The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1870-08-23

A Texas grocery has Knew Sydcr Fur
Sail
New York has hospital for -un-struck
patients.
The Cincinnati Health Office reports
SOB deaths in July.
There were life insurance companies
in China three thousand years ago.
Worcester, Mass, has population of
10000, and Salem has "a 900.
The Pleasantest Tax-Liic Insurance.
The Company--the Washington Life Of
New York.
In the thirty-one days ending July %,
the New York corners held 442 inquests.
An apothecary in an Eastern town has
written over his door, "All kinds of dying
stuffs for sale here"
The Orleans Princes some weeks ago
volunteered to join the army and fight
for their native land Emperor seems to
be unwilling to accept any volunteers of
the Orleans family 1t strikes us from
the appearance Of things that if the Count
De Paris and Duke De Chartres should
start from England to join the French
forces, there might be chances to meet
the Emperor and Imperial firmly at Cal.
ais or Dover.
The Tribune has the following adver-
tisement "Lost. Stolen or Mislaid, q
French Prince, ii years Of age, of tran
quill temperament, wears red trowsers, and
carries bullet in his pocket. Was last
seen going home from baptism of fire.
Is supposed at Paris to be at Metz, is
supposed at Metz to be in Paris is sup.
posed at other places to be in London
Any information concerning him will be
received with the greatest Indifference by
the Corps Lcgislatif."
Troy, Aug. 10, 1870.
Last evening as Commodore Wander
bilt was about entering his room at Con-
gress Hall, Saratoga,he fell in an apoplec.
tic fit. He was Immediately carried to
his room, and medical aid summoned
Two physians from this city have gone up.
No one is allowed to see Mr. Vanderbilt,
and the physicians are constantly at his
bedside. Every effort is being made to
keep the affair quiet, and to hush it up.
1t is supposed that the excitement of the
races brought on the attack, and from all
appearances the Commodore lies in very
precarious condition. His family have
hmm cnrnu,o,aJ 10 IL, boJo,lo
A correspondent of the Baltimore A..
merican, writing from Kissengen, says
that there are many Americans in that
town who cannot get out of It. Many
Germans are there who claim to be Amer
lean citizens, and passports are in great
demand. The correspondent has an old
insurance policy which answers every
purpose, its beautiful engraving and pre-
tentious size never failing to secure a safe
transit.
In recent excavation Of cellars, a
Bostonian has dug up quite number Of
tombstones bearing record of the early
settlers. Among the most interesting is
one of "John Alden, Senator. aged rs
deceased March IA, 1701." 1t is be-
lieved that this was the son of the Johr
Alden and Priscilla, immortalized in the
"Courtship of Miles Standish." These
tombstones will be carefully preserved
undefaced, and placed among the Other
stones Of the building that is to be erect
ed. Thus antiquarian reverence and
practical usefulness will be subserved.
Indiana boasts of farmers daughter
who reads, writes, and speaks readily
seven different languages,
A young man, recently married, al
Beloit, Wis, made rag carpet for bis
parlor sixty yards in length.
Gen. Foster of Indianapolis was recent
ly made the recipient Of ham upol
which there we're charges amounting t.
50.
Some one has made the estimates tina
there are twelve deaths from coal oil eac
day in the United States.
f AS cheap and plenty as peaches ar
said to be in New York and elsewhere
8 very poor ones are sold ON the street
1 in Bosten for ten and fifteen cents pc
o dozen.
= A beet sugar factory at Alvarado, Cal
8 will begin operation in September. 1t
r expected to use fifty tons of beets day
J, and produce from them eight per cent. {
:, sugar-say 5000 pounds.
The receipts Of wheat in Milwauki
= last week we're 360,703 bushels, againl
: 1854 ,OsS bushels the preceding week, an
: l23,826 bushels for the correspondent
. week of last year.
|. The Chicago Post says: These Oh
:, nese are funny Arising is not choi
!. leader, as might be inferred; but he h,
}. hog named Xii One of the superb
f tendents of the Celestial shoemakers
!. North America is Eating. Why don
o he take Lo-Fing and SLEEPING for par
l. ners, and start hotel ?"
= The London Times thinks that II
n English people are very slow and patien
q from the fact that eighteen years hay
% elapsed since the death of the Duke (
r. Wellington, and yet no monument h;
n been erected to his memory, notwitl
v standing the sum Of twenty thousan
!. pounds was appropriated for the purpos
q four years after his death.
a Bayard Taylor complains that Il
D. finest scenery on the Pacific railroad
l. detaced by the advertisements of quack
!" "At the Sherman Summit, along Gree
&c River, in Ech and Weker canons, in Il
Humboldt Palisades, wherever there a
- noble masses of rocks, you find the
, painted with the unclean shibboleth
y, y the quack." Travellers will agree wi
him that the signs should be obliterat'
OF and their renewal prevented.