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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-12-21
I88e.-"IRon AND SrEeL."-I8ee

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Enclose ten 10)cents in coin or stamps
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"lrOn and Steel embodies a vast deal
OF useful information. In the company
of his boy and girl visitors, "a Man.
penetrates the mines, explains their I'M
derground workings, follows the mined
product to the furnace and smelter, and
describes the various processes to which
1t Is subjected and the machinery that
compels it to assume the multiform
shapes OF rails, piping, nails, tools and
other fabrics for general use.
Inc engravings are from original
sketches and photographs, and admirably
executed. Besides the smaller pictures
there are numerous full-page views of
scenes in the Iron Mountain (Mo), Go
gebic and Cornwall (Pa.) mining dis
tricts. and of iron and steel works at
Pueblo, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and other
places. The work has been prepared
with great care, and is written in the
same attractive, colloquial style which
characterized its predecessors.
The book makes "A very handsome APP
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vel-the design being as unique as the
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The paper is superior and Typography
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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-12-21

Dled-!n New Haven, on the l4th inst, Mrs
Elizabeth Wright, wife OF Samuel s. Wright,
ESD, aged o3 years, months ana days. Re.
spected by all her neighbors and acouaint.
ances, generous to the poor and needy who
were never turned away from her hospitable
charity.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-12-21
Che Nlarbets.
VERMONT PRODuCE

VERMONT PRODUCE.
Butter was quiet at Nergennes Saturday,
at is toA cents per pound, selections 25c per
pound; eggs firm at 80 cents per dozen; fowls
to lie per pound; chickens 10 to IA cents
per pound turkeys, II to l6c per pouna pota
toes, 30 to i0c per bushel; beef, live weight,5H
to O cents per pound; pork dres sed weight
5h to q cents per pound veal and mutton, 7
cents per pound dressed weight; lamb cents
per pound dressed weight; hay, 81 to $II per
ton and fairly active.
BOSTON PRODUCE
The potato market runs along pretty even.
Supplies are quite ample for the demand and
prices are without much change. Vermont
rose and hebrons command As to soc, and bur
banks 40 to 45c.
The apple market is without much ANNA
ton. Baldwins, which are now the bulk OF
the receipts rule at 81 to SI.25 per barrel in
large lots, and only the best quality command
that range.
In poultry offerings have not been large and
choice turkeys sold at Is to lie per pound, the
outside tor Northern, but with more liberal
supplies prices may rule lower. Fair to good
l2 to lac.
Hay has been selling fairly, with very little
change in prices. The best quality OF New
York and Canada rule nj $3.50 to &l9 per ton,
with some extr, cars at 500 Vermont, New
Hampshire and Maine rule at as to 49, and
fair to good ut $li to eli per ton. Rye straw
moves OFF pretty well ut SIS to $is per ton.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-12-21

few angry words with Bent, and furth-
er unnecessary taunts from Roberts,
Walden reached for the latter with his
ak. Roberts then dealt the fatal blow
with the stick of wood. The skull was
badly fractured, the brain badly lacerat-
ed and several arteries were ruptured.
Both men have been arrested, but Rob
erts states that Bent had no hand in the
crime beyond his words. Walden's
young son tells another story, that he
saw Bent strike his father with club, a
blow that brought him to the ground.
Walden was German about go years old
and leaves a widow and five children.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-12-21
FOREIGN.


An English steamer bound for Glas.
gov has been lost with IL lives.
Fifteen persons were killed and ten
wounded the other day during the prog.
ress of a fire in German mandatory.
In the House of Commons the bill pro-
viding for the closing of taverns on Sun
day was rejected by a vote of 167 to 100.
The propriety of cooperating with
other powers for the suppression of the
African slave trade has been debated i'm
the German Reichstag.
A London Times witness in the Parnell
suit admitted on the stand that he had
sought for an opportunity of testifying
for the Times in order that he might
make few dollars.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-12-21


