The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-04-06
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

1 DuUtI DCfl HIOWt III NDOuiu no
been found to contain twice ms much
sugar as roots grown in Massachusetts.
Rotten chips, dccaycd leaves, muck,
hardwood ashes, lime, and old, WE'LL
ted barn manure are the best fertilizers TO,
orchards,
Wild horses have become so numerous
in New South Wales that they are regar-
ded as a pest and are trapped in various
ways, They sell by the hundred at two
cents apiece. 3D. e
The Spring price OF good factory cheese
from 20 10 20 cents, will probably cause
the erection of 500 factories between this
and the first of July, and possibly dan
gerous cheese fever, or specially.
In the course of an essay headed, "No
perfect Animal without perfect Care" n
correspondent OF the "Conntry Gentle
man" says, every time colt, calf or
other young animal feels miserable, hun.
cry, cold or tired, mark TO certain
extent will be left on tue general figure,
On Thursday evening Of last week,
while exMayor James Harper, of the firm
of Harper Bros. publishers, WAS driving
up 9th avenue, his horses sudjUnly took
fright, and Mr.. Harper and his daughter,
who accompanied him, were thrown from
the carriage. Mr., Harper's injuries were
of such serious character that it WAS not
thought safe to have him brought home,
ond he was conveyed to st Luke,s IIospit-
al. Miss Harper was only slightly injured.
Mr. Harper died on Saturday night, He
was "a years of age.
The trustees of Union College, Schen
ectady, rendered the presidency of that
institution General Mcclellan a few days
ago, with a SALARY exceedingly liberal
greatly exceed nc. ii is said, that paid to
any other president Of an American Col.
lege-with free use of desirable resi-
dence in Schenectady. The General an
nounced, after much dchberation that he
felt constrained to decline the offer, for
the reason that for some years to come he
was pledged to business enterprises of the
highest importance, from which he could
not disengage himself
Hon. Edward Bates, Attorney General
uder President Lincoln, died at st. Louis,
on the afternoon of the 25th inst. Mr.
Bates was native of Virginia, and was
T6 years Of age. He commenced the
practice of law in 1916, and from that
period held many public situations until
1926, when he was elected to Congress
and served one term. In 1861 he uccep
ted the office of the position of Attorney
General in Lncoln's cabinet, and in 1864
resigned his office and retired to private
life.
Ex-President johnson, who has return
ed to his old home at Greenvile, Tenn .,
was quite sick last week, so much so that
his death was rumored, ut one time. 1t
is now stated that, after suffering intensely
for some time With gravel, he is again up
and in his usual health.
Col Mallet Professor of applied chem
istry in the University of Virginia, says
the droppings of COW for year are
worth as much as $50 worth of guano
and successful dairyman end farmer IN
Connecticut reckons his stable manure as
worth S36 year Tor each animal.
The tea plant is in successful cultivation
some ten miles from Knoxville. on the
farm of Capt. Jas. Campbell, where it
has been grown for about ten years. II
is said that East Tennessee tea drinkers
can easily raise their own tea with very
little cost or trouble. The plant is deep
evergreen shrub, ard grows about FIVE feet
high. 1t is hardy, and needs no protection
from frost.
Maple sap weighs eight pounds to the
gallon, thin syrup ten, and thick syrup,
that grains at the bottom, eleven Trees
on rocky hill,sides yield the sweetest sap.
Whiteness of color and rich maple flavor
depend on boiling the sap soon after it
flows, and keeping things neat as wax.
The sooner sap is boiled the less scum it
shows. The value OF maple sprup depends
not on the saccharne matter, but on the
maple 0avoring. The cans or jars contain
ing the syrup should be sealed alright.
Mr.. f. 5. Wilson Of Clyde, Kansas,
was aroused one night recently by what
he supposed was the barking Of wolf,
and going to the door shot both barrels Of
his gun at moving object. In the morn ,
ing he discovered three dogs and The dead
body of a young woman. 1t is supposed
the latter had lost her way and was seek
ing shelter.
Three men had an alteration about a
claim in Howard county, Southern Kan
sas, last week. which resulted in III, death
Of all three Two of the men attacked
the third for jumping claim, AMI were
shot and killed by him, and the latter also
received wounds in the melee which
proved fatal soon AFTER.
An old woman of Franklin county, Va.
named Kesiah Smithers, died ON the list
Of February last, at the advanced age Of
one hundred and twenty-five She is
said to have cross of Iodian blood in her
veins, and wa remarkably active even in
her old age
Mrs. Glen, who was recently convice
ted at indianapolis, Ind, of murder, was,
on last week Monday, sentenced to inns
prisorment for life Her brother, who