The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1866-05-09
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

$4,000 hospital.
In Mobile they propose to open the
markets on Sunday.
Nitro-glycerine is used in homeopathy
as a cure for headache.
Mr. George Peabody arrived in New
York on Tuesday in the Persia.
A recent concert at Paris netted 1000
frances for the American freedmen.
Two million packs of playing cards
are annually manufactured in Paris.
The Tennessee Senate has rejected
the Franchise bill by a vote of 1G to 6.
Only forty-three days elapsed before
the Presidents message was read in China.
The Texas State election, by order of
Gov. Hamilton, will lake place on the
25th of June.
A man at Beardstown. ILL.,, with $751;
900, thought he was going to starve to
death, and hung himself
IIorsc-thieves fare roughly in Jersey
county, Ill. The vigilance committee kill
ed five of them the other day.
A man has obtained patent for paper
shirts, to be sold for the sum of twenty
five cents, and to be sweat proof.
1t is now violation of tie law of
Wisconsin for minors to enter billiard
rooms or places where liquors are sold
Prentice says, "Cct dogs tail
short and he can't wag it, Breyity is
the soul Of wit but on waggcry."
Mrs. Ball, convicted by military
commission in North Carolina of killing
freedman, has been pardoned.
A London writer is ably maintaining
that the earth and all celestial bodies are
hollow.
Eminent lawyers pick out clause in
New Iork's state constitution which
makes the law.
Secretary McCulloch and family made
little visit to Fortress Monroe and Nor
folk on Sunday.
New brunswick is counted sure for
confederation, which may be counted sure
iOi tiO i'iitiSii prov lllCcS.
A. A. Low was reelected president of
the New York chamber of commerce,
with his old associates in office.
A submarine tunnel, Sc miles long, be-
tween Dover, England, and CALAIS,
France, is seriously contemplated by
Frenchmen.
Some of the hotels at Niagara Falls
have already opened, and all are prepar-
ing for great rush Of visitors during the
summer.
Mathematical Commodore Marry
figures up that the South lost seven bill
lions of dollars 10y the war-and Maury
helped to do it.
The last wonder of Paris is the equip
age Of late scamstrcss of New York,
which in magnifcence surpasses that of
the empress itself.
Gov. Pierpoint has appointed Alexan-
der Rives judge of the Virginia Supreme
Court of Appeals, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Judge Thompson.
Five men, missing and supposed to
have been killed at the recent fire at De-
troit, have appeared. The number of
killed was 20. Over 50 cars were burn
ed.
The late volcano, which upheaved
new island in the Grecian Archipelago,
also brought up full rugged ship with
all her masts set.
Two government bond houses were
burned in Boston Tuesday. Among the
property destroyed was 40, 900 or 80, 900
hogshead of sugar and one hundred hogs
head of molasscs. The loss is estimated
at 5000, 900; mostly insured.
The last New York bank statement
illustrates the plethoric condition of the
money market, the deposits having in
creased nearly six millions, and the legal
tenders nearly three millions, while the
loans have only increased S2,950,62
1t is reported that Wendell Phillips
is preparing defense of Probst, the muir
der of the Dcoring family, eight per-
sons, at Philadelphia. He probably puts
it on the ground that his mental capacity
is not equal to his physical.
The Toledo Ohio Blade asserts tina:
there are, by actual count, one hundred
and seventy-fve different styles of hats
worn by the ladies' of that city, and visi-
BILE any fine day on the street.
Some Of the citizens of Philadelphia
are taking action for the purpose of pro-
perly providing for and educating Willie
Deering, the only survivor of the Deer
ing family, SO inhumanly butchered.
The poor desolate little boy is left entirely
without means.
A Boston lumber company cut II, 00O-
600 feet of logs last winter at Norton
Mills, and they own land enough there
to give them 800, 900, 600 feet. Twen-
ty-fve dwelling houses will be built there
this summer, and the place promises to
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