The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-03-24
Miscellaneous Items.

1rJohn Malloy has been arrested in New
York, for the murder oil his wife Mary NAL
10y, who was found dead on the floor Of their
residence. Rum was the principal cause.
DsA report 10 the Governor, by the trus-
teese of the State Bank of Illinois, states
that the assets are not sufficient to pay all
tho liabiIiiies-and that, therefore. the stock
Of this uefunct institution is worthless.
fsTGov. Hunt, of New York, has signed
The Crystal Palace bill.
tSTCosta Rica papers state that Gen.
Flores had left Peru for Ecnadar, with tue
determination to conquer The place.
H9y Advices from the island of lIayti to
the 9Th inst. state that great preparations
were making for the coronation Of the En-
peror, which was TO take place on the 18th.
On the occasion, a grand feast is TO be given,
aud 10000 troops will be paraded. The
day will be observed as a festival through
out the Island, ana it is supposed that not
less Than $4,000 strangers will be at Poit au
Prince on the occasion.
u3-The Steamship Ohio left Havana on
the I'd inst. for Chagres, with 1000 passen-
gers.
rVTbe late Michael Allen, of Pitisburg,
Pa, at his decease left S45,0Oo TO bene,o-
len, institutions. The largest bequest was
$4,000 10 the Presbyterian Board Of For
eien Missions-hal. Of the sum 10 aid the
jews.
eFIn Oshkook there i. a curious rase on
trial, Two mothers, a while woman and an
Indian, claim the same child, and there is
powerful testimony on both sides. We would
recommend King Solomon's famous test in a
similar case.
fS-JAmes Milward was on The 18th inst.
mulcted in $4,000 damages. in the Superior
Court CT New York at the suit OF Thomas
Maloney, for the seduction Of his daughter.
while living in the service OF The deiendsn..
[TTIn Cincinnati, a few days since. a
man once a respectable merchant, doing n
good business, committed suicide in a gam
bling house. After losing $780, his all, with
IL demoniac yell he leaped from his chair,
and drawing a long dirk, plunged it five or
six times into his breast, INJECTING deep and
ghasily wounds.
sG- The Worcester Transcript says that a
large company has been formed in that city
Tor the manufacture of a new and improved
shovel, which has recently been invented by
a citizen Of that place.
EF-No professional man lives so much
from hand TO mouth as a { dentist.
b5Henry Gibson. one of Washington's
Life Guards, died suddenly on Monday last.
at his residence in Orange Co., n. Y. He
was born Feb. II. 1881, and was therefore
over iOi Years OF age.
e3SFour slaves in Brentville, Va, tied up
Richard Porter, an oveIseer, and whipped
him so severely with hickory rods, that his
recovery is doubtful.
E8-The next expedition sent out by The
American Colonization Society. for Liberia,
will suil from Baltimore on the first of May.
eGrThe Louisiana Legislature have pass
ed a bill exemptins $3.50 worth oil proper
~ from seizure for debt.
gFrhe Captain OF the barque Action,
from Liverpool, at New Orleans, has been
ined $4,000, for outraging The persons Of
two female passengers.
scMr. Hill, apork-packer, of Mt. Tabor.
Iowa, having offered n premium for the
heaviest hog killed al his house. received
five hogs in competition. The lishIesl weigh
ed 7l9, and the heaviest I9l lbs.