The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1868-08-25
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"rhe 6rst snow Of the season fell On
dome of Mt. Washington on Friday morn.
ing" Not so, Mount Anthony beat it by
two days.
Some California miners haltv discovered
evidences of gold in Clermont county Oh
10, and are preparing to work a tract on
the Little Miami.
AT grand republican mass meeting
in Atlanta, GA, en- Tuesday, wagon in
the procession contained thirty. seven
girls all white, dressed as States in the
Union.
The State Board of Equalization find
the taxable property of Kansas to be
sixty-fve millions. The tax levy last
winter was fixed by the Legislature
upon an estimate of about seventy five
millions.
A boy in Detroit, l6 years Of age, COM
menced billiard game last Thursday
afternoon, and made 1905 points
Last heard of him he was still adding to
this unparalleled score.
An English reporter, describing the
appearance OF Mr.. jefferson Davis and
family, who arrived in England at the
commencement of the month, says that
Mrs. Davis looked as if she had a clash
of muatto blood in her, and her children
looked as if they had the same.
The Hon. Edward Mcpherson, Clerk
of the United States House of Represent
tative, long ago, with the full consent of
Mr.. Stevens, began the biography of the
Great Commoner. The materials for
such work are so numerous, and the
epo.hs in which he figured vera so many
and 20 momentous, that a book Ct great
interest may be looked for.
Several mill operatives at Lewiston
Me, are building houses in their spare
hours. Working in the mills nearly
twelve honrs per day they manage to Sc.
cure - little time in the morning before
the bill rims and after they come out ut
night. winch the, h"voto to building OPP
erations. a short line ago one Of thee
perseveling men MS see shinging after
eleven O'Clock at night, and the next
morning was Mt work almost before days
light.
A New York correspondent OF the
Chicago Journal, speaking Of Brick Pom
creys new paper, says Judging from
his looks Brick is about thirty seven
years of age. Singular as it may seem he
neiihre smokes, chews nor swears He
observed yesterday that there was not an
attache in the printing office Of the La
Crosse Democrat, from foreman down
to devil, who uses tobacco or swears
The funeral OF Mrs Commodoer Van
derbllt at New lo'k, Wednesday was
largely attended Several distinguished
citizens, inclu1Ing Horace Greeley, oifi'
Grated ms pan bearers
There was riot Mt an irish plcnic IN
lIoboken \. D., on tuesday. Many
heads were broken. but no arrests were
made.
Judge Is. '" Blnney OF New lolk
supreme court, who was recently slick
en- by paralysis. died on Wednesday,
aged 90.
twenty-five experts IN the Canadian
game of lacrosse are expected at New
York from Montreal, next week, to play
exhibition games
\ young man named Robert Houston
was found drowned IN the Allegany river,
wear Pitisburg" Wednesday morning,
The manner OF his death - mystery.
The collision of construction train,
near Galena, ILL.,, on Tuesday, with a
car that was running down grade alone,
killed two laborers and badly wounded
twelve more.
Representatives of the governments Of
France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia ant
England are confering Mt the Hague fol
the purpose of equaizing the import dn
ties on sugar.
Edwin A.Stevens, who was we'll known
during the war as the originator of what
was called the Stevens Battery, died al
Paris on the night of the 9TH inst. in the
10 year of his age. The father of TIL.
gentleman was John Stevens. a cotempo,
rary of Fulton's, and, like him, pioneer
IN steamboat navigation.
While boy in Philadelphia was or
the watch last Wednesday night, for bur
uIurs tbot had nraviously ottnp,nted 4,