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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-05-16
RECENT DEATHS.

Hon. Bradford l.. Wales. member of
the Middlebury college class Of 1924,
died of old age at Randolph, Mass.
Tuesday, aged Sc. He was a physician
and had held important federal and State
offices.
Charles f. Houghton, who died at Ben
nington Friday, aged y, was presidential
elector during the Hayes campaign and
had been the treasurer of the Bennington
& Rutland railroad. He was member
of both houses of the legislature, was
prominent in state and county affairs and
was member of the Republican district
committee.
Hon. Reuben II. Thrall, said to be the
oldest practicing lawyer in the country,
if not in the world. died in Rutland on
Sunday. He was born in that town in
1875 and was admitted to the bar in 1919.
At the March term for 1889 he appeared
in court to answer to the call of his cases
and at the time of his death he had cases
on the dOckets of the county and supreme
courts. Mr.. Thrall was postmaster of
Rutland from 1922 to 1929 and States at
torney in 1896 He was an old-tme abb
olitionist and IL friend and co-worker
with William Lloyd Garrison.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-05-16
FOREIGN.

The Canadian railway statistics show
that Canada has l2,G2S miles in opera
ton, an Increase of 566 miles over he
previous year.
The first republican congress Of Bra
I'll VIII elect Il President, and the Brazil
ian constitution will be promulgated
before August.
Gen. Sir Frederick Middleton, COM
handing the Canadian militia, has been
convicted by a committee of members of
Parliament of looting furs, valued at
$1,000 or $4,000 during the late North
west rebellion.
News has been received at San Fran
cisco that in great storm March 1, the
schooner Eliza Mary was driven on the
reefs at Millicolo in the New Hebrides.
There were 10 persons on board the
schooner, and of these only % escaped.
a party of 81 who made their way to
village near the coast were murdered by
the savages, with the exception of a
boy who fought his way to the mission
station 10 miles distant. Forty-seven of
the 30 lost were blacks.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-05-16
General l1epS.
MATTERS AT WASHINGTON,

The President has approved the act
providing for the classification of worst
ed cloths as woolens.
The commissioner of pensions has APP
pointed Drs. Il. +. Welch and II. ID. Bel
don pension examining surgeons at st.
Adams.
Congress is urged to pass law pro-
hibiting the Introduction of liquor into
any State or Territory in violation of
local law.
Those congressman who participated
in the protracted struggle in 1S55-6 which
resulted in the election of Gen Banks as
speaker of the house will hold "a reunion
at Washington May Is and 20.
\ novel petition has been presented to
Congress. 1t asks for 500 each for ~
negroes, representing nine families, to ell
able them to emigrate to Liberia and
maintain themselves for six months.
The Democratic Senators in caucus
chose German of Maryland their caucus
chairman. in place of Beck, deceased.
German thus becomes the official leader
or his party. lie is protectiOnist and
opposed to the free raw material theory
of the Mills bill.
The present immigration law provides
only for the exclusion of undesirable
emigrants who may come here by water,
and it is suggested that an amendment
is necessary to keep out this class of
people who may come in from Mexico or
Canada by land.
The debate on the Mckinley tariff bill
began in the house on Friday. On Mon
day an amendment was adopted authoriz-
ing the President to suspend the rate of
duty on any imported article when in his
Judgment the production, manufacture or
SAFE of such article is monopolized or
controlled by any trust or combination.
1t is said that if the bill is passed it will
go into force within 30 days after receiv-
ing the Presidents signature.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-05-16
State Ueps.

