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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1855-06-27

FREEDOM OF OPINION IN RUssIA.-A let.
ter in the Constitutional from St. Pc
tersburg, mentions circumstance which
has just caused some sensation there. 4
person of large property, NJ. C-w, hav-
ing said at private party, 81 would will
lingly give 10000 roubles (the rouble is
somewhat over Afr for the the war, if
knew when We are TO have peace,' was
summoned the next day before the militia
~ governor, who received him in pres
ence Of several persons of distinction, and
said, "Sir, if you pledge me your word to
pay this day the sum of 10000 roubles,
4, am authorized to crafty your curiosity
On that point to which you alluded last
evening" 81 promise to pay that sum-"
replied the other. "Well, them" said the
governor, 81 have to inform you that We
are to have peace when you come back
from Caucasus, where you are to proceed
this afternoon, after having paid the sum
ageed on. God be with you!"
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1855-06-27

FORCING A GIRL INTO A CONVENT.
On Saturday week, Marshal Geer and
Constable Dawson we're called upon
to 90 to the house of Mr.. Watson, a
resident Of this place, and take charge
of girl who, it was said, was about
to be carried off to Cincinnati,
to be placed in a Catholic convent,
against her will. The officers imme-
diately repaired to the house and found
the girl in greatly terrified state,
because, as she affirmed, her uncle and
aunt, both Catholics, were determined
to place her in a convent, and she
thoug ht their efforts to secure her would
yet be successful. The officers assured
her that she should not be taken by
compulsion, and at her request one Of
them took her home with him, where
she still remains in perfect security.
The girl is an orphan, about seventeen
or eighteen years old, and withal good
looking. She states that her parents
have been dead about four years, and
since their death she had to depend en-.
tirely upon her own exertions for
livelihood. Her wages, which she Oh.
tanned by working in the capacity of
house servant, have all been taken
from her by these relatives, who live
in or near Cambridge City, Wayne
Co. The reason given for their con-
duct is that she has become member
Of the Methodist church, and cannot
be taken from that pcrsuation unless
compulsory measures are resortcd to.
Cornersuille (Ia.) Times.
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Curious Dying Scenes,

According to Fielding Jonathan Wild
picked the pocket of tue ordinary while
he was cxhorting him in the cart. and
went out of the world with the parsons
cork.scrow and thumb bottle in his hand.
Pctronious, who was master of the oere-
monies and inventor Of pleasures at the
court of Nero. when he saw that elegant
indulgence was giving place TO coarse
debauchory, perceived at once that his
term of favor had arrived. aud it was
time to die. lie resolved, therefore, to
anticipate the tyrant, md dlsrobe death
of its paraphernalia of terror Accord
ingly he entered n warm bath and open.
cd his veins. composed verses, jcsted
with his familiar associates, and died off
by insensibc degrees Deuocritus, the
laughing philosopher, disliking the in
convcnicncos and iufirmitics of proiract.
ed old age, made up his mind to die on
certain day; but 10 obige his sister,
he postponed his departure until the
three fcasts Of Ceres were over. Hc
supported nature on pot of honey to
the appointed hour, and then expired
by arrangement. Jerome Garden. eel.
ebratcd Italian physician. starved him
self gradually. and calculated with such
mathematical niccty. as to hit the very
day and hour foretold. When Rabelais
was dying, the Cardinal sent page to
enquire how he was. Rnbelas joked
with the envoy until he found his strength
declining, and his last moments approach
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1855-06-27

