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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-05-04
AMUSEM ENTS,
THE HENRY THEATRE co.

THE HENRY THEATRE CO.,
Which will open here on Monday even
ing next for week, is the same COM
pany that played here to full and we'll
pleased houses year ago. The Troy
Times says of them: "The Peoples the
atre closed an engagement here Saturday
evening with the Gipsy Queen. The
Opera House was crowded. j. f. Fen
ton as Ishmael, III. Ripley as Hager, Mr..
Dorcy as Kinchen, Hal Warren as Lem
uel, G. w. Thompson in double role,
Mrs. Pelham as Starlight Bess, III. Del
mar as Alfred were well up in their parts
and did nicely. Ouida Delmar in the
double role of Lady Agnes and MIN mer
is splendid. AS Lady Agnes she is very
quiet and as Nimmer she is wild rowing
gypsy girl and a very fine dancer. But
when Miss Hattie Henry appeared as
Queen the applause knew no bounds.
Handsome and with fine figure, when
she was dressed In gypsy clothes she was
grand, but when she began her part ev-
cry one was convinced that she was one
of the very few good artists who visit us.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-05-04
FRIDAY. MAY 4, 1888.
a ONE-MAN PARTY.

\ peculiarly industrious and thorough
bolt of lightning entered New Hamp-
|hire barn, and managed to hit more than
twenty objects. One shudders to think
|f the vacancies that would be made in
|he lists of Republican candidates for the
Presidency if lightning of the spreading
nd conscientious New Hampshire kind
|hould rattle into the Senate chamber.
r New York sun.
The Republican party, unlike the DEM
|cratic, contains several men whom their
|riends dare to propose for the presidency.
The Democrats seem to have but one
han, and he is there now; so that Re-
|ublicans can afford to smile at jibes of the
! un stripe.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-05-04
Personal MENTION.

Capt. ID. f. Barrett, late of the pension
office, Washington, is in town.
Mrs. Eldredge. wife of Hon. L. ID. FL
dredge, is quite i'll. She narrowly es-
capped an attack of gastric fever.
Mrs. c. S. Murkland of Manchester, y.
H., who, with her child, had been making
a short visit at Mr.. Tupper's, returned
home on Tuesday.
The infant son of Prof. and Mrs. C. b.
Wright is seriously i'll with pneumonia.
Mrs. Alexander of Akron, o., Mrs.
Wrights mother, is with them.
Mr.. Page G.. Potter arrived home on
Sunday mornings train from South
America, where he went nearly year
ago with horses. lie talks of going
back later in the season.
Mrs. Bronson, mother of NJ. V. b.
Bronson, died at his home on Sunday and
was buried on Tuesday, Rev. Mr.. Thomp-
son of the Methodist church officiating
She was Il years of age.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Smith of Ferris
burgh were at Mr.. C.. \. Chapman's ear
lv in the week on their way home from
Nineland, y. j., where they spent very
enjoyable winter.
Mr.. Randall Hammond, who has rep
resented the Deering Mower and Reaper
Co. in this section the past year, went on
Wednesday to Portland, Me. He will
have the general agency for the company
in that State.
c. NJ. Wilds, Esq, has made arrange
ments to go to Vergennes every Satur-
day to attend to his official and private
business. He will begin tomorrow and
will occupy the late Mr.. Woodbridge :
office there.
Mr.. David n. Burke, formerly of this
place, but now citizen of New York
State and L. 5. consul at Puerto Cabello,
Venezuela, has been nominated consul at
Bahia, Brazil. Bahia is an important
port and city of 10000 inhabitants.
Liz ucdllls dIc dHIlOuuCtu MIS-. MA
ry (Marsh) Allen, wife of DR.. j. Adams
Allen of Chicago, who was formerly well
known in this community, and of Miss
Abbie l.. Hale, daughter of the late Hon
Robert S. Hale, at the home of the fami.
ly in Elizabethtown, n. Y.
Mr.. Fred S. Haskell has sold out his
business at West Cornwall to his father
and will spend most of his time in New
York henceforth. He is in the employ
of the F. p. Robinson Co., makers of a
fast-black stocking which is being sold
very extensively all over the country.
Mr.. A. 7. Stratton, who lately resigned
the secretaryship of the Y. NJ. c. A.,
left town on Wednesday for Dover, n.
H., where he takes similar position,
Almost all the young men and boys in
town, and many older people were at the
train to see him Off Mr.. Stratton was
deservedly popular with all classes and
did excellent work for the association.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-05-04

ed his 18th birthday anniversary, is STILL
despite his age, one of the clearest-head-
ed and most useful statesmen we possess.
Those hasty persons who are wont to say
that there are no vigorous old men in
American public life can well consider the
case of Nermonts veteran Senator, with
his 33 years of arduous and honorable
services in the two houses of Congress-
Boston journal.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-05-04
THE New CHlEF-JUSTICE.

