The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-08-20
MISCELLANEOUS Items.

wednesday aud, "Sausape Saw.
yer being President, nominated Reuben
Wood Tor reelection as Governor. Col
William Medll for Lieut.. Govsr,or.
and the following five for Supreme Cour,
Judges, now elective by the people: r.
?. Ranney, VIM. B. Caldwell, John A.
Ccrwin, L. w. Barley. aud Allen G.
Thurman. The " platform avoids all
alIuson TO the compromise or the fu..
gitlve sla We law
| The Free Democrats " free Soil
ers aud Locos) nf Ono hold a State
Convention at Columbus, on the 25th.
IL Livingston county, Illinois. twenty
"r th'rly women "hIpped Young wo-
man al 2Dtears very bruialy, dragged
her distance, aud wound up by apply.
ing To her coat OF tar and leathers.---
their indignation being reused against
her bccause she was believed TO have
ill-irealed child that lived IN her faith
ers family. Female lynchlng is some.
thing new,-perhaps an important step
towards the establishment of Woman's
Rights!
The operators in the daguerrentype
art, in New York, have all agreed to
wear Grape on the arm Tor thirty DAYS,
IN respect to the memory Of the found
er Of their art, who recently died in
France. This testimony is a worthy
one, but monument would be wor>
lhier.
Daniel Webster delivers the annual
Address Of the Mary land Agricultural
Society in October.
1t is stated that Miss Bremen will re-
turn to Sweden from this country the
last of this month She will publish
book on the United States, which will
be translated into English by Mary
| Hewitt.
A learned Judge being once asked
how re would act if man owed HIM
ten pounds, aud refused to pay him,
replied, Rather lian bring an action,
with IT'S costs and uncertainty, would
give him receipt IA full of all demands
yea. would send him, moreover. five
pounds t ,vcr all possible costs"
The Gu lera has prevailed more ex>
tensreIy in northern Illinois this sea-
son than in ANY other part Of the coun>
try. Around the village of Vermont, in
Fulton Co, 1t IS stated forty deaths have
occurred.
The object Of al! am zion should lie.
to be happy at homc. If We ARE not
happy there, we CANNOT De happy else.
where II Is the hest proof 1T the vir-
tues OF family circle, to see i happy
tresIde.
The new foa.'itulaa At Virginia
conIers the ~ it at ,niT-r .-e npon every
white male Citizen il votes to be CIV
Ell openly or ri1a ooce dumb persons,
only, being permitted TO vote by bal>
lot.
The new Liquor Law in Maine con-
TIMES 10 he riIldly enforced, and large
quantities Of liquor are seized uajer it,,
and emptied into the common sewers.
In a list Of measures tn which the
Governor General of Canada has given
the royal assent, n few DAYS ago, was in
cluGed the act to abolish the right of
Primngenture in the succession ni real
estate.
]. FENIMoRE CooPER We are hap>
ply to state that this distinguished gcn-
tlenan--in whose health al interest IS
felt throughout the State-is low ems
bled to ride out daily to his farm, and
receive the call, of his friends COop-
erstOpH J0arR0f
The centennial anniversary Of thc or
ganizaton Of Litch6eld county, Conn
was celebrated at Luch6eld, nn the 18Th
inst, by appropriate ceremonies There
was 10 have beet an Grafton by the Hon.
Judge Church, a poem by the Rev.
John Pierpont, and sermon by the
Rev. Mr.. Bushnell.
Curran being angry in debate one day,
put his hand on his heart saying,
81 am The tru>Iy guardian of my own
honor
: Then" replied Sir Boyle Roach. II
: conrratulate n,y honorable friend on The
snug -inccure - which he has appointed
, himsell.'
) OsLiGI~G the pro prielor of bone
; mill adver'scs thai ''tnose sending their
o,cn bones to The Iround, will he attended
tn wi'h punctna'ly and despatch"
! The Minnesota papers are rejoicing at
\ The ample aud wei -husbaNded school fund
/, oi thai territory. The G'eeu Bay Advo-
care Gays this TACT should mol he referred
to with such an air Of Triumph, since they
have also huSbdHdcd all the school mis,res>
SEES which have been sent 10 Iowa by the
Educational Society.
SALE OF WIVES IN ENGLAND.-- The
a English papers not unfrequenly cantain
accounts of the disgusting practice. which
is permi,ted in some of the districts of
; England, of selling wife. The Manches-
: Ter Courier gives an account oil one when
recently commenced in front OF the Angel
= Ian al Stockport, which however was bro
. ken up by the police after some bids had
been made, which commenced al seven
q pence and run up to ten shillings. The
e interference of the authorities caused great
e dissatisfaction TO the Gro wd, many OF whom
v believed that the sale of wife was strict
d y legal.
it New Jersey has larger colored popu-
o lalion IN proportion TO It's size and numher
d Of white people, than any olher OF the Tree
a States and more Than half of all the FREQ
/, colored people in the Union are TO be found
" in the Eve middle States, Virginia, North
y Carolina and Ohio, contain over 100000
" more leaving less than 100000 for the
j Other twenty-five States. In the Eastern
Y and Western States there are compare
n lively very few negroes
e L.teuoR DEsrRoytD.-ln Boston, let
y inst. the City Marshal, by direction Of Al