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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1891-06-24
TRATApO, DE GIMNAsIA

TR ATADO> DE GIMNASIA
PEDAGOGICAL, por don Jose San.
chez y Gonzalez de Somoano.
Obra de texto en- las Escue'as
Normales de esta Isla; tom pas.
ia espanola, S175.
LIBROS, MEDALLAS Y DI
PLOMAS para premios: pi lanse
muestras y precios.
Piadoss Of fenda.-La resp t bs
dana Sra d: Paula Gonzalez Oar
balleds, digna c1nsorte del Gene
raj de Brigads don Carlos Diaz
Moreno, que fae eqli Subinspector
de Artillerfa, ha enviado, con des-
tino q la Santisima Vfrgen de los
Dolores, que Sc venera en- esta Ca-
tedral, una preciosa toca de encaje
ingles blanco, con tondo de tercio-
pelo morado magnffi o trabsjo
hecho por la misma distinguida Sc
nora, que no deja de recordar con
cariflo a Puerto Rico, hallandose
en- Santa Cruz de Tenerife, donde
era su esposo Sab inspector tam
bien del citado Ouerpo.
Tenemos especial gusto en- hacer
pdblico, con el 1ebido APPLAUSE, este
deGcado y generoso rasgo de tan
respectable sonora.
IA Cobrar Ell p'go de los hs
beres de este mes Sc hara por Te-
sorerfa en- la si0uiente forma:
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1891-06-24

Providencias judiciales.
Ayuntamientos.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1891-04-10
NeWbllry Centre.

The Centre comes to the front again
with the determination for good school.
and if the committee succeed in hav-
ing as good teacher through this year
as last, they will do well. AT the an
nual school meeting the officers elected
were: Moderator, E. e. Fleming
clerk, Hale G.. Bailey; committee, E
f.. Fleming; collector and treasurer,
N. B. Tewksbury; auditors, Z. C.
Tuxbnrv, Richard Patterson, j. F.. Blu
chanan. Voted to have 80 weeks of
school and raised 20 cents tax.
r. S. Chamberln and Give Bailey
have been on the sick list.
Wanted, at the Centre, first class
blacksmith, none other need apply.
Jacob Bailey is stopping at present
with Edward Sawyer on Bradford
plain.
Robert Wallace and William Rollins
will build new house this summer,
which indicates that all the back farm
ers are not growing poorer.
Mrs. Ira Bailey has closed her house
for the present and is making her home
with her brother, B. Abbott.
We sincerely hope that the editor
will not back down on printing Mr..
Swasey's poem. We shall be glad to
know if a fellow human being must be
prosecuted on account of poetry.
Rev. Mr.. Donaldson, Presiding Ell
der. preached in the Town House, Sun
day afternoon, observing the usual
quarterly meeting exercises.
There seems to be an unusual gener-
alton of verse in the vicinity of New
bury. Verse with and without rhyme
or rhythm, some long meter, some
short meter and more without meter
of any sort. Some written as a pleas
ant pastime, some as gentle satire,
more with venOmous spleen and so on.
Newbury Centre may or may not have
the genius of poesy quietly slumber-
ing in its bosom, if it has, let it SUM
Der on. Let the tender footed poets of
Newbury street fight their own fights,
Newbury Centre will not cruelty afresh
the readers of the OPINION by offering
itself up in verse, but the "chronicler"
is abroad in the land, with war paint
on.
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Fairlee.
Deferred Items. ]

John Brannan returned to Winooski
this week.
Mrs. Samuel Granger was buried
here last Tuesday, Rev. Mr.. Lees
preached very fine sermon. She was
the mother of ten children. Eight
graves at the cemetery tell the sadness
She has passed through by the death of
her husband and seven children. Many
little ones and some older have been
tenderly cared for by Mrs. Granger,
and left to love and cherish her MEN,
DRY are the three surviving children,
Charlie, living in Bradford, Arthur in
Nashua and Miss Matte at Walpole,
N. ii.
The ladies union sugar party was
well attended last Wednesday evening.
Mrs. Rogers saw-dust pie was grand
success. 1t was well patronized dur
ing the evening, ts Z,
Harry Higgins of Post Mills has
moved into the Granger house and lie
working for d. H. George driving the
milk cart.
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Saturday, April 4.

