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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-05-19

On ule creek, a tributary of the Crys-
tai river in Garfield county, Colorado,
has recently been discovered a mountain
of pure marble, varying from the purest
white to a beautiful green aud dove
color. The quarry is said to be one of
the largest in America and the grain of
the stone is so line that experts pronounce
1t as good as the Carrara marble of italy
for statuary purposes. The mountain Is
owned by "a syndicate consisting of j. G.
Osgood of New York, president of the
Colorado Fuel and Iron company Henry
X. Wolcott, a brother OF the senator from
Colorado; John l.. Jerome, president of
the Denver Cotton mill Dennis Sullivan,
a Denver capitalist, and others. These
gentlemen purchased the property at
a nominal price from the discoveries,
who were prospecting for mines, and it
is said to have cost them $4,000. At
present, however, the quarry is worthless
because of lack of transportation facIlI-
ties. The syndicate has a railroad under
construction which will give access to
the market. Eighteen miles of track has
already been laid, and when thirteen
miles more is constructed the marble can
be shipped out by the Denver & Rio
Grande or the Colorado Midland. The
quarry is so extensive, the quality of the
stone is so fine and the economy of work
ing it is so much greater than that of
other marble deposits that the syndicate
expects to control the market in the
eastern states. The largest supply of fine
marble now comes from Vermont and
Tennessee. The nearest place of import
ance to the marble mountain is Glen
wood Springs, the well-known Montana
resort and Quitting place for hunting
parties In search of big game.-Chicago
Record.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-05-19
WEATHER-CROP o
Clear and Dry Weather Not Favorable to
the Crops the Past Week.

the Crops the Past Week.
The continued clear, almost rainless
weather for a month in the greater por
ton OF New England, although 1t was
most favorable to the starting of veg
etable growth, has become injurious
during the week past by retarding
growth because of want of moisture. In
Connecticut and Rhode Island the show
er of the 18th has been very beneficial.
Northern exposures in the north where
snow was slow in melting, and In the
low land the drought Is not so much felt.
Grass generally suffers most. Oats
are up in the south and have been sown
in most northern sections. A large acre
age of potatoes has been planted in the
south and are being put in in the north.
The soil is rather dry for the germina-
ton of planted corn. Stock has been
turned ont to pasture, but finds the feed
somewhat short.
Fruit is blooming apples moderately ;
pears, plums, apricots and other fruit
quite well. Strawberries are doing very
well in the three southern states. The
cranberry boys are being drained. There
is general complaint in Massachusetts of
winter killing of berries.
Trees in the south have almost full
foliage. In central Massachusetts the
tent caterpillar is increasing in numbers,
favored by the dry weather. The top of
the ground in most of the section is hard
and the roads dusty.
The growth of oats has been checked
by lack of rain. but not seriously. Rye
Is heading along the southern coast and
looks well elsewhere. Corn is coming
up In Massachusetts, but here, ever
more than in the southern states, rain
Is needed. In the three northern states
this crop is being planted.
Drought is beginning to fleet grass In
northern sections. In Massachusetts the
hay crop promises at this time to be short.
The heavier rainfall in the south has
helped the crop greatly, but more rain is
needed. There is a marked contrast in
the condition of the crop compared with
the brilliant promise of last year.
Apples promise a moderate yield,
judging from the b%lossoming. In por.
tons of Massachusetts,, New Hampshire
and Vermont winter varieties are report
ed to bloom very little. Cherries, plums,
etc, have blossomed freely in the south
and are coming GU full in the north.
~Blackberries and raspberries hav We suffer
ed from winier killing in central dis
tricts. Cranberry Dogs are being drain
ed, and on the drier boys the fireworm
has appeared.
A large acreage of potatoes has been
planted in the south, and the earlier
varieties have appeared above ground.
Planting is progressing in the north.
Onions and other truck are reported to
be doing well. Pease are blooming in
the south. Asparagus of good quality
and satisfying quantity is being cut.
In the Connecticut valley the more en-
thusiastic farmers have planted tobacco.
The plants are in fine condition and
planting will soon be general.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-05-19

