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The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-10-24
Don't Like Hedges.

Bicyclists in the region ronn
st. Johns, Mich, have qu
substantial grievance. The D,
farms thereabouts are bounl
guarded with quickest hedSse',
of by fences. At this time ol
farmers trim their hedges, y
consequence all the roads in'a'
are strewn thickly with bongpl
briers, sharp slivers OF tou1
and short snippings OF hedge
which puncture bicycle tires
and perhaps more seriously Y
tacks. Washington Star.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-10-24
Fortescue.

Fortescue.
1t was on n cheerless October after.
noon, and the last dull rays of day
light were illuminating the deserted
school room. where Miss Ro-'o--
nickn~ ,nd giddy girls of
* Seminary "Barleycorn, 4"
mply because in a schoolgirl atmos-
phero it is absolutely necessary that
every one should have nickname
sat there all alone.
Leila and Alice had been out to get
autumn leaves, and now in the dusk
they were tlattering their fresh young
faces against the windowglass, watch.
ing her on the sly.
"Isu't she plain?" said Della, with n
shudder. "And so old, tool Why,
she's eight-and-twenty If she's day 7"
That at least - declared Alice in n
whisper.
To these fifteen and sixteen year
old "slips' eight-ani-twenty summers
represent quite venerable old age.
IL wonder, Leila, what she is think
ing about?"
iiNi lONtli oupl'ba', bhli lllNlt
Miss Wharton with Srlmace.
IL don't believe she ever had such Il
think in her life !" cried Alice. "She,
indeedl With such crooked nose,
and eyes just the color of green
clouded marble I"
"She had, though sail Leila ~
know, because old Mrs. Blackmore
told me. And he went away some.
where aud never came back. Or else
he forgot all about her-I don't really
recollcct which it was. He must have
been II perfect gorilla, or he never
would have fancied her And his
name was John Bates Think Of
that John Bates !"
Everybody can't have three syl.
tabled names" observed Alice. "And
oh, how cold the wind sweeps up
from the lake Let's go in"
"Aud rouse Barleycorn?"
"She can sit there pondering all
night"
The lamps were lighted; the sound
of the changing tea bell summoned the
hungry young swarm of damsels to a
repast of freshly baked brown bread,
apple sauce and mugs of milk.
Miss Barley looked up from her
desk as Alice and Leila came by, arm
in.arm, with clusters of scarlet leaves
in their hats.
miss Fortescue," said she quietly,
"these French exercises are disgrace.
full. You will have to do them over
again before bedtime.
Alice Fortescue's pretty brown
brows knit themselves together petu-
lantly.
"Betore bedtime? But / can't, Miss
Barley. I'm to sew bows on my new
silk dress tonight. / shall want tc
wear it at the fortniehtly reception
tomorrow.
"rhe French exercises must be at
tended to first"
"Must!" impatiently cried ou
Alice.
"Yes, must. But remember, Mis-
Fortescue," the teacher gently added
"the rules are not of my making, anC
j have my orders to see that they ar,
enforced"
Alice brushed by without a word o
reply, her fair brow clouded over, hel
rosebud lips twisted into pout.
''Cross old thing" she muttered Il
Leila, "to spoil my evening SO !"
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-10-24
HER LOVER CAME BACK,
IY MELVILLE DE FOREST.
ARLEYCORN is in

is in
n brown study
again. said leila
Wharton. "Look
Mt her, with her
elbows o n { h q
desk, and her head
IN her hands. I've
ID e e II watching
her, and she hasn't
stirred for ii V e
minutes.
"What on earth
do You suppose
& h e is thinking
about?" said Alice
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-10-18
The YaIe-marvard Dlmculty.

