The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-05-26

the salt interests would help the iron inter-
ests and if we take off the sugar duty
from gentlemen down in Louisiana, / think
after while they will come to our ground; |
and if we should repeal the law returning
fugitive slaves all the gentlemen in the
" Niger" interest would soon help to take
care of our iron.
So if you run around all these interests
and strike them down, when we are all so
low down together that we cannot take
care of ourselves, we shall begin to feel as
members of the same great country ought
to feel-each one willing to serve the 9TH
er."
THE RECIPROCITY TREATY between this
country and Canada is causing some trouble
on the frontier, from disagreement about
its construction in regard to -four manufac-
tured in Canada from wheat grown in the
States. The Canadian millers have intro
duced such -four into the United States
markets as free article The u S. Gov
eminent does not so consider it, and exact
a duty. The Oswego Times denouuces
this practice, and the Buffalo Advertiser
says it is oppressive and if fully carried
out must soon put an end to the Treaty
Free Press.
DEATH OF AN INFANT HEIREs.-The
death of Jesse Barber, aged four years and
nine months, is announced in the Chicago
papers. This little girl was the last sur
viving member of the family of j abez Bar
Der, of Chicago, who, with his wife and
10. Il = IL.
Pacific, in 1856. At the time of his death
his property was estimated at about $780,
600, and has since increased in value to
100000 By his will the entire proper
ty fell to the infant Jessie. In case of her
death it was to revert to the next of kin.
The nearest of kin are Mary Ann, Harriet
and Lucy Barber, Of Birmingham, Eng
land, aud Eliza Bell, Canada East.
The Courier says that the new Post
Office and United States Court House in
Rutland is nearly completed to the first
story. The underpinning is Of granite from
the Fitzwilliam quarries, in New Hamp-
shire, and the three upper stories are to
be of pressed brick. The building will
probably be ready for occupation BY the
first Of January next.
"A whole gang of robbers have been
overhauled recently on the Upper Missis-
sipp, between La Crosse and Prairie du
Chen. which places have extensively suf-
fered the past year from their depr eda.
tions. The robbers had possession of an
island which was searched by citizens, at
the instigation of one robber who quarrel.
ed with the Others and some $4,000 or
$4,000 worth Of stolen goods recovered.
Some fourteen persons have been arrested
and this number will probably be increas-
ed.
A SATISFIED OFFIc1AL.-The Governor
Of Wisconsin now gets yearly salary Of
$1,260. A proposition having been re-
Gently introduced in the Legislature to in.
crease the salary to $4,000, Governor
Randall notified the members of that body
that if adopted, he arouM acto the meas.
IRE, whereupon the proposition was order.
ed to be dropped.
Gov. Randall was elected in opposition
to the It Forty Thieves" and being q Re.
publican he live, up to his principles.
A report from Fort Mayors, Florida
of the 18th Of April, states that Billy
Bowlegs and 1913 men, women and child
rem were collected, ready to emigrant tc
Arkansas. Capt. Van Bokkelio, of the
U. 8. army, who had arrived at New Or
leans estimates that the Florida trouble are
ended and that steps are about being ia
ken to break up that military dep artmen'
In Springfield Mass on the 5th inst
a row being in progress at an Irish board
ing house and GROCERY, and City Marshal
Hodgett being called in to quell the dis
turbances, he proceeded to prompt ap
plication of the late decision of Chief Jus
tice Shaw as to the right of every man t
abate nuisance. Gaining an entranc,
to the house, in and about which nearly {
hundred people were assembled, and find
ing there full assortment of liquors, b,
smashed all the decantera, jugs, glasses
&C., without further words, and being I'm
able to break in the heads of the severa
half barrels that lined the room, he drov'
the excited people back and waited till al
the miserable stuff had wasted itself through
the faucets, making nasty and somewha
miscellaneous puddle on the floor. HI
then arrested two women who were prom
inent in the disturbance and took his leave
1t is thought that keeping GROCERY viii
prove an improbable business in Massa
chusetts under the new way Of dealing will
the nuisance.
OLD Folks ELoPRMENT.-Justiee Pur
dy married couple yesterday, who full!
merit the felicity which they will doubles
enjoy in connubial union. The bridegroom
was an old bachelor, whose years number
ed three score and ten, and whose look
betokened him innocent of womankind
His bride was widow, who asserted tina
she was but ffty-seven, but the bystander
set her down at eighty. 1t appeared tina
the widow, in the exercise Of those win
some ways which widows do affect, inveig
led the bachelor into an attachment which
both parties proposed to consumate il
matrimony. An objection arose, howeve
in the shape Of several infants, twenty o
thirty years old, belonging to the widow
who most decidedly objected to her mar
rying. In this dilemma they resorted t,
the usual dodge peculiar to young people