The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1868-12-22
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Jefferson Davis Is travelling in Ger
many.
George w. Demers, editor of the
Albany Evening Journal, IL very i'll Of
pneumonia.
P. Y. Barnum is going into the "sho
b;znis" in London, with a genuine
american museum.
The New York fremen will give
George Francis Train u grand reception
on his arrival ut that city.
The only Republican vote in Lit e
Traverse, Mich, was given by Andrew
Blackb bird, ap Indian.
The New York firemen will here
after be uniformed in dark blue shirt
instead of tho traditioned red tunics.
Rev. DR. Patterson, a well known
minister of Oxford, O., for nearly fifty
years, died there, last week.
Dickens has received alb Il! $4,000 as
his share ofthe proceeds OF the drama
tized version OF No Thoroughfare in
Paris.
The Union Pacific railroad track is
said to he at stand, eight miles west
OF Bear River City, because Of II lack OF
iron.
-Eight-school teachers in Kosciusko
county, Ind, examined within the pas
Jew days, could not correctly spell Lou
isiana.
-Advices from Newfoundland state
that the question of confederation il
being warmly discussed, and there is a
growing feeling in favor of the colony
joining the Dominion.
-"Colorado' Jewett has memoir ,lized
Congress against any more subsidies 10
the Union Ptcitic railroad.
A negro on a New Orleans stIoei
car, paid his fare by hacking olt the
brains OF the driver, and killing his lit
tie uoy. d. - ,...
The rival stage lines still run he
tween Cheyenne and Denver, Colorado
but. the fare lis put up to Sl0 watch Is
about right.
Gov. MerrilI of Iowa has issued hi:
proclamation, declaring that the WORD
white has been struck from the state
constitution.
Mrs. Loais Jennings (a.e Madelin,
HenriQues) will return to the stage, from
. which she retired on her marriage /
ycar or two ago
Theodore Tilton's idea of the millen
ium is Tie time when every woman
will have o wedding ring on her finge
aud ballot in h5r hand.
.-Dore has executed remarkable
drawing in black and blue pencil o
Rossini as he lay after his death, before
being placed in his coffin.
Tho Boston Transcript says tina
"the speech Of Gen. Sherman at tn,
army reunion in Chicago, Tuesday, il
like a bugle blast or the long roll a
midnight.
Senator Henderson OF Missouri de-
| clares that ii he is not re-elected, he viii
at once announce himself as an indie
pendent candidate for governor of tn,
state.
Lady Thorn and George Wilkes. tn,
famous trotters, are matched for a con,
test in June for $4,000. This Is tn,
largest amount ever trotted for in thi
country.
One of the Marquis of Hastings
Jokes was to. slip II six bladed knife
opened, into the pocket of a guest, anC
laugh when the unsuspecting fellow Gu
his fingers.
japanese Tommy" interpreter tc
the first embassy which visited thii
country, was killed in one of the rocen
battles near Neegato, lighting the bat
ties OF his country.
Henry Reed, lately the leading pc
| litical writer on the Cincinnati 90.
Enquirer. is now engaged on two books
Suffrage" and Finance" which viii
soon be published.
The people of Montana are in fayol
| of the Northern Pacific railroad anC
against a branch connection. with the
Union Pacific. Goods are brought tc
Helena from Chicago, by rail to Sioux
City, by team TO Fort Benton, by wagon
the rest of the way, for Z. cents pound
From st. Paul to Helena is about llOt
miles, one fourth of which distance
will be spanned by rail by Minnesots
herself.
THE WoRLD.-Manton Marble, IL Ii
said, owns nine-tenths of the. World
"What shall a man profit II he gains
the whole World and lose his own
souln