.
OVER twenty thousand Russian immigrants
have reached this country this year.
VENEZUELA has invited its political exiles to
return and make themselves at home.
A CREMATION society has been organized
in Worcester, Mass, with a capital OF Slo,-
00J.
LAKE HURON is lower than the oldest resi-
dents ever saw it. The water is two feet be.
low the lowest point Of a year and half
ago.
AT Weimar, Germany, two old people
named Bayer, husband and wife, died sud
denly on the sixty-fifth anniversary OF their
wedding.
THE rabbit plague has appeared IN Flor
ida The animals are playing havoc WIN
the green peas and cabbages i'll the southern
section of the State.
FoRTY-oNE vessels, with an aggregate tom
mage of 17,45i, were built in Maine during
1887, against forty-two vessels with a ton
mage of lG, ,365 in 1oSG.
DURING 1897 President Cleveland pardoned
1Ol convicts. Arkansas was most fortunate,
securing the release of ten criminals Among
the pariousd we<s foar AnrasacsS VA ssS
ludiser
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Facts About the Bible.

The number of letters in the Bible IS
1856, 4S9; words, 773,002; verses, 3l,-
173: chapters, i, 1S9; books, sixty-slx.
The longest book in the Old Testament
is Psalms, it having $50 chapters: the
shortest is Obadiah, it having but one
chaper of only twenty-one verses. The
longest books in the New Testament are
Matthew and the Acts, each of which
consists of twenty eight chapters, al.
though Luke contains more verses and
words. Third John is the shortest,
containing one chapter of fourteen verses
and 29s words. The longest chapter IN
the Old Testament is the IL tn PsalrA
which contains It's verses. The shortest
chapter is the 111th Psalm: it contains
but two verses. The longest chapter IN
the New Testament is the first chapter
of Luke; it contains eighty verses; the
shortest is John, first chatter; it con-
tains ten verses. The longest verse IN
the Old Testament is the ninth verse OF
the eighth chapter of Esther, it contains
ninety words, composed OF 4s6 letters;
the shortest verse is the twenty :hfth
verse of the first chapter of Chronicles,
consisting of twelve letters and three
words. The middle verse is the eighth
verse of the 11sth Psalm. The nine
tecnth chapter of 2 Kings and thirty
seventh chapter of Isaiah read alike:
The 9Th, 18th. 21st and 3lst verses OF
the 105th Psalm are alike. The book
of Job is the oldest book in the Bible.
and the 21st verse of tho 7th chapter OF
Ezra contains all the letters OF the al
phabet with the exception of 81" The
35th verse, 18th chapter, OF st. John; Is
the shortest in the Biblc.-AHanta 0'a-
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Foreign.

BERNAL, the notorious Mexican bandit, has
been killed after a desperate resistance.
THE latest bulletin in regard to the condi-
ton of the German Crown Princes throat Is
to the effect that the disease is chronic in
flammation Of the larynx, of trivial nature,
such as often lasts lifetime without other
inconvenience than an occasional hoarseness.
THE triennial elections in France for
members of the Senate resulted in large
gains for tho Republicans
KING OSCAR, of Sweden, narrowly escaped
being crushed to death by the falling OF
massive metal chandelier in his smoking sa-
loon.
IN a collision between the steamers Shore
ham and Colstrop, off Dover, England, the
former was sunk and seven persons were
drowned.
THERE is a swine plague in Southern
France, and SO, QUO animals have died.
THE value of the jubilee presents received
by the Pope is SIS, 100000.
NEWS has been received t hat Stanley has
succeeded in reaching Emin Bey in Central
Africa.
DR. PHILLIP Cross, formerly surgeon in
the British Army, was hanged at Cork, Ire
land, for poisoning his wife.
AN American ship, the Alfred D. Snow Of
Maine, was wrecked off Waterford, Ireland,
and ewing to the cowardice of the Govern
ment Life Boat Captain, the entire crew OF
sixteen men DeriShed.
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Ending q Feud In Italy.

