The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1859-05-04

tHHt bihdtA tINBTptL Is MT "a
newspaper writer, and never can be a
popular one, lie is classic and eieeat.,
in his style, but he mover can writo a nevs-
paper article. With all his immense tai
ent' he could not make a daily paper l>s
six months. unless said paper was su,
tanned Ivy mems outside Of its legitimate
income. The same remark will opnlv "a
Washington Irving, Longfellow. and all
other well Known literary gcntlemn in this
country. The least readable daily paper
issued in this country is the one published
at Burlington, by SAKE. the wittiest poet
IN America. Sake is a wit, scholar. and
man OF genius, and yet he could no mora
make a readable newspaper than be could
o%verturn the Pyramids.-Rockford (W1
Republican.
There is some truth in the above re-
marks but brother Blaisdell ought to know
that SAKE left the fraternity several years
ago.
AUTHORITY OF ScnooL TEAcuERs-Tbe
teacher OF a private school in North
Brookteld was tried on Monday, before
justice Hill of Spencer, for excessive
punishment of a scholar. The offender.
out OF school hours, and away from the
school grounds, hid the hat of one of bis
companions, who was compelled to return
to the school bareheaded. The punish
ment inflicted was not proved to be inor.
dinatc or malicious. The Justice decided
that the teacher of a private school, BY
implied consent of the parent, had the
right to punish, and that in this case the
punishment was proportional to tho
offence. The teacher won the highest
regard among those by whom her services
are best known. This decision is sat,s.
factory, and a proper safeguard of school
authority Worcester Spy.
Some Postmaster having insisted
that marking articles in a newspaper with
a pen or pencil, subjected the paper to
letter postage, a gentleman wrote TO the
Postmaster General on the subject, and
received the following reply from the first
Assistant Postmaster:
"Sir-in reply to yours of the 26th
ult., [ inform you that a pen or a pencil
mark made for the sole purpose of at
tracing the "Ye 10 a particular article
or portion of printed matter, docs no.
subjcc, such a matter to letter postage"
There is a man in PHILADELPHIA rbo
owns two good brick houses and a iced
store, and has 81, 900 invested in stocks
-pll Of which he a accumulated solely
by the business Of catching r. which be
ella IN oprin.org - =. r,4 49,,
A WONDERFUL Tows.-The rapid
growth of L%cavcnworth city, Kansas, is
astonishing. Although only four years
old it contains a population Of 10,450
with an assessed valuation Of s~3,S71,375.
1t has nine churches, ten schools four
daily and four weekly papers. seven job
printing offices. eighty.nine lawyers and
forty doctors.
A curious case has recently trans
pire1 at Monticello. Mo. Two bows were
arrested for stealing a $40 gold piece.
The one who did mt steal it was put upon
his trial first, and the other chan was
Issued rs n witness, and his innocence was
established. The other boy was then
placed on trial, when the one Just acquit-
led came forward, and swore that he had
,tole" tie NANCY hims'lf!
A RARE CAPrrvE.-We copied yester-
day from the Hartford C)urlnt, the nm.
nouncement Of the capture ola sea! weigh
ing 10 pounds, on an island at the mouth
Of the Connecticut river. Yesterday
morning, Messrs Collins 4 Co.. h tters,
No. Ill Chapel street, showed the public
a grey seal, which weighed so pounds,
and which WAS caught, it was said, in q
seine at Stony Creek, the day before. 1t
is very rarely indeed that seals naw-a-
days find their way into our waters
New Hareh JoafnoE.
1t is stated that the first step towards
organizing the opposition party for the
mex Presidential campaign will be taken
in the Lext State Convention of the OPP
position in Prpnsylvania-lst, because tho
organization is already in existence there,
and I'd because the first State Convention
at the North is to be held there.
Is LAGER INTOXICATING "A jury a.
Geneva N. Y, has decided this ve1ed
question, in the affirmative. Witness.
swore to drinking a hundred glasses of the
beer daily without feeling it above the
pit of the stomach, bat the tcstim.ny Of a
chcmis, who Analysed the beer, and got
half a pint of whisky from two quarts Of
lager, settled the jury.
"A new idea for a track" for tho
exhibition of horses has been suggested by
a gentleman in Hartford. Conn. It is an.
elongated figure Sand as the track
crosses the intersection or middle Of the
figure, neither horse can get the advantage
of the shorter or inside track.
Mr.. SUMNER IN FLoRENCE.-A cores
pondent writing from Florence, under date
of April 81, says:-
"Hon. Charles Sumner is here. a5-
sorhci in art, but looking worse than |
had expected. lie is obliged to lie in
bed until noon TO rest his spine, which
still troubles him greatly"
AT VickshurG, Miss, the Mississippi
is higher than ever before recorded, and
l6 inches higher than in the rise Of last
year. Tho distance from the levee to the
opposite shore is fifty miles. Scores of
r;lo,oa ond n nlontat;npa ara ouar-