The falling off in cutlery shipments from
Sheffield the past quarter has been very
heavy.
The identity of the Astor house suicide
has been settled by the coroner's jury, as
that of William Wright.
Rev. Edward Everett Hale celebrated
his Goth birthday Friday He is still in
California.
Morris is to ask the courts to decide
whether Bukeley is legally occupying the
office of governor of Connecticut.
Thomas C. Barring, member of par
Lament and one of the famous Barring
Brothers, bankers. died in Rome Thurs
day.
There is a class of people in Japan who
hire the poor to beg clothes from the
charity associations, and, dyeing them,
sell them at higher rates for new clothes.
So severe is the climate of South Amer
lea upon iron that before railroad ties
have shown signs of decay the fanges of
the rails will lie nearly eaten off 10y rust.
To secure uniformity in the painting
and vanishing of their passenger and
freight cars some railroads employ expert
chemists to analyze the paints and oils
used.
4 California inventor has built boat
made entirely out of soap. and he will sail
it about the bay during the reception of
President Harrison. The craft will con-
tain several members of the company and
the inventor This will be the first soap
boat ever launched.
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VerShire.
Deferred Items. |

Rufus Blanchard and Mrs. Susan
Guild were married last week Friday
Mrs. Blanchard has been stopping in
town for some time and has many
friends who are glad to welcome her
as permanent resident of the place.
}. j. Parshley went to Boston, with
another car of potatoes, of which
Daniel johnson furnished over two
hundred bushels.
II. G. Church is carrying on Mr..
Beckwith's sugar place in Chelsea.
Spring birds are here and sleighing
is thing of the past.
Easter came early this year but no
lovelier day could be desired and
March, has gone out with sunshine and
mildness.
Farmers are improving the splendid
sap weather of which there has been
SIX consecutive days.
AT the lower village school meeting
Tuesday, night Elder j. ID. Cross was
elected committee and a tax of 25. cents
was voted on the grand list.
Charles Spear goes to Chicago, this
week.
The creamery is expected to. be renew
ed about the first of May.
Married, in Stafford March, Is, Hiram
q. Church of Vershire and Ida A.
Beckwith of Chelsea. In Vershire,
March, 81, Rufus Blanchard of
Vershire, and Mrs. Susan Guild of
Post Mills.
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Wells River.

Miss Julia Farwell is home from
Gardner City, l.. |.
VIM. b. Smith of East Haverhill, N.
H., has moved into the Badger house.
Rev. II. G. Flagg will exchange pull
pits with Rev. j. w. Lees Of Bradford,
next Sunday.
The village schools began last Mon
day with the usual attendance, Miss
Ella Dunlap takes Miss Mary Pages
place in the intermediate department.
At n business meeting Of the Chris
tian Endeavor' Society last Sunday
evening, Rev. II. q. Flagg was elected
Pres. N. b. Perkins, Vice Pres, and
Frank Learned, Secy., for the ensuing
six months. The society has about GO
members and is in growing and pros
porous condition, which is due to the
efficient work of its officers and vari-
Gus committees.
Fred Melvin is on the sick list,
threatened with pneumonia.
Col. Preston Post and Womans Re-
lief Corps celebrated the twenty-fifth
anniversary of the G.. A. Il. Tuesday
evening by appropriate exercises, con-
sisting of music, short addresses, war
stories, etc, after which refreshments
were served by the ladies.
John Bigelow received partial
shock fast week and remains very low.
A. S. Farwell, f. Deming and many
others are confined to the house this.
week with severe colds and grippe.
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Nest NaWburX.

John Smith and Miss Abbie Stuart
were united in marriage at the resi-
dence of the bride in West Barnet at
- O'Clock on Wednesday, April 9Th.
We wish for them long and prosper
our life.
Mrs. C. d. White closes year of
| faithful service at John Smiths on
Wednesday next and will return to
her home in Wentworth, N. Ii. She
will be greatly missed by the friends
she has made during her stay among
us.
George Heath has moved to his farm
on Wright's mountain, and Charles
Muzzy to the McIndoe place vacatQ
by Mr.. Heath.
G. Fl. Henderson. who with his
and daughter have beeh guests
Sawyer's the past three summers,
at his residence, 1O9 Lafayette 81
Salem. Mass, March 16. Mr.. Hender:
son has been connected with the Salem
Five Cent Saving Bank thirty years.
From our intimate acquaintance with
MIR. Henderson we can heartily and
feelingly endorse the following, taken
from the Boston journal:
''In the death of treasurer Henderson,
the Salem Five Cent Savings Bank suffers
severe loss. He was a citizen of the quiet,
reserved type, but tried and true, a faithful,
conscientious pillar of the bank, which he
had devotedly served for % years as it's
treasurer, and for upwards of 80 years as
clerk and officer. ~ Mr.. Henderson
saw military service in the Second Corps of
Cadets, x The public sympathy is
deep and sincere"
&C. Tyler is school committee in
district No. Z.
Edgar E. Putnam has TAKEN Harri-
son Cheney's sugar place, Mr.. Cheney
being unable to do any work. Mr..
and Mrs. Cheney have the sympathy
of the community.
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Friday, April 3.

