The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1868-03-03
NEWS or THE WEEK


The foundation stone for the St Louis
Mississippi bridge was laid Wednesday.
Beef is four cents per pounl in Aus-
trslia, other provisions in proportion, and
$40 to SIS per week is considered good
wngcs
Major Holmes, formerly an officer in
/ the Confederate army, died at tho Ro@sin
tuuse, Toronto.
The Ottawa Board Of Trade has y
scheme for Kidding Canada Of its surplus
silver. and Cor realizing thereby $1,000, |
/ 900 l1r the Government.
Both houses Of the Kansas Legislature /
have passed the bill permitting nil quail |
fed persons, without distinction Of color
or sex, to practice law.
The Pennsylvania Legislature has a.
dopted resolutions, in favor Of imyeach-
! mcnt
Tho entire sun, ofwar claims Of Michigan
upon the general geNernmcnt slghtly ox-
cead S60O,00)' OF these, about $4,000
have already boon paid.
An unf rtnnate fellow tried to ihaw on.
the .as ypip's in a hotel cellar in Sew
York with bu.'ning alcohol, Monday, and
lo.t his lie in (. useqnenee.
Among the real estate owners who have
bccn au,hiri to- It fher hou4 > IN New
York in a condition {. uior!nahle to law
il =. r. BArnum, the Snowman.
The M,nkcn is 4ning for ,.lle-ed breach
of contract to employ her in y t!ey's thea
ter in Ion Ion, and is hurrying up the suit
so rs TO get to California.
Or John Cummings haa turned up
again. lie THINKS that 1867 wound Up
the time Of the Genli!s, and that We
may expect signs, wonders and troubles
shortly.
An English comic Journal rcpI csen,s
gcatleman at dinner, ladlins up a horse.
Shoe from the soup tnreen, and exclaim-
ing, "Tms is the second time the cook
has forgotten to take the shoes oil"
y southern man whose cellar and wood
, pile have been pillagcd many times, an
E nounco- that he has charged every fourth
: stick Of wool with glnpjwIer, and every
f fruit can in the cellar with arsenic.
y A Roman Catholic hierarchy is about
to BE established in Scotland. Tae arch,
y bishop cardinal is to Ie iaehop Iync' =
!, and the Bi-hc, OF Glasgow will be Father
PARKINSON, an "OHfora convert"
a correspondent OF the Chicago Jour>
nal says that he has it on Tho best autsot-
ity, that Gen Great and Admiral Foo.e
: jointly signed pledge OF total abstinence
l. shortly after tho fail of Fort Henry in
+ 1862.
: Misery among tho poor in Russia is in
crossing, and chances for employment are
= decreasing Near Moscow, the peasan'
are selling their horses for little or nothI
u in, because they have no food for them
a, An Internal machine, in shape y smHl
90 lin box, was found On the BLOOMFIELD tr,ii
.r from Newark, \. J, the Other day Tn
police have been investigating the MATE
70 bus cannot find who placed the box there
=" The society of California pioneers hav
- just lost their senior hoh.rary member
:" Admiral SloHt, who, after the battles :
y PaLO Alto and llcsaca lie IA Palma
ly husted the American flag, and proclaim
ed the CALIFORNIA; United States territor,
- Some wretchcs at Acton, o., recruit
a took "a half-illiotic lad from Cincinnati
he AMI after stripping him, and barking h!f
- from head 10 foot, packed him in 10
in and sent him home The poor crentur
ed wRs nearly dead from sullocniion win
IT. rezcucd.
NJ A furious snow storm set in at Toror
cd to, =. O, Monday, and continued wit
a 81 eat violence until Tuesday noon. A
II tKe trains to and from the >ity are siuc
he in snowbanks.
,"' Miss Clara Barton lectured to y arg
- audience at the Cooper Institute in Ne
MI York, Wednesday night, on the "Wor
VIC and Incidents OF Army Life The pr,
''o ceeds of the lecture go to disabled vetc
nv ans.
of George Alfred Townsend says Millar
III Fillmore ''looks like cask of brown she
he ry, quietly ripen;ng, which the coun;i
ow has tasted and put away for the next ge
all erotion." -....
in Napoleon needs hcttcr arithmeticis
TtN IN MS TcdnhTS, VI u Hlplc tCpn'ilIiS"i ui
bursting clerks. The expenditures
France for 1867 exceed the estimates
- $40. 009 zoe.
hi. Many of the hotols built in Piihole, L
,p1 during her paloy days, have been pull
~; down and removed. The Bonita lIous
as built for $4,000, WAS recently sold f
,1s $4,000
Of Gen Sicklca, who has been lately wi
its ming republican votes for the coming Ne
ON Hampshire election, addressed an au,
his once of 5000 persons in New Haven, G.
ca" Wednesday night, and was received wi
rds great cnthusiarn. a party Of roug
ons who were present made a disturbance, b
just were speedily quelled.
nst Judge Jeremiah Black doesn't ia
ion any credit for the recent repeated m
,me takes of the president. Speaking OF Sta
- toms removal he said "The papers ia
lily, about me as the presidents chief advis'
ity. That's all humbug; he sends for me SON
AIRY times, but he rarely follows my advic
tily if he did he wouldn't make such d
and fool of himself so often"