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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-06-20
A HOUSE ON A HILL TOP.
STEPHEN B. ELklNS' MAGNIFICENT
HOME IN WEST VIRGINIA.

When Completed 1t VIII BE One of tie
Handsomest Country Residences in the
Land-Neighbors on the Heights Near
by-Superb Scenery.
Copyright by American Press Assoca ionl
On the southern slopes of the Allegha-
MES overlooking the historic Tygart val
ley and right in the midst of wealth
of superb mountain scenery, Hon. Ste
phen B. Elkins is erecting for himself
one of the finest country residences in
the entire south 1t is located at the
terminus of the West Virginia Central
road in a small town named after him
self in Randolph county, w. Va. 1t
stands on the summit of steep hill ris-
ing some five hundred feet above the val
ley of the Tygart, wherein the town of
Elkins lies. On the right are three sim
liar hills, the first of which is to be oc-
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-06-20

stories of endurance ever fled northward
along the willing wires than those he
sent. One day he telegraphed Manag-
ing Editor bennett: "If I live through
this may have place on The TimesP"
Promptly the answer went back: Ger
tainly Your splendid work warrants
me in offering you position. Come
here whenever you can"
Next night there was no bulletin from
Water Valley. Instead came brief
message TO the editor signed by Mrs.
Apthorpe, "Have just found Willis ly-
ing dead on the floor of the Office"
Overwork. devotion to duty and MAS
matte surroundings had done their work
and at the moment his future was as
sured and a field for his ambition lay
displayed before him the modest, self
sacrificing young southerner was called
hence to receive from a higher power
the diploma he had earned on earth.
So life's lesson must be learned and
life's honors gained-sometimes in the
class room where no dangers Turk greater
than those connected with the wrong
demonstration of problem or the faulty
construction of sentence, and some
times in stern combat with visible foe
or with unseen but equally deadly dis
ease. All honor to the student who like
Solomon seeks wisdom, but let us keep
as well in memory the ones who have
graduated on other fields than those Of
learning.
Mid heat and storm and battle cries
They bravey sought to carve their way;
They fought, and fairly gained the prize
That marks manhoods commencement day.
For them no broad and lettered scroll
That tells of booxsh triumphs won.
They found where wars deep thunders roll
The guerdon Of their duty done.
Or els, in swamps by fever swept
They grappled with an unseen foe;
And by the sick bed vigil kept
Until the summons came to go.
No roses of the June time doomed
Beside the CHASTITY paths they trod;
They walked, serene, sublime yet doomed,
Along the appointed ways of God.
FRED G.. DAYTON.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-06-20

Col. Jones is a ma
tive of Georgia.
AT the outbreak
of the civil war
he entered t h e
southern army as
a member of the
staff of Gen. Cor
don. and remain
ed in active serv-
ice until the dec
laration of peace.
Then he IN a d e
Montgomery his
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-06-20
Why You Get So Many Circulars.

AChicago addressing company employs
from fifty to sixty-five people. I'VE
can furnish addresses of any class of per-
sons wanted" says the manager; I'VE
have list of consumptives in the United
States that cost 100000 to compile, and
l am now preparing list of people suf-
fering from asthma and from rheuma-
tism. We regularly furnish addresses
of deaths, births, marriages, etc, to per-
sons who want to send circulars. Our
bill for postage was over 100000 last
year. San Francisco Argonaut.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-06-20

miration recall the story of Willis APP
thorpe's self sacrifice. He was an OBJ
scure but ambitious telegraph operator,
stationed at Water Valley, Miss When
the yellow fever desolated the southern
country some twelve years ago he stuck
to his post while others fled.
He .nursed the sick, he buried the
dead, he gave courage to the living.
Night and day he toiled, one hour at the
key, another at the bedside of the suf-
fering. The Chicago Times asked him
for daily reports, and no more pathetic
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-06-20