Nermonters generally, and the people
# Addison county in particular. who
ave known Hon. f. J. Phelps from his
oyhood up, have taken deep interest
} the Presidents moves toward filling
ne vacant place of chief-iustice. But
is choice was not Mr.. Phelps, after all
[e has nominated Melville W. Fuller,
lember of the Chicago bar and an emf
ent man in his profession. 1t is con-
Fded on all hands. even by the anti
peveland press. that the appointment
he appointee is sc years old, native of
|ugusta, Me-. and a graduate of Bowdon
bllppe
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-05-04
MIDDLEBURY, VERMONT, MAY 4, 1888.
Taken as whole the company is one of
the best that has as yet appeared here"
Y. M. G. A. NOTES.


The usual anniversary exercises of the
Middlebury Young Mems Christian asso-
citation will occur on Sunday evening,
May 6, 1888, at 80 o'clock, in the Con-
gregational church. 1t is desired that a
large number of persons be in attendance,
and all are cordially invited. f. A.
Lawrence, Y. NJ. G.. A. State secretary
of Maine, will be present and deliver an
address. The following programme has
been arranged:
Organ Voluntary, Mrs. Miner
Singing, Select Quartette
Reading OF Scriptures, Rev. Mr.. Thompson.
Prayer, Rev. DR.. White
singing, QuaTtette.
Report OF president, Prot. W. W. Eaton.
Report of general secretary, f. n. Folsom.
Singing, Choir.
Singing, GLOW firm foundations"
Congregation.
BenedictiOn, Rev. Mr., Carpenter.
The annual business meeting of the
Y. NJ. c. a. occurred Wednesday evening
in the association hall. Reports of the
different committees were rendered, and
the following officers elected for the en-
suing year: President, Prof. L. +.
Boyce; first vice-president, Prof II. NJ.
Seely; second vice-president, ii. IL.
Bryant; recording secretary, f. f. Bond ;
treasurer, V. Nj. Benedict. \ committee,
consisting of Prof. w. w. Eaton. Rev.
y. E. Carpenter and c. W. Spencer, was
appointed to frame resolutions commend
ing the work done by Mr.. Stratton while
connected with the association.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-05-04

A citizen of Blossburg, Pa, owns
nine dogs, seven cats, a monkey, eight
canary birds and two white mice. 1t is
unnecessary to say he is poor.
The Pilgrim wharf at Plymouth has
been used for coal yard for years. The
lease expires soon and the Pilgrim socie-
ty proposes to make some radical chang
es. Plymouth Rock is at the end of the
wharf.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-09-19
Republicans Losing Ground.

In nearly every State where elections
have been held during the yast year Demo-
cratic gains have been recorded. This, says
the Cleveland Plain Dealer, is nothing mora
nor less than a vote of confidence in tho
National Administration. In Iowa at tho
local elections large Democratic gains were
made. This is true also Of Michigan. It
was nowhere more noticeable than in Ken
lucky, Louisiana and Tennessee, all of which
the Republicans had been claiming as among
the doubtful States. In Kentucky one year.
ago the Democrats did not vote very gener-
ally while the Republicans got out their full
vote, which indicated Republican gain and
Democratic loss. This result caused great
jubilation in the camp OF the enemy. In
Louisiana the Democrats rolled up $1,000
majority and about 75, 900 In Alabama. Those
who have been counting upon break in the
South might as well turn their attention TO
some more profitable field, if such exists
among the States. The Republicans will
have to fight every inch of the ground they
have claimed as their own, with the chances
OF break in their own column.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-09-19
A Difference.

