The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1859-08-10
NEWS OLE THE WEEK.


,caranoe in Washington county, Me.
Tho Grand I.lc County Republican
Convention III North Hero un The 10th
nit was unusually laree, and au excellent
ticket was nominated. which s as follows
FOR Senator-O Orange Phelpf
For Assistant judges Bnel lIanGdon.
WIN Sowlcs,
For Judge of Probate a. Allen
For States Attorney Henry e. Nd
ans,
For Sherifi--Suon Reynolds i
For High Railih--Ellivin Adam.
On the arrival ol steamer Nova
Scotia. off Father Point we nave ion
days later news from Europe The news
is not of special Importance but is quite
interesting 1t is not yet certainly known
whether Sardinia will take part in the
Conference at Zurich, which was to Rave
met at the end Of July Their was q
rumor that the Emperor would visit Lon
don.
Count Waewski has drawn up plan
for the Confederation Of Italy. We are
told that it consists of seven States, and
the Presidency is given nomially to the
Pope, but really to the King of Sardinia
and Naples alternately. The strong pla-
ces are to be garrisoned by federal troops
and include Gaeta Mantua and Piacenza.
There is a proposition Tor general die
armament pending between England and
France. which it is said was proposed by
Napoleon. Some rather mintelligible
dispatches about Garibaldi, hold ont the
idea that TIE patriots TO the number OF
$4,000 men will take the Geld for the
freedom of Italy The British Parlia-
ment are still largely occupied with the
bugbear of an invasion by France, and
| the increase of the national defence
The Queen of Portugal, whose death
is announced in our latest advices from
Europe, was Saxon Princess, born July
Is, 1887, and on the day preceding her
death had entered upon her 23d year.
! -LaMountain, the balloonist, is build
ing new aerial ship at Lansingburgh.
N. Y, to cost $4,000, with which be
promises to try voyage scross the Att
antic. Some New Workers furnish the
money.
Italy is only twice the size Of New
England, and contains a population as
large as the United States.
Mr.. Walworth, wealthy planter of
Arkansas. who is one Of the old habitaes
Of Saratoga, has made will in which he
bequeaths $50 900 to the State of New
York, toward founding hospital for the
blind if the State should refuse to ac.
cept it, it is to 20 to the State of Michi-
gan and if not accepted by Michigan,
it is to 90 to Ohio Mr. Walworth is
himself blind
Two years ago George Washington
Parke Curtis, the grandson of Washing
tons wife, died in Virginia, emancipating
his slaves by his will. But his heir, Col.
Lee, still holds the negroes in slavery, and
nobody interposes in their behalf.
OPERATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES
MINT The gold coinage of the United
States mint in Philadelphia for the month
of July was s1l7,7ss, being in double
eagles, half eagles, and dollars. The silver
coinage was $4,000 being in dollars and
quarter dollars. OF cents $4,000 were
coined. The whole number Of pieces
coined was 3,101, 1862, of the aggregate
value Of s190,7SS. The gold deposits of
the month were sl58 100, of which Sill,
527 SO were fom California, and $4l, :
( I'll ha
silver deposits were s57,170. Total de-
posits for the month S219,230
An occurrence which appeared ca
lamitous resulted Joyfully at Sandusky
o., few days since. A lady who had
become deranged, hung herself with the
valance of her bed, but was discovered
while in the agonies Of death, as it seemed
and was restored by bleeding. Strange
to say, not only life but reason returned
She remembers nothing of the circum'
stances.
The Steam plow of j. W. Fawkes
of Christiana, Pa, was tried at OXFORD
Park, Philadelphia, with entire success
1t ploughed at the rate of one acre il
LNclNt ulL'tes, anu IL lulutu III u suld
circle backed and went up and down q
hill with ease. A considerable number Of
farmers were in attendance.
The number of graduates OF Yale
College who have died during the AGA.
demical year 1852 is So; the average
age about ia years. Among them were
Rev. Cad Newell, aged SO, Colonel Jacob
Bond ron, Gen. James Gadsden, Denisor
Olmstead, Prof. and Hon. Oliver Ellis
worth
-Garibaldi was claimed as IL Scotch
man not long since; now Virginia pa
per afirms that he is decandant of JohI
johnson Jones of Blandford in that State
An Italian rope dancer by the name O
Garibaldi eloped with beautiful daughter
of Jones and took her to italy, wher,
she became the mother of the Sandman
hero
MIR. Stephen Harris OF Troy, n, II
has a blueberry pasture containing abou
twenty acres, from which he gathers. oil
an average, three hundred bushels a yea
of these berries, and has done so for twent,
years. which yield all annual income o
about FIVE hundred dollars.
The ParkeyS6uyg (Va) Neaes say
that the proposition to hold the Republi
| can National Convention in / $50 a