Last week singular festival was held
at Bitti, in Sardinia. In the presence OF
the precect of the Province, the Arch.
bishop of Nuoro, aprovincial dep ltation,
the syndic of Sassari and other authori'
tics a formal cath was taken by the
members of two families, which had been
at enmity for many years, reciprocally to
pardon all offcnses and to live in peace
and harmony. Tie number of the mem
.;ers of the two companies were i7o. a
large crowd filed the parish church IN
which the ceremony was performed, ana
the next day a b,nquet was given IN the
country for which had been ordered tcn
oxen, fourteen pigs. sixty su king pigs.
0,-weiyht of m rcaroni, :'Ol-Wclght o.
bread and FIVE of fruit, with ten hectoli-
tres of wine. London Neaos
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a CURIOUS AFFLICTION.
"A Farmer Asleep for Years-only q
Few Waking Moments Daily.

Few Waking Moments Daily.
Herman Haines, of Utica, Mimi, has slept
almost continually for seven years. he has
been treated in dozen different ways, but
no one has been able to break his protracted
slumber. Powerful electric batteries have
been applied to his body, the only effect be-
ing contraction of the muscles. Haines is
now forty y-nine years old, and ten years ago
was prosperous farmer in st. Clair County,
III. At that time he was hale and hearty,
his weight being $50 pounds. In 1877 he was
stricken with fever and ague, and in the
County, Mimi, whence he was brought to
Utica. A few months after his arrival in
Minnesota he fell asleep, and he has lived in
this strange condition for more than seven
years.
In the summer of 1884 he awoke one morn
ing, arose from his bed, put on his clothes
and went about his work When told he had
slumbered four years he grew indignant and
would not believe that he had slept more
than night, until led before a mirror ahd
shown his long black hair and beard and
sunken cheeks and eyes. For a month his
health and habits seemed perfect. He went
to bed at the usual hour, slept through the
night and rose with the lark.
In August 1884, his wife became very Ill,
and Haines was obliged to deprive himself Of
needed rest One night, while taking her Q
cup of tea, he suddenly fell asleep, dropped
the cup, sank to the floor and had to be taken
to his bed, from which he has never since
risen. He lies on his back, breathes naturally,
and suffers little pain, but is wasting away.
His weight is now less than ninety pounds,
and he is no longer able to move himself in
bed.
About II o'clock every evening he awakes
for five or six minutes, during which he is
hurriedly given soft boiled egg,a little soup
and swallow or two of coffee, his only daily
nourishment. He is extremely nervous dur
ing his brief waking intervals, but his con-
versation indicates that his mind is not be-
sHo sS1da years. No Hsdsas sbrsp parsed b and
healthy
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LATER NEWS.

A DELEGATION of sixteen business men
from various towns in the Schuylkill mining
region represented to President Corbin. at
the Reading Railroad Office in Philadelphia,
on Wednesday, that a continuation of the
miners strike meant great injury to the
business in their part of Pennsylvania and
great suffering, and urged that the Company
submit its differences with the men to arbi-
tration. Mr., Corbin declined to consent
to arbitration. He said that when the men
returned to work on the old basis it would be
time enough to arbitrate.
On the Southern Pacific, in California, a
crowded emigrant car went off an embank-
ment eighty feet high and caught fire from
the car stove. Many people were hurt, some
fatally.
SMALLPOX is epidemic in San Francisco.
The State Department will publish, for
free distribution, G,000 copies Of treatise on
Cattle and Dairy Farming.
THE President has sent the following nom-
nations to the Senate: Joseph Black, of Cleve-
land, Ohio, Consul at Buda-Pesth; George
Osgood Prince, Consul at Moscow; Henry
Loffmann, of Pennsylvania, Coiner Of the
Mint at Philadelphia; Joseph Heussler, Post
master at Hoos;ck Falls, N. Y.
A FANArIcAL outbreak has occurred in the
Chinese province of Fukien. Twenty Christ.
ian churches have been burned and the con-
verts massacred
A SHARP shock of earthquake was felt the
other day in Ontario, Canada.
THE English government has ordered q
gunboat to the Island of Lewis, off Scotland,
to quell an insurrection among the crofters.
A GANG of men, with faces painted, robbed
an express-car on the Mexican Central Rail-
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4 KENTUCKY FEUD.
One Family Nearly Extermin-
ated BY Another.
A War Which Has Resulted in
the Death of Seven Persons.