Congress has voted to adjourn from to-
day until Jan. Z.
1t is reported that Charles II. Itch.
man will be appointed commissioner OF
labor by President Cleveland.
President Cleveland has nominated a
man for district attorney of Indiana who
is not likely to be confirmed. 1t is Leon
o. Bailey, the slanderer and traducer of
Gen. Harrison.
In the House Monday, on motion of Mr..
Phelan of Tennessee, bill was passed
for the incorporation of the American
Historical association. Andrew d. White
of New York, George Bancroft of the
District of Columbia and Justin Windsor
of Massachusetts, are among the incor-
porators named.
Prominent members of the House ex-
press the opinion that little else than ap-
preparation bills, and possibly a bill for
the admission of the Territories agreed
upon in caucus, will pass the House this
session. On the land forfeiture bills the
difference between the House and Senate
is of so radical character that it is GER
tain that the House will not recede from
Its position.
The chief of the bureau of statistics re-
ports that the total values of the exports
of beef, hog and dairy products from
the United States during the month of
November, 1888, and during the eleven
months ended Nov. 30, 1888, as compared
with similar exports during the CORE
spending periods of the preceding year,
wereas follows: November, 1888, SO, POL
S62; for 1887, S7,076, 6S9; eleven months
ended Nov. 80, 1888, $77,147, 4Ol; for
1887, S79,273, 1862.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-12-21

Word has been received at Duluth.
Mimi, that very rich silver strike has
been made in the Badger mine, back of
Port Arthur The company has opened
an eight-inch vein of silver ore, assaying
$4,000 to the ton, making it about one
half pure silve.
John Lewis, colored, who was convict
ed of murder of his companion, Alice
Jackson, has been sentenced in New
York to he executed February |. As the
law abolishing hanging goes into effect
January l, Lewis will probably be the
first victim of the electrical method of
execution.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-12-21
DOM ESTlC.

Friday was the coolest day for nine
years so early in the season off Cape Cod.
st. Louis had S25O,OOO fire Saturday
night. A Springfield dry goods firm lost
$4,000.
The st. Louis horse railway lines have
been sold to trust or syndicate for
SO 100000.
Navigation on the Hudson from
Poughkeepsie north has about closed
for the season.
Refugees are flocking back to Jackson
vile, Fla, by the hundred and business
is again booming there.
A drunken Indian on the Fort Peck
agency on Saturday killed four persons
and fatally wounded the fifth.
Twenty thousand dollars worth of OPT
um struggled from Canada into Port HUI
ron, Mich, was seized Saturday.
The venerable poet, John G. Whittier,
was the recipient of hearty congratula-
tons Monday on the attainment of his
slst birthday.
The attorney general of Nebraska
wants the Union Pacific sold for cash.
and is opposed to the extension of time
for the payment of its debt.
Gentiles in Utah, both Republicans and
Democrats, are opposed to the Mormon
Statehood scheme recently Endorsed by q
Democratic congressional caucus.
A sod cabin, made in Nebraska for
Gen. Harrison, has arrived in Indianapo-
lis. 1t will probably appear in the in
augural procession at Washington.
Two highwaymen stopped passenger
train on the Illinois Central Friday night,
robbed the express car of $4,000, and shot
passenger dead who interfered with the
work.
Judge Ross, in the United States court
at Los Angeles, CAL, has decided that
Indians living on their own reservations
have the right to enforce their own tribal
laws and pass sentence of death.
Frank kochler was returned the other
day from New York to Sing Sing prison,
from which he escaped on June Is, 1873,
by being headed up in lime barrel and
swimming ashore from a schooner in the
Hudson river.
Bellarney Sheriff, aged Is, employed in
Douglas tannery at Chateaugay, N. Y,
was caught in shaft and thrown against
the roof of the building, splitting his
head open, breaking his arms and legs
and killing him instantly.
A colored janitor of the Columbian
bank in Boston saw bag of gold worth
$4,000 on the floor beside the safe; he APP
propriated it, was arrested after every.
body else had been suspected, confessed
and refunded nearly all of the gold,
The steamer City of New York, which
arrived at San Francisco Friday from
Hong Kong and Yokohama, is the first
steamer that has arrived from the Orient
for number of years without a single
Chinaman aboard bound for that port.
The "irrepressible conflict" between
the whites and blacks of the South has
broken out this time in the small town OF
Wahalak, Miss. The number of dead OF
both sides Is probably exaggerated, bu)
the country is greatly agitated over th,
; reports.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-12-21
N tional Bank OF Middiebury