The granite workers at Barre are again
on strike. They demand nine hours for
a days work and eight hours Saturdays.
The grand lodge of the knights of
Honor will hold its twelfth annual ses-
sion in Rutland on June %, and large
attendance is expected.
Frederick Billings will have spent Sl0,-
600 on the Congregational church at
Woodstock when it is finished, and it will
be one of the handsomest church edifices
in the State.
a man, supposed to be Philander
Knapp of East Lynn or Bridgewater,
Vermont, was run over and killed at
Aver, Mass, Monday morning while
crossing the Fitchburg railroad track.
II. V. Whipple of South Royalton,
while riding upon IA stock car Monday,
was struck on the back of the head by
the dry bridge Just southwest of Hart
ford He did rot go off the car, but was
seriously hurt.
y Manchester granite cutter has con-
tracted for $1,000 to cut out of Barre
granite 50-ton monument, to be placed
over the grave of Hugh w. Hughes, who
in life was known as the estate King of
America"
The late Mrs. Laura Mott of South
Hero left large sum of money-about
S5O,OOO-for the establishment of home
for destitute children in that town and
the will is about to be contested by the
nephews of the deceased.
Addison F. Alden. a painter, commit
ted suicide at Bennington, Friday, by
taking an ounce of laudanum. He had
been for some time sufferer from rheu-
matism, which prevented him from
laboring, and for this reason he was sub
ject to occasional fits of dependency.
He leaves a sick wife.
y st. Adams dispatch of Saturday
says: Officers here last night seized 200
gallons of liquor in a building occupied
by ID. Monihan as a grocery. The liquor
was recently shipped here by Boston
firm. and the case apparently comes di-
rectly in line of the recent supreme
court decision regarding liquor shipped
from outside States in original packages.
The outcome of the seizure is awaited
with considerable interest.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-05-16
COUNTY AND VICINITY NOTES,

Daniel Munroe of Bristol has been
granted pension of 81 per month and
back pay amounting to nearly $1,000.
Wallace Bostwick. who died sudden
lv this week at West Ferrisburg, near
Nergennes, aged 10. had been "A scout
and Indian fighter under Gen. Custer.
He had returned only IA few weeks ago,
having been absent 20 years. His real
name was Wallace Rutherford. but he
was brought up in the family of Herman
Bostwick and took the name. He leaves
no family and he had just applied for a
pension
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-05-16
DOM ESTIC.

The New York legislature has adjourn
ed sine die.
The women who attempted to run the
city government at Edgerton, KAN,
have abandoned the task, and new
election is necessary.
Constantine Schaefler, farmer living
at Chester, Mimi, killed his wife and
child Monday and then committed sui
eide. He is supposed to have been i'll
sane.
Bookkeeper Whitney of the Albany
On. w. City bank has been found
guilty of embezzlng over 100000 of
the funds. a part of his stealings have
been made good.
Dir. j. II. Douglass, who so faithfully
attended Gen. Grant in the latter's long
illness, has suffered stroke of paralysis.
He is in the Presbyterian hospital at
New York, and is destitute.
The school committee at Providence,
X. L., has adopted revision of its BY
laws which banishes the Bible and de-
votional exercises from the city schools
and restricts the application of corporal
punishment to cases in which the par
ents' consent is obtained.
All tramps are hot worthless MEM
Defs OF society. One OF this fraternity,
while eating his luncheon Monday on
the bank OF the river at Portsmouth, n.
H., CALAMITY rescued from drowning a
poor, discouraged woman and her child.
The woman had attempted infanticide
and suicide.
Trainmen, from engineers to brake
men, on the New York Central railroad.
are in state of mind over the intro
ductiOn of two mammoth engines, Nos.
563 and 5S5, which can haul 10 sleepers
each, or twice the regular number, and
which are designed to run so miles an
hour. If they are successful the road
will be equipped with such engines.
The trainmen say this will throw half
the present force out of work.
A tornado struck Akron, O., Saturday
and cut path 30 to $50 feet wide
through "A section of the city inhabited
mainly by the laboring class and the
loss falls particularly heavy upon them,
AS in MANY cases their home was their
all. The storm was rotary in its mo-
ton, AS shown by the skewing of the
buildings it struck and the twisting off
of the big trees in its path. Several
persons were injured by flying timbers.
The Chenango county poor-house and
insane asylum at Preston. n. Y, six
miles from Norwich, was burned about
midnight Wednesday night and II of
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-05-16
INCORRECT.