Yale and Harvard will not meet on the
gridiron this year. After the game at
Springfield, Mass, last year certain Harv-
ard alumni made positive charges through
the newspapers of brutality against Capt
Hinkey, the Yale leader The Harvard
faculty voted against the continuance of
foot ball last winter, but the return of
President Eliot from abroad saved the
game for that university. Capt Brewer
thereupon wrote to Capt. Thorne of Yale
concerning a game this year. The reply
was a declaration that Harvard retract
the charges against Capt. Hinkey before a
game could be arranged. This letter is
said to have been written by members of
the Yale faculty and not by Capt. Thorne.
To this demand Harvard made consistent
answer-inability officially to retract what
had been said unofficially. Several plans
for settling the difficulty have been pro-
posed, but in vain, and the two universi-
ties will not only be separated in foot ball,
but very likely in boating and base ball for
two years. Casper Whitney, in Harper's
"COhigi ooyo u blob bhC L AdlC-1dl NdIu
game and its wrange has brought about "a
complete realization of the pace with
which we have been following our sporting
hobby, and the intensity of endeavor that
has obtained in our competitive games.
We have worked ourselves in the last three
years into vertable athletic hysteria. We
have lost sight of playing for the sake of
the game in the feverish wish for victory.
The game has been taken too seriously,
and the desire 10 win grown too fervid;
preparations have been on too elaborate a
scale, and the result of contest invested
with too much Importance. We have been
making a business of our sport, and ig-
nored the true essence of wholesome ath-
letics-sport for sports sake only"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-10-18
Postal Figures Indicate RevIviug BusI


Proof of the revival of business activity
is furnished in the complete figures of
the sale of stamped paper at the post-of-
fee department during the quarter ending
Sept. 30 last. The issues for the quarter
were $1S,060,S ,S46, against SIS, ,521 for
the same quarter of 1894, $4,000, ,421 for
1898 and SIG, 1885 for the prosperous
year 1892. The increase over last year,
therefore, is about $2,400,0 900, and over
the highest previous record $1,000, 900.
THE preceding twoiquarters eff1S95 have
shown higher record, but this is always
the history of the earlier 'quarters of the
year as compared with the third, which
covers the quiet months of summer.
The figures indicate receipts of sS2, ,OOO,-
900 for the fiscal year ending June30, 1896,
and about $77, 900, 900 for the present cal
endar year. The total issues for the fiscal
year 1891 were So, ,559, IT'S for 1892, $67,-
3DS, 900; for 1898, $73,SS9,50S; for 1894,
$70199, 151, and for 1895 $73, 3,SS9,598. The
progression is usually rapid and uniform in
prosperous years and the present indica-
tions are that the loss in 1894 will be made
up during the present year, and that the
average gain for four years will be nearly
five per cent per year. 1t has been the
experience of prosperous years that busl-
ness has increased nearly twice as rap
idly as population, and this experience
will be repeated if the figures for the fiscal
year, 1896, bear out the promise of the
first quarter.
The close relation between postal busi-
ness and the general business of the coun-
try was worked out by Third Assistant
Postmaster General Hazen more than 10
years ago, and has been tested by several
successive waves of depression and activity.
The decline in postal business usually fol-
lows at a distance of two or three months
the first crash in banking circles, and in
this respect probably keeps close to the
movement of the retail trade, which doe:
not feel at once the effect of tightness in
the New York money market.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-10-18

wire between points as far distant as New
York and Chicago. During the test, which
was made under unfavorable weather and
other conditions, $40 words minute were
sent over line 21S miles in length. The
inventor of the system, Patrick b. Delany,
proposes to do the postal business by wire,
instead of by train, and at cost so low
that a very large proportion of communi-
cations between distant cities would be
thus transmitted. The new system is
worked automatically, a punched tape TAX
ing the place of the sending operator. The
system is electro-chemical, the message be-
ing received on a moistened tape, the dots
and dashes appearing upon it in dark
brown produced by the action of the cur
rent upon the tape.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-10-18

George j. Gould was asked at New York
this week if he intended building yacht
to compete for the honor of meeting the
Distant Shore in next years international
race. He replied that he had no intention
of building, at present at least, a new cup
defender, as he considered the Defender
quite capable of retaining the cup and
maintaining the supremacy of the United
States over all comers.
Few events in revolutionary history are
more familiar to the youth of the land
than the crossing of the Delaware by Gen.
Washington on Christmas night, 1776. 1t
was reserved until Tuesday, however, to
mark by appropriate emblems on both shores
of the river the points of embarkation and
landing. With appropriate ceremonies a
monument was dedicated at TaylorsVille,
Bucks county, Pa, and across the river, in
New Jersey, a tablet was unveiled com.
memorative of the famous passage in the
floating ice. There were patriotic addresse
on both sides of the river.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-10-18
a FIendlsh Lynohing.

