The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1868-06-30
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All the New York theatrical adver-
Il sements now conclude thus IN B.
This il the coolest theater I'm the city.n
Fashionable young men, we are told,
have discarded kids and have donned
yellow Isle thread gloves. For how
many days?
Baron Won Kussecrow, the dueling
member of the Prussisn legation at
Washington, has gone on a buffalo hunt
to the far West.
President A r Benton of the North
western Christian university has resign
ed to become a professor in the Alliance
(O.) university.
The Oldest living Mason is Mr. Stiles
member of Hazel Green (Wis.) lodge,
and lO2 years of age. Mr. stiles is ma
tive of Litchfield, CT.
Ten colleges applied to the recent Psi
Epsilon convention at Ann Arbor,
Mich, for charters founding chapters
al their institutions, but all were refus-
ed
Some one has left a bequest to a
church in Peapack, n J, on condition
that the church grounds shall be kept
clearof wild carrots and Canada thistles.
The little Grand Duke Nicholas of
Russia Is to be baptized shortly, when
all the bells In st Petersburg are to be
rung, and hundred and one guns will
be fired.
American steel of the Black Dia-
mond company's manufacture lately
stood a strain of 242, 100 pounds tensile
strain to the square inch-the severest
test on record.
Commencement at Gen Robert E
Lees Washington IVA college. occur
red last week, and Wade Hampton of
South Carolina delivered an address on
Duty, the beet motive to animate us
in all things"
A young woman at Rondout, NY,
lately attempted to prevent a marriage
by an injunction on the clergymen who
performed the ceremony. The pros
pective bridegroom was an unfaithful
lover of hers, but the clergyman disre-
garded the legal interference.
The Arizonians are Justly troubled
because they have to pay 10 to 25 cents
per pound in gold for freight from San
Francisco, when they could get the
same articles from Leavenworth at the
same rates in currency, if the Indians
We're Kept out OF the way and the road
open.
Mrs Lincoln lately presented to Jesse
X Dubois of Springfield, H., an ele-
CANT cane of California orange wood
which Is surmounted by broad gold
plate bearing these historical inscrip-
tons From Broderick to CONFESS. y
From Conness to Lincoln" From
Mrs Lincoln to Jesse X Dubois"
A Woodford (Ill.) county far,ne,
writes the Republican "There is thf
heaviest stand of wheat on the ground
l ever saw, and If we do not have rain
to rust II, We shall have grand har.
vest. With the grace of God and Gen
Gfant lor president, we shall have the
best business fall that the West ha.
seen for years"
Real iiames and fire were used i'm the
production of the new play "A Flash OF
Lightning at the Broadway theater al
New YORK, until the public heard of it
ana the managers We're compelled tC
substitute calcium lights or lose their
audiences, who didn't relish the danger
that the theater might take fire during
the acting.
Agatham Etiendi, the first Christian
minister that the Turkish empire ever
had, died recently at Paris, and was in.
TERED with magnificent honors, al Con-
stantinople. Mehemet Ali Pasha for
merly celebrated for shooting his wives
the special iavorite of the sultan on
his ASCENSION to the throne--is now re.
ported hopelessly sick with dropsy. =
He has been in disgrace these two
years,
John Smith Of Charlottesville, Tom.
fell IN love with a bright mulatto giri,
named Charlotte Utley, and the other
day, after obtaining permission of her
employer, he entered the field where
she was working and pressed his suit.
She said she would never marry him or
any other white RASH He continued
his urging, when she struck him over
the head with her hoe, breaking his
Jaw bone. A good deal of ANNOYANCE
would be saved If all young ladies
would assert their rights In similarly