The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1865-12-20
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


The ex-Irish and American rebel, John
Mitchell, is in Paris plotting for the Fenians
Gen. Grant has issued an order dis
charging all civilians except clerks, from
the army.
A disappointed oilice.seeker attempted
suicide in Washington, but was pumped
back to life.
James Hughes, the principal in the
Hoboken IN. j. bounty frauds, has been
held for trial in $50, 900.
The Schooner Georgia from New York
for Petersburg, Va, burned at Fortress
Monroe on the night of Dec. Is.
Secretary Stanton and Gen. Butler
want Congress to pass a resolution favor
ing the trial of jeff Davis by military
court.
Anak, the French giant, stands eight
feet in his stockings, weighs APO pounds,
can lit 600, and is daily growing more
powerful.
A mineral spring with water much like
Vichy has been discovered on the farm
where was fought the first days Gettys-
burg battle.
A. +. Keenan,, love sick Englishman
and newspaper contributor, committed
suicide at New York Friday night by
taking laudanum.
Official information of the ratification
of the anti-slavery constitutional amend
ment by Oregon, has been received by
Secretary Seward.
Applications for pardon at the rate of
from 800 to 500 per week are received
at the attorney generals office. Few.
however, are granted.
The name of tho Principal of the
Kings Mountain Military School in South
Carolina IS "a. Coward" Funny name
for military preceptor
The girls out West--o'd maids probab-
ly-are forming anti-totacco societies and
swearing that they won't kiss Or marry
any man who uses the weed.
Resolutions indorsing the president
have been introduced in the California
senate. The same body is talking about
making state dues payable in currency.
The Empress Of Mexico drives neat
little pheton, drawn 10y six mules, two
in the shafts and four abreast in front
The expense is betrayed by Jackasses.
McDougal of California and Salisbury
of Delaware were not placed on any of
the Senate committees on account Of their
habitual drunkenness.
The committee on elections will print
voluminous evidence in the contested
seat case of William +. Dodge against
James Brooks of New York. 1t will COW
er 1000 pages.
A young lady at Chesterfield, Morgan
county, O., was recently shot dead by
the accidental explosion of a gun, Just as
she was kissing her lover to bid him good
bye.
Missouri papers contain frequent no.
tices of clergymen throwing up their pas
torial charge, in order to escape the test
oath. ''Swear not at ALL" is the injunc-
tion they obey.
President johnson has positively declin-
ed to accept carriage made for him by
the workmen of the army repair shop,
after their working hours, and it has been
purchased by Sec. Stanton.
The military committee of the House,
on Thursday, waited upon the president,
the secretary Of war, and Lieut. Gen.
, Grant, and had brief conferences with
regard to the organization Of the regular
army.
The Lincoln monument association have
purchased six acre, Of land at Springfield,
ILL.,, and completed vault upon it for
the late presidents remains. The design
for the monument will be fixed upon 10y
a committee of one from each of tn,
states.
Congress proposes to retrench the ex-
penscs Of public printing, which last year
amounted TO about S2,000,000. This
prompted the House to only order 20, 600
copies of Gen. Grants report instead of a
quarter of million as Mr. Washburne
desired
A delegation from Newbern, y. c., is
appealing to the presto ent against a rev.
enue act passed by tho state convention,
which assesses tax on business back to
the LIST of January, when trade was sane
toned by the treasury department.
The secretary of the treasury expresse.
the opinion that he will not have to call
for another loan before this year is Out,
and is also satisfied that the estimates oil
the war department for the next fiscal
year will prove much less than was anlic.
ipated mooh ago.
There are rumors of break between
the French minister and the state depart
ment. and it is said th AT the French
legation will Withdraw. if our government
formally appoints minis, err TO the Mex
lean republic. The chief secretary of the
French legation la. just sailed for Eu.
rope.
A tall fellow persisted in standing dur
ing performance, much to the annoyance
of an audience, and was repeatedly re-
quested to sit down, but would not, when
a voice from the upper gallery called out,
Iet him alone, honey he's tailor,
| and he's reSfiD0 himself" He Immediate