Our new relations with Cuba, Porto
Rico and the lesser islands Of the Spanish
West Indies has awakened an interest in
the customs and language of the in
habitants of those islands. General
Eaton has devised a plan whereby re-
ciprocal education between our people
and the native school instructors of
Porto Rico may be established. He de-
sires the teachers of that island to OBJ
tain a fuller knowledge than they now
possess of American life and institutions,
and makes the offer to transport teach
ers from San Juan to New York city
free of charge, provided families or
literary clubs in this country will
guarantee transportation from and to
the latter city and board during the
summer vacation months. In return
the teachers will conduct classes in
Spanish without further emolument.
Some of the REGISTERS readers may
desire to avail themselves of the offer.
Particulars of the plan may be had by
addressing (full address,: Victor 5.
Clark, Sub-Director of Public Instruc-
ton, War Department, Headquarters
Department of Porto Rico, Secretary of
Interior, Bureau of Education, San
Juan, Z. r.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-05-19
SPANS GREATEST NEED.

Mr.. r. p. Olivia, of Barcelona, Spain,
spends his winters at Aiken, S. c. Weak
nerves had caused severe pains in the
back of his head. On using Electric
Bitters, Americas greatest Blood and
Nerve Remedy, all pain soon left him.
He says this grand medicine is what his
country needs. All America knows that
it cures liver and kidney trouble, purifes
the blood, tones up the stomach,
strengthens the nerves, puts vim, vigor
and new life into every muscle, nerve
and organ of the body. If weak, tired
or aillng you need it. Every bottle
guaranteed, only 80 cents. Sold by w.
III. Sheldon Druggist.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-05-19

The first number of Humane Christian
Culture, the monthly publication to be
issued at Putney in furtherance of the
work of the Vermont Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, has
been received. 1t is a neatly printed
fourteen page and cover magazine, and
the subscription price is placed at 80
per year. AS its name signifies,
the contents comprise articles calculated
to inspire a loye of domestic animals
and their greater care and more humane
treatment. The pride of Vermont is IN
her fine horses, her flocks of Merino
sheep, and her herds of cattle which
produce the finest dairy products in the
country. A magazine which is devoted
to intoxicating a proper respect for the
rights of these.dumb creatures on which
rest so much of the fame of our state
ought certainly to receive the cordial
support of our people.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-05-19
The University Glee CIub Concert.

The joint concer of the Glee and
Mandolin clubs of Dartmouth and the
University of Vermont in Burlington
recently, will be remembered by our
tOwnspeople as being mentioned in the
Free Press as follows:
The opera house was well filed last even.
ing on the occasion of the Joint concert given
by the Glee ana Mandolin clubs of Dartmouth
college and the University of Vermont. The
two clubs of each institution are practically
of the same size and IL would he difficult to
say which organization made the better ap.
pearance. Either has the talent to give n
very satisfactory concert and the union re
suited in II programme which was thorough
ly enjoyed and, If encores indicate anything,
rs thoroughly appreciated.
The concert given in Milton by the
University of Vermont clubs ELECTED this
most favorable criticism:
The University Glee and Mandolin club of
Bennington gave their second entertainment
sor the season of $3.50 at village hall Monday
evening of this week. They drew Il good
house of Millions best people, most of the
seats being sold in advance, and gave such an
entertainment as Is rarely enjoyed in this
place. The extended programme was fully
and finely carried out and every piece was
cheered and encored.
Tickets now on sale at Sterns' Park
Drug Store for the evening of May 30.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-05-19