N fionai Bank Of Middieb1ry
at Middebury, in the State of Vermont, at the
close of business, December IL, 1888.
RESOURCES.
Loans and discounts. s257, es5 Os
Overdrafts secured and unsecured, 100 %
U. 5. Bonds to secure circulation, 100000 90
:. Bonds on hand 205OO 90
Other stocks, bonds and mortgages, 5000 90
Due from approved reserve agents, 4S,54l 10
Real estate, furniture and fixtures, 5000 90
Checks and other cash items, 379 40
Fractional paper currency, nickels
and cents, 260 "A
Specie, 63ls 90
Legal tender notes, l923 90
Redemption fund with U. s. Treas
urer % per cent. of circulation, 5000 90
Total, sa57,sOs SO
Capital stock paid in, $2OOOOO 90
Surplus fund, 10000 90
Undivided profits, 24642 IS
National bank notes outstanding, l11,54O 90
Dividends unpaid, IS 90
Individual deposits subject to check, 1861 So
Demand certificates of deposit, 30,095 IS
Total, 1857 ,9Os SO
STATE OF VERMONT, I, Charles E. Pin
County of Addison, IS. ney, Cashier of the
above named bank do solemnly swear that
the above statement is true to the best of my
knowledge and belief.
CHARLES +. PINNEY, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th
day of December, 1858.
GEORGE NJ. FLETCHER,
Notary Public.
Correct-Attest,
| A. A. FLETCHER,
q. S. WAINWRIGHT, directors.
CALVIN HILL,
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-12-21
OBITUARY,
CHARLES p. CHAPMAN.

For thirty years and more harles p. dhap.
man lived in Middlebury, the place of his
birth, and whore the bright genial social traits
OF MS nature won warm place in the hearts
OF MS friends. His education here was sun.
plemented by year or two at the Vermont
Episcopal Institute and about the same perj.
Oh NJ tne Military academy at Sing Sing, y.
l., under the charge at that time of Cant
benjamin From 1866 to 1870 he was engaged
IN business with his father, under the firm
name of George e. Chapman X Son, and from
1870 to 1879 he was partner with his brother
Thad in the firm of Chapman Brothers. Hor.
ace Greeley's advice, 600 West, Young man "
was taken, and when twenty eight wears old
Charles went to California, and for some
years was extensively engaged in mining
lie came back East and had seat in the Min.
ing ana stock Exchange in New York city, do.
ing business as Il broker. For the last two
years OF his business lite he was at Minneapo
lis, Mimi, as general agent tor the Northwest
OF the Baldwin Refrigerator company
He had been in i'll health for some time, re.
sulting in general paress, and for the past
fourteen months has been at the Retreat in
burlington under the immediate supervision
OF DrJo l.. Clark, and has received every
needed care and attention. He died there on
saturday, the 18th inst, and his body was
Drought home to Middlebury, and the funeral
TOOK place IN st. stephens church on Tues.
DAY. In addition to the usual burial service
OF me church, the knights Tempar, OF which
order the deceased was n member, had their
Impressive ritual fittingly solemnized about
the casket OF their departed brother.
lie was the second OF Mr.. and Mrs
George {. Chapman. and was born March DC
1917. The sympathy of the community goes
OUT 10 the bereaved family now, as it has done
from the first of his failing health.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-12-21
Oieo.

GARROW-ln Ferrisburgh, Dec. IA, d. cbn
sumption, Mrs. Joseph Garrow, aged about 80
years |
WRlGHT-At Hammond, La, on Monday,
Nov. %, Ellen =. Wright, wife OF Fred wv.
wright and daughter OF the late Quintus NC.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-12-21
TAkE IT IN TIME.

"For want IT nail, shoe was lost
for want of a shoe horse was lost; for
want Of horse rider was lost.'' Never
neglect small things. The first signs of
pneumonia and consumption can positive
~ be checked by DR.. Acker's English
Remedy for Consumption.
HANAFoRD's PARK DRUG STORE.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-12-21
General 11eps.
MATTERS AT WASHINGTON.

