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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-02
Probate OF VIII OF
&. III. COnkey.
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STATE OF NERMONT--District OF
- Addison. IS.
Be it remembered that at a session OF the
Probate Court holden at Middlebury, within
and tor the said district, OH the 3lst day OF
December, A. ID. 1880.
Present Hon. James NJ. Slade, Judge.
Whereas, certain instrument in writing,
under seal, purporting To be the last will and
testament OF c. H. Conkey, late OF Orwell,
in said district, deceased, having been this
day presented to said Court tor Probate, and
duly filed in the Registers Office Therefore,
IL is ordered that ali persons interested i'm the
estate OF said deceased be notified to appear
before said court, at the Probate Office in
Middlebury in said district, on the 26th day OF
January, A. ID. 1881, at 10 O'Clock II m, by pub.
lication OF this order three weeks successive
~ previous thereto in the Middlebury Regis
ter, IA newspaper printeda AT Middlebury, atore-
said, to show cause, II any they may have,
why said instrument in writing should not he
proved and allowed as the last will and tesla
ment OF the said deceased
BY the Court. Attest
JAMES NJ. SLADE, Judge.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-02
THE WATeR-WoRKs CONTRACT SIGNED

HE WATER-WORkS ION RaCT SIGNED.
Mr.. w. II. Lang of Lang, Goodhue &
Co., the Burlington contractors. was in
town on Friday and the contract for the
village water-works was completed by
him and Messrs. Wilds, Calhoun and
Clinton Smith, a subcommittee of the
water committee. Saturday night all the
members of the committee met and each
of them signed the contract. These 9TH
er members are Hon. l.. d. Eldredge, Dr.
Sheldon, Col. A. A. Fletcher, Prof. Boyce,
DR.. Smith and Messrs. G.. 5. Wainwright
and c. Ii. Williamson.
The contract price of the system is
$3l ,S01 80. Work is to begin on the ma
chinery at once and on the station and
streets as early in the spring as the wealth.
er will permit. The system is to be in
complete running order by Aug. Is, 1891.
The materials used are to be first-class
and the work done by competent men.
The entire system is guaranteed against
breakage arising from improper material
or defective workmanship for one year
from the date when it goes into opera
ton. The specifications provide for a
suitable pumping station, which is to be
located just below Mr.. Clinton Smiths
mill and to be built of stone, brick and
iron. Power will be supplied by two
water Wholesome of 2S horsepower for
the domestic supply and another of Ill
horsepower for fire purposes. The water
will go to the wheels in a seven foot
iron tube, and the wheels are to be set
under l5-foot head. The pump will be
quintuple, consisting of five double-act-
ing pumps driven from a common crank,
and so arranged that any one of them or
any number or all may be used simutane-
ously. The machinery is to be of sufii.
cient power to throw six one-inch fire
streams at the same time. The intake
and screen chamber will be about 1900
feet above the pumping station, on DR..
MCllcn's tot, whence the water for dOmes-
tic use will be conveyed to the pumps by
an eight-inch wrought-iron pipe. The fill
ter will be at the pumping station. Fifty
double fire hydrants are provided for, to-
gether with all necessary gates, valves
and other paraphernalia that 60 to make
up complete system. The top of the
street mains will be five feet below the
surface OF the ground. All pipe is to be
tested at 300 lbs. pressure to the square
inch. The provisions as to rock cutting
follow: 1.-THE above estimate does not
include rock cutting except that specified
in filter-bed and wheel-pit and for the in.
take pipe and the main pipe in crossing
the river. If the committee see fit, in or
der to avoid rock, to abbreviate or ex
tend the mains, such extension to be at &
proportionate expense and such abbrevi
alton at a proportionate diminution il
the price. Should there be rock encoun
tered in any of the streets that cannot b,
stunned and thereby necessitate tn,
shortening of any of the lines, the COS
of the same shall be deducted from tn,
contract price" at a specified rate pc
foot for each of the several sizes of pipe
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-02

Friday till Tuesday the teams drawing
pulp logs did little business, as the roads
were full. Cross roads all over the
county were filled to greater or less ex-
tent. Trains from the south were all
late on Friday and Saturday.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-02
!. H. THORP, Editor and Manager,
L + X NJ S

JOB PRINTING of every variety at the loves
prices consistent with good work and quality
of stock.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-02

