The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1857-06-03
The vote by counties were as follows:

-lIor. Stephen Adams, late U. S.
Senator from Miss died at Memphis on
the 18th ult, of the small pox.
In Williston, Michael Bennett. an
Irishmar, fell from load of hay which
he was driving down hill, and the wag
on wheels passing over him, lie was so
badly injured that he died in few
hours. -B0ston Journal.
Tie Supreme Court, has declared
the New Police Bill constitutional
Judge Roosevelt dissenting The intclli
gonce created much excitement among
the attaches Of the Mayors Office. The
general opinion is that many Of the Cap.
tains who have acknowledged the nu.
thority Of the Mayor thus tar will de-
clare for the new Board.
a I",Ev "o''s-- sc .Lo police havn in.
dictated to the General Superintendent
their desire 10 serve under the new
Commissioners, as soon as station houses
arc provided.
In Illinois; tho weather has been
very cold and vegetation unusually back.
ward. In the Northern section of the
State, wheat has been generally killed
out, aud farmers have been obliged to
re-sow.
Gov Geary has consented to run
for Governor Of Pennsylvania. in case
no should be nominated by the Ameri.
can Convention coon to assemble at
Lancaster.
"A man named Wickes, working in
Simmons Factory, at Cohoes, was
caught in pulley in the Grinding Shop,
Friday morning, and drawn around the
shafiing with such velocity, coming in
contact with the ceiling, as to literally
smash him Before he was cxtricated
life was extinct.
The Washington correspondent OF
the New York Journal Of Commerce
confirms previous statements that the
Government has taken a decided stand
against the Mormons. A large military
force is at once to be marched into that
Territory.
A FUNNY ExrLosioN.-A baggage
man at the Central Depot, yesterday,
while handling trunk in the usual
nm'bang manner Of that useful class
of citizena, threw it down with such force
as to explode pistol within. Tho pis-
tol exploded a canister of powder, and
tho powder exploded tho trunk, and tho
trunk exploded the baggageman, tumb-
ling him neck over heels and served
him right at that. If such an accident
could only happen enthusiastically, it
would DO glorious thing. 1t might
Kill a few baggage-smashers, but the
community could endure that loss in
consideration Of the gcntlor handling
which their luggage would receive
Buffalo Commercial.
"A Pennsylvania court has decided
that man who subscribed for work
to be published in three volumes, i. not
bound to pay for fourth aud 18th vol
ume, to which the work extends.
The Newburg mystery is plunged
deeper ana deeper in mystery. The
body is now appearantly Unidentified as
that If famous Boston Women Of the
town, but our police are sure of having
seen her here since the body was found
in Newburg, The material for a whole
brood Of blood and thunder" novels is
already developed in this case -7fav-
eler.
John Travis, who shot an orange
FROM boys head in New Orleans, for
a wager of 81 900, has challenged the
United Stated for pistol shoot, James
w. Wales, of Louisville, and i. w
Paul, Of ST. Louis, have taken up the
gauntlet
ANtTHER VETERAN GONE Albert
Thompson of Peru, Mass, a rolict of the
revolutionary army, died on Thursday
last nged 95 years. lie retired in usu-
al health at night, and before morning
died, apparently without papg.
Tho place of the unfortunate John
Jay, which was burned on Lake George
last summer, is supplied by a beautiful
little steamer, called the Minuehaha."