The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1870-02-22

A Zionsville, Ind, shoemaker has lust
come into possession off $22, 900 legacy,
and is making things fly.
The President. Wednesday, sent to the
Senate the nomination of his father, j esse
r. Grant, to be postmaster at Covington,
Ky.
The Internal Revenue receipts from
Central Kansas in January were double
Gen. Negly threatens an attack in the
House on West Point, on the ground that
it is a needless expenditure to the gov
ernment
Several ladies in Albany have lent gar
ments to a stranger, who wanted them
for somebody to cut pattern by, and
did not return them
A man in New Jersey couldn't wait
for the cars to get to the depot, and jump
ed off. His widow has sued the insurance
company.
Josh Billings says: Love is sed tew
be blind but know lots of phellows in
love who kan see twice az much in their
sweethearts az | kan"
A circus rider in Texas tried to turn
three somersauts on horseback the other
day The manager sent back to New
Orleans the following day for another
somersault man.
Virginia papers are calling loudly for
emigrants, and discussing eloquently on
"labor, education and religion" as the
true means of regenerating the Old Do
minion.
Official advices from Mexico show that
the Juarez administration is becoming
very unpopular, and that general revo-
luton is at hand, which may result in the
annexation of the republic.
The Pennsylvania Equal Rights
League proposes a general celebration by
the colored people of that State of the
adoption of the fifteenth amendment, by
day of thanksgiving and prayer.
At Teachers Institute in Ohio, re-
Gently, lady teacher was given the word
hazardous to spell and define and did it
in this style: "H-a-z haz, ard, ard,
hazard, e-double-s, ess, hazardess-a fe-
male hazard"
4 sun dial on one of the forts in Texas
the actual value of which was originally
about SIT, is said to have cost the Gov
ernment $4,000. Gen. McPherson,s
former Adiutant General makes this
statement.
Mr., Joseph Porter died at his residence
in Braintree, Mass ofcongestion the brain
aud lungs, yesterday morning. He was
Postmaster of the House (Legislature)
two years since. He was much beloved
by his many acquaintance. and his lose
will be keenly felt at Braintree.
The friends of the Northern Pacific
Railroad expect to secure the passage OF
bill empowering that company to issue
bonds, secured by mortgage on their
property. to build the road and authoriz-
ing them, where the lands already grant
ed are occupied, to take great outside
equal to the occupied lands.
Gen. Williams, who married Mrs.
Stephen A. Douglass, was rotated by the
recent transfer order from his pleasant
desk in the Adjutant Generals office to
the Pecifc coast. The President has,
, however, modified the order, and Gen.
Williams is ordered to Richmond. while
Major Breck of the sane Office is ordered
to 81. Louis
The Western Republican members Of
t Congress who favor large increase Of
Q legal tender notes are much troubled by
the recent decision of the Supreme Court
: as it is the general opinion that if the
question had actually been before them
the Court would have decided against
/ the constitutionality of the legal trnder
act.