The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1867-12-24
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on lis police force
1t is rumored that Garribaldi will be
banshcd TO America.
Trains between London and Liverpool
run at the rate of 81 miles per hour.
Eight papers in the United States are
edited by colored men.
There are 100000 drunken women in
the United States.
A contract has been made for new
Geographic cable between Lisbon and
Gibraltar.
A drunken man lay 30 near the crank
Of New York ferry boat as to have his
shoe torn off
The Archbishop of Cologne has got ill.,
to trouble because he is IA temperance man
and lis priests not.
Hartford sent dispatch to ST. Peters
burgh last Saturday, and feels quite ex-
pan-ivc over it
Applicants for the Turkish mission are
specializing upon the recall Of the present
incumbent.
Truth Is good dog but beware Of
barking too close to the heel, of an error,
lest you get your brains kicked out.
A newspaper item snys he worst cases
of chilhlains may he cured by covering
the affected part with old linen, either by
lining the stockings or otherwise.
The French Minister of Agriculture
has issued a decree regulating the prac-
lice OF surgical operations on the living
horse and reducing them considerably.
1t may surprise many to l.arn, what is
nevertheless a fact, that fully une-third Of
the whole amount Of sugar consumed IN
the world is manufactured from bects.
A San Francisco paper looks forward
TO the time when grapes from California,
Ivy the Pacific Railroad, viii he retailed
IN the Atlantic States for five ccus n
pound.
Oar cnligranis from the Southern States
to brazil say that the country is good for
cattle, sheep, sugar cane, COFFEE, cotton ;
in short, good for everything except ouc :
family.
Advices from the seat Of war in South
America announce that the Paraguayans
have won n great victory over the ira
lillian forces. which are said to be less
cnci by 1000 men killed, wounded or
prisoners.
Right Hon. WIN +. Gladstone, in a
speech addressed to the miners Of Wei
Meth. in Chester county, said that he had
no hesitation in ascribing the existence
Of Fcnianism to Englands wretched mis-
manag ment and mi,govcinment Of Ire
Land.
DIR. J. r. Nichols, editor Of the Bo,ton
JounGi at Chemistry, says that lard is
adultcraLcd TO an extent hardly suspected
by dealers aad consumers He has re-
Gently examined specimens which con-
tanned 80 per cent, Of water, terra alba,
Iarailinc. and other substances.
The LEGISLATURE of New Mexico assem-
bled on the ~ INST and organized by
choosing for It's officers the friends of Col.
Chavez. delegate to Congress, who7e seat
was contested by Mr.. Cleaver. On joint
ballot the Legislature stood thirty Repul,-
licans and nine Democrats.
The Daco,ah Legislature ne. at Yank-
ton, on Monday, Dee. oh The Legis-
laturc had republican majority for the
first time in the history Of the territory.
Gen. Ord has designated tie 9TH OF
january, at jackson, as the time and
pace for holding tie State Convention o!
Mississippi, and that for Arkansas to be
held at Little Rock on tie same day.
The New York Times says that the
abe~t men in Congress have freely dis
cn>scd the financial situation with Sccre-
tary McCulloch and have agreed upon, q
common policy. I
A New Orleans special dispatch says
Gen. Hancock is about to issue IN ord,
fer the election of members Of Recon
sunciion Convention in Texas, to occur
within sixty days.
OF the ia members thus far known
to be elected to the South Carolina Con
vcnlian, 50 are white, and 62 negroe,
and mulat;ocs of the whites, 81 arr
of southern and the remainder OF North
crn extraction.
Ii is -aid to b. probable that the Dem
ocralic National Committee will Selec
Cinainnati as the place of holding theiI
National Convention.
The President has removed David w
! Ballard. Governor of Idaho. and nomin'
aied Isaac w. Gibbs for that office.
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes says {
man over 90 is great comfort to his el
derby neighhors. "lIe is picket.g uarC
nj the extreme outpoet9, and young folk:
OF sixty and seventy feel that the enemy
must get by him before he can come neal
the camp"
Education beains With a mothers look
fathers mile of appreciation or sign o
rcproot with a sisters gentle pressure q
tho hand, or brothers noble act of for
hcarancc, and with thoughts directed il
kind tones 70 The source of all good-tl
God himself
DR. Brown, having long admired yer,
beautiful Young lady, made port o.
always giving her for his toast. Being
once told il was time to change IT, he re.
piled, 81 believe it is, for though | have
been to s ing Ler for these 20 years,
have not been able TO make her Brown