The Waterbury (Ct.) Sunday Herald
sa's Don't use rosin soaps when you
can buy bars of Brussels soap for Soc,
which will do more actual work than 81
worth of rosin soap.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-08-04

a fight, one succumbs and is eaten by the
victor. Nature has done a service in max
ing the tarantula SO hideous and formida-
BILE looking object. Indeed, 1t is owing
to this responsiveness that no greater num-
ber of persons are stung. The sight of the
great hairy spider crawling near by viii
cause q cold, creeping sensation down the
back Of almost any one.
The deadly foe of Mr.. Tarantuls is the
tarantula hawk. These giant blue wasps,
with their fiery wings, are deadly foes to
the tarantula, and should be encouraged
in every locality. They seem never to rest
for moment, and with tireless energy fy
and walk rapidly along the ground, run
ming into every crevice and hole, and e1-
amining every suspicious object, after the
tarantula.
The fate of the giant spider when discov-
cred by the hawk is certain, and attended
with fascinating horror.
The winged insect hovers over the victim
Until it finds good opportunity to sting.
The poison act in a peculiar manner, the
tarantula becoming paralyzed. In this
state the eggs of the hawk are laid in the
spider, who remains alive to be slowly de-
voured by the hungry larya.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-08-04
NEW HAVEN, CONN. TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST L. 1891.

that town no longer give promiscuous
orders on grocers for supplies to the "out-
side poor" but furnish what necessaries
are required from their own store-room
in their own Office This town store was
opened for the first time, Saturday, and
did fair business. 1t keeps but ten
different articles-beans, coffee, Goldfish,
-four, oatmeal, pork. potatoes, rice, sugar
and tea. Orders to the amount of not
more than LAO each are issued by the
selectmen to deserving poor people, which
orders are then filed. at the store from
the above list. The articles are bought
by the town at wholesale and the dollar
and half's worth which one person may
draw is reckoned up at wholesale prices.
An illustration of the change that has
taken place in this country is to be found
in the report of an officer attached to the
adiutant-generaPs department at Washing.
ton. This officer, who has been engaged
in making an examination of the way in
which recruiting is carried on, says that
the recruiting bureau has found 1t desira-
BILE to turn it's attention from the cities to
the country districts. Instead of obtain
ing soldiers for our regular army among
the old, hardened roughs from the slums
in the great centers of population, it is
found that better class of people than
ever before obtained can be recruited
among the country boys, the farmers sons,
who are eager to improve their condition.
The official adds: sIn my opinion, the day
is not far off when each regimental COM
mander in the west will be able to fill his
ranks without having to send to great re-
cruiting depots in the east for men,"
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-08-04

The novel spectacle of well-known ply
sician of this city extracting poison from
one of the deadly rattlesnakes at the 600"
was witnessed by large crowd of visitors
yesterday The spectators stood at a re-
spectacle distance, for the hideous reptile
Missed viciously and showed every evidence
of intense rage. Just what the doctors do
with the poison after they get it is pro-
fessional secret that has never leaked out.
1t is used as a medicine in some kind of
nervous diseases, SO it is said, and as a
commercial product the poison is worth
several times its weight in first water dia-
monds.
The method of obtaining the poison is in
teresting and exciting. The doctor is us
ually assisted in the operation by Head
Keeper Byrne, who thoroughly under
stands the habits of all the reptiles at the
'Zoo.n The doctor approaches the rattle
snake cage with stick about q yard long,
kn one end of which is a stout leather loop
that tightens when the stick is raised
This Is inserted at the top of the cage, and
instantly every snake coils himself for q
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-08-04
DEADLY TARANTULAS.
Horrible Hairy Spiders Whose Bit
Is Certain and Painful Death,

Horrible Hairy Spiders Whose Bite
Is Certain aud Painful Death.
1t is fact not generally known that
there are two varieties of tarantulas in Ari-
zona and New Mexico. This probably &C.
counts for the conflicting reports about the
deadly nature of the tarantula poison. The
so-cslled Texas tsrsntuls is by no means
an agreeable bedfellow, but his bite is by
no means fatal. The venomous Texas tar
antula, in spite of all discussions to the
contrary, does build and live in the trap
door spider nest. There seems to be cur
rent idea that the trsp-door spider is harm
less, which is certainly erroneous. II uses
no web net, easily capturing its prey by
extraordinary springs. Those who have
seen this arachnidan by daylight can have
little idea of its power and fleetness. Dur
ing the day its moves slowly and clumsily
in the dazzling light, but when darkness
comes it can move with ease and certainty.
Credible accounts have appeared stating
that the tarantula can leap sixteen feet,
says the Florence Companion. Repeated
statements have credited it with leap of
three feet or more. In 1870, or near that
date, three men disturbed several tarantuls
nests near San Diego. They were immed,
lately attacked by the hugh spiders and
had to run for their lives, taking refuge in
the waters of the bay.
On the other hand, the poison of fear
full nature-more dreaded than that of a
rattlesnake-and unless only slightly
cratched, and heroic measures used, the
result is fatal. Many deaths are on record
caused by these spiders. The most pro-
longed suffering was that San Diego wo-
man. A tarantula sunk its fangs in her
hand during the night. The flesh was cut
away with razor aad medical assistance
summoned at once. Her life was prolonged
for time, as well as her suferings. For
three months she fingered under the effects,
her hands constantly creeping and crawl
ing along the bedding in horrible imitation
of the motions of the tarantula.
The Mygale sometimes spreads over six
inches square, but more frequently four or
five inches. The writer has at the present
time stuffed specimen that extends about
six and q half inches. A shaggy coat of
hair covers the surface of the great spider.
1t is supplied with six strong, bony legs,
and two dangerous pedipahps or strikers.
each armed with sharp sting and poison
sac. The strikers are frequently mistaken
for two front legs, and from this arises the
idea that the creature has stings on its
feet. Two powerful projections, resem-
bling jaws, protrude from the head Un-
der each of these is q curved poison fang,
| similar to cats claw, but longer EXACTLY
like those of q rattlesnake), which may be
lifted, extended and hooked into the victim.
A person thus stung Tor bittenD must cut
the tarantula away at once, for the spi.
der does not seem willing to unhook its
fangs.
Tarantulas are considered deadly foes Il
each other and are seldom found in com
pany. When imprisoned together there i
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-08-04