at is not contest of capital against cap
ital, said Mr.. Blaine in his welcome homo
speech. Certainly not, Mr. Blaine. Capt.
tai is not arrayed against itself 1t is united;
In trusts, syndicates and monopolies. Mr..
Blaine speaks from the books, from the
statutes of the United States, the acts Of
Congress which he and Mr.. Harrison dur
ing the past twenty years have helped to
make. He knows no contest exists in
that, but he knows that his endeavors
have been in the direction of arraying
capital against labor, bringing the two
in conflict as far as was within his
power to do so. To maintain an unjust, un-
equal and Illogical tariff law which forced
the masses to pay the taxes without an
equal share in its results was the one
great move to bring about strikes and con-
hicts between capital and labor. These
matters should be left, says the Cleveland
Plain Dealer, to adjust themselves without
the interference of burdensome laws Give
labor an equal chance with capital and
not 80 much as a jar or q tremor would ex-
ist between the two, because each would
recognize that one can not prosper without
the aid of the other.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-09-19
NINETY-NINE LIVES.
A Cat Leaves q Press Room Alive Ate
Making $4,000 Revolutions.

A Cat Leaves a Pross-Room Alive After
Making $4,000 Revolutions.
The wonderful endurance of the cat, its
having nine lives, etc., has become proverb-
ial, but the truth of the assertion was
never more fully demonstrated than in the
experiences of feline that in some man
ner found its way into the st. Louis Chroai-
Gle press-room the other afternoon.
On the shaft which runs each press is q
loose pulley, over which the belt passes
when the press is not in use. These pull
leys are Of iron and hollow. Next to them
are tight pulleys to which the belt is shifted
when it is desired to start the press. These
pulleys are near the floor back of the press,
and are boxed up SO as to prevent injury to
parties working about the press. The box
is of wood and has movable cover.
The engine was started about eleven
o'clock in the morning and with it of
course all the loose pulleys. 1t had been
running about two hours when the press
man noticed something white inside one of
rapidly revolving pulleys which he at first
thought to be a rag or piece of paper. 1t
was going so fast that it was impossible to
distinguish what it was, and the engine
was stopped to make an investigation.
Then it was found to be white cat snugly
curled up inside the pulley. 1t did not seem
possible UnaI pussy coulu DC awe a1ter
making about four hundred revolutions q
minute for nearly two hours, but when an
attempt was made to take her out she
quickly demonstrated that she was not
dead nor even dizzy. She quickly darted
into the further, or tight pulley, and fought
like young tiger any one who essayed to
remove her. She was finally dislodged,
however, She then proceeded to prove
that she was as lively cat as ever, and it
was some time before she could be capt
ured.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-09-19
NOMINATION ACCEPTED.
Mr.. Clevelands Letter Accepting
the Democratic Nomination.
The Paper Devoted Largely to the Tariff
The Danger of the Surplus and His
Proposed Remedy-Bad Immi-
grafton and Trusts.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.-The following IL
the Presidents letter of acceptance, made
public last evening:
Hon. Patrick A. Collins and Others, Comm, ttes,
efe..
WASHINGTON, Sept. s.-Gentlemen: In ad-
dressing 70 you my formal acceptance OF the
nomination 10 the Presidency OF the United
States, my thoughts persistently dwell upon
the impressive relation OF such action TO the
American people, whose confidence is thus in
vited and to the political party to which be-
long. just entering upon a cont st for continued
supremacy.
The world does not afford a spectacle more
sublime than furnished when millions OF free
and intelligent American citizens select their
Chief Magistrate and bid one of their number
ind the highest earthly honor and the full
measure OF public duty in ready submission
70 their will II follows that a candidate
for this high Office can never forget that
when the turmoil and tge strife which attend
the selection OF Its incumbent shall be heard
no more, there must be in the quiet calm which
follows, complete and solemn selfcousecrA-
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-09-19
FREE WOOL.

