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The news & observer., 1897-10-12
CIRCUS DAY COMING.
The Great Gala Day for the Children
the Grown Folks and All the Folks.

| The Great Gala Day for the Children
| the Grown Folks and All the Folks.
The circus is coming And the chill.
dren are happy.
And pretty near all the grown folks
are happy as we'll, for the circus has a
fascination for old and young that moth
ing else has. There is humor in the
good circus clown that no other indi-
yidual possesses. There is fun in his
makeup and wit in what he says, that
strikes the happy cords in the ordinary
individual and sets them 10 jjngling
with genuine laughter. There is a knowl-
edge Of natural history in good COM
prehensive menagerie that is hardly at
tainable elsewhere, q lesson on animal
life and nature so important and so in
teresting that it furnishes a valid excuse
for even those who have a tendency to
refrain from going to the circus" to 90
and "see the animals"
If there was ever a boy that had ever
heard of a circus and didn't want to see
one, his picture would be interesting.
and Mr.. w. Il. Franklin saws he will
give large reward for it.
The music of the circus band has "git.
uD-duQ-SlL III 1ls TINT lIO OlUbf music
has. The gorgeous circus wagons have
pictures on them and animals in them
that makes a circus parade the most in
teresting and amusing Of all parades.
There is daring and dazzling agility
and aGeptness in the horseback perform
ances Of the circus riders that make
their part Of the programme thrilling and
interesting.
The circus people these days call their
shows great aggregations, and the man
ayers of the larger and more prominent
ones of them are not far wrong in doing
so. One of these aggregations is the
RobinsOn-Franklin show. billed for Raj
eigh on Tuesday, October 10Th. The
name of John Robinson has for nearly u
century stood for the best in the circus
world. The name OF Franklin has been
climbing towards the top round of the
ladder of the great show men OF the
world.
The RobinsonF Franklin show is good
one. The leading papers in towns where
the show has been, commend it. The
Charlotte Observer spoke in high praise
of the performance and OF the manage
ment in that city on Saturday last.
1t is coming to Raleigh next Tuesday
with all its mammoth aggregation.
Circus day is children's day. They en-
The news & observer., 1897-10-12
Eczema

is a deep-seated blood disease. Il
is SO difficult to cure that today there
is only one medicine which sufferers
can take with certainty of cure.
Swift's Specific IS. S. S. never
fails to cure Eczema. It searches
out the germs that cause the disease,
assists Nature to throw off the
poison, and cures permanently. It
makes the blood we'll and keeps it
well. It is the only Real Blood Pur-
ifier, because it is the only medicine
for the blood that is composed en-
tirely of vegetable ingredients.
The news & observer., 1897-10-12
joy it. They all enjoy it,unless it be some

joy it. They all enjoy it,unless it be some
few who are restrained from seeing the
parade or seeing the show. There is
sadness among these; deep sadness.
In this connection we notice a COM
munication in the Concord Standard,
written by one of Concord's leading cit
izens and signed "a Lover Of Children"
| He pictures it just about Ike it is. and
this is what he says:
Editor Standards: As a friend of the
children of the town | ask space in your
columns for n plea for the little ones on
Monday. TO them a circus is an impor-
tant event, and it is, | think, neither
wise nor polite to deny them an inno-
cent pleasure. and especially is this true
lat a time when the best energies of their
little natures are aroused to the highest
degree of interest and curiosity, by con-
Iditions over which they have no control,
but which for the time, make anything
in the way of scholastic effect an i'm
possibility, while the knowledge of ma
tural history which the children will
get from the street parade alone will
much more than compensate for one
days loss of text books Close the
schools and let the children have the
opportunity to see the street parade,
which will be at 10 o'clock sharp. Many
of the school children will go to the
show by consent of their parents and
those of them who are compelled to at
tend school on Monday will necessarily
be held back on Tuesday for the restor-
alton of the broken scholastic status,
while. the little ones who may be pre-
vented from seeing the great animals
and things in which their childish inter
est has been so often excited by the
home fireside recital will go to their lit
tie beds Monday night with sad and
heavy hearts over the disappointment
at not having had the opportunity to see
these wonders of an unknown world.
Teachers. close your schools, and
gentlemen of the graded school board,
instruct your superintendent to close
that school and let the children of the
| town have a pleasure that will go with
them in grateful remembrance, to the
last day of their lives.
"A LOVER OF CHILDREN"
The news & observer., 1897-10-12
WRECKED ON HATTERAS.
Tramp Steamer Hesperides and Cargo
from Cuba a Total Loss.

