The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1868-04-14
ITEMS.

r. H.. \. Judson, the temperance ora
tor. once 'Ned Bunlline," the sensational
story writer, is going TO California, and
received complimentary testimonial
from his friends in Cooper Institute, at
New York, Tuesday night
George Wilkes, the Spirit of the Times
man, is reported as the mediator between
Grant and Butler
Young James Gordon Bennett and two
or three of his New York cronies are in
Florida, on hunting and fishing cruise.
Rev DR. Robert G. Howell, well
known Baptist divine, died at Nashville,
Tenn, Sunday, aged 81.
p L Fay and William ii McHenry
have purchased the st Louis ONO Dis
patch and will run it hereafter as q Dem
ocratic paper.
The Mexican digntarics at their cap.
tai, celebrated President Juarezs birthday,
March 81, and one ofthe speakers SO far
forgot the proprieties of the occasion as TO
condemn the extravagancies of the gov
eminent.
Gen. Longstreet is now living at
Huntsville, Alabama: while Jubal Early
prefer self-eniorced exile at Drummonds-
vile, Canada West. JubaI evidently is
waiting for Phil Sheridan to die before he
ventures back to the United States.
/ j h. Whitaker, the Merchants Union
express messenger arrested at Chicago,
last week, for the robbery of $50, 200
from the company, is but % years old,
and YVES persuaded into the crime by Mr.
q. : Herbert. saloon keeper, 40 years
old who took the greater share of the
plumber.
When Charles Dickens was returning
to Boston from his Portland reading, lit
tie girl of l / years of age, an ardent adj
mirer, mnde his acquaintance and was
cordl lily welcomed. as children ever are
| by Mr. Dickens. He asked her favorte
among the books she liked 80 much, and
when she promptly answered "David
Copperfield," he replied Good good, SO
do !"
Miss Josephine Comstock, teacher
in one of the Chicago public schools,
I was on Thursday enticed into Il lonely
part Of the city, by an unknown wo
man, and terribly beaten and bruised on
the head with mallet. Miss Com
stock was about to be married, and jeal-
ousy is surmsed as the cause of the out-
rage
Wander bit has numerous and conven-
/ iently located son, in law One of them,
Torrance commands the right wing of the
Vanderbilt army, facing westward, al
/ Albany, while another. Banker. s sta.
toned on the left, with the Cleveland and
li'tshnrg road ~ Il masked battery. \
thid. Horace +. Clark, WELD. the long
pole in the Erie ight, ami the persim
mons thereof fall into The lap of fourth,
George y. Osgnud.
The butchers of Chicago lately beat
the city government in grand battle in
the supreme court, as to whether they
should butcher all their meat at one es.
Enlistment, and celebrated their victory
by grand procession with music and
banners. in which were over 600 individ-
ual- all mpunted and wearing uniform
of white apron, and red sashcs
Ex~NIini~fcr Romero male his first
treasury report to the Mexican congress,
January 81 On assuming office, Romero
found orders pending for payment, that
amount to SOB, 29G In fifteen days he
had paid all the current expense. with
S21, O00 the rest was fraudulent The
real estate in the capital is worth $780,
600, 1000, but the reports for taxation
seldom show one fifteenth of that amount
/ he expenses Of the administration
monthly amount to 1867, 1874.
Maj Gen Mccall, who died in phila.
delphia last Tuesday, is the man who,
with 1000 men, won the battle of Mech-
anicsville, June 26, 1862, against Stone-
wall Jackson with 10000 men He,
too, was the mar who, when Mcclellan
wanted to burn his wagon trains so as to
reach the james river before he was at.
tackled, said, ''Sir, would fight over
svery inch of the ground to the James
before would destroy II wagon. The
moment you destroy your trains, you de-
moralize your army"
Senator Revcr dy johnson is understood
to deny the statement contained in Gen.
Em rvs evidence, that he had been cons
suited regarding the duty of military OIL
GERS under the law requiring all orders to
the army TO be sent through Gen. Grants
headquarters Mr. johnson must rcmem-
her, however, that his memory has failed
him once before, this winter, about this
Impeachment. matter.
The election in Michigan, Monday, on
the new constitution was a light affair.
Returns from seventy towns give Sl56
majority against the clause Of the consti-
tuition, in winch negro suffrage is embod.
led. The result on prohibition, AS Car as
heard from, is majority for it Of ISL.
This will be greatly overbalanced by the
vote Of the district, but the temperance
men are hopeful
The charges of corruption in the New
York Legislature, which made so pr. ch
stir and talk at Albany, last week. but
which have failed to be invp,. situated in
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