left to modern aggregations of capital to
cheaper production in more than one
sense.
Every eader will call to mind some
article which not so many years ago
safely could be bought without fear of
deception. TO cite a homely instance,
but one which will appeal to every
country-bred denizen of a city, it is now
next to impossible to purchase in any
city store unadulterated buckwheat flour.
The city man who has longings for the
%gastronomic pleasures of his boyhood,
is obliged to search out some village
manufacturer who has not succumbed to
the competition of combinations of capital
operating a new process"
We are indebted to science for the
wonderful progress the orld has made
in matters of comfort and ease of living.
We would not II we could return to the
hardships of even so near a period as the
youth of our fathers. But science
should be credited with other things
not so deserving of gratitude. She has
given us bread made of potato flour, and
even then adulterated with alum and
sulphate of copper; cider made of tar
taric acid and colored with caramel /:
candy made of glucose and artificial es-
sences and colored with poisonous sub
stances; canned goods preserved with
salts of copper; butter manufactured
from ordinary animal fats and starch /;
cheese made of oleomargarine, with salts
of mercury In the rind; cocoa and
chocolate compound of sugar animal
fats, flour and starch and ferruginous
earths cayenne pepper made OF ground
rice and flour and salt and a sprinkling
of red lead flour made of alum and
ground rice; cinnamon made of cassia
and plain sawdust; ginger manufactured
of mustard and tumeric; honey in the
comb made of glucose and cane sugar,
with the comb nodded of paraflin; lard
made of starch and cottonseed oil and
%stearine, and containing alum and caustic
lime mustard compounded of flour and
tumeric and chrOmate and sulphate of
lead artificial milk sold as "pure con-
densed milk and made of burnt sugar,
annotto and water; fruit jellies made of
gelatine and apple parings and favored
with artificial essences; mace made of
bread dust and venetian red pickles put
up in salts of copper and alum; fruit pre-
serves made of common pumpkin and
colored with dangerous substances sago
made of potato starch; powdered sugar,
the base of which is rice flour, and which
contains also salts of lead and tin,
gypsum and marble dust; tea made of
common leaves and treated with gypsum,
china clay and soapstone; vinegar made
of burnt sugar and sulphuric and
hydrochloric acids.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-05-19

The state press is having a great deal
of fun at the expense of Montpelier's
liquor agency. y couple of weeks ago
they were discussing the various brands
and quality of the. liquor there sold.
Now they say the agency has a new
cash register machine which registers
the amount of liquor sold, what "medi-
cal or mechanical' purpose it is wanted
for, price paid, purchasers name, age,
color of eyes and hair.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-05-19
THE MARKETS..
PRICES OF PRODUCE IN MlDDLEBuRY.
BUTrER AND GGs
diminished by Thomas & Weeks.I
LIVE STOCK.
Furnished by NJ. S. Carr.
OTHER COUNTY MARKETS.

BRISTOL, May 15-Saturday, market day,
dairy butter sold at II to 10 cents n pound
II to II cents II dozen; dressed poultry, IL TO
Is cents Il pound.
~NERGENNEs, May 1j-saturday, market day,
was largely attended. Dairy butter sold ut
Ii to ID cents IL pound; creamery Is to IS cents
a pound; cheese, 81 to 10 cents a pound
dressed poultry, - to 10 cents n pound; pota.
beef, s. TO IS 30 Il hundred; hay, So to 81
Il ton.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-05-19
The HOMECOMING OF ADMIRAL DEWEY

