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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-10-09
NEW HAVEN.
Paul Wetherbee is gradually failing.
Mrs. Nelson Brown of Rutland is in

Paul Wetherbee is gradually failing.
Mrs. Nelson Brown of Rutland is in
town.
Mrs. George C. Russell is visiting
friends in Charlotte this week.
H. c. Roscoe and wife went to New
York last week to buy goods.
AT last accounts the condition of Dea.
Hugh Potter was reported more favor
able.
1t is understood that VIII and Fred
Partch have purchased the William
Partch place at the village.
The Christian Endeavor society and
the Brownings have each given a pleas
ant entertainment recently.
Pastor Thomas occupied the desk last
Sunday after his vacation. Mrs. Ellen
wood gave a fine solo at the morning
service.
Miss Nellie Miner, formerly of this
town, has gone to Mortified, Mass, to
the Moody school, entering upon the
junior year.
Cards have been received by friends
here announcing the marriage of Miss
Hattie Bowdish of We%ybridge, niece of
Mrs. A.. NJ. Roscoe of this town, on
Wednesday evening, Oct. II.
i The funeral of Miss Bertha Potter was
attended last Monday afternoon at |
O'Clock. On account of the very serious
illness of Dea. Potter, father of the de-
ceased, and by request of the family, only
4 the immediate relatives were invited tC
|. their house, where a brief prayer was
offered. The customary services were
held at the cemetery. The students OF
the academy and many of the formel
students also were present, some of then
being among the bearers, and also bring
ipg many beautiful floral offerings
Bertha was a bright, promising girl ant
an ambitious scholar. She united will
the church some three years since, an(
was always faithfuli in all its o~bservances
She has passed to an early grave, being
only in her sixteenth year, leaving ach
ing hearts behind.
"Robe her in white
True emblem OF the life thus early spent,
God loaned his own-then called his treasur
home.'
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-10-09
WEST ADDISON.

John Moorby, ST., is very i'll.
Frank Roberts of Troy was in town
last week.
Miss Anna Raine started last week on
a visit to Whitesford, n. Y.
Mrs. Edwin Hoyt and Mrs. John
Hutchinson are visiting in Essex.
y game of ball between the Nergennes
school boys and the Addison boys was
played on the grounds of the latter last
week Saturday, the Addison boys coming
out victorious score 81 to "a.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-10-09
EAST

There were several arrests for intoXica-
ton last week.
Cold Spring lodge, No. o., will be
called to order at I o'clock Saturday
evening, Oct. 10.
Mr.. and Mrs. Austin Peck drove in
their carriage from st. Adams this week
and are visiting their son, Burton Peck.
Mrs. c. Crossman, living at S. Grosve-
nor's, lost her boy, four months old, on
the 2Sth ult. The funeral was at the
house Oct. /, conducted by Rev. S. w.
Bidwell. The burial was at Leicester.
The many friends of Rev. S. w. Bid
we'll are glad that he is again able to be
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-10-09

ganization, Wednesday evening last, S.
W. Cushing was elected w. p; Mary
Japan, w. A.; E. l.. Her. treasurer;
+. Field. O. S.
j. Il. Navarro, superintendent of con-
struction of the 81 lighthouse district,
is erecting II beacon lighthouse ut Fort
Cassin. at the mouth of the otter creek,
10 feet square at the base. - feet high,
p%yramidal in form, aud of stone.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-10-09
ORNWA

F. f. FoOte is in Colorado. He intends
to bring a carload of horses with him on
his return.
\ number are getting out of ice and
the receipts of cream at the creamery
are lessened in consequence.
Mrs. S. F. Clarke, who, with her
daughter, has spent the summer with
her parents, returned last week to her
home in Minneapolis, MINI.
r.. j. Jones has recently placed a very
fine family monument of Barre granite
in the cemetery near the Fair bridge it
was ordered from Cutler IL Burnham of
Barre.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-10-09
State o1eps.

