The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1855-07-18
Miscellaneous Items.

/ Not much has yet been done towards
enforcing the liquor law in Now York
city
The New Hampshire Senate on Tues
day, BY vote of 10 to /, passed tho
Liquor bill with certain amendments
which DO not in any way affect the effici.
cncy of the bill as it passed the House.
Captain James Smith, who was tried
ana found guilty in the United States
Circuit Court near Troy. of traffieing in
slavcs, was on Monday sentenced bv
Judge 1ngersoll to pay eno Of Al oo9
and to be imprisoned for twoptv on,
months. '''
Woot~-The intelligence from the t,r.
ropean Markets show d tnarked cbang.
in the article of wool viz an adtaneo
ct 10 or 20 per cent Thore is also mora
inquiry for American wool.
The Chinese have u great reterencs
Tor anything written. Public function.
aries are employed to collect carefully
from the road side and etcry heap Of
rubbish any scrap iha, has been written
on or printed. 1t is carefully FAXED ont
oi the less dignifcd dirt with which il
has been polluted, and honored by being
burnt.
Gen. Sam. Houston made sbeeot IN
Houston, Texas on the Sth of June. in
which he assailed the Nebraska bill and
the Pierce administration.
The Bellows Falls August saws that
Hugh II. Henry, p r. Chandler. and
j. 5. Williams have been purchasing
quite farm in the north bart of the
state, consisting of 10000 acres, all we'll
timbere6
MlLirAEy COMPANIES DsRAsbep -
Cincinnati, July 10. Gen Sargcant
made formal demand of each of the
military companies forming the Irish
battalion to deliver up forwith all arms
and accoutrements III their possession.
This order being obey,d bt cnly one com.
pany, the General served out writs of re-.
plevin, and took possession Of the entire
equipment of the other Companies. A
similar demand is to be made on all the
movement is the characterization evinced
by these companies on the 4th of July.
There is much excitement on the sub.
ject.
CINCINNATI, July ld.-The U. S. Com.
missioner, to day. in the case of enistinp
troops for the Crimea held Consul Rowe.
crnit in the sum of $4,000 Turnbull and
Hamilton $1,000 each. and Cnptain
Iashner on his own recognzance, to an.
pear before the L. 5 Court to answer
the charge. Capt. Mckay, Agent of
the British Government, was too sick 10
appear before the Commissioner, and his
friends gave the required security.
Rock ISLAND, July l3.-Stoddord.
the murderer, wns taksu to the scaffold
Mt IL o'clock noon. to-day. lie spoke
acknowledging the murder Of his wife,
ayowIug that liquor was the cause. Tho
Drop fell at half past ono. About 5000
persons witnessed the execution.
Ea Tho Treasures Of st Petersburg
arr Always removed to Moscow in tme
/ OF war A correspondent Of tho Boston
T0nSc'tPt, who is now visiting thu lat.
ter city. says.
- was assured that the bullion now
held by tho ~ e as E sAIrouS 'ne sum
estimated v,lno ~ oo,,I ,-' '.sih anu u"
most f,b,Ions hnct1 '' CIV J'%eiS Is at
;cwols auJ roo,,, G'' "s , "n,cn 'he crown
comnara, H s";" y, h"s'"nu s''k into
,bo r;nb"', ,. ~" = "' .,I m mere l saw
cvccnt;on nj r., ~ i. al i'ussIa WIN one
mo noo rnh,aa s. - '; I"'u 70 DC worth ~
boorJ ,hat ,I,a.n "'or nave since
nosscss;ons ~. w." ION Goo Cu non nn'sG rePu'e"
I sow ill., ",. vo''o0'ovo 'up'es silver
n,no" ,h w., 0,",u' !" ~" most n'ti"G
RI ~, h,,,,;' e"u'o ''o'''' "Aere Is stof'
w '''O o"'''o"'
i T,. -, OF hoNAsT'cisM IN ENGLAND.
:, Tna, n"irOei .! nnonas,ic institutions
~ lug '""u III, - oonslueraoiy on the IN
e'.%'.' 20 WIZ "pp1ar IRON ,he following
.u.a."s'u s'"'Y"'en' III 'oi,' 'here were
W.. W.; i ~ , Vo'S' M. aol e'snt monasta'
80 =" 90 '"e'e were 'hirty'eight
~, anu o'e'r" hohasteries' In
60, .n9 .o"'en's Tor women alone had
'"o',a'ou ~ n'ty''nreo' IN leo2 they
nuihDereu Sixty ana IN 1898. they werO