The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-12-28

The iron.clad steamship Ti'amph, alas
Atlontt, which sailed from Chester, Del,
on the evening of the 9th for Port-au-
Prince, put back to the same port to have
some plated work done to her condenser.
As soon As that Is fixed she will sail a.
gain.
\ dclalcation amounting to $4,000
is said to have been discovered in the
Howard National Bank, Boston, during
the official examination Of the Govern
ment Commissioner. The loss will not
effect the capital of the bank.
\ Havana dispatch says that Span
ish man-of-war has sailed from that port
for New York, carrying crews for twelve
ofthe new Spanish gunboats. Skirmishes
at Santiago de Cuba FL Cobre and Hol-
gum are reported.
The sentence Of Benjamin Teachou,
condemned to be executed for the muir
der Of his wife in Wyoming County, has
been committed to Imprisonment for
life.
CoAL GoINd DowN.--lt is stated that
during the past few days there has been
a steady decline in the price of coal in
New y ork. On the 10th inst. the Della
ware and Hudson Coal Company reduced
the retail price of CRATE, egg and stove
coal from SO to $50. This reduction
was accompanied by reduction in the
whole sale price Of from Sl,40 to $500
per ton Of 2,24O pounds. Coal is now
going into New York city at the rate OF
10000 tons per day.
The lobbyists have several schemes for
obtaining possession of the fur seal trade
on the islands st. Paul and st. George,
which were included in the Alaska pur-
chase.
A negro thief broke into an unoccupied
house in Washington on Friday night,
and in endeayoring to pass from one story
to another through hole which he had
made in the floor, was caught by the neck
and persisted alone and unlamented.
a very careful man, Ferguson by name
SHOOK a powder keg over stove in
arksburgh, Va few days ago, Fer
guson has been missing since.
The body of an unknown woman, rich
ly dressed but terribly bruised was found
in lime kiln near Ottawa, Canada, ON
the DIST inst \ magnificent gold watch
was found resting in belt about her
waist, bearing the initials upon the inner
casing 81 c, r. and her general appear
anee denoted her as having been a lady
of wealth,
1t is said that the fresh beef now be-
ing packed in Texas will keep sweet for
an indeiite period Of time, Beef SO
preserved last year kept perfectly sweet
all summer at Shreveport, La.
a Missouri girl lately drowned herself
because her parents quarrelled so much.
A youth in Hartford Conn, who was
to have been married Tuesday afternoon,
disappointed the expectant bride and
guests by taking dose of laudanum. He
didn't die but the father of his affianced
told him he ought to have done so, for
making such a fool of himself
4 New York editor, whose mother-in-
law recently passed away from earth, has
received from Texas two onions, each
measuring twenty inches in circumter-
ence.
A colored woman in Passaic, n. j.,
whose house had been removed to make
an opening for new street, recently
brought criminal action for malicious
mischief against the City Fathers, who
were all arrested and held to bail.
A French journal demands the restora-
ton of the Marseillaise and the Hymn Of
the Girondins. Addressing the Emperor,
it says give us back, then, the Marseil-
laise, Nephew Of the Soldier of Marengo
The instruction which has robbed us Of
it should be made to restore it to u.s.
A Western editor mades haste to claim
the more than doubtful honor of being the
father and protector of interviewing"
journalism. He has the grace TO admit
that "bungling and stupid imitators'
have brought the system "into vile con-
tempt"
Next year there will be six eclipses-
sour of the sun and two of the moon, OF
The two herein mentioned, the first will
be total eclips of the moon Jan, 1917,
which will lie invisible in the United
States, but partly visible at Greenwich,
England The second will be partial
eclipse ofthe sun, also here invisible, and
visible only to the regions within 30 de-
grees of the South pole, 1t occurs on
January 81, Tie next eclipse, visible in
this latitude, will be partial one Of the
on Jan, 6, 1871,