Norfolk, Va, Oct 1.-THE dreaded
outer Diamond Shoals off Cape Halter
as have claimed as their victim another
ship and her cargo. The big tramp
steamship Hesperides loaded with a car
go of iron pyrites and bound from San
tiago de Cuba to Baltimore, stranded
there yesterday morning at $50 o'clock,
but was not discovered until this even
ing. She is now pounding on the sands,
and, together with her cargo, will prove
a total loss. An almost impenetrable fog
prevailed at the time the Hesperides
went ashore and il was impossible to
avoid the shoals.
The news & observer., 1897-10-12
BUCKLEN's ARNICA sALvE.

The Best Salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum.
Fever Sores, letter, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains. Corns, and all Skin Erup-
tions, and positively cures Piles, or no
pay required. 1t is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction or money refunded.
Price 25 cents per box. For sale by all
druggists.
The news & observer., 1897-10-12
.JOHnSOn'S
Chill and
Fever
Tonic
Cures Fever
In One Day.

The case of Maggie McCracken, by
her next friend, J. NJ. L. McCracken,
VS.. DIR. Henry A. Smathers, dentist OF
Canton, for malpractice, resulted in a
verdict for the plaintiff. The suit was
for $1,000 damages. The jury awarded
$575. The defendant has appealed
Waynesville Courier.
The news & observer., 1897-10-12
The
Cure

You can fool people, but there is
no such thing as cheating Nature.
A doctor may prescribe salves and
lotions to be used externally, and
deceive the sufferer from Eczema
for the time being, but the poison in
the blood is not deceived by it. 1t
is bound to show again in the shape
of ugly eruptions and scales.
The news & observer., 1897-10-12
+ or Sale.

Forty acres improved land one and half
miles east of Raleigh; $22.b0 per acre.
One ph8eton, harness and thoroughbred
young mare, well broken, sl25.
GERALD MCCARTNEY.
aug2l-eod
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-11-26

Horace Vose of Westerly, R. l., who has
annually sent turkey to the White House
table since the days of Senator IL. h. An
thony of Rhode Island selected this year
bird which weighed q pounds and it was
shipped to President Mckinley early this
week.
Manuel Genoario, a sailor on the fishing
schooner Two Forty of Gloucester, lying
at Boston, went crazy Saturday night and
ran amuck with sharp knife, attacking
his shipmates and badly wounding four of
tn M while they were lying in their hunks,
Genoario was afterwards found dead upon
the floor of the cabin, his throat cut and
his knife, covered with blood, in his hand.
As the result of a newspaper quarrel in
Waco, No, last Friday one man was killed
and two were fatally shot. The shooting
occurred in one of the streets OF the town.
The participants were j. w. Harris, editor
of the Waco mes-Herald, his brother, w.
A. Harris, and B. g. Gerald, ex-county
Judge. W. A. Harris was killed imme-
diately and his brother wounded beyond all
chance of recovery. Gerald was shot in
the neck and side.
The biggest moonshine raid that ever
took place in the South was made last week
Thursday night in Polk county, IN the
Chilhowie mountains, near the North Caro-
lima line. The revenue officers had an ex-
citing chase and captured in the neighbor-
hood of 1000 gallons of illicit liquor, de-
stroyed some of the finest stills in the coun-
try and captured several notorious and
desperate moonshiners. The officers had
great difficulty in escaping from the region
alive, and were several times fired upon by
mountaineers hidden by the roadside.
John Nike, a Hungarian, and Thomas
Daimler, both of Natick, Mass, while rid
ing home from Sherborn Saturday night
were held up near Sherborn swamp by two
men, who pulled them from the team and
after beating them into Inconsistencies,
made off with 1923 of Mikes money. By
quick work the police, before noon Sunday,
had arrested John Dunn and Ned Powers
on suspicion, and $25 was found on the
former, for which he could not account.
The affair created sensation in the town
as both the victims of the hold-up and the
two men under arrest were well known
there.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-11-26
(Other Ne,os in Brief on 9Th. Page

