The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1867-07-02

An editor in Minnesota and another in
Texas have nominated Horace Greeley
for president, and one in Illinois selects
Gen John II. Logan of that state.
The Pennsylvania republican state
convention at Williamsport, on Wednes.
day, nominated Henry w. Williams for
Judge of the supreme court A set Of
strong anti. johnson resolutions offered by
+. ID. Mcpherson, clerk of the lower
house of Congress, were adopted.
The Illinois Legislature having incor
porated the Mclean county cheese com.
pany, with ''lhe exclusive right TO manu-.
facture all the cheese in Mclean county
for the next ten years" Gov Oglesby
promptly returned the bill with Lis veto,
very sensiby remarking that he "Jont
see why the corporators have any more
| light 10 manufacture, than they have TO
eat, all the cheese in Mclean county for
the next ten years"
The Chicago Tribune SAYS 'that if the
| friends of Wade and Chandler are unable
to carry strength enough in the next ma.
tiOnal convention TO secure the presi lcn;ial
nomination for one or the other of those
candidates. they will concentrate on Grin
nell Of Iowa"
Representative Charles Dcnison, mem
Der of Congress from the IL h Pennsyl.
vania district, died at Wilkesbarre, Thurs.
day morning
Onc OF the largest meetings ever held
in San Francisco assembled, Wednesday
night, to raiity the recent nominations Of
the republican state convention
The election Of trustees of the New
York inebriate asylum at Binghamton
has postponed rn;il July %.
George Gibba,a gcolcgyist, hascome on
from the Pacific coast to get the governor
ship OF our new Russian territory.
Five hundred and fifty troops, drafts
for regiments in Canada, arrived at
Montreal by the steamer HISTORIAN,
l thursday.
New York will celebrate the Fourth
by military review on Madison square,
regatta on north River, and pyrotech-
mic display in the evening.
The strike of the brickaycrs on the
treasury cxlcntion building at Washington
has failed. The superintendent has got
all the men he wanted on his own terms.
The Canadian judges have been sum
moned from Toronto TO Ottawa, TO swear
in Governor General Monck, July LIST.
Cyrus w. Field is expected at Ottawa on
Saturday.
The Troy board of trade has resolved
in favor Of a return 10 tie central system
in the measurement Of gra!a, and advise.
a convention at some central point in tht
West TO organize Il National board o
trade.
The recent ininrics to the Karsas
Pacific railroad by food have been repair
ed and trains are now running rcgularl,
to Salinn, ard construction trains to Fol
Parker. No Indians have boon seer OF
the route since Saturday.
The Virginia and Tennessee Aif.Lin
, railroad officers met at Lynchburg, Wed
nesdny, and arranged re uced time
table for freight transportation. Con
! signments from New York will now rcacl
Nosfolk, Memphis, Atlanta and Nash
vile in eight days.
Henry +. Peck. our minister to liayii
=, who has just died there Of yellow fever
was formerly n professor in Obcrlin Col
. lcge, Ohio, and IA clergyman. lie WA
n an enthusiastic friend OF the black man
q and it was for this reason, among other,
i that Mr.. Lincoln appointed him our rep
:. resentative to llayli,
c The Pacific mail steamship company
5 new steamer China. just finished at Ne,
:. York, for the San Francisco ard Yoke
hama line, goes TO sea July !, undC
- Capt. G. ii. bradbury. She is 500
n tons burden, with engines of 1900 hors,
- power and one of the best and thoroughly
built vessels ahoat.
r. Rev A. l. Stone gave the Grafton an
n L. Bret ilafle the poem AT the annu;
lie gathering o. all the college graduates
r California, at Oakland,on the 21'h.
:. The Black Crook pays, Nib!o,s Ne
= York theater returned $474, 7j4 gro
receipts IN 1866, or nearly four TINES
much as any similar concern in the cit
,e The foreign postal business of Ne
ID York has more than doubled in the pa
a five years.