1t is now stated with authority that
Admiral Dewey will come home this
summer and by way of the Suez canal.
He already has begun preparations for
departure from the Philippines. His
flagship, the Olympia, will go to Hong
and reprinted white for the long voy-
age before her.
The admiral expects to consume three
months in the home voyage, as the trip
will be made in a very leisurely fashion,
in order to give all hands an opportunity
of recuperating. From a cable despatch
sent to the Manufacturers Association
of Chicago by Dewey in response to an
invitation to be present at a banquet in
his honor, the admiral confesses that
his health is not of the best. The officers
and crews also are much run down by
the long strain which has been placed
upon them.
The trip home will take Dewey to
ports under English and French con-
troll, and it is reported that those nations
will vie with each other in doing him
honor.
In all probability his first landing in
America will be at New York, and al
ready the most elaborate program of
welcome eyer accorded to an American
Is under preparation in that city. 1t is
proposed to organize a chorus of 5000
voices for a welcome of song, and the
$500 dinner" suggested is becoming
something of a byword. This matter of
rating the admiral's welcome in dollars
and cents can hardly prove pleasant
to him.
In Washington the citizens propose
to show their appreciation of the ma
tons hero in a practical way. A com
mittee has been appointed comprising
the assistant secretaries of the treasury
and navy, assistant postmaster general,
Brig. General. Corbin and others, to re-
ceive popular subscriptions for the
purpose of purchasing and furnishing a
handsome. home in Washington for Ad-
III ~" II lBllOu pau 10
national in its scope, and everyone can
have a part therein.
Hardly a city of any importance in
the country failed to extend by cable
an invitation to Dewey to visit them,
when his homecoming was announced.
So far as the invitations were dictated
by a desire to honor the admiral, they
were a proper expression of esteem but
from the character and wording of
many of the dispatches 1t seems tn t
the senders had primarily in view the
exploiting of themselves.
Vermont's part In the welcoming of
its famous son cannot well be devised
until his plans are fully know. That
he will visit his brother in Montpelier
is a natural inference. That he will
come here from scenes of popular en-
thusiasm-from banquets, from public
receptions, from speech. making, and
from every class of public demonstra-
ton calculated to thoroughly weary a
man of his known retiring disposition
is also to be inferred. Under such
circumstances would not the Ito HIM
most acceptable form of welcome posi-
BILE to be devised be one which would
eliminate the speech-making, banquet
ing, Handwriting and other forms of
public demonstration, and permit him
TO carry away memories of Old Yer
mont as a Mace where he ALWAYS can
find rest?
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-05-19

THE REGISTER is sent to subscribers, post.
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In requesting change OF address, subscrib-
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ADVERTISING rate.card will be sent on APP
plication. Copy must be in the hands of the
printers not later than Wednesday noon to
insure insertion in that weeks issue.
Cards of Thanks and Resolutions will be
charged for at local notice rates.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-05-19
BuokLEN's ARNIoA SALvE.

The best salve In the world for cuts,
bruises, sores ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, letter, chapped hands, chilblains,
corns, and all skin %erupt,ons, and posi-
lively cures piles, or no pay required. 1t
is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction
or money refunded. Price 20 cents per
box. For sale by w. Ii. Sheldon.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-05-19

1t must be a new experience to the
government to have a'public a%ppropria-
ton left very long in the treasury be.
cause of a backwardness in its accept
ance on the part of the beneficiaries.
But that $1,000, 900 for the Cubans is
still intact.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-05-19
FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1890.

1t certainly is refreshing to note that
China does not propose quietly to ac-
Russia and England in the matter of
trade concessions in China. She de-
clines to recognize their agreement as
binding on herself.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-05-19

a cannon from the Spanish war-ship
Maria Teresa has been placed on exhibit
ton in Lincoln park, Chicago. The gun
is II feet : inches in length n has a
5h-inch bore.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-05-19

BOOK AND JOB PRINTING IN every variety,
at the owest prices consistent with good
work and quality of stock.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-05-19
The concert given in Milton by the
University of Vermont clubs ELECTED this
most favorable criticism:

1t is claimed that so per cent of the
pillow manufacturing business will be
controlled by a newly formed natl nal
trust.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-12-17
CIVIL SERVICE LEAGUE.
Denied That Any Serious Differ
ences Occu-rred at Meeting.

INDIANAPOLIS Qnd.), Dec. 16.-The
Chairmen of the committees of the Ma
tional Civil Reform League to-day gave
out the following statement:
Reports stating that serious differ
ences occurred at the meeting of the
National Civil Service Reform League
in regard to the resolutions and report
of the Investigating Committee are
wholly false. There was no difficulty
at any time, either in the committee
or at the League meetings. The reso-
lutions were agreed to with absolute
unanimity, and no objection whatever
was made to any part of the report
of the Investigating Committee. No
secret session of the League was ever
held, and the entire statement of the
alleged dispute, which threatened to
disrupt the League is pure invention.
CHARLES A. BONAPARTE.
chairman Investigating COMMITTEE.
civilian DUDLEY Fake,
chairman Committee on resolutions.
'HERBERT WEIGH,
Member Committee on Resolutions.
'LUCIEN b. SWIFT,
Member Executive Committee
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-12-17
BANK FAILURE.
The Broadway National Of Boston
Goes to the Wall.

