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Jh-JOLCl JK 133XSC3Xr COIT3NTTY 3"OXJI:t2Nr.3LJ.
VOT. L.
MIDDLEBURY, VT., NOVEMBEll 20, 1885
NO. 47.
The Prudent
INSUREH ngainst inevitable Loss of Lit'e or Propcrty, and rea
sons tlint DELAYS arc DANGEROUS.
Iiicltidnit tlic Ijiirgpst,
1 1 n, 1 1 ir; iii i iiii iiiiii iii ih
" Reliable Indcmnity, Prompt Scttlemcnts," is the motto of this
Agency. BROOKS represcnts thc LEADING FIRE COMPANJES
of the country nlso the
Old New York Life Insurance Gomp'y
which has pnid over EIG1ITY-ONE MILLIONS DOLLAHS OASH in claims to
policy-holders, uud now holds the largost surpliiH of nny Lifo Iusuraiico Company
in tho country, upon n 4 per ccnt rcservo basis.
THE FIDELITY AND GASUALTY INSURANCE GO, OF NEW YORK
Insures ngainst Accidcnt, Guarnntccs Fidclity to Trusts, and insurcs Plato Glnss.
200,000 depositod with Stato of Now York to protcct pohey-holders.
RSf Givc lirooks' Agcnoy n call boforo insuriug olscwhero,
MILTON A. BROOKS, Pro&, Middlebury, Vt.
Daniel Lambert !
-WILL STAND AT-
Thc Bread Loaf Stock Farm, middlebury
FORTY Mares have been covered, or
more approved marcs will bc taken.
TppU0 S100 to warrant ; $75,
' " mare not prove in foal
Record., 2:29,
Will stand at the Weybridge stables at vcry low pricc of $2,) with
privilego of return. Two marcs frotn satne owncr, $40. Two of AIo
tion's colts have becn sold at auutiou at over S500 eaeh. Lcss than a
dozen of his colts aro as yet 4 years old. We confidently oxpect to sec
his colts rank with the fastest in the Country.
DANIEL
is
not
yet produced. 11 e
has now 19 more
othcr living horse : and wc believc
LAMBERT
Jike equal establishcd merit have never belore been oiicred so low.
JOSEPH BATTELL.
Middlebury, VtM May 12, 1885.
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MIDDLEBURY, VERMONT.
May 8, 18S5.
Old Dr. Booth's
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for tbo removnl of stomach nnd seat or pln
worras Ironi cliild or adult. Hisi'iiay totakc;
ncver l'.iiln; absolutcly barinlesaand rcquircsno
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Albany, N. Y.
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(aoout rcauy;. Acnvo saicsmen wanicii.
OMIlk Strcet, oppostto thc 1' O., Iloston..
Ayer's
CherryPectoral
Should bo kcpt constantly at liand, for
uso In ernergenclcs of tho househokl.
Mauy a niothcr, startkd lu the night by
the ominous 60unds of Croup, fiud. tho
little suircrt'r, with red and swollcn face,
gaspinj; for alr. In sueh cas,cs Ayer'a
Cherry I'cctoral isluvaluablc. Jlrs. Knima
Gtduay, 159 West 12S bt,, New York,
writes: "AVhile in the country, last
wiuter, wy little boy, three years old, was
taken ill with Croup; it becmed as if ho
would dle from Mrangulation. Ayer's
Cherry l'ectornl was tried in small aud
frciucnt doses, aud, in lcss than half au
hour, thc little patient was brcathlng
casily. Thc doetor sald that tho Pcctoral
saved iny darlinsi'fl life." 3Irs. Chas. It.
Landon, Guilford, Conn., writca: "Ayer's
Cherry I'cctoral
Saved My Life,
and nlso the life of my little son. As ho
Is troubled with Croup, I dare not bo
without this reinedy iu thc house." Jlrs,
J. Gregh', Lowell, Jlass., writes: "Jly
childreu have rcpcatedly taken Ayer's
Cherry Pcctoral for Coughs and Croup.
