The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1870-02-08


Mr.. Dalrymple, the great farmer of
Minnesota, is said to have made $3.50, 900
clear gain in three years Of farming.
The President, Wednesday, signed the
bill for the admission of Virginia to rep.
resentation in Congress.
The King of Portugal was recently
slapped in the face in Spanish theater
by lady whom he had rudely pushed.
A Chicago paper says of an attempted
burglary; The thieves became alarmed
and quietly departed, firing shot from
revolver"
The manned organ grinders have dis
appeared from the street corners in New
York, and the original italian dispensers
OF hand organ music have their own again.
The walls of Constantinoplc completed
fifteen centuries ago by the Emperor The
odosius, are to be pulled down and their
stones employed in various municipal i'm
provements.
When tenant in New Orleans gets
obnoxious to the landlord the roof is found
to be badly ailing, and taken off to be re-
paired. The tenant doesn't generally stay
till the roof gets back.
A friend sat up with sick man at Fon
du Lac the other night, to whom he was
to administer brandy at brief intervals.
The friend took the brandy himself, and
the sick man recovered.
The Fifteenth Amendment to the Con-
stituton was reported in the New Jersey
Legislature Wednesday, and will be taken
up for discussion on Tuesday next.
The Oterbein University at Westervillc,
n. Y, was burned Wednesday morning.
Loss s35, 900; insured for 10000. The
institution was under the auspices of the
United Brethren.
A nephew of the wealthiest United
States Senator died in Kansas City, Mo-,
the other day, a pauper. Rum brought
him so low that he would lounge about
bar rooms and almost beg for drinks.
The celebrated Harison-V reeaud
breach Of promise suit in New York has
been settled. Mrs. Harrison who origin.
ally claimed 100000, has accepted S2250
and given up her case.
The trigonemetrical survey of England
and Wales, on the scale of one inch to the
mile, was completed during the first week
in January. 1t was commenced in the
year 1871.
The Alton Telegraph says that Mr.
Isaac V. Brown, of Monticello, had 300
bushels of blackberries from his planta-
ton of less than two acres; one-half Of
the plants have been set but two years.
A Young man named Nichols, arrest
ed al Buffalo, n. Y, on suspicion of hav-
ing been the murderer of Dr. Mead at
Allegheny few weeks ago, has made con
!ession of his crime.
A French imposter who obtained freq
admission to sundry theaters in Paris by
sending to the managers for them, in the
name of prominent actors engaged at
other houses, has just been sentenced to
two months imprisonment.
The Lord High Chamberlain of the
King of the Sandwich islands is an Irish
man. When the Duke of Edinburgh re-
Gently visited the King, the lrishman dis
gusted the English Prince by appearing
at the head of the stairs in full state robes,
shouting; walk up come right up
the Kings at home
Captain SMITH, once an officer in til,
rebel navy, was killed by an Indian at
Fort Wrangle, Alaska, Dec. -. On re-
tuaal to give up the murderer the COM
mandcr of the fort shelled the village Of
the Indians and killed two of them.
The culprit was given up, and after con-
demnation by Court Martial was hanged
ONE OF PRENrIcE's HIrs.-They now
have in New York Fat Mans Associa-
ton, and Lean Mans Association, and
Baldheaded Association. An attempt
was made the other day to start Damphool
Association, but it was found that the
other associations had absorbed all the
material.
\ Glens Falls paper relates the sad
story Of Il proud, ambitious young law
student endeavoring to acquire sufficient
knowledge of the law to be admitted,
meanwhile starving his body on salary
of SO week received for copying papers
in judges office, the latter allowing the
student the use Of his library. The poor
fellow was recently sent to a lunatic asy-
lum, body and mind having become COM
plete wrecks.
\ Washington dispatch says Mr.. Cor
bin has sent letters to the Currency Com
mittce of Congress, explaining his failure
to comply with their summons to appear
III the gold case, and alleging a chronic
ailment as the reason The letters were
read Wednesday with mock solcmnity by
the Chairman, and several jokes were in
dulged in at the expense Of the recu>snt
witness.
TnE PoLNGAMY QUEsTIoN.-Mr Gu
lom's bill to abolish polygamy in Utah has
been completed by his committee, and
will bcrcportcd to the House when the COM
mittee isrcgularly y called for reports, II pro-
vidcS that the President shall enforce is
terms by the use of troops if necessary,
and the calling out of twenty-five thousand
volunteers among the citizens of Utah
The bill will probably pass the House, and
then the question becomes one of most Sc
riou. interest
George d. Prentice, so long and well
known as editor of the Louisville Jour
nal, died at Louisville, on Saturday, at
the age of 81, He was born in Preston
Conn in 1902 He graduated at Brown