The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1866-08-01
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

A baby at Pittsburg, left alone five
minutes the other day, was killed by a
large rat.
A daily Scandinavian paper is to be
started at New York. There are Danes.
Norweglans, and Swedcs enough there
to support it.
Twelve of the sixteen rascals who
robbed the Clay County (NIo.) bank
Of 800, 000, awhile ago, have been ar.
rested in southern Iowa.
Three brothers, named Mead, elderly
farmers, were suilocatcd in n well in the
presence of their families in Westcl,estcr
county, Pa, last Tuesday.
1t is reported that the new state consti-
tuition for Texas vas rejected at the re-
cent election there, but the returns are
not full enough TO decide.
Gov. Fletcher of Missouri urges the
Missouri radicals TO send delegates to the
southern loyalists' convention, which is
to be held at Philadelphia in September.
The wigwam now building at Phila.
dclphia for the accommodation of the
August convention will cover three whole
blocks, and have three large entrances.
Gen de lioasloff, minister for Denmark
Mt Washington Dwight Morris, United
States consul ut ~llivrc, and w. +.
Gleason Of Dacotah territory. United
States consul at Bordeaux, sailed from
New York on Saturday, in the steamer
Pcreirc, for %llavre.
The Washington correspondent of New
York Commercial Advertiser says that
some of the politicians now enjoying good
places as clerks III the war department
are organizing n secret political associa-
ton for the support of Edwin VI. Stanton
for president AMI Gen. Hamilton Of
Texas for vice president.
Darius Hiatt, u German farmer. re.
siding in Franklin county, NJ, on Tues
day last took II long butchers knife home.
cot his wifc's throat, threw six thousand
dollars in crccnbacks into the stove, and
then ended the scene by cutting his W
throat. a granl-chiId was the only wit
ness present.
a large quantity Of cotton was sold at
New York, some months ago under the
contiScatlon act. The claimants have tried
to get the matter transferred from the
United States to the state courts, but Il
decision has just been rendered against
them.
There was a singular fact connected
with the disease Of the editors of the
Troy Times, last week. Mr.. Fonda,
expecting Mr.. Thorn's death from con-
sumption. had prepared a sketch of his
life for publication, whenever it should
occur; yet Mr.. Fonda's, death preceded
Mr.. Thorn's by two hours.
Raw meats and spirits arc used abroad
with success in curing consumption. The
meat is reduced to a pulp, mixed with
Suglr to conceal its unpleasant flavor,
and administered in doses of OF hundred
to three hundred grammes per day. The
alcllohol (of the strength OF twenty de-
grees Baumc) is given in does of one
hundred grammcs Il day.
The New York Times is willing that
rebels, who now avow themselves Union
i't', or who have been pardoncd 10y tie
president, should be admitted TO the
Philadelphia convention, but docs not
want the coppcrhcads TO argue from that
that they are wanted. For, says the
Times, many Of the southcrncrs were
rebels against their will and their Judge
mcnt, but the copperhcads aided the re-
bcllion deliberately and w%ilfuIly, and
hence the position of the two classes
should be Judged by different AMI dis
tinct rules.