What Its Effects VIII Be on American
Manufacturers of Woolen Goods.
There can be no doubt to any reasonable
mind, afirms the St. Louis Republic, that
the American taxes on woods have limited
American manufacturers Of woolens, pre-
vented American manufactures from sup
plying the home ma rket, and shut them out
from the markets Of the world. The sup
ply of American wool has been smaller than
the demand thus restricted, and the reac-
ton of our takes on the prices Of foreign
woods has kept down prices here and abroad
enough to damage the American wool grow
er, though not enough to enable the manu-
facturer to pay the heavy taxes and supply
the home market.
Free wool would give the American man
ufacturer the home market and would open
the markets Of the world to him. 1t would
result necessarily in an immense increase
Of American woolen manufactures and in
greatly increased demand for American
woods, necessarily increasing the price.
This is true of all American woods. But
free wool will especially benefit New Mexico
and the Southwest.
The present wool tarit is of, by, and for
Ohio. We do not believe that it does Ohio
any good, but it discriminates against every
country that is naturally fitted for wool
growing.
It was intended to prevent New Mexico,
Texas, and the other shepherd countries"
from securing the full benefit of their natu-
raj advantages 1t was drawn in favor of
the dozen county-fair premium sheep which
are fed in the back lot of the fancy farmer
and combed every morning, and against the
great flocks of sheep in the shepherd coun-
tries of the United States.
Ohio is a farming State, and no amount OF
unjust discrimination in its favor can enable
it to compete with the shepherd States and
Territories, but under the Ohio wool tariff
for the benefit of the back-lot wool growers,
this discrimination has been so gross that
though Ohio and New Mexico have the same
number of sheep in round numbers, the
value OF Ohio sheep Is more than double the
value of the sheep of New Mexico. [Ohio
sheep $11 900 600; New Mexican sheep s., 600,
600. Agricultural Report 1886, page 400.
The present wool tariff was drawn in the
interest of the fancy farmer. 1t is a swim
die in which the swindlers overreached
themselves and lived to see the prices for
all grades of wool steadily decline under
the high tax system. But its plain operation
is against the Southwest and against every
country in the United States which has
natural advantages for wool growing as a
regular business and not as a back-lot Incl
dent of fancy farming.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-09-19
The Tariff and Prices,

Some six years ago, when reapers and
binders were largely constructed Of wood,
and when the patents were more restricted
than at present, the cost Of machine was
about S225. Now steel reaper and binder
can be bought for $135; the wider-cutting
machines, say, for $50.
But were the raw material Of these reap
ers allowed in free Of duty, their cost, 1t. is
estimated by those conversant with the
industry, would be reduced to as low as
$65 to $75. Even were the duty on the raw
material reduced but fifty per cent. the
cost Of a frst-class machine need not be
over $100
Last year Great Britain, in spite of hos
tile tariffs, exported machinery TO the
value Of S55, 73s, ,525; the United States to
the value of but S3,257,17i, of which two
thirds was sewing machinesi The reason
for our disparity in exports is obvious
Chicd0O Neps
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-09-19
POLITICAL PITH.

New York Post: The real candidate
vouches for the nominal candidate as "a
man Of great firmness." As firm as Gar
fieldi
Denver Netrs: Harrison is weaker by
1900 votes in the State of Indiana than any
other candidate seriously considered by the
Chicago convention.
Albany Argus: The poor people Of Ireland
do not complain Of the tariff system of En-
gland. 1t is the land system and their fail
ure to get home rule which makes their
condition so deplorable.
Peoria Democrat: The Republican party
offers the farmer seven dollars on wool in
exchange for his one hundred and twenty
four dollars worth of the yearly surplus.
1t evidently takes the farmer for fool
indianapolis Nears: If forty-seven-per-
cent. tariff is protection and a forty-per-
cent tariff is free trade, Just where is the
dividing linel Is all above forty-three and
one-hah protection and all below free tradel
Cincinnati Enquirer Was it not Alabama
that the Republicans expected to carry this
fall on the tariff issuel Well, the State
gave larger Democratic majority on its
home tickets than ever before in its history.
And the impressive feature about it is that
all the heavy iron manufacturing districts
showed Democratic gains. 1t really begins
TO look as IL the Democrats would carry
Pennsylvania
Chicago NeLDs: Mr. Blaine's statement
that the savings of the wage-workers of
Massachusetts alone are greater than those
OF the working-men of England, Scotland
and Ireland is exciting considerable COM
ment- The Indianapolis Journal having
pitched upon the remark as more potent for
campaign purposes than ''all the promises
and glttering generalities of the free-trade
orators" the Sentinel of that city responds:
sand yet this one fact is not a fact at all,
but downright lie. The savings deposits
in the United Kingdom average almost as
much per capita as in this country, and
have been increasing more rapidly Of late
years"
Birmingham (Eng) Post: English traders
will learn with a good deal Of amusement
that in the Presidential election campaign in
America the great cry which the Repub-
hcans are using against Mr.. Cleveland is
that he is deliberately betraying the interest
OF the American trade for the benefit Of the
English manufacturers. 1t is scarcely nee
essary to say that, from an English point OF
view, the Mills Tariff bill by no means
bears that aspect On the whole. its opera
ton viii probably be distinctly to our disad-
vantage. Only in few trivial instances
the olll reduces the tariff on articles inn
ported from England. The main object
OF the measure is, by tightening and in
some instances removing the duties on raw
material, 70 lessen the cost of production OF
American manufactures, and, of course,
every sep in that direction will make the
United States more dangerous competitor
o. england N al neutral markets.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-09-19

