The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-02-24

ls vered sixty .h7e lectures s'ith thisty ..
gagemonta yet TO fulfill.
TAKISa GRAiy ron Music.-Hol4..
Greeiy writing to the New York 1ijb~".
from Chicago says "One Of the Hutch.
insou Brothers, (Asa,) who are now herr
singing their way Eastward, from then
home in Minnesota, informed me that he
had been singing along 1000 miles, through
Minnesota aud Iowa, taking grain for mu-
sic, wherever cash was unattainable, and
has done very well by it."
The Woodstock Age says
The CA,i~ian O Repository uttels
falsehoo1 when it says the influence Of the
Age and other kindred papers has been
on the side Of intemperance, for not
word. syllable or letter can that paper
produce, ever published in the Age that
can be justly construed in any such man
ner.
In neighboring column of the same
paper it publishes sentiments like these
Tesotalism has been fully tried in the
United States as well as in England and
other European countries, and has proved
most complete and thorough failure.
The total abstinence policy, as it regards al,
coholic beverages, has made about as much
progress as the theories of the opponents
of butchers meat The most sanguipe
friends of temperance give it up they
find that tetotal pledges are not the prop.
err means either to make men temperate or
even to keep them 30.
We have no comments to make
WILMINGTON, n. G., Feb. II. The
steamer Magnolia, bound to Fayetteville,
exp oded at Whitehall, to-day killing
from fifteen to twenty persons. A few Of
the bodies have been recovered.
TUNNEL BETWEEN FRANCE AND Ese.
LAND.-M. Thome de Gammond a dis.
tinguished French engineer. has published
his curious memoir on the practicability
of submarine tunnel between France
and England, after having read it, with
full acceptance, before the Society ofCiv.
il Engineers. The Emperor, to whom it
was submitted, has appointed competent
mixed commission to examine the project;
these gentlemen have recommended al
| lIOu tuo bIcdeUTy, VI uhlI
a million of francs for preliminary inqui-
ries and studies. The British govern
msut will be consulted without delay, and
invited to take part in the enterprise. Nj.
Thome estimates the total expense at q
hundred and seventy million francs-too
large for private capital.
A curious case is now before one of
the churches at Buffalo. Two members
man and wife-livsd unhappily togeth
er. The husband found bis life so un-
comfortable that he at last resolved to
take the benefit of the Fugitive Slave
Law. His wife was fugitive by the
underground railroad, and he wished she
had staid under ground. So he wrote to
her former master at the South, imporing
him to come and take her back.-This
fact leaked out, and the matter is now di.
viding and distracting the church.
The oldest married couple alive are
supposed to be MIR. Synder and his
wife who reside at Burnside, Pa. He is
Ill, and she is l07 years old, and they
have been married about 80 years.
The marriage of the Princess royal
Of England, with Prince Frederick Viii.
liam, Of Prussia, was celebrated at the
Chapel Royal, St. James Palace, on Won
day, the 25th ult-The day was observed
as general boldly, and the event was
celebrated with great display and splen--
dor. The Princess is said to have burst
into tears at the close of the imposing
ceremony.
| The n;raotor. of az Uo--n. Co..
Agricultural Society, held their meeting
at this place on Thursday Of last week /;
but, without coming to any positive deter
minaton in regard to the loca ion Of the
State Fair, adjourned on Friday to meet
at Bellows BALLS Burlington Ssntinei.
Cool -VrRY.-A few weeks ago, while
a gentleman (?) was driving from this vii.
lage to Hinsdillville, when some two miles
or more from The village, his horse stepped
into hole in such 4 manner as to break
his leg, when the owner of the animal
coolly got out Of his cutter, cut of the
leg where it was broken, threw it into the
cutter and drove the horse home upon
three legs the remainder of the distance
some two miles. We learn that be has
hSW ouSd tuS tOWu uduaXes 10 Dls
horse. We rather guess he had better
ascertain what the lac is in regard t.
driving animals after their legs are brok
en-, before he comes to trial upon the
case, and be may then conclude to pay
his own costs, thereby save himself freu
being prosecuted.-Bea Banner.
The Committee of the Kansas Leg
islature, says the Times, are ferrsting out
the election villanies with rich success
They had Mclean, Ca.houn's chief CLERK
on the witness stand, and be swors posi-
lively that he took the election returns
from the safe in Calhoun's office, and sem,
them by messenger to Calhoun at Platte
Mo-, to be taken to Washington. 1t So
happened that sheriff Walker had seeL
Mclean himself burying the returns un.
der a wood.pile only day or two before.
This was known to the committee, and at
ter McLern had swore to his lie in all
possible forms; they sent sheriff Walker
with search warrant for the returns
McLean's office assistants we're about to
resist the search. when thew fonnd thar