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Middletown transcript., 1893-01-14

Mrs. Sophie Miller died at her resi-
dence on Monday morning. She had
been a great sufferer through long
and severe illness, and though she
had not living relative or connection
she was tenderly nursed and cared for
by friends and neighbors, and until
her death had the best attention that
her kind attendant could give. She
was in her 63rd year. Her funeral
will take place to-day at st. Francis
Xavier r. C. Church, leaving Middle
town at o'clock in the morning.
Mass will be held at the church at
10o'clock.
Middletown transcript., 1893-01-14
A New JeweIer.

Abraham Levine, a jeweler from
Still Pond, Md, will open a jewelry
store in Middletown in the McWhorter
building where w. L. Stewart has bis
paper store.
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COLD WINTERS.
AN OLD NEWSPAPER CLIPPING
TELLS ITS STORY.
The Delaware Frozen Over In a Night
Snow Falls to the Depth ofTwo Feet.
Compelled to Burn Their Furni-
ture to Keep warm-MeItfng

Snow to Cook With.
BY the courtesy of our good friend
Miss Amelia Streets, we ale able TO
give our readers the following clipping
from an old paper, which gives an
interesting account of some of the
winters of the past. By comparison,
we find that 1898 may safely. be num-
bered with the sold time winters, y for
we have already had more snow, ice and
severe weather than for a number of!
years:
On the 11th of Dec. 1851, the Della
ware River froze entirely over in one
night, and The winter was very severe.
III Dec, 1704, snow fell to the depth
of three feet, the Delaware closed, and.
the whole winter vas intensely cold
I March 1925, snow fell in one night.
to the depth of two feet. In the
winter of 1928 the Delaware was
closed with ice for three months. The
winter of 1887 was intensely cold. many
persons froze to death. The winter of
1740, the Delaware was closed with ice
until the 14th Of March. The winter
of 1741 was intensely cold, many cattle
and deer were found frozen to death.
Breadstuff and provisions we're so
scarce that many persons in this State
subsisted on the deer found dead. Asl
late in the spring as the 10th of April
the snow was three feet deep. Dur
ing the winter of 1760, the weather
was open, but the spring months we're
excessively cold. On the 31st of Dec,
1764, the Delaware was frozen from
shore u .ShaEe IL. .9ne night, and the
Middletown transcript., 1893-01-14

Mrs. Annie Griffith, who has been
quite ill, is much better, and we hope
will soon be in her usual health.
Middletown transcript., 1893-01-14

Miss Marie Lockwood is taking a
course of study at the Orthopacdic
Hospital in Philadelphia.
Middletown transcript., 1893-01-14

Mr.. A. II. Hiel has accepted posi-
tion in the creamery at Cecilton, and
will go to his new field February 1.
Middletown transcript., 1893-01-14

James H. Burnham, who for some
time has been one of the telegraph
operators at this station, is reported
quite ill in Wilmington.
Middletown transcript., 1893-01-14
THE MURDER.

The crimes for which the four men
were executed at Chestertown yester-
day was one of the most brutal mur-
ders ever committed on the Peninsula.
Those whose sentences we're COM
muted-Joshua Baynard, Louis Ben
Middletown transcript., 1893-01-14
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

Miss Ada Lockwood returned on
Monday from visit to Baltimore.
Middletown transcript., 1893-01-14

Miss Sallie johnson, with her friends
Miss Allen and Mr.. Kirkbride, OF
Philadelphia, were the guests OF her
brother, Mr.. Harry C. johnson, on
Sunday.
Middletown transcript., 1893-01-14

Miss Ethel Covington of Still Pond,
Nd, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Cow
gill Aston, near town.
Middletown transcript., 1893-01-14

Mr.. James Budd left town on Tues
day after several weeks visit to his
parents and friends.
Middletown transcript., 1893-01-14

Mr.. Archie Sites returned home
from the west this week, in poor
health but is receiving the benefits of
home and mother, and we hope will
soon be in his usual health.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-10-12
siFTlSGs,

