The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1868-04-07
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Dan. Rice is in Washington with ri
val show to the impeachment.
The Count and Countess of Paris have
returned to England from Spain.
The Prince of Wales will leave for
Dublin on the 18th, travelling mcoq
Bright naturally calls Lowe "the most
insolent fellow in the House"
General Lee has been quite i'll, and his
general health is said to DO declining.
One of the clergy of Buffalo writes that
he is not II musical man. he is happy to
say.
The collection of cngravngs of Mr.
Macready, the tragedian, has Just been
sold in ondon
all the French schools and colleges had
Il holiday on the 17th-the birthday of
the Prince Imperial
Kit Carson declines to make spceches
Somebody ought to nominate him for
President on that ground.
Max Muller is in row with the Pal
NAL Gdsette about Aryan and Scientific
roots, "and various games Of that sort
Brownlow pardoned two thieves who
have since been detected digging I'd the
treasure which they were sentenced for
stealing.
Two feet of snow fell in Philadelphia
on Saturday
Gov Fenton has decided to refuse a
pardon to Ketchum, the forger.
"A descendant of Penn the other dnv
tried TO grind some powder in coffee
mill. He will grind no more
The new library given by Mr. Peabody
to the Town OF G Georgetown has Just been
finished
Cora James, the seventh daughter of a
seventh daughter, who has made herself
so Extensively conspicuous in the West.
has been robbed in Jail.
Gen Ashburn, prominent radical
was killed a; Columbus, Ga, Monday
night, by unknown parties.
The latest returns from Arkansas an
nounce the ratification of the new con-
stitutlon by 1850 majority.
The constitutional convention of Vir.
glnia, after debate, Tuesday, referred
the ordinance TO pay expenses to a select
committee.
The Mississippi convention is consider.
ing law for forming stock company
to promote immigration by the purchase.
lease and Improvement Of land.
Gen Schofield will shortly issue an or
der removing Gov Pierpont of Virginia,
Joseph Mayo, mayor of Richmond, and
Thomas N. Dudley, city sergeant.
Judge Pope was arrested, Monday. Mt
jacksonville, Ala, by the military author.
tiles and imprisoned for failure or refusal
to execute the jury orders. lie has al,
ways been Unionist
A dispute about the Arkansas election.
at Franklin, Ala, Saturday, resulted in
the shooting of Robert Cunningham. late.
" OF the rebel army, by n MIR Rollins,
who had been in the federal service.
The political excitement is intense all
over North Carolina, and both candidates
for governor, and also ex-Govs Graham
and Vance and Other leading men, are
canvassing the state. Not LEGS than 200
speeches per day are being made.
Gen Schofeld has ordered the military
commissioner to report the names of all
elective officers in the state whose terms
have expired, in order that, if they are
not eligible for recollection, suitable per
sens may be appointed by the general.
Joseph Brown and wife, now in Jail at
Hudson, \, Y, will be tried for the muir.
der of little girl at Canaan, n. T., on
April Is. Mrs Brown initiates the fam~
Gus ''veiled murderess," by curtaining the
door of her cell against the view of the
curious.
The Ruth Voullaro shooting affair at
1t Louis, Mo-, has terminated in the re-
covery of Ruth and the dismissal of the
case from the courts It would have
been better if Ruth had done the other
thing and Voullaire had been hung for
murder.
A stock tram on the Philadelphia and !
Erie railroad took fire near Warren, Pa
Thursday, and the cattle in one car were
burned so that their horns ana hoofs fell
off, but they lived in terrible agony until
the car WAS run to Warren, where they
were shot
Mrs PAMELA +. Wager, the Troy
(N.I y abortlonist was convicted on Sat
urday, and sentenced to six months i'm
prsonment for causing the death of Car
RE Hubbard OF Lansingburg, last sum
mer, by her Internal practice. Hel age
DO co. saved her from a heavier sentence
The Cincinnati o. school board has
petitioned the city government for suit
able building for the public library which
now has 100000 volumes, and an annual
income of Sl3, 900 to expend in the pur
chase Of more. 1t is estimated that the
building could be erected for $4,000.
A project is contemplated to CONSOLE
date the villages of Cohoes, Waterford.
West Troy, and Lansingburg into city,
which would he one of the busiest in the
country. The Harmony mills at Cohoes
now employ 1000 persons, and when their