E. Dutton of C%raftsbury raised 157
bushels of barley Oh three acres of
ground.
Mendon has been without a single pau
per for over four months, which has not
been the case for over 40 years.
The total amount of fines imposed on
the liquor dealers by Judge Thompson
this term of the Rutland county court is
S52G2.
According to the bills sent State Treas
urer Field, the Bennington centennial
cost the State $4,000. The banquet
alone cost $500.
The barber shop owned by William
Mcneil and occupied by Robert Wall,
and Prosper Bacon's house and barn. III
Shelburne, were burned Monday.
The State fish hatchery at RoXbury is
nearly completed, and c. c. Warren of
Waterbury. one of the commissioners.
has placed 800 brook trout therein.
Wilbur +. French, a St. John>bury
young man of 30 years, was instantly
killed Friday, while hunting at Cabot,
by the premature discharge of his gun.
W. X. Melendy of North Thetford. a
private patient in Mary Fletcher hospital
in Burlington. tried to cut his throat with
a razor. Tuesday, but was not successful.
Eaorro Allan of NaU,ort CaDtor bu. u
pet crow that follows the children TO
school each day, ~three-quarters of Il mile
distant, stops around until recess and
then returns home.
Clarence, the ten-year-old son of Royal
Stevens of East Barre, had one hand so
badly injured by the explosion of a dyn-
amite cartridge that amputation at the
wrist was necessary.
George johnson of Ludlow, a fireman
on the Central Vermont railroad. jumped
off his engine at Proctor last Friday and
fell under the wheels. His right foot
was so crushed hat the leg was amputat-
ed above the ankle.
David Burdo, a former employee of the
Burlington telephone office, who last
Friday collected $40 belonging to Man
ager Burden and took the night train for
Boston, has been arrested at Brattleboro
and taken back to Burlington.
d. f. Watkins of Hyde Park took a
drachm of choral and bromide, which
had been left by his physician to be Civ
en- in small quantities as a sedative, and
died in about 30 minutes. Mr.. Watkins
had been i'll a few days and was at times
insane.
Will j. Tyler, the %well-known clari-
netist, has been sentenced by the Rutland
county cour to six months in the house
of correction, for grand larceny in steal
ing a diamond ring from his sister-in-
law. He had been in confinement for
six months.
Mrs. F. c. Pratt, who has been preach
ing in the North and East Montpelier
Universalist pulpits, was found dead in
pond in the former village last Friday.
1t is supposed that she committed sui
eide, but tine cause is unknown. She
was about Is years old.
\ man calling himself Allen of Deer
field, Mass, broke into the store of j. j.
Fenton at Bellows Falls a few nights
age, packed Il valise with clothing and
then laid down to rest. lie fell asleep
and was found there in the morning
when the store was opened.
The "oldest inhahitant" AYERS that the
nearest parallel to the September just
rome out was in lS46, when the weather
was extremely warm all through the
month. The fact that there was no frost
has permitted all the late crops to come
to maturity without being clipped.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-10-09

about after his long-continued illness,
but are sorry that he is not improving in
health faster, for he and Mrs. Bidwell
are still very poorly.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-10-09
SsT.RA.Y.

Came into the premises OF the subscriber IN
cornwall on Tuesday, 18th inst, Il white
Yearling bull with black neck and white face,
probably part Holstein. Owner is requested
to prove property, pay damages and take
him away. JAMES NANCLETTE.
Cornwall, Sept. %, 1881.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-10-09
4 COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.-Estate OF
y III, Kendall $eyery.

The undersigned, having been appointed by
the Hon. Probate court tor the District of Adj.
Olson, commissioners to receive, examine
and adjust All claims and demands OF all per
sons against the est ate OF IL. kenda Severy,
late OF Leicester, in said district, deceased, and
all claims exhibited in offset thereto, hereby
give notice that we will meet tor the purposes
aforesaid at the Town Clerks office in Sails.
bury, on the oath day of October, 1891, and 18th
day OF February, lS92, next, from o'clock until
3 O'Clock p. M. each of said days, and that six
months from the 18th day of September, a. ID.
1891, is the time limited by said Court tor said
creditors to present their claims to us tor ex.
animation and allowance.
Dated at Salisbury, this Goth day OF septem.
Der, A, d. 1891.
40 j. y y; TThA69HHshHs ' CONS.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-10-09
q.

Total outstanding. ............. S5l 300
INVESTMENT 4 GUARANTEE CO.,
4O:Sw BY c. Z. BUSH, Treasurer.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-10-09
VERMONT
Investment & Guarantee
COMPANY.
ORWELL, VERMONT.
Paid-up Capital, 100000.

Debentures of this company listed below,
Series G., mature and cease TO draw interest
October /, 1891. This series was issued ut ga
per cent. They are payable at the First Ma.
scented TOR payment.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-10-09

Camel into my enclosure about the last OF
May, one dark iron grey mare colt, supposed
to be three years old. owner is requested to
prove property, pay charges and take same
away.
80 3wks d.. b. BLAIR.
Hancock, Vt, sept. 81, 1891.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-07-31
CALLED THE MOONFLOWER.
because 1t Is Sensitive to Every Change
OF the Lunar Orb.

