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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-09-01
From Left to RIGHT

DIR. Deiaunay, French scientist, as
serts that centrifugal movements of the
hands-that is, from left to right-arc
characteristic of intelligence and higher
development; centripctal, or the reverse.
are indicative OF incomplete evolution.
lie suggests this as scientific test in
employing servants aad others. To as.
certain the qualities of an applicant
COOK give her a place to clean or a
sauce to make, and watch how she
moves her hand in either act. If sh,
moves 1t from left to right, or in the
direction OF tn, hands of a watch Won
my trust her; if in the other way
she IS certain to be stupid and incapa-
Die. The intelligence of people NAV
also be gagged by asking them to make
circle on paper with a pencil, and
noting in which direction the hard ia
moved. The good students in mate
NAUTICAL class draw circles from left to
night. Down East similar test of
faculty has existed from the earliest
day. No Yankee farmer would hire a
hand, or "storekeeper' employ a
clerk who should whittlc to him instead
Of from him.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-09-01

The war and navy departments, pur-
suant to a resolution passed by the
United States senate, have been making
estimates regarding the cost of the re-
retired lists. The highest amount
which has been paid to any retired Off
Ger now living is $1O4, 600, received by
General J. e. Robinson since he left the
army. General Sherman, who was re-
tired four years ago, has received since
then nearly $50. 600 In pay and allow
ances. Rear Admiral Selfridge has re-
ceived more retired pay than any other
navy officer Since his retirement, in
1866, he has received from the govern
ncnt about 500, 600.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-09-01
The Same Forever.

The Cross stands firm; no blast of time,
No hurricane Of earths rude cline,
Can shake it. heavenly steadfastncss,
Or lessen it, high power 10 bless.
look and live
The tidings from that tree az love
Are still Gods message from above.
Telling, each hour, of cleansing blood,
And pointing to the upward road.
hear and live!
Still does the Christ His face reveal,
KS well Of living Joy unseal,
Still telling of His love and light,
His meekness, ma iesty and might.
! come and live.
Still waves life's tree its glorious wealth,
Laden " 18th everlasting health
With fruit and leaf D,vinely fair,
And immortality still there
eat and live
Still from the rock the waters burst
To quench the weary spirits thirst;
Who drinketh once will drink again.
Who drinketb shall not drink in vain.
drink and live
-lBonar.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-09-01

note from Lee asking her to go for {
drive with him by moonlight; the othel
was a few angry lines from Ned, asking
if she remembered that she was be
trothed TO him while she allowed every
gossip at the hotel to chatter OF bel
Irritation with Lee Stone.
81 have been patient, waiting an op.
portunity of speaking to you, he wrote.
"but you will not give me one, SO ]
write to ask you if you wish our en-
gagement broken; to all it would seem
So"
She t.embled little a, she read, and
her swee: face changed color; bu: she
went to her desk, drew from it every
letter he had ever sent her. formed
them and his ring ia a package, aad
wrote him the following ote:
1t was | who first taught patience while
my existence was forgotten for one who was
what you bale me become-"a society char
acter." Why should fancy that you wish
an interview with me of latel 1t is not SO
long since you could not spare a moment for
me from Miss Lowell. Do l wish our engage
ment broken. Perhaps We both wish it,
Ned; at least let us break it, since SC
displease you. send you your letters and
ring.
Then, although a choking sensation
was in her throat, she penned brief
note to Lee:
II shall be pleased to go with YOU"
that was all; and in the starllght-the
moon rose late-she went with him out
over the beach and far along the coup-
try.
Was it strange that he noticed she
no longer wore Ned's ringa Was it
strange that he told her of his love. and
that she listened silently, believingly,
with strange futter at her heart? Was
it strange that when they drove back,
lingering beside the sobbing ocean,
another ring should deck her finger and /
another bond should lie upon her lifel
Well, two others walked upon the
trand, two whom the gossips called
overs; and yet when it was told that
Nollie Annes was to plac, her happi-
less in the keeping of the ''flirt of the
'each," one man who heard it turned
IS white as death and shrank from the
light of the beautiful woman beside
Tim, although men called her fair, and
many said she had won him from his
aith; yet Mollie was too happy to re-
ret, although she sometimes remem-
ers. -.Toledo Blade.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-09-01

