The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-01-19
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

in France recently the cavalry OIL
GERS voted to adopt the English trot''
instead of the French trot." A num-
Der Of English officers Immediately
wrote to know what difference there
was, O. they wished TO adopt it If 1t was
easier for the horse and rider.
Max Muller the great philologist,
says OF the Turkish tongue, that it is "a
language of such transparent construc-
ton that we can study its inner worn
ings as we can watch the progress Q.
cells in beehive"
by invitation OF Gen. Hawlcy, Gen.
Grant will shortly visit Connecticut to
make an inspection Of several manufac-
turing establishments in which he feels
an interest.
On Monday evening, at Seymour,
Conn, Sylvester Smiths large paper
mill took fire and was totally Destroy cd.
Loss about s25, 900; insured for $4,000.
Thomas Murphy of Somerset, ped
dler, jumped Off from the afternoon
train from marlborough to Taunton
on Monday, as il was entering the depot
In the latter place, and falling on the
track both his legs were run over. He
died in the evening.
In the woods at South Adams is :,
log hut Ii by - feet, in which s. French
wood choppers feed and lodge. Worse
than three i'll Il bed.
Mrs. Colfax, wife OF the Vice
President elect, has been made the
recipient Of an exquisite Christmas
testimonial in the shape OF very rich
porcelain vase, Il foot in diameter,
holding an assortm OF artificial dow
-ers.
-Four men were killed in Il recent
scrimage at Montgomery, Texas They
We're rough characters, and 10 loss 10
the community.
Dirty Woman's Ranch is the name
q prospective metropolis in Colorado
-Nielsville, Wisconsin, has q news.
paper, but no church, and the County
Court House, which has been used fol
such purposes, has been closed against
religious meetings by the Board OF Su
pervisors-
Patti was overwhelmed with DO
quets and sacoreS atarecent performance
in Paris, and cried with emotion. The
boquets were monstrous. There wa
one four or five feet in circumference
the fond, as it were, q dense mass o
white camelias.
The Maine papers report that boil
the lumber and ice trade will he nearl,
double this year rs compared with last
This year the managers of the Burn
festival in New York, which takes plac
on the 18th inst, have undertaken I
add a new attraction-the presence c
ladies. Tickets admitting ladies as we
as gentlemen have been issued, and
sufficient number OF them have bee
x.-ifh t.1n hot ln tui
recipients will attend, to make il eel
tain that the experiment will be fairl
tried.
The first locomotive used in Ne
England is now in the shop ofthe Por
land and Kennebec Railroad III Augu
Ia, being repaired for the dummy trai
TO Gardiner. The machine was built
Liverpool for the Boston and Worcest'
Railroad, and was the first one used O
the road Its former name was IL
"Lion,u now called the "Brookline. !"
A little girl, seven years of az
daughter of John Daley of Lewisto
Me-, having been asked by her gran
mother to get up about o'clock al
bring her o match, proceeded to OBJ
her, but in striking the match, her mig
dress caught fire and before assistan
could be rendered she was so shocking
burned thatshe died at 2o'clock Sungi
morning.
The Wisconsin Legislature has pi
sented to Cyrus w. Field gold med
accompanied with complimentary res
buttons.
-Philadelphians want to make tn
Broad street boulevard" but havl
the genius.
"A GRANT reviysl Ia in progress
Madison University, Wisconsin. Fo
fifths of the students, 1t Is said, hf