The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1867-07-23

President jackson of Hobart free Col
lcge at Gcnes>ec, n. Y. has resigned,
and the duties of the position will be
discharged 10y Rev. DIR. William ID.
Wilson, the senior professor, until new
president is elected.
A night express train going Wet ON
the Chicago, l;o;k Island and Pacific
rail'otd was thrown from the track near
Green River, ILL.,, last week, and one
passenger killed and fifteen others serio us
/ ly wounded.
w. J Smithson Of Philadelphia and
Maggie Forn~hcll were married in
balloon several hundre feet above the
ground at Allegheny City, Pa, on Sat
urday week. EmphaticalIy wedding in
the upper circles.
The little yacht John +. Ford, which
lately sailed from Baltimore for Ilavrc,
has put into IIaliIax, in di-tress. Her crew
will do well TO give up their foolish ad.
venture and save their lives while they
have chance.
Tie connecting railroads from Column
bus o., west to Burlington, It,, 36j
miles, have consolidated, un Ter the name
Of the Columbus and Indiana Central
railroad, with b. G.. Smith rs president
AMI j. NJ. Lnnt, superintendent.
Grounl was broken, Thursday morr-
in1, at Harrisburg. Pa, for the monu-
ncnt - the pennsylvnnians who fell in
p L.. ~
feet high, erected in the capitol grounds
and finished early in the spring
The brazilian army fighting the
Paragraphs has been increased $1,000
men durirg the year, and II sixth iron.
clad is being built. The popular feeling
in Bucnos Ayrcs, an ally of Bra iii, is,
however, in favor Of a cessation Of hos
tiitics.
The New York friends Of the Mexican
liberals and the ,Juar,z government are
going to take counter action to that of the
ti'lbuSirrs who talk of avcngina Mlximil-
ian, and have resolved that his death is
"a fit and proper sacrifice on the altar of
liberty, an one which will prevent fur
Their attempt, to loi~t upon free country
religion, and civil dc-plt,m."
Dr. Robert T. Hunt of louisville. Ky.
fell from scconl story win,l1w at Chica.
90, last week, while intoxicated, and
was instantly killed DR.. Hunt was the
husband of Salt" Warl.thc famous belle
OF other ays, whpe previous marriage
and separation from 4. Bigclow Law.
r1ncc, son Of Abbott Lawrence of Boston.
and now consul General to Italy, filled the
country with scandal
The Journal of Commerce thinks
llHrva"d an1 Yale Colleges are not going
to spend m rney enough to get ANYTHING
respectable Il memorial halls or chauclS
in honor OF their students who f Il in the
war. Harvard has raised $500. 00O and
Yale $50, O)0, and we should say that
brains instead of more money are the
principal things t. be desired now to
insure some verify memorials.
The Sultan Of Turkey once or lcred ms
his gift 10 the Empress Eugeric SPLEEN
did necklace of diamonds: but has since
changed his mina, ami will present to her
instead n model of his Palace of the
Sweet Waters, with sllalv Groves and
rushing river. The kio,qIc is cncrustcd
with re- rubics, the river is of diamonds
sand the frees Of grcca cnrmrl. The
value of the !uhics alone will exceed
$500 Oo.
The submarine boat explorer belonging
10 n Hew York company. has recently
male some very successful dcccns in
Potomac bay. The boat is intcn led for
the pearl Ii-hcfios, and is admirably
'aptcd for the purpose, as it can be
made TO Il scenl and ascend in the water
al the wll OF the operator, an remain
boow iii" surface without any connection
with lie air above rs long as desired.
while the persons wrilin the boat can
work at the bottom OF the ocean ms freely
AMI unintrrnptedly As on dry Ian l.
Il new and promising astcroid was
discovered lat week at the Hamilton (N.
I co.!e@e observatory.
Col Charles $. Nenablc, one OF Gen
Lees staff officers has become professor
in the university OF Virginia.
Eng'nic is said to he hnutel by pre-
sentiment that fate like that Of Marie
Arithmetic is in store for her.
Ten cheese manufactures are now in
operation in Delaware county, Ia., which
Genuine hoo barrels of mil; daily.
DR.. Robinson of Bennington. Mich
sprnklel chloroIorm on his p low on
Sunday ni-ht 10 produce sleep, anl
died. IN cons qnrnce.
The New York walters are on a
strike for more pay. Thy talk of form.
ing Il ''un'on" rs the best means Of ob
tanning their object