News has Just reached Catlettsburg of
one Of the most wanton and diabolical cases
of arson and murder ever committed In the
State of Kentucky. The scene is on the Black
berry fork of Pond Greek, in Pike County.
The crime is the outgrowth Of an old
feud and is laid at the door Of the notorious
Hatfields and their gang About five years
ago there was an election held on Pond
Creek, and one of the, Hatfelds came across
the river from West Virginia, and during the
day engaged in an alteration with one Of the
McCoys Two Of McCoy's brothers came
to the rescue and fatally stabbed
Hatfield, who was taken home. His relatives
swooped down on the Mccoy boys, took them
captives, and held them p isoners until ELI
when the Hatfelds conveyed the three Nc
Coy boys to the scene Of the alteration,
stripped them, tied them to paw paw bush
and shot them to death.
Since that time regular war has been
waged between the Hattields and their gang,
who reside in Logan County, WA, and the
McCoys, of Pike County, KY, the east forks
since the Hatfield party visited the residence
of Randall Mccoy and set fire to the
house. Alafara, the eldest daughter, was
the first to open the door, and in the glaring
light she was shot dead by the fiends outside,
who were concealed His son Calvin next
appeared, and he was shot dead. His wife
then tried tried to escape from the burning
building, and was shot through the head. She
was alive at last accounts, but will die.
Randall Mccoy ran from the burning house
with his shotgun, and although volley was
discharged at him, he escaped unhurt, and
opened FIRE upon the attacking party. He is
known to have killed one Of the gang named
Chambers, and, it is said, shot Captain Hat
field in the shoulder and put the rest to
fight
There are rewards aggregating s2,7oo Of
fered by the State of Kantucky for the arrest
of the Hatfelds and their delivery to the
jailer of Pike County, for the murder Of the
three Mccoy boys, but no one seems anxious
to take them as they are strongly barricaded
in the wilds Of West Virginia Some one OF
their number is constantly on guard
and they defy the authorities but retributive
justice is now likely to speedily follow, as
their last acts have stirred up that whole
section. This gang of outlaws has killed Mr..
McCoy's wife, three of his sons and one
daughter, and have burned his house.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Ex-pREs1DENr MAu4LAhoN, OF Frstnce'
going on 50 and is hale and hearty.
THEODORE T1LToN Is living IN remote
quarter OF Paris, in by no means af1uen5
circumstances
Ex-PREsIDENT GREvY is going to write
book about his career as President Oh tile
French Republic.
Mrs. GARFIELD, mother Of President Gar
field, is 81 years old, but Is comparatively
strong in mind and body.
THE Cherokee Indians have elected Major
J. r. Mayes as their chief He was formerly
Chief Justice Of the Cherokee Supreme
Court.
FOUR United States Senators have resi-.
dences in San hrancisco-Stanford AM
Hearst of California, and Stewart and Jones,
of Nevada
IT is announced that Lord Stanley, who
was q memoer OF Lord SALISBURY hrso
Cabinet, has accepted the Governor General
ship of Canada.
1.-THE great American deer-stalker," Mr..
Wiman, now controls 230, 900 acres OF deer
forest in Scotland, and employs several
hundred keepers.
ANDREW CARNEGIE, the iron prince, who
pays his foreman q salary Of 81, wv year,
did his first work in Plttsburg telegraph
Office lor 81 a week.
A SEWING machine of solid silver and en-
riched with sapphires was recently re-
ceived by the Empress Of Russia 1t was q
present rom the Society for Promoting the
use of Russian Materials.
MRs. CHRISTIAN X. Ross, the mother OF
Charlie Ross, the Philadelphia boy VINO was
advertised years ago and never heard Of after
ward, is prominent member of the Woman's
Foreign Missionary Society.
A SMALL photograph of Grover Cleveland
taken in 1862, is owned by Judge Wardwel
of the Buffalo Municipal Court The pictu G
represents a tall, slight young man, long
haired and with a heavy moustache.
THE great financial king Of New Zealand ii
Johnny Jones, of Dunedin. His wealth run:
up into the millions, and the greater par'
was made in steamboating. He is native
and once earned scant wages as an oarsnan
on ferryboat.
SENATOR PAsCo, Of Florida, Senator
Jones's successor, is a brunette with jet oiaci
hair, which he wears we'll combed up rro'I
his dark, sallow forehead. He Is gradu
ate OF Harvard and went South as schoo
teacher just after the war.
CONGRESSMAN FELTON,, of California, wht
is worth $4,000. 90, is said to spend more
money than any of his associates H'
usually draws from $1,000 to S2,5N through
the Office Of the Sergeant-at-Arms, and whei
In Washin yton occupies apartments at al
uptown hotel that cost him S40J monIn
He fs very charitable.
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A SINGER IN LUCK.
An American Basso Becomes 4
Count-A Romantic Story.

