The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1870-01-04


it has no jurisdiction over franchises pur.
chased by American citizens of the Mex
lean Government. 1t will interest a I
large number Of people to know that no
such decision has been rendered, and
that, in fact, no such question has yet
been raised before the Commission. All
that the Commission has done thus far
Is to decide questions of practice, and
not single legal point has yet been ruled
upon.
The friends of Colorado who used to
turn up so briskly two or three sessions
ago, are about to appear again with a bill
which they seek to have passed by Con-
gress, for the admission of that Territory
into the Union as a State 1t will be re.
membered that such bill twice passed
Congress, but each time failed to receive
the Presidents signature, during the last
administration.
The President is preparing a message
on the Darien Ship Canal, which will be
transmitted to Congress Immediately
after the recess. The friends of the ca
nal are confident that it will be construct
ed, and they profess to have advices that
the new route by the Suez Canal and the
Red Sea will be virtually impracticable
for sailing vessels.
The young ladies Of Rochester Free
Academy write their lessons on the broad
hens of their aprons, which they refer to
during recitations with admirable sue
cess"
The Crank Duke ofTuscany has writ.
ten book on job
An lrishman of Dunmore, Pa, on being
appealed to for his signature on petition
for the recognition of the Cuban insur.
gents, exclaimed, Free Cuba" sAh! |
know what you want you want to annex
Canady and git Cuba, then, when there
comes another draft, we poor divils will
have no place to go to. I'll not do it."
Walter Jaquith, aged about 10 years,
son of Isaac Jaquith, of Fitchburg, was
drowned in the river at that place on Fri
day.
1t is proposed by the various railroads
which enter the city ofAnnapolis to build
union stock yard in that place.
The Ontario Legislature has voted S24,-
900 to encourage immigration.
Old shoes are ground up and made in.
to buttons, handles, combs, &c.
Many man has combed his elegant whisk-
ers with what was once part of boot.
The Perry Mill, at Newport, was dam
aged by fire to the amount of $1,000 on
Thursday.
= President McCosh has abolished 'haz-
ing and ranking at Princeton College, by
threatening to expel and hand over to the
3 civil authorities certain students who not
5 long ago injured freshman by the pleas
5 ant pastime of 'hazing.' 'Raking' is the
S publication of anonymous ISLANDERS against
. students by other students, which has long
' prevailed in Princeton College.
, Patrick Nulty, So years of age, was
! found dead at his residence in Taunton, on
Saturday, few minutes after he return.
,, ed from church. Heart disease is the
cause assigned.
4 The days ofbig dividends from manu-.
o featuring stocks have passed away for the
a present. Three and four per cent. semi.
. annually appears small after the tens and
G twentes of war times.
$ Wealthy citizens sign petitions to the
/, City Council in behalf Of all sorts Of i'm
e provements, and before the ink is dry be.
rate the officials for extravaganza.
! 1t is nearly two weeks since any of oul
+. American exchanges have had word tt
say about Lord or Lady Byron.
The letter carriers have reached thei
n harvest season. They deserve the testi
n monials they are receiving, for Uncle San
S only allows them small salaries.
>. The venerable DR.. Pond, Professor
Bangor, will be relieved of his duties il
:. the Seminary at the close of the present
4 school year. He is in his seventy eight
d year, and his increasing deafness makes i
n difficult to conduct class exercises. TIL
i present number of students at the Semin.
airy is forty.
Napoleon's state dinners cost 5000
apiece, which is $50 plate
San Francisco has received S6,677,l7;
J less gold and silver this year than last.
/. A curious phenomenon has lately beel
IS observed in Germany Some weeks agt
= an opening was observed in the earth OF
d a chain ofhills near Mergentheim. II ha
:. gradually increased in extent, assumin,
Il the form of a long assure, about Ave fee
/. in breadth with perpendicular sides, ant
d of great depth, estimated at four hun
, dred feet.
d Berlin correspondents friendly to Bis
d marck admit that the reports about tn
o recent severe illness ofthe Chancellor o
n the North German Confederation wer
t. solely got up in order to throw the Frencl
IS diplomats off their guard
> POLIrIcAL--lt is understood that tn
4 Senate Committee on Foreign Relation
4 will at IN early day report bill raisin,
the mission to China to one of the frs
class.
4, The National Executive Committee o
t.. Colored Men are about to establish a pa
per ip Washington to represent the polit
ical aud industrial interests of the race.
In an interview with the President OIL
- Wednesday, Gov. Flanders of Washington
, Territory effectually disposed of tn
;. charges made against his Republicanism
. and which had determined the Presiden
= to make change in the officers of tn
= = Territory. His removal is not likely there
- fore, unless better substantiated reason
- - can be assigned.
l. PoLITIcAL. Gen. James l.. Alcorn
ii recently elected Governor of Mississippi