The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-03-02
SUMMARY OF NEWS.


ease---a gradual sufleniug which had
probably been in progress some time, and
which was started into acute development
by slight jerk he received just before
leaving the cars on last week Wedncs-
day.
--Philadelphit is ovcrrun with pretty
girls, in town to get the earliest glimpse
at the spring fashions.
The proceeds of General KIllpatick'
lectures this winter are, he says, $50, 900,
of which he received one third, and the
G. A, II. the remainder.
The New Jersey farmers are plow-
ing.
The belle of recent ball at New
Albany, Ind, was recognized as a woman
who earned her living by begging at a
street corner, dressed in filthy rags,
tit seems TO me-" said mother to
her daughter who was 10 be married next
day, "that your future husband is very
| willful and exacting. lie is asking for
any quantity "Let him alone, mama,
was the reply; grant him little indul,
gelcc now You know he is making his
last will"
Why is a watch dog larger at night
than he is in the morning! Because be
is let om at night and taken IL in the mor-
ming.
The Canadians fear disastrous foods
in the Spring, when the snow mel;s,
there is such a vast quantity up there.
There is great activity in copper
stocks stree the passage of The Copper
Tariff bill over the veto, Between 1000
and 5000 shares were sold at the Brokers
Board last week.
Dr. Holland, writing from Rome, says
there are forty>five American and only
seventeen English artists now residing
there
Hatch & Co.'S New Bedford Express
have left herring at the Boston Journal
office, taken from stream at Martha's
Vineyard last Wednesday. Their ap-
pearance is about six weeks earlier than
usnlI.
Mr., G.. Sala of Boston, has invented
a machine for aerial navigation unlike any
before invented, which he thinks "wil
accomplish the greatest results in war as
well as IT. peace He is not ready at
pr sent to describe it.
Some contemporary wit insists that
all tag matte men are liable to hydro
phohia without being bitten.
Full dress at the opera is going out of
fashion in New York.
--"Can't You trust ne, Mr. Butcher,
for !ille meat this morning g. ''No ;
you owe me for that already On your
bones.
Me lical men are condeming ycoci-
pe1c-. They assert that the bicycle causes
absre,. : tnl mallurmatinns
-, one Bill, its ten O'Clock. and !
think we had better be gung-fpr it:
time hon st folks were at home" "Well,
ye-,' was the answer 81 must he off,
bat you incident hurry on that acc cunt. -
Strawberries. cucumbers, ard toma.
toes have appeared in the New Orleans
markets.
"A man named Ambrose Sands,
about 80 years of age, was found dead il
hi9 room ut East Braintree on last Wed,
ncsday. lie had probably fallen CT
the floor ia fit and dislocaied his neck.
Dean Swift, hearing of carpenter
falling through the scstiold Of hous,
where he was engaged in repairing, dryl,
remarked that be liked to see mechanic
90 through his work promptly.
The Philadelphia, Wilmington anC
Baltimore Railroad Company have undel
consideration tie expediencv of mounting
the through cars Of their road upon wood
en- wheel. The favorite pattern consists
Of al iron hub, teal. disc and steel tire
This road has had in use such wheels fo
q long time
"A soap and stationery yender il
philadelphia rings at the door bell, send
up his card to the lady of the house, wait
, in The palIor till she appears, when b.
greets her warmly, like an old acquain
tancc, pa'-es The compliments of the sea
son, and asks her TO buy cake of soap
or box eff stationery. Cool
Frank Swift of New York. and E
T. Goodrich of Chicago, will skate a
Buffalo fIr the championship of Amcric.
and diamond medal.
1t Is proposed in Great Britain It
celebrate 10y grand display, the centen
NAL anniversary of the birth of the grea
novelist, Walter Scott, Which will occu
on August 18th, 1871,
A dog at Dubuque, Iowa, has Save'
the lives of four persons, and has the un
muz2led "lrceom of the city rs re
ward for his good services to humanity.
An Ohio man has named bis fy
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