MINNESOTA "A gentleman who has
recently gone from this State to Mime.
sofa Territory writes under date. St.
Paul, May so. in terms of high common
dation of that portion of tho West Hc
says. The weather is delightful with
the most invieorating, and sweetest air
/ ever breathcd. Vegetation comes for
ward very quickly here. and is now much
more advanced than in New York
There are not many fiat praries here,
but the land is rolling, and its surface is
somewhat broken. Little lakes of the
purcst water and full of choice fish arc
abundant The country is surely pleas
ant, and doubt not moro healthy than
New York, so pure is the air and water"
OF tho business at ST. Paul. he SAYS:
" This is fast and fourisbing town
prices range very high, money is worth
per cent. per month Business is now
somewhat dull, owing to the low water
in the river, but the chances for money.
making are still good, and land specula.
tors keep borrowing and holding on
Surveys will be commenced this summer
for Railroad from Dubuque in Iowa, to
this place and Lake Superior. The
Company have a charter. and grant Of
600000 acres of land" The cmigra.
tion to Minnesota, this season. has been
unprecodentcdly largc.-ADany Reg,
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AFFECTING AccftENr.-We were
touched by a simple statement Of tho
loss of a boy and the fidelity of a dog
in last weeks Caledonian. The boy
fell into the river in Barton unseen BY
any one but girl. A large dog, own.
ed near by, heard the splash, ran to
the spot and lcaped into the stream
1t was just dark and boy and dog dis.
appeared before any help arrived at
the spot. Next day the bodies of the
two were taken from the water togeth.
er, the dog grasping the boys coa.
and vest collar in his motth, and tho
arms of the boy claspcd around the
dogs body. So firmly were they
united in the struggle of death, that
it was with no little difficulty they were
separated. The grasp Of the boy
around the dog was such as to prevent
him from using his legs. Otherwise
he would doubtless have rescued the
boy.-Free Press.
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ea- The greatest breadth of the
Crimea is one hundred and twenty<
four miles the length, from east IL
west, one hundred and seventy. Tho
Tartar population of the Crimca is
about sixty.one thousand. A few
miles from Simpheropos the ground
becomes so level that there is not even
the slightest undulation /; and this uni.
formly continues the whole way to
Perekop. Sebastopol is distant from
St. Petersburg ,S91 miles. Couriers
convey the mails (on four wheeled
carts, drawn by three horses, and driv.
en- at a rapid pace,) to Moscow, about
$50 miles, from whence they 90 bv
railway to the capital. From FIVE days
to week Is eecapisd in tAe entire
journey ; so that the Car has his des-
patches three or four days earlier than
either of his crowned opponents, un~
less it be the sultan.
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The RIGHTs or SCHooLMAsrEn AND
PApENTs. A case of considerable inter.
est was tried before Justice Ladd, of
Cambridge, on Saturday. A citizen of
Newton was complained of for an assault
upon the master of school of that place.
1t appeared that the master was in the
habit, as is now the general custom. of
keeping the child of dcfcndcnt, with 9TH
er scholars, after school hours to learn
her lessons. which had been imperfectly
rccited during school hours. The par.
ent believing that the detention was iIlc-
gal. went to the school house and de-.
manded his child. This was after regu-
lar school hours. The master said that
the child should go as soon as she had
reci'cd her lassou. The parent attempt.
ed to enter the schoolroom to take lis
child, but lis entrance was resisted by
the master, and the assault upon the
master was the result. The Court ruled
that the keeping OF child until the les.
sons of the day had been perfected, was
legal that the parent in attempting to
enter the schooroom, in opposition to
the will of the master, was in the wrong;
that child placed at school by the par,
ents. is under the control of the master,
until regularly dismissed and that a
parent cannot withdraw the child from
school during the day against the mas
ter'S will, except through the intcrvcn-
ton of an officer and tho school commit
tee The defendant was fined $50 and
COSTS Boston Irarc1ler.
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ES~ In answer to the allegation by
a Russian in this city, "tbat outside Of
New England there is no opposition
to slavery in the Know Nothing move.
ment; the most earnest friends of the
abrogation of the Missouri Compro-
mise, out of New England, are the
leaders and expounders of what are
called American doctrines"
The Cincinnati Gazette replies:
"This is not true. Throughout the
whole West the American party are
as decidedly Anti-Slavery as in New
England"
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KEETcH Kertch in the middle agos
bore the name Of Vosporcs, or Aspro.
monte (the White Mountoin), is built
within a short distance Of Panticap@n,
where, need | not inform your classical
readers, Mithridatcs met his doom. Af.
ter undergoing various vicissitudcs-
which all other cities in the path of the
barbarians, in their invasion of Europe,
more or less underwent-it was in the
fourteenth century taken by the Genoesc,
who corrupted the Greek name of Vos.
poros into Vaspro, 1t afterword fell
into the hands Of tho Turks, who kept
it until IVA, when it was cedcd to Rus.
sia. The harbor, which is described as
very fine, was built by Alexander |. 1t
commands the northern entrance of the
straits which bear its name. Xenikalek
is of comparatively modern construction,
being built in 1900 by the Turks TO
close the Black Sea to tho Russians
The latter, however, captured it in i77l.
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ANEcDoTEs or LoRD NoRTu This
eood-humorcd minister was always ready
with q joke, and always appreciated one.
even though it was at his expense, One
night he rose to deprecate the too great
readiness to give and take offcnco which
prevailed in the house. "Onc member
for example" said he, called me that
thing called a minister. Now to be
sure (patting his portly sides) | am
thing when, therefore, the gentleman
called me thing lie said what was
true, and | could not be angry with him.
But when lie added, that thing called
minister he called me the thing which
of all others he himself most wished to
be and, therefore, 1 took it for com.
plment" A pressing old sailor, well
known for his lengthy orations, began to
speak on an admiralty question. Lord
North said to one of his supporters.
" Now - will give us n history of
all the naval tattlcs, from that of Sala.
mis- to that of last year. | shall take a
nap wake me when he gets near our
own time After nn hours iuf7iction the
friend nudgcd Lord North. My lord,
my lord. wake np-he has got to the
battle Of Van Trolnp" Ga dear"
said the sleepy minister. "you'vc walked
me a hundred gears too soon !" Ga his
last night in Office his antagonists had
collected for grand battle Lord North
rosc in his place and declared the Ad.
minlstration at an end. OF course. the
House adjourned Immediately 1t was
an awful wet night, and in those days
cabs were not the members. expecting
a long debate, had ordered their carriage
at or 2 o'clock in the morning; and
Lord North, as he passed through tho
baffled and imprisoned crowd Of his op-
ponents TO his own chariot, bowed to
the right and left, saying, with smile,
Adleu, gentlemen you SEQ it is an ex.
cellcnt thing to be in tho secret"
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1855-06-27

