The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1866-05-02

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Drown county, Indiana, claims gold !
mines " rich as Caifornia's.
Two hun !roj houses were erected in
Salem, Oregon, in 1865.
The emigration to Kansas is estimated
at 200 families week.
Sententious epitaph in Scooben
(AIiss.) cemetery: "Tho rottin, not fur
gottin."
The Oil Greek railroad in northwestern
Pennsylvania Noted 81 per cent, las.
year.
Charles Stewart of the jackson County
(Wis.) Banner-lucky dug-has fallen
heir 10 $500, 900.
The New York century club is getting
up grand dinner in honor of Shak-
speare.
Texas is much too large for convent
ence, and it is proposed to make two
states, East and West Texas, out of it.
Thomas Carlyle is 20, but his hair is
still abundant and tocrably black, and
there is considerable color in his check.
Carlyle has declined thc.degrec of doc
tor of laws from the University Of Edin-
burgh.
olA,y persons escaped from the cholera
ship England during her nominal quaran-
tine at Halifax
The Troy iircmen are getting esthetic.
One of their engine houses has been fur
nished with fine piano.
Jerome, the New York banker, lost
valuable gold watch by pickpockcts on
the cars near Troy, the other day.
San Francisco exhibits a smaller ratio
of mortality than can be shown by any
other city in the United States.
One of the regular writers for the New
York tribune is a lady, the wife of
prominent custom-house official.
Houses are in great demand at Pitts
burg, Pa, and joint stock company has
been formed to build l75 Immediately.
OF the 4G republican papers in Calfor,
mia, "a are with Congress and % with
the president on the reconstruction issue.
Belgium proposes TO punish by impris-
onment all persons convicted Of cockfght-
ing.
Gen. Scott has returned from New
Orleans, in fine health, erect and firm in
step.
A young lady in California broke her
neck while resisting the attempt of a
young man to kiss her. A fearful war
ming.
Gov. Orr and other prominent citizens
Of Charleston, S. c., propose TO organize
the common school system for colorcd
children.
Col. William T. Willard, formerly
postmaster and for many years a promi-
ncnt citizen of Troy, died few days
ago, aged ~.
Chicago capitalists have put 100000
in the new Merchants Union express
company and are confident that it will
not sell out.
A Mr.. Petrie of Illion, N, Y, shot
his wife in the heart the other night with
pistol, which he snapped, thinking it
was nnloaded.
Gen. Lewis Cass is dying at Detroit of
softening of the brain, his family being
gathered in daily expectation Of his de-
cease. lie is So.
The lower class of liquor dealers at
New York are greatly excited over the
new excise law and will try TO get an in
junction placed on its operation.
The city railroad companies at New
York are quietly discharging the drivers
engaged in the late strike, as fast ms they
can supply their places.
The French race horse Gladiator,
which won in the Derby races, last year,
has taken the principal prize at the Paris
spring races by fifteen lengths.
Grant does love his cigar and his
friends mean to keep him smoking. No
less than $50 boxes of Havanas were re-
Gently presented to him in single day.
California has wisely and literally
voted to go on and complete her geological
survey under Pref. j. D. Whitney. The
Legislature voted $3.50 for this pur-
pose.
A society for the prevention of cruelty
TO animals has been formed at New \ ork
under an act of incorporation granted by
the last legislature. Some Of the first