The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1859-05-11

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at midday is not guilty Of any crime.
The acquitted manslayer was greeted with
huzzas, and a triumpbal procession was
cxtemporzed by the multitude. 1t is in
timated that an ovation awaits his return
to New York. But in the face Of this
verdict and those demonstrations it re-
mains true that the hero of this tragedy
has only succeeded in publishing to the
world the iBfamy Of his wife, in s~'aining
his hands with the incffaccable blood of a
fellow, in proving himself capably of cow
ardly revenge, and consigning himself 10
political oblivion when his brief term of
office, if be can brave that out, shall have
cxpircd.-N. Y, Independent.
MoDEL TowN.-At Peacham 500 pco-
pie have signed the temperance pledge,
the past winter.
Horace Greeley is going on an extern
sive trip this summer, through Kansas and
its gold region, Utah and California, and
returning either by the lsthmus or across
the continent /; leaving May 10th and re-
turning in September.
NOT DEowNED.-A little lad named
Hays came near drowning by falling into
the branch on Tuesday, but was saved by
the exertions of Peter Gravlin, a young
man who had the courage to nearly drown
himself by picking the boy up after he
had sunk.-He e7nun.
Prof. Dcnison Olmstead of Yale
College is very i'll, and 1t is feared cannot
long survive. His disease is neuralgia in
the stomach.
Austrian finances are in a dcplorable
condition. A Paris letter in the Jou, nal
IF Commerce says it is reported that the
government has seized upon the m .talic
reserve of the Bank of Vienna. A forced
loan is also supposed to be in coutcmpla-
ton, to the great alarm of the Weather
portion Of the community. Even the
army is reported TO be showing dangerous
symptoms Of dissatisfaction, arising from
long arrears Of pay.
MINNESOTA The St. Paul Pioneer
says that many of the settlers upon the
public lands in Minnesota advertised for
sale in April, are abandoning their claims.
"lhey have nc money to make good their
prescriptions, and it cannot be procured,
as in more prosperous times, by mortgage
ing the land, In some instances hard
working men, with families depending up
on them for support, will be compelled to
lose the fruits OF one and two years labor
upon their FARMS"
The STATS RIGurs DEMOCRACY OF
PrNNsYLvANIA,-Ahono. PA. May, A..
The State Central Committee of the States
Rights Democracy is in session here, John
W. Forney, Chairman, for a full and free
interchange of sentiment. There is much
enthusiasm and determination to press
forward the movement.
They have resolved, that it is unexpc.
dent to nominate a State ticket; proclaim
unalterab.e opposition to the doctrine of
Congressional intervention as advocated
by the Republicans, for the prohibition of
slavery in the Territories, or as advocated
by the admit istration Democrats for the
protection Of slavery recommend the
friends of popular sovereignty to vote for
no candidates at future elections who re-
fuses to stand clearly upon the doctrine
which recognizes the principle that the
people of the Territories shall form and
regulate their own domestic institutions in
their own way aud recommend to the
States Rights Democracy to demand at
all times the adoption Of the principles
promulgated by the Harrisburg Conven-
ton, which were enumerated in the Gin
%cinnati platform and Mr.. B~uchanan's let
ter OF acceptancy.
We have nothing later from Mexico.
A dispatch from Washington states that
the administration has determined to use
its influence in sustaining the Juarez gov
eminent.
PRoLIFIC SuEEP.-I have wintered 90
New Leicester and Cotswold ewes Within
the past two weeks they have dropped 30
lambs-10 pair of twins, and 10 single
lambs. Two we lost by accident, one
other got chilled and persisted. This is
$50 per cent. increase. | have even ex-
ceeded this in past years. In 1856, 26
ewes of the same blood dropped fl lambs
-l6 pairs Of twins, l pair %triplets, and
nine single lambs. Perhaps others may
have been more successful. If so | should
be pleased 10 hear from them,-JonN BA-
KEH, Maccdon, N. Y, All NO., So
Rw0i Ntw YofLer.
A BACHELoR's CHANCE OF MARRYING.
The Assurance" Magazine, an Eng
fish periodical has the assurance to make
the following statement
I'VE are told that in the two periods
of life-20 to % and 30-the probability
OF \ wilowcf marrying I'M year is nearly
three times as great as that Of q bachelor /;
at so it is four times as great and from
80 to As it is Eve times as great ; at 60
the chance of = widower marrying in a
year is eleven times as great as that of a
bachelor. After the age of so the prob
ability of a bachelor marrying in a year
diminishes in a most rapid ratio the
probability at So is not much more than
half that at so. and nearly the same pro-
portion exists between each period of five
years altcrward.'
A NOBLE VERDIcT.-Out in Calhoun
county Ill.,, a body, with the head severed
from the trunk, was found recently. A
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