The man who ean get no credit has the
satisfaction OF boasting that he does not
owe anything.
When papers speak Of "thunders OF
applause, +" do they have any reference to
claps OF thunder.
"a narrow escape" exclaimed the
prisoner as he made his exit between the
iron bars OF his cell.
"Only a matter of FORM" observed the
doctor when his patient complained that
his pills were not round.
1t is a compliment to the sex that while
ships are called "she" fighting vessels
are called men OF war"
The wise man prefers to bet on the
ocean races than 10 ride on them, and it
is certainly the better way.
The man who hasn't any work to do
never seems TO be quite happy unless he
is botherIng somebody else who has.
Most creatures are entirely harmless
when they are asleep. But the moth does
the most mischief when it is taking a
nap.
One day of sickness will do more to
convince young man that his mother is
his best friend than seventeen volumes
of proverbs.-Texas Siitings.
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sad fate at the mercy of our guns.
After making preparations for dis
posing Of the remains of the dead, l
felt sorry for space of time to think
that those who were as true as steel to
our cause, and would have died, with
out cry of pain, at the death ball
from revenue officers gun, should
have fallen by our fire. then made
up my mind as follows:
"The next morning, just before day,
Andy Gordon, with nice, snug sum
of ready money, left Gordon's Pass to
lead different life. / never stopped
until l reached Louisville, KY. 1t
was the first time | had been there in
eighteen years, and after changing
my wearing apparel, 1 found COM
Portable hotel, and felt more like
gentleman than had felt for time
too long to mention. | soon found
old friends. and in short period set
tied down in business, and wiped the
past forever out.
That has been over ten years ago,
and since then Andy Gordon has
learned that an honorable life is the
only one that insures happiness and
the true respect OF men.-Tom Brown
in Arkansaw Traveller.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-10-12
WORTH NOTING.

Wood ashes, finely sifted, are good for
securing knives and tinware.
Leather may be kept from mou, ding by
perfuming it with tar OF birch.
Equal proportions of alu,n and resin
will keeppaste from moulding.
Bathing the abdomen with alcohol is
=. excellent remedy for diarrhol.
a little paraiiine rubbed on screws will
make them enter wood more easily.
When the color has been taken from
cloth by an acid, apply first ammonia,
then chlcroiorm.
Add little salt to stove polish and it
Will not rub OF so easily; a teaspoonfuI
OF pulver.zed alum mixed in 1t gives a
fine lustre.
Ink may be removed from linen If the
spots are immediately dipped in melted
tailow, then washed; they viii come out
with the taiiow.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-10-12

AS fine as a hail" could well be
the praise accorded 10 the wonder
fully delicate weight tester for the
coins at the mint. As the coins run
down into it through the long spout
the tester needs 10 balance them but
for an instant, Immediately shooting
those that are not found wanting into
the expectant and open-mouth sack
at the end Of a lower spout, says the
Philadelphia Record.
II too light. they are tossed out
through another spout. and II too
heavy through a third one. Not long
ago an astonishingly large number II
coins We're tossea iuto the toe
heavy spout
Surprised c. this unusual rejection
OF SO great load oil the silver pieces.
investigation was Instituted: when.
10 it was found that a single tiny hair
caught IN the scales had made over
weight Tor every coin passed through.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-10-12
WIVES OF GREAT MEN.

The late Emperor Alexander OF Russis
was morganat .cally married 10 the Prin-
cess Dolgorouki, and the union was ex'
ceedingly happy.
Luther at first opposed the marriage o.
the c ergy, but changed his mind and
married a,harine Won Bora, an ex-nun
and lived happily.
Soniag, the " best tempered woman who
ever trod the boards, ? contracted a secret
marriage with Count Rossi, and lived
happily with him till her death.
TIE wife of Samuel Clark, the book
comriler, had so high an opinion OF his
abilities hat he never rose in his pres
ence without making a courtesy.
Sheley's first wife was the daughter of
an innkeeper. She was uncongenial, and
re q serted her for Mary Goodwin. The
torsaken wife committed suicide.
Count Rumford married widow who
gratified her vexation by throwing his
books and manuscripts out OF the win
dow and pouring boiling water on his
flowers.
Rohault, the philosopher, had a wife
whose opinion OF him was so high that
she sat at the door of his lecture-room
and refused toadmit any but we'll dressed
persons.
Corneille was happy in the domestic
relation, though. as his biographer
quantity expresses II, He could get
along with anybody, and SO had no
trouble with his ife."
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Tn. Philosophers stone.

