The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1870-07-26


Pine.
The first collored persons on record Is
Joseph Scoat Of many colors.
Four letters, each wa, ranted to be the
very last one that Dickens wrote, have
already been published.
A Southern editor is disguised with hu.
man nature. He says that you may in
sert q thousand things in u newspaper and
never hear a word of appreciation from
the readers, but just let a paragraph slip
in that is not suited to their taste, and
you will be sure to hear of it before the
paper has been out for a day. !
Won Moltke, the Prussian chief OF staff
is as noted for taciturnity as for his stra-
tegic skill. In Europe he is known as
/" the man who is silent in six langua-
ges."
The Houses of Oppenheimer aud Mil
Ter, in Baltimore, have a feud on their
hands compared with which that of the
Capulets and Montagues fades into insig-
nifcance. Each and every member ofthe
families down to the infant in arms, are
being frequently hauled before the mag.
%istrate o. cross complaints of assault and
battery.
A negro poet in Kentucky has written
an epic Of two thousand verses on the re-
bellion. and is travelling about singing
parts of it to procure money wherewith to
publish it complete.
The first colored Juror was summoned
on Tuesday last, to serve at Quincy, LII.
When he made his appearance in court
FIVE jurors, already sworn in, jumped out
of the box and fed.
A yonng man who persisted in counting
the daughter of a churchman in Cincinna.
ii after having received notice not to do
+ so was soundly thrashed by the indidnant
father the other day. Result The faith
2 er is being tried By the council Of the
f church for conduct unbecoming a Chris
: tan.
ettenschleppschipffa is
D the title of the Chain-Towing Navigation
> Company now operating on the Saxon
Elbe, from Bohemia to the Prussian Dor.
e de-s.
!, Phoebe City, Utah, has but one spring,
:, and that dries mp every summer, so that
water sells for ten cents a gallon.
At Chilicothe, In, the children sit in
+ the gass works and inhale the fumes as u
). cure for whooping cough.
e A Kansas paper, in overhauling the Gu.
reer offs member, asks, What did he do
but howl 2" The congressman has not
yet answered.
A Mrs. David Watts OF knglishman's
River, with the aid Of two boys. caught q
halibut July IL that measured seven feet
y in length
q A Maine paper says the Hon. j. Z.
- Madigan of Houlton has woodbine in his
=. garden the original stock of which wa!
- brought from Virginia by a soldier, who
succeeded in making it grow after carry
ing it three months in his knapsacks.
A French paper asserts that pei
ie cent, of ~lunatics are made so by the
~ employment Of hair dyes. This is evi
'e IDENTIFY q confusion of cause and effect fol
no one who is not already insane woulc
'e use hair dyes.
a. A new valve.slide has been invented BY
a Hudson IN. j. man, which it said. viii
ty greatly increase the power oflocomotiyes
ID 1t will draw an ordinary passenger trail
in at the rate of eighty miles oil hour, ant
save twenty per cent. in fuel.
* Mr.. Bessemer's plan for obviating SCI
y sickness, by means of an oscillating cham
es Der, supported on bearings similar t
ne those of a compass, will be shortly put t
ne a practical test. A chamber of this de
os s~cription is now in course of constructio
'ol in England, and will be fitted to n steam
ne err of about 300 tons.
ed
he A young lady in Coles county, ILL.,, he
o. since spring successfully plowed, plante
Is. and narrowed sixteen acres Of corn o
newly cleared ground.
She Shelburne Falls Methodist churc
a has received 1873 members, and otht
~ churches in the same place have been il
y, creased-the result of Mrs. Van Colt
~ labors,
on The recently pardoned conyicts fro
lie Nep Jersy State Prison, at Trenton, al
of represented by an enthusiastic local
to that city as having left with good cha
acters and cheerful faces.
ler The report that large supplies OF arm
'u and war materials have recently bee
TO shipped to Fort Adams, Newport is d
eo correct. 1t is simply one Of the sens
Ter tional stories in which the New York p
AZ pers take such delight.
on The colored worshippers at one OF Il
led st. Louis churches have had much eau
nat for annoyance during several weeks pas
in On their way home after service they a
the waylaid, and an expression of polite
the opinion demanded, which. in failing to
NJ. Of the proper stamp, brings upon them
In most unmercifhl thrashing.
vas The editor of the Lowell Gazette h
ltii been shown a sample of ancient manuta
"a ture'-a fragment of striped silk said
Va have been brought over in the Mayaowe
vas 1t bears evidence both of antiquity al
lah crudeness of manufacture when compare
vas with silk fabrics of our time.
he
an Senator Morton recently made an el
borate speech at Terre-Haute, upon t
prospects Of the approaching polite
to campaign. He took a cheerful view
his the Republican situation, and predict
ted that the people would indorse Congre'
our He cited the fact that the internal rev
an nue. receipts have increased 100000
for and the customs $4,000, 900 since Gt
7 at Grants