The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1868-02-18

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hooks viii not pay tho BIZ. ...
Government officers have d,"rct.d
heavy tobacco and whisky fraud- in an
near Bangor Me
Mrs Hippen lori, of Ginrinn ri pres
entcd Mr. HippenlorI with four little Hip
pendorts Thursday.
A suit is going on in chancery to decide
which is the legitimate brood OF children
Of the lamcnted Tom Sayers
Colonel Thomas -. Florence, the well
known journalist, is one OF the editors Of
the Philadelphia lleral |.
At public meeting in Selma, Ala,
yesterday, strong Union resolutions were
adopted.
Gov Geary has granted "A full pardon
to WIN. Meeser, editor of The Philadelphia
Sunday Mcrcnuy, convicted Of libel.
James Cheever, n mail carrier, who
lay four days and night during the recent
cold snap on the prairie in Montana, will
lose his arms and legs.
Count Mon'alembert has completely
recovered He contributes to the new
number CT the Correspondent an article
on the Polish patriot Zamoyski
l.. c. Hopkins, the prominent dry
goods merchant of Cincinnati, who su,-
pended, recently, is soon to resume bust
ness.
PATHS marriage is to take place in
three weeks, if we may believe court Cos
sip; next summer if the theatrc Il people
know best.
Eight iron clads are laid up at Mound
City, III and is is proposed to excavate
a basin at cost Of 100000 in which
to lay them.
We spend half our lives in making mis-
takes, and waste the poor remainder in
rejecting how easily we might have
avoided them
Harriet Prescott Spoffjrl is quite i'll
at Washington, and obliged to keep her
literary engagements 10y writing in bed,
supported by pillows
II. f. Howard, cashier of tho Marine
Bank of Butf,lo and well known in tinan-
tial circles, died on Saturday morning
after a short illness.
An independent candidate for Sheriff
in kentucky puts forward as his chief
claim the fact that he once slept with
Andrew Jackson.
GJl1win Smith, in his essay upon
Prym in the English Statesman" style.
the battle of Leip-ic ''thc Gettysburg of
the seventeenth century"
a Minnesota land speculator, in decrib-
ing lake in that state, says it is so clear
and so deep that you can see them max
ing tea in China
An English jury lately awarded DANA
ges of fllO0 to n gentleman who had his
nervous system injured by a shock re
ccived in a railway collision.
One day last month there was not
single vessel of any description, carrying
the American fig, in the port Of New
York loaded for British harbor.
There are 1000 French anil 100 En-
glisl exhibitors already entered at the
llavre m Rhine exhibition; Am"rica has
thus far sent only 80 ,ntrtbutions.
The st. Louis board of trade recently
held Il meeting to devise ways and n.eans
for successfully competing with Chicago
for the Pacific coast tradJ.
Electricity is now proposed as desi-
rable agent for the execution Of criminals.
1t is noiSeless and instantaneous, and de-
void of all brutal accompancnts.
Hon 5. s. Marshall, present member
of Congress from the Eleventh District of
Illinois, is candidate for denomination
by the Democracy of that district.
Napoleon tries to help the Paris poor
II trile, just for show, AMI distributes
10, 900 to 80, 900 ralions daily. Twenty
soup kitchens are in constant operation.
1t is announced that Lorl Hobart is
abou, to proceed to Constantnope, in the
capacity Of resident director Of The Otto-
man Bank, with salary Of $4,000 n
year
A curious disease, having its seat IN
the heart, kills by hundreds all the En-
glish horses taken TO Abyssinia. None
OF the horse doctors in Europe can ex-
plain it.
Messrs Poland IF Vermont, and Jencks
of X l., were the only Republicans in the
House who voted in favor Of giving John
Young iirown his seat. The vote stood
los to 43
Where watering tub is needed abroad,
it should be deep one AMI set partly in
the ground. 1t will not freeze then in
the coolest weather so as to give much
trouble.
The first deaf and dumb institution in
America was started in Hartford fifty
years ago, AMI now there are twenty five
in the United States with twenty five
hundred pupils
The death is announced of Dr Davy,
the brother and biographer Of SIR Hum
phrcy Davy, and eminent as chemist.
geologist, and Psychologist, which took
place ON the oath of January,
A vivandiere, who accompanied the
armies of the First Napoleon, has just
died in the Asyluh Of La Saltpetriere, at
the age Of l04. She went through the
Russian campaign, and was at Waterloo.
Professor John Tompson Norton, who