The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1859-11-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Of the State shall be withheld from any
County Agricultural Society which shall
within the two years previous have paid
any money on the trial Of speed Of horses.
Rev. S. d. Stebbins delivered Lee
ture to young men in Vergennes, on
Wednesday evening last. The Citizen
says the attendance was good and the lee
ture inspired interest. Mr.. S. lectures
again tonight.
On Saturday afternoon of last week,
Mr.. A. j. Wheeler, prominent citizen Of
Bennington died instantly of congestion of
the brain.
The VT Messenger estimates the
salaries Of Methodist clergymen in the
Troy Conference to average S42S,I3.
The Union Store of East Poultney
was burned on Tuesday night Of last week
Loss $4,000. Insured for $1,000.
-Gerritt Smith is insane, and is coll
fined in the State Lunatic ASYLUM, at
Utica. Insanity is said to be hereditary
in his family. twould not seem strange
however that the assaults lately made up
on him by all the dogs of Slavery through
out the land should craze any one though
possessed of the soundest constitution
The large Elephant belonging to Van
Amburghs Menagerie, on the 4th inst, at
WILLIAMSBURG, broke loose and in a fit of
anger destroyed reveral cages and escape
ing into the street he was pursued by his
Keepers and a multitude of people. He
was captured with great difficulty. after
being severely wounded in almost every
part.
The Barque Renzi Of Boston, on a
passage from peru to Rotterdam found
cred Aug 20 in longitude $50 west.
The crew and passengers left in two open
boats, one of which reached the coast of
Peru in % days, having consumed every
mors ell of food and lost one man from ex
haustion.
We learn from the Burlington Free
Press that through efforts of Prot Marsh
large and valuable accessions have recen-
tly been made to the Museum of the Uni
versity superb copy, in 20 volumes
Royal 8vo. of the great illustrated edition
of Cuviers Animal Kingdom-the notes
and illustrations being made by a corps
of his most eminent pupils and successors
in France. Also large and beautiful
Collection Of stuffed American Birds
said by Prof. Baird of the Smithsonian
Institute, to be unsurpassed, for real ex-
celence by mere than three or four COL
lections in the United States has been re.
ceived from N. Y. City, and is now in the
University Museum.
New Orleans dates of the 2nd say
that the weather has been almost unprece-
IDENTIFY cold for this period oc the season
fol several days past, and successive frosts
have appeared there, as also above and
below the city, since Tuesday week. From
the accounts thus far received, it is feared
that both the sugar and cotton crops have
been touched in their late maturing, and
it is probable the growth of both has been
stopped for the present season.
The overland news received in this
city yesterday was telegraphed from a new
place-Pecheco Pass, near Hollenbecks
ranch-twenty five miles, beyond Gilroy
and one hundred and ten from this city.
The operator held the machine in his lap,
and was seated on box, with the East
ern papers spread before him on the ground
in the open air. Thus the lines Of the
Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company
are creeping Eastward little by little every
day adding from two to four miles to its
length,-San Francisco Times.
GOLD IN MIssoURT.-It is stated that
another highly important discovery has
just been made near Fredericktown, Mo-
being a vein, or, rather, formation
some forty or fifty feet wide, containing
platinum and gold. Messrs. Kraut and
Weiss and DR.. Koch, Of St. Louis, visited
the place last week. and declared them
selves both surprised and grat6ed to find
such an immense deposit of mineral wealth
in Missouri.
1t is said that well known New
York journalist intends risking his life in
the balloon adventure about to be under.
taken by Prof Lowe, with his mammoth
DIR ship. " The City of New York"
"A golden eagle was killed last week
on the Lower St. Lawrence und brought
to Quebec, which was shot while endeavor.
ing to carry of child about three years
of age, This is the only bird in America
that will attack the human species. They
breed in the north, following at this sea
son the birds and animals that seek a
milder climate,
Some Of the prisoners confined in the
jail in Bennington Centre made an inef.
fectual attempt to escape, some few days
since. With tools, which they procured
from some source now unknown, they sue.
ceeded In making an aperture through the
wall, and it is thought. would soon have
accomplished their end, had they not been
discovered Bennington Banner.
-Advices from New Mexico report