The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1857-06-10

uchlelS Ill inc - swamp are exceed
ingly anxious about prices. The bears
are in the ascendant. There is no
telling how it will end. Notwitho
standing the late violent fluctuations
in this branch of trade, however, we
hear of very few who have succumbed.
The dealers in the {" Swamp" thus
far stand firmly. y, Times,
"A bridge is about to be constructs
ed across the Ohio river at Louisville.
A company for that purpose, with W.
i. Culver as president has been form.
ed.
A CUR1os1TY.-A live seal was
caught yesterday in Llymouth harbor,
and brought to this city. lie was
very young and very singular, not
more, apparently, than a week old,
and made most piteous moaning, like
( young calf His face was very in
telligent, and handsomer than q dog,
and he was as soft as velvet. Some
old salts who inspected the odd ami
NAL at the Fairhaven Ferry, agreed
they had never seen such a prodigious
curiosity .--NesS Bedford Mercury.
Hay is selling at Rock Island,
ILL.,, at $70per ton, at Debuque, Iowa,
at 800.
"A wiliul murder of a peddlar. for
booty, has been perpetratod in the
western part Of Hampden County,
Mass, the first similar offence occur
ring in that county for nearly half
century. The supposed murderer is
under arrest, and we give a report of
the case by special telegraphic des-
patch.
The project of raising hotel pr.
ces in New York, has been abandoned
by the hotel proprietors. All the no.
tells would not come into the arrange~
ment.
Gov. Garner has declined to re-
move Judge Lorning, in conformity
with the orders of the Mass. Legsa>
ture.
Some one in digging a cellar near
the new grist mill, in Bradford village,
has discovered several fragments of
what bears striking resemblance to
the human frame. Upon an examina,
ton of these several bones, we are sat.
isfed that they are parts Of some hu-
man being. The spot where these
bones were found has for many long
years been the groud upon which a
dwelling house has stood.
| CHALLENGE AccEPTED.-Mr. II.
F. Gardner has accepted the PROPOSE.
ton made by the Courier to pay the
sum of $500 to any spiritual medium
who will in the words of that paper
communicate single word impaired
to the spirits by us in an adjoining
room who will read a single word in
English, written inside book or sheet
of paper folded in such a manner as
we may choose; who will answer,
with the aid of all the higher inteli.
gence he or she can invoke from the
other world, three questions;
who will tilt piano, without touching
1t or cause a chair to move a foot,
placed as we place it, and with COM
mittee of scientific gentlemen to ar
langc-the experiments. lie accepts
the challenge on the condition that
the party making the offer will agree
to let all the conditions of the arrange
ments come within the scope of those
natural laws within which spiritualists
believe spirits are confined in produ-
cling the manifestations referred to
above. The writer in the Courier
does not object to this, and the trial
will probably soon take place. The
result will be looked for with interest.
Boston Journal.
The indianapolis bwnaz adj
vances new and very striking theory
of the " Aurora Borealis," viz, that a
comet has at some time hit the earth
at the Northern Pole, and gone into
Symmes' Hole, leaving its tail stick
ing out, the tapping of which makes
auroral light.
The people of Now York are be-
ginning to clean the streets by private
subscriptions, the authorities having
utterly failed to perform their duty in
this as in almost every other respect.
The condition of many of the principle
thoroug hfares is horrible and invites
pestilence as the warm weather comes
on.
Pat was hungry, and got out of
the cars for refreshment. The cars
very thoughtlessly went on without
him. Pats ire was up. 'Ye scalpeen
he cried, starting on a run, aud shak>
ing his fist as he few after the train.
Stop, there, ye old stame- ggin We
muttering stame inginc-ye've got
passenger aboard that's left behind
Have you a sister? Then love
and cherish her with holy friendship.
- Wdnock.
If you have no sister of your own,