Professor Tyndall is somewhat better.
His physicians are hopeful of his recovery.
Ex-Mayor Hewitt has succeeded to q
insomnia.
Jean Nicot, who introduced tobacco
into France, ITO have monument in
that country.
The Canadian maple sugar crop is now
at its height. and large crop is reported
from all quarters.
M. Augustin Thomas Poy ere uertier,
the distinguished French statesman, died
suddenly yesterday of congestion of the
lungs. He was born Sept. 8, 1920.
Real estate is drug in Albany. Sew.
eral pieces Of valuable property that were
offered at auction on Tuesday were with.
drawn because no satisfactory bid could
be got.
The Monte Carlo gambling den yielded
its owners clear profit last year of 81, 0OO,-
900. after paying the prince $500 aud
expanding S1,75O,GOO for keeping up the
casino and gardens
Hon. Frederick G. Perkins died at
Pennington, Me-, yesterday, of Bright's
disease, aged nearly &c. He was known
throughout the financial and business cir.
Giles of New England.
Mercantile affairs are very much de-
pressed In China, and The Foochow Echo
says misery is fast spreading all over the
country. The past year was the worst
for trade yet recorded.
Judge Virgin said in granting divorce
at Skowhegan, Me: "No 1woman who is
decent should be obliged to live with
drunken husband. and il she comes to ma
will grant her divorce every time"
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Thetford,Centre.

John T.. Qmmby and wife are ex-
pected to return home on Wednes.
gay OF this week from Florida where
they have spent the winter amidst the
fragrance OF the orange blossoms.
The church choir had its full quota
on the Sabbath and appeared at its best.
MISS Airline lAad was able to resume
her place, and Miss Alice Douglass was
present after her winters absence.
Charles I. Lucas enjoys the honor of
having been elected school committee
for this berg,
DR.. W. ii. Munsil is in town that
the grinders" may not "cease because
they are few"
Amos p. Porter is on the sick list
again.
II. F. Willoughby is beautifying the
interior of his house with b. w. Will
mot and son as painters.
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Waits River.
Oscar Corse has gone to Bradford, to
spend the season.

Oscar Corse has gone to Bradford, to
spend the season.
The Methodist Episcopal Sunday
School, children's Missionary collection
for the past year just closed with a
collection amounting to 1888.
S. X. Dexter and family Of Lowell.
Mass. made Mrs. r. McCrellis and Mrs.
J. r. Carter flying visit while
on their way to his farm at West
Topsham TO enjoy the sweets of the
maple sugar season and returned to
Lowell, last Tuesday.
VIM Beede and family moved to
Barre, last Wednesday. =
Beede & Locke are shipping luph
to Bradford, to car these days.
Miss. Edna Evans has gone to BA
Miss. Emma Baton is more comfd
able.
Almyra Minard Evangelist is max
ing his home at present with Mr.. and
Mrs. A. r. Beede.
Lyman THAR and family have made
over one half ton of sugar, Susan Cor
liss is aiding them.
Uncle George is slowly failing at the
home of William Hood.
We noticed in your last issue of the
OPINION that our Waits River observer
has turned prophet. just how far in
to the future his vision will extend we
cannot say, nor how the minister's
successor will be supported. But it
he should be a christian and strict
observer of truth, we have right to
judge the future by the past. His pre-
decessor had good support, and all
who are acquainted with H. f. Rey-
nolds, know he is not afraid to rebuke
sin out of the church as well as in. If
our observer had observed a little more
closely, he would have seen that those
who subscribed so literally were made
up mostly of scoffers, sceptics and UNI
godly people, thus showing how "birds
of feather flock together"
A MEMBER OF THE BOARD.
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East ThotfOrd,

Josiah Taylor is on the sick list this
week.
Miss Daisy Wilder is visiting at her
uncles this week helping them eat ma
pie sugar.
Mrs. John Simonds and sister have
returned from Canada where they have
been on short visit.
+. s. Slack returned from Boston
Friday with three good horses, he now
has six horses and six cows at "Pros-
pect farm" he can ride to the farm three
times day and have fresh horse each
trip.
Charles Blood swaped horses last
week and got fine four year old.
How Charles puts on the style.
Mrs. Barry has shut up her house and
gone to Sunapee for few weeks.
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CONDENSED NEWS.



