The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1866-06-06
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.



There are $4,000 blind persons in
England.
The Gettysburg monument will cost
$4,000.
TWENTY thousand tons of coal sold in
New York in day.
Property TO the amount of 1890
acres has been restored by the Frcedmcn's
Bureau.
The taxable property in Nashville is
81, 900, 600 more than at the commence
mcnt Of the rebellion.
Land near ST. Pauls, in London, is
said to be worth five million dollars per
acre.
A new ten million dollar telegraph
cnterpris is forming in New Iork-l0,
900 miles of wires TO go everywhere.
Dir. Chaplin says there is class of
men too shallow TO have Il conscience,
and too cold TO have II heart.
The ladies Of Baltimore have Just sent
over seven hundred barrels of provisions
to the suffering inhabitants Of Georgia.
New York city has population of
one million people now, and are expected
to have two million in 1880.
Wilkes Spirit OF the Times report a
man who can keep awake for three week.
and then sleep for an equal time.
An Ohio man has discovered mode
of hardening copper, which thousands Of
years ago was made as hard as steel.
Gen. Sherman has been on a visit to
upper Minnesota, st. Paul, Fort Smelling,
etc.
The seven principal fruit counties of
California have five million grape vines
and 3l2, 900 apple trees.
\ bill to check Sunday trading among
the lower classes of London has been pas
sed by the house Of lords, after hard
fight and by one majority.
A romantic Miss of the unromantc
name Of kineielter recently died OF vol
untary starvation in Cumberland coun-
ty, Pa, on account of disappointed
love.
Aaron NJ. Powell has taken the place
of Parker Pillsbury as editor of the Anti
Slavery Standard, Mr.. Pillsbury be-
comes general agent of the society.
Gen. Scott was married in 1876 to
Miss Maria Mayo of Richmond, Va,
who died at Rome in 1862. lie had
seven children, of whom three daughters
are still living.
Among the honorary managers of a
ball announced at Chapel Hill, n. C.,
are "IIon. Jefferson Davis of Fortress
Monroe, and Gen. j. c., breckenridge
Of Canada"
The New York board of alderman on
Monday afternoon adopted a resolution
proposing a part of the City Hall park us
a location for the new United States
post-ollice.
A man named Wheeler, was recently
murdered in North Pepin, MINI, and his
wife and hired man named Carter have
been arrested, charged with the crime.
Each accused the other.
A decision has recently been rendered in
the Superior Court in Buffalo, N. Y,
by which the sum of $l42, 50 was recov-
cred from party of gamblers in favor
Of young man named Stevenson who
had been cnticed into faro den, where
he lost heavily.
The police report of New York city
contains an account of conductor of a
horse car, who deliberately put out the
lights of the car and gang Of pickpock-
cts, profling by the darkness, made quite
haul from the defenceless passengers.
An antiquarian has proved that
Adams Express Company was in exls-
lance when its originator, Adam, was
alone in the Garden of Eden, for vast
Eve created Tor. Adams express COM
pany ?
The French troops are surely going to
leave Mexico, packet company having
contracted to take them all back to
France, But how about the Austrians,
who will sail under the French flag 10
! take their places!