The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1857-07-22


ing importance.
The insurrectionory movements in
Naples had been put down.
Affairs looked somewhat threatening
in the south of Spain.
The three Opposition candidates
were elected in Paris on the second at.
tempt by decisive majoritics
There are no later advice from India.
The London Times publishes letter
from an Army officer, dated Lahore,
May IA, 10 which it is stated that
The 45.h native infantry at Feroza.
pore having refused to lay down their
arms were cut to pieces by the cavalry
and shot by the Europeans and orders
are issued to cut down every man of the
regiment wherever he may be found.
They have burned nine bungalows and
the church there, but all Europeans are
safe. The 300 sepoys who got away
from here yesterday have been well pun.
ished by the Punjabese; report says
nearly all were killed"
IMPORTANT FAoT.-The Atlanta In.
teligencer says, that in conversing with
DR.. Alexander of that city, few DAYS
ago, the Doctor stated that during the
late small pox panic, he had vacna,e ed
over two hundred children and that he
had found vaccination sertain and spec.
dy cure for the whoopiug ough.-This
observation, if it is founded on princi.
pie of fact, deserves the attention of
medical men.
Thirty men were at work grading
carriage road to within one mile $50
rods of the summit of Mt. Washington.
The road follows the old Fabyan brid lo
path. 1t was to have been finished be.
fore the 18th inst, and the ascent BY
this way can be accomplished from eth.
er house with ease, in two hours.
Gen. Jackson's gold snuff box be-
queatbod to the bravest soldier in the
Mexican War, from New York has not
been awarded to Col. Burnett the com.
mittee being DESTROYS to see if any one
else claims it. The box is very large
one, too large for use, and its raw ma.
terial is alone worth thousand dollars,
1t was presented to the General upon his
accession to the Presidency, by his
friends in New York city
THE GREAT HAIL STORM IN VIRGINIA.
Tho Fredericksburgb papers contain
facts relative to the hail storm which
passed over that section on the LIST inst.
Some Of the hail stones, says the News.
weighed sac pounds. In some places in
the gorges of the Blue Ridge Noun.
tains, on the day afterwards, the hail
was four feet deep, and wagon loads of
it could have been gathered up. The
weight of the largest hail we have ever
seen did not exceed an ounce.
A sad accident occurred, July 4th. at
Great Falls, N. H. A magazine contain.
ing 300 lbs. of powder exploded, killing
the son Of s. H. Gile, and injuring the
con Of Joseph Woodman so badly that
he died on Sunday. It is supposed there
was fire on the frock of the gunner
which had been placed in the magazine
which caused the explosion.
Information is wanted of the where
abouts of Randol Davis, if living, or il
dead, the place where he died. Iii
supposed he resides somewhere in Yer
mont.
We are not ragged enough in thi,
country to supply our paper mills, sc
the bulk of our rags come from Europe
it is estimated that about seven million
pounds came to New York alone. las,
year, mostly from Glasgow and Leghorn
and the rag trade with Egypt is JUS
being commenced
"A man calling himself Perry St
Glare was arrested at St. Louis. las
week, accused of kidnapping free color
ed men at Detroit and taking them t,
ST. Louis for SALE He gave bail il
$4,000, which be forfeited on the follow
ing day, thus furnishing evidence of biz
suilt.
Three young men, born, reared, anc
still having their homes in the Sand wicl
Islands, have taken the first astronomi
cal prizes at Yale College. These priz
es are among the most honorable of tn,
course.
MORE BOYS FOR THE WEsr.-Th,
Rev, Mr.. Tracy passed through Detro
on Thursday with troop of sixty boys
picked up in the streets of New York
city, for distribution to new homes il
the West. The Press saws tina. they
were good looking lot Of little fellows
and enjoyed themselves hugely.
The book that Gov. Marcy wa
reading when he died was Baron's Els
says, aud it lay on his breast open a
the passage where the great philosopher
thus disoourses of Death"
6" A mind fixed and bent on some VIVA
that is good, doth avert the dollars o
death but above all, believe it, th'
sweetest canticle is 'nunc dimmitts,
when man hath obtained worthy end,
and expectations"
In letter to Col Berret, dated july
2, Mr., Marcy wrote:
Z" 1 make but slow progress in adjust
ing my affairs preparatory to my Euro
pean excursion, and | begin to hav,
doubts whether shall be ready to tax,
my departure as soon as the lst of Au
gust.
No man ever moro suddenly Withdrew