Judson Ellis, the Fayette county, Tenn,
negro accused of having assaulted a young
white woman, was hanged by mob to a
telegraph pole early Wednesday morning.
The lynching was one of the worst horrors
in the history of the state. The mob was
composed of $50 men. The mob had no
trouble in taking the prisoner from the
constable. Ellis, still handcuffed, was led
to the pike about 200 yards from where
the crime was committed. A bonfire had
been started and was blazing when the
mob arrived.
The negro was forced to get down on his
hands and knees near the fire, and then be-
gan the fiendish work of manning him.
| First his fingers were cut off, and then his
toes. The sight of blood seemed to mad
den the mob, and there were plenty of vol
unteers to complete the terrible work. Ell
lls's nose was next cut off, and then his
body was mutilated. When the negro had
swooned rope was placed around his neck
and he was hanged upon telegraph pole,
After rlddling his body with bullets the
mob dispersed.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-10-18

Perhaps some experiment station sharp
will rise up and explain why this year the
potato crop the country over is uniformly
and almost abnormally good, both in guam
tity and quality. Some years, in spite of
every effort, blight, rot, and the "new dis
ease" get away with the crop, while this
year the tubers have everything their own
way The total crop of the country is es-
timated at over 100000, 900 bushels, against
about l7O,OOO,OOO last year. Prices are
everywhere very low. In the West, at
places remote from shipping points, the
farmers will feed as much of the crop to
the hogs as they can eat and the rest will
rot in the ground. In Maryland growers
are glad to get 10 cents bushel. In new
York city the wholesale selling price is IS
cents to 81 barrel of two and three-quar-
ter bushels. This is 40 per cent less than
the price of year ago.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-10-18
New River Discovered in Quebec.

Prof. Bell, of the geological survey at
Ottawa, Ont, reports having discovered
river in the province of Quebec Of large di-
mensions. He followed this river to
James bay. The river had three large
branches, one of which has its source north
of Three Rivers, another in the Lake st.
John region, and the third near Lake Mis-
tassini. This new river, for which the
Indians have no name, is larger than the
Ottawa, and DIR. Bell affirms it to be the
sixth of the great rivers of the world. Its
average width is considerably over a mile,
and it has expansions many miles in width.
1t flows through a level, claycountry, is
very deep, and may be called new Nile of
the North. The river is 900 miles in length,
and great stretches would be navigable for
steamers. Toward James bay there are
SUGGESTIONS of great rapids, which render
1t useless as an inland river The prime
I val forest extends along the whole length
of the river.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-10-18

1t is time to preach homily on the sa-
credness of marriage when its celebration
is made the scene of such riotous hilarity
as was the case in Rutland last week. The
enthusiastic friends of the groom had
planned to kidnap him bodily, but the faith
er of the bride prevented this by engaging
two policemen to attend the wedding.
When the time came for departing on the
wedding journey, the bride and groom and
policeman in one carriage, were chased
about the city, finally arriving at the rail
road station with the horses covered with
lather. The bride and groom were hand
cuffed together so that they could not be
pulled apart, but they were jostled about
very roughly and their clothes partially torn
off. With the officers protection they f.
nally got on the train, but the doors of the
sleeping car had to be locked to prevent
any further intrusion of the wild mob.
Marriage is honorable in all, but it is not to
be entered into lightly or nl-advisedly. 1t
is sometimes tone grand sweet song" as
Grover Cleveland says; sometimes heavy
tragedy, but never farce comedy.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-10-18
The National Treasury.