The pearls found in western rivers are
often of peculiar formation. One re-
Gently taken from a Wisconsin stream ia
oddly shaped and speckled. A New
York manufacturer, who purchased it,
for some weeks puzzled his inventive
mind as to the best manner to mount it,
and at last decided on forming it into a
crab with gold extremities and two
small, fancy colored pearls for eyes. The
ornament is set as lace pin.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-06-20


afternoon leaves the rostrum amid a
shower of bouquets and with diploma in
hand, he or she has right to feel that
honest endeavor has met with well
earned recognition, and that the parch-
ment, poinpously phrased and numer-
ously signed by the president and pro
fessors of the institute of learning, is of
value chiefly as recording the fact that
work of n certain nature has been done
i'll manner advantageous to the student
and satisfactory to the preceptor.
But in the ordinary acceptance of the
term large number of people never
graduate. That is, they take no scholastic
degree. not because of lack of inclina-
ton SO much as lack of opportunity.
Yet life graduates them, or sometimes
death, in the broad meaning of the
definition "to admit to an honorable
standing" Who, for instance, could
ask a grander diploma than that award
ed to Jean Bobillot, soldier of France,
hero of Tonquin, who died on the field
of honor, and by the sacrifice of his life
in firing "a countermine secured the safety
of a thousand leagured comrades.
The torn and mangled corpse of the
young brave rests beneath the sod of a
foreign land, but at the capital of the re-
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-06-20

home, and has re- COL. THOMAS JONES.
sided there ever since. In two crises
the Birmingham riots-he handled the
militia under his command with skill
and prudence. He has been a member of
the Alabama legislature, and his per-
sonal and party friends declare that if
elected he will fill the gubernatorial
chair with dignity and ability.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-06-20

Author-After complete story am
often at loss what to call it,
Reader experience the same diff
Guilty with your stories. After | have
read them am in doubt whether they
ought to be called stories or not.-Yan-
kee Blade.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-06-20

From photograph taken especially for this
publication
Entering under the porte cochere the
porch floor is reached by short flight of
steps This is an immense gallery run
ming around the house. 260 feet long and
from II To u feet wide, SURROUNDED by
stone balustrade. The main entrance is
Shrongh IL handsomely tiled vestibule.
)pening into hall. The two inner doors
ave mirrors on their inside panels, On
cher side is Il small roo!l u 10 Us for
10 &oconmo.atioa OF li!iA., N,ga;s.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-06-20
NAMED FOR GOVERNOR.
Col. Thomas Jones the Nominee of Ala.
bama Democrats.

AS Alabama is not a 'close" state po-
litically it is altogether probable that
Col. Thomas Jones, of Montgomery, who
recently received the Democratic nomi-
nation for governor, will be the next
chief executive of the commonwealth.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-06-20
THE PRIZES OF LIFE.
MANY OF THEM ARE WORTHlLY
AWARDED TO THE STUDENT.

But Diplomas Have Been Won by Those
who Do Not Graduate from school or
College-A Few Notable Examples OF
Recent Date.
Graduate.
The transitive form of this verb has
the following dictionary definition
among others: ITO admit to an
honorable standing" SO when the
bright young man or woman of today
completes a school or college course
creditably, and some cloudless June
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-06-20
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Joseph P. Polk, the well-known actor, is sick at Maggie Mitchelrs Long Branch Cottage.
 Harvey M. Booth, wealthy resident of Roxbury, Conn.,, has donated SIG, ,OOO to be used in founding and sustaining large public school.
 There has been a serious outbreak in Honduras of disease closely resem- bling yellow fever, and many persons are leaving the country.
 The strike among the lumbermen at Calais, Me-, has ended and the men have returned to work at $1.45 per day. They demanded S1 50 per day.
 Scott Beach, Of Norfolk, Conn.,, shot himself in the head and died almost
 instantly. He was AS years old, and for long time past had been insane upon the subject of prohibition. By vote of 9 to 5 the Ways and Means Committee of the Louisiana Leg islature will report favorably on the proposed constitutional amendment re- l moving the capital from Baton Rouge to New Orleans.
 The strike of the Brooklyn, N. Y., roofers and tin and sheet-iron workers appears to be nearly at an end. All of the bosses except three or four have ac- ceded to the demands of the men that eight hours shall be considered a day and that their pay shall be $3 and s. 50 day. Only 60 men are now idle. Charles E. Jackson, the printer who killed Mamie Murphy in a New York city saloon on April g last, and was ! subsequently, brought from Michigan. where he had fled, was arraigned in court to-day. He was indicted for mur- der in the first degree. Jackson pleaded not guilty, and was remanded for trial. Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, the | famous authoress, and her son Lionel,
 "Little Lord Fauntleroy," sailed on the steamship Columbia from New York for Europe. Mrs. Burnett goes abroad in the hope that the change | of scene and expert medical treatment
 may prove beneficial to Lionel.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-06-20
A Curioua Family History.