ments, manufacturing processes, in short
everything that has to do with the esthet-
les of art or its practical working and re-
suits. The only defect seems to~be the
omission of the proper pronunciation of
words from foreign languages, which
would be helpful to many readers. Ths
work is well prepared to furnish large
amount of desirable information. 1t con-
tains nearly two thousand illustrations.
D. Appleton & Co., New York. For sale
by E. P. Judd.
"a Matter of Skill, by Beatrice Whit
by, anthor of ''The Awakening of Mary
Fenwick." A very readable book, with
plenty of movement and adventure. Its
only drawback is in the introduction of
the hero as "Mr. Jones'" Published in
the Town and Country Library by D. Ap-
pleton & Co., New York. For sale by Z.
P. Judd.
ga Battling Quest" by Richard Dow
ling, author of 'The Mystery of Killard."
A sensational story of mystery and inves-
tigation, told in a lively, entertaining
style. Published in the Lowell Interna-
tional series by the United States Book
Co., New York. For sale by E. P. Judd.
can Artist" translated from the French
of Madame Jeanne Mairet, by Anna Dyer
Page. A story Of French life, with the
quaintness that comes of a too literal
translation and the consequent retention
of French idioms The work, neither
sensational nor superficial, is excellent in
tone and interesting. Published in the
Sunshine series" by the Cassen Publish
ing Co., New York. For sale by E. P.
Judd.
"She Loved Sailor" by Amelia E.
Barr. The story appeared last year as
serial in the Christian Union. The time
is that of President Jackson's administra-
ton, when financial and slavery complica-
tions caused much anxiety and excitement.
Life in New York and upon a plantation
fear Memphis are contrasted, the dark
side of slavery; turbulent election; and
the great fire in New York; an unhappy
marriage, and the 'invincible love" of
Virginia and Marius, fill the book with in
cident and interest. Mrs. Barr is a
thoughtful and conscientious writer and
the work may be considered faithful pic
ture of the life of that period. Dodd,
Mead & Co., New York. For sale by E.
P. Judd.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-08-04
SOME IMPRESSIVE FACTS.

SOME IMPRESSIVE FACTS.
Those who are already frightened by the
prosperity and power of the Roman Catho-
lie Church in this country will have new
shiver when they read what the census
man has discovered. He finds that the
total number of Roman Catholic communi-
cants in this country is $780, ,045. They
are attached to 1925 organizations. The
total value of church property, including
edifces and their appointments, is S11S,-
3S1, ,516. The metropolitan see of New
York, with 472, 1906 commandments, has
church property valued at nearly S9,000,-
900; that of Chicago comes second, with
property worth Sc, ,457, 1854; and that of Bos-
ton, whichis third in size, has propertyworth
$6, ,379, ,078. Brooklyn is the fourth, with
valuation of $5,751 ,907, and Newark is
rated at 81 ,297, 4S2. One-fourth of the en-
tire valuation of the church is in these five
sees. The church is represented in every
state and territory in the country, ,includ-
ing Alaska and the District of Columbia
The seating capacity for the whole United
States of the Roman Catholic edifces is
1,143, 1886, and the whole number of actual
communicates is estimated at 2,5S3,-
612. The number of actual COM
municants differs vastly from the
total number, and this is due mainly
to the fact that the children who
make their first communion between the
ages of nine and eleven years are counted
in the total list of communicants, while
the reports from the archdioceses would
indicate that only those who are actually
communicates are couAted. The dispro-
portion between the sittings and the num-
ber of communicates is accounted for by
the fact that in all the greater centers the
churches are used from two to five times
for special congregations, that one
edifice can often be made to supply the
needs of ten thousand persons.
These are impressive facts. They show
in striking way the vitality and strength
of great Church.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-08-04
w HEAT.

