The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1868-02-25
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Horace Greeley lcciured III LuuIsNille,
KY, Tues1 y nigh, ON selt>imadc men,
AN To II large audierc..
When the Pacific railroad Is completed
a Traveller may 60 round III, world in
three months.
Fifty cents per dozen is tho very libcr.
II! price paid in New York city Tor ma
king common overalis.
At n recent railroad celebration the
following sentiment was given. sour
moillers-the only faithful tenders vho
never misplaced Il switch.
brigham Young married lis thirty
first wife, january 81, a Miss Mrriyine
Van Colt. wno had been divorced from
a Gentle husband.
Twenty New York capitalists have sub
s, ribcd $4,000 each for the construction
of n telegraph from Cuba to other Of the
Wsst India islands AMI to Panama.
Admiral R,ll, who was lately drowned
in JaYan, had been placed IN The retired
list and Was awaiting the arrival of Adj
miral Rowan, who is now on his way
thither. before coming home.
a man nnl woman named Anncsscr.
residing near Elmorc, O, left two chill
dlcn, neither old enough TO walk, in the
house, Monday, while they went visiting.
When they returned the house was burned
to the ground, and not even the remains
Of the children coull be found.
The consequence of tho strike Of last
gu nmer la Chicago have been such as to
re luce many families to poverty, owing
to the siagnation Of business caused by
the turn out. 1t is said that there are
%, 600 unemployed men in that city,anl
that 10, OO0 of them arc the recipients Of
charity.
The "last man. Of the revolution, really
this time, is John Gray, lO+, who lives
in Brookiicll township, Noble county,
Chic. y2arcssman Bingham got him a
pension two years ago, by special act.
He is now ncsrl; helpless.
President Lincoln proclaimed 81
have the most solemn oath registered in
heaven to preserve, protect and defend
the government This noble sentiment
Is Inscribed in the Assembly CT ambcr of
n W Yo,k State. anil twenty Of he
ID mocratic members Of that body voted
to remove j..
The House has reduced the secret fund
Of the State department 10 $4,000. II
is cllimrd that a large amount Of this
fund voted in form + years, is in Stewards
hands and that some Of it is in London
to his credit.
James y. Thomas, n barber, and Miss
Antoine,te Rodgrr, both colrred, were
married in st. Ninrent's church, ST. LOUIS
on Wednesday,. The ceremony occupied
two hour, and a half and was imposing.
The bride has $4OO, coo. The husband
has nearly the same amount. lie pre-,
sentcd the bride a check for $40, 900 Ms
a wedding gift. The bridal veil cost
$3.50, and 'he bride wore earrings costing
5000.
There vas an exciting scene in the
House Ct Representative or Monday.
Butler and Brooh,s had a passage which
set tie galleries off into an open applause
Brooks undertook to lecture Butler fo.
opp, sing a proposition to establish a mis-
sion to tie Court of Rome. Butler re.
tortci in his most sarcastic manner upon
Rrools once - k%now-nothing. md now Il
dcvout Catho ic. Brooks fang back
Buffers democratic antacedcn,s; but But.
Ter wound UP the controversy lv saving
that he LETT the democratic party iu.t
when Brooks entered il, ''whcn it became
a party Of reason" amid cries Of order
from the democratic sid .
Prof. A NJ Dclie>cr Of Kingston, Ja-
mica. who forctold the recent hurricanes
and earthquakes in the WEST Indies. ia re-
ported TO assert that n series of celestial
and terrestrial phenomena ia at hand. On
the night of tie 27th of February. in the
western he iyenS, there will be . cnninnc-
ton ot the moon with Jupiter and Venus:
and three nights later Jupiter will pas.
Venus by ONLY twenty three seconds Of q
degree the result of these conjunction,
and p~erturbations will he atmospheric
&C. nmoiion- electrical discharges. heavy
gales, high tides, earthquakes. and nobody
knows what besides Moreover, the
whole year will be fearful for its storms,
%innndalion', erup.ion', quaking, of the
earth, etc.
Gen Pope, who lately went 10 Detroit,
Mich, TO assume command of the depart
IN mt of the Lakes, WIS VISITED Ivy the re.
publican state committee of Michigan. The
ether day, and in the course of the con.
vcrsation gave them some Of his view:
and opinions on reconstruction. The gen,
erul declared that. in his belief, the bitter
hatred which the South had borne to-
ward the North, and toward republican
institutions, had been intensified durin!
the past year. the result of there being M
punishment impending over them. How.
ell Cobb and Alexander III Stephens hC
regards as the two men most hostile 10
ward the North. and their influence i
great; hut he thinks there il not one MAJ
in ten thousand who would vote TO havJ
the United States troops removed. for tn
reason that they fear for themselves.
A mutilated United States note, files
than cne-twentie,h of :he note is missing
can he redeemed on presentation to any G
the Sub Treasures; hui ifmnre than one
twentieth Of the note is gone, and there
no proof that missing portion has heen dc
stroved, tho fragment can he redeeme
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