The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1866-07-04
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

peared near Piitsburg, Pa.
The Gotten crop in Turkey will lie
mu' larger thi. year than ever befora
Perspiring Richmond editors tel! of ah
average temperature Of los degrees.
Millionaire Stewart tax Kclloggt
'Princess After the Bath" at sos, COO
Some New York ladies are going to
send nice $500 Italian ntg to Garri.
baldi.
The cholera at Elizabeth, n. J. proves
to be Of a mild kinl, and is now under
control.
Representative Price of Iowa has been
unanimously re-nominated by the repub-
licans of the second district.
The negroes in Philadelphia are hold
ing indignation meetings, because they
are not allowed to ride the street cars.
The republican state committee of
Kansas has issued an uncompromisnr
radical call for state convention. Sen.
TEMPER 5.
Ex-Postmaster Armstrong of Spring
field, ILL.,, has just been acquitted of n
long pending charge of pillaging from the
mails.
The Maryland radicals have appointed
their state convention August 10, and
their congressional conventions August
%.
The Hoboken race was concluded on
Friday with a steeple chase and some
good running. The best time was mile
in 52l.
The pope's own sister recently died ut
Rome in great poverty and misery. She
was anti-Catholic, and the pope wouldn't
do much for her.
Wolves and bears are unusually plenty
this season in the Adirondacks, and pay
occasional visits to settlements in Warren
and Essex counties, n. Y.
Steamboat travels on the Hudson has
more than quadrupled in the last ten days,
and another line of day boats between
New York and Albany is to be put on.
Gov. Morton will not call an extra
session of the Indiana Legislature TO rati-
fly the constitutional amendment, what
ever may be done in other states.
The corner stone of monument in
memory of Illinois soldiers will be laid
at Bunker Hill Macoupin county, July
4, and Gov. Oglesby will deliver an ad-
dress.
Of nine prisoners who attempted TO
swim away from Blackwell's Island,
Friday, tour were eniiced back by the
sentrys pistol, one was shot and killed,
and the rest escaped.
Colorado almost fJrgets her denial of
admission in her fine crops. She is cal
culating on a million and a quarter BUSH
els of wheat alone this ycar-I0, 900
acres at 80 bushels an acre.
Gen. G. G. Washburnc stands ready
as a compromise candidate for United
States senator from Wisconsin, if neither
Representative Randall nor Senator
Howe can get the nomination.
1t is well suggested that the Indians
find it an object to make wal, so as af-
get treaties and handsome presents to
terward. There is hardly tribe which
doesen't raise the wind in this way.
Iowa Grinnell's constituents are hold
ing Indignation meetings to denounce
Rousseau's caneing OF him. They would
probably soothe Grnnell more, if another
man hadn't been nominated for his place.
A Presbyterian clergyman at Medina,
n. Y, named Lindsey, recently whipped
his little son, three years old, so severely,
for disobedience, that tie boy died.
The father confesses that he continued
the chastsement two hours.
A Vienna steamship company has put
in q claim for $40, 900 damages against
the Austrian government, to repair the
loss incurred by the refusal of Austria TO
allow the Tampico, engaged to transport
troops from Trieste to Mexico, to go to
sea.
DIR. Mcgowan has left China, via
San Francisco, as agent Of the East
India telegraph company, which propose
to run wires between Canton, Hong
Kong, Shanghae and Pekin, and form
with other lines now contemplated a CIR
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