The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1867-04-30


Gen. Robert +. Lees University of Vir-
gnia.
George Colburn, proprietor of the In
ternatonal hotel at Niagara Falls, gets
(perhaps) Il $4,000 prize from Ilav-
ana lottery.
A couple Of Central African kings,
Goncche and George Pepell, have con-
tributcd so cents apiece 10 the Nollaire
statute at Paris.
English soldiers are no longer 10 be
punished with the lash in time of peace,
so the house of commons lately voted, by
one majority.
The name Of "James Gordon Bennett,
Jr., manager" is added to that OF Ben
nett, senior, proprietor, since the removal
of the Herald.
The foods on the Des Moincs, in
Iowa, have sub>iIed, and later accounts
say that the damage was very micl
less than was at first reported.
The Georgia state lunatc asylum at
Miliedgevllle has room for no more in
mates, and now building is being erected
for the insane negroes.
Human bodies are worth in New
York, for dissection, from 10 cents 10 81.
About 30 skeletons are sold annually at
from $40 to SIS each.
The profit of The liquor business are
shown IN thrs returns vi :. Louis deal
or, who sold at retail for $50, 900, one
The ST Paul (Almn) fire department
has dIsbandcd. because they didn't like
the clIicl engineer, whom the city cOun-
ell elected " command them.
The latcs mail accounts from Constan
tinop!c say that France aud Russia have
made "a joint movement to recommend
to the Porte to cuncede Gambia to Greece
\ new line of steamers to run between
New York and the principle West In ia
islands i to be started about May l.
Rochester university enters an earnest
protest against The removal of its ptr,i-
dent, Rev DIR Anderson, to Brown uni
vtralty.
The international an,i.-lavery confer
cncc which was to have been held in
Paris in June, has beeh postponed to the
last week IN August.
Cough says the last winter was the
hardest in all his lecture experience. lie
lost fourteen engagements owing TO storms
and delays On railroad.
An immense poipoise, measuring nine
feet in length, Mas captured, last week.
on the mud flats cat ..oi Bridgeport, where
it had bcen left 10y the tide.
Rev John : G. Abbott, after mai ing
himself the laughing stock Of the country
by his 1ln'.eyi>m at the court of Napo
leon, is expected TO return 10 his home at
New Haven in Il few weeks.
A Cleveland merchant lat " received
a package labelled IL box Tom. Cats -
1t took him some time to deciphcr the
fact that the inscription meant II box Of
tom ito catsup.
a Miss Butt refused TO take the $1,000
viii Ii she had recovered in the courts OF
Mr.. Wilson for slan'lcr, saying that She
sued him only to yin licuc her character,
and having done that, she content.
The receipts Of cotton at Liverpool this
year, up to April -, were Isl ,0O) bales
less than for the same time last year, the
cable report to the contrary not 18th
standing.
The Mont Ccni- funnel workmcn have
penetrated the hard qnarz AMI reached II
stratum of soft rock, in which they
expect TO advance 1000 meters, 1917 rops,
in Il year.
Cora James, fortune teller and clair
voyant, has five suits for libel, pen ling
in the ST Louis courts, for various state
mcnis. which she thinks have injured her
in all $4,000 worth.
The ''newest thing ont" comes from
Jamaica. A firm there prints at the
head Of lis letter pnper; "Excuses for
non payment Of money due must be
prepaid, or postage will be charged to the
account"
IL is singular fact that very few
crimes are committed between the hours
of five and seven p. m. People who
Ia veanl thing TO eat are generally eating
it about that time.
1t Is estimated that there are about },
00J commercial travellers or 'irummrrs'
now employed in this country, GU00 by
New York houses, 5000 by Boston an
= 100 bv Chicago
Bills appropriuting Sl50,o0) for i'm
provemrnt OF the llnd-on river between
New Baltimore AMI Troy, and $4,000
between lhany AMI Troy, have passed
the New York Legislature.
A party of New York gentlemen have
lei,s ii the Rnriinn and Delaware Bay
railroad tor II term OF thirty years, an
will AT once adj new boats and rolling
>t-ck, 10 make this first class comp tina
line ~ as ln.t the Camden and AmDoy
railroad.
More Englishman ave married on Sat.
turday and SuniAv than on any uihcl
days in the week. while in ~cutlind it /.
ju-t the other way; nothing Is done il
the mirimonial line on those days, bnr
Fridays are unusually prolific.
A watch has been manufactured If
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