For the first half of October the receipts
of the treasury have been S13, 236, ,332, and
the expenditure S22, 721, 900, making the
net deficit for the half month S9,4S4, 1857.
The deficit for the fiscal year to date is s19,-
800, 325. The qefct for the month will
probably be reduced at its close to 50, ,OO0,-
600, and for the fiscal year at the close of
October to S15, 100000. The gold reserve
stood on the night Of the 18th at S92, $780,
O13.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-10-18
D, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1S, 1895.

make inquiries about what they were buy
ing. Everybody was buying and every
body did what everybody else was doing.
l remember one instance: The so-called
King of the KafIirs, Barney Barnato, an.
nounced in London the opening of a new
mine in the Transvaal, called The Coffin
1t was, believe, about seven feet long and
four feet deep. No one in London knew
anything about the mine, but the shares
were put upon the market, and in no time
they were at fabulous premium" This
furor is due in part to the immense amount
of money which is lying idle in London
waiting for investment, but more to the
strange mental contagion which seizes, ev-
cry now and then, on great masses of peo-
pile. The bubble will burst in due time
and then, Mr. Mccall says, it will be the
turn of American securities to receive the
favor of foreign Investors.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-10-18

u England is taking decisive measures to
'avenge the murder of missionaries in Chi
ma and to prevent the repetition of such
outrages. She promptly sent warship
there when the recent attack was reported,
and demanded the appointment of a COM
mission to enquire into the matter. A
late despatch from Kucheng says: British
Consul Mansfield has had an interview
with the viceroy at Fukien with'the result
that the latter agreedthat IS more of the
men accused of numbering the missiona-
ries shall be executed, and that heremainr
ing prisoners shall be speedily tried by the
commission, which shall have power to inn
pose the death penalty.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-10-18

- A tribnte to the memory of Gen. John
c. Fremont, formulated by the Associated
Pioneers of the Territorial Days of Cali
fornia, is to take the form of a monument
to be erected in commemoration of his in
valuable services to this country in secur-
ing, by his celebrated '"Pathfnder" 'expe-
dition, the annexation of California to the
United States. The monument will con-
sist of figure of heroic size, in bronze,
dressed in hunting costume, standing on a
rugged, rough-hewn mass of granite, sup
posed to represent the summit of Fremont s
Peak Underneath cross carved in the
granite will be the simple inscription,
Fremont, the Pathfinder" The monu-
ment will stand on the site of Gen. Fre-
mont's grave, in ROckland (N. " ceme-
terry, where it can be seen for many miles
up and down the Hudson river.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-10-18


The presidential campaign of next year
is too far away to make gossip about the
candidates anything more than mildly en-
tertaining 1t is of interest, however, to
learn that in the West boom for Senator
Allison of Iowa is "on'' just at the present
time. According to Des Moines despatch
the chairman of the Republican central
committee of Iowa has given out an inter
view in which he says that "Mr. Allison is
certain to go into the convention with a
strong following from the Northwest, and
possibly with the entire West. He will
have the delegation from Iowa, Minnesota,
South and North Dakota, Nebraska and
New Mexico. In the East he has a pow
erful combination at work in his interest,
and there-is every assurance that he will
have splendid support from the New York
and Pennsylvania delegations. There is
no favorite' son business about the AL
lisoT boom this time. 1t is already full
fledged and able TO stand by itself, is grow
ing every day, and will be strictly in it
when the convention is held" All this
has a familiar sound and it is pretty sure
to be discounted by "counterybooms for
other candidates, but there would be no
cause for regret if the Allison boom should
prove to be a "stayer" and the senator
should head, next year, the ticket of the
party to which he has givenable and life
long service.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-10-18


