The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-08-03

racine TOAD, was destroyed by storm
of wind and hail on Tuesday night
According to the Chicago Times there
are forty gambling houses in that city, in
which $4,000, 900 are squandered annual
ly.
1t is estimated that there are now 10
600 Cinnamon in the Unitnd States. In
1866, 2300 Chinese and japanese trans
ferred themselves TO California, and in
1868 the number rose to 10000.
A silly young man named Lehn is dig
ging in the lower part of Lawrence coun-
ty Pa, for fortune of 100000, which
a fortune teller told him that had been
buried there.
A white man named William Pierce
has been swindling the negroes of Rich
mond by pretending to initiate them into
the secrets of Masonry at s12 head. He
has been arrested.
General Sickles is about to present his
credentials to Serrano as United States
Minister, and Ex-Minister Hale is pre-
pairing for his journey home. He leaves
Madrid on Monday
The editor of the Buffalo Christian Al
rocate, Rev. Sanford lIalbert, was logged
on Thursday evening in Buffalo, by Nor
man Hollcy, son of the Collector of the
Port who felt aggrieved at something the
editor had published about himself
Efforts are making in England to fan
ciltate the expectation Of cotton from In
dia, as the supply from the United States
is not equal to that of Liverpool, have just
adopted a resolution looking to the speed
y development of railroads in India, to
this end.
the steamship Eagle, mail news to July
"a is at hand. The general situation, the
action of Cabalero de Rodas, in recogni-
ton of the good disposition Of our Govern
ment toward Cuba, and variety of mis-
cellaneous gossip are included in our
special correspondents letter, printed
elsewhere.
Dispatches are received in Washington
from Lieutenant Commander Bradford, of
the Aroostook, off Hakodadi, Japan, dated
June II, giving fuller particulars than
have been received of the great naval
engagements in japanese waters, in which
the .StonecaH and other American-built
war vessels took conspicuous part, and
the successes of the Mikado.
Still another railroad accident. a
passenger train bound west over the Han.
nibal and st. Joseph Railroad, ran off the
track, owing to a misplaced switch, Oh
Thursday morning, and two of the real
cars were thrown down AN embankment
and smashed. Two passengers were
seriously injured and number slightly
and two railroad hands were badly burned
A large mass meeting Of persons in.
terested in the Prohibitory Liquor law
was held in Lowell, Mass, on Thursday
evening, in accordance with call signed
by prominent liquor dealers, and the city
clergymen and leading temperance adyo.
Gates. Members Of both parties made
addresses, and the meeting resolved, on
the recommendation of all the speakers
that the law should be enforced
A woman has sued St. Louis dentist
for $4,000 damages, for insirting set OF
teeth while they were so hot as to burn
her month and gums, and by forcibly
holding them there until they became
cool, and the upper portion of her mouth
had become blistered. This it is stated
caused her the most intense pain and
suffering, rendering it impossible for hei
to partake of food for several days. and
leaving her mouth in lacerated condi-
ton.
Governor Bullock, of Georgia, has par
doned Robert +. Curry, Walker p. Inman
and VIM. H. Inman, President, Cashier
and Directory Of the Northwest Bank OF
Georgia, who are prosecuting under the
statute of the State for refusing to redeem
the bills of the bank. The Governor al.
leges, as grounds for this proceeding, that
"the failure was not the fault of these
officers, but the necessary result Of the
action of the civil powers Of the State
during the late rebellion, and destruction
and loss Of property occasioned by the
late civil war;" and, secondly, because
"the expense, inconvenience and trouble
Of defence will work great damage and
hardship to the said parties"