A San Francisco dispatch says that Jacques
Kruger, the basso in the "Gypsy Baron"
Company, has received letter from Achlle
Dubarre, a well-known Partisan advocate,
informing him that law suit has been de-
cided in his favor, and that the estates in
Bruxelles, with all the chattels and heredita-
ments, are his. In addition to this there is
O. cash deposit Of 10000 francs (s3O, ,000,
which is at his disposal. hr. Kruger re-
Gently received from Ravel & Lafavrc, his
attorneys in New York, confirmation of
the news that he received from Paris. with
the addition that be could draw on the estate
for $4,000 francs whenever he chose.
The full name of the comedian, whose
nom de stage has been known from one end
of the country to the other for the last fifteen
wears, is Jean Jacques Kruger De Cartier,
and his title is Count Cartier De La Bois.
The estate is one of the largest and wealth.
lest in France, comprising. 5000 acres, with
valuable improvements. jacques Kruger IS
now worth over $1,OOD, 600. With the estate
come several decorations, including the badge
of the Legion Of Honor.
The history Of the case is interesting 1t
was lust alter the French Revolution and
during the Restoration that charge of trea-
son was brought against the grandfather or
Kruger. The Old COUNT was one OIL Inc
prouiest noblemr Il in France and one of the
| most honorable The charge and the dis
grace, with the loss of his estates. drove him
crazy. His wife, too, berame ins me overt the
trouble and they both died in obscurity. The
father of Kruger came to this country soon
after the calamity that bcfell the family, and
settled at Macon, Ga, on the homestead that
| has become we'll known, the family having
| lived on it for about ninety years.
General Kruger was well known charac-
| ter in the South. He raised the first squadron
| of horse in the Confederate army. About
thirty years ago lie went to France to look
| I'D the old estates, instituted proceedings and
| fought the case bitterly until his death,
| nineteen years ago. He spent fortune IN
the suit and left it, almost his only legacy, to
his SON jacques The latter followed the
steps of his father. 1t was not until two
years ago that anything tangible was CLEANED
from the mixed condition of affairs, but 1t
was at last proved that the charge against
the old grandfather was false, and aft.r all
these years Kruger is given the estates that
belong to him and takes the title OF Count
Kruger will, of course, leave the stage. TO
show the confidence he had in being ultl-
mately successful, he had educated his daugh'
ters with a view of fitting them for the posi-
ton they would ultimately occupy: The
elder has been in French convent for two
or three year.
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A HORRIBLE DEATH.
A Mans Neck Nearly Torn Off ut
a California Execution.

Nathan r. Sutton was hanged at Oakland,
Cal, for the murder of Alexander Martin, a
ranchman, in September, 1856. Strenuous
efforts were made in Suttons behalf for
communication of sentence, but Governor
Waterman refused to interfere.
Sutton maintained his cool demeanor on
the scaifold, but his death was very horrible
on account Of blunder of the sheriff. At
sixteen minutes past twelve Sheriff Hale
raised his hand as the sigma! to cut
the rope which held the trap in
place. the trap doors dropped, and sutton
Shot through the opening 10 the end Of the
rope. Then a cry Of horror went up from
people who stood around the gallows. The
unfortunate mans neck was so soft and
flabby from long confinement that his head
was almost torn from his bo,ly. Two streams
of blood shot up fully foot into the air from
lthe side of his neck.
The blood ran tricklng down his coat in
ste ady stream, and the sight was one never to
he forgotten by those who were unfortunate
enough to be present. Many of the spccsl-
tors hurr;edly ran out Of the Jail yard, for
the sight Of the fountain Of blood playing
under the g,llows was more than they could
stand. The unfortunate occurrence was due
to too long drn1
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PECULIAR ACCIDENTS.