Arnold Brinkworth. who owns per-
haps the finest private botanical col
lection in the country, and whose
greenhouses near Mount Sterling, KY.
are filled with the rarest and most deli
cate plants of all nations, is exhibiting
with much pride u specimen Of the
heur de lune the existence OF which
has always been doubted, but which
was sent Mr.. Brinkworth few months
ago by "A friend residing near Obydos,
Brazil, says the Illustrated American.
1t was obtained for him from an In
dian, who found it growing in a swamp
in the depths of the Amazonian for
ests. and is the only specimen which
has ever reached this country alive.
Those who have been favored by a
glimpse Of the curiosity say 1t is IA deli
cate. tenacious vine, covered with
small glossy leaves of a bright and
very tender green, climbing TO q height
of four or five feet, bearing here and
there milk white blossom OF disk
like shape.
When the moon is at its first quar-
ter a distinct shadow or stain OF Il
deep yellow. which seems rather in
than out of the flower and correspond
ing to the shape of the moon, makes
its appearance on this disk and grows
as the planet does until. when at it's
full size, the yellow stain covers the
entire flower. AS the moon begins to
wane again this retreats in the same
ratio and finally disappears altogether,
to return once more rs the new moon
is seen TO come back.
When the planet sets the flower
closes and does not unfold until the
moon rises on the following night. 1t
pursues this course month after month,
whether placed in the open air or kept
in dollhouse, though under the latter
circumstances the yellow tint is much
paler and more undecided. while the
white surface takes on dingy, UNI
healthy tinge. The plant subsists al
most entirely on air, its roots being
barely covered with little moist
gravel.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-07-31
TEA BRICKS.
Process of Making the Famols Tables
Tea in China.
judged.

Process of Making the Famous Tahlee
Tea i'm China.
1t is one Of the tea secrets that
tablet tea is manufactured at Hankow
in factories belonging TO Russian firms
there. 1t is made of the finest tea
dust procurable. The selection of the
dust is the work of skilled experts; the
cost of the dust varies from 20 cents "a
pound upward This dust is manu.
featured into tablets by steam machin-
cry. About two ounces and half of
the dust are poured into steel mold
on steel cylinder The dust Isl
poured in dry without steaming, and
the pressure brought to bear is two|
tons per tablet.
Great care is required in the manu-
facture and packing of tablet tea and
the cost is comparatively high. The|
tablets are wrapped in tin foil, then in|
expensive and attractive paper wrap
pers, and finally packed in tin lined
cases for export to Russia The tea,
IL is stated, loses none OF its flavor bY
being pressed into tablets, and as|
tablet tea, is only one-sixth the build
OF leaf tea, it is most convent for trav-
elers, and also for importing into the|
remoter regions of Russia-Buffalo|
Commercial.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-07-31
ELASTIC. BUT STRONG.
Liberty and Fraternai Generosity In Our
Noble Land.

"When foreigners impugn the elias
ITCHY and strength OF our institutions,
said Robert L. Layton to me yestcr-
day, II am fond of quoting TO them a
bit OF my own experience. In tho
spring of 1860, / was present when
Gen. Johnston surrendered to Sher-
man. The regiment served in, the
Thirteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry.
formed IA part OF Gen. Sherman's es-
cort. One OF the surprises OF that day
TO us troopers was the appearance OF
Gen. Wheeler, the famous confederate
cavalry leader. He had been raising
Cain with us for months, and this and
his raids in former campaigns. had
made us think of him as being of fear
full proportions. We expected to find
Il giant, and when little man OF
spare frame was pointed out TO Us as
the terrible Gen. Wheeler, we were
rather disguised.
We'll almost twenty years later, in
the winter of 1881, / guess it was,
happened TO be in the visitors gallery
Of the house OF representatives at
Washington. Ralph Beaumont the
labor leader, was with me, and | ask
ed him who the little man was who
was then addressing the house on the
tariff from the Democratic side. You
ought 10 know him., said Beaumont.
He used TO make it warm for you
once; he's Gen. Wheeler And for
the second time / was surprised to see
the little man from Alabama. The
first time ! met him he had just given
up an attempt TO smack the United
States government and here sixteen
years later was he making laws for
the United States. The country that
can furnish such proofs of its elastic
liberty. strength and fraternal gener-
osity as this has nothing to fear from
within. -Pittsburg Dispatch.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-07-31
PERT AND IMPERTINENT

