The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-07-27

loss sustained latclS ny nrc.
A few days ago, Y. J. Sartwcll, Esq,
went TO adjust the wheel to his carding
machine at North Troy, when he found a
mud turtle under it weighing some
twenty pounds. The wheel had worn a
hole through the back of the turtle caus-
ing its death.
Last "Wednesday forenoon, Ncwland
Perkins, Of Troy, VI. % years Of age,
spread an acre of stout grass in three
hours, and raked and tumbled up hay
until five o'clock in the afternoon. Few
men of his age can boast of such II days
work.
Two thousand thrifty young salmon
placed in the West river by DR.. VI. G..
Edmonds and others are growing finely,
and next season will probably take their
departure to salt water Whether they
ever get back again depends on the con-
struction of fisheries ON the Connecticut
and West rivers.
Recently rector Of parish in Toledo
Ohio, in catechsing his Sunday school,
asked Where did the wise men come
from" Without moments hesitation
the answer came from a little iive-year
old "From Boston - The father and
mother of the little catcchumen are
natives of the Bay State.
On the 18th inst, very high wind
prevailed at Jay. A barn belonging to
Mr.. Percy 40 90 with basemenO was
moved at one end distance of eight in.
ches and building belonging TO O. F.
Sisco, which had recently been moved on
to the spot where his house was burned
and left on the rollers, was moved a die.
lance of two feet
Mr.. Elisha Rich, Of Sudbury was
quite severely injured, on Wednesday, by
a workman living near him, named Nor
ris Sullivan Some trouble had arisen be.
tween them in regard to some COWS be
longing to Sullivan, when he took a large
stick and struck him, hitting him on tit,
arm and fracturing one of the bones ii
the elbow. DR. Woodward of Brandon
who is attending him,reports it as quite q
serious affair, rendering it quite likely
that Mr. Rich may have 4 stiff elbow
MIRAcUGoUs EscApE.-We learn from
the Free Press that miraculous cscap,
occurred in Huntington, last week. Mr.
Sanford Ross, of that place, while rugag
ed in moving, discovered 4 hand rak,
standing in the grass, front of his machine
aud lifting the cutter reached down !,
remove the rake. when he dlscOverc,
what appeared to be human object ju,
in front of him He carried the blade
over and upon turning around. saw hi
own SON youth Of four years, asleep il
the grass, who, but for the provdcnial oc
currcnce Of the rake being visible, mus
have met with q horrible death
An ingenious New York mechanic uI
yertises he manufactures drums that can
not be beat
Hmdoo. are admitted TO the Englis
Masonic Lodges in India although the
do not believe in Christianity
The French Corps Legislatif viii rra>
semble on the 26th of October
Katacazi the new Russian Minister t
this country left ST Petersburg for hi
mission ON Saturday
The Priyy Council has decided tina
Bishop Colcnso, Of Natal, has full RICH
TO the Cathedral at Pietermaritzburg
\ petition signed by $4,000 women Il
Great Britain asking for the lranchi-,
has been presented in the Commons.
a Santa Fc dispatch states that tn
Democratic Convention, after storm
session, nominated Recente Romero tc
delegate to Congress
The Egyptian princes have suddcnl
left England although they had taken
residence in Hyde Park Gardens for Sc,
en- years
r The saw mill, grst mill, Single mi
and work shop OF j. NJ. Preston, in Ch
ma, Me, were destroyed by fire on Tue
: day. Insured ior $1,000, which will 20,
7 er about half the loss
The Massachusetts Prohbitionists pre-
pose to hold State Delegate ConventiC
1 in Boston on the 18th of August next
d, decide upon policy for the Fab can
paign.
The colored mechanics Of Baltimore al
,, the State of Maryland are Organizing in
= trades unions and societies Of their ow
: as the white men refuse to admit the
= into their unions
Hobart College has Just received fro
a few gentlemen Of Buffalo, a sum of mo
ey sufficient to purchase large telescop
: and pledge of enough additional to me
the expense of putting it in place
The Supreme Court of North Carroll
has Just decided that intermaniage /
" tween a member of the colored race al
q member Of tho white is unlawful, a
d therefore void according to the laws
the States
- The Central and Union Pacific Ia
=, agreed to transport freight to New \ 0
at five cents per pound Also to iuni
emigrant trains at $50 per passeng
y from New York and s3S per head tiC
Chicago.
In pursuance Of an order Of judge v
, Cum. Ernest b Lucke, of the firm
u Belmot 4 Co. transferred TO Thomas
" Barr the receiver, the money held
them to the credit of an Irish Republ
81 amounting to sl6,73S,7O in gold
m The Grand jury at Washington
looking into the negro riots that oceun
at the charter election six weeks a
q :. They have already found indictme
u It, against eight or ten persons, aud will pr'
AZ ably find several more.
BY the fall Of the great railroad brio
:. ~ over the Maras DIES Cygnes, nine mi
IL below Paola, Kansas, twelve men W
rs thrown into the water, five of whom "
killed Instantly, and six were sever
as hurt Only one of the twelve cscal