The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1868-12-29
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Prof. Tappan of Athens CO., univer-
sity bias been elected president of Ken
yon College, at Gambler, o.
Wendell Phillips in this weeks
Anti-Slavery Standard, opposes We
hemently the repeal of the tenure-of-
office bill.
The first advertiser was q London
haberdasher named Hetvey, who died
in 1872. abundantly rich from the profits
of his new discovery.
The artesian we'll at st. Louis, Mo-,
has gone down $500 feet, and is still
progressing. The temperature is two
degrees colder at the bottom than at the
surface.
"A town in Delaware claims the
championship on tat women, OF whom
1t has i've whose aggregate weight is
1850 pounds. The eyes OF Delaware are
upon them.
"A common trick of dishonest -four
dealers Is 10 open the barrel at the bot
tom and put in Hour otan inferior quail
ty, increasing their profit one or two
dollars per barrel.
The Michigan farmers paint their
winter sledges III gay cOlurs, and each
farmer Is known by MS color, or his de-
vice, as the English lords are by Their
crests.
The New York Sun of Thursday
says: I'VE think we cannot he wrong
in announcing that Hon, l.. b. Wash
burne will take Office in Grants admin
istration us secretary of the interior"
WHATS that ?" asked schoo!-mas-
Ter, pointing to the letter y. Its
daddy's name" mo, you blockhead,
it's X" faint y, neither it's daddy's
name, for seed him write it many a
time"
Since the repeal of the prohibitory
| log law of Wisconsin dogs have in
creased fourfold. 1t is predicted that
Mariners will not dare TO return to sheep
raising even when it promises TO be
profitable again.
The Rochester IN. " Democrat
has been burned out three times in the
course of its existence of thirty six
| years; the last time last week, but the
! paper was issued as usual Monday NOR
| ming.
I An eastward bound express train
on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad was
/ thrown from the track at Bellair, o.,
est week, and Engineer Thomson and
/ Fireman Haskell Instantly killed. Two
! cars were completely wrecked but
. none of the passengers were injured
George w. Chids, publis her of the
Philadelphia Ledger, is going to erect,
at his own expense, in the New York
Central park, astone statue of Benjamin
Franklin, by the celebrated French
sculptor Bailey.
"A construction train on Manassas
/ Gap (Va.) railroad, ran Off the track,
Tuesday evening, between GAINESVILLE
and Manassas Junction. Three or four
men were killed and seven wounded,
three of them fatally.
The Commercial bank at st. John,
n. B., is hopelessly ruined by the
operations of its defaulting cashier, Geo.
r. Sanction. The bank has lost nearly
all its capital, and there is probability
that 1t will ever resume payment.
William G.. King, formerly conf
Dental clerk of the Pacific railroad
company at New York, was last week
sentenced to one years imprisonment
for forgery. He pleaded guilty, and
previous good character and drunken
ness at the time OF the oifense were ad
mitted as mitigating circumstances.
Sergeant Bates, the flag bearing pc
destrian, is in New Orleans penniless,
and the papers publish appeals In his
behalf
Gen. Rousseau, commander of the
department. ofLouisiana and Texas, has
bought sugar plantation in the forme
state, and will make his permanent
residence In that congenial country,
where "nlggers" are shot and Union
men hung without the interference of
military or civil authority.
The Canadian province Of Ontario
claims to have the best common school
system In the world, and has bill now
before her Legislature TO make 1t better
still