''What is the meaning OF the word luke
warm!" asked the teacher. Johnny
Cumso. you may answer" Water is
lukewarrn when it looks warm and isn't. -
--Harper's Bazaar.
An uptown little girl who expressed de-
light at the prospect of trip To Atlantic
City was asked why she was glad to go,
and answered Because love to feel the
ferryboat bump against the wharf Phil
adephia Record.
The naming of a brand of five-cent
cigars Ben Hur'' may be intended as n
graceful compliment to the distinguished
author of the book of that name, but it
looks like the cheapest lad of puffery. -
New York Recorder.
At recent examination in geography in
one of the public schools the teacher asked
What valuable things are taken out OF
the earth" Much To her amazement
one young hopeful Immediately replied
.'Clams and mummes. - Boston Times
housewife whose bell had been rung
10y sand peddler said to him in a tone
of simulated astonishment. ''Sand
why, Of course not. There was straw
berry man just here n moment ago. How
much sand do YOU think u small family
NHUlsg - IluNtlDHld INtCoIu.
Harper's Bazaar: Mike-'Are yez comm
to my Maggies weddin', Patr' Pat-'I
can't come, Mike I've had me arm broke
at two weddin's this winter, me eyes
BACKED at another, an wuz knocked down
an jumped on at another. II | had a chance
to lick someone, Mike, I'd come. But
fate's agin me-
A fish jolter called at the rectory one
day with fish for sale. what have yon
to-dayr' sole and place, your rever-
ence; the finest liver swum the say -
Rector, after examining them for some
time: Dam your sole, leave the place. I"
Ii would not be easy to get a better double
pun than this London Spectator.
Pupils who learn "by ear" without
thought ms TO the meaning of things, con
trive to afford good deal of amusement
to their teachers. Recently teacher i'm n
grammer school asked one of her boys:
''What is the meaning OF the word topaz 20
"A topaz" said the boy, lis where the
mules walk when they're drawing n canal
boat. Exchange.
She was plain matter-of-fact kind of
girl, aud didn't take any extraordinary
interest in art. AS she walked past "a
piece of statuary the young man said:
isn't that n zine piece OF work. just
notice the pose and the general air OF it,"
Eyes" she replied after gazing Mt il few
moments, "he looks like perfect gentle
man, too. W Washington Post.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-07-31

than judicial interference, the presiding
Judge recommended the suitors To go
into the yard and settle the matter be
tween them. His lordship's kindly
meaning seems TO have been misunder-
stood, for in the course OF half an hour
or so the ''costers" returned into court.
one of them with eyes blackened and
his face cut and bleeding; and the 9TH
er in state of excitement betokening
the authorship of his friends injuries.
The Judge learned when il was too
late that his advice had been accepted
in Whitechapel sense, and that tho
two men had belabored each other un-
til one OF them resigned the donkey to
save his own person.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-07-31
THE WICKEDEST MAN.
Tho LESSOR Was "Judge Not That Ye re
Not Judged"

Not Judged"
went out the other day to find the
wickedest man, and down i'm Roosevelt
street, and without extended search, 1
ran across him, writes NJ. Quad in tho
New York World. ! recognized him
on sight He was n bully ru.lian. who
could have picked up the average man
and dashed him 10 the earth rs tho
child does II toy. He was frowsy. un-
kempt, red-faced and full OF swaggcr,
and his blood-shot eyes had the look
OF wild beast AS be surveyed me and
growled:
What ar We lookin' at? Go on or
I'll do ye."
He sat down ON the step OF n rum
hole, and stood little way of and
watched him. A girl or years old
came along with an empty GROWER.
and he kicked il out of her hand and
sent it flying, and then tried to kick
| her. A Chinaman, docile and good
natured came from the other direction
with bundle under his arm, and he
received a kick which propelled him
! almost to the other curb. Two strong
men, passing down the street on the
other side, stopped 10 look. and my
wickedest man uttered growl which
sent them on in a hurry.
What n husband and father! What
love could he feel for wife and child
what pity for the sorrowing what
mercy for one who had angered him!
All! my fine chap, there's n gloomy
prison waiting for you in Center street
"a Judge wearing the black cap-a
death chair over which men shudder
and turn pale a. they remember
Kemmler. You'll do murder yet, and
you'll die the death Of u murderer.
You feel your degraded, brutal condi-
ton, and you hate honest respectable
humanity all the more for it. Cast in
the same mold as your fellowmen,
given n soul, heart, a brain, how
you might with that vigor and muscle
and Drawn, hew path for yourself
through the ranks of the more timid
and less vigorous! Instead OF fame
you seek degradation Instead Of
honor you curse all that is noble and
good.
Then two things happened ut once
A hawker came up the street crying
his flowers, and "a hearse drove up TO
the very doop at which | stood. A
moment later n man brought out
coffin in his arms-a baby's coffin
and placed il in the hearse. Then q
carriage drove up. and u weeping
mother and two children came out and
got in. There was the bitterness OF
grief and the sting of poverty COM
bined. | was looking from one scono
to the other when my wickedest man
arose. halted the Aower-seller and
what do you think he did? Struck him,
down? Cursed him? No! He bought
all the flowers he had, punched them
together TO make "a big bouquet, and,
coming forward to the hearse he
opened the door with his own hand
and laid that bouquet on the little
coffin! Aye, more, When he had done
SO he lifted his hat to tho weeping
mother, and said:
For the poor child that's dead,
ma'am, and am sorry for your
And so, my wickedest NANNY
hinty hearted, murderously inclined
rutfian-vanished from sight and in
his place | found man more thought
full than the rest OF us, doing what we
should have done, speaking words
which so touched the heart of the
stricken mother that she asked heaven
TO bless him forever.
Verify, judge not, lest We be also
judged"
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-07-31
IF you DOUBT 1T. COUNT EN-

