The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-12-08

mother had left them locked up in the
house, and oil returning found the house
on fire and the children burned to death.
Senator Douglas is making South
elm tour with his lady--it is said to feel
the Southern pulse.
The Legislature of South Carolina
seems to be pretty equally divided upon
the question of re.opening the Slavc-trade
and the contest enters into the election of
Governor and U, S. Senator,
w. II. Keim, tho opposition candi-
date for Congress in Pennsylvania, is
elected in place of j. Clancy Jones, re.
signed.
European news for the week past is
of no special interest
1t is said that arrangements are being
made to commence washing for diomonds
in Georgia on large scale.
Tho Mortara affair, so called, is at
present exciting no little interest in
Europe and America, The case is this
The child of one Mortara, Jew, and
subject Of the Pope, was surreptitously
baptized by Its nurse Catholic. On the
basis of this baptism it is claimed as
child of the church, wrested from the GUS
tody of his father, and his care and edu.
cation committed to Catholic priests. The
iather by the outrage is affected as any
father would be, and is making all Europe
resound with his indignant complaints.
The Jews OF this country, too, are aroused
and have made formal application to the
Secretary of State, for such interference
as he may be able to give, which is we
understand declined, probably with good
reason.
The following is the account given by
the mother of the Jewish child Mortara,
aged six years aud some months,) when,
after repeated solicitations, she was per.
mitted to see him on the 18th of October /:
This morning I and my husband went
to the Catechumens, and they told us that
the rector and my dear child had just
arrived VIC mounted the fight of steps,
and very soon after that had our darling
Edgar in our arms. AS for me, l kissed
him over and over again weeping and sob.
bling, whilst he answered my kisses and
embraces with his whole soul greatly
excited and shedding tears, the little fei.
low struggled between his fear of those
who have him in their power and his i'm.
mense love for us, but this at last
triumphed. He cried out quite loud that
he wanted to 60 home with his parents to
his brothers and sisters. | told him to
remember that he was born Jew as we
were, and that it was his duty always to
remain one. He answered, "Yes, dear
mama, shall always take care to say the
Sherman every day." I added. that we
had come to Rome to see him again, and
that we should not leave the city without
him, at which he appeared glad and hap.
py. All this took place in the presence
of the rector and of his brother and sig
ters.
DR.. H. E. Howell, of New York,
says that the most etfectual remedy to i'm
prove the tone and energy of the stomach
is the Oxygenated Bitters. For Dyspep.
STA and Indigestion these Bittsrs are un-
paralleled, as testify numerous cures.
The Line, on Through Steamers, be.
tween Whitehall and Rouse's Point, ceased
running for the season, on the LIST inst.
The Boston, Capt. Hinkley, and the Mon.
treal, Capt. Chamberlin, continue to run
between Burlington and Pittsburgh for
the present,-Bur. Times, Dec. 8.
A CHAPTER OF AccIDENTs.-On Thanks.
giving evening, three bloody affairs came
OFF in Burlington, all within about the
same hour.
\ First A boy oarelessly operating O
straw cutter, at the Pioneer shop. had all
the fingers Of one hand cut of, to the first
joint.
Second: VIM. Barnard in drunken
brawl with his wife, ION Water street.
attack ed her with knife, which she sue.
ceeded in wrenching from him when he
seized a fat iron and struck her on the
side Of her head, laying bare the skull,
severing branch of the jugular artery
and inAicting serious injury.
Third Neil Mckee, Sailor, got upon
the Central Train, at the Sh elburn street
Station, and before the cars were under
fullheadway, jumped off near the crossing
of Church street, and fell so that his hand
got caught under the car-wheel and wal
completely crushed, so that amputation al
the wrist was required.
DR. CARPENTER, aided by Mr.. j. CoRBIN
a Student in his Office attended to all the
cases. Shslburne must look out for her
laurels - Times.
The Bellows Falls Times says that
in the town of Somerset. Vermont, there
is singular curiosity. called the "pot
hole" which is formed in solid and very
hard rock. 1t is ten feet eight inches in
diameter, circular though not round. A
screw like thread winds from top to bot.
tom, making three complete turns. giving
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