The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-07-07

" Vdhts 10 20 10 EUROPE she reached
Havena. Then it was found that her
boilers were out Of order, and she started
back 10 Key West for repairs It is hard.
y necessary TO add that she did not elbow
the British feet out Of water. ABanv
Evening j vrnoL
A HEAVY VERpIor.-The suit of the
Trustees of the Rutland & Burlington
Railroad Us. the Bank of Bellows Falls,
was tried in Boston and a verdict for the
plaintiff rendered few days since The
amount the Bank will be called upon to
pay III damages is, we learn, about $751;
THE UNIVERSITY OF VBRNoNT.-At the
approaching Commencement Of the Uni
verslty of Vermont, the proceedings will
be as follows: The Rev. DIR. Harris OF
Bangor Me, will address the Society of
Religious Inquiry the Rev. DIR. Storrs
OF Brooklyn, N. Y, the Literary Societies;
the Rev. Mr.. Cutler of Worcester, Mass,
the Alumni. The Senior and Junior elias.
ses have engaged the celebrated Germania
Band to furnish the music FOR the occa-
sion.
WASHINGTON, July l, 1858.
learn that Mr.. Comstock, agent for
Collins d Co., has returned from Europe,
and has contracted with the French Gov
eminent, or with parties in France, for the
sale Of the three Collins steamers for the
sum of ST 100000. This will of course.
enlarge the Post Master-General discre.
ton in contracting for ocean mail service.
Two LADS DRowNED.-Last Sunday p.
M. June 9th, two young men, residents
OF Fletcher, went to the Church in Cam
bridge. After meeting, they went into
the Lamoille River to battle. They VEN
tured into the water where it was deep,
and being poor swimmers, were both
drowned. Their bodies were recovered
after being in the water about twenty
hours. Their names were Henry Crosier
and John St. John, aged respectively II
years. A sad affliction to their relatives
and friends.-Repository.
Hot WEATHER.-Last Friday, June
18th, the thermometers in all this region
stood at about 100 degrees above Zero
Repository.
TERRIBLE FIRE IN CANADA.-We learn
from the Quebec Chroaaclc, that dread.
full fire, caused by the clearing of lands.
has occurred in the County Of Chicoutimi,
and has been carried by strong wind
springing up at the time over the greater
part Of nine townships in that the county,
consuming all before it. and rendering des
olate and houseless over one hundred fam
lilies, equal to seven hundred souls By
this calamity, it is said, more than one
hundred thousand dollars worth of prop.
erty has been destroyed, beside an i'm
mense extent of fencing, with several cost.
ly bridges. More than a third of the seed
sown this spring has also been DESTROYED
which will be very severely felt by the
settlers, owing to their inability to procure
seed and re-sow SO late in the season.
Circulars have been issued from
Washington and distributed over the
Union urging Mr.. Crittenden as the can
didate for the Presidency, irrespective of
party or platform, and on the ground of
has personal popularity, with all. the ele-
m ents Of the opposition and his accepta-
bility to the Democracy
During the late heated term, we hear
Of numerous cases of sun-strokes and many
deaths resulting therefrom.
John II. Campbell, merchant of
New Orleans, who was on board the Penn.
sylvania at tho time of her explosion at
Memphis, states that for some considerable
time before the catastrophe, tho engineer,
instead of attending to his duty, was in the
aft of the boat, dallying with some woman
and the explosion took place while he was
returning to the engine. Mr.. Campbell,
who has been an engineer, says that know
ing the danger Of such neglect, he was
about to try the water in the engine him.
self but feared the engineer would consider
it an interference of duties, 1t was the
first question of wise old Turkish bash.
aw, when any row happened, who's the
woman ?"
The police of London have detected
a new burglars instrument of the most
extraordinary description. 1t will cut
through solid iron half an inch thick "a hole
six inches in diameter. 1t will accomplish
euis ica, WIN case III an hOur, ana With
out making the slightest noise or sound.or
without uniting the tool for an immediate
repetition Of the experiment. This in.
vention of knavery is admitted to he a
masterpiece in mechanics. 1t is con.
fessedly the production of skill and ex.
perience that may we'll excite the envy of
the most celebrated artifcers in that spe.
cies of human handiwork
The 4" Eliotype" is the name oP a
new and beautiful application of photog.
raphy, invented by an English artist, Mr..
Robinson Elliott. The object of the pro-
cess is to reproduce works of high art,
such as copies of the modern masters, in
the size of the originals.
ONE OF SENATOR Owns PLUMBER
SCHEMES The San Francisco Her0M |
administration of the 9th inst, thus ex-
poses scheme for plundering the national
treasury which Senator Gwin endeavored !
to Incorporate in one of the appropriation |
bills but which was defeated through tho
efforts Of Senator Broderick
"By the last steamer we received the
rumor that it was proposed to sell to the