The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1859-05-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

by Il defect in tho chimney loss in stock
aud buildings is about $4,000. Insured
for about $500, a part of which was in
the Vermont Mutual Windsor Jont-
nal.
VERMONT IN BIG LUMPs.-On Mondav
last, Mr.. Charles Hollis sent from Mont.
pelier Station the noblest pair of Oxen
We ever saw in this part of Vermont.
Their weight was 5 90 pounds. The.o
oxen were iattod by Hon. Leonar} Keith
OF Barre, anil were sold to NJ. Hollis for
$3.50 Nr. Hollis purchased them for
Mr.. Bltchelder' to dispose Of in Brighton
market Wa'chrton.
I,At a meeting Of the citizens of Rut.
loh' hcli at the Village Hall on Tuesday
cve:1ng last. it was voted to celebrate the
coming Fourth Of July in Rutland in an
appropriate and attractive manner by n
grasd Firemcn's and Military display.
Fireworks in the evening, &c., &c. A
committee of II, comprising some of our
most active business men were appointed
to raise funds and carry out the object
and we have no doubt that arrangements
will be made upon n liberal scale. We
hope all our citizens who may be called
upon to contribute ;owards the expenses
OF the affair will respond TO the call with
llherHlity, that the occasion may he made
one OF interest and credit to our place.
We shall give due information as to the
particulars Of the contemplated celebration
as soon as they shall have been fully de.
cided UPON craH
We take the following from the Free
Press:
We find the following as editorial in a
Democratic paper:
How TO KILL OwLs.-Tf you find that
an owl is looking at you from a tree, and
you wish to bring him down without the
expense of powder and shot, you have
only to keep your eyes steadily fixed upon
him and move slowly around the tree in
his eagcrness to watch your movements
owls are wise-hc forgets to turn his
body, and his eyes following yours, his
neck is soon twisted off.
The Editor forgot to make the applica-
t%Ion,or to tell the parties actually referred
to. We suppose he had in mind the po-
sition 81 the owl at Washington, and the
circumambulation of the Little Giant"
about the roost.
1t looks to outsiders at present as if
the small giant was getting " wound up"
with his decentralization ~ as well as
the owl, who is evidently already badly
twisted.
BuRGLARY.-We learn that some
tn ewes entered the hotel of Charles i.
Taft, in West Dummcrston, on Wedncs-
day night Of last week, and stole there
from all the silver ware that could be
found. The %rascals helped themselves
literally to food, and with the taste Of
epicures, confined their d~eprcGations in
the harder principally to pies and cake.
They appropriated this property very
much in the same manner that the admin
istration wishes to appropriate Cuba.-In
the one case it is burglary, and in the
other it is called by the cuphonious name
Of annexation - r0ttIe5oro Picnic.
Della Webster, the Vermont school
mistress. who has been robbed and abused
in Kentucky on account OF her abolition
sentiments. is on the way to her farm at
Madison, KY, with thirty families from
Massachusetts, to start q shoe factory
,boro Tho EortroL;,,s r;l ,ooo:r,
damage if they let the Yankees stay in
peace.
Leonard Mcsscr, of Plymouth, has
made the past season Is pounds and Is
ounces of sugar from a tree measuring
about eighteen inches in diameter.
IMPORTANT ARRESTS. The police Of
Roxbury, Mass, have succeeded in arrcs-
ting within a week, no less than seven per-
sons, who, for a long time, have piled the
inccndiary torch with great vigor. Three
Of the number were taken in the act of
setting fires. One Of the number worked
in the establishment Of Sanderson & Lam
ncrain, pyrotcchinists, and was thus ena-
bled to prepare the means Of setting fires
with %impunity, for a long time. Most of
the parties were young men and some of
them connected with wealthy, influential
families.
The Charleston Mercuyy says that if
the Douglas squatter sovereignty party
in the North attempt to enter the Charles.
ton Convention they ought to be turned
out Of it but we do not think that they
will seek TO enter it.-They are much
more likely to take part in the Black Re-
publican convention, as they undoubtedly
viii with the party in the next Pres,
idential election"
"A larac-sized A." elephant with a
yellow skin is now on exhibition in the
V ciuity Of Pixies Peak, and is attracting
mary visitors.
A Norwegian shoemaker living in
Minnesota, has obtained $1,000 for a
piece of land near Chicago, which he
DO 'ght eleven years ago for the SUN of
$50.
A correspondent of the New York
EaPr'sS, writing from GaIlatin. Tenn,
reports that as a party of students at the
law school were illustrating the Sickles
case in a mock court, Mr.. Tap, the young
man who took the part of Sickles, jerked
out a pistol which he did not know was
loaded. and shot his most intimate friend,