The following dispatch, dated Mon
treal, May 0, has gone the rounds of the
press; "Among the missing inmates of
the Tongue Pointe asylum is Mrs. Mary
Shaham of Middlebury, who was an in
mate of the curious ward. Mrs. Sha-
ham was a private patient and came from
a well-known aristocratc family in Yer
mont" Other kilograms have the name
of Mrs. Shahan's residence Milbury,
Vt. There is no such place as Millbury
in Vermont and no woman answering
the description given is known to any
one in Middleburv.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-05-16
COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.-Estate O.
~ Thomas Wilson,

The undersigned, having been appointed by
the Hon. Probate Court for the District of Adj.
olson Commissioners to receive, examine and
adjust all claims and demands of all persons
against the estate OF Thomas wilson, late of
Middlebuiy, in said District, deceased, and all
claims exhibited in offset thereto, hereby
give notice that we will meet forthe purposes
on the 3lst day of May and Both day of
August next, from ten o'clock "a. IN. until
four O'Clock p. m, each OF said days, and
that six months from the 20thiday OF April.
A. ID. 1880, is the time limited by said Court
tor said creditors to present their claims to
us tor examination ana allowance.
Dated Mt Middlebury, this eth day OF MAY,
A. ID. 1880.
4. A. FLETCHER, Co,.,,s
10 l.. CHAMPAGNE. tNoi -
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-05-16

the inmates, all insane, persisted. The
poor-house building was three-story
frame structure and the fire was dis
covered in the north wing of the build
ing where the insane patients were con-
fined. There were no provisions for
extingushing the flames and the keeper
and neighbors gave their attention to
getting out the 125 inmates, but the
flames spread so rapidly that nothing
could be done for the unfortunate idiots
who persisted in their cells. The cause
of the fire is not known.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-05-16
HARRIET m. ASHLEY ESTATE.
Final Settlement.

STATE OF VERMONT-District OF Adj
- olson.
The Probate Court for the District of Addi.
son.
To all persons interested In the estate of
harriet NJ. Ashley, late OF New Haven, in
said district, deceased.
-, GREETING /.
BY the authority OF the State of Vermont.
said Probate Court, at the Probate office in
Middlebury, in said district on the Goth day OF
May, \. ID. 1885, mt 10 o'clock A. M to show
cause, II any you have, why the account of
Henry r. Barrows, administrator of the es
tate OF said deceased, should not be allowed
ana also why the residue of said estate should
thereto
Dated at MiddlebuIy, in said district, this
9TH day OF May, \. ID. 1880.
BY the court,
Attest, JAMES NJ. sLADE,
~ Judge
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-05-16
WAN
G a = II!
AND TO GET IT WE WILL SELL;

AND TO GET IT WE WILL SELL:
l Ladies Pheton, leather top,
Cortland manfr, price...... Sl35 90 500 90
! Fine Piano Body, Lea Top
Buggy, New Haven, Ct, mfr,
price. ..... ................ $50 % l2j 90
: Side.spring, side-bar, Cor
ming body, top Buggy, price 81 90 G5 90
! SiN.spring Piano Body top
Buggy, price.................. 500 q GO 90
l Rice SPRING Corning Body,
Lea Top Buggy, price...". 100 90 1000
l SiX.spring Concord Body
Buggy, price..........,...... 5000 Is 90
l Burner Spring, Concord
Body, Top Buggy, price,. - 90 GOO
] Extra grade Concord Wag-
on, price. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. % 90 q - 90
/ Fine, Corning Body, Top
Buggy, Z seat, price........ s. 90 a G5 90
Two.seat Platform Spring
Ex. Wagon, pole ana shafts,
price. ........................ 50 90 q 90 90
The above are mostly Cortland manu-
facture and first-class work. The above
is a chance to buy good work at less than
cost. and will not be open long. AS
soon as we get the money lwanted the
sale will end.
Respectfully,
B. F. Haskell & Co.
West Cornwall, VT, April Il, 1880. Lott
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-05-16
BURLINGTON
SAVINGS :. BANK.
CHARTERED IN lS47.
Deposits January 1, 1855, SI,550,,3
surplus I30sH