The story is familiar hereabout of bel
ligerent resident of certain Windham
county town who resented the neglect or
refusal Of the deacons to pass him the ele-
ments at the communion service and grab
bed for himself. His church manners did
not meet the approval of his fellow wor-
shippers and the matter got into the county
court. The report of the trial of the case
recites that, "Wherefore, after the unused
bread had been returned to the custody of
the minister, the respondent arose and in a
rude and unbecoming manner walked out
of his pew and snatched portions of the
bread remaining upon the plate, scattering
some of it upon the floor" etc. Let no
one suppose that this was characteristical-
ly a rural incident, for here is the New
York Tribune telling how a good deacon
in Zion's church in Jersey City was wroth
because the contribution box was not pass
ed to him and therefore marched up and
deposited his gift upon the altar with his
own hand, exciting more attention from
the parson and pew-holders than such a
moderate increment of the church reve-
nues was fairly entitled to. Finally the
tithe gatherers denied him admission to
the church," and now this case is also in
the courts. Probably the point at issue
will be whether in free country. any man
who is cbaritably inclined can be denied ac-
cess to the contribution box.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-10-18

The Softas who were the leaders in the
recent outbreak against the Armenians in
Constantin6ple are students of Mussulman
theology and attend schools attached to the
mosques. After mastering Arabic and the
Koran they teach the junior students for
a season, and then attain rank emitting
them to take various civil offices and trusts.
They are exempt from all military service,
except in case Of religious war, and the
priesthood is filled from their ranks. Their
fanatical hatred of Christians may be in
ferred from this course of training. Five
thousand of them assembled at Constanti-
nople in 1876 and compelled the Sultan to
appoint a new Grand Vizier, and on other
occasions the Sultan has complied with
their fierce demands. AS an organized
mob the Softas are capable of any cruelty.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-10-18

John A. Mccall, president of the New
York Life insurance company, who has
just returned from Europe, confirms the
stories which have come through other
channels of the craze which exists in Lon
don, Paris and Berlin over the Kaffir (South
African) mining shares. The excitement
which he witnessed in London was almost
incredible: "The purchasers were like so
many hungry wolves who could not be fed
fast enough. There seemed to be very lit
tie effort on the part of the investors to
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-10-18


Houghton, Mifllin & Co. of Boston have
just published new story by Ehza Orne
White of Brookline, Mass, whose work as
a writer of stories of New England life we
have already favorably reviewed. The
title of the story is "The coming of Theo-
dora" Theodore is the sister-a young
woman of many accomplishments, of
strong will, and with decided faculty for
doing things-who, coming back to New
England to visit her brother after being
exiled in the West since childhood, is per-
suaded to stay and make her home with
him and his wife, both artists who grace
and enjoy the life that now is, but who
have anything but an aptitude for its pro-
sale and practical side. A widowed minis
ter on the sunny side of middle life, with
one small daughter, comes to play an i'm
portant part in the story. Further than
this it would be unjust to prospective
readers to reveal the plot. The leading
characters are very strongly drawn; the
story moves with ease and naturalness; il
abounds in quiet flashes of wit which are
characteristic of its author, and we think
the judgment of its readers will be that il
shows decided gain of both power and
facility in the art of story-writing over its
predecessors, "Miss Brooks" and "Wlnter-
borough" though neither of these afforded
ground for adverse criticism in this respect
The friends of Miss White will be glad to
know that her work is so well recognized
that London publisher applied for per
mission to bring out the story in England,
and it appeared simultaneously in both
countries and has found ready sale,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-10-18
Gbe Urrmunt pb@mf..
BRATTLEBORO:
FRIDAY, OCTOBER IS, 1895.

"The able and indefatigable secretary of
the Home Market club will be a valuable
member of the legislature. Wellesley Re-
publicans have made a most excellent choice
in nominating Col. Albert Clarke for the
House of Representatives" This is the
Boston Journals opinion, and none of
Col. Clarke's Vermont friends will dispute
it.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-10-18

English SPAWN Liniment removes all hard, soft
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etc. Save $50 by use Of one bottle. Warranted
the most wonderful blemish cure ever known.
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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-10-18
1000 Words Minute by Telegraph.

Electrical experts at Philadelphia Sun
day successfully experimental with a new
high-speed system of machine telegraphy,
by the use of which, it is expected, 1000
words a minute can be sent over a single
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-10-18
Blasting.

T AM prepared to do custom blasting with dyn-
J. amite on roads, lodges, etc. No drilling re-
quired on boulders. Large experience with all
kinds Of explosives. O. w. BARNES, Newfane,
VT 30-4I
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