The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1870-11-08

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The latest social novelty i, the holding
of fancy-dress balls, in which each par
ticipant represents some ono of Dickens
characters.
Vincent Vaughan, the new Governor
of Utah, was an officer in the Confederate
service. His political disabilities we're
removed by Congress last spring.
Some prodigious bombs, on the way to
Versailles, lately passed through Frank
fort. These mortars carry one hundred
and forty pounds of powder, and could
easily contain a small sized man.
Invention and folly sometimes travel
in company. An Albany undertaken has
invented a coffin which "folds down. and
exposes the body at full length, making
it appear as if reclining on a sofa. 1t is
designed to save people of weak nerves,
the shocking sight Of coffin that looks
like n coffin.
Virginia has voted to furnish wooden
legs to MANNED confederate soldiers.
Look out for fearful news from Aus
%tralia. Kerosene Lamps have been in
troluced there
\ mouse walking across Wall sire ct
on a telegraph wire was sufficient to at.
tract a crowd of brokers who cheered the
plucky little Blondin, and reioiced at his
safe escape to the sewer.
In the harbor Of Hull, England, late
y, a rope being hove ashore to moor a
vessel, caught the captain by the leg, just
below the knee, and stripped the muscles
from the bone and tore his foot entirely
of.
a New Zealand traveller describes a
Maori woman who had sold her possess.
ions to an European, and had invested in
a full suit of silk and satin, with a fash
ionable bonnet and boots, marching
through the town smoking a short, black
pipe. The contrast was unique.
The publication Of magazines is rather
risky business, if we may judge by the
unlucky ventures in that line which have
recently been made. 1t is stated that
Captain Mayne Reds Ouoayd magazine
went back on him to the tune Of sl5.-
900.
Lyons is likened to Il bombshell, its
large ourricr population, like grains of
gunpowder, being individually smutty
and insignificant. but, united, capable
oil producing most violently explosive re-
suits.
An ingenious confidence scamp called
on the wife Of Il Boston physician the
other day, during the absence of her hus-
band, and representing that he owed the
doctor $50, rendered a bogus check for
$50, and received So in change. The
same trick was tried u few days after.
ward, elsewhere, but the publicity given
the first transaction frustrated the game.
Nearly a hundred thousand gallong of
lager beer were consumed at Hoboken
Friday between sunrise and midnight, in
celebrating the surrender of Metz.
Rev. Mr.. Newcomb of New Haven has
declined the call to the Winthrop Society
in Charlestown. -
Two additional tracks are TO be built
along the line of the Boston and Albany
Railroad, and the work will he begun in
the spring.
There are on the docket of the Supreme
Court of Mass, nearly 1900 libels fol
divorce, many of which have been there
for years.
The new Emigrant Saving, Bank OF
Boston received $4,000 the first day,
and in the first twelve days nearly 300.
600.
The annual masquerade Of the German
Turner's of Boston will take place in the
Boston Theater, and will be Oh \ much
!, grander scale than usual.
The many friends of Camilla Urso, the
Niolinist, will regret to learn that she has
recently been quite i'll, and that she vii.
be unable to appear in public the present
season. She was recently at Boulognt
Sur Merand and intends passing the win.
ter in London,
The Newton journal" states hat by
. the sworn inventory deposited at the
5 Probate office in 1866, four years ago, the
:. estate Of Frank Skinner was of the value
/, of one million and thirty-three thcusanc
, dollars. 1t will be remembered that BY
the terms of his will the property was LEFT
i, in the hands of Trustees for his son, but
, was to be invested in the firm of F Skin,
ner & Co.
A fox was started BY the Newbury
] port train to Boston, on the Boston anc
! Maine Railroad, Saturday morning and
a attempted escape by running along The
a track. 1t was in vain, however, for wa,
e caught by the cow-catcher, his head cul
4 of from his body and thrown in front o.
t the engine, where it remained to the mex
t station.
The French guer,llas, known AZ "WilC
+ Bears of the Ardennes," have adopted
, Root Hog or Die as their battle song
Alonzo Davis, u lad under fifteen year
OF age, shot and killed an Indian girl il
Napa, Cal, and the jury acquitted hin
g on the ground that he was too young Il
e know right from wrong,
' The Chinese rebellion has been III NJ
= tive opposition to the Imperial dynast,
= of the Celestial Empire for over half
, century. Yet, with 10000 men ranget
under its banner, it does not appear to b.
! any nearer the conclusion than when
- first started in the field.
S One-halt the sugar mills of Louisiani
y are at work, and it is said the yield vii
d be larger than that of the past year, in
# spite Of the bad effects of the drouth upol
cane. While the troubles in Cuba con
tinue the sugar crop of this country is O
more than ordinary Importance.