California peach and apricot trees are
loaded with fruit.
There was an increase of $40, 1875 in the
public debt In March.
The oldest house In Plymouth-2OO years
old--has been burned.
The city of Spokane Falls. WASH, has
changed its name to Spokane.
Madden. the Boston club pitcher, IL to
be transferred to the Columbus club.
Senator Sherman says that Maj. Mo
Kinley will be elected governor OF Ohio.
A citizen of East Portland, Orc, has a
hen which he claims has cleared $500 for
him.
Many arrests in connection with the
murder of M. Baltchefss have been ma de
at Sofia.
Scandinavian sailors are said to pre-.
dominate on vessels of nearly all nation
alities.
One thousand carriage makers have
struck in Pittsburg for the nine-hour
work day.
The North Carolina legislature has pro-
vided for normal and Industrial college
for white girls.
The 25Oth anniversary of the foundation
OF Montreal occurs next year, and it's cele-
bration is proposed.
A fine of S25 is to he imposed on persons
posting obscene pictures on the billboards
Of Elizabeth. N. j. W%
Samuel II. sRumph of Fort Valley. Ga,
is said to have an income of over $780, a
year from his peach orchard.
Canadian paper manufacturers want
the government to impose an export duty
on pulp wood, which Americans are cut
ting in the forests of Canada.
A. L. Mellen, who disappeared from
Baltimore several years ago, and who was
indicted in Boston on the charge of con-
spiracy to murder his sons wife, has re-
turned to Baltimore.
The Italian under secretary of foreign
affairs told American Minister Porter that
the American constitution was not worthy
of free civilized country if it does not
insure punishment for crimes and protec-
tion for the weak.
The building of bungalows at Thebes
for consumptive patients is recommended
by DR.. Koch. who has recently taken a
tour up the Nile The climate there is
considered most beneficial to sufferers
from lung affections.
The Australian colonies are not boom
ing at tine present time. j. H. Knipe,
Melbourne authority in connection with
real estate matters, computes that Their
are quite 1000 houses in Melbourne ana
the suburban area standing empty.
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Sunday, April B.
Memphis had a $50, 900 fire.

Memphis had Sl50,OO0 fire.
The result of the CHILEAN election is a
government victory.
The Cunard and Inman lines are to
build new large steamers
An alleged discovery of gold has been
made in Birmingham, Conn.
There is a rumor that the glassworks at
Sandwich, Mass, will soon be in opera
ton again.
There is a revolutionary rumbling in the
Argentine Republic, and an upheaval at
any time is likely.
The New Orleans safety committee has
decided that Detective O'Malley shall not
be disturbed for the present.
Hengeveldt's silk factory at Midland
Park, N. j., was burned. Loss SIS, 900.
Fifty hands are thrown out of work.
1t is reported from Rome on competent
authority that the renewal of the dreibund
is an accomplished fact, but that the
treaty win not be published, Italy desiring
secrecy.
Gen. Beulanger has taken the palatial
residence recently vacated by the Austrian
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Is the family doctor your friend? How
many unnecessary visits does he make you
How many days does he keep you sick that
you ought to be at your work, and so doing
how many hard-earned dollars does he ex-
tort from you. Would 1t not be better for
Try them, they will be a true friend, Saw
ing you long sickness and large bill,
which you have hitherto paid to some ava
riciOus dOctOr.-Edit0r State journal.
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Th0tfOrd.

Principal Cummings, of Meriden,
N. H., Miss Morse, and few friends,
were invited to meet the class of '88 at
ElanOr, orcester's, on Thursday even
ing Of last week. A very enjoyable
time is reported by all.
Miss Elanpr Lindsey is spending a
few days with friends in town.
Prof. Mallory is away on short va
cation and Rev. Mr.. McDuffee takes
his place in the Academy.
John Moore of Holyoke Mass, spent
a few days in town returning on Mon
day.
Mrs. Quimby Carey is quite i'll.
Frank Stevens has been suffering
from aqpinsy sore.
Sugar makers are having good run
of sap.
School meeting in district No. 3 elect
ed HenrX Sayre, moderator; Charles
WilmQtnn|erk .2pd treasurer; Frank
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evening; April 8. The question for de-
bate is, Resolved that Clay was a
greater statesman than Webster"
Affirmative. Geo. McIndoe and Char
lie Mum; negative, Harley Sanborn
and Bernard Babcock.
The scholars who remained over this
week and those who live on the Hill,
were invited to the boarding house
Saturday evening to sugar Oft.
Miss Ida Stevens is quite ill with
pneumonia.
The class of 81 went to Lebanon, N.
H., last Wednesday to sit for their pic
lures. They report very pleasant
time
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NEwBURY. April ..

