The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1857-05-20
News of the Week.

Creek, about l.2 miles south Of this
place, yesterday
The PhGnir intimatcs that love
loru young man in Whiting bam, recently
committed suicide by taking laudanum.
Last week Prof Hitchcock com.
mcnccd his geological survey.
"A man by the name Of Hurd lately
living at Walden, Mass, now deceased,
left wildly which the interest of $4,000
is to be distributed annually in prizes. to
stimulate tho production of sugar in Yer.
mont. a legacy of the same amount is
lef, to Nav Hampshire, Maine, and
Massachusetts, for the same purpose.
The will is to be contested by the hcirr.
The St. Adams Messenger says that
247 ,0l5 pounds IF butter have been sent
from that station to market, during the
month ending May IL, at an average
price Of % cents per pound.
Mr. Mathew NJ. Loundsbcrry, a
Revolutionary soldier, died at Claren.
don. on the 22l ult., at tie age of l0l
years and months
"A laid headed Eagle was shot last
Wednesday, q. the mouth of Otter Creek
Tue Cut-cn says, it measured from tip
to tip Of wings seven feet and two inch
cs. It's ialous averaged an inch and
quarter, and a quill taken from the wing
was eighteen inches 10 length.
The STANTON Journal comes to US
again this week under the care of Mr.. II
N. Drury. We like the tone of the
prospectus, aud the appearance of the
sheet. We hope the paper will succeed.
SrRoXG MINDED WoMAN.--Tho Re.
Dository gives an account of an aff,ir a.
East Montpelier, in which a woman dis.
charged gun ut man with whom she
had quarrel. She aimed at his b east
but he knocked the barrel aside and re.
ceivcd tie load in the riots of his hair.
Tho Amaz IN has been arrested aud is
beld for Trial
Tho Rutland HeraM contains a
note from the Commissioner of Pensions,
to tho Hon Solomon Foot, in respect to
the Plaitsburh volunteers, to the effect
that persons who were on their way to
Plattsburgb, to offend tho country.
whether they reached that place or no.
are entitled to Bounty land.
The same paper states that cf)rts
are still in progress towards erecting the
lIubbarlton battle Monument.
Two tccscopic comets have recent
ly appeared. \ French astronomer has
predicted tina. one Of them will impinge
upon the earth on the 18Th Juno next.
This prediction caused great commo.
tion in Paris. until its absurdity was
dor,nnst--..l Sy .e-a'"i StronS,
The last steamer from California
brought in n million and three quarters
of Treasure, The news from that region
i, uhimportant.
The last repor, is that the fllibustcr
Walker has been driven out Of Nicara-
qua, and has taken refuge on British
Cruiser.
Mr. L"yd Garrison. Wendell Phillips,
aud the Rev 7. W, Stiggins, who bar.
argued our Legislature on its duties to
Kan'as, las. fall, have been dissolving the
Union, at New York, during the pas,
week.
Ho FOR THE WEsr The citizens of
Detroit have had meeting to devise
means Of relief for certain districts in
the northern part Of Michigan, where the
people aud the cot,le are dying of star,
walton.
PEouREss IN Sur BUILDING. An i'm.
meuse steamship, to be called the " Great
Eastern, /, in progress of construction,
on the Thames, in England 1t is larg
or than the largest line of battle ship in
the British Navy, and more than one
third larger than the Ark of Noah itself.
The Ark is estimated to have been $50
feet in length and as feet high; the
Great Eastern i, 700 feet long and 60
feet high The largest line. of battle
ship is 1000 tons burthcn; the Great
Eastern is $4,000 tons 1t is Construct.
cd Of 10000 iron Plates, each weighing
the third Of ton, and each fastened with
one hundred iron rivc,s. The ship will
accommodate 1000 passengers. She
will contain 10 boilers and 100 furnaces.
The cylinder of every engine will be six
feet in diameter, and the diameter of tho
paddle wheel will be SO feet. The prin-
clpal suite Of saloons will DO 400 feet in
length. A promenade round tho deck
will afford walk OF one quarter of
mile. She is constructed to carry sails