An interesting bit of family history was brought to light in Clerk Birchard's office the other day. Mrs. A. M. Cook presented the incomplete naturalization papers of her father, desiring their con- pletion, as she has claim against the United States Government, and it is re- quired by law that she take out natural ization papers, she having been born in England. Her father, Jasper Fletcher, took out his first papers in Cam bridge, Ill.,, in 1861, but before taking out his second papers he started overland for California, and while on the way. the party was attacked by Indians. The mother was killed, and the father, Mrs. Cook, then Mary Fletcher, girl of fourteen, and her two-year-old sister taken prisoners. MT. Fletcher after ward escaped, the elder daughters liberty was bought, while the younger sister, if alive, is still captive of the Indians. The father went to Salt Lake City, where he died, and the second papers were never taken out. So Mrs. Cook got completion of her fathers naturalization papers and this makes her 8 naturalized citizen of the United States --Davenport Iowa) Democrat
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-06-20
The Young Woman and Her Pipe.

I stepped on Twenty-third street horse-oar the other day, says New York Star writer. It was filled with ladies, all more or less stylishly dressed. One young woman, less that twenty-five years old I should say, attracted the attention of the whole car by carrying in her lap, so that every one could see it, @ pipe for smoking opium and all the paraphernalia requisite to a complete enjoyment of this luxurious custom of the Orient. The pipe itself was an ex- quisite piece of workmanship, and must have cost great deal of money. The small lamp was of very rich design, in crystal and metal, and the young woman kept looking at it tenderly, as if admir-. ing its quality. Besides these were the salver, which looked as if 1t were solid silver, and the opium box of the same material. How expensive this layout was am unable to tell; but know that it's cost must have been over tho ESOO, or even the $500 mark. It was handsome1 than any thing have ever seen in that line. What curious fads our passions lead us toi
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-06-20
THE MUSIC OF THE RAIN.

1aIlfnx. faIling on the houso-tope, With music quaint and rare, Ike tho sound of human heart-throb0, On the G1ont midnight air, Or the teAx0 of Angeas falling
 When theJ weep with those who weep, Or tho ln0dby of mothers
 Whom thsV rock thair babes to sleep. Ldke tho drowsy win0 of poppies
 Wieh 5es weird. enchanting powerA Cona1nI to the weary listener
 LNko the A1W to dropping nowe1B; Like calm sleep to those who suffer, Or Nike tears to those who mourn; 1Ake remsnbe7ed words from loved 0ne1 From our aching booome torn Strangely sXee<. bewttohing music.
 All 0nek1a1aod my eonses He, Az watch tAe mystic Future
 With tAe shadoWy Past go by, While . calm aud holy quiet
 Ste41D upon my heart and brain, Then fan asaecp. sttll listening
 To tho na2xInNr Of tho rain. So, maZhap, sossstzne hereafter
 shall lay mo down to rest Oyer weary, and sAaA hstsn
 For the musao loved best; When, tte Eeotao cadence falling
 Through the midnight dlenoe deen Softly 0oothes my troubled Bpirit
 While 1t k1llO me into Bleep. Whom at last my soul has fallen
 Into 0We9&003 glad repoee, That on eatth sunshine nor shadow
 No eWAktnG ever knowB- Afe the the x vo.ce of . ycitanf s snsels, May the softly falling rain-drops
 Chant a requiem for my soul.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-06-20
Versatility Personified.

The Lewiston (Me.) Journal reports that there is man living in Somerset County, who is selectman. assessor and overseer of the poor in his town. He is school agent and highway surveyor in his school and highway district It is said that the town pays him one dol lar day for the board of his mother-in. law, and that he has hired his own daughter for the school teacher. An ex- soldier he draws nice sum each month as pensioner He carries on a farm and speculates some in farm produce and stock. He also owns building and that is the headquarters of a poker club, and he is leading as well as 8 success. full member thereof. It should be added that he does not teach a class in Sunday school.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-06-20

HOWARD, in the New York Press. re- marks that when the late Peter Cooper wanted $1OO, ,0OO to put into Baltimore and Washington railway, with real steam engine to draw the cars, capital ists looked aghast but in these days when Brother Depew asks an issue ad- ditional of $15,OOO,OOO worth of bonds with which to improve the New York Central railway and increase it's rolling stock, men of money jump over each other in their anxiety to subscribe and to swallow the tempting bait.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-06-20
PHYSICIAN, HEAL TENSILE.

