The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-03-30
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

by the fOrclOle entrance OF Jack'shpe'
The train was running at speed of thirty
miles, and strange enough. the little bird
escaped unnjured, notwithstanding the
crash Of glass aud sudden shock.
Nineteen Protestant girls were received
into the Catholic church in Philadelphia
on Sunday.
A Southern circus manager advertiscs;
Tickets, fifty cents children and white
folks half price
Hundreds of United States soldiers
stationed in Dacotah ale said to be married
to Indian women, who make faithful and
industrious wives.
Gen. Mcclellan has discharged all the
ship carpenters employed on the Stevens
battery at Hoboken, because they objected
to reduction in wages from So to 50 30
per day.
James Fly was found frozen to death
in swamp at Colchester, VT, or Sunday
1t is supposed he lost his way in storm
and persisted,
Sir Emerson Tennent, Bart, Suddenly
fell dead on the 9th of March. He was an
active member of Mr.. Peabody's trust,
had been member of Parliament, had
held important positions under the British
Government, and was the author of
several works on Greece and Ceylon, of
which latter place he was ouce Lieutenant
governor.
Prabel Sourdet Phra Chom Kiow, sec
ond King of Siam, died on the LIST of Oc-
tober last He was 81 years of age and
had reigned seventeen years. His SOU was
chosen his successor.
Ia Stanfod, CT there are twenty fam
lies which furnished seventy. seven volun
teers in tie late war
The Senate has rejected the bill which
prohibited lettering abont''railroad stations
The privilege OF heavy loafing is not tc
be interfered with.
Hon. James Guthrie OF Kentucky left
an estate of 100000, which his vii
divides among his children and grondchild
| rem.
a dispatch from Omaha says the Unior
| Pacific Railroad will commence carrying
passengers and mails to Ogden, one thou
sand and twenty-four miles west from
Omaha, on Thursday next.
Ammonia continues to he used will
great success in Australia as an antidott
for snake bites. The papers chronicle
numerous cases where the injection of this
article into Il e veins has saved the lives o.
persons bitten by venomous snakes. Tic
wound is also bathed with liquid ammo.
MIA, and stimulants are given TO keep the
patient from falling into "A lethargic state
The new capital building of South Car.
DINA presents very imposing appearance
in its unfinished condition. 1t Is built OF
the South Carolina granite. Two million
dollars were spent on the building before
| the war.
y part of the British Abyssiman ExprI-
ition has arrived in San Francisco in the
shape OF 20 bales of East India hay, which
arrived Mt the seat of war too late to be
needed The hay. it Is said, is nutritious
but rather tongh and wiry.
The G2, 900 Chinese in California are
nearly all enrolled in six clubs. correspond
ing to the six districts from which they
came. When an immigrant ship arrives,
the agents of each club go on board and
take charge ofthose who come from their
district. The immigrant is boarded and
lodged until he finds employment. All
Cinnamon who are sick or in want are al
30 provided for by the clubs.
The "fungus" of siberia and Northern
Asia supplies the means of intoxicaton TO
40, 100000 people Opium in Southern
ASIA enables 400. 900, 900 people to get
drunk Persia, India, Turkey and Africa,
with 300, 000, 900 peopl', use hasheesh.
Cocoa is popular in South America; bctel
pepper among the Pacific and Indian
Oceans
Some Of the Italian Republicans are
hopeful of having a Republic established
in Italy during the present year.
Capt. James. F. Armstrong, who was
in command OF the Pensacola Navy Yard
when it was captured by the rebels. has
resigned his commission and retired from
the naval service.
A German student lately attempted 10
assassinate Bismarck.
A Memphis jury, having convicted a
man of numbering man who is still alive
were in quandary whether to rescind
their verdict or let the prisoner kill his
man.
At the store of j. S. Barker, in Gambia
n. H., on Saturday evening, young man
Charles Wentworth. received pistol shot
the ball entering just above the knee and
lodging against the skin on the under side,
passing through the leg. The accident
arose from The careless handling of the
pistol.
Miss Rosina ID. Richardson, the New
Hampshire giantess, whose weight is 400
pounds, was married TO John A. Wood al
Stoddsrd, n. H., on the 10Th instant.
The brides weight is three fines that Of
the bridegroom.
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