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

uoi'ars lor VlolaClQn oil the liquor law.
Also that during the thunder storm of
Tuesday, several persons received se>
we're electrical shocks. One was
knocked down.
The seventh annual session of the
Vt. Teachers Institute will be held at
Mortified, commencing Tuesday Aug.
18th. Citizens of Mortified will ems
terrain gratuitously, and railroads car
ny for half price.
"A serious and disgraceful riot oc.
CURED in Washington city, on the &C.
ccasion of the municipal election on
Monday of last week. The fighting
was caused by some of those organized
bands Of ruffians, who infest large cit,
ies-the Plug Uglies, Chunkers, &c.,
undertaking to drive the opposition
from the polls. The Mayor, with the
aid of the marines dispersed the ruff,
fans, but not without considerable re-
sistance. Several were killed and
wounded.
There is a simultaneous moves
ment among the Americans and Re,
publicans of Massachusetts, in favor of
N. p. Banks for Governor. 1t seems
to occasion some jealousy between the
parties.
The police war in New York city
is subsiding. Fortune frowns upon
the Mayor. The power is rapidly
coming into the hands of the commits
sioners.
1t is said the President has Ger.
tainly found q Governor for Utah, but
his name has not yet transpired.
The Virginia Election has result
ed in the election of the entire demo-
cratic delegation. The result is an
occasion Of rejoicing among the demo-
Gratis in V irginia, and of every body
out of it.
The accounts from Utah are a.
bout as changable, and unreliable, as
they were from Nicaragua few
months ago. We have late intelli-
gence that Brigham had determined
to purge the territory of every thing
good. And later.
New York, Sune Sit appears
that Judge Stiles, U. S. Marshal bod
son, Surveyor General Burr, of Utah.
II. F. Horrell, Postmaster of Salt
Lake, and others, came with the last
mail train to ST. Louis. One thousand
seceders from the Mormons will. it is
said, come to the States, and abont
1000 will 60 to California.
The hog distemper continues to
Opread. 1t is no longer thought to be
the effect of strychnine but is evidently
an epidemic. The disease manifests it..
self in and inclination to eat the hoes lie
down, grow lean, drink a great deal of
water, and finally die, generally much
emaciated. The only unusual thing
found on dissection is in the liver, which
is diseased and covered with ulcers
Attempts will be made to learn the
cause Of the disorder, but so little sue
cess has attended the investigation Of
epidemics among men, as to leave little
hope of anything satisfactory i'll this
case. Some prudent Journals have ex.
pressed the opinion that it is unsafe to
eat pork, in any form, while so much
diseased pork is thrown into market.
The scheme of ship-canal a.
cross Darian, is again revived. A
party is to 90 out on a tour of explo>
ration, under Naval, and Military Of
ficers. There is an appropriation of
$25, 900 for the purpose. Much cons
fidence is expressed of its final sues
cess.
The ship Westmoreland, arrived
at Philadelphia, on Sunday, with 500
Mormon elnigrants on board, on their
way to Utah.
A Big RATA house rat was CAP
tured in house at East Boston YES
terday, that measured sixteen inches
from the tip of his tail to the end Of his
nose entire length of body was eleven
inches, and in point of diameter was
fully equal to an ordinary sized cat
Bee.
ga Free State timer in Laws
renee put up some guttering for
Free State neighbor, who neglected to
pay for it. The timer waited some
time, and then, instead Of sueing the
man, who was abundantly good, took
his ladders and commenced taking the
guttering down. The owner came "a
long and fight ensued, but the timer
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