Deposits January 1, 1855, sI,57a.. 33
Surplus Ia0.sHI
Receives and pays deposits daily. Deposits
made on or before the 18th of any month draw
interest from the LIST. II made after the am.
interest Will commence the LIST OF the follow
ing month. Interest will be credited TO de-
positors January LIST and July LIST, compound.
ing twice year. There are no stockholders
in this bank All the earnings, less expenses
belong to depositois. The rate OF interest de.
ponds ON the earnings and has varied from
per cent to per cent.
For the last Is months the rate of interest
mas been IA per cent year.
All taxes are paid by the bank on deposits
OF sloW or less. Deposits are limited BY law
10 $1,000, and no interest will he paid on any
sum In excess of this amount, except on de-
posts by widows, orphans, administrators,
executors, guardians, charitable or religious
institutions or on trust fund deposited by or
der OF court.
This bank prefers Vermont securities for
the investment OF its funds and sends no mon
ey out OF the State until the home demand is
met.
Funds may be sent by bank check or draft
or postal money orler and deposit book will
be returned by next mail.
Applications tor loans or for information az
to standing OF the bank may be made to Rufus
wainwright, Middlebury; j. f. Roberts, Yer.
gennes or f. c. Dixie, Bristol
CT. WARD. Treasurer.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-05-16
Oteo.

BOYNTON-In Ripton, on the 10th inst, Adj
cline (PratD, wife OF Ira Boynton, aged about
~ years.
RICHARDs-In weybridge, May ID, Asahel
M. Richards, aged O. years.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-05-16
a MBITION

Belle Thunde DANA
Association tutwhy Stakes a in and 1S98
by wasldls fall
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-05-16
G. COMMISSIONERS NoTIcE-E.ta,e OF
" Lorraine Miller.

The undersigned, having been appolnted nv
the Hon. Probate Court for the District OF Al
Olson, commissioners, to receive, examine and
|ad1ust all claims and demands of all persons
against the estate of Lorraine Miller. late
lot Weybi idge, in said district, deceased,
|and all claims exhibited in Offset thereto,
|hereby give notice that we will meet tor the
deceased, on the 3D. day OF June and eth day
Iof November next, from ] o'clock, D. M
|nntil O'Clock p. m each OF said days and
.D. 1890, is the time limited by said Court TOR
said creditors to present their claims to us
for examination and allowance.
Dated at Weybridge, Vt, this 18th day of
May, A. D., 1880.
JF. COTTON, co,,.
~ j. \. JAMES. Nomr
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-05-16
FRANK M. GROW, Propr.
MCDOUGALLS' SHEEP DIP,

McDougalls' non.poisonous sheep dip and
cattle dressing, scab specific and insect eX-
terminator on sheep, cattle, horses, dogs
poultry, etc, has been used with great success
eXterminates all ticks. lice and maggots; is
the only true specific for scab, and finely
stimulates the growth OF the fleece, making
its use very profitable. When used at II
special strength it also waterproofs the feeces
thus affortling the animals great protection
from cold and wet. In the United States
Great Britain and many places abroad il is
now generally adopted-having to a large
extent displaced the use OF tobacco, arsenic
lime and sulphur, and poisonous mixtures
Ii has important advantages over such dress
ings, and is more certain in its action. For
sale ut
II If. SHELDONS DRUG STORE
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-05-16
RAOAM'S
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The sun., 1890-01-05

