The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1867-04-23

The two families represented in late
Boston wedding arc worth twenty mil.
lions.
Peat is abundant in Wisconsin. and
can be supplied at one fifth the cost of
any other fuel.
The Home Journal gives a list Of the
fresh spring engagements IN Singh
life in New York
Tx Auditor General Armckc Of Mich
igan has sued the Detroit Advertiser for
$50 900 damages for libel.
The American exhibitors ut Paris are
reasonably severe against Mr. Bcckwith,
our head commissioner
Gen Mower says there will be many
destitute and needing aid in Louisiana on
account of the recent foundations.
The corner stone of The Michigan sol
diers' monument is to he laid at Detroit
July i, with imposing Masonic ccrcnoni,s
The telegraph cable to connect Cuba
and Florida will be one hundred and ten
miles long.
in England last ycai four hundred and
iorty-one men were dashed with the cat
o'-nine tails.
Thirteen performances at Leonard w.
Jcrome's private thcatcr ut New York
netted SIP, 900 for tho southern relief
fund
Milwaukee received in 1865, 1S.300.-
G9S bushels OF wheat and her hjuring
mills turn out from three to four thousand
balrcls daily.
Twelve locomotives for the Pacific rail
road have been ordered at Schenectady.
\. Y, and ono Of them has just been
forwarded.
The bail required for John Sims. tie
leader of the gang Of national currency
conn'ericitcrs, now in prison at Rochester,
is $50, 00O.
Gunpowder has Ucen discovered in an
old slate mine in Scotland which had not
been worked for 49, years. On being
dried, exploded like any other powder.
By the recent earthquake at AIytilene,
out Of IA population OF 80, 900, as many
as 5000 Or 300 were killed, AMI starva-
ton stares thousands of the SURVIVORS in
the face.
1t is estimated that there have been in
Rome, this year, 1000 English and 2l.-
900 Americans 1t il expected that 400.
600 Americans will visit the great exhi-
bition
The public literary societies of Yale
college have voted to support reading
room which will occupy one half of the
lower floor Of the South Middle college,
the oldest of the dormitores
Gov. Jenkins of Georgia is prevented
Iro1 being at Washington TO attend TO his
injunction petition by injuries received
from a railroad accident, which lay him
up for the present
The Vernon county (Mo) authorities
have offered $1,000 reward for the arrest
Of the murderers Of Gen bailey, or one
malt that amount fer satisfactory proof
that they have been killed
A respectable grocer OF Augusta, Me,
was arrested Tuesday morning and fined
Tor selling one glass Of new cider After
the first week in June similar Offences
will be punished by Imprisonment,
Spurgcon had a realizing sense of the
truth when he said in n serm m, the
other day ''if God had referred the ark
TO Il committee on naval afi' is, it is my
opinion it would not have been built
yet"
Gov Fenton sent to the Senate on Tues
day the veto Of the Broadway railroad
bill, and the bill failed to receive the
requisite two thirds vote There is a
probability that all prospects for Broad.
way railroads will fail.
The Hudson River and Harlem rail-
roads have lately made Wholesale reno
val of conductors on through passenger
trains, who were thought to be getting
rich little too fast at the company's ex-
pcnse.
The opponent of the Russian. American
treaty have started tins problem. If II
costs the government Sll5,000 to kill
one Indian On the Nebraska plains. how
much will it cost TO kill one in Russian
America
The French academy has selected as a
subject for a prize poem, the present year,
the death Of Lincoln. and the city of Pal
ermo has given the name Lincoln to I,
new and magnificent avenue lately opened
in that city.
The Ocean county (N. j. farmers are
suffering from fires set by the locomotives
on the Morris ond Essex railroads. The
wheat fields in many instance have been
destroyed, and 10000 acres OF woodland
have been burned over.
Chief Justice Chase does not have the
franking privilege, and those applying for
appointment as registers in bankruptcy
must pay their postage. There are al
!, ready over 400 applications for the $50
places.
The apple and wheat crops of southern