nD- Rev. Theodore Parker, the
great Boston thunderer, is not, as is
generally supposed, graduate of
Harvard. He had little acquaintance
with colleges or universities in early
life, though we believe he spent some
time at the Cambridge Divinity School,
but picked up his learning in the inter-
Yals of laying stone walls and plough>
ing intractable firrews on his native
homestead, near Lexington monument, /,
MIR. Parker breaches to the largest
Sabbath audience in Boston.
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Labor and Rest.

Two hands upon the breast, and labor is
past" Russian PrOre,b.
" Two hands upon the breast,
And labors done:
Two pale feet crossed in rest
The race is won:
Two eyes with coin weights shut,
And all tears cease
Two lips with grief are mute,
And wrath at peace"
So pray we oftentimcs, mourning our LOT -
God in his kindness answcrcth not.
" Two hands to work addressed,
Aye for his praise;
Two feet that never rest,
Walking his ways
Two eyes that look above,
Still, thro' all tears
Two lips that breathe but love,
Never more fears"
so cry VIC afterwards, low at our knees -
Pardon those crrng prayers Father, hear
these.
Chambers Journal
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[ Punch.

SUR1Y SENflmENTs.-By PRO-
fessed Old GrumJler.- NJ woman
drinks beer Of her own accord ,-shs
is always " ordered to drink it,
Experience is a pocket-c compass
that fool never thinks of consulting
until he has lost his way.
An ugly baby is an inpossibilty.
When man has the headache, and
says " it's the salmon" you may safe.
lv conclude that he has been " drink.
ing like fish,"
The moment friendship becomes a
tax, it's singular, at every fresh call
1t makes, how very few persons il
finds at home Punch.
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RECIPE FOR MATRIMONIAL UAppr

RECIPE FOR MATRIMONIAL HAppI-
NEss.-Prescrvo the privacics of your
house, marriage state, heart, from faith
or, mother, sister, brother, aunt, and
all the world. You two, with Gods
hclp, build your own quiet world ev-
cry third or fourth one whom you draw
into it with you will form a party, and
stand between you two. That should
never be. Promise this to each other.
Renew the VOW at each temptation.
You will find your account in it. Your
souls will grow, as it were, together,
and atlast they will become as one.- =
Ah, if many young pair had on their
wedding day known this secret, how
many marriages were happier than
alas they are.
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I'll stcllonp. y .
Tho Window in the Forest.
by GEO. /. AIKEN.