BOSTON, Dec. 16.-The Broadway
National Bank of this city has failed.
The Directors are John R. Graham,
Henry T. Lawrence, Frank O. Squire,
Roosevelt c. Downer, Frank w. Downer.
Frank o. Squire is connected with the
firm Of John P. Squire & Co., which as
signed yesterday with 100000 liza
bilities.
The Broadway Bank was incorporat-
ed in 1858. It's capital is 5000 600.
News of the failure became known
when the bank failed to open its doors
this morning, and a notice posted at
the entrance, read:
I'm the hands of the Comptroller Of
the Currency. D. G. Wing, Receiver"
The last statement of the Broadway
National Bank, issued at the close of
business December 9th, was as follows
Capital, $500, 900; loans, 81 1895, 900; cir
cufation, $4,000; individual deposits,
So, 34S,00 due banks, $131 900; due
from reserve agents, $247, 600; expenses,
clearing house, $273,OOO; due from
banks, $16S, 600; 5 per cent. funds. ST.
230; legal tenders, $15S,0OO; specie,
$4,000.
Of the Directors Roswell c. Downer
lis President and Frank o. Squire Vice
President.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-12-17
FEDERATION OF LABOR.
The Question Of Boycotting Causes
Much Contention.

DETROIT, Dec 16.-The question of
boycott action against concerns which
employ part union and part non-union
craftsmen caused considerable conten
ton in to-day's meeting of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor.
The matter was brought out through
consideration of a resolution declaring
that the boycott against Swift & Co. is
universal, and applies to the Swift
packing establishments in cities where
the concern employs union labor as we'll
as those where it does not.
Treasurer Lennon differed from most
of the speakers on this subject. He held
that it was inconsistent and unfair to
organized labor, and only retarded d
boycott to push it in industries where
union labor is employed. He offered,
however. the following addition to the
resolution:
Resolved, That union men should not
remain in the employ of any concern
which has been declared unfair by the
American Federation of Labor"
A resolution to place the Buffalo Pan
American Exposition on the unfair
list" was sent, with other similar dec
larations, to the Executive Council.
President Gompers arrived to-day,
and was warmly greeted by the con-
vention.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-12-17
ANGLo-BOER WAR.
Su1xer's Resolution According Bel
ligerent Rights to Transvaal.

SuxzeT8 NeSO1uC100 AccOxuAA8 oeA-
ligerent Rights to Transvaal.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.-Represen-
tative Sulzer of New York has intro
duced q joint resolution declaring that
a state of war exists in South Africa,
and according belligerent rights to the
Transvaal Government. The resolu-
ton is as follows:
Resolved, By the Senate and House
of Representatives that the Govern
ment of the United States recognizes
a condition Of public war between the
Government of Great Britain and the
Republic of Transvaal, and the United
States of America hereby declares that
they will maintain a condition Of strict
neutrality between the contending
Powers, and accord to each and all the
rights of belligerents in the ports and
territory of the United States. The
Congress of the United States protests
and demonstrates against the barbar
Gus manner in which the war has been
conducted by Great Britain, and the
President is hereby authorized to take
such steps as may be expedient in his
judgment to secure an observance of
the laws Of war as recognized by all
civilized nations, and bringing about
an honorable peace"
Mr.. Sulzer said of the resolution:
MY sympathy is with the heroic Beers.
They are making a brave and gallant
fight against odds for their homes, their
firesides and their liberties. We should
not secretly or openly help Great
Britain to their advantage. We should
accord the Beers all the rights of bel
ligerents. l want to see the Beers win,
and 1 hope they will. 1 am opposed to
the pig sticking mode Of warfare Great
Britain is carrying on. If what 1 read
in the papers is true, this cruelty and
inhumanity puts England beyond the
pale of civilization. shall do adj in my
power to pass this resolution. 1t will
come up in the House, and want to
go on record in favor of the Beers and
their Republic and against England or
any Anglo-American alliance expressed
or implied"