King Alphonso XIII, of Spain,
after weeks of anguish caused by teeth.
ing" says the New York Sun, ''had
his royal gums lancet, and has since
been happy as any we.l-fel, we.l-nursed
baby ough: to lie. Ga Wednesday be
had 6 grand time. Fourteen thousand
school childrea paradcl Neto:e him, al
DIRE 'scd in their Sunday clothes and
carrying inuum cradle flags. King
Alphonso orowcl with delight, and
even capped his little hands to the
immense satisfaction OF some 120, 600
of his loyal subjects who had as
semblcl TO see the fun. His Majesty.
howeyc-. proved that at bottom he is
very much like ordinary babies, mas
much that when the time came to dis.
tribute cakes and oraoges he insistes
on having bis share Ct then"
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-09-01

Satisfies would seem to show that
brunettes are more successful in obtain
ing husbands in the proportion Of about
three to two. Poets have a proverbial
preference for fair hair, no poem is com
plete without fiaxen haired maid; but
the prOsaic mortals in search of a wife
seem, upon tho whole, to prefer the
brown and the black. According to
Or. Beddoo, the result of thi. icon ju-
gal selection appears to be that in some
parts of England fair hair is slowly dis
appearing, while dark hair is becoming
moro prevalent.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-09-01

Fifteen of the seventy eight mem bcrs
of the graduating class of the She field
Scientific school at Yale college earned
their own living while taking the course
OF instruction. Some worked on farms
during vacations some sold books,
some tutored aud some acted as walters
ia summer hotels, while one man drew
beer at a summer resort, receiving q
salary Of s. per week for his services
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-09-01

After enduring eighteen years OF OBJ
ioquy Marshal Bazaine of France has been
vindlcated. Count d Herisson shows in
arecently published history OF the Metz
disaster that Bazaine's army before he
surrendered it to the Germans was
starving and ravaged by disease, and
that the facts were suppressed by Gam
beta
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-09-01

A man in New York City, who called
on his doctor received a severe bite
from dog on tho premises. lie sued
for damages, and the judge decided
that he could not recover because he
was unable to prove that the animal had
bitten somebody before. The theory of
the law is that one offense doc, not
make q dog vicious.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-09-01

Canada complains of too many immi.
grants according to the American Cul.
tivator. Hundreds Of them are now
objects of charity at Toronto in desti-
tute and starving condition. They can.
not get employment and charitable
people are helping them Canada Is not
growing fast enough to absorb these
I"migfart' on . large scale. 50.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-09-01

An immense iron pipe is being laid
connecting the oil fields of Pennsylva-
MIA with the city of Chicago. The pipe
will be eight inches in diameter and 21O
miles long, and will require Ga, 900 bar
rels OF oil to fill it. The largest pump
ever made has just been completed to
force the oil through the pipe.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-09-01
cyclone.

Georgia. according to the Athens
tGa) Banner Waterman, furnished
three regiments of soldiers to the fed
eral army during the civil war. The
soldiers came from the mountain coun-
ties of the state.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-09-01
Chr Deeklp flessrnaer
Published Weekly
AT
St MartinsviiIe, L a.
BY
EASTIN & BIENVENU.

Calling was not satisfied with invent.
ing gun TO kill off 100 soldiers a min
ute, sa.s the Detroit Free Press, but has
brought out one which will NOW down
brigace as the corn-stalks fall before q
cyclone.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-07
EAST MIOplERURY.