It givcs iiiimediate rclief, followed by
cure." Mrs. Jlary K. Kvans, Scranton,
Pa., writes : "1 havu two little boys, both
of whom ba e been, from Infancy, Bubject
to violent attacks of Croup. About eix
months ago we bcgan using Ayer's Cherry
Pectoral, aud It acts llku a charm. In a
few minutes uftcr the cliild takes It, ho
brcathes casily and rcsts well. Evcry
mother otight to kuow what a blessing I
have found In Ayer's Cherry I'cctoral."
Mrs. AVm. C. Keid.Freehold.N. J. , writes:
"In our family, Ayer's mcdicines have
been biessings for tnany years. In cases
of Colds aud Coughs, we lake
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral,
and the Inconvcnlencc is soou forgotten."
PHKPAItED BY
Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., lowell, Maa.
Sold by all Druggistj.
MJUJifi Z
OUIT
East Middlebury.
Soino farincrs liearabouts llnd thclr
lands too wct to plow.
I.. Uitspel lias had nn additional alllle
tlon an cxet't'dltiRly sore liand.
Solon Suinner lat woek tiicked rlno
raspberrius nnd nlso strawberry blos
poiiih with set fruit on tlictn.
1). l.oomis Sesslons and wifo havo sold
their houso pnd lot to Mr. Elll?, the har-ness-maker;
considcratlon, $1000.
Tlierc Is to bc a Thanksirivlnff ball at
the Olen House on Wednesday cvcnliii;.
the 2,"itli. Tho Bristol oruhestra will
furnigh the iiiusiu.
The reniains of Dea. Dotv were last
week reinovcd from I'rosoc'et euniRterv
lierc to the one iu Salisbury. Mr. Doty
ionncriy nveii )n tliat town.
Orwell.
Henry Uurt is slowlv rceovcrlnir from
Inflaiuniatory rheuinatisni.
Mrs. 1. T. Branch h mtitc slck with
ncrvous prostration, but is reported a lit
tle bcttcr.
Or. and Mrs. Matlier aro sncndlnir a
few wccks in Boston, and are expected
hoiut! next week.
L. C. Aldrieh of Blnsrhamiiton. X. V..
is oanvassing tlio town for subseribers
to a completc history of Audlson eounty
soon to bc published by Daniel Mason
& Co. of Svracusc.
Capt. C. E. Ilall has beeu lavinir new
iron pipc to couduet water to his resi
tlence and barns as well as to tho lilsrli-
way. lhc lattcr iirrau2cment will bc
fjreatly appreciatcd by thc traveling pub
llu. Kev. S. F. Calhoun nreached an excel-
lent scruion to youn; men on Sunday
mornins' from Gencsis iii.. 21. and in the
cvening dclivercd a lecture on "Odd
I'eopie antt uud Tlilnes. ' The latter
your uorrespondent was not pcriuitted to
hear.
C. II. Bowker has iust bouirht a larrre
and convcnient house for the aceommo
dation of about thrco hundred hens.
wliieh he cxpects to kecp the coming
winter. Ile is also tuakiiiir oultc exten-
sivo repairs on his residenee. ilrs. Bow
ker is still In Brandon under medical
trealment by Doctor I'cck.
Dallas Laduke, whilo drawinsr a lanre
load of eorn from Whltinjr one cvenini:
to the l). V. II. Ilonon farui, stopped on
the pound lilll in Sudburj', where tho
roatt is sustalneu uy a vcry liigu cmbank
ment of stone wall, to rest his teatu ; and
on going back aftcr nnother load the
next morninjj found the road entircly
Kone wliere ho stopped the night before.
