The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1870-06-28
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queen isape III saturday sighed her
abdication to the throne Of Spain, in favor
of her son, the Prince Of Asturias. Mar.
shall Bazine and other dignitaries were
not present. but they had previously wit
messed the will of the Queen, which was
made before the abduction, that it might
have the weight and validity of an act of
a sovereign.
The Spanish Cortes, before its final ad-
iournment, passed bill for the gradual
emancipation of the slaves in the Spanish
colonies, deferring from Senior Morets or
iginal project, in the following respects ::
All slaves over sixty instead of sixty.five
years of age are Immediately liberated !;
the guardianship held by their former
masters over slaves, born since 1868,
ceases on proof of abuse or castigation
on the the part of the masters, or upon
the marrge of the slave; children under
fourteen years of age are to 90 with their
mothers.
Married couples shall not be separated
and punishment by the lash or azote is
also entirely prohibited. Provision will
be made by supplementary legislation to
meet such cases as may neither be cover.
ed by this bill nor left to the discretion of
the government.
Gov. Stevenson, Of Kentucky, has pub
lished card in which he saws that he
will not fight duel, that for more than
twenty years he has been professor of
the Christian religion, that he is now
chief Magistrate of the state, and that
nothing can induce him to stab Christian.
ity or trample upon the majesty of the
public laws which he is sworn TO uphold.
The total number of water taker, in
Boston at present is 81 500.
Boston has laid one hundred and sixty.
nine miles of main water pipe east of the
Brookline Reservoir, since the establish.
ment of the water works.
A poor woman in Utica, who owns
three houses and is building another,
sends her children into the streets daily
to beg.
Immediately after the propagation OF
the Massachusetts, Senate. the members
assembled in the open circle in front Of
the Presidents chair, and, joining hands,
all united in singing "Auld Lang Syne.
The amount of money which can be
saved yearly in every family, by buying
Silver or Copper Tipped Shoes for child.
rem, will surprise any one who has not tried
it, The rand increase in the sale of first
elias metal Tipped Boots and Shoes, shows
that parents have made up their minds to
lesson their shoe bill, and at the same
time avoid the disagreeable sight of rag
ged stockings add protruding toes, always
seen when shoes are not protected by
Metal Tips.-N. Y Post.
Delicious fresh salmon sell for five
cents pound at St. Johns, y F.
A pair of Cincinnati clippers walked
twelve miles the other night after clergy.
man.
The planet Satun, with its marvellous
assemblage of rings and satellites, is now
conspicuous object in the evening skies,
and will remain so during the summer
months 1t rises now about sunset, an
arrives on the meridian little before
midnight. Its place is in the zodiacal
constellation, Sagittarius.
Miss Given Evans, Welsh woman,
about month ago, after taking out ma.
turalization papers in Montana, pre-empt.
ed 100 acres of public land, then built a
house, and went to work improving her
farm, and now has COW. yoke of oxen,
and all the farming tools generally used
by pioneers. Her land is in Deer Lodge
Valley, and some day the Northern Paci.
dc Railroad will run close to it, making it
quite little fortune.
Capt. c. s. Bell the famous Union
scout, is not dead, as reported in Texas
paper few days since. He seems bullet
proof as we'll against the Rio Grande
smugglers and Texas Ku.Klux as during
the war