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

of this place, by profession of faith
Eleven were added 10 the Congregation
al church in Cornwall, on the same day.
Rev. W. B. Bond, was dismissed
from the pastorate Of the North Church,
st. Johnsbury, on Tuesday of last week,
by his own request, on account of contin.
ued i'll health.
The Republicans of Windsor Co. in
their Convention " in Woodstock A. NJ
Made the following nominations
For County Senators.
CHARLES s. RAYMOND, of Bridgewater.
10 d. HATCH, Of Windsor.
WARREN G. FRENCH, of Woodstock.
JOHN WILDER, of Weston
For first Assistant Judge of the County
Court-WALTER PALMER, of Woodstock.
Second do.-NAPoLEoN B. RouNpy. of
Weathersfeld
For Sheriff-LoRENzo RICHMOND, of
Woodstock
For High Bailiff-SILAs WARREN, of
Ludlow.
For States Attorney DUDLRY c. DEN
rsoN, Of Royalton.
For Probate Judges-For District of
Hartford, JOHN PORTER, of Hartford for
District of Windsor, HENRY CLossoN, of
Springfield
On the LIST inst, the steamer Gale
ma, took fire at Red Wing, Minnesota,
and was consumed, with the loss of seven
lives. The boat was valued at $4,000
No insurance.
"A mad dog was killed at Framing
ham, Mass, on Thursday, who had bitten
several dogs and torn the face of little
child Of Mr. Lewiston in most shocking
manner.
On the 4th inst, another bear was
killed in Wilmington, by Willis Cutler,
making the third one that has lately lost
its life in that town. We learn that they
abound Whereabouts this year being more
numerous than ever before within the
memory of the Oldest inhabitant." On
Sunday, May 80, they killed three cattle
for Hszelton Rice, Of Somerset and bad
ly mutilated the fourth.
Flora Temple and Lancet trotted for
purse at the Fair Grounds near Phila-
delphia, on Thursday, Flora winning in
three straight heats of one mile each, in
2:29, 2:3l and 2;35. Lancet broke bad
ly as usual.
STRONG BEER.-Mr. Justice Hill deci.
ded on Saturday last, that beer seized by
Sheriff Flanagan on Wednesday, as be-
longing to Lundy, Dunn & Co., is an sin
toxicating liquor" within the meaning of
the law, and ordered five bbls. of it spill.
ed forthwith, the remainder having been
released from seizure.-Lundy, Dunn &
Co., were fined $40. The decision was
Immediately complied with.-Sentine.
Horse tanning is becoming quite prev
alent. Two Of the tanners went to Ware
a few days since, procured barn and a
baulky horse, and gave lessons to sixteen
men at So each. Several boys who look
ed through the cracks in the barn, report
that the n,odus ope'andi was to tie the
legs of the horse together, and worry him
in various ways till he became exhausted
and perfectly manageable.
Commencement at Dartmouth is to be
on Thursday, July 90. Dodworth's cole
brated Cornet Band, from New York, are
to furnish music for the occasion, givinga
concert the evening previous Rev. Geo.
b. Cheever, of New York city. will adj
dress the Theological Society on Tuesday
evening, July 9th. Hon. Rufus Choate
of Boston will deliver the address before
the Alumni ON Wednesday July %. Will
liam Pitt Palmer. Esq, of New York
city, will deliver a Poem Lefore the Uni
ted Literary Societies,
Douglass home organ, tho Chicago
Times, gives list of fifty,iournals in that
State which repudiate the Lecomp:on test,
two noncommittal, and six who !" 90 in "
for Buchanan. All the latter are man.
aged by ofice-holders except one, and that
was bought up at the extravagant sum of
SAT-.
The primary meetings in Lovejoy's dis
trict. Illinois, are thought to indicate his
denomination beyond doubt.
The Cruise OF TIE ARcrIc.-The
cruise Of the little old Arctic has turned
out as we expected it would. She was
sent to the Gulf, it will be remembered,
to "blow the British feet out of water"
with two guns and howtzcr) The first
day cut, she made three miles an hour.
The third day out, she rolled 80 heavily
that corporal's guard of marines had to
hold the howitzer to keep it from pitching
overheard, On the seventh day she
broke her engine. On the eighth she
sprung aleak On the ninth, set all hands
at the pumps. Succeeding in stopping
the leak, she crept on towards Havana at
canal-boat speed-two-and-a-half miles an
hour Sic did not see the British fleet
didn't see the Stypx-didn't seq anything
in fact, except when some merchantmen