The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-05-18
SUMMARY OF NEWS.


Albert Dodge, the engineer who was 40
badly scalded at the accident on the Ports
mouth, Saco and Portland Railroad, on
Wednesday, some scoundrel stole his
watch.
President Lopez of Paraguay is hard
man to subdue aud keep subdued, At
last accounts he occupied strong posi-
ton in the interior Mt the head of nine
thousand men.
All the soveregns Of Europe have now
contributed money to the monument that
is to be erected at Trieste in honor of the
Emperor Macmillan. The Sultan sent
one thousand forms and the King of Italy
two thousand.
Ben Halliday sold some $25, 900 worth
of thorough bred horses and cattle, at
auction, at his country seat in Westches-
ter County, N. Y.
The shooting of Atkins is deplored by
many of the leading papers and citizens of
Georgia, as it is feared it will be handled
as a pretext to deal harshly with Geor-
gia. There are no new developments as
to the cause of the shooting.
A dispatch from Sacramento, Cal,
announces the nrrival in that city of a
train of Springfield cars, which were the
first to cross the continent.
Frogs legs are among the dainties to
be had in the 81. Paul Mimi, market.
The juveniles in the suburbs are Kept
busy hunting for them.
The new Board of Education for New
York city has organized by choosing Rich
ard L. Larramore President
About two immigrants only, out of
every hundred that landed here from
Europe last year, went to the Southern
States,
Gen Mark +. Went worth of Kittery
has been appointed General Inspector at
the Navy Yard, Portsmouth.
According to Chinese writer's the great
bell of Canton WAS cast five centuries ago.
Rev. A. G. Pease. Superintendent of
the Vermont Reform School, has resigned
Water rice. which grows abundantly
in the north. west of Maine. is Of late be-
ing brought into use for the manufacture
Of paper.
The Machias (Me.) Republican learns
that the wife and daughter of Scotch.
man named McNorton, residing in Indian
River, were drowned on Wednesday of
last week, in small stream, on their re-
turn from a cranberry expedition.
Peter Carpenters house in Burlington,
VT, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday.
Loss $1,000, insurance $500.
Correspondents in the coal regions res
port that the miners strike had extended,
Thursday, TO nearly all the mines south of
and around Wilkesbarre, and TO some in
the vicinity of fittston. OF the thirty
thousand miners in the anthracite region,
fully oneshalf are among the strikers, The
continuance of the strike largely depends
on the action of the workmen for the large
companies around Scranton and Carbon
dale. These have not yet quit work
The striking mines, it is asserted, have no
clear idea OF what they strike for they
simply obey the order Of their Central
Committee.
The Lower House of the Connecticut
Legislature ratified The Fifteeth Amend.
ment to the National Constitution Thurs
day by vote Of 126 TO l04 seven were
absent or not voting. One man classed
among the Republicans voted against
ratification; he, however, was elected from
a Democratic town on local issue. The
expression of the Legislature is now given
on this question, as the Senate ratified the
amendment last week as was stated Mt the
time.
A bill for the annexation to Boston of
Dorchester, its largest suburb, passed the
Massachusetts Senate Thursday. The pro-
Ject OF enlarging the city still more by
adding to it the City Of Charlestown and
the town Of Somsrvills, is under considera-
ton in the Legislature.