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

lecturer, now laborlng under the direction
Of the Vermont Temperance Society. will
be present at the meeting
A very interesting session Of the Society
may be expected Citizen.
The arrival Of the isthmus steamer
Star of the West brings us later install
ment OF news from California, Oregon.
Salt Lake and the Pacific. The Calfor-
mia news is Of no special interest. From
Oregon we have further proof that the
Mormons are inveigling the Indians into
hostility against the United States. Utah !
advices represent that the Mormon army
has been put into better condition than it
was, and is preparing for long contest.
Five Americans are reported to have been
recently massacred by the Indians, near
Salt Lake. From Peru we have an sc-
count of the arrest Of an alleged Ameri-
can fllibuster. A very destructive fire
has occurred at Valparaiso.
FoREIaS.-The steamship Baltic ar
rived in New York on Thursday last,
bringing four days later news from Eu-
rope. The Leviathan was fairly launched.
Prince Frederick William and his wife
had embarked. A fearful colliery explo-
SION had taken place. Letters patent had
been issued by, the French Emperor nam.
ing the Empress Regent in case of any ca
lamity to the Emperor,
RUTLAND, Friday, Feb. 10,
The Passenger Car Of the Local Freight
Train, Rutland Il Burlington Railroad,
due here at II o'clock. to-day, was thrown
of the track, near Clarendon, seriously
injuring FIVE of the passengers.
Among the injured are Mrs. Sheldon,
Of Fairhaven, VIM Hoskinson,. Of Heald-
vile, Ephram Jones, Of Reading, VT, j.
C. Head, of Jefferson county, N. Y, and
Franklin Maynard, of Cambridge, Mass
HoRRrD.-On one Of the coolest nights
in December last, female drenched with
rain, and shivering with cold, called at
house in Manchester and begged the priv.
+ ilega of remaining over night, which re.
quest was kindly granted. Before morn.
ing she was confined with q child, and
physician sent for, but who, for some rea-
son refused to answer the call until an
order had been procured from the Select.
men Of that town The female lay for
many weeks at the house where she was
taken in, in suflring condition. As she
was destitute OF any means, the town pro-
vided for her immediate wants !; court
of inquiry was held, when she gave the
name Of her seducer, man living in
Mount Tabor, with wife and family,
who, she said threatened her with death if
she exposed him. She was subsequently,
removed to the poor house in Wallingford
but she was evidently insane. About one
week since she managed to escape from
the house. secreted herself in barn near
by, where she remained until the second
night, when she evidently ared the barn,
which was consumed together with three
COWS. Having discovered her tracks in
the snow, the people continued their search
until the poor pitiable creature was found
several miles distant, she having walked
that distace barefoot. She was found sit
ting on stone tearing up part Of her
scanty clothing to wrap around her badly
burned and lacarated feet. She was con.
veycd back and cared for but subsequent.
ly evidentaly destroyed her child as it was
found dead in the bed with her. Who
can tell the punishment that awaits him
who has seduced this female, which has
led her to the crime Of murder Ben
ntn9ton Banner.
PRoLITIc.-A correspondent inforrs US
that lady in Bethel gave birth to three
children, ono day last week. Another cor.
respondent says:
Zone Mrs. Haskins of Huntington, last
Wednesday gave birth to four living chill.
dren, two girls and two boys They lived
but about "A hours. If any town in the
State can beat this, speak out "-E1.
The Jacksonville (Fla.) Republican
records the death of Mrs Winnie Lassiter
on the 2sth ult., aged one hundre and
thirty years. She was a native Of North
Carolina. and was married in the colony
many years before the Rev olution.
"A Yankee, travelling in Switzerland
got into an alteration with his Swiss guide
and struck him The Swiss, on arriving
at the village, demanded 30 frances Of
him or the inhabitants would stone him.
The Yankee paid, and asked the Swiss if
he would take another such blow for
IS francs more. He readily agreed to it
and the Yankee gave him stunning blow
and the two parted good friends.
AocIDEsrs.-Mrs. J. G.. CHANDLER, Of
this place, was thrown from sleigh, last
Wednesday, and her left arm broken about
midway above the elbow. On the day,
Mr.. N. LOVELY, was also thrown from a
sleigh, dragged some two rods on the
ground, injuring his left shoulder badly
SeRtinef.
"A French boy was drowned in the
lake on Saturday. He and a comrade,
undertook to see which should venture out
farthest on the new made ice between
the wharves and break.water. The ice
broke under him, and he was drowned.
His body was recovered in about ten min.
utes, but life was extinct. He vas eleven