Paris has ., 400, 500 inhabitants.
There is an average of 1904 ties to a
mile OF railroad in this country.
OF Uncle Sans 1900, 600 cotton spin
dies, { 500, 900 are in Massachusetts,.
A sensational novelist in New York
turns out four novels IA year for $40, 900.
One person in every ten who died in
New York in 1889 was buried in potter S
field.
According TO Mrs. Alice Freeman Pal
mer, there are 40, 900 girls in the colleges
of the United States.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-07-31
I'm India.

The new viceroy of India must have
been considerably amused by the in
scriptions adjoining the streets when
he landed in Bombay. The associa-
ton for the preservation of cows, for
instance. took the opportunity to com
bine 10! y with business and hung
out innu cradle strips Of bunting with
such suggestions as the following
The Cow is the Wealth of India;''
mo Happiness for India's People
without the Cow" The Cow is part
Of midas Far,ily;" mo Indian Agri1
culture Without the Cow" Tho Cow
is midas Foster-Motner;" THE Cow
Helps Indian Agriculture;" The Saw
ing of the Cow will extend Cultiva1
tom" God Bless the Cow"
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-07-31
SIMPSONS BOY AND THE DOG.
A Plain story That Anybody Can Believe
II lie Wants To.

A young man who is not noted for
his originality, but is liked for his good
nature, was at the house OF an intimate
friend the other day for dinner. The
young lady of the house bantered him
to tell story and requested that he
tell something new. She had friend
to dinner and wanted her entertained.
Did YOU hear the story about Simp-
sons boy and dog?" asked the young
man with drawl They had not. but
they knew it was the same as the other
dog stories they had heard where the
boy fell into the water and the dog
dragged him out. They were wrong.
"rll tell you how it was, he said.
The boy and the dog went down to
the lake and We're playing together.
The dog got too near the water and
fell in; see? Simpsons boy couldn't
swim "A lick; see2 And so what does
he do?n
"Who?" the girls asked, 1.-The dog OF
Simpsons boy"
why, the boy" replied the story
teller Nv hat does he do?n
You mean what did the dog do?"
mo, the boy-Simpson's boy"
The girls looked at each other and
then at the story teller as If they were
not quite sure he was right in hi.
head.
You say he couldn't swim?n asked
one of the girls.
That's what"
That is, the dog?n asked the other
girl.
Right. The dog couldn't swim
see?n
II thought you said that Simpsons
boy couldn't SWIM" said the girl with
IA memory for details.
We'll, did. Neither could the
dog"
Well. this is the funniest story that
/ ever heard, said the home girl.
Reminds me of a story gentle
man friend told me when he was a
our house in New York" said the Wis
iting girl
Tell us all about it. You say the
dog fell into the water; that Simpson,
boy cOuluD swirl ana iuNl inc uOs
couldn't swim"
The dog drowned" was the ex
PLANTATION.
''Of course. But what became o
the poor little boy?n asked the cir
from New York.
You mean Simpsons boy?"
Yes, Mr.. Simpsons little boy,
said the New York girl.
Say" said the man, chow did yol
get it into your head that Simpson
boy was little?"
why, you said he went down Il
the lake to play with the dog. and d.
not suppose that any big boy would d,
that.
We'll, he was no kid. He was
full-grown boy. He was the first DO.
in our class to play hockey this sea
! son"
But what became OF him after hi
/ dog was drowned? What did he d.
/ then?" she asked, as she assumed
/ Grecian attitude.
He bought another dog" was tn
answer