The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1855-05-30
Miscellaneous Items.

blngly VI tue grips Vi that STATE.
New lIAMPsHIRE-ThcL Legislature
Of New Hampshire will assemble on
Wednesday, June 9th. The session will
he one of much importance, as two
United States Senators arc to be chosen
besides complete change Of State Of
6cers.
jenkins on TuE TmANGULARs Some.
body propounds the query, "Wby do
pawnbrokcrs use for a sign three balls
suspended triangularly ?" jenkins 70.
plies that, " he is not historically posted
thereupon, but supposes the suggestion
implied is, that when poor fellow puts
anything in their clutches, it's two 70
one he never gets it back again"
In return for the splendid tiara. value
about 100000 rea s. recently present
ed to the Pope by the Queen of Spain.
bis Holiness has sent her Majesty the
body of St. Felix the Martyr
say. John, why is that umbrella Of
yours which is so full of holes. like tho
one lost the other day?" i don't know
Sam Because it ought to be recover.
Cd
The nary Of Mexico consists at the
present Of three Adm;rals, and n yawl
boat, the last friga'e having beon broken
up for kindling wood.
Kossuih concludes his last letter to
the New York Times thus. "Thc vol.
cano is boiling-no peace.-and an crup-
&c 10
Elihu Burritt is engaged in very in.
nocent advertising enterprise, the object
of which is to abolish wars His plan
is to publish as an advertisement in all
tue periodicals of Europe a brief homiy
on the evils Of war, and the benevolent
people of this country are requested to
contribute their money to accomplish
tins object. Elihu has more confidence
in bis homilies than We have. Elibu
may be regarded as an excec dinghy mild
species of humbug - Boston Chronicle
One half the energy that was exertcd
by the administration in tho,renditiop Of
Burns, one half the expense that was au'
thorlzed in that case would have secured
to the people of Kansas the quiet enjoy.
ment of their rigLts of citizenship
PROF.. Journal
Bishop Timon has withdrawn his in
terdlct against tho church Of St. Louis
in Buffalo, and his sentence of excom.
mnnication against the Trustees, who re-
fused to surrender the property of the
church into his hands
They had better let Prentice alone.
The following is the way in which no
pays bis respects to Mr.. Wickliffe, who
made an attack upon him recently in
political speech:
Mr. Wickliffe calls us an abolition
ist.' The charge is not only false but
ungcntlemauly. The truth is. Mr.. ".
"erer haul any part 9fa gentleman III
lam except When lie once tit off anil
Ssca@'oWcl q gcAtlemans car"
Theodore Parker at the anti slavery
convention i'll New Yolk, in discussing
the present position of parties, said that
Mr., Seward was live man. tied TO a
dead party, and could not rise to Office
or honorable ambition that the whis
party was like capacous mill pond, sur
rounded with complete buildings and
appearances, without drop of water
and no chance FOR having answer to the
oft repeated prayer for rain. The A,
lnerican party had no unity; and if OPP
position were withdrawn it would fall to
pieces il is held up mostly by opposi-
tion, and its props were the wing AMI
democratic parties
1t used to be said years ago, that the
Abolition party was. made up of wise
and good men but the wise men wero
not good, and the good ones were not
wise.
The report that Mrs. Stowe vas burnt
in efigy by tho students of the Univer-
si;y of Virginia is contradicted by Miss
Catherine Beecher.
Post Master Kendall has been held
for trial in the L S. District Court at
New Orleans charged with robbing the
mails.
A bureau of Agriculture has been or
ganized in Tennessee, Of which Gov.
johnson is President An increasing
interest is manifested there in ogricul-
tural improvements
The Jewett family are to have gath
ering at Rowley. on the fourteenth of
June, this year. This is one of the most
extensive families 10 the United States
The Jewetts emigrated from England
and settled in Rowley in 1858; ard
there has lived descos Jewet, ever
since
Theodore Parker has been lccturipg
on Slavery, at Wilmington, Delaware,
and was well received by the people of
that slaveholding state.
The manuscript Of Irying's Life Of
Washington is all written. The first
volume will be ready on on the tenth Of
June, the second in August, aud the
third in November
Beyond the fixed and settled rules
Or vice and virtue in the schools
Beyond the letter % the iaw,
That keeps our men and maids in awe
The better part should set beloreem
A grace, a virtue, a decorum
Something that gives their acts light,
Makes them not only Just but bright,