The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1857-08-19
News of the Week.

mospheric phenomena, which make largo
acquisitions upon our credulity. OF
these, hailstorms have been most numer.
Gus. We cannot testify to having seen
a hails,one an inch in diameter and
when we saw accounts of them as large
as hens egg, we feared somebody had
been guilty Of exageratiou. But these
were soon out of sight. and out of mind
being covered by haistoues as large as
geese eggs And again: Ice had fallen
in sucb quantities, that 10 ravines. it
was four feet deep! Nobody denying
these statements, the Teoumseh mich. J
Herald is emboldened to state the fol-
lowing as having recently visited that
place.
II was not hail, but frozen pieces of
ice, from the size of hens eggs, which
were about the smallest, to those very
considerably larger than goose eggs.
Hail stones three and four inches in di.
ameter were quite common. aud from
that up to fifteen inches in circumference.
In several instances the single roof of
barns and houses we're broken through
with single hailstone. and 10 more an
one instance the siding in like manner.
By this second calamity by storm, many
farmers have lost their entire crop for
the present season, some suffering to the
extent of over ono thousand dollars, and
others less according to the breadth of
land exposed. Many Of the cattle were
much injured, and some killed. Several
of the inhabitants also, we're much in.
jured by the hail, but we do not learn
that any lives were lost. It seemed to
commerce near Manchester 10 Washte.
nav Go. and passing southeast between
Tecumseh and Clinton. reaching nearly
to Dundee in Monroe Co in all perhaps
about fifteen or twenty miles in length,
and not moro than from half mile to
a mile and half in width"
We shall look anxiously for denial of
this last, or telling to find it, we shall
look with concern upon every black
cloud that comes above the horizon.
BY the Bank Returns of Mass, for
the present month, for tho 1877 Banks
out of Boston show stock of specia
averaging $3.50 in each, or a little
over million of dollars. They have
in circulation sixteen millions iu bills.
The Bark Monasco, Capt. Daily of
Warren, Me-, on her way from Gotten
burgh to New York, was lost on the
coast of New Foundland, on the 18th of
June. The vessel struck o rock and
very soon went down. There were on
board crew of IL persons, and 81
Swedish passengers 81 of the latter
persisted. The loss Of life is principally
attributed to the pusilanamous conduct
of tho Captain, in seeking only his own
safety.
We learn from the St. Adams Mes
senger, that week before last, that place
was visited by two companies of British
troops from Montreal. 1t appears il
was a friendly invasion The troops
came down to show themselves. and have
a good time. And they did have good
time, and the people of St. Adams we're
glad to see them. Also that Sheriff
Mason arrested Mary Ann Nom ekin,
for selling liquor cont, airy to law. Sun
dry jugs and kegs of liquor were found
and emptied into the gutter.
For some months past there has
been, in sporting circles, no little anx.
iety and speculation about the success
of the American horses that have gone
to England to contend with English RAJ
GERS on English turf. 1t is very natural
for US as Americans to be obedient to
American sympathies, when comp ettions
Of this kind arise In this case, il g
had yielded to such impulses, We could
have wished the parties to this bold and
novel enterprise nothing less than entire
success But it is too late to WISH BY
late English mails We learn that 10 their
contest for the Goodwood Cup they have
been beaten, and really we cannot say
that we regret the result. What real.
ly valuable consequences could have fol.
lowed success2 Our friendly contests
with the English have generally invol.
we'd results of some practical ad.
vantage. Such were the yacht trials,
the trials Of agricultural nipple ments
and the exhibition of other useful inven.
tions. But we know of no advantage
the country will gain by encouraging the
breeding OF racers. No department of
industry receives any assistance from
them. For any economical purposes the
time and money spent in their training
aud exhibition is worse than lost. We
do not here refer to the destruction of
morals which snch sporting causes.
Again in so far as the attention of
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