Scion Sumner has gone into "A hotel at
Swanton.
Charles Sumner and family have been
camping at Long Point.
A Montgomery and wife of Manches-
ter, n. H., are at their fathers, Lewis
Russell.
Mrs. Eddy of Taunton, Mass, is home
on "A visit to her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Sidney Sumner, and friends.
There was a heavy frost Wednesday
night which, it is feared, greatly damaged
the corn and garden vegetables.
Business matters has called DR.. Fales
to Springfield, Mass. From thence he
goes to visit his mother, at New Bedford,
Mass.
VIII Dow has returned from the West
and re%purchased his fathers farm, that
of the late Horace Dow, on Mountain
street.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-07

Up to Monday there had been 25S cases
of yellow fever at Jacksonville, Fla, and
"a deaths.
General Secretary Litchman of the
Knights of Labor p%ronounces for IIarri-
son, Morton and protection.
Mr.. Gratz of st. Louis, the originator
of the cotton bagging trust, a thorough
free trader, declares that the trust is the
offspring of the Mills bill.
Fire at Baltimore early Sunday morn
ing destroyed a million and a half of
property and sever firemen persisted in
the ruins of one of the buildings.
\ fight between a company of vigilants
in Kansas and a band of horse thieves
and outlaws resulted recently in the
death of seventeen outlaws and three Wig
ilants.
The receipts of wheat in Minneapolis
for the crop year ending August 81 were
A, los, 400 bushels against 39,27S,3S
bushels last year. This is the largest
quantity of wheat ever received in any
primary market in the world. 1t exceeds
the whole wheat crop in Minnesota.
Rollins chapel, one of the finest of the
Dartmouth college buildings, was badly
damaged Tuesday night by a fire which
originated near the furnace The fire
burned through the floor, but the granite
walls are not seriously damaged. The
building was the gift of Edward A. Rol-
Inns of Philadelphia, and cost $4,000.
A waterspout struck Little Rock, Ark,
on Thursday night, causing a terrible
loss of life and property. The flood on
Central avenue, the principal thorough
fare, assumed an angry river, whose
rushing tide swept everything movable
on its bosom. For over half AT hour the
avenue was transformed into a torrent 5O
yards wide. The damage to property is
estimated at 100000
Mr.. Chester of Antwerp, o., drew
$500 in cash from a bank at Fort wayne
Ind, Saturday, and while returning home
he was waylaid and robbed. The rob-
bers knocked him senseless, bound him,
filled his mouth with sand, and laid him
on the track of the Wabash railroad, in
such a position that the next train would
have run over him. Fortunately he wa:
discovered in time and removed to his
home.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-07
County Veps.
BRIDPORT,

oHiOfNnis
Butter brought II and IS cents on
Monday and Tuesday.
Mrs. S. F. Reynolds of Brooklyn was
at j. I. Fletcher's last week.
Some of our Republicans attended the
rally at vergennes Saturday.
Miss Grace Floyd of Crown Point, n.
Y, was in town over Sunday.
w. G. Langworthy and wife of Mid
dlebury were at L. W. Fletcher's last
week.
The village school opened Monday,
with Albert Mayham of North Blenheim,
n. Y, as teacher.
Our young people have recently organ
lied a religious meeting, to be known as
the Young peoples prayer and praise
meeting" The meetings will be held in
the vestry on Saturday evening of each
week, and will be conducted by the
young people exclusively.
Election day created some excitement,
and a large vote was out, there being 225
votes cast for the State ticket 217 votes
were cast for town representative as fol-
lows: Converse, 126; Lamos, Sc; Mich
OILS, 81; scattering, /. No other new
officers were elected except j. II. With
erell, Justice.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-07

Mrs. Chas. f, Parker, who has been
spending the summer at Saratoga, has
returned home.
Mrs. Helen Kellogg and daughter of
Madison, Wis, are stopping at Mrs. Julia
Adams, this city.
A large number of girls are employed
in the new shade roller factory, finishing
and preparing for market.
Geo. Thorn of this city is soon to go to
Atlanta, Georgia, thence to Topeka, Kan
sas, where he will probably settle.
The Graded school started up Monday.
Miss Sutton of Starksboro takes the
place of Miss Chapman as teacher.
There is to be a torchlight procession
in honor of the victory and majority in
Vermont Wednesday or Thursday eve
ming.
Mrs. w. G.. Sprague, who has been
spending some time with her daughter,
Mrs. Lamb, at Portland, Me-, has returned
home.
Herrick Stevens is on a trip to Chicago,
accompanying thither his daughter, Mrs.
Hammond, and children, who reside in
that city.
Cyrus Smith is very anxious hat Har-
rison should be elected president. He
was quite a boy when the first president,
Washington, died, in 1899.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-07
VERGENNES.

