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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-07-24
CONVlcTs NOT WANTED.

\ conflict. the like of which does not
often occur, is going on down in Tennes-
see. For many years the State has hired
out its convicts to owners of mines. But
the other day the free miners decided
that they did not care longer to compete
with that class of laborer>. and threat
ened to drive them out. Then troops
were sent TO protect the convicts. On
MJaday the miners armed themselves,
surrounded the militia and compelled
them to surrender and to take the con-
victs back to prison. The governor
thereupon called out the whole State
militia. which have been encamped since
Tuesday at Knoxville awaiting the result
of conference between the governor
and committee of the miners. The
conference was had on Wednesday. The
governor agreed to call an extra session
of The legislature, embodying in the call
recommendation to the legislature that
the convict lease system be modified if
not repealed; but he desires that the con-
in the mines pending the action of the
legislature. The committee have gone
back to the mountains to confer with
their brother miners. 1t is believed that
the miners will be willing to leave the
matter to the legislature and will give
the required promises. If they do not
the convicts will be returned to the mines
and with them the militia. If the force
is not large enough to guarantee protec-
ton to property and the safe working of
the conyicts, the United States will be
called upon for force of regulars.
The system of leasing convicts has
long been a disgrace to several of the
Southern States. and if this uprising
shall have the effect of abolishing it not
only the State Immediately concerned
but others will be benefited.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-07-24
PLAIN LANGUAGE.

The history of American politics-we
are constrained to add, the history of
American iournalism-records nothing
comparable TO the bounding of the fore
most statesman of the Republican party
by Democrats and Republicans in concert.
What influence is behind 1t we do not
know. Certainly not BENJAMIN Harrison,
as Is here and there intimated. The Pres
ident may have as much reason to fear
Mr.. Blaine for the future as he has To be
grateful to him for the past, but Gen. Har-
rison is not the man TO carry on. directly
or by proxy, preliminary campaign for
the Presidential nomination by methods
fit only for Charles Jules Guteau or the
New York World.
This is what the New York sun has to
say with reference to the widely-publsh-
ed reports of the physical and mental de-
cay of Mr.. Blaine. being presumably led
thereto by Washington dispatch print
ed in the New York World of Tuesday, =,
in which it was said that Mr.. Blaine is
in the last stages of Bright's disease and
cannot possibly long survive. The re-
mainder of the Suns article, which un-
doubtedly gives the exact state of the
facts, is as follows:
Mr.. Blaine's present condition is no
mystery to those who know his mental
idiosyncrasy. He is self-torturer in all
that concerns his physical health. This
does not mean that he is a coward, or
even hypochondriac in the ordinary
sense of the term. But he belongs To a
class of beings, distinct and we'll recog-
nized, in which the pathologic imagina-
ton is developed to an uncomfortable
and often dangerous degree. He is SEN
sitive in the extreme to what he believes
to be the dsinterested opinion of others
respecting his physical condition. This
circumstance is neither to his credit nor
his discredit; it is simply factor in Mr..
Blaines individuality.
Every physician knows that in the re-
action of mental impressions and appre-
tensions upon actual physical health,
general intelligence or even exceptional
robustness of intellect, is no barrier to
the mischief that may be wrought. Of
ten the danger is greatest where the in
telligence is most acute, and the imagna-
ton the most active. There are cases
and there are times when an incautious-
ly expressed opinion, mistaken dag
nOsis thOughtlessly communicated, may
amount to a sentence of death.
For fifteen years Mr.. Blaines remark
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-07-24

able mind has been subjected not merely
to the strain of continuous work of an
eXacting thought not necessarily eN-
hausting character, but also to the wear
and tear of such an alienation of high
emotions, of passionate hopes, terrible
disappointments, feverish resentments,
and tantalizing half-realizations as can
perhaps be paralleled by the experience
of no other man now on earth. For the
past two or three years, as every gen
erous reader will remember with sincere
sympathy and regret. he has encoun-
tered a succession of domestic Affections
almost stunning to a nature of the SEN
sibility of his. There has been no lack
of manhood in Mr.. Blaine's attitude un-
der these repeated strokes of misfortune,
heavy enough and frequent enough to
have Lroken an ordidary constitution to
pieces. But is there any wonder that
time comes when the danger signals be-
gin to appear in certain physical symp-
toms? Or is it strange that MIR. Blaine
and those solicitous for the usefulness of
the next fifteen years of his life should
reach the conclusion that the secretary
needs rest, freedom from worry, careful
attention, and fair chance to recuper
ate?
This is precisely the time chosen for
the Incredibly malignant and brutal con-
spiracy to drive James &. Blaine into
premature grave by exhibiting him to
himself as a man doomed to death. We
say conspiracy. because there is every in
dcation of concerted action on the part
of the inventors of the bogus interviews,
ports from Bar Harbor, Boston and Wash
in hn ia @
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-07-24
PERSONAL.