The semi-arid districts of South Dakota
have been made productive by artesian, as
well as river, irrigation. An artesian basin
underlies nearly the whole state east of
the Missouri river, at varying depths, from
100 to 1900 feet. On one farm of 500
acres single well was put down six years
ago at cost of $500, to a depth of 1900
feet, whose normal flow is 1900 gallons
per minute. Connected with this well is a
tve-acre reservoir; it takes seven or eight
days to ill this, and about 80 hours TO
empty it in the irrigation season. bitches
cost about 81 cents a rod. IL is found that
irrigated wheat yields between two and
three times more than on land not irri-
gated. BY the reservoir system one man,
after he has become familiar with the
topography of his fields, can irrigate 20
acres in five or six hours.
The cornerstone was laid last Sunday
of the new church of the Divine Paterni-
ty at Central park west and Seventy-sixth
street, New York. This was the title of
DR.. (. IL. Chapin's church, the chief Uni
versalist pulpit in the country. His sue
cessor, Rev DR.. Charles Ii. Eaton, laid
the cornerstone and gave the address
The new building will be finished some
time next summer, and it will be a fine
cruciform edice, after the plans by w. A.
Potter, seating 1000. There will be tow
er 140 feet high; an organ run by electric
ity, presented by Andrew Carnegie and his
wife as a memorial; a Teredos of carved
stone; windows of pictorial stained glass,
and so on. DR.. Eaton in his address indi-
Gated also perhaps unique feature when
he said: "When the edifice is completed,
IL is expected that the American flag will
be placed against the screen of the north
nave to indicate that we will be good citi-
zens as well as reverent worshipers."
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-11-26

A fight took place few nights ago on
locomotive on The Louisville and Nashville
railroad on the run below Birmingham,
Ala. The locomotive was hauling fast
freight train. The engineer ordered the
fireman to rake the fire The fireman took
offence, pulled pistol, and fired Que shot
at the engineer. A hand-to hand struggle
followed and the fireman pulled knife and
began hacking the engineer in the breast;
The engineer finally got hold of the pistol
and fred on the fireman. The latter was
killed instantly and his body fell out on
side track. Though bleeding badly, the en-
gineer stopped the train and brought the
engine back to this city with the body oil
the fireman. A preliminary trial was given
the engineer and he was released
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-11-26
Gen. clay and His Child wife.

A Lexington, Ky, despatch says; Gen
Cassius NJ. Clay's child wife, Dora Richard
son CLAY, whom he married two years ago
when she was only II years old LETT MN
because of the discharge of her brother
who was foreman on Gen. Clays place
When seen at the home of her bro her, SIX
miles from Richmond, she said: 81 have
left him. but | may return to INN IL ne
wants me to. He didn't treat me right
He wouldn't let me go to parties ana he
objected to visiting any of my re latives
That was why left him. Oh, yes, he gave
me everything l wanted. He has sent me
a lot of money twice since left, ana "hen
he came home from Cincinnati he brought
me a guitar, whole lot of candy nd oa
nanas, and many nice things. But don |,
love him any more. He's getting OLD ana
thinks the people are going to XII HIM.
Gen. Clay is 81 years old. After marry
ing the girl he did his best to educate her
He has long desired child to inherit ms
estate. and thus prevent it going to ms
children by his first wife, who secured
divorce from him. He hopes. to get his
wife back,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-11-26
,TATE OF VERMONT. Marlboro $.

- The Probate Court for SAID District
To all pvrsons interested in the estate of SAN.
FORD W; WILSON, late Of Dummerston, in said
district deceased Greeting
Whereas, T. J. B. Cudworth, Administrator
upon the estate Of Sanford W. Wilson late of
pummerston, IN said district, deceased, has filed
his petition in this court setting forth that the
sale OF certain part of the real estate of said de-
erased will De ben fetal to the heirs and to all
persons interested th' rein, and praying for H.
cense to sell the same, and at the same time filed
IN thls court what purports to be the consent in
writing OF all the heirs residing in this state TO
such sale Whereupon il is ordered that the
same be heard - the session Of said court to be
held at The Probate Office in Braltleboro, on the
last saturday OF November, A. d 1891 when and
see cause.
40 A. F. SNHWENK Register
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-11-26
CENTRAL VERMONT RAILROAD
New London Division.
Taking effect October y, 1897.
nOTNG aOTTru