The wheat question is becoming inter-
esting. The farmers of the West have
been asked to hold back their wheat so as
to put up the price. They are not doing
it. More wheat is coming in nowadays
than ever before at this season of the year.
The farmers don't seem inclined to take
any chances. They can get better price
for their wheat now than they have had
at this season for the last six or seven
years, and they are taking it.
It is curious to note that in India there
is movement to prohibit the export of
wheat from that country on the ground
that the people of the country need it.
The farmers of this country will be inter
ested in some of the facts brought out con-
cerning the situation in India. In the first
place, it appears that the export of wheat
from India is only from one to five per
cent. of the crop, the latter proportion
having been reached only once since the
opening of the Suez canal made con-
siderable exports of wheat from India to
Europe possible. Of last years crop
the export was less than twelve per cent.
This years crop is estimated to be about
720, 900 tons greater than last years, go
there is more available for export. 1t also
appears that the export of grain from
India has depended much more upon the
price obtainable in Europe than upon the
abundance of the Indian crop. When the
price is high the Indian grower sells more
and retains less for his own use. This
being the case, we might expect that con-
siderable quantity out of crop of $685..
600, 900 bushels would be sold if our far
mers should succeed in forcing up the
price according to the st. Paul programme
And with a considerable enlargement OF
supply from India our farmers would a
last have to let their wheat go at prices
| very much below those that the ST. Pau
circular encourages them to expect
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-08-04
DtsraeIi The Younger.

LOnQOn Letter IN NeW 1Ofk atEaiu 80
A very swagger young man is Coningsby
Ralph Disraeli. He is the nephew of the
great Disraeli, and is making an heroic eff
fort to keep that great mans name green
and fragrant, for he was the heir to his un-
cle's name as well as most of his estate.
He was his uncle's favorite, and was named
by him Coningsby, after his famous book.
Young Mr.. Disraeli is quite as much of a
dandy as was his uncle when he was a
STRIPPING As all the world knows, the eld-
er Disraen was uncommonly fond of dress.
So is his nephew. '-'''
And the resemblance does not end there,
either. Like his uncle, he is going in for
politics, and at the moment he is a candi-
date for parliament. He is devoting much
of his time to making speeches. He has
written for newspapers and magazines, as
did his gifted uncle, and he will soon try
his hand at fiction. In dress he is one of
the swellest of men. His west-end cloth
ing is fashionable in cut and fits his form
snugly.
He lives lu1uriously, is member of a
half dozen clubs. keeps a man servant and
a carriage, and is much sought for by mar
riageable women, for he is wealthy, hand
some, only twenty-four years of age and
the bearer of distinguished name. Be
sides, he is thought to be coming man.
He is particularly agreeable to Ameri-
cans. He has been in the states once and
hopes soon to go again. His father is
Ralph Disraeli, late deputy clerk of the par
iaments, and whose father was Isaac Dis
raeli, principally known to fame as the
author of 'tCuriosities of Literature"
Coningsby Disraeli was educated at Ok
ford. While there he became secretary of
the Chatham club, the leading conservative
debating society. He is a good speaker,
and in this respect again resembles his
famous uncle. He hesitates slightly until
he gets warmed to his subject, when he
proves himself to be both fluent and q
powerful orator.
Upon Mr.. Disraelrs invitation 1 called
upon him to-day at Whites club. He
greeted me cordially. In appearance he is
typical London club man. He is extreme
ly prepossessing. He is tall, with a good
figure, and carries himself very uprightly.
He dresses in the most fashionable style,
his collars being high, his neckwear rich
and carefully tied, and his boots faultless-
ly pointed. His mustaohe is tawney and
his eyes are gray. In manner he is affable.
He is a man of few words, and strikes
one as being much older than he really is.
81 am strong believer in the the con-
servatism of the people," he said when we
were seated, land am strong believer in
keeping up with the time. The conserva,
tive policy advances with the advance OF
the times, and to say that conservatives
should never be allowed to advocate any
measure of reform is absurd. 1t is our
prerogative as the conservative party to ex.
ercise reform, but not as the other party
seem to do, aim at revolution"
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-08-04
No. 1876

spring, and sends out q warning rattle.
The loop is deftly slipped over the head of
reptile before il had chance to spring,
and the stick is quickly withdrawn with
the snake dangling from one end of it. No
time is lost in pulling the snake out of the
cage, as the other enrsged snakes are sure
to sink their poisonous fangs into the body
OF their dangling comrade The assistant
then hold large pane of glass in front of
the snake, and doctor dashes his hand
against the other side of the glass until the
reptile, after sending forth the warning
rattle, dsshes his head against the protect
ing pane. and invariably there is left tiny
drop of poison on the glass This is care
fully put in q tiny VIA, and the precious
package is stored away in the doctors
safest pocket. The doctors never obtain
but one drop at a visit, as this seems
to be enough to make medicine for a long
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