The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1859-07-13

10 cross lli- Miucio and were rrpul>cl,
The battle extended oyer fifteen miles IL
extent and instrd sixteen hours. The
Austrians nod more than 100000 men
engaged. The result OF the battle mn,es
Il marked period in the war. II must
soon draw to a close, or rapidly extend,
embracing the other nations of Europe.
This will depend much on the councils of
Prussia which are as yet quite problem
%atical.
"A most daring mail ROBBERY was COM
United near Lebonon Hollow, N. Y, on
the 9th nit. The carrier was alone in a
buggy, when passing through a wood, his
horse was seized by one rufiau and him
self by another, from, whom he received
a severe but intellectual wound by a knife
aimed at his heart, His cries brought
answers from per ons in the vicinity, which
alarmed the robbers, who fed, taking with
them the bag. which was soon found. but
as yet the Williams are at large.
"A dangerous mutiny has broken out
in the English East India army. The
company formerly kept an army OF 10000
men, independently of the government,
but when. by act of Parliament, the
crown assumed the direct government
of India this army was transferred to the
service of the crown. They object to
serving without re-enlistment and bounty.
He HAS SET HIS LAST "TAkE."-We
see by the Keesviile Republican, that
JOHN Ives, known from "time i'm.
memorial" as the greatest Printer-pedes.
TRAN living, met with a watery grave while
bathing in the river at E%lizabethtown, N.
Y, on Wednesday week. He was the
most eccentric yet kind hearted of men,
and was regarded as the oldest practical
printer in this section of the country. He
was in the 18th year of his age, and was
an employee on the Elizabethtown Post.
- Citizen.
ORANGE CoUNrY.-The Republican
Convention meets az the Town Hall in
Chelsea, on Thursday, the 14th inst, at
10 o'clock A. NJ.
CnITTENDEN CoUNTY.-The Republi.
can County Convention is to be held at
Burlington, July 10, 10 A. NJ.
The interesting Of laying
the corner stone of the New Catholic
Church, in Montpelier, occurred on the
23d ult.
Eliza Webb has recovered $4,000
damages from the Little Miami, Colum.
bus and Xenia (Ohio) Railroad Company
for killing her husband. He was in the
employ of the company as IA brakeman.
John A. Washington has invested
the results of his Mount Vernon specula.
ton in Chicago real estate. He's a clever
one, and the Virginians must stop their
sneering at Yankee pedlers, so long as
they hold him among their double F's.
Rev. j. G. Wilson, late Of Bellows
Falls, VT, has been installed over the
Congregational church at Swanzy, New
Hampshire.
Mr.. Benton, an American mission.
airy, aud his wife, have been driven out Of
the town of Fable, in Syria, by IA mob Of
bigoted Greek Christians, instigated by
French Jesuits. The English and Amer
lean %consuls at Beirut have undertaken to
obtain redress.
Norwich UNIvERs1rY.-The com.
Increment exercises of Norwich (Vt.)
University will take place on the 18th of
august, and'not on the lSth'and 10Th. at
has been reported. The graduating ex.
%ercises will all occur on the same day,
and the usual military parade will be dis.
pensed with. There will, however, be ar
artillery drill, with fencing by the cadets
We have from Cleveland the graft,
flying intelligence that the Obcrlin rescu.
ers, so called, have at length been dis
charged from the Jail which they have
honored so many weeks. 1t seems that
when the kidnappers-for the rescue o.
certain colored persons from whom the
citizens of OberIin, who have Just beer
released, we're indicted-were put upor
their trial, their counsel, fearful of the
result, proposed a compromise, in virtue
Of which both rescuers and ~kidnapper.
were set free.-Tribune.
The Free Bridge across the Conneti.
cut at Hanover was i~naugurated on the
LIST inst, with appropriate exercises. An
address was delivered by Prof. Tanborn
SERVED EN- RIGHT.-A newly married
pair in Worthington were " honored"-i
e. serenaded with tin pans, horns and every
other imaginable instrument of discord
and confusion-for two nights in success
sion, Their patience giving out the Sec
ond night, the husband threatened the dis
turbers with prosecution, but they still
not leaving he fred a charge of shot among
them, and thus served them right. If a
man has a right to defend his house against
any nuisance or species of attack, at all.
by force, it should be against this pesti-
ferrous resort of blackguards and rowdies.
Seventeen of the shot took effect in the
legs of the s~erenaders, and without doing
any permanent injury have probably wor.
ried them enough to teach them a saluta.
~ lesson.-Springfe(d Republican.
Petty thieying is becoming common
in leicester, Salisbury, and the northern
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