The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1866-02-21
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS,

Measures nave been taken 10 re-organ-
ize the Southern Associated Press
The Ohio Legislature is petiiioncd to
amend the constitution SO as to acknowl-
edge God
A daughter of G.. p. II. James. the
English novelist, is a school teacher in
San Francisco.
Gen. Grant has issued to the guerrilla,
Mosby, parole exempting him from ar
rest as long as he behaves himself.
A society fer the prevention and pun
islment Of cruelty to animals has been
organized at New York.
The government has determined to ap-
point no more polygamists to office in
Utah, The United States district attor-
ney there has four wives.
Zeno BurnhaM, New York mock
auctlonecr, has been sentenced TO state
prison for two and half years for swim
ding to the amount OF $4,000.
Col. Austin Bryant, brother of Will
liam Cullen Bryant, died at Princeton.
Ill, on the LIST inst, at the age of 10
years. lie was a man Of rare Integrity
There are twenty. five balmoral skirt fac
tories in Berkshire coNhty, Massachusetts
1t taxes the Yankees TO take care Of the
WON N.
brigham Young Processes surprise that
Cong ress does not admit his polygamous
kingd ON as state in the Union. Let
him ask his fifty wilkes.
Small pox is ON the decrease at Buffalo.
Runor mas stmod the number of cases at
1000, hat there have not been more than
200.
The Chrago Times seems to think. thut
1t Prevalence L. responsible for all our
steamboat and railroad disasters, it is high
time to nave new Providence
A burglar who had been convicted a -
New York court the other day, walked
out ur'conceinedly with the jury that en-
tlctcd him an'.i hasn't been seen since
The brmbs>ic Frnians are raisin1 Il
mighty breeze among the guliblc Cana
dlans. Every report increases their ter
ror. which j. >pre,img Ike veritablc
panic
There war~ sixty three thousand Valen
tines deliv' rcd by letter carrier, IN New
1ork last Wednesday and THURSDAY, only
about one half the number delivered in
the CORES pon'lng day in 1865.
A slilliNl So,.cr has been making Il
sensation at Cmcinnat,i 10y his carcles use
OF some OF the leading busjuc,s names
there. TIE swindle was detected! in most
instances.
Rev. $ W. Bailey lecturcd in New
York, Wednesday night, on the philoso-
ply of noking, and claimed that tobacco
is productive of democratic freedom and
social In ppiness.
a len gihy and petty fight between the
Renssela or and Saratoga and Troy and
Boston railroads, about through train,
and 9th er matters, has just been amicably
adjustc l.
a boy in Minnesota recently fell into
an old well and remained five days unds-
covered, a snow storm covering up the
well. He was badly frozen and nearly
starve d, but will make live of it.
There's an old day-laborer down town.
that has thirty children crying for bread,
and his two WEIGH wives well-nigh ema-
ciated. It's lucky for him that there's no
tax on children.-.Sah Lake Vedete.
Official reports in England show that
vaccination has so far proved a certain
safeguard to cattle against the plague
which has ragged so fearfully IN the Brit
i; h Islands.
A; Brownsville, Texas, it is a common
remark at the breakfast table, "Well.
who was killed last night" or, "Were
there any bodies found floating in the
river yesterday ?"
The city assembly rooms, 44i and
446 Broadway, New York, the American
theatre and the Continental hotel adioin-
ing, were destroyed by fire on Thursday
loss, 5000, 600 mostly covered by insur-
ance at New York.