The composition of the Philoso.
piers Stone was the prime problem
of medieval alchemy; and, although
many practitioners of the "holy art "
declared that they had discovered the
ingredients necessary to its produc-
ton. nothing is now certainly known
in regard 10 the composition of this
"secret Of secrets" BY way of ex-
PLANTATION it may be well to mention
that the Philosophers Stone was
substance which the alchemists
thought would change all baser met
ais to pure gold
Legendary history says that Noah
took the true and original 8 Philoso-
piers Store with him in the ark,
and that he hanged it up in the
centre of the great boat that all of the
living creatures gathered therein
might be lighted by its resence.
From the time the philosophers. al
chemists, &c, began to make their
celebrated experiments there was
hot controversy as TO whether the
stone had a corporal or merely an
ethereal existence.
One adept declared that it was COM
posed simply OF common mercury, an
other maintaining that it was not a
stone at all. but that it was at one and
the same time mineral, vegetable and
animal matter. "queerly blended the
three together" A third, not to be
eutdone by his brother alehemists,
declared that the stone was min
eral tlre-eontinGal, equal and nom
evaporating.
As 10 the color of the philosophical
matter, there was the usual diversity
of opinion. Florus, in La Tourhe
des PHILOSOPHERS, says that it was
black; 10 Zenon it was red. TO Rosi- |
nus il was white on the surface and 1
red inside. Others were not wanting
TO declare that it had "all the colors /
of the rainbow. besides several inter-
mediate colors not yet named"
DR.. Brewer, in his famous bic
tionary of Phrase and Fable" work
which | have often quoted in Notes
for the Curious" says: sit was, in
fact. red powder, or amalgam, to
drive off the impurities of the baser
metals. The doctor has the support
Of Morienus, who says that it was
harder than the diamond or sap
ohire. st. Louis Republic.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-10-12
Teel. a Few Dollar. on the price.

When the landlady entered the
room he rose from his chair and said
You have room TO rent, l be-
lieve?"
" Yes, sir-front room on the second
floor, " she replied. Are you one Of
the gentlemen who advertised for a
room with board?"
Pm one of the men who adver-
tised for fair-sized loom well
lighted?"
"one Of the men?"
" Yes, ma'am."
How did your advertisement
read?"
30, just said "A businessman de-
sires iair-sized room, with board
within mile of the business part of
the city"
The advertisements read man p"
Certainly"
Not a refined gentleman y"
"No, indeed"
Well, I'll take few dollars off the
price. then. I've been looking for a
man. I'm rather tired of refined
gentlemen They generally play
poker all night, and leave without
paying their bills.-Chicago Tribune.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-10-12
PlN PoINTs.

Cover a multitude OF shins-Iap robes.
When watch is all run down i. re-
ouires spring tonic
The difference between tack ana tact i.
The tack has the BIS aeaa.
When mans coat siee YES begin to bag
ct the elbows ii is tiaie sSr him to stor
drinking.
Il IS a mighty poor plan to coinmenc.
leoneins expenses BY giving ~ oar
church pew.
The sore head is a fellow who gets
lammed between his own ideas and pub
lie sentiment.
The length ola mile varies in different
countries; it also varies with different
real estate agents.-Union County IN. u
Standard.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-10-12
GEMS FROM BISHOP BROOKS.

Most men are neither sages nor fools
Every true strength is gained in strrg
gle.
Sin is a dreadful, positive, malignini
thing.
Sin and holiness are not in things, but
in souls.
Seek your life's nourishment in youi
life's work.
Do not be chary of appreciation
Hearts are hungry for it.
Everything keeps its best nature oni,
by being put to its best use.
The highest natures are most oepenos
ent upon timeiiness and fitness.
Trial is an absolutely necessary eie-
ment in all perfected character.
Hope and charity-these must DOLE
spring up from the soul Of faith.
The serpent, the spirit OF evil, nai
forced its way into the human drama.
Every truth which it is possible FOL
man to know it is good for him to Know
The repose of old age is full Of the char
acter that came from the early struggle
Heaven will not be pure stagnationi
not idleness, but active, tireless, earnest
work.
There must come natural selection OF
religions, a survival Of the iittest among
faiths.
The union of energy and wisdom makes
the completest character and the most
powerful life.
If God has truly a purpose for our
lives, who care be hopeless? All, we dc
only half believe ii.
Never comfort affection with false
hooc; never try to silence error with
an argument which you do not believe.
To furnish truth to the believing heart,
ard to furnish believing hearts to truth
certainly there is no nobler office for
human life than that.
There are indubitable evidences that
the good IN the world is stronger than
the evil; great. slow, steady progress OF
the good, forever gaining on the evil.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-10-12
SO 1T IS TRUE.