rho ;.n..o, oe ,ho r,,la
.,,,rdod r,llov in Corr,nv o,,hor,r;,h
,o ,a". a;,;na H. s.o, s VIZ
Lorsoman tho distant 3onud Of his borse's
trcad having annrised them of his coming
lie rides rapidlv nm ard snrinos lighf.
10 from his saddle oiyinc his Lorse in
charge of the ostler who after receiving
his instructions. leads him away to the
stable.
The new conner observed the looks of
wonder cast upon him. and was Mt n loss
to account for the curiosity he excited.
Uc was man of obout ,birtr.fvo voors
of age, of medium height, well formed,
and tolerably good looking. He was at
tired in the uniform of a dragon in tic
German service.
"Wol!, my good people" be exclaimed
at length. "wbat do Won see in NV an.
pcarance so surprising that it makes YOU
gaze upon me with omen mouth ~
nIs !, noss;h,, ,h., .,;.n
Tho on;,Lmon, ~ g ,La Los, aa',,,
,b;s ssonowLa, s;nanlar ;m,oa.,;"n - ~.
osc,no fro" liz, '"' '"''' 's''''" ~
az -,
ra',n' 20 '"o peS' oi my oc'e'' am
70; repied 'ne dr'Goon pleasantly DO
io"k ike ueau man
NO no mean not that" said the
host, as he seemed to be revolving some
matter in his mind which puzzled him.
on came by tho forest road ?"
Certainty ana gloomy enough it is,
TOO lonely path to traverse when n
thoughts"
Better have your thoughts, than the
fearful companion SOME have met in the
forest"
e" Indeed what sort of person is he7"
I'VE know not; none that have seen
him have lived to tell of their encoup.
ter"
"Tbis is a strange affair that YOU arc
telling me-"
" Did you see nothing on your way
through the forest?"
"Nothing; vet stay-now I bethink
me- l do remember noticing in the forest.
n short distance from ,bo ro,d emali
cottage window
"Ahl window o.
"Yes;I thought it singular that
cottage should be situated in sucb , ma.
cul;ar and lonolv no;,bhorLooIm r.
sYou did not nnnroaob /, q,
"No-I should not have observed it.
but for the glimmerins light Of a taper
which BETRAYED it to nv ewes. was
too hungry to stop to examine it; 1
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1855-06-27

rccived no other hurt than few bruises
This pit was the robbers burial place as
well as trap; they cast his body among
those he had slaughtered and filed it
up with earth
The place was soon deserted Captain
Earnest after hearty good bye ,cSchong.
ed with the host and Heinrich proceeded
on his journey The circumstances be.
came knownand the government reward
cd his courage with pension.
Heinrich had the window placed in
the front side Of the inn, where it may
be seen to this day by the curious tray
eller.
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ButwER ON THE AMERYcAr Pre-.

BUlwER ON THE AMERICAN Press.
-Bulwer, the novelist, in his speech
on the stamp duty, remarked, "you
have been led to infer that the Amer,
lean press is in the hands of ignorant
Adventures, whereas the remarkable
popularity of the American press is
that it absorbs nearly all the intellect
of that country. There is scarcely a
statesman of eminencc, an author Of
fame, who does not contribute to the
American periodical press"
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1855-06-27

SUPERSTITION IN AsABAMA.-The
Hontsvitle AdrOcate says that for the
second time this season many miles of
telegraph wires in Alabama have been
torn down by unknown persons, whor
it is said, believe the telegraph is re-
sponsible for aad the cause Of the dry
weather which has prevailed for the
past twelve months. This superstition
prevails in two Of the riehest ssunties
in the State, under the shadow Of two
colleges, and where three newspapers
are printed
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1855-06-27
QUEER PLACE To PLANT OYSrEl

QUEER PLACE To PLANT OYSTERS.
"A resolution was passed by both
houses of the Coneticuticut Legisla-
ture on the 23d instant, providing
that George lloyt and others, of Nor.
walk, be permitted to enter their petit
ton for a law relating to the planting
Of oysters in the .Secretary's office. any
rule or law to the contary nothwith>
standing"
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1855-06-27

