The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1857-08-05


paid tie Stockholders dividend Of ten
per cent on the first of July, from the
earnings Of the past six months max.
ing eighteen per cent dividends for the
year.
FoREioN. Resolutions were introduc.
ed into the House Of Commons censur.
ing the ministry for declaring and pros.
ecuting the war with Persia without
communicating with Parliament. The
resolutions we're lost by SO to 1852. d.
The late disastrous intelligence from
India had stimulated the British govern.
men: to fresh activity
Sir Colin Campbell, who had con.
sented to take command Of the Indian
army, left vacant by the death Of Gen.
Arson, was en- route to Msrseilles where
be embarked for India
The $4,000 troops, already under
orders, would follow as soon as ship and
stores could be provided.
From China we learn that Canton
was suffering from famine.
"A severe battle between the rebels
and Imperialists bad been fought above
Foo cbow-foo. The result is not Ger.
tainly known, but it is believed the Iu.
perialis,s were victorious.
"A deputation from the Auti.Slsve.
ry Society presented memorial to Lord
Palmerston, on Wednesday, condcmning
the proposed scheme to obtain negro Ia.
borers from Africa for tie West Indies.
He stated the government was alive to
the danger Of the sch enc, and would
take care that nothing was done which
tended to rssuscitate the slave trade.
The shipping of the Agamemnon's
half Of the Atlantic telegraph cable was
finished on the 18th inst, and the Mag
ara's share was nearly oil on board
Beranger is dead. Spanish accounts
indicate that q final interview had taken
place upon the Mexican question, and
the result was said to be satisfactory.
ANOTHER Runaway PoND.-The
ponds in Vermont appear to have a nat.
ural disposition to run away. The
old folks will remember how, about 50
years since q natural pond in Glover,
broke through its northern embank
ment and made tracks for Canada by
the way of Memphremsgog lake, tracks
Of which are visible to the present day
On the 9th ult., natural trout pond in
Plainfeld, performed similar feat only
that it sought her Majestys dominions
through Lake Champlain instead Of the
Magog In its hurry it made no stop to
parley with bridges but swept away
about q dozen Of them /; entered corn.
fields without leave, Frustrating fences,
and one shop. There had been no rain
to provoke this breach Of the peace.
The day was fair, and no reason Is as.
signed for the discontinued movement.
On the afternoon of the ED inst.
one Of the most destructive hailstorms
ever witnessed passed over Red Hook.
on the Hudson River The storm took
q porth-easterly direction, about two
miles wide and ten miles long. leaving
utter desolation as it passed along
Wheat crops are entirely destroyed. corn
is levelled to the earth. and many of the
farmers are plucking up their corn and
planting buckwhest.
A Nut FOR WnIsKEY DRINKERs.-
The crops of Harrison county, this year,
unless cut short, will be very great. We
will have to haul to the depots on the
railroad, which runs through the middle
of the country, 800 900 bushels of wheat
100000 of rye, and 10000 bushels OF
barley. Thousands upon thousands Of
barrels of corn must be hauled to the
DEVILS Pass, there to mske good old
Bourbon, notwithst anding it is made in
Harrison and if you will hut drink this
good old Bourbon made in Harrison by
the Harrisonites, with their improve
ments Of logwood, arsenic, cockroaches
and molasses, it will eat up your bowels
10 less time than Solomon built the
temple Cynthiana (Ky) Nescs.
The skeleton of a man was found
near the summit of Mount Washington
white MountaiDs) last Sunday, which
was supposed to he that of Benjami q
Chandler Of Wilmington, Del, who was
lost on the mountains last fall. A gold
watch and about one hundred dollars in
money were found on tho remains.
OF the Cincinnati poisoning case ro
ported last week The Cincinnati Gaz
cite gives the following account:
The manner in which tho children
we're poisoned has been discovered and
the discovery proves satisfactory that nc
oriminality existed in the matter upon
the part Of any one. A half drunken
vagabond German, who has received the
sobriqaet of Rat Peter from his ma
king rat poison, and who is in the habit
ofselliDg this poison in the shape of small
cakes OF waters TO stable keepers, butch
ers and others. was 10 coffee house neal
Buckeye street day before yesterday
where be became SO much intoxicated
that he was elected from the premises
He had with him, as usual, q small box
containing these waters, and as be wen,
staggering along be dropped number o.
them upon the pavement, which the child
rem theresbouts picked up and ate nnt
gave to others.-This correct version o
the poisoning affair relieves it Of al it,
mystery and horror, aud to great egsen