emplacements can be made for them, and
also that new gun batteries begun by July
could be armed with s-inch, high-power
breach-loaders next year. The s-inch gun,
to be sure, is a very moderate one as calibres
no, but IL fires q 9OOspound shot with 14O
pounds OF powder, and gets muzzle velocity
OF 1867 feet per second and a muzzle
energy OF 1895 foot-tons. These were
the actual results achieved by the first
one made at the Watervliot Arsenal. In the
plans OF the Fertilization Board no fewer
than l02 guns Of this callbre were asked for,
as well as many larger ones; so that Con-
gress may well begin to provide for building
the batteries necessary for them. Secretary
PROCTOR says that we can also put to some
use about 1000 old muzzle-loaders, and that
"all Of our present Notifications could be
utilized for accessory defence" The Chief
of Engineers has made estimates for begin
ming new earthworks at the leading ports,
but Congress will have to authorize the
purchase Of some new sites for this purpose.
In four weeks from this time the Board OF
Ordnance and Fertilization will be receiving
the first sets OF forgings for the new s-inch
rifles, which will then be finished and put
together as rapidly as possible at the Water
vliet Arsenal gun factory. Forglngs for the
1o-nch guns are not due until next January,
and those for the Pinch guns not until the
following May. Meanwhile, however, the
Board has contracted for tho manufacture
OF O large number OF heavy mortars, and
these, with the s-inch guns, will be the first
source Of reliance after the pneumatic guns.
Congress, therefore. should take up
promptly the supply of new emplacements
for,these various weapons. Hitherto this
has not been necessary, because there were
no new guns or mortars sufficiently ad-
vanced, but now the situation has changed.
Secretary PROCTOR, in suggesting that q
beginning should be made with New York,
Washington, and San Francisco, we'll says
that II hostile shell should strike the streets
Of New York the corn and wheat OF the
prairies would share the loss" Considera-
tions OF interest as well as OF national honor
make the work OF defence incumbent on all.
The sun., 1890-01-05

on the wine line The old native Washington thoroua.
red families remained true to the ideas OF Southern
hospitality and generous buffet The newer Aristoc
raoy that ia the ladies' of the Cabinet and Of the Senate
did not offer wine"
Let not our friends the Prohibitionlsts,
think that this difference inithe manners OF
the day Is to be ascribed to them. II Is not
because the cold water folk have sue
ceeded in getting hold upon the modern
statesman that a new set OF entertainers
have sprung up who differ from hosts OF the
old style described above.
The fact is that wine has actually declined
as an element OF social entertainment. Years
ago the master Of an English house
would be carried to bed night after
night as drunk as q lord" and his guests
must have pursued to o great extent tho
same tactics. Nowadays the !" last bottle OF
port is almost unknown as the mainstay
Of mems conversation after the dinner is
over. The addition to many modern houses
Of smoking room, to which the male
portion OF the company adjourns nfter the
feast has been completed, calls mon away
from the table, and the duty OF the de-
canter ends when they rise and NOV
out. Far greater individual freedom also
Htb Ill IOBdIu W Aho
man who prefers not to drink may still keep
his place in the social circle, without the
imputation OF lacking good fellowship.
Wine Is much less than formerly the subject
of artistic appreciation. Forty years ago
there were probably dozen amateurs of
great wines where there is one now. Tho
exhibition Of many varieties Of wines of
supreme excellence is now the ambition of
comparatively few dinner givers. Taste runs
more to q smaller list, with champagne re-
ceiving more attention throughout the feast;
and this has rather dulled the powers of dis
elimination that distinguished tho fashion,
able men Of former generation.
AS rule men drink less than they used to
drink and this admirable state Of affairs has
no relation to the influence Of the Prohibi-
tionlsts, but has come rs a natural develop
ment OF physical and gastronomical culture.
The tea and coffee, therefore, which graced
the official receptions in Washington came
from the normal fashion Of the day rather
than from any sentimental idea connected
with the question Of morals; and hence their
standing in the community is all the more
permanent and certain.
The sun., 1890-01-05
Coast Defence In 1880.

This year will show decided progress
toward the protection of the seaports OF the
United States. During the summer ten
dynamite guns will be mounted, five in New
York harbor, three at San Francisco, and two
at Boston. The limited range OF these
weapons not much over a mile, makes them
merely auxiliary defences; but they will
serve a good temporary purpose, until the
great steel guns are built. Once mounted
and protected, the pneumatic tubes can be
assiduously used In practice, and the area
covered by them can be carefully plotted, SO
RS to insure the explosion OF big dynamite
torpedo upon or near hostile vessel cross
ing any part of the plotted area. The doubts
as to the availability OF this rather clumsy
apparatus on a vessel on the sea have
never affected the question OF its use on land.
The next main feature OF the year will
probably be the beginning of the new bat
terles both for mortars and guns. Should
Congress pass q Fertilization bill for this
purpose before July /, the work could start
on that date. Gen. BENET says that the big
mortars can now be turned out - fast as