The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1870-07-19


The San Francisco Bulletin says that
the opening of the direct steam communi.
cation with Austria has turned a tide of
immigration to California from the former
country,
A man in Albany bought an acre Of
land three years ago for $50, and during
the present season has nettcd $500 for
strawberries raised on it.
A sun-struck pig is the latest zoologi.
cal sensation. Mr.. Featherly of Lanes.
boro, Mass, has an animal thus afflicted
which seemed likely to die, but on open.
ing the skin on the forehead about thre,
inches, and filling the wound with salt
the incipient porker was saved for anoth.
er fate.
A Chicago paper warns its readers
against a repulsive looking organ-grind.
er worth $4,000. Send him West By
all means.
A boat club Of young ladies has been
formed in Detroit, Mich, and they PC
out and row upon the river twice each
week, and are being trained by one ofthe
leading boating citizens.
An eagle was lately shot near Auburn
N. Y, which measured twelve feet from
tip to tip of his outspread wings. Wher
discovered he was perched on a fence
intently watching a small boy picking
Strawberries.
Two Iowa small boys of tender year,
lately started on a campaign against the
Sioux, armed with u little brass pistoI
and a bow and arrow. They were cap.
tured four miles from home and returned
to the maternal castigation.
The editor of The Southern Church,
ma makes the following extraordinary
threat to the Ritualists For it is eyi.
dent if some of us are going to use the
copes, and others OF us nothing but sur.
plices, others of us will discard the use d
all garments 1rhaterer ;"
A Wisconsin paper claims that the wa
ter of the artesian wells in the town Of
Sparta is so charged with electricity tina
telegraph wires inserted IN it need NJ
other battery.
Woodcocks are beginning to BE- seer
in the Connecticut markets, and it is
said the supply will he abundant this sea.
son.
Two hounds in Middletown, Del re.
Gently took after a fox for their muse.
ment, and after a long chase run the pool
fellow down, and killed him then, lyine
down on a railroad to rest, were run ovcl
and killed in their turn.
A case of female daring is related o
a Virginia belle, who rode to the edge o.
a precipicc and de6ed any man of tn,
party with whom she was riding to follow
her. Not a man accepted the challenge
but a tantalizing youth stood on his heac
in his saddle and dared the lady to dc
that.
One Dor Juan Foster has a rancho il
Los Angeles and Diego counties, Califor
MIA containing 800 square miles. He cal
rue tWenty-seVcn miles III a straight llnt
without leaving his own land. So says ;
California paper.
The Ludlow money diggers were as
sured before they began work tina
there was one hundred and fifty mil
lions of treasure in buckskin sacks, anC
only about four feet from the surface
They dug down nine feet and have no
found it yet
The Grand Duke of Me~cklenburg
Schwerin, who is now travelling in Italy
barely escaped being captured by a gang
of bandits in the cnvirons of Naples. He
had only a single aid-de.camp with him
and, in running for his life. lost, his hat
and walking cane. Two bullets, which
the bandits sent after the two gentlemen
did not take effect.
An Irish girl, who plumed herself on.
being employed in genteel family
was asked a definition Of the term
Where they have two or three kinds o.
wine and the gentlemen swear" was tn,
reply.
DfMoRfsT's MoNTHIy.-It would b,
hard to conceive Of better magazine thar
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