|
NEwBURy. April Q.
Dear M. Ed,tor:-I notice through youl
issue Of the ID inst. that "our poet ap
Than poetry and although passion is
usually childish yet deem ii but just to an
author of his evident ambition, to say that
in my opinion his imaginative style OF
thought finds more appropriate expression
in the terseness of his prose than IN the
proliXitH' of his poetry, and il he will stead
H. curb his passion his future is nearly
all before him.
| am sorry that anyone, he most of all
Others should be so fOrgetful of the crcum-
stances which my verses seek to commence
rate as to impute such harsh motives to
their author for my verses also were hasti-
IN prepared with hardly the expectation
that they would be h0nored with publica-
ton, to say nothing the subsequent no.
lice they have received. However, | felt
tn lat most of those in the audience of Feb.
9Th, would enjoy reading them, and in
tended them to be true and also to have a
moral III their application. ] have careful
ly reviewed them and | believe that their
greatest fault is in their truthfuness but
since the poet IN his passion has intimat-
ed the contrary, | would be pleased to have
him, at his earliest convenience, substan-
tiate his statement and show wherein they
do not correctly portray the event which
they attempt to describe, and hope it will
not require IA breathless pause of four
weeks on his part.
Our poet goes on to compliment my verses
of being in his Judgment an '.Herculean
effort" | am sorry to be obliged to decline
his compliment but they do not deserve it.
and nasmuch as their production occupied
only three hours of my time, | would sug
gest that from his own hasty manner of
writing they were more of Sherbu1nledn
than an "Herculean effort Adopting his
own Ott-repeated phrase would say that
81 make no claim as a poet" had never
written before and probably shall never try
again, for since my FIRST attempt has Great
ed such Juror or rather fury, | am quite
discouraged. l have no desire to SANDER
or abuse the poem, for consider such ac
ton both uncalled for as well as impossible,
neither DO seek to add to the discomfort of
the author for if his own admission is sin
cere. his remOrse is already sufficient, nor
have l. any malice or venom for him for l
think he shows that he possesses enough of
either already for his own comfort and en-
jOyment.
l have no doubt but that the readers of
the OPINION will be highly entertained by
the publication of the poem in full, but as
that is an entirely separate and distinct
matter from the manner and circumstances
Of it's delivery on the evening OF Feb. 9th.
and with reference to which event my
verses were written, it is of minor impor-
lance in the present connection, and am
well satisfied to abide by the opinion of
those who constituted the audience on that
occasion and who know the
circumstances as they there Oc-
cured. In conclusion would say, that the |
abOred StanZa with which he closed his |
passion" of last week, seemed to be very |
appropriate epitaph upon the author him |
;elf and | was almost inclined to believe |
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A fS6l1y on wheels, six or seven in
number, is living ON the side track,
saving up wood for the railroad, be-
ing hunted up and down day and night
for the entrance of trains at each end
of their line. About half the men are
sick. The life of working men is too
hard, and their worth to their families
and the world greatly moderated.
Some shifting of families with its
usual loss and gain. A few real losses
are yet to come.
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ambassador In the QUARTER Leopold n
Brussels. He appears to be plentifully
supplied with money
Monday, April q.

Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria and hi
mother are threatened with death.
Heavy failures are reported in LeghorA
and Genoa; the liabilities are IS 100000.
A lO-year-old boy stole $4,000 in checks
and notes from the Atlanta, Ga, post.
office.
Three members of Newfoundland
family were killed under an avalanche Of
snow.
The storms prevalent along the Scotch
and Irish coasts have driven many vesseh
ashore.
The public bar question Is likely to b
settled by the Massachusetts legislature
this week.
People of Nova Scotia are intensely in
dignant at the action of the Newfoundland
government in refusing bait to Canadian
fishermen.
A new Russian per cent. loan of $780,
100000 has been negotiated. The proceeds
will be devoted to the purchase and extern
sion of railways.
John A. Grier, general freight agent Of
the West Shore line and for many years
general freight agent of the Michigan Cen
trial. died at his home in Chicago of the
grippe.