Taking effect October y 1897.
GOING SOUTH.
Trains leave Brattleboro as follows:
$3.50 NJ. for Springfield and New York
b:45 A. NJ, for Mlllers Falls Palmer and New Lon.
don. Connecting at Millers rails with EItcn.
burg X. r., at Palmer with Boston &sAlbanV
X. r., at Willimantic with New England r. r.
at New London with n. Y, N. H. q H r. r.
9:lo A. H., for Springfield and New York.
1880 A. NJ for Millers Falls and stations on Fitch
burg r. r., Palmer and stations on Boston &
Albany r. R.. and for New London.
s:lS r. NJ, for SPIRIT gfield and New York.
d. 3 p. NJ, for Millers Falls and stations on Fitch
burg X. r., Palmer and New London and New
York via Norwich Line.
4:S7 P. ~, for Springfield and New York.
GOING NORTH.
Trains arrive at Brattleboro as follows:
lO:2o A. NJ, from New York via Norwich Line New
London, Palmer and Millers Falls
1905 A. NJ, from Springfield.
IL % P. ~, from New London, Palmer and MilIers
Falls
s;Se, $40 and 1905 P. n, from Springfield and
1855 P. NJ, from New London, connecting from
Palmer, millr's Falls and intermediate stations
~ subject 70 change without notice.
ID. MACKENZIE, Supt., New London,
3. w, CUMMINGS, q. p. A, st. Adams
J. A. soUTHARb, D. p. A., New London,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-11-26

Mrs. Trigg, aged SO years, and her 10
year-old daughter, Ethel, lost their lives in
fire that destroyed their residence in
Topeka, Kansas, Sunday morning A son
escaped with a broken leg, jumping from
a second story window. Mrs. Trigg had
escaped, but returned to save her daughter
The new Anchor Line steamer, Bluff
City, one of the finest and newest boats on
the lower Mississippi, bound for New Or
leans with 40 passengers and 1000 tons Of
miscellaneous freight on board, was burned
to the waters edge at Chester, H., Thurs
day. All the passengerslescaped, but moth.
ing on board was saved. The loss is over
100000.
a shocking and unprovoked murder was
committed at Van Etten, \. Y, Saturday
night. John Denmark, farmer, was shot
" lille sitting in his armchair in the dining
room of his home without moments warn
ing. The murderer stuck his.gun through
a window and fired Denmark fell out of
his chair and his son ran out of the house
to the village and spread. the alarm.
Although the lad was too excited TO give a
clear account of the affair, eenough was
learned TO arouse the whole town and
posse of 100 men and several hounds was
quickly organized to try to run the muir
derer down.
(Other Ne,os in Brief on 9Th Page
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-11-26
No News Of Andree.

A despatch from Tromsoe, Tromsoe Is
land, Norway, under date Of Nov. %, says;
"The steamer Victoria, which was fitted
out by the governor of Tromsoe, under in
structions from King Oscar, to search for
Prof. Andree, the missing aeronaut, and
his party, and which left here on Nov. .,
has returned from Spitzbergen. She brings
no news as to the whereabouts or move
ments of Prof. Andree, although exploring
parties landed ten times at various points
in Danmands Islands"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-11-26
Death of Judge Thomas L. nelson VI
the United States District Court

Judge Thomas L. Nelson, of the United
States District court for the district OF
Massachusetts,, died at Worcester ounna!
after a long illness. He leaves widow
and four children. Judge Nelson was
born in Haverhill, Mass, in 1927. He pre-
pared for college at Kimball Union acade-
my, Meriden, n. H., and entered Dart
mouth college, where he studied two years
He finished his education at the University
of Vermont, where he graduated in le4o
He spent some years after his graduation
in the work of civil engineering, but an ac-
cident to his knee compelled him to give
up this work. He then studied law ana
was admitted to the bar in 1850. he was
appointed United States District Judge Tor
Massachusetts, by President Hayes in 1879,
to succeed the late John' Lowell, who was
promoted to the circuit court. In TINS
year, too, he received the degree oil IL
b. from the University of Vermont. Judge
Nelson's wife was daughter OF John
Leyerett of Windsor, this state.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-11-26

1H,HVtsl MAJ IUDTO, %.
To all persons interested in the estat- Of o. L.
MINER, late Of Brattlebofo in said district. de
erased. Greeting
You are hereby notified that this court will de.
eide upon the allowance OF the account of Sidney
O. Miner, administrator upon the estate OF 0. l..
Miner: late OF Brattl-boro IN said district, de-
ceased, and decree distribution thereof TO the per
sons entitled thereto, at the session thereof 10 be
h, Id at the Probate Ofice in Brattleboro in sail
district, on the 21th day OF November. A d. 1897
when aud where gu may be heard in the prem.
ises, II you cause
80 A. F. sCHwENK. Register.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-11-26
C,TATE on VERMONT. Marlhoro. ss-

