The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-03-09
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

The American Baptist Missionary
Union needs 100000 this month, or it
will closs its financial year in debt Last
March it received SS7. 900
1t il proposed to hold an IRISH Nations
al Convention in Chicago, to form a gen.
eral organization for the aid and protec-
ton of their counlrymen emigraIinG to
this country.
Spring opened in Lancaster, y. H.,
with six feet of snow on the ground and
the thermometer stanling Mt hdN.Jow'
degrees belo,c GRO.
\ man in Milwaukee was imprisoned
for cruelty beating his wife. Poking his
nose through the cell bars, he calculated,
81 thank God I'm not locked up for any
mean, dirty crime like getting drunk. -
Elijah Jones of Webster, Ne, will he
one hundred years Of age the 3Oth of the
present month. Mr. Jones is a native of
Durham and has lived in Webster about
seventy years lie has always enjoyed
excellent health and it is still excellent,
His appetite is hearty, and he bids fair to
live many years
Gov. English CT Connecticut has pro-
claimed fast for the 26ih inst.
The Maiden Light Battery fired a saluto
of one hundred guns yestarlay on the Com
mon, in honor Of General Grants inaug-
uration. Flags were flying on the State
House and other public building. and on
many private buildings.
Major Putnam, State Senator, and DR..
Finlayson. Clsrk of the Court, were ass.
assinated in The streets of Mariana, jack
son county, Florida, ON the night of the
26th of February.
Mr.. Hiram Mari of Southport Is sup
posed to have been drowned while rowing
home from Westpori, Me-, last Friday
night where he had been attending n
brothers. funeral.
The British court dress is TO be altered.
and her Majesty male subjects may hence
forth enter the royal presence in trousers,
instead of the traditional small clothes in
which so many generations of statesmen
and couriers have admired themselves
and been admired.
Mr. II. c. Dorsey Of Pawtucket has
received large number Of letters from
prisoners to whom he gave dinners on the
3lst day Of January, thanking him in the
warmest terms for his generosity. Per-
mission TO write was given by the war
dens of the prisons.
The lady elected on the school committee
in Braintree refuses TO serve.
BY vote of the town, each legal voter of
Sandwich is entitled TO catch, or TO hire
some one TO catch for him, bushel of
oysters per week.
\ couple of red squirrels stole from the
barn of Mr.. Bixby, farmer in South
Reading, Windham county, VI, sixty
bushels of corn, which they had slowed
away in the barn loft
TIE RECENT Snow Storm Montreal
Is reported as being buried in snow, to an
extent whica causes almost an entire sus,
pension 70 business The cahots in the
streets make riding much like going
through storm at sea. The yards and
alleys are piled with snow; the fire hy>
drants are covered out of sight and the
Witness tells of cut through snow
bank twenty feet in depth,
Our Portland correspondent says. In
our dispatch on Monday concerning the
election we aAuded to conservative weak
kneed' Republicans, but the wires or types
made il read weak minded we recognize
the ability and worhiness Of those Repub-
licans who opposed Mr.. Drummond, but
alluded to their political unsteadiness and
fidelity"
guile number of young sprigs Of
English nobility are now circulating ip
New York society
Tho Pennsylvania Canal along II 6
banks of the Susquebanna is to be made
ten or fifteen feet wider and several feet
| deeper.