The election passed of quietly.
F. A. Woodbridge is visiting in New
York.
Mrs. L. Wheeler will go to Illinois to
spend the winter.
DIR. Gage is still confined TO his room
at the Stevens House.
Gen. Grandey has completed his fiftieth
year as justice of the peace.
Mrs. Wm. f. Greene and daughter are
spending a few days in Vergennes.
Lieut.. May and Mrs. May of Washing
ton are guests of Mrs. C. w. Bradbury.
Fred Grandey of Montana is ex-
pected home soon to ''take up his claim
The assistant priest, Father Gelot, goes
to Poultney to take charge of the parish
there.
Geo. +. kimball Of Boston and wife
are making a visit to Postmaster KimbalI
of this city.
f. A. Woodbridge has sold one of his
Percheron stations to II. II. Noble OF
Essex, n. Y.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-07
FOREIGN.

The London Standard, in a savagd
leader on the fisheries question, says
SIT will be well for the President and
government of the United States to rel
member that Canada is a dependency of
Great Britain, and that if the necessity
should unfortunately arise she has bel
hind her guns English iron-clads. If ouj
American cousins fail TO understand this
allusion; if, in Difference to the tone Of
coarse brutality, which seems to be d
distinguishing feature of their domestic
politics, they invite us to reply to theiI
insults In a strain they will comprehend,
perhaps we may be allowed to remind
them of the Trent affair" The Pail
Mall Gazette denounces the Standard foI
its violent %utterances on the fisheries
question, and charges that paper with
outraging the good feeling which ought
to exist between Great Britain and the
United States.
The sugar bounties convention has
been signed at London. Ii is to remain
in force ten years.
The town of Tarnobrzeg, Galieia, was
visited by a 81, 800 900 fire Sunday.
England will be obliged to import 10
100000 bushels of wheat this winter,
chiefly from America, and France will
very likely follow suit owing to the
paucity of her crop.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-07
NEST ADDISON.

Mrs. Dennis Norton is very sick at
present.
Johnny Green is breaking colts for
Fred Olcott.
Miss Cora Strong was home over sun
day on a visit.
Mrs. Julia Goodale is Just recovering
from a hard sickness.
The rain of last Friday night has done
a great deal of good here.
Mr.. Lyons, from Essex, N. Y, is ex-
pected at Mr.. ID. c. Smiths.
Mr.. Poison, the NJ. E. clergyman, is
holding evening meetings at the church
this week.
VIM. Sprague and family have moved
from Chimney Point to the residence of
Pet Naylor, Esq.
Charles B. Strong is on the sick list.
He is suffering much from an abscess.
His condition is precarious.
Mrs. Carlton Merrill and children have
been making a visit at Miss Alice Mer-
rill's. They have left for their home in
Troy, n. Y.
School closes this week in district No.
2. The term was a fourteen weeks one.
and taught by Eva j. McAllister from
Moriah, n. Y.
Last week Friday Jas. Baker gave a
social ball to his friends. This week
Mrs. W. II. Merrill and daughters, Ella
and Florence, will give a ball at their res
idence on Friday evening.
Leslie II. Raine and =. c. Hoyt have
just returned to Middlehury to enter upon
their duties in college as seniors. The
term opened Thursday.
Miss Louella Smith has just left home
for North Adams, Mass, where she has
been engaged as preceptress of the High
school there for the ensuing year.
\ considerable excitment was manifes-
ted Tuesday in the election of the town
representative. d. c. Smith was elected.
The vote cast stood PA for D.. c.. Smith,
II for Edwin Hoyt and nine scattering
votes. The result of the State and county
vote was Republicans, POO; Democrats,
Is; Prohibitions, 4.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-07
State Oeps.

