The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1866-11-06

A girl was married in New York, the
other day, TO a Young man whom she
had known but four days, and woke I'D
after the first night of her honeymoon TO
find that her husband had gone West
on permanent visit.
An incendiary named Charles Russell
was caught in Winona, MINI, recently
in a carriage which he had saturated
with kerosene and then fired, and the
vehicle was dragged from the building and
he was kept in till nearly burned alive.
A Frenchman in New Orleans propo-
poses to light all the street lamps of that
city simultaneously, by means of an
electro magnetic battery, operated by
clock. work. When morning comes the
clock runs down, and the gas is out.
The idea is not new one.
Divers are going to hunt for the safe Of
the steamer w. II. Carter, sunk six
months ago, in Mississippi, 30 miles
above Vicksburg. 1t contains over
million dollars and they are to have half
of all they get.
A woman in Detroit, married seven
years, recently gave birth TO four children
at time. She has attained her present
proficiency by arithmctical progression,
producing one, two, three and four in reg
ular graduation.
Agents from Nassau are at New York
trying TO get carpenters and other artisans
to go to Nassau and help repair the dam.
ages occasioncd by the recent gaze. A
free passage and good wages are offered.
The young convicts in the penteniiary
at Toulon, France, recently broke into
instruction because they were not allow
cd more leisure and permitted to smoke
tobacco. They ovcrpowered the warders,
plundcred the stores of the establishment,
and fired the buildings, which were al
most entirely destroyed. Fourteen of the
cow lets persisted in the flames.
Scene in New York police court
Fritz Pardendeckcr, very booty, was
called and replied sleepily. 81 guess bees
here" The justice reminded him that
he was charged with having been drunk.
"Vcll, | guess vas | guess I trink,
huff 81 guess I'll fine you $lO," said
the Justice. "Vell, guess dat's all right
responded Fritz, and he went below.
John Bright declared in recent speech
that during the last six years the British
navy has cost rs much rs the United
Sr6tes. III this time England has been If
in a condition Of profound peace, Will,
the United States have had to build OF
buy 600 ships, to man them, to furnish
them with munitions of war, and to fgh
them during the greatest struggle tina
any nation ever waged. :.
In the case of woman in Michigan
who was illegally married, having anolh
er husband living, and who brought SUI
TO recover three children, by the seconc
marriage, the courts decided against he
claim and contrary to the general leea
proposition that the custody ofillegtimat
children belongs to the mother, and tn
! woman has now brought an action agains
her husband for the recovery of wage
for the whole time Of her supposed mar
riage.
Col. Robert Il. Lynch, now at Toront
under sentence of death fer Fcrianism,
of medium hight, spare physique an
progressing appearance. HIS h,ir
gray, his beard white, ob>ervant gra
eyes. Brought up in the best society o
Dublin, his manners are easy and polisl,
=. ed, and his quiet, imperturbable courtcs
and selfpossession were remarked by a
l. who saw him in court. When the sen
tencc of death was passed upon him
was the judge, and not Lynch, VIII
quailed from the contemplation of tn
dread reality.