- By the Probate Court for said strict
To all persons Interested in the estate Of JOHN
A. BULLOCK, late Of Guilford, in said district
deceased, Greeting
You are hereby notified that this court will de.
eide upon the allowance OF the account u Sarah
VI n Bullock, administrators upon the estate of
John A. Bullock laie Of GuforL 10 said district,
deceased. and decree distribution thereof to the
persons EMIT ed thereto at the session thereof to
be held at the Probate Office in Bratteboro, 10
said district. on the 27th day OF November, A. D.
1897. when and where you may be heard in the
premises, If you see cause.
80 A. +. SCHWENK. Register.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-11-26
COMMISSIONER, NOTICE

~ ESTATE OF K MORTON PRATT.
The undersigned having been appointen by the
Honor aole Probate Court for the district of
marlboro Commssi, ners, to receive, examine and
adjust all claims and demands of all persons
against the estate of r. Morton Pratt late of
Dummerston, in said district, deceased and all
claims exhibited IN offset thereto, hereby give
notice that We will meet for the burmese afora.
SAID al the re ldence of Laura A Pratt on the
last Tuesday OF November aud the last Tuesday
OF Apth next, from O'Clock until O'Clock, p.
NJ. each OF said days and that six months from
the 9th day OF November, A. D. 1897 is the time
limited by said court for said creditors 20 present
Dated at Dummers on, this tenth day of No
vember, A. ID 1897.
90 A AR5S F; N y kEEb. Com missioners
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-11-26
CTATE OF VERMONT. Marlboro ss

= BY the PROBATE Court for SAD Dis re,
To all persons Interested In the est tte Of ELIZA
G. sTEARNS, late Of Brattleboro in said di-trict
decreased, Greeting
You are hereby gifted that this court will de-
eide upon the allowance Of the account Of H. "
Sargent, administrator upon the estate Of Eliza
g. Searns, late OF Bralleboro in said district de-
ceased and decree distribution thereof u Tn.
persons entitled thereto, at the session thereof t
be held at the Probate Office in Bratteburj i'm
said district. on the Nth dag Of November A. d
1881, when and where you may be heard Ia the
premises, If you see cause.
40 A. +. SCHWENK. Replsier
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-11-26
STATE on VERMONT. Marlboro- ss-

- BY the Probate Court for said District.
To all persons interested in the estate of o F
NEWELL, late of BrattlebOro. in said district
deceased, Greeting
You are hereby notified that this court will e.
eide upon the allowance II the account Of O. VI .
Newell, administrator upon the estate Of o. F.
ceased, and decree distribution thereof to tho per
sons entitled thereto at the session thereof to be
held at the Probate Office In BrattleOoro. in said
district on the 18th day OF November; A d. 1897
when and where you may be heard in the prem.
ises, II you cause.
80 A Schwenk register
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-11-26
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Great Fire In Melbourne.
Property valued at GI,OOO,OOO De
.-.---- 81. M. a., rrnhn

Property valued at Gl,OOO,OOO De-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Set Back TO Trade.
A great fire broke out in Melbourne at :
O'Clock Sunday morning and in very short
time did enormous damage. 1t started at
the warehouse of c. Williamson in Eliza
beth street in the very heart OF the city
A strong wind was blowing and the hereely
after building. The burned section in
cludes many of the largest business houses
in the city The buildings were completely
DESTROYED. Most of them contained soft
Goods The flames progressed with rapid
itv which dehed all checking, and IN the
furious wind, ashes and burning DEBRIS
were carried into the suburbs a distano9 ~
600 niles II is estimated that the loss
will reach 81 100000 while the trade IN
soft goods has received a serious set. back.
Hundreds of employees of all sorts have
been suddenly thrown out of employment
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-11-26
PH0NIX BRATTLEBORO FRIDAY NOVEMBER 26. 1897
and the parish register records the burial Of
nanial Dafna in 131
The Great Fire OF 1909.

and the parish register records the burial Of
Daniel Defoe in 1881
The Great Fire OF 1899.
Comparisons between this and the con
flsgration that swept the city in 1886 are
natural, but in reality there is not the
slightest resemblance between the two.
Last Fridays fire was diminutive in its pro
portions as compared with what will al
ways be known in history as "the great fire
of London" The conflagration which be-
gan Sept ,, 1865, and ragged for four days,
swept over 436 acres, destroyed fully 100
churches and public buildings and 1890
dwellings. 1t rendered 100000 people
homeless. A considerable section of the
city burned over was practically a survival
of medieval London of dark and narrow
lanes and houses that simply stood because
they had got into 1.-THE habit of living"
The coniagration was in fact publication
by fire.