An immense toad-stool three feet in di-
ameter was found recently at Wolcott on
a beech tree.
st. J%ohnsbury academy opens with 300
scholars, the largest number for opening
week in its history.
The meat-market of Myre Stearns at
Rutland was entered by burglars Satur-
day night and $40 in cash taken.
Joseph Martin, a track walker, was
killed by an extra engine Friday night
while crossing the track near Chester.
The United States district court held
its last special session for the naturaliza-
ton of foreigners at Burlington Friday,
and 67 took papers.
Gen. Clinton B. Fisk addressed a freed
mems aid society at the Methodist church
in st. Johnsbury Friday night, giving a
review of missionary work in the South.
Ten head of cattle belonging to Will
liam Green of North Danville were killed
by lightning during a recent thunder
storm. They were herded close together
under trees.
A. T. Abercrombie, assistant civil en-
gineer on the st. Johnsbury and Lake
Champlain railway, while attempting to
board a train near st. J~ohnsbury, Friday,
was thrown between the cars and badly
injured.
Jed Stark of South Halifax, postmas'
ter, justice of the peace, overseer of the
poor and an extensive wool and apple
grower, dropped dead in his orchard
Monday, while showing his fruit to a
visitor.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-07
CORNWALL,

Farmers are beginning to u their
corn.
\ little wool is being bought at a shil-
ling a pound.
Mrs. George Bond has returned to her
home at Tonawanda, n. Y.
Cyrus Ward is spending his annual va
cation with his brother, c. c. Ward.
The Cornwall Cornet band are consid-
ering a proposition from a travelling
troupe to accompany them South and
play during the winter.
There was a pretty general turnout to
election. Considerable feeling was mani
tested in the choice of town representa-
tive. The vote was: II. E. Sanford, l3l {;
R. A. Foote, 76: scattering, Z.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-07

Wednesday morning as a gang of men
were working on the new highway at
Monroe an embankment fell. Henry
Bedell, William Mckay and William
Vane were killed. Several others were
badly hurt.
The entire receipts from the Horse
Breeders meeting held at Rutland last
week were over $4,000; and after paying
expenses the association will have the
handsome sum of wei $4,000 to lay by in
the treasury. The net receipts last year
were about $4,000.
Lucy Blanchard, an operative at the
cotton mill at Springfield, on Saturday
started to ride down on a small freight
elevator from the top floor of the mill,
when the rope broke and, it is supposed,
while trying to jump her head became
pinned between the floor and the guard.
Before she could be released, the elevator
slipped again and fell the remaining dis
lance, about three stories, dragging her
with it. She is still alive, but her recov-
cry Is doubtful.
The Tooth birthday of Mrs. Lucinda
Fletcher was celebrated at North Spring
field the other day, a reception being held
in the church, which was attended by
relatives and townspeople. She is a re-
markably well preserved old lady, and
has always enjoyed good health. She
retains her faculties to a wonderful de-
gree, especially her memory. Five OF
her II children are living, Is grandchil-
dren, six great-grandchildren. One son,
Hon. George L. Fletcher, is postmaster
at Chester.
The directors representing the new
board of stockholders of the Howe Scale
company of Rutland are said to represent
SO, 200, 900, and S250,00 0 of the company's
capital. The officers of the company are
President, DR.. John A. Mead; vice-pres-
ident, John w. Cramton; treasurer
lockwood Barrett; clerk, George T
Chaffee; directors, John A. Mead, join
w. Cramton, Wheelock G. Veazey, Elmer
d. Reyes, George Il. Chaffee, Charlie;
Amsden, lockwood Barrett, Percival w
Clement and W. Y. w. Ripley auditors,
George r. Bottum, Warren II. Smith, NJ
j. Francisco.
The selectmen of Dummerston have
exhumed the body of Miss Genevri
Knapp, late postmistress, found dead il
her office last week, for autopsy. Dealt
was supposed to have resulted from
heart disease; since then suspicion hat
been aroused from the fact the funds anC
stamps of the office are missing. Franl
Dodge, a young farmer, was arrested
being the last one to enter the Office be
fore she was found dead. The autopsy
is said to have disclosed the fact tina
Miss Knapp did not die of disease bu
that certain marks on her body confirmed
the suspicious of murder.