The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-11-30

before waterfall.
-" Nush and milk festivals are the
latest device for raising money among re-
lriou> ,ociriirS in New Jersey
Extensive revenue frauds have been
discovered in California. on the part of
officers in banded warehouses.
The st. Albans (NL Taeccm has
been discontinued, aud its subscription list
transferred to the Burlington Pre- Pies,
Mis- Nbgail Edgerly committed sui
eide at Wolrboro', y H., on the 10th
inst. She was subject TO mental derange-
mcnt.
\ French nobleman, wishing to make
his steward present told him that he
might have all that he had stolen during
the year,
\ solution of gum arabic will remove
dirt and stains from marble. Let it re-
main till it dries, when it will peel off or
can bc washed off.
An English Cathedral Choir numbering
an average Of twenty-five members, costs
about $4,000 a year in gold. The choris-
ters have to attend two daily services.
\ tea ship from Shanghac, the .S,cnd-
HrjJ1, was recently wrecked off Dungeness,
England, within fifty miles of her destin-
alton.
Robert NJ. Douglas, son Of the late
Senator Douglass, has been promoted to-
be the Presidents Private Secretary, in
stead of Assistant Private Secretary.
The arsenal at Baton Rouge, La, is to
be discontinued, and the building is to be
transferred to the Quartermaster's De-
partmcnt, for the use Of troops.
\ New York lottery policy dealer tes-
titled in Court on Monday, that there
were about four hundred policy shops inl
the city, and that the average gross re-
ccipts were about $1,000 per day
Another rcprimand has been admins
tered by the Bishop of Orleans to the ul-
tromontane editors, who persist in urging
the dogmatic definition of the infallibility
Of the Pope.
Nilsson was lately paid $500 in gold
to sing at one concert III Brighton, Eng
land. This is probably more than any
one singer ever before received for one
performance.
\ London dispatch Of Tuesday says
that many failures have occurred among
the grain merchants of Liverpool, several
Of whom had aage connections in the
United State
Two member Of the French Ministry
VI. VI Bourbeau and LerouH, have been
reelected members Of the Chambers.
Paris is tranquil The Emperor is TO re-.
main there for the present.
The Spanish Government, according
to a Madrid dispatch, will take rigorous
meausrcs against those Spanish Bishops
who left for Rome without permission and
without passports.
\ resolution ofthe Spanish Cortes ask
ING information has it is said, compelled
the Government to lay before that body
documents duplicating Spanish Republi-
can, in conspiracy with the the Cuban
= Insurgents.
A man named d. W. Ludden, residing
in Jay, Me-, was robbed in the ears last
Monday evening between Boston and
Portland Of a pocket book containing
5000. He supposes the thief to have
been a fellow passenger who sat beside
him.
The body of another victim Of the re-
cent disaster in st. Louis was taken from
+ the ruins Of the fallen building on Tues
2 day 1t is believed that two or three
7 more bodies are still under the fallen
5 walls
\ young man named Barnett who con-
fessed that he had distracted about ST..
600 from the Sunday collections of St
Louis PRESBYTERIAN church since February
last, was publicly communicated from
the church on Sunday.
The losers by the Boylston Bank rob
berry in Boston held meeting yesterday
at which half their number were present,
representing S256.000. The absent were
/ mainly small depositors, from which it il
concluded that the whole loSs is about
S350,000.
q The resignation OF United States Con
/ sul-General Plumb at Havana has beer
: accepted, and Consul Hall at Matanzas
e has been directed to take charge of thu
| Havana Consulate. The resignation take,
~ effect Dee. l.
Mrs Betsey Hersey Folsom died re
D.. Gently in South Newmarket, \. H., a
B.. the age Of eighty.six years She wa
4 born, married and died in the same room
f of her fathers house, which house wa
erected one numbered and thirty year
ago.
The gale Of Friday night and Saturda,
was very destructive in Maine, particular
II ly on the Penobscot, at Belfast, wher
r. wharves and vessels were damaged. Tn
|. schooner hpg C'Go,maa, of Kingstowl
| Ontario, was discovered near Oswego
it dismasted and dragging her anchors
e Her boat came ashore bottom up, and il
d il supposed the crew have persisted.
The Investigations Of the Sab-Commit
!, tee of Foreign Affairs into matters per
i tanning to our diplomatic representation
a in Paraguay have revealed a differenc
" between the civil and naval service
e abroad as to ultimate authority, whicl
I, frequently results in want Incorporation
-. Vice admiral Porter and Mr.. Hunter
Second Assistant Secretary Of State, ar
to be examined before the COMMITTEE
NTH ,aC,ranc. IN tba thaorV and nractic