ltetiius pist eseaneu nrotiably fatal In-
jury to himsclf and team. v
Mrs. Deacon S. 11. Bascorn diud on
Sunday tuorniiig, Nov. S, aftcr a short
sieuness, 01 pncurnonia. bhe had becn
reported as reeoveiiiig. but disease of thc
hcart, with which she has becn atllicted
for years, took a llrm hold upon her sys
tcm and at last that organ refused to per
form its function. Tho funeral was at
tenJed froui her late residenee by a large
numuer ot retativcs and iriends on Tue6-
day, Nov. 10. Kev. S. V. Calhoun, her
pnstor, olllchtted, and Col. S. X. Warren
was in ehargc of the serviees. Jlrs. Bas
corn was lilt years of age, a cousistent
meiiibcr of the Congregational ehurch of
this town. Sho had been married three
timef, herllrst lnuband being Jlr. Burr
ot buuuuiy anu lior second Jlr. Mcliols
of the samo town. Sho was married to
Deacon Bascom somo 12 or l'i years ngo
Sineo coming to Orwell she had drawn
around her a circle of warm fi'iends. Her
loss will be greatly felt in thc church nnd
Sunday-scliool, where sho was an eatncst
worker. Her class of ladies, who will
rspeclally miss her as teaeher, appeared
111 a uouy as mourners. iier nlace in so-
eiety geuerally it will bc hard to 1111.
ratiton.
Dan Hogers is home for a two-weeks'
vaeatlon from the south part of the
eounty, where ho has becn tcachlng and
wtieie no expects to spend the winter,
C. W. Allen has sold his fcrry toL. W.
Spaulding, who onco owned an interest
in it with Juba Converse, but now proba-
uiy iceis tnat tlio winner is 110 who can
go it alonc.
Edward Lynch has got tho '"fcller"
tlmt found his pocket-book in the road,
tiie jelier says. Tiie booK cotitained
$125. His name is Abe Landeryille and
ho llvcs near by.
C. S. Curler's basc-ball nlne playcd a
mateh gaino witli the Westport (X. V.)
nino, best two in three, and caiue oll" vio
torious. The rubbcr was jilayed at West
port a week or tcu days ago."
Therc was au arrlval atFred Grandey's
several days ago. Your correspondent's
excuse for not memtioning it before
niust bo the tenacious condition of these
clay roads. F.ven the ncws cannot trav
el vcry fast.
It is reported tlto ''cullerd trooiis" that
so promptly relnforced Gen, Halloek
when he uioved on tho eneuiy's frout iu
a rcoent campaign at Vergennes receiy.
ed one of I'nclo Sam's papor weights ns
well as 1111 cxtrn ration of cider as a re
ward for their alaerlty and valor iu tlio
huttest of the coulllet.
Anv 0110 passing tlio old Geo. Itogors
pluei'jj would liardly recognlze It now.
Tho present owner, Henry Jliner, has
thoroughly ovurhauled tho dvell!ng,rais.
ing the eeller wall, aud making the
wliole structure nearly or (riltu us good
as new; aud, to put 011 the tlnislilng
touch, ho lias l ut down thc willow tree
tliat stood in front.
I'otatoe3 aro rottiug badly in ucllars
Somo report tlmt It takes nearly half a
btishcl from whleh to obtain sound tub
cr8forameal for a good slzetl faiuiley ;
but thobiggest slght we have seen was at
Jlr. aullivun b, wliere ns many as two
hundred bushels lity in thegarden, soft
rotten. Ile had brought tliein out of his
ccllar. His crop was nbout 500 bushels.
Tho death of Edgar C. Norton occurred
ui iiis rutiueucu un uiuuuny, riov. iu, ai'
ter an illness of sovcrril inonths from a ,
pcrofulons alleotion. 'llie funeial was ,
; ,V"'"V V . 1, , ' ,,1,,liv M!H1 "Pparca a bott e of b tters to
Tl.uiMlay followhig. Iicv. .1. fc. .Mott ,f- ilx the young man if thc flrst falled. the
tlciatlng. Mr. Norton leaves a wldow lut sto.y standing on no footing what
nn I elght clnldren to inourn lils loss. Hccver. '1'hU nvt.,?,in,i nn, v ..!....
..LA. .f l-A 1.1 .1. I
was inueli cstceuieu
as a ucighbor
and
frlend.
ffhitiiig.
