The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1854-05-10
Miscellaneous Items.

opponents
the Nebraska bill, outside of the regular
parties, and to make nominations without
any reference to old party issues. The
Detroit Free Press, the organ Of the AID.
ministration,is greatly disturbed BY this
movement.
Scion Borland has written 10 hi,
friends at Washington, tina, he has re.
signed his position as Minister to the
Central American States, to take effec,
this month. He is expected to arrive
in New Orleans by the next Californis
steamer.
The bail of John Charles Gardiner,
indicted for perjury, amounting to si2,-
600, was on Monday declared forfeited.
he not appearing when called for trial be-.
fore the Criminal Court at Washington
1t is said that he fed to Cuba three
weeks ago
Major Wyse, of the Sd Artillery. is
now under arrest at Governors Island
for disobedicnce of orders He was in
command Of the troops for California
which sailed in the Falcon, but refused
TO 20 out in that boat, as he did not con.
slider her scaworthy
EDucArroN IN VmGlylA.-The Rich.
mond Wing argues tho necessity for
adopting more efficient system Of edu.
cation in that State, 1t says.
Every decade exhibits rapid and
fearful increase of this mass ofignorance.
In 1880, the number of the unlettered in
/ Virginia amounted to 10000. In 1850
it exceeded $4,000. At this rate. il will
not require many centuries to extpguish
all knowledge of letters in the State"
The State Superintendent Of Common
Schools in Louisiana, recommends that
two out OF every three Of the school d.
rectors should know how to read and
write. In one parish, the warrant oftho
teacher on enstead of the signatures
contained the mark Of Twelve different
directors.
A Coon Hlr-Speaking of the fresh
ct in that city, the Albany Journal says:
q" The Argus office, always sturdy ad-
vocate Of canal enlargement, for once
got too much of it, the occupants this
morning being greeted by the appearance
Of the canal boat at tho back window,
apparently trying to effect an entrance
The lower part Of the city this morning
presented the appearance Of Venice, but
with the palaces and gondolas left out
"Arstocracy," said Gen. Foy, in the
French Chambers, is tho condition of
those who would consume without pro.
ducing live without working, know with
out learning. carry all honors without
deserving them, and occupy all the
, places Of government without being able
toIfll them"
Manchester N H has now 1900 in-
habitants in 1910, it had but 3,235.
Thirty years ago, it was one Of the poor
est towns in the State, with only ! 900
to 800 Inhabitants, subsistiug by fish
ing and poor apology for Agriculture
Manufactures have since effected the
transformation.
E A Paris letter says A man in the
Gironde who undertook to 1.-Two five years
without money, recently died two months
before the expiration of the five years,
during all which time he was never
known to be in the possession of sin
gle solitary Sou"
\ patent has just been taken out in
France for making sugar from pumpkins
The quantity produced will be at least
as great as could be obtained from an G.
quail quantity of beetroot.
1t is said that Mr.. j. G. Eveleth. who
: few years ago was teaching school in
winters in order to pay his term bills in
Bowdon College, has recently sold to
company in New York his interest in
patent iron pavement for the sum of one
hundred thousand dollars Mr. Eveleth
entered the law school at Cambridge ut
the last term.
, Mr.. Wcbster's friends do not respond
: TO his dying wishes, aud his estate is an
: nounced to lie insolvent. George w
Nesmith is administering upon it as
commissioner.
The Washington Star says "Colone
Colt will realize stupendous fortune
, out Of the Eeastorn war The Russians
will be armed mostly with his revolvers,
and SO will most of the officers in the
English and French armies
) Rev. j c Richmond, who was under
arrest in Austria some time since, is now
in the Turkish camp, acting as cores
: poudenI Of the London News.
We learn that the Rev DR.. COR Of
Trinity College, Hartford, who recently
| received call from St. Paul's Church
in Troy, has accepted that call.
The Cork Reporter refers to a curl.
; Gus feature in the present emigration
= mania in lreland--namely, q kind of
of panic from apprehension OF being
pressed for the war.
| The longest pastorate ever held in
Now England was by the late Rev Sam
ucl Mott, D. D., of Franklin, Conn,
namely. seventy years during all but
three of which he discharged all the du-
ties of pastor entirely unaded, and lack
CD but twenty months Of one hundred
years Of age at his death -Neio Haren
Journal
J The Dayton Gazette speaking of the
Ward case, gays: "When the Jury
went out it was generally feared they
would hang it is now tho common belief
! that hanging is too good for them"
There is now living in Corinth, Pen
obscot county, Me, woman who has at.
tanned the remarkable age of ll2 wears.