The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-08-10

The Cubans are claiming several sue
cesscs-onc downright and decided vic
tory, in an important engagement
Deputy Sheriff Griggs, who was woun-
ded in the late anti-rent trouble at East
Grecnbush, died at his residence in Sand
Lake, Monday morning.
\ century plant in Il Rochester green
house put out twenty blossoms, on We'd
ncsday. People in crowds from all parts
of the country are visiting the house to
/ see it,
4 The election news from Tennessee is
meagre. Senter is undoubtedly elected.
The election passed off quietly in the
parts of the State hearcd from, and no
disturbance occurred.
Thomas f. Montgomery, the Baltimore
druggist who compounded the medicine
which caused the death of child in that
city on Saturday, has been held to bail in
$1,000 for the action of the Grand
jury,
Charles Il. Cass of Middletown, Conn,
has been arrested by ono of the postal de-
detective service for stealing a letter from
the Post Office in that place addressed
to one John A. Cass, and abstracting
therefrom a mortgage deed and two notes
for $500 each.
Two sons of c. D. Riggs, one aged IS
and the other : years, was drowned in
the town Of Chill, this State, on Wednes-
day. They were in a boat on a mill
pond. Charles, the younger, fell into the
water and Albert, the elder, went to his
rescue and both We're drowned together.
The steamer from Vera Cruz, which
arrived at Havana yesterday, reports that
a conspiracy to assassinate Juarez and
his Ministers had been discovered, and
several prominent citizens of Mexico and
Europeans had been arrested. The In
dian war in Yncatan was extending
/ A new issue of all denominations of
greenbacks, from one to one thousand dol
lar note, is to be made in consequence of
the spurious issue of the ten dollar green
back, or the legal tender notes. The
plates for these notes are now being en-
grayed at the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing. The designs are entirely new.
\ deputy Sheriff of Tasewell county
ILL.,, while attempting to arrest two horse
thieves, members of a gang, recently, was
killed by one of them and, to avenge
his death, an excited crowd broke into
the county Jail at Pekin, ILL.,, took out the
leader of the gang who was confined there
and hanged him.
Chief Constable Jones, of Massachu
sets, denies the statement that the liquol
traffic at the public bars of Boston is car
ried on just as freely and openly as ever
and over his own signature asks "any
candid and fair individual to point hin
TO an open bar in the entire State, and h,
pledges himself to abate such nuisanc,
forthwith
Professor Benjamin Pierce of Cam
bridge Mass, Superintendent Of the Coas
Survey, with his party of fifteen gentle
men, have left for Springfield, H., t.
. ldht ObScIN dllonN VI lHt ttllISt ph ll'
9TH of August. The party include som'
of the ablest officers of the Coast Survey
detailed for that purpose, and j. W
Black, with four assistants, as photo
graphers, The best telescope and APP
/ paratus at Washington have been provi
} ded for the use of the party, and the pho
: tographic apparatus is remarkably com
plete. Much of it has been made espe
cially for its peculiar work, and it is ex
: pected that u series of views will b,
secured better than have heretofore beer
: possible.
: Hon. Sidney Clarke, Chairman of tn
Congressional Committee on Indian affairs
held council on Sunday last with tn
chiefs and councillors ofthe Usage Indians
,, in Kansas, to fnd out their opinion o
! the "Smrges treaty" Of May, 1856
whereby they had agreed to sell thci
lands to Sturges. or the Leayenworth
Lawrence and Galveston Railroad, for Il
5 cents an acre, They denounced tn
}. treaty as fraud and swiudle, and asserte
$ that they were driven to sign it by threat;
: Mr., Clarke promised to lay their griey
: anees before the authorities at Washing
ton.