Jlrs. Geome Carpcnter Is 011 thc slek
list.
Dr. W. II. Wriglit was hoiun at hi
father's over Sunday.
C. W. Bodllsh, station agent at Shore
ham, attcnded cliurch here last Sunday.
Leicester Junction was well icpre-
scnted at the Cotigregatlonal church last
Sunday.
EddieWait puts out a slgn of "the hijih.
est marketprieepald for potiltiy,"and he
mcans business, too.
If we eau have two wccks of this line
wcathcr, most of tiie potatoes will bedug
out of thc ground atul secured in some
sliapc.
Two Westcrn shccp men were at A. II.
Hubbard's Friday and Saturday. It is
not known whethcr thev wcrc lookers or
buyers.
Thos. Wilson, thc nieture man, is about
town again. A specimen of his woik
can bc seen at It. D. Xoodhanrs or at Al-
len Ketchum's.
Thc watcr iust washcs tiie lron rail 011
the Addison railroad at Green Island.
This is the third thne it lias doue it with-
iu tlic last eight months.
Ilcnry Jlatot, the blacksmith, had
a scrious time of it last week witli neu
ralgia iu the taee and a hard cold. Hc
had to giyc up work tlio wholc of the
wecu, uut is uetter now.
It is understood that an eldcrly lady
named Cudwortli is to keep the village
school the coming winter,and also that a
gcutleiiian of tlirce-seore years has been
eugageu in tiie south west distriot.
Thcre has been a vcrv livcly thne at
thc statiou thc past week. A tnan from
Fiovidenee is loading onlous for that
market, and A. G. Joucs is loading po
tatoes for the 1'autucket markct, paving
'i" cents and more for good potatoes.
Thcre is cnough wlioopiug cough and
to spare in some families about town. It
is a shanio for peoplc to let their childreu
run aoout town, to tlic station, post-ot-
tlce and store wlien thcy know they have
this disease. "Jlisery loves company,"
is tiie old saying.
George LaBounty shot a white hawk
a fcw niornlngs ago that measuics three
feet and a lialt from tip to tip of wings
and two fect six inehcs from head to tuil.
It was just 1!1 rods and one paee from the
place where I.aBountj' stood to tho post
where thc hawk sat. Xot a bad bliot for
a muzzlo-loading shot gun.
Klpton.
Jlrs. Martlia Danforth has been uway
fora week's yisit to hersister at Shrews
bury.
D. W. Watcrman had his poeket picked
of his witlict, containing a stim of money
and valuablo papcrs, a few days ago.
G. L. Kishcr, Wm. Harrington, Jl. II.
Ilamilton and W. Cusliman, ir., have
becn on the war path and put their
liou.es in repair.
Will the Kkoistek allow a correction
in the statement as to young Varney's
eating feat? He ate 2 1-1 pounds of
cheesc and drank a quart of molasses at
one sltting, if one may bolieve tliosc
present at tlio time.
A yaluable ox bclonging to Danfortli
& lloward was reccntly found dead iu
thc lleld under susplcious circumstauccs.
A careful cxamination showed conelu
sively that poison had been adminlstered.
Tiie house and barn 011 the iilaec sold
by Jlrs. Nancy l'latt have becn destroyeil
by tlre under ciruunistant'os that lead
niany to talk of foul tdav. The buildings
were lightly insured for tlic bencllt ot
Jlrs. l'latt, mortgagee. X. E. Gonyea
oceupleu the prcmlses and liail cousltlera'
blc pcrsonal propcrty burned.
A new industry has just been discovcr
ed of whicli (tor tho proent) Jlrs. II. u.
Hipley is the sole promoteress. In the
courso ot a few davs she will slup to
Chieago four milk-whlte kittens; and. ol
the four, three have more feet than al
lowed by the statuto in sueh case made
and iirovidcd, thcy liavin; on caeli lore
leg a foot and a half ; tenns of sale striet-
ly pnvate.