Hon. II. c. Ide of st. Johnsbury, who
was made the representative of this gov
ernment in the international commission
to settle the Samoan difficulties, has been
chosen chairman of the commission.
Secretary Proctor informs Col Hooker,
president of the Vermont association of
Road and Trotting Horse Breeders that
he will. in company with Secretary Rusk,
attend the seventh annual meeting at
White River Junction, August % to %.
/ The marriage is announced of Mr.. W.
+. Lewis and Miss Anne Nj. Weed of
Rutland. Mr.. Lewis first wife, who
died very suddenly four or five years
ago, was Miss Hawley of Cornwall,la la
sister of Mrs. E. F. Preston of Brandon.
iEx-Governor j. Gregory Smith Oh
Monday resumed the active duties of the
presidency of the Central Vermont rail-
road. The Improvement in his health
has been very marked during the past
few weeks, and of late he has frequently
visited his office and made trips to various
places on the road.
\ Kansas City, Mo-, dispatch of Tues
day says: ii. =. StimsOn, eX-president of
the American national bank. today sued
the Gloucester national bank of Glouces-
ter, MASS, anu JOsep1 ". lrOClOr. presl-
dent of the bank, for $4,000. The suit
is the result of the attachment of Mr..
Stimson's home, July l5, by the Glouces-
ter bank on claim of S2l 900. Mr.. Slim
son claims that the action was uniustitied
and malicious.
The New York Press says; "Collabor-
ations of novelists have become popular.
The latest is the alliance of the Marquise
Clara LAMA and Mr.. James Clarence
Harvey, poet and manager of the United
States Book company. The title of the
forthcoming work of these authors is
"Scarabrus," and is the story of All Afri-
can beetle. The work is based on notes
taken during two trips TO the heart OF
Africa by Mr.. Harvey's brother-in-law
who passed several months with Emir
/ Pasha. The result of the observations
combined with the imaginative efforts OF
these authors, is said to have produced a
highly sensation fiction" Mr.. Harvey
graduated from the college in the elias,
of 1881 and is well remembered by many
people in this town and its vicinity.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-07-24

The Watchman, published at Montpel-
ier, VT, noting a seizure of $500 worth
of liquor by the sheriff, laments that the
prohbitory law is practically not en-
forced, and that liquor can be freely had
in the large towns of Vermont. 1t has
been so for years in Burlington, Rutland
and st. Adams, but the public indiffer-
ence to the law seems to be on the in
crease Boston Record.
If the law is not enforced in Burling-
ton, Rutland and st. Albans, then the
people of those places don't want it en-
forced. If they are not pleased with the
condition of things in their towns, they
can blame no one but themselves. Wheth-
er rum is or is not sold to any extent in
Vermont town depends upon the inhab-
itants of the town, not upon the merits
or demerits of the law.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-07-24

Secretary of War Proctor accompanied
the editors of the State on their eXcur-
sion to Boston and at the banquet made
an extended speech, in the course of
which he said
An opportunity to compare Our State,
its people, its resources and its oppor-
tunities with other sections of the coun-
try must tend to make us cOntented with
our lot. know that agriculture is de-
pressed and values low, but there is this
some complaint from all sections, and
from many with much greater force than
from us. Many who have gone from
Vermont IN recent years to the West and
South wish themselves back, and many
who have not gone themselves, but have
sent their money, wish that back. |
fully believe that our State has passed
its worst period of depression, that farm
values have passed the turn. and the de-
mand is better and the pressure to sell
less: that fewer of our young men will
leave and mole of those who have left
will return, and more who are seeking
desirable homes will come from other
States. and that we are on the eve. not
of a great boom, but of a steady, healthy
Increase of prosperity.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-07-24
WANTS TO COME HOME,

Oliver =. Mead, the Salisbury man
who fled from home on the Sd inst. be-
cause of financial difficulties into which
he got himself by using trust funds, has
been heard from at Chicago. He says
that he was broken down by worrying
over the condition of his affairs and that
he wanted to get away from every one
he had eyer known; now he is anxious
to come home. His letter is perfectly
clear and indicates that he has fully re-
covered his faculties. He was sick for
several days at South Bend, Ind. His
friends have, it is understood, sent him
money with which to pay his fare back
to Vermont, and it is probable that he
will be here again before many days.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-07-24
THE SOLDIERS HOME,