Here's friend who says that sorrow
Comes to-day or comes tomorrow,
Here's longface who is moaningi
Tell him death is far away
Let dull age go weep and pray:
Heed not grief, the ghost there grooming,
Who would cloud the jocund day.
All, they say that anguish found them,
Men cut down with battle round them
(Hear the boys, there, gayly singingD
In some region far awayl
What care we who laugh to-day?
Bring no tears, whate'er your bringingi
Honor TO the jocund day.
What's that sound that cools our laughter
What's that form that follows after?
Funeral music sadly sounded
One more man is turned clay.
Let dull age go weep and prayl
Youth by death was meier COMPOUNDED.
Long shall shine our jocuud dayl
oh, my dear one, to my weeping
Marble silence sternly keeping.
Lying there in breathless blindness
Death is never far away.
Even youth can weep and prayl
Lips that loved have lost their kindness;
Dead are they, this bitter day.
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, in Scribner's.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-10-12
NO RAILROAD SECURITIES.
Par Value

"This advertisement tells the truth.-'old,
Tried, True.
mo better company for policy holders in
existence. '-Indeator.
1T will always be sound company. In
suranee.
Islands with an aspect of solidity and
strength. Insurance Critic.
Its. contracts are in demand. "-Rongh
Notes.
s'one of the substantial Life Insurance com
panies-'Old and Solid The Insurance
Times.
Its schedule of Assets is an evidence Of
careful financial management Philadelphia
lntelligencer.
The Nationals growth is sure and steady"
Spectator.
"A mighty good record in these days of
sensational insurance methods. Insurance
Herald
Its history makes very pleasant reading. "
Baltimore Underwater.
Substantial insurance secured at an actua
reduction of expenses. Views.
Stands to-day among tho able Companies
of the country. Insurance Monitor
The cash value. the paid-up value. tho CON
tinued insurance, all are entered on the lace OF
all the policies which are guaranteed by the
contract With this policy you can be secure
with your money, aud use it yourself at the
same time.
Sample Policy on Any Form."-Send
your aye and state the kind Of insurance which
Won wish, and a sample policy will be sent by
return mail The Company wishes you to be
acquainted with its record. its present stand |
ing and the public confidence It enjoys, and 4
loes nor ask for vpur business until YOU UNI 4
iefstand the precise character Of its contracts, |
guarantees and promises.
You are respectfully referred TO all of
is old Policy Holders.
p. ID. Blodgett, GenI Ag't
ST. JoHNsDURY, VT.
J. B. ELDREDGE, Agent,
West Randolph. Vt.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-10-12
Grange Meeting.

AT the grange meeting held at the
residence of EN-. Hamblett in Worces-
ter, in December, many congratulations
upon recoveries and good health were
given TO the Red Clover remedy, Bah
cocks Gold Medal Sarsaparilla COM
bined with Red Glover. Those giving
testimony were both host and hostess.
Mr.. Hamblett received wonderful re-
suits in correcting bad stomach and
Mrs. Hamblett surprised those who
knew her former condition by becoming
so vigorous after protracted feebleness
from general debility.
Mr.J NJ. Gould gave his testimony of
recovering from dyspepsia, by its use,
after % years of suffering, and all 9TH
er doetoring failed. The growing pop
ulariiy of this medicine as household
remedy is marvellous.
Horace Vincent, of East Montpelier,
seys: "With rheumatism in one shout
der SO ] could not raise my arm to do
my work / took Gold Medal Sarsapa-
rilla and soon got relief"
This medicine is sold by r. G. Morton, +. E.
Evans < Co.. Nj. j. Sargent * Son. A. r. Hood
& Son, {. NJ. Miller and Geo. W. Bush
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-10-12
Drawing the string.

They were both eager to get her an
Ice, but she settled the difficulty by
saying:
"a sure NJ. Stiggins viii be -
good is 70 co
There was sorrow il the other man
face as Stigsins ioyfullv ian =.
himself into the crowG, III. zsa
moved i by femarklag
lou kaow. the 1irs al, sav the
MI. Stiggins locks last aa- water
when he puts on dress coat. II he
can only pass himself OF for GU. be "a
sure to get through the crush. -
Washington Star.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-10-12
Ripans TabuIes

are easy to take,
quick TO act, and
save many a doc
tors bin.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-10-12

Ripans Tabules may be OBJ
tanned of nearest druggist.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-06-23
Correspondence Of the TINES.
Hello, from Telephone.