Tho many frlends of Gen. G. S. Xich-
ols, late speclal cxauiincr of tho pensiou
olliee, will be iilea'ed to Icarn tliat In the
receut clectlon In New ork He was cleet-
ed eouuty clcrk of Grecno eounty. For
the past thlrty years the olllco lias been
hold by a Denioerat, but the gallaut old
soldicr has, as usual. won the tlght,
througli lieaps of caluinuiy and abusi
not often meted out to any candidate.
On Tucsday cvening, tlio ,'ld Inst.. D.
C. Bent was in C. S. Albee's store and
called for some bltters to bo used by him
as a tonic. Jlr. A. handed him a bottle of
Wheat bltters, but sald ho knew nothing
or the article, so the cork was removed.
and, after tasting. Bent said he would
take tliem and called on Jlr. Albcc for ;
cork, tho old one tieing spolled. Wliii
they were looklng for 0110 Albert Varney
cauglit up tlio bottle and sald lie wa go
ing to drink it. Jlr. Bent and others told
him to let it alonc, but I10 iiersisted and
utanK tlio contents wltnlu a low mlnute
antl wcnt liome, worlted tho next two 01
tlirec days and atteuded a dancc Thur.-
day night. On Saturday hc called 011
Dr. II. C. I'owers at his residenee and
6ald ho did not feol well and pioeurcd
incillclno. The doetor was sent for Sun
day and saw him aud thought it inight bi
typlioid fnver. Jlouday nlglit lie eorn
plained of sore throat, hut this yielded
partially to treatmetit, but on Tue-iday
mornlng he died. Certain parties, wlsli
ing to injuro otliers, made tho statcnicni
that tiie bltters were drunk Friday night
and tliat Varney died from their oll'ects ;
consequently Drs. K. O. I'oiter and B. F
Sutton of Middlebury wcie sumnioned
and stated, after a careful po?t-niorteiu
examlnatlon, that the subjcct died from
congestlon of the lungs and nothing else
which quleted the little brceze that had
been ralsed; but quictnd It only to make
rooin for a froph st..itniiinnt n,nt n(i,.
that thc publlc may have a true state-
iiciii, ui a inatter tnat, before tho cxatn
inatinn, was sent to tlm nrr.a nf tlm faf
t)ioadcat Iu a irarbled fnrm.
West Fcrrislmrgli.
Henry E. Allen inwl wlfn
again, iiaving sold their place In Jiiddle
bury. loseph Xewton and wlfn ti
turucd from a two-wcek's visit at E. C.
Kcnyon's, Canaan, X. II.
French families at Newport have
acely lost 25 clilldrcn by diphtheria.
Chas. Ilrun has been arinstfd nr. rn.
trcal for stcallng a horsc at Fairflela last
August.
l.ondas Ellis. an insane Snrinutield
nian, hanircd himsclf Rntunlnv mnmtn
in his barn. "
rho State Teaelinrs' lumrtniinn t.nt
hold its annual meeting in Burlington in
ijunuury next.
George h. Brooks of Brattlehnrn will
give tliat town a handsome buildlng for
u puunu iiuiiir3-.
KeV. W. II. II. or Ailirnnilnnk Ar,irrn,.
has sold out his restaurant in Jlontreal
and will moye to Burlington.
An Alburg man clalms to liavn misprl
from one hill 229 potatoes, half of them
being largo enougli to be eaten.
Kev. W. B. Buekinsrham. formerlv nf
New Londnn, Ct.. lias accepted a eall to
irinity hpiscopal ehurclt in Kutland.
goldcn-headed carlo nioasurlne- sIy
and a half feet from tin to tin of ita
wings was shot last week at Hinesburgh
JUIIU.
Tho State Woman't Sufl'rairn nssne.ia-
tion will hold its second annual mcetinn;
it Danby on tlic Oth and 10th of Dnr.em-
bcr.
West Kandolph has been enjoving a
boom" the nast suuiiner. i ?arl v .'tO rinw
bloeks and houes Iiaving becn built
there during the season.
