The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-03-17

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TICKET SwrNDLINa has been practiceI
on largo scale in New York lately. Five |
Timothy's we're cheated in one LOT. They |
were cousins going to California toy,
and we're cheated out of 1928
Another man named Brownel, ' er-
monter, was cheated out of 300
Does,--The question Of 'eyyng tax
on dogs in New York appears to be at
tracing rooa 'nrable attention. 1t is cs- |
timated that there are half million dogs |!
in that State, which are maintained at an !,
expense of Eve millions Of dollars
RUTLAND COUNTY CoURr-Commenced
its session on Tuesday last. Hon.
John Pierpoint, Presiding Judge. Hon.
B. Frisbie and Hon. b. Davenport, Asso.
ciate Judges.
On Wednesday, VIM. D. Foote Esq,
was admitted to the Bar. and sworn as an
attorney at law.
STATE FAIR.-The Managers of The
Vermont State Agricultural Society met
at Bellows Falls on Wednesday last, and
decided to locate the next Fair at Bur.
lington.
The MODERATE WEArHER.-In our issue
Of Feb. 4th we said we should like to
know what had caused the singular varia.
ton in the course of the Gulf Stream, by
which it runs this year some forty or fifty
miles nearer the American coast than hi!h-
erto, and occasioned, as some suppose, the
moderate weather.--A correspondent, Geo.
| Hapgood, writes as follows: Brandon Ad-
! C0cate.
ut is attributable to dimnuton in the
moons declination, by which she does not
tend to influence the Gulf Stream as much
at the point which was her greatest north.
ern declination in October, 1856, taken in
| connection with the fact that from the
| direction of the American coast, the Gulf
| Stream must move more to the east, when
it is drawn further south than usual by
the moons greater annual declination as
it has been for FIVE years last past. The
same cause will moderate the weather for
more than ten years 10 come. &C. A d.
| Journal.
"JEssIE's GoLD RING.-In Mr.. Beech
er's Church, Brooklyn at the close of the
morning service on Sunday, collection
was taken for the benefit of the poor of
the congregation. Among the audience
was Mrs. Fremont ('our Jessie") who hap.
pening 10 have no money in her pocket,
as the plate was passed, took from her
finger heavy gold ring and threw it in,
as the only contribution which she was
able at the moment to make. The ring
contains OF the outside an engraved "bee"
lin allusion to beautiful incident in Col
Fremont's passage of the Rocky Noun.
tains), and on the inside the inscription,
March 4, 81" 1t will be sold for
charitable purpose, aud will no doubt,
bring price.-N. Y Tribune.
SUDDEN DEATH IN CHURCH SINGULAR
CIRcUMsTANcEs.-The Troy Wing states
that at the conclusion of funernal lis
course on Thursday, in one of the Meth
odist Churches of that place, an old cler-
gyman, Rev. Samuel Howe, of Lansn-
burgh, rose to say few words in refer
ence to the deceased. He stated that he
knew him we'll, and lifelong and conclu-
ded by remarking, Il am seventy-eight
years old, and shall soon Join him." Soon
after the congregation was dismissed, Mr..
Howe left the main room Of the church,
and entered the basement, where seating
himself in rocking-chair he almost i'm
mediately expired. The cause of his death
was probably disease of the heart, irrita.
ted and quickened by the excitement of
the occasion.
How They WERE CoNvERrED.-The
conversion Of Messrs. Douglas, Wise and
Walker, three Democratic candidates for
the Presidency, from fellowship with the
fire-eaters, was doubtless owing. says the
North American, to their perusal of the
18th chapter Of Psalms 9th and 9th yer.
ses 4:
Lift not up your horn on high speak
not with stiff neck.
For promo lion cometh neither from the
East, nor from the West, nor from. the
South"
Of course promotion must come from
the North.
ST. LOUIS, Friday, March II.
The Council Bluffs Bugle, of the Sd,
says that Mr.. Wingate has just arrived,
from Salt Lake Jan. 25, and reports that
there was no snow in Salt Lake Valley.
and very little on the mountains. He
came by route known only to the Nor
mons, through the mountains, by which
only horsemen in single file can pass. The
The army has not discovered any trace of
it. The route passes through perpendicu-
lar rocks thirteen miles, is in many places
only three feet wide, and is completely
covered by roof Of rock
Mr.. Wingate says that the Mormons
are manufacturing small cannon with per-
cussion locks, and telescope sights, which
will carry a two-pound ball, with much
more certainty than common rife, 100
yards. They are also making 500 revol-
vers week, and manufacturing coarse
kind of gunpowder for mining proposes,
A skirmish had occurred between a
party Of Mormons and a picket-guard Of
the Army, IN which two of the former
were killed, and it was reported that four
| of the latter were slain,