The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1868-03-17
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Dickens recently sent his sistcr-in-law
in Chicago $4,000.
The strength OF the London police
force in 1867 was 5000.
Texas will plant 1000 acres with the
castor bean. this year.
Vest Point has furnished rs COLLEGE
and 50 railroad presidents.
Lolita, the little actress, Is snil 10 b.
engaged &c u Baltimore gentlemen.
Hiram Powers, The famous sculptor, is
about to return 10 this country.
Chicago is to have two million dollar
depot the finest in the world.
1t is now said that Barnum will moi
rebuild his museum.
Information il said 10 10 general,
scarce in the rrgen Of the White House
OF the l92 900 men recruited by Rus
STA in January, less than 5000 could read
or write.
Henry Clapp says that Horace Greeley
l. n 'elt-madc man, AMI wtrships his
creator.
Krupp, the great Russian iron worker,
Is building a TRIP hammer with head
weighing 20 TONS.
a tax title question, Which has been in
litigation in an Ohio court IS years, has
Just been decided.
An English paper snys that Gen NJ
Clcllan has claim 10 shard in the
Banda and Kii~re priz, money.
No less than 239 cases Of lost pcr.on-
have bctn reported 10 the New York pu-
lice within four months.
khall Bey, Eiruer Turkish ambas-
-ador TO FRANCE, has lately lost Sl.2JO,
900 IN gambling in Paris.
An immense knitc, which has already
1857 blades, one for every year, is IN
progress at Sh, field, England.
The New York board of fire under.
writers has unanimously resolved to make
rebate of ID per cent to the as ured.
To every bale Of cotton lint weighing
four hundred pounds, there are produced
about fourteen hundred pounds Of seed
Secretary Weles has ordered further
reduction Of force at the Washington
navy yard
California calls s~ indllng "bcing slang
haed," because all the swinlers from
that section invariably decamp to China
Gen Fremont is IN Washington and
was on the Senate floor, Monday. iIt
has changed much in appearance, looking
older and stoutcr.
Gen Nicholson of Delaware introduced
Il bill in the House, Monday, to cncourag,
commerce and internal trade by facill,at
ing direct importation.
| Ex-iebel Mathew + Manry will short
ly assume the duties of professor of ma
rine science in til, Virginia military AN,
naval institute.
A delegation is in Washington from
Florida to get MD to prevent the udoptiu,
Of the constitution reported by the min II
ty Of the convention, which cnlranchlsc
all the t rebels.
The proposed amendment to the wi,
consin constitution, giving woman III
right of suffrage, was killed in the As
>emhlv some says since, and resolution
TO make il an issue in the election wa
lost.
Jadgc Henry Willis Of t.. New Yor
supreme cnurr, who hai Il high rcputa
! ton rs a jIrist, die, at lis residence
: Penn Yam las: F,iday. lie was clectc
to the beech in 1917, and had, been
the supreme court for more than invent
>. wears,
! Mr. Dickens farewell readings in III
II country are ~ be IN New York durin
= tic week from April 18Th To the ooh =
e He sails for home on Wednesday the ,.
is The remainder Of the diamonds rccen
IT ly stolen from Caldwelrs new jewell
a store in Philadelphia have been rct over,
Il thronGI the confession of the thief, wi
ID was arrested at the time Of the robbery
The government Of Quebec i, conf
,e ering measures for The revival of sh
L. building. and proposes to grant bon
N of SO per ton 10 hip builders 10 test c
IN perimenlally the construction Of cUmp
III ,ile shpa.
~ Gov Fenton Of New York has nomin
lie ted Prof Stephen Smith, who took su
IN marked lead in the sanitary survey
n New York city in 1868, AS successor
Dr. Willard Parker rs member Of q
Metropolitan board of health.
n The late rains have swollen all .
n, streams in Northern Missouri so II
ve much damage has been done. A gre
,e- freshe, at hock River, ILL.,, Tues,l;
en- carried away several bridges. I he Mi
Q sissippi river ia open at Burlington, la.
IT The New York streets are in wrei
K ed condition, and the Senate street 60
ms mi,iee is in session, investigating the F,
IT. Jet. 1t will take $3.50, 900 TO make
Ia streets presents blc and wretched STR
cl- Commissioner Whiting wants 20 can
Pr, his contract.
nj A terrible double murder was conn
ny ted near Anderson, Ind Saturday aft
90 noon. George Siotler went 10 the hJ
a., of AN old man named Esnagle, and asl
M the loan of horse, which was refus
LOT THIS 30 enraged him thai he returned
Ms the evening and killed two Of the old n