WILLIAM GooD, of Mount Joy, Penn.
broke his leg while trying to pull of his boot,
TIE mule upon which William Brading OF
Lick Creek, Ill, was riding SHE'D, and throw
ing Brading against a tree, he was killed IN
stantly.
JESSE MEAD's horse ran away near Ire
mont, Ohio, and threw him headlong into the
frozen creek, where he broke through the ice
and was drowned.
WHILE trying to carry or a hog that he
had stolen. negro of Wilmington, N. e.,
aEr,fned himself so that he dropped dead with
Sb1t was called heart disease
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House Proceedings.

18TH DAY.-The Speaker announced the ap-
pointment of Mr.. Cox IN. W as member
of the Board Of Begents Of the Smithsonian
Institution. -. The Speaker announced the
standing committees of the House Mr..
Stone (Mo.) offered resolution directing the
Committee on Judiciary to investigate the
facts touching the imprisonment OF tne
Judges of tho County Court of st. Clair
County, Mo- Referred. Mr.. Grout WI
introduced bill to reduce postage on fourth
class matter; also to enable the people to
name their postmasters: also for the appoint
! ment Of an alcoholic liquor traffic commls-
sion.
18th DAY.-An animated debate took
place over report of the Committee on Ac-
counts regarding clerks for committees: the
report went back to committee. January
10 set aside for the presentation to the House
of portraits Of ex-Speakers Sedgwick, Far
mum and Banks :. The following bills were
introduced: Mr. Wheeler, of Alabama, to in
crease the pay Of fourth class Postmasters,
and to retire disabled army officers; Mr.
Oates tAla) directing the Committee on
Judiciary to recommend legislation nee
essary to restrict the number Of emil
grants; Mr.. Dunn tArk) to authorize
the purchase of foreign-built ships by citizens
the development of silk culture in the United
States: Mr. Symes (Col) for the fres coinage
of silver; Mr.: Lawler tIlL) for appointment
of committee to investigate strikes; Mr..
McCreary Ky.) to authorize the Treasury
at any time to apply the surplus to the re-
demption of Interest bearing Government
bonds: Mr. Taulbee iKy.) to repeal the Civil
Service law: Mr.. O'Donnell tMich.) to repeal
COO a year for the cultivotion of sugar.
14TH DAY.-The Speaker announced the
appointment Of Mr.. Wheeler tA'a- and MIR:
Phelps IN. J.) as members Of the Board OF
Regents Of the Smith 'onian lnstltution:...
The Urgent Deficiency bill was referred to
the Committee Of the Whole. The follow
ing bills were introduced: BY Mr. Wooiburn
ev.)-Directing the purchase OF not less
than "a, ,O0O,0OO worth of silver bullion per
month, and the coinage of the same INTO
standard dollars; Mr.. Gallinger IN. HIKE
quiring the smissal of all persons in the
public service who are not citizens of the
United States; Mr.. Bliss (N. Y.l-to dispose
of the surplus money in the Treasury AMI TO
prevent the accumulation thereof: Mr.. White
IN. Y.)-To authorize the refundinS or the
national debt into uniform consolldated
bond.
L,ra DAy.-House went into Committee of
the Whole to consider the Presidents mes
sage, which was referred to Ways and Means
Committee. Mr.. Randall reported reSo'
luton demanding of the Treasurya Il schaiule
Of claims allowed by its accounting officers
under the act of June 20, 1874. Mcss;s:: Hen,
Gerson and Rec opposed. Resolution adopted
-. Deficiency bill taken up, and Mr. Burns
said it grew out OF failure to receive tne
Presidents signature last session Mr.. Can
non said he hoped that it would be passed and
passed speedily, substantially as it was, thus
giving to the creditors of the Government the
poor pittances to which they were entitled.
The bill was passed.
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Dakota Journalism.

Dakota Editor ito forcman)-"Are al
the forms ready ~
Foreman" Yes, SIR"
Editor-"Pistols and bowie knives in
good shape {"
Fore ran-"Yes, SIR"
Editor" Calling gun loaded |"
Foreman" Yes. SIR"
Editor-"Then let the paper 60 te
rress. I'D B g.