JoNEsvILLE, June l9.-The farmers got in
n few days work the latter part of last week
The weather was very warm and every day
counted. Several more such days are needed
on the farms just now. There were some
heavy rains below Jonesvlle yesterday even
ing. We had but little rain here, but had
n regular electric storm. Some of us that
very reluctantly had lightning rods lately
placed to our dwellings. felt little more
was playing around our heads and houses
with such heavy pcals of thunder.
Messrs. Scott and Il shop started their
separator nesr town last Saturday. They
threshei few crops % wheat. which was
pretty fair, though it did not turn out quite
rs well rs expected. The grains are good
and plump. and there will be Il fair crop
made; SO our people are all right on the
bread question. As ror meat | have moth
ing to say that is encouraging.
Ii seems that the darkIes are making out
pretty well on molaSscs. Blackberries are
ripe now and the colorcd people, and some
Of the white folks, too, are making pot pies
swcetcncd with molasess; and they say odd
ned may go.
If the farmers would set down on the r eat
trust like they did on the jute bagging trust
they could whip them out in the same way
ness, but none very serious that know Of
except Mrs. ID. Is. Free, who is seriously i'll
from stroke of paralysis she had about
ten days ago.
Revs. humphries and lilicr filled their
respective appointments here yesterday
morning and evening.
While farmers arc busy preparing to lay
by their crops, Prof. Aye, OK, with his as
sistantS and pupils, are equally busy pre-.
parGng for commencement. They both mean
the same thlng-rest for awhile.
see that Docter (?) jerome Miller has his
ad. in the last TINES. | hope the Doctor
may be successful in curing many people of
that dread disease, cancer.
AS there is to be an election foa n member
of the House to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of Il. W. Harris. believe
the best plan would be for everybody to run
that wants TO, and let the highest man be
representative. TELEPHONE
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-06-23

On THE FAST ExrREss Match making
mammas have already discovered that Chi
Gag, il the greatest place in the world for
promoting engagements as we'll as for other
advantages. Now that the cheap excursions
are being announced, a poor man might
wish there was an insurance against matri-
mony as we'll as against accident attached,
coupon fashion, to his ticket for the Fair
A Boston girl, who came back from a two
weeks trip and announced her engagement
TO man to whom she had been introduces
on the train in Boston when she started
replied to some expression of surprise rs to
the short time the woOing had covered ;
We'll, you see, dear, we were on the fast
express - Boston Journal.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-06-23
Butler to Graham.

Mr. EDITOR When Citizen" replied tt !
tho criticisms of the correspondent of the
State and GreenrWe Ne,Cs he was under the
impression he was answering gentleman,
but fluids it was mud Singing, youthful,
blatherskite, who is not responsible for his
actions, on count of hi. age and his mental
alteration. will not condesceud to pay any
attention to this mud singer after this, and
only do so now to let the people know who
Citizen" is.
Thi, unreliable correspondent says
charged him with not being able to write
the article he did, that is one of his "infa-
nous fal.ehoods," and shows that he lacks
sense to understand what he reads.
am free to admit he can and does, as Mr..
Outz, of the World, said, "shoots off his
mouth" when he hears one or two men ex-
press an opinion, us the opinion Of all the
people of the town. When he says "two-
thirds of the people are dissatisfied "at Mr.
Roses selection" he states q "barefaced
e.-l %!D~~ ..ts'' -. V,>sS nsSvtirss
with, that the present Council intends to
break of their unlawful and nefarious prae.
tices. | did not deny this willy and untrut' J.,
full correspondent the right 10 criticsr tho
action of the Council, but when he stond.
in the shadow OF ono building or d hears
ivemen say anything, aud charges the whole
town With being Of the same U Union do
th'nk u but right 10 expo ,e fllsehoods
though they come through one who i,.re.
cognized as Muuchauscn or nm Annanias.
To show that this yov' ,hful correspondent
is either crazy or dictated to-" real the
State of the 2oth inst and the article in to-
days TINES, because, in one piece be, or
one of his "backev - says am capable of
writing an artcto, in the TIMES he says M,
not. The last a. icle was evidently dictated
by backer nup.oer two, or at time when
the moon had a worse effect on tho b,y's
brain.
Ihis facjle correspondent wants to know
who "Citizen" is. Why dtd not this bold(!)
correspor dent sign his name to his first and
last article to the State, when he knew that
almost everyone knew | was correspondent
OF mat paper, AMI would be accredited the
iMg fbT any one elses name.
'Shoot of Mt the mouth infallible(?)
and most !-cth:uii:j oorsssp 5aaca: a, much
as you plesse and let the public Judge who
is 'respectfur' in his articles AMI who is
right. You shall not be noticed by me again
in this way. Until you learn something
of the truth and write it.
"ihis correspondent is wise enough to ply
the fool; 4
And to do that well, Graves a kind Of
yuOS. Is. BUi