The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1850-08-13
GENERAL SUMMARY.

Some thirty years ago, a clothier in
New York State remarked to a friend,
" Look at that young man, Just passing
the hest workman in nv shop. He is
going to make a fool of himself by leav.
ing a good trade TO study law" That
young man is now President of the Uni
ted States.
The Post Master at West Penn,
~Schuylkill county, Pa, advertises a list
Of one letter remaining at his office on
the LIST inst, aud appends to it, the very
important notice, that Persons apply
ing for letters in the above list, will
please say they are advertised !"
DR.. Francis, Of New York, has been
made LII. d. by Trinity College, Hart
ford. Rev. Henry Norman Hudson, the
lecturer OH Shakespeare and the poets,
has had the honorary degree of A. NJ.
conferred upon him by The same %institu-
ton.
The National Era at Washington, the
leading Free Soil organ, says ofthe Cab
inet-"ScctiOnoiiy viewed, there is moth
ing TO complain of-the President and
three of his Cabinet being from the non
slavehoIding States, and four from the
slaveho!ding." Nov reversed-4 to 3.
The Hon. ID. ID. Barnard, of Albany,
late member Of Congress, and distin-
guished for his ability as a writer and a
statesman, has been nominated as Min,
lister to Prussia.
Margaret O'Conner, 1.-The reputed wife
Of Bristol Bill, who escaped from pr,s-
on in New York some weeks since, has
been re-captured. She was found on
board a Liverpool packet at one OF
the wharves Of the city.
Gen. Wool declines the urgent sol;c>
i%tations of the democracy Of New York
to be their candidate for Governor. He
prefers not to train in that company. "
The Wing candidates for the vacant
Congressional Districts of Massachusetts
are LIST, SAMUEL A. ELIOT ID, Rev.
CnAs. ", UrnAn; 4th, Benz. TnoMr-
SON. Election next Monday.
Robert Pate. for the assassination
Of The Queens bonnet with an ounce cane,
has been convicted Of sp ling n very
pretty bonnet, and transported Tor screen
years,
Judge Mcclure made a very rea.
sonable request of the members of the
bar, at Pittsburg, Penn, lately, lie
said 81 hope gentlemen engaged in d.
vorce cases will not allow their clients ia
call upon me-ihe females especially.
They annoy me and besides, their man.
ner of proceeding is very improper.
Miss MirgAret Ann Thornton, late
Principal of a female academy in Jackson,
Miss. and belonging 10 Thornton's Ferry,
n. H., was found dead in her bed at the
Delavan House, in Albany, on Friday az
ternoon the Goth ult. She arrived in that
city on " edncsGay, from Buffalo. and was
on her way TO her friends in New Hamp-
shire. She had sent out for n bottle OF
chloroform, which it is surpassed she took
to allay pain or the effects of disease, and
thus met death. Such was The result of a
post mortem examination before the Cofo.
ner's jury. She WAS a young lady Of ed.
ucaiion and accomplishments.
The Hon. Thomas Bartlett, Jr.. OF
Lyndon, was nominated for Congress at The
Locofoco District Convention AT Danville,
on Thursday last. In Committee, the first
ballot was: Bartlett, 10; A. J. Rowell, 7
and Jacob Scott. /. and finally, unanimous
for Bartlett. Mr.. Rowell may as well sup
press his aspirations for a seat 10 Congress
the porly did not mean he should be
nominated, and they never will nominate
him. He wasn't a member of The Balti.
more Convention in 1913, and didn't sup.
port Gen. Cass for the Presidency. The
free democracy deal out only small Offices
TO the duped, and they will grow beautifully
less, by Time aiedonian, Sd inst.