The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1868-09-08
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ly.
The chief restaurant of Hamburg, Ger
many, employs 2l5 persons, among which
figure thirty cooks and seventy five
walters,
The gushing and muscular girls of
Brooklyn are organizing baseball club
and, Of course, will be ready to make op
match.
A California paper speaks of a MUIR
derer as having "a wonderful talent for
beresving any family he does not happen
to like.
Sun Tajen has bestowed $50 and the
promise Of a $500 annuity on the man
George Boyce, who saved him from drow-
ming at Buffalo.
Farragut will be treated reception on
his return TO New York in November,--
We should think he would get tired Of
that sort of thing.
The viccroy of Egypt has selected the
plans of a palace to be built at Carlo,
the estimate for which amounts to two
and half millions Of dollars in gold,
The carriage road and railaroad over
Mount Gents, Italy, have recently been
partially destroyed by fearful storm.
Communication was suspended for several
days.
After the christening of Wales's latest
baby the ten godfathers and godmother
sat down to merry dinner, with music
of Ofenbach, and then all went to the
circus.
The owner Of the Mammoth cave of
Kentucky has made good thing out Of
his ''shows" this season. The visitors
have been unusually numerous and there
is no abatement.
The founder of the New York Even
ing Mail, which is just closing its first year
says that its success has been such as to
create for him "the dream of hope.
full future" whatever that may mean.
AHost ofopposition papers have sprung
up in France, both in and out Of Paris,
since the wonderful success Of La Lam
terne, and the government prescription
only makes them sell the better,
A German was buried alive intentions
ally at Newark, N, j., the other day and
rose from the grave two hours afterwards
by means of a patent coffin intended for
the use of persons buried in a trance.
A Hudson river steamer recently took
300 tons Of cheese from Albany to New
York, the largest load Of that article ever
shipped down the river. 1t came from
central New York, and was bound for
Europe
The human body which mas found
near the boiler of German steamship at
New York, few days ago, was a verit-
able mummy. The doctors say that the
man must have been hterallr baked to
death.
The World gives list of the thirteen
generals who have had commands in the
rebellious states under the reconstruction
acts. OF these all but Buchanan; Han.
cock, Gillem, Stoneman and Schofeld
have acted "dscreditably and tyranni.
cally." The world classllies the eight re
naming commanders as t'eithcr political
courtesans, like Pope and Sickles wood-
en- literaists. like Meade, Mcdowell and
Candy; inflated popinjays, like Ord; or
impetuous, insubordnate men. like Sher-
idan and Move.
At the village of Graulhet, France, a
man recently sold his horse and his wife
together for $40, and the wife duly rati-
fed the contract by administering "a 50 und
thrashing to her degenerate better half
Hendricks, the great German actor,
has appeard with signal success at the
New York Stadt theater The critics
| declare that no man can equal him in the
portrayal Of passion. He has an athletic,
noble figure, fine,G rim face, and voice
like singers full Of rich, deep tones.
Three distinguished persons of title re-
Gently sat down to private dinner in one
of the principal hotels of Ostende, Belgium
and when the waiter entered the room to
servo the dessert he was astonished to fine
the three corpses lying on the floor. Prus'
sic acid was found in each champagne
glass, which partly explained the ira
gedy.
An attempt was recently made to lynch
fellow in Kentucky who had the repu
tation Of beating his mother, but he sho
one or two of bis assailants, aud discour
aged them. His mother now writes 6
card saying that it was all mistake; tina
she sometimes fought with her sons wifi
but never with him, and that it was all il
the family at any rate.
| Alawsuit is pending at Louisville, Ky.
between DR. Saumel E. Mckinley ant
the superior of the Ursuline academy il
New Albany, Ind, for the possession o
a girl, fifteen years of age. The docto
alleges that the child is his daughter
the superior Of the academy that she i
not. What gives point to the controvers
is the fact that the girl is admitted to
heiress to a fortune of million dol
lars,
| An American gentleman from Con
stantinople is in New York, with viey
to obtain location in some southern stat
for a colony of 200 Armenian families
The Armenians are of the Japhetic rae
and Of the Christian faith. having con
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