The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-03-23
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

! WHlCu TIC DVuuediHeu us Toys 10 us sisters
and some Of his playmates. The Royal
family was deeply affected when il was
read by the King few days after the
burial OF the Prince.
Robert A. Watt, formerly Comptroller
In the city OF St, LOUIS, has been sued by
the city for the recovery Of nearly 500,
OOO, which, it is alleged, he appropriated
to his own use while in office.
General Candy has issued an order
approprating about 1886 600 out Of the
State Treasury of Texas to carry on the
Provisional Government Of that State dur
ing the current year 1t is said that more
than onethird Of this amount is for the
Penitentary, which will return most Of
the amount thus appropriated.
The Gerrish embezzlement case was
before the Lowell Police Court yestel day
but the Cry Solicitor was not prepared
Tor trial AMI the case was postponed for
examination I'LL Monday next at ten
O'Clock A. NJ. Mr. Gerrish appeared and
was again ordered to appear in the sum
ofS40, 0OOi no surctiesappearing, the pris-
oner was remanded to Jail
The Hahoverian mobility express their
hatred of Bismark and King William Of
Prussia by giving the names of the two
distinguished Prussiaus to their dogs and
asses.
There il rumor in Berlin that the
Grown Princes Victoria has the cunsump-
ton, and that her physicians have urgen
tly advis d her to take up her residence
IN southern city, or 90 10 Madeira
Although there is an active speculation
in real estate in Chicago, il is said prices
are one.third to one half lov er than those
prevailing in Eastern cities. Believers in
the continued growth Of the city, are
therefore sanguine Of large advances on
present prices
1t is said that Nasty is to be transferred
from the post office at Confederate x
Roads, Kentucky, 10 that at Toledo
Ohio.
A Connecticut exchange advises those
who wish to escape jury duty in criminal
cases to " take The papers. read the nc
counts given of felonious deeds, and re-
member the impression made by the Pc
rusal. State the impression to others
then, when examined IN court, call your
impression an opinion, say YOU have ex.
pressed opinion, and You viii then he set
aside.
Mr.. Hamilton Fish is the fourth New
Yorker who has acted as Secretary Of
State. The first was Van Burcn, the
second, William L Inrcy, d1rlug the
Pierce administration, and the third ; il.
liam Fl. Seward.
Michael McGinn-, ~ trying 10 Gtt 90
Or off n car ou the railroad track near
Worcester, on Wednesday evening. tell
through a bridge distance of nb at forty
feet nd wa- 50 severely inior-d liz t he
shortly afterwards died.
IT, citzons of PorrInd nrc moving in
order to haze the New England Aeiicule
turai Society hold lis Ahmed Far IN that
city in September next
The nephew of SIR Walter Scott, who is
now on his death bed in Montrcal,is sta
ted by The Gazette 10 be in very low
condition, and extremely deiitnte Many
who promised relief, should his relation
ship with his great ancestor be established,
now that ii has been placed beyond ques-
ton, decline doing anything for lin.
William Ryan, son Of James and Mary
Ryan, fell down the elevator at Savers
Mills, Dover, \ II, on Saturday last,
while at play in one of the upper rooms,
fractured his skull and died ir short time
thereafter
Very gloomy accounts are given of The
condition Of the Lancashire cotton manu-,
featuring districts. A large number Of
mills are wholly or partially idle, the en-
! ployers in many cases arc becoming ems
barrassed, and the operatives Nre reduced
TO distress by the continued want of
work
A Labor Contention for the State Of
Connecticut, will be- held nj New Haven
on the 23d int;
The freedmen of Memphis have over
SAT, 600 on deposit in the Freedmens
Saving Bank there.
The number OF deposltors in the saving
banks of San Francisco is 2o,s93, with
an average sum 10 each depositor of
S74s.
New Haven, Corn, voted, on Monday
by a majority Of 1923 in vote of 3646
to loan 100000 to aid in the construc-
ton of the New Haven, Middetown and
! WilllmaDtic railroad.
A boy named Crowley, uged about six
years was drowned at Smiths Corner, Bid.
deford, Me, recently. Some Holsters
were thrown out of fsh market into the
stream, or on the ice, and the boy, with
Others, made a rush for them and ventur..
on where the ice WAS thin, broke through
and was carried under the ice
Jefferson Davis denies that he has the
heart disease. and says that he never
was better.