Democratic canddare Is Just the man
to represent cause which appeals to
the intelligence and good sense of the mass
Of the peoples plain man. without q parti-
Gle of magnetism" or ''brilliancy," doing
what he conceives to be his duty without
regard to the danger Of its costing him q
reelection (Mr. Blame himself comedies
that Mr.. Cleveland would probably have
been reelected if be had not written his
tariff message), trusting his fortunes to the
ssplain peoplen
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-09-19
The Fourth I.onaon Horror.

LONDON, Sept. g.-The horribly mutt
lated body Of lewd woman was found
early this morningin the yard attached to
common lodging house in Spitalields.
The throat was cut from ear to ear,
the body was ripped open, the bowels
and heart were lying on the ground,
and a portion of the entrails were
tied around her neck. This is the fourth
murder of a similar character that has
been committed recently in this neighbor-
hood. ALI the victims were women of the
lowest character. The author of the atroc-
tiles remains undiscovered and the excite
ment in the immediate vicinity bordera
upon panic. }
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-09-19
THE HOUSE PROTECTION BUILT
This il the house that Protection built
This Is the fat that lay in the house Proteo
zion hstsl%

This il the house that Protection built
This Is the fat that lay in the house Protec
tion built
This is the manufacturing man
Who held il to be most excellent plan
And managed things so that he had it all Pat
To gobble the whole of the beautiful fat
That lay in the house that Protection built.
This Is the tariff that made things so
That nobody else had the ghost Of show
Except the manufacturing man,
Who held II TO be o most excellent plan,
And managed things 80 that he had it all pss
TO gobbls the whole Of the beautiful fat
That lay In the house that Protection built.
This II the Knight with plume in his hat,
or the Nulligan letters and things like that
Who yelled for the tariff that made things SO
That nobody else had the ghost of Q show
Except the manufacturing man,
Who hold IL TO be most excellent plan,
And managed things so that he had it all pat
To gobble The whole Of the beautiful fat
That lay in the house Protection built
This is the man with q patch on his coat
Who thought he could see his way to vote
For Levi and Benjamin, next election,
And all for the sake OF some more protection,
Some patches more-and some more Of the fai
For the girth Of the knight with plume In his
hat.
OF the Mulligan letters and things like that
Who yelled for the tariff that made things so
That nobody else stood the ghost Of q show
Except the manufacturing man,
Who held 1t to be q most excellent plan,
And managed things so that he had it all pat
To gobble the whole of the beautiful fat
That lay in the house Protection built
This is the man Of the ring and the trust,
Who swore he would vote for Blaine or bust,
And whose fat Mr.. Foster ID fry out Of the ribs
OF his Monopolistic and Royal Nibs
To buy up man with patch on his coat
Who thinks he can see his way to vote
For Levi and Benjamin. next election,
And all for the sake Of some more protection,
Some patches more, and some more OF the fat
For the girth Of the knight with plume in his
hat
or the Mulligan letters and things like that,
Who yells for the tariff that makes things SO
That nobody else has the ghost of a show
Except the manufacturing man,
Who holds 1t to be a most excellent plan,
And manages so that he has it all pat
To gobble the whole of the beautiful fat
That lies in the house Protection built
~ r Commercial AdUertiser.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-09-19

The Providence Journal says: Major
General William Henry Harrison having
been elected President of the United States,
was compelled to say to Henry Clay on one
occasion that he (Harrison) was President,
and not Mr.. Clay. Whether Brevet Briga-
dier-General Benjamin Harrison would ever
say the same thing to James G. Blaine is
one of those conjecture condolences which
history will probably never reveal"