Congress has voted to adjourn from to-
day until Jan. Z.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-12-21

Mt Middlebury, in the State of Vermont, at the
close of business, December IL, 1883.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-12-21
LARGEST CIRCULATION
IN Vermont of any paper published in the
United States.
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Middlebury, Vt.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-08-04
rhe pecu,iar,t,ea Of statues.

Tho personal peculnrities and passing
preferences Of Boston statues, considered
quite apart from their permanent aspect,
make subject that the Listener may take
up when he has nothing else to do but float
about and look at things Just ut this mo-
ment he can only refer to the evident distress
which Sam Adams, always SO bunptiously
erect on his pedestal in Adams square, feels
whenever it rains or SHOWS. With his ex-
uuisitely dressed hair, quite uncovered and
hanging in o superb queue Gown Ills back,
and his general air of recent acquaintance
with the interior of pre-revolutionary band
box, MIR. Adams looks very comfortable in
pleasant weather, but painfully bareheaded
and awfully wet in rain storm; and when
he appears In winter, with his fercely folded
arms laden down with snow and an icicle
banging from either elbow, his aspect is posi-
lively pathetic.
The Listener may just notice in passing
a personal popularity of another Boston
statue, to wit, the appearance which the
stony Alexander Hamilton, in Common
wealth avenue, has Of dragging the pave
nent along with him whenever the snow
covers his immense trailing mantle. 1t was
necessary, 1t seems to provide the statue with
trailing mantle in order to give additional
support for the figure In good weather
Hamilton merely has tho appearance OF lean
ing on bis mantle, but when the wholestruc-
ture is covered with SNOW as it often is in
winter, be seems to be marching along and
tearing up the sidewalk after him as no goes
Boston Transcript "Lstener."
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-08-04
Tho Royal Family of Spain.

Tho queen regent and the baby king Of
Spain and tho two llttlo girls have been to
tile front recently rs topics Of interest in the
world Of Journalism, They were charmingly
received OF Barcelona because Christina,
when put upon her mettle by Providence,
surmounted her trials nobly and has done all
that she should have done In II situation Of
the greatest difficulty. Strength has been
manifested in her weakness. Although Bar
celona is the most republican city in Spain,
it's population could not be insensible to the
compliment paid it by tho regent in coming
there with her three children. As q family
group she and the baby king In her arms and
the two Infantas beside her were most touch
ing. She is not pretty. But she has stately
manner on state occasions, and goes well
through oil that is required OF her at great
public ceremonial
Though generally of cold manner, her
emotions on this occasion warmed her up.
Her heart overaowetl with thankfulness 1t
was the second birthday Of the baby king.
How she must hnvo felt when she found joy
and festivity roigning In Barcelona, and tho
fullest recognition from the people and the
powers who had como to the exhibition, Of
virtues she has developed. saw her here, q
rn1T girl, going. not many years ago, to Spain
to be married, and can hardly realize that
the widow of King Alphonso, who has SO
splendidly borne the discipline of sorrow,
governed with so much wisdom, and been
Arm in not shedding blood In defense Of her
sons crown, is the young princess whom re-
member.-Forcign Cor. New York Tribune
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-08-04
/ A western editor refers to Col Robert G.
Ingerson as 1.-THE great anti-sheolian."
AN Encrnver aud ais picture.


'Thcre is more value in these engravings
than people Think said dealer as he
fondled over collection of prints of Ma
donnas and other heavenly beings "Copies
of some such engravings arc worth 1000
each, and can scarcely be found even Mt that
price. There Is Muller's Sistino Madonna
for instance. He was German artist, and
put his whole soul into reproduction Of
that Madonna for wealthy patron When
be had done, his work was the most delicate,
faithful and sympathetic piece of engraving
that was ever produced. He STRUCK Off few
copies, and then his patron decided that it
was too delicate, that the lines must be deep
ened little. Muller carried out the order,
and died soon afterwards of broken heart"
The dealer seemed to share the grief Of the
unfortunate Muller, and as be finished the
little tale his voice fell in manner that sug.
gested that his own heart had never been
wholly well since those lines were deepened. 1t
is pity to have 70 add that the cold and I'M
romantic encyclopaedia records that Johann
Friedrich Wilhelm Muller died in 1916 OF
overwork, but it Il eet down that his wonder
fnl sis.ins Madonsa was his life work, ard
,aur he died soon S,ter completing it. so the
Dealers story may be true after an--Nev
-Snrk Siin
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-08-04
Statistics of "auaranteo Companies"