The old adage, Politics makes strange bed-fellows, is receiving fresh illustra- tion in New York city. Rev Heber Newton, the Episcopal uncondemned heretic, and Rev Charles Parkhurst, the indignant Presbyterian who has but lately read his creed to find it contains the horrible doctrine of infant and heather damnation, are allied with Bishop Potter, whose comprehensive, all-embracing churchmanship stopped short at Dr Newton's rationalistic ser mons, and Rev Father Ducey, of the wealthy and aristocratic parish of St Leo, who is known as having befriend- ed young Enc when he left New York city for its own good at an expense of over three million dollars to his father once Simsbury boy. They are calling for a reformation which has for its ob- jects to classify the political atmosphere of New York city and to purify the offices there by filling them with uncor- rupted and incorruptible men. They are confident of being able to arouse public opinion to such pitch as to over- throw Tammany hall and the republi- can machine, both of which are beyond any hope of redemption, as they view the matter.
 If these doctors cannot accomplish in dividual and professional reformation of prominent members of their own hocks, it is hardly possible they can attain the realization of their latest aspirations.
 Dr Newton will not leave the Episco- pal church, he will not yield his pulpit to be filled by an orthodox Episcopalian, he persists in his heterodoxy to such a length that the consistent Episcopal clergy refuse the responsibility of his utterances, while the popular bishop does not bring him to trial for fear of the dire results likely to follow to the detriment of that dignifed church. Dr Parkhurst, educated a Congregation alist, while pastor of that church at Lenox, Mass, on salary of S1,5OO, attracted the attention of wealthy New Workers who summer there, the result beinga call at $e,0O0 to the Madison avenue Presbyterian church in New York City, which did not involve change Of theological views, but presupposed him to be loyal adherent to the teachings of the Westminster cate- chism. His confession lately made that he had never read the Westminster Con. fession of faith was childlike one which carries it's own moral.
 Dr Newton has not succeeded in re. forming the Thirty Nine Articles, and Dr Parkhurst has not eliminated infant and heather damnation. That they are possessed of a wonderful amount of vital ity is evidenced by the fact that without waiting to accomplish those herculear tasks they are graphing with another power which will tax their vitality ii the effort does not exhaust that force.
 Meanwhile the politicians smile anc the New York Sun reflects upon thei1 efforts, and both recall another ole adage, Physician, heal myself.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-06-20
A ohASTLY FIND.
The Deeonaposed Body of . Man Found
 with Nis Throat Oat.

with Ais Throat Oat.
 Arco, N. J., June 2O.-The body of . man in . repulsivs stave of decomPost- tion was found last night along the New Jersey Southern Railroad, at Jack son, a mile distant from this place. For several days people passing along the railroad and the residents near by have been annoyed by an almost un- bearable stench. Last night the stench was 80 bad that John Began, residing near by went out in search of the cause, believing it to be a dead dog, which he Was prepared to bury.
 Thirty yards from the railroad in the woods he came upon the decomposed body of n man. Mir. Began was greatly shocked. He ran to the residences ot Justices Giddinys and Adam R. Sloan, near by, and notified them of his ghastly find. These gentlemen and number of neighbors went to the place and found what appeared to be the body of n negro.
 Close by w..s found razor covered with dried blood spots. This razor had eveidently been the article of death. Upon examining the unexposed skin of the body it was found to be that of a white man. His throat was cut from ear to ear and portions of his head and face were eaten away. The body was dressed in Q coarse but good suit of clothing.
 Evidences around the body indicate that the case was one of suicide, but other facts create the impression among | many that the case is one of murder. The body is supposed to be that of an Italian who, about ten days ago, went | to the residence of Justice Giddings, greatly excited, and told in broken English that another Italian had l threatened to kill him, and he was afraid the man would carry out his threat. The man seemed to be in mor- tai terror
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-06-20
Large black hats have the low cro

