The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1857-05-27
Correspondence Of the Boston Traveller.
New York Friday eve. My %.

New ork rluay eve My *.
The papers this morning allude to new
dsveIcpemepts 10 tie Burdell Cunning.
ham affair. Mr. Edwards, one of the
counsel for Burdell's heirs, makes ,fiila'
Wit shat he expects to prove that one Mr.
w. G. Hyde OF California, was engaged
to he married to Mrs. Cunningham, and
that = correspondence was carried on be.
tween them up to she 10th of December,
lS56-six weeks after til" date Of the al.
legged marriage between D., Bur1cl and
Mrs G.
1t is also s,id that there is proof that
Dr.. B. was himself married to a woman
other than Mrs. G two years before his
death, and that this woman is still living
and consequently that his marriage with
Mrs c., if such ccrem, my ever took
place, is void.
ArroiNrMENrs-Char i. Warner,
Of Burlington. ha. been appointed Pen.
sion Agent in Burlington, and b. L.
],lodget,. Cashier of the Bradford Bark,
has received a similar appointment at
Bradford, whittier the agency has been
removed from Montpelier.
-COl. NoU IL du' Tor SONS tlmc
editor of the Burlington Sentinel. and
afterwards editor of the Kenosha Dem,
ocrat, has been elected Mayor of Keno.
sha
ONE OF THE Owls Mr. Charles X N
merry, of S.. Johnsbury the CahTloaian
spy,, shot an owl few days since whose
extended wings measured six feet from
tip to tin.
Marrow EscArR From WEALrH-Thc
venerable and reverend DIR Humphrey of
Pitts6eld, writing from Chicago to the
incident in EiKgpnrgSelst, thus dilates on an
been the rise of property in C6icaaSS 60!
Happening to be there in the summer of
1889, when the Dearbond reservation was
brought into the market, l bought two
small lots, and sold them about seven or
eight years ago for two thousand five hum
dred dollars, which was thought to be a
fair price. Now the Richmond Hotel,
one of the finest in Chicago, stands on the
same ground, which am assured would,
if had kept it up to this time, have
brought me eighty thousand dollars So
you see how narrowly have escaped be-
ing rich man, and rearing my boys, had
they been young. to rely upon my fortune,
and not upon their own industry, econo-
my and good behavior. slept upon the
. premises last night at fair hotel charge,
and without being kept awake one moment
in thinking of what / had lost. had ex-
cellent accommodations, and what could |
ask for more? If the children of the
proprietor who bought the land of me, (if
he has any, escape with the great fortune,
as safely as mine have done without il, they
will be an exception to the general expe-
riencc of wealthy families. Dee.
RATHER SIcK.-A friend tells us tho
following good story. The scene was at
Woodstock, Vt, and cannot fail to afford
amusement among the citizens of that
quiet village:
Some fellow sent for barrel Of whis-
key, and the night it came NJ. and II. got
their eyes on it, tapped it, and after get.
ting what they wanted to drink, went and
told another covey where he could get a
"suck )" but this fellow CHANGED to be one
of the owners, and wishing to have lit
tie fun at NJ. and. HIS expense, he told
them that the barrel contained subject
for DR.. R., and if they had been drinking
any of the liquid, they would be as dead
as smelts in a short time. if they didn't
take an emetic Immediately and it wasn't
bat few minutes before they were vom-
iting at a furious rate. They are not par
ticularly fond of hearing about DIR. RS
subject.-LoreH Journal.
The editor of the Richn,ond South,
a flaming Democrat, says that even the
Democratic party is poisoned. We have
only to say of the party as the man said
Of his wife, on being suspected of having
poisoned her" open her on the spot: I'm
willing.'-1raueiler.
PRoFANE Music "A friend of ours
who went the other evening to meetin,
where they sung old hymns to new fang.
led tunes, describes the performance 10
this wise; the men in the congregation
turning around, and looking steadfastly
m is the custom towards the choir,
sang
Oh I Sal, Sal, Sal, Salvation,
Come down from on high
Then the women in the choir-the
sweet singers in IMael-,ook up the re.
frain, and answering sang