The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1857-10-21
The Manchester American saws

I'VE have never known the papers to
contain so little variety as at present,
The country papers are full Of descrip.
tons of Fairs and the city papers of
Firemen's holidays The Massa chuse.,s
papers are engaged with Banks and
Gardner, or suspension of Banks. In
New York it is banks end suspension.
while in Philadelphia it is nothing but
suspension An occasional murder in
New York city, or an occasional fire in
country village, furnish all tn g change
Even the usual variety of Hatch cd
Matched and Dispatched, seems to cease
or else the papers are toe blue to pu, in
Births, Marriages and Deaths We
hope there will be some variety soon"
BoRAx LAKE.--A large borax lake is
said to exist 10 California. IL covers
200 acres ofground and is situated near
the north shore of Clear lake, fifty
miles from Napa City. The water in
this lake lie SO strongly saturated or i'm.
pregnated with borax. that it cannot be
held 10 solution, and is consequently de
posted in crystalized particles, from
very small size to half a pound in weight
in the mud below. Other lakes near by
contain less or more OF tie same valua.
BILE salt.
DEATH OF DR. Observation-Disclosures
has been received of the death of Dr..
Silss Bowen of Clarendon, which occur
red, Sept. 10th, at the residence of his
son in Kearney, Nebraska Ter. He died
Of Dysentery after an illness OF about
ten days. Dr. Bowen was engaged in
the active practice Of medicine tor more
than 90 years, and was at the time of
his death SO years of age
A SAD MEMENTo FROM CAPT. HEaN.
DoN,-One of the last acts of Captain
Herndon, on board the Contra. Am RIGA
that We have any account of, was to
hand his watch TO Theodore A. Payne,
Esq, Of San Francisco, with the iujunc.
ton, if he was saved to present it to his
wife--sayiDg: "lf am preserved l shall
greet my dear wife with my own pres.
ehce, if lost, you may be saved to speak
for me and present her with this my
last gift" Mr.. Payne arrived in thi.
city, and on Monday evening, in compa.
ny with Marshal o. Roberts, Esq., pro.
ceeded TO the residence of Mrs Herndon
and daughter, No 81 East Twenty.thir1
street, and presented this sad memento
to her 1t unnecessary to refer 10 the
painful seen which ensued, for no pen
can paint the deep sorrow of womans
hearty. Y NeiOs.
The Postmaster General has ordered
to be paid within few days, for mail
service on railroads and elsewhere, in
the North and West, upwards of three
hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
vermont, in proportion to its pop.
ulation, is, if we mistake not, the most
thoroughly black republican of any state
in the Union. Dolly about ouo,ifth of
the people in the average attend upon
evangelical worship ON the Sabbath.
Aboiitionism is rampant. Vermont
Patriot.
We will venture to affirm, that the
editor Of The Patriot has not been inside
of a church to ATTEND upon evangelical
worship" in the last three years. Guess
be has Joined the "black republicans l"-
Catedonian,
WATcU SToLEN,-We understand that
a man stopping at the American House
in this village was on Friday night last
robbed of his watch by a stranger who
occupied the same room with him lie
was shown to room at rather late
hour, 10 which was person IN another
bed whom he supposed to be a boarder