NooN-DAf TRUIsMs.-1ove, ths
toothache, smoke, cough, and tight
boot, are things which cannot possibly
be kept secret very long.
Every woman is in the wrong until
she cries-and then she is in the right
instantly.
A tragedy is often the safety valve
of insanity.
A man who lends an umbrella is a
real philantbropist-sacrifcing himself
for the benefit of his species.
The life Of fool could no more 90
on without excitement than a pantom.
ime could without music.
There is craving in almost every
mans breast for latch key.
Every woman's mother has been
beautiful.
Punch.
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BG3~The King Of Belgium is a Pr

pG~The King Of Belgium is Pro
testant, though his subjects are mostly
Catholics. The King of Saxony is a
Catholic, though the greater part of
his subjects are Protestants. The
King of Greece is Catholic, though
most of his subjects are of the Greek
Church OF the $500 600 Euro
pean subjects of the Sultan of Turkey,
II 100000 are Of the Greek Church,
and 100000 are Catholics, while only
$500, 900 are Mohammedans.
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- "' 'O'P0"Vc"0 Of 0HU "|"T :
nal Of Commerce, "W.," in writing a
plea for fishing says:
Between me apd you. my friend,
am of opinion tina. Peter himself chuck
led little when he took an extra large
specimen of the ehalilee carp, and 1
have no doubt that the be and James,
and even the gentle and beloved John,
pulled with viii" on the miraculous
draft of fishes.
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The DIFFERENCE.-It has been
said that the Duke of Wellington new
er wrote dispatch in which the word
duty did not occur, and that Napoleon
never wrote one in which the wera
glory was wanting.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1855-06-27

DIR. Charles Wilson has written
volume of some hundreds of pages, 10
explain the pathology of drunkenness.
Diogenes defines il in two sylIables
-zig>xagy
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An ALLEGED REASON FOR RFJEcrS
ING THE SECOND CoMMANDMEr.-A
leading Roman Catholic paper says,
that the phrase aSout makise craven
images was omitted in the DecaGogue'
in the Catholic catechism, Z" in order
not to fatigue or overburden the mem~
cry Of children ~
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E&~ A physician was asked by
stranger,if New York was healthy. Ho
replied" Unusually SO, the tho extrav-
agaat cost Of provisions has.checkcd the
disposition for overfeeding, from which.
ordinarily, We derive most of our prac-
tice 7
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A loafer testifying in our Police Court
the other day, about a quarrel between
a man and his wife, said the man did
thus, and the woman SO, "while l stood
nuisance w
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ugly Facts for ugly Customers.

ugly Facts for ugly Customers.
An egotist is especially hated by all
other egotists.
Those who believe that money cati
do everything for money.
The only good that a miset does, Is
to prove the little happiness there is t5
be found in wealth.
To be angry with weak man Is 4
proof that you are not very strong
yourself.
Scandal is the reputation of the
wicked.
There are men who may be called
" Martyrs of good health" not con.
tent with being well, they are always
wishing to be better, until they doctor
themselves into being confirmed in-
valids, and die ultimately, you may
say, of too much health.
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Brave actions are the substance Of
iife, and good sayings the onament
Of IT,
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II e r M S

BOOK AND JOB PRINTING
Done in modern style and at short notice
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1855-10-18
NICK
MANDRAKE PILLS

Will be found to possess those qualities necessary to
the total eradication Of all bilious attacks prompt to
start the secrcons of the liver and give healthy tone
to the entire system Indeed it is no ordinary discove-
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these stubborn complaints, which deveope all the re-
suits produced by heretofore free use of caomel-
mineral justly dreaded by mankind-anda acknowledged
to be destructive in the extreme to the human system-
That the properties of certain vegeabescomprise all the
virtues of caomcl without its injurious tendencies is
admitted fact, rendered indspuabe by scientific
researches; and those who the Mandrake Pills will
be fully satisfied that the best medicines are those pro-
vided by nature in the herbs and roots of the
fields.
The Pills open the bowels and correct all bilious de-
engagements without salvation any of the injurious eff
fects of ca0mcl or other posons The secretion of bile
is promoted by these Pills. will be seen by the altered
color of the stools and disappearing of the salow
plcxion and cleansing of the tongue
Ample directions for accompany each box of Pills
and the price of quart bottle of the Sea Weed Tonic and
boxes Of Pills be had of any of the agents for %
cents.
These remedies prepared under the personal super
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Pulmonic Syrup the we'll established remedy for Con-
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inventor Of the celebrated Respirometcr for examining
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