Whilo out huntiii!r Jlondav. .lames
Burn of Colchester was aceidentallv
shot by a coninaniou. The charso en-
tcred his forchead nnd killcd him.
A student at Saxton's Kiver. Burt
Fieid. tried to lltrlit a iire witli kerosene
tnd tiie stiill' suddcnlv blazed un and
sovercly burned him about tbe face.
Jlrs. Clarenee C. Hard drowned her-
sclf in a sinall stream near her home in
Arlington lat Thursday. Grief at tho
los of a little daughter was one of tho
causes.
Tlio horse cars for the Burlincton
railroad failed to arrive lat week, and
the eelebration of the opening had to be
postponcd till Jlonday night, when there
were great doings.
I'lie Vermont Farmcr has ceased to
exit, its subsenption list iiaving been
sold to tlic New England Farmer. It
was an alleged agricultur.il papor with
lieadiiuartcrs at West Kandolph.
project is on foot for the buildiii"; of
a railroad from Jlontpelier to Hardwick,
14 or 1.1 miles, to eonnect tlio St. Johns
hury & Lake Champlain and the Jlont
pelier & Wells Kiver roads.
Tho trustees of tlic soldiers' home
mect in Jlontpelier thc 21th to elect olll
eers, organi.e tho lionie, cousider when
to build and where to locatc and also to
conMder Vennont's war claim against
the 1'nited States.
K. C. Farsons of Derby Line claims to
own the tnmahawk witli wliicli Hannah
Dustan of Deerlleld, Jlass., iulled the
Indians who had taken her captivc, and
wns tlius enfiulcd to inaKe ner escapc.
Tlio relie is vouclunl for as genu'me.
Jlr. Lamino's lanip exploded at St.
Johnsbury tiie otlier night iust as he was
getting into lied, set his sliirt on tire and
burned it almoH from his body. He
ejcaped without serlous Inuiry, tuougti
tiie bursted lauip iguited tbe table-clotli.
Tho several hundred Verinonters who
organi.ed a colony at Koyaltou last Jlay
and moved into Dakota tind theuiselves
on 11 prairie at the beginnlng of winter,
in snug liouses. witli churcli. school,
Grand Army post and dr.uuatio elub.
Tliey naine tluir town Loyaltou.
Jluch con5tcrnation and grief preyall
about Guilfoul over the dlseovory that
the village cider-mill lias been grindiug
out cider tliat contains perilous quantities
of lead from paint in tiie tank. Three
men 111 e very siek froui it, and many
otliers are fearful of hnving to go dry
this winter.
A wonian giving her nr.me as Mablo
Jloulton from Kandolph, left the after
noon exprcss train at Windsor Thursday,
and jumpcd into a brook near the depot
In au attemnt to klll herself. The cold
water made her chauge her mind nnd ehe
managed to crawl out. Sho was on her
way to this eity for treatmeut, but cou
cltided to liide her siiaino by drowning.
At Kutland, Friday. Warren Green, a
cripplo, and L'atriek Fltzgerald, employ
es in a liverv stable, qunrrellcd and
Green struek Fitzgerald a terriltle blow
on the head with his heavy erutch, fr.iet
uring the skull. Thc disputc was about
Green's favorito horso wlileh Fitzgcrald
whipped. Green is held to await tho
result ot Fitzgerald's injury, .vlileli may
prove fatal.
Geueial Jlanager.I. K. Woodward nf
the Quebce Central railroad was arresteil
at Newport Wednesday, nhlle 011 the way
to his lionie lu Sherbrooke from a Kurope
an trlp. After sending a dispatch order-
Ing n speclal tralu 011 his load to Drlng
down his lawyer. hc accompanied tho
sherlll' to tho .Memphremagog house.
.Iust ns his speclal tialn baeked Into tho
depDt he made a dash for it, the olliccr
bemg in hot pursuit. The managcr
Jumped aboard his ear, which was
wliisked rapidly out of town, leavlng tho
dlsgusted sherlll 011 the depot platform.
IinpoUtncy In man or woman curod by liil.
niorr. Aromatic Wine.
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