The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1859-02-16

we iehTn tnHt bcInucl NORTH, Esu.,
Of Chamrlain, n Y. has recently sold
his five years OLD stallion, FpH L,gh,-
fopi, for $500. to gentleman in Ken.
tutky, the owner OF G.ceH ,Ho""t"ii
Block Uowh, formerly owned by u. 5.
Myrick, of Bridport. Both of these
horses are by the Myrick Horse, 'owned
by Mr.. d. A. Bennitt Capt. Lightfoot
is said to have trotted in 22S on the ice
at Plattsburgh year since-snd Green
Mountain Black Hawk, then owned by
Msssrs Smith & Crippen, of Coldwater,
Mich, won the first prize at the National
Fair at Louisville, XIV. in 1857, and has
trotted in 2.4s.
Success 10 the Black Hawk stock in
Kentucky.
Maj. G. V. Cook has recently sold
his splendid black stallion by Old Black
Hawk, to parties in Missouri, for $4,000.
He won the first prize for trotting at the
ST. Louis Fair last autumn, we learn, and
is esteemed one of the best horses in the
whole West.
The Governorcf Michigan has vetoed
the bill which passed the Legislature of
that State, appropriRtiDg six hundred and
forty acres Of land to a'woman who recen.
tly gave birth to four children. The Go.
vernon is afraid Of the precedent.
GREAT ArrLIcTros.-The Cleaveland
| (O.) Herald, says that the Hon Mr..
Slade, Senator from Cuyohoga, has lost
two children by scarlet fever within a
week, and the last child of family of &C.
ven is now lying very low with the same
disease. Upon this weight of woe comes
the news of the death of Mr. SIS. father,
ex.Gov. Slade Of Vermont, and also the
intelligence that brother Henry Slade.
Esq., of St. Paul, is lying dangerously i'll.
We learn that the living child referred
to has since died. We are happy to be
able to state that the brother is GONZALES.
cent.
The Wesselheft water cure, at Brat.
tleboro, has been sold to Theodore Cole,
Parker h Francis and Leroy Salisbury,
who intend to give it thorough re-fttine.
"A bet was made in Albany, New
York, a few days since. that of large
crowd Of applicants for relief, at the Of.
fee of the Overseer Of the Poor, at least
half dozen had money in the SAVINGS
Bank and to test the matter q report
was circulated that the Commercial ga.
Wings Bank had failed. In On instant.
thirteen of the beggars we're rushing mad.
4 ly tor the bank, in order to save their
money from the wreck.
LIQUOR CAsE..-During the last week.a
Mrs. Weston, Of East Fairfield, was fined
$40 for felling,-Mr, E. Fl. Beals, Of
Bakersfield, $50; he appealed to the
County Court.-Mr. a. Morey, of Fair.
field, was fined $40.
Mrs. Dillon was, on the 7th ms,
brought before Judge Adds. on Aabea,
corpus, asking to be discharged from iail.
but bis Honor deemed her grounds for the
discharge were insufficient, and remsnded
her to jail.-&. Adams Messenger.
Mr.. STURGEON AND HIS VIsrr TO AMER.
1oA.-It is fact that Mr.. Spurgeon has
recently received very liberal offer from
( persons in this country to come here and
preach. We have seen q private letter
from him. however, which authorizes us TO
say that, though it is likely he will soon
visit America, he will do SO without any
! pecunlary engagement or inducement of
the kind mentioned in the above letter, or
OF any other sort whatever He will visit
America, if he visit it at all, as an indie.
pendent preacher, and whatever means he,
may take to raise money for the building,
of his new chapel will be taken after he,
shall have reached this city.-N Y.
Epening Post.
The bingham Patriot states that q
Mr. Morse, while upon the shore near
Green Hill, at Hull, few days since, OBJ.
served something projecting above the
sand, which proved to be silver plates and
large platter. Mr.. Morse carried them
home, surprising them to be pewter, but
afterwards ascertained that they were 80.
lid silver and worth between 5000 and
$500.
Some three years ago. several houses
and other buildings in Brewer, Me-, were
entered and robbed, but no clue to the
thieves could be fonnd. Recently, how.
eAer, convert in the revival now in pro.
gress in that section, confessed the crime
duplicating four other young men then
residing in the neighborhood, but now ali
absent some ofthem in distant States.
Ma. EDITOR We, the inhabitants If
this dourishing little village, have Jus, ex..
perienced great reformation. The Rev
A. j. Copeland, Agt. of the State Tenn
peranes Society, delivered a lecture on
temperance on tho 9TH inst, and about.
forty of the A" Old Rummies" SIGNED -
pledge. Success to the cause of ;,omn sn'
ance. n 'enPer'
Cuttingsville. Jan, s,,a ls5aWR,,
land CoHrie, ''- ""'
The line between the Dou0la, and
buchanan democrats is dstinctIy drawn
IN new Hampshire, and Mr., Burke's pa.
pee opposes George, the democratic candi.
oate for Congress in the second district
because he is Douglas man