"We succeed in getting together some IN
teresting statistics IN our business We keep
a record of the percentages of loss to prcrni-
ums, which show the AVERAGE of defalcations
In various classes Of business. When the
percentage ia under 4 Of I per cont. we re-
gard the risk as fair. In banks the percent
.age is 81 of per cent; employees of tele-
graph companies have averaged .SS5 Of per
cent. with us so far, but there is IN improve
ment due, as believe, to tho bonding of
whole companies, and the consequent weed
ing out through our Investigations Of the
employees with bad records and loose habits.
Cashiers and bookkeepers have usually been
considered bad risk, but with us they have
shown q loss of only IA Of 1per cent, which
makes them very good risk.
with state and municipal officers, noe,
Esesstending the csy OF coTggtion, wc htraa
noe yet me: with a single loss. Officers Of
corporations are perhaps the best risk on the
whole, because they are best paid and can af-
ford to be honest After all, that is great
thing. We find that collectors and drivers
ere not all acceptable risk, for tho reason that
they arc so ,niserably paid in proportion to
the amount Of money which they handle
Our loss With them was LIZ per cent. 1t
isn't fair to put $4,000 or 00OO day into
the hands of man with q wife and four
children who is drawing q salary of $500
gear. We consider that question very care
fully, and where mans income seems mani
testify smaller thnn his needs we decline to
bond. LII many cases our refusal on these
grounds has shaned employers into paying
fairer wages. Now York Mail andExpreSs
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-08-04
con. sncr-non and. sheridan.

when YOU hear of the impending death Of
any person, especially Of o celebrity, your
mind recurs at onco to the last time you saw
linn. Therefore, tho writer thinks Of Gen
e,beridnn OLE he appeared ct a small social
gathering in Fifth avenue ono evening last
winter. It WINS In pert an ossen.hlage OF
Ohio men, with some connection or other
vith the formation of the Ohio club, with
which Gen. Sheridan and other sons Of Ohio
were interested. OF course, Sherman and
Sheridan were thsHHons Of the night. and
thew were admired and petted great deal
by the ladies, especially BY half dozen girls
from Madam Reeds school-the institution
from which Rose Elizabeth Cleveland has
lust retired as an instructress. Sherman Is
famous for kissing girls OF every proper OPP
portunity, and, although there may have
been some exaggerated accounts OF his doings
In that line, it is fact that his fatherly
kisses arc apt to be bestowed upon good prov
ocation. The school girls did not dissemode
their interest In tho two warriors, but gacsd
On them after the manner Of the nstheao
.raiders at Groeyefor tn Patience" shcF-
nan boro it with ehanlantine fortitude, and
sven seemed to enjoy II, but Sheridan seemed
different and rather ii at ease under the
ordeal of adulation. After while matron
presented her daughter to Sherman. he
sook her hand and said, 81 am very glad to
,uow you"
"Oh, tho gladness is oil on the part of my
laughter, am sure, said the ELUSIVE dame
Now, general, II you would give her one OF
those celebrated kisses"--
Sherman needed no further invitation.
he kissed the not unwilling girl with loud
smack on the cheek. There was some hugh
ter and well bred EXPLANATIONS at this, aud
Sherman turned to Sheridan, introducing
the very pretty recipient Of his kiss.
"Nou, Cen. Sheridan said gentleman,
.you sareiy womb LIST Sherman get ON advGnr:
tage Of yoa-"
Sheridan he'd to kiss the girl or run
There wse no alternative She stood de-
mureiy ready for tho contact. He Redeemed
vtably, and then, instead OF kissing the girl
on the cheek as Sherman had done, he lifted
her hand to his lips 1t was something of a
disappointment to tho spectators, il not to
the girl, but It was dignifled and handsome.
New York Sun.