The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-10-22
Miscellan eous Items.

a correspondent ofthc North Star wiring
from South tlnrlwick, under the dale of Sept.
27th says -" During the present month this
village has been visited by an epidemic dcnum-
mated by physicians, Dyscntcry of Typhoid
Fever, which has proved fatal in many inst noes
To the inhabitants OF tins place. our village
has unusually had an air of heal ,hfulness, this
visitation is in some degree alarming, as there
are at this date daily new eases of persons at
. tackled, and deaths from the disease. The com
mencemcnt of the disease was principally upon
children, nut more recently the middle aged are
attacked, though it docs not prove so fatal with
the latter class as the former VIII makes it
still moro alarming it appears TO be beyond the
skill Of the most able practitioners in our vi
riniiv, as npnthccnrv, homeopathicy and no
tanical physicians have been engaged TO qucll
the rivagcs Of The disease. There have been.
in all, fifteen deaths, being about one fourteenth
part of the inhabitants Of the village
MicniGAN RAILROAD CoTspIRAToRs. -
The Kalamazno( NichiganJ TELEGRAPH saws
that DR. Farnham and another Of lhc pris
oncrs, while on their way 10 the State prison.
male n free and oTen COME sion Of he : u I
IN The participate Of The burning ofthe depot
nj Detroit, AMI stated that not only all rf
them were guilty out that there were others
deeply inn Heated who had not heen arrest ed
or suspected. Their names he did not give
The UTIcA Arson TRIAL Horace b.
Con-, lin, whose trial and conviction ,ermi-
mated on Friday, the jury having been out
but eight minutes, has been sentenced to be
hung on the 2lst of November.
The briggs Rescue and .idrdnce, now
under The laws regulating the naval service
Oi the United States, v III This week be de>
livered up To Mr.. Henry GRiNNELL. their
original owner and be pared in The Atan>
tic Dock. Brooklyn. 1t is not the intention
of Mr. Grinncll 10 apply these vessels to
any commcrcnlpurposc for the present. but
10 keep them in readiness, suhjecrro the
order Of tn Government, in case il should
he disposed to renew The search for Sir
joins FRANKLIN in the spring .-New York
Courier.
The (Ohioi Hcrald. the day sfier The
election, took down the rame of General
Scott, Which it had borne al the head Of
its columns during the canvass.
A REVOLUTIONARY PArRror.--The Ben
nington tVr) Banner records he death on
the lllh ofSeptrmber OF Mr.. Samuel San.
ford, OF Bennington, aged 80 wears After
speaking of his holy religious life. the Ban
ner remarks " lie had just entered his 7lh
year when he volunteered 10 meet the vets
eran invaders under Colonel Baum, in the
FIRST 10 mount the Hresiau breastwork. and
is probably the last Of that brave band of
worthless"
BIEDs.-Nliss Linl and Miss Hayes are
already familiar 10 us by the names of the
Swedish Nightingale and the Swan Of Erin
hut what shall we call Lola Monies, who is
not bird of tho same feather? Suppose
call har thu nu,k of Da,.os;,
Times.
OPPOSITION on LAKE CnAMPLAlN-
On Thursday, the 25ih Sept, new and
very splendid steamer was launched at
Whitehall, designed TO run in opposition TO
the old line. She was built by Colver, the
famous Hudson river steamboat builder, un-
der the superintendent eff Capt. Chapman,
who is 10 be her commander Her model is
said TO be perfect, and she is to be equipped
and put on the route in few days. Boston
Post
friend OF one Of our contemporaries saws
that he has been without money so long thai
his head aches " ready TO split" when he
tries to recollect how silver dollar looks
He says that the notion that we live in
world OF "chGnge" is great falacy.
RESIGNATION OF THE CANADIAN CABr-
NET-Toronto, Thursday, Oct. 2. The
resignation oil the entire Cabinet reached
Lord Elgin on Tuesday, and no one has yet
oeen sent for TO form New Ministry. II
is universally admitted that the Tories can,
not come in.
~ The United States brig PERU Cap |
a. IL. roorE, arrived al Monrovia Alricn) |
yune 20, III nine days from St. Helena, all |
we'll capt Foot reports shat the slave !
trade on the South Coast is (" ON lis last |
iegs." Further north it is already nearly
PROSPECTS OF LIBERIA.-Ilis with oreat
pleasure we learn that by a residuarv leo.
acy Ieii TO the New York Colonization
society Tor the support of Young colored
men III an Institution of learning, that n
Iunu Oh about S25l0O0 will soon be avail
ape while, by the liberal donation of ans
u'"er oeneidclor, who considers education |
'e,great need oil Africa whose scholarships |
oil y l5Oo each have been endowed, md d. |
rectlons given TO President Roberts at once
10 select suitable persons, and have them
IN an immediate course OF preparation.
Goat up town that will drink beer and
chew tobacco with the oldest haJit,,e of ,he
rewter Mug. We did not think one of the
goat tribe could fall so lov.-N. Y. Times.
How To Know A FcoL.-A fool saws
me hrah proverb, may he known by six
"ings anger without cause, speech with
oul profit, change without motive, inquiry
without object, putting trust in a stranger. F.,
apu Dot knowing his friends from his foes