The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-01-12
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

-Philadelphia Is afflicted with row.
dies, who reign supreme in some sec
tons of the city.
In cold, northern countries, by
wise provision ofnature, the mountains
are clad in "frs."
The average salary of school teach
ers in Pennsylvania is only s195.
There are 1872 orphans in the Sol
dier's Orphans Home at Normal, Ill,
There are two periods in the life of
Man, Mt which he is to wise to tell
Woman the exact truth (; when he is in
love and when he isn't.
In New York, monograms are slow
~ supersedingd door plates, which Dame
Fashion has voted vulgar.
A recent great battle in India con-
firmed the power Of Shere Ali, which
is said to be favorable to the interests of
England.
"A young bride at Flushing, IL,
last week received wedding presents
valued at $4,000
--latest advices report much sickness
on the Pacific coast of South America.
Small poX is raging at Arequipa, and
extending in Lima, though not so bad
in Callao. Yellow fever is still on the
t'dNt, anu COIlllllllllIH ltITlpie 1uNHHtS
in Pisagua.
Home, the London "medlum,' an
nounces that he has been endowed with
the gift of handling Goals of fire with
inpunity from harm. 1t is an old trick
with jugglers.
The most baehful girl we ever kncwi
was one who Flushed when she wasl
| asked fshe had not been counting slccp.i
-Four thousand miles of railway,
have been completed in Hindostau, and.
one thousand more are projected and
commenced. The discovery of gold in
CeylOn has created demand for line
to the metalliferous district.
The foundations of Peru are still
unsettled. At africa earthquakes are
constantly felt, accompanied by the
earthquake waves. On the 9th of De
cembCr the motion was almost assevcTC
rs ON t e disastrous 18th of September.
and the SEA rose and fell in rapid sue
cession, about two feet during the night.
boston manufactures more furni-
ture than any other city in the United
States. 1t is exported to all parts OF
The country, including the Pacific slope.
Alexander II. Stephens has not yet
| decided whether to accept his recent
]
| University of Georgia. lie thinks he ia
too old to make an entire change in his
! life and duties.
There was 500, O00fire inthe bust
ness portion OF Selma, Ala, on The night
of the Isl.
-Ihc New York slate roofcrs are on
strike on account oftNe reduction Of
their pay from 40 TO 81 per day
George Opdykc Of Sew York thinks
| that ifnO increase Is made 10 ourprcsgnl
volume Of paper money, and The legal
tenders are contracted at rate not cX-
cceding 10, 0JO, OOD per year, W. shall be
| ready to resume specie payment in
eight years.
~ Londoncr has applied for a patent
for plan by which hc thinks the
weight of passengers or goods can be
made to assist in propelling the cars in
which they are carried. Upon that
principle. the heavier the load the less
vii! be the outside force required to
move it.
The famous stallion General Knox
has Noted his owner, Col. 7. =. Lang
sixty thousand dollars, an! increased
the value Of the horse stock in Mainc
many hundred thousands.
NJ. Gustave Lambert, the suh-crip-
tious TO whose expedition to the North
Pole amount to 100000 has chr5tened
the vessel in which he is to undertake
this perlous voyage Fol ,Scieutiuque, y
much to the scandal of the religious
world in Europe.
-~hiphuilding is steadily decreasing
at Quebec, and the papers call upon
those interested in the city's prosperity
TO provide come other employment Tor
the labOrng classes for whom ship
building is the main SUPP ort,
While Manly Phelps, SAM Allen
and Edward Bossct of Monroe, Mass,
were hunting rabbits few days ago
on Florida Mountain, Allen. gun nc
cidcntly went off, the whole charge
entering the thigh and abdomen oil Mr.
Phelps. At la t accounts his life wa,
despaired of.
Rev. Anthony Romano de Travi
Roman Catholic pastor ut Iinsdalc, y
H., n native of Italy, has been created
the Crown of Italy, by the King Victor
Emanuel.
A gigantic mining enterprise has
been undertaken to supply the Butte
City gold mines in California Will
| dlNl - tHlliltl sAliDut -'u lttk lNli- u
being cut through branch of ihC
Rocky Mountain range to - Elk Park
on the eastern side. Severl streams are
to be tlrned into this park, and a dan
across its northern end will form M
artificial lake about II mile and half
which will supply ten miles of placer
mines on the opposite side ofthe noun
tain.
The Illinois State Geoloeist report,
six workable strata Of good coal under
lying large areas in that State. The
, beds are from two to nine feet in thick
ness.
t The st. Peter Minnesota Tribune
says the supplies sent TO the Fort Wads
worth Indians are still wasting ant
rotting in the vicinity Of the Chippew;
River, while the Indians young an,
DID, male and icmale-are fasting, only
fifteen miles away.
A festive old gentleman nearly
seventy years of age, made over siXt!
calls in New York on New Years Day
on foot.
A woman in the northern part o
New York Stale has given the authOri
} ties and the public notice that she pre-
} fers the costume worn by males to tia