The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1866-03-21

According to the Paris correspondent
Of the Liverpool Journal, the French
iron-clads are II failure.
Flora Temple, the famous trot,,no
mare has been permanently Withdrawn
from the race course.
The st. Louis Democrat saws that the
upper rivers are now open to travel. after
an ice embargo Of almost unprecedented
duration.
Mother, did you hear sissy swear p
mo, my dear, what did she say ?" ''Why,
She said she wasn't going to wear her
darned stockings to church."
A little brown fish, without ewes, was
recently pumped out of I'm oil well at
Pithole, from "a depth of Gle feet.
Two-thirds of the town elections in
New York have taken place and give the
republicans a gain of "a supervisors.
The swollen Kalamazoo in Michigan
has swept off half its bridges and done
great damage to grain warehouses.
English statistics prove that pauper
idiot are twice rs numerous in the agri-
cultural as in the manufacturing districts.
The great event of the evening at n
recent Costume ball in Paris was a quad.
rifle in which the gentlemen were dressed
as leopards and the ladies us g~azelles.
A house adjoining Gen. Grants new
residence in Washington belongs to Alfred
Lee, a respected colored man and -four
dealer, worth 5000, 900.
Sir Morton Peto, the English railway
king who used a pair of good eyes in this
country last year, has published a work
on the prospects and resources Of Ameri-
ca.
Small-pox is very common all over the
South, among white and black, and little
pains are taken TO prevent its spread. lit
Is very dangerous travelling that way for
this reason.
Cough has completed his lecture season
leaving LOCO applications untitled. A
Sraceless scamp at ST. Louis lately robbed
him, but Cough was lucky enough to
recover most of the property.
An English physician has advanced
the theory that idiocy is invariably caused
by influences acting on the individual Mt
birth, and often attributable to the in
fant's want of natural fool.
The salt consumed in this country
annually amounts to %, 600, 900 bushels,
halt OF which we import. The native
product is increasing, and ten years hence
we shall entirely salt ourselves.
MIR. Erlan writing from Naples to the
Paris Temps says that five priests have
been married during the month, one of
them being a Franciscan monk. 1t is
thought marriages will go on increasing.
SERIOUS RIOT AT WoRcEsrER.-An
intoxicated man who made a disturbances
in a ball room at Worcester, about mid
night, Friday night, was removed from
the hall b. some policemen. As the lat
ter were escorting him to the lookup. a
crowd gathered and began to throw
stones at the police with the intention of
raising a m"lc" and r%cscuing the prisoner.
h police ho.r thr insult as long as they
conld' an finally turned and fired four or
five shots on the crowd, wounding one
man III the leg and dropping one boy, who
was carried oft. Persons in the crowd
fired back, and u riot cnsued for , few
moments, in which a policeman was had
ly injured in the head. The police re-
ceived reintorcements, and carried the
day. Two shots entered the windows of
the American telegraph office, but din no
essential damage. The affair created the
most intense excitement.