The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1854-09-27
Miscellaneous Items

Hon. John w. Taylor. formerly
Saratoga county, New York, aud Speal
or of tho United States House of ReT
reschtatives, died in this city on Monday
in tho Z LIST year of his age Cicrcland
Herad, 1871 inst.
English TravcHcr. "IIi say. sir. han
/ on the right road to 'Artford" Jon
athan. " We'll you be" Traveller. "Oe
Tar shall l ave to 90 before / get thercl
jonathan. " Well, if yeou will turf
reound and 60 t'other way, may be yeo1
will have to travel abeout ten mile. Blu
if yeou keep on the way you are going
yeou'll have to go about eight thousand
| reckon
Lord Elgin is not likely to leave Can
ada until he has given the royal assen
to the Clergy Reserves Sccularizatior
Bill.
Attorney General Cushing is prepar
ing to carry the Booth case, on whicI
the Supreme Court of Wisconsin deci deC
against the constitutionality of the Flu
eitive Slave Law, up to the Suprem
Court Of the United States.
As three boys we're playing in a yaw
boat at Detroit on the / 9Th inst, hun
dredpound sturgeon bounded into thei
boat, and was killed by them.
CLERICAL PuN-A parishioncr I'M
quired of his Pastor the meaning of thi |
line in scripture '' He was clothed with
carscs as with garment ut signi|
fies," replied the divine, that that indi|
vidual had got a haJit of swearing"
The Albany Register says there ard
more than 100000 now living unreI
claimed in the Savings Bank Of New
York, some of which has been there fifth
years, and suggests, in an article. tina
the money should 60 to the State.
William \. Howard has been nomil
mated as the wing candidate in the Firsd
Congressional District of Michiran|
The Detroit Advertiser says no betted
man could have been selected, and conf
siders his election certain. The Fusion
Congressional Convention has concnrred
in his nomination.
The New. Orleans riots are over. Tbd
yellow fever at Savannah and the choll
era at Pittsburgh show little or no did
intuition in virulcucc.
One day Henderson, tho actor. met
DR.. johnson in Bolt court and being
introduced to him, the conversation
turned on dramatic sabjects Hender-
son asked the Doctors opinion Of Mr..
Reeds Dido and of its author. Sir
said johnson, Il never did the man an
injury yet he ,roH(a real his :ragcely
10 me-
Rev. Dr. Walker, of Pittsford. had
his pocket picked Of sum Of money.
while attending the State Fair at Brat.
tleboro.
Thomas Casey. the freshman conyic.
ted several months since Of the murder
of Mr. and Mrs Taylor at Natick, is to
BIZ hung on Friday, 18th. in the jail yard
Mt East Cambridge. His crime was ono
Of the most ieudi.h and deliberate ever
perpctrated in tie STATE.
GE judge R.}iuson. Of Albany.
has decided that railroad tickets not in
tue hands Of dona G.te purchasers, are
# no intrinsic value. aal hence no, a
subject Of larceny.
= - In Savannah, latoly. the last
blood Kin Of George Whitfield. the en-
At divine who came out with Ogle.
Pc, was followed from a garrett to
zee grave"
GS& y mar named Bordman recent
ly made his escape from lynchinc a. La
Grange, Ga. The offence against him
was tue uttering Of Abolition senti.
mcuts
MAlNE.-Returns from remote towns
in the State have been gradually reduc-
Ing Morrilrs supposed majority for the
Governorship, and it is now thought that
he will lack about thousand votes Of
election by the people.
MAIL RoBnERY.-Arthur c. Nelson.
postmaster at Kecseville, Essex county.
\. y, and editor of Democratic pa
per at that place, has been arrested aud
taken before Commissioner in Troy on
charge Of robbing the mail.
DETROIT Sept. 20. VIM. A. Howard,
an anti-Nebraska Wing of this city was
nominated by Wing Congressional
Convention today