The annual meeting of the trustees of
the soldiers home was held at the insti-
tuition in Bennington on Wednesday.
These officers were elected: President,
Hugh Henry of Chester; secretary, c. C..
kinsman of Rutland; treasurer, John c.
Stearns of Bradford; finance committee,
Gen. William Wells of Burlington, Col,
Julius j. Estev of Burlington. Col. G.. T.
Childs of st. Adams and Col. \. 5. Tracy
of Middlebury. Among the trustees
present was Secretary Proctor. The res
ignation of Mai. \. B. Valentine as Il
trustee was laid before the meeting and
accepted. Ozro Meacham of Brandon
was elected to fill the vacancy. There
are now IS inmates in the home.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-07-24

Home markets for our surplus farm
products, so far as is practicable, should
be the motto of Vermont farmers. Could
we plant mandatory or open Il mine
in every town, we would bring to the
farmers of each town home market, and
so eliminate the middlemen, and their
profits, and all eXorbtant transportation
tariffs Farmers Advocate.
This is all very fine on paper, but what
good many Vermont towns would like
to know is how to get manufactures ago
ing at home. Manufacturers with capi-
tai and paying businesses are not as easi-
ly captured as people think who haven't
tried it.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-07-24
AN UNCOMFORTABLE PUMP HANDLE.

George Lamson, leading granite
manufacturer, entered Towne e Cos.
store last night for drink of water, says
Barre dispatch of Friday. The floor of
the store was being washed and was wet
with water. The water had become
strongly charged by an electric light wire
passing from the basement When Lam
son took hold of the iron handle of the
well the circuit was completed through
his body and he received shock that
rendered him unconscious. 1t required
the aid of two men to remove his hand
from the pump handle and had Mr.. Lam
son been alone the contact would doubt
less have proved fatal
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-07-24
FATALLY KICKED BY A HORSE.

Our East Middlebury correspondent
writes This village was startled, early OF
Saturday morning, by the sudden death
by accident of Henry Hunt, Sr. He hdi
started for the west village, and while
waiting for a man at the Glen House he
stepped from the buggy TO arrange pbr-
ton of the harness. While he was stahd-
hg near the horsc-a young oneLit
Kicked, striking Mr.. Hunt in the face
With both feet, killing him instantly. Mr..
Hunt had buried his wife three mohths
before. He was laborer-a stonel ma
son by trade. His age was about &C
years. The funeral services were held at
the Methodist church on Monday, Rev.
5. W. Bidwell officiating.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-07-24
The CROPS.

\ few of the farmers in the region
round about have finished haying, but
more of them haven't. The crop is large
in quantity and excellent in quality.
There is much complaint of scarcity of
help and consequent high wages. Two
dollars a day has been paid by some, but
Sl.50 to Sl.75 a day are the common
wages. Harvesting is coming right on af-
ter haying, the hot, dry weather causing
grain to ripen rapidly. Grain of all sorts
looks well. Farmers say there is seldom
a year when crops of all kinds average
so high as this season. Small fruits are
abundant. One Bridport man has II
bushels of cherries on his trees.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-07-24

1t is fortunate on several accounts for
the farmers hereabouts that their grain
crops are good this year. For one thing,
they can't afford to depend on the West
for their grain, as they have done for
year or two; and, besides, the price of
grain Is likely to be high. In England
the crop is short, and that is the case,
too, both IN India and Russia, England's
chief sources of supply. The United
States consul at Odessa says that the
wheat crop is 25 per cent short and the
rye crop GO per cent short. This would
mean shortage of 100000, 900 bushels of
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-07-24
Mr.. BARToN's MIsHAP.

Mr. Frank ID. Barton, the well-knOwn
Waltham farmer and stocknan, was
quite badly hurt on Tuesday by his stall
lion, Robert McGregor. The animal be-
came enraged, and. after biting his own
er in the arm, threw him down and again
attacked HIM, keeping at it till Mr..
Winch of Middlebury, who is in Mr.. Bar
toms employ, drove him off with club.
Mr.. Barton was seriously bruised and
cut, but no bones were broken.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-07-24

Senator PETER of Kansas is placed in
nomination for the Presidency by the
Alliance Advocate, organ of the new
party in Kansas. 1t is possible that a
worse crank has been suggested for the
Office, but it is hardly probable.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-07-24
ALL A MYTH.

from the Burlington Clipper.l
The fact has now been fully established
that the abandoned farm business was all
myth and the Banner is trying to get
in out of the cold and draw the eX-com-
missioner in after it, Major Valentine is
a good citizen and an excellent business
man in his line, but his Swede hobby
cost the State thousands of dollars from
which there was comparatively no re-
turn.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-07-24

The medical profession must have got
ten into a bad way down in Georgia in
order to have created the public opinion
that has led the State legislature to pass
a bill disqualifyng drunken doctors from
practicing. A method of indictment has
been framed, and upon conviction Cf
drunkenness the accused is made subject
to heavy penalty if he should attempt
to practice again.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-07-24

rye and 50,O00.00O bushels of wheat. If
these figures are even approximately cor
rect, Russia must be a large importer of
breadStutls during the next season, in
stead of being, as in average years, an
exporter nearly equal TO the United
States.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-07-24

The rumor comes from Switzerland
where he is staying, that Henry NJ.
Stanley and his wife have separated. The
cause of the difficulty is said to be 1.-THE
positive nature of both husband and wife,
owing to the many years they lived alone,
which renders it difficult for them to con-
form to the peculiar views of each other"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-07-24
A POSSIBLE RACE COLLISION.
FROM the Rutland Herald.