Large black hats have the low crowns covered with roses, leaves and long stems, bow of velvet ribbon, fold facing, knotted loosely, and strings of velvet. Purple and lavender flowers on black toques are the first flower-trimmed hats seen. Yellow, violet and black are con- bined; purple and stem green and pink roses will be put on, and with any thing.
 Velvet pansies are exquisite on black tulle toque. Spanish hats require red, yellow and black, combined. Topples and chrysanthemums are lovely in the rich red and yellow shades especially reserved for them. Open crowns, later on, will be outlined with wreath of buds and leaves having thorny stems prominently displayed. Dry Goods ChrOnicla.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-06-20

THERE are indications, says the Bos- ton Herald, that MT Blaine is in danger of coming out more or less as an inde- pendent. We have referred to his ob jections to the southern elections bill. There is good reason to believe that he is not at all enamored of the Reed policy as It prevails in the house of representa- tives. And now Mir Blaine himself writes letter to say that he does not approve of the treatment sugar receives in the Mckinley tariff.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-06-20
Weather ln6lcnt lOnA.

wAsnINoToN, June 2o.-For New Eng. land and Eastern New York: Fair; slightly cooler. except stationary temperature in Eastern New York and Northern Massachu- setts; northerly winds.
 For Eastern Pennsylvania. New Jersey and Delaware: Fair: stationary temperature ex- cept slightly cooler on the New Jersey coast; northerly winds, becoming variable.
 For Western New York and Western Penn sylvania; Fair; stationary temperature; north erly winds, becoming variable.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-06-20
--ea Notice to Contractors.

CEALED PROPOSALS will be received O at the office of the Center School Dis, trict, Room 2, Irving block, until o'clock D. m., Thursday, June 2g, 1890, for tho erection and completion of the Bank street school building in Brooklyn.
 Plans and specifications may be seen at the office of the architect, J. A. Jackson, Rooms 9 and 10 Lilley block, from Tues day, June IF, 1890, at 8 a. m. Plans must be figured at the office of the architect. The committee reserve the right to reject any and all bids not deemed for the best in terests of the Center School District.
 A. I. GOODRICH,
 c. B. WEBSTER,
 MICHAEL BEGNAL,
 Waterbury, Conn, June 6, 1890.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-06-20
Senator Earw~lI's Daughter Married.

CHICAGO, June 20-The marriage of Miss Rose Farwell, the youngest daughter of United States Senator
 Charles B. Farwell, to Hobart Chatheld, !, was the greatest social event of recent years. Over 5000 invitations had been extended to as many Chicagoans of note. At the conclusion O. the ceremony an elaborate breakfast was given to the guests on the lawn at Fairlawn, the Sen ator's country residence. The happy couple left for the East at once. and the honeymoon will be spent in Europe.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-06-20

nISTRICT OF WATERBURY, ss. Probate U Court June F, 1890.
 Estate of Thomas Claffey, late of Water bury in said district.
 I Upon the application of Mary Claffey, the ad- ministratrix praying for an order to sell the real estate of said deceased, viz two hous' and terbury, and also for authorityto some one to make the said Sd e, as she wishes to become the pure haser, as per application on file more fully ORDERED that said application be heard and determined at the Probate Office in Waterbury in said district, on the 23rd day of June, A. D., 1880, at o o'clock in the forenoon, and that no tice be given of the pendency of said applicati and the time and place of hearing thereon, by publishing the same two times in some Lewspa- per having circulation in said district:
 ELLIS PHELAN Judge.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-06-20
CHESTNUTS.

Down in the orchard, ell the day, Tho apples rtpened and dropped away; Tawny, and yellow, and red they fsli. Filling tho air with spicy smell. But the sturdy chestnuts over tho hN Guarded their prickly caskets still, And laughed In scorn at the wind and ram, Beating their burly limbs in vain. sAush ;" said the frost; .n youn hold your breath Till hin and valley stu a death, win whisper . spell that shall open wide The caaksts grsen where the treasures hide. Over the roofs of the slseping town, Over the hillsidss bare and brown; Field and meadow and wood were crossed By the shining trail of tho silver frost. Close at the door of each guarded coll He brsathsd the words of his wonderful spe0, And the bristling lances turned aside And every portal opened wide.
 Up sprang the wind with loud "Ho! HoI" And scastered the treasures to and fro; And the children shouted, "Come away!
 There is sport in the chestnut woods today"