Suppose that Gov. Page calls the leg
islature together August %. Suppose
that the members of that body want to
go to the breeders meeting at White
River Junction. Suppose that they ad-
iourn to November l. In such a case
how would the horse trotting affect the
senatorial race?
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-07-24

"There Is no knowing how much harm
unrpe whiskey may do in an election
year. The very best Democrats, under
its influence, might vote the Republican
ticket" So says Henry Watterson in the
Louisville Courier-Journal. As the
opinion of an expert it is valuable and
the members of Vermont's minority
party would do well to paste it in their
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-07-24

Emancipation does not seem to have
been a success in Brazil up to date. The
former slaves decline to work for love or
money; families find themselves without
servants and agriculturists without hands
and the whole situation is demCralized.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-07-24
E. H. THORP, Editor and Manager.
FRIDAY, JULY "a, 1891.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and others in re-
hitting will please do so by Postal Note Postal
Order Currency and Draft, using one and two
cent stamps tor fractional parts OF dollar II
necessary. We have mouse tor stamps larger
than two cents; checks on distant banks tor
small amounts are expensive to collect
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-07-24

State Treasurer Fields report for the
wear ended June 80 shows total receipts
of SS0G, ,lOG.SO and expenditures of the
same amount less SG2, ,G35.03 cash on
hand and in banks.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-07-24

Don't be discouraged about that eczema
til you have given Ayers Sarsapurila u per.
sistent trial. Six bottles of this medicine cur.
ed George ;. Thomas, OF Ada, Ohio when all
other remedies tailed to afford any relief.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-07-24
Estate of George l.. Harrington.
Final Settlement.
TATEOF FVERMONT,-Distr of Ad :

= olson, SIS.
son;
To all persons interested in the estate OF
George l.. Harrington, late OF Weybridge, in
said district, deceased. GREETING
BY the authority OF the State OF Vermont,
you are hereby notified to appear before the
said Probate Court, ut the Probate ONCE in
Middlebury, in said District, on the l2th day of
August, A. ID. 1891, at 10 O'Clock, Il. m, to show
cause. II any you have, why the account OF
John A. Harrington, administrator of the es-
tate OF said deceased, should not be allowed
and also why the residue of said estate should
not be distributed to the parties entitled
thereto.
Dated at Middlebury, in said District, this
22d day of July, \. ID. 1891
By order OF court.
% Attest JAMES NJ. sLADE,
80 Judge.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-07-24

Receives and pays deposits daily. Deposits
made ON either OF the first four business days
of any month draw interest from the lst. II
made afterward interest will commence the
first OF the following month.
Interest will be credited to depositors Jan.
uary lst and July LIST, compounding twice Il
year. There are no stockholders in this bank.
All the earnings, less expenses, belong to de-
positors. The rate OF interest depends on the
earnings and tor the past four years has been
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-07-24
HANDSOME
LACE
WRAPS
az CEN It .

Till August 25h We reduce stock (buyng all the time of
course but closing up and broken lines. Remnants
from every department sale Monday morning least
hundred in Dress Goods Department alone Your chance to
get Dress cheap Many good things at half price some
even less.
About hundred Garments in Cloak Department.;
nearly all Jackets; marked sell They'll SELL at the
prices All sizes.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-07-24
4 l-2 PER CENT.

All taxes are paid by the bank on deposits
OF sl50O or less. Deposits tare received in
sums from 81 to $1,000, and no interest will he
paid on any sum in excess OF this amount, ex.
cept on deposits by widows, orphans, al.
ministrators, executors guardians, charitable
or religious institutions or on trust funds de
posted by order 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.
No money loaned to any officer or trustee
OF the bank
Funds may be sent by bank check or draft
or postal money order and deposit book will
be returned by next mail.
Applications for loans or for Information as
to standing OF the bank may be made to Rufus
Wainwright, Middlebury; j. T.. Roberts, Yer.
gennes, or +. c. Dixie, Bristol.
CHARLES Il. SMITH. President.
{. +. WARD, Treasurer.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-07-24

Only 5 Lace Wraps
in stock, all high
priced and hand
some, as follows:
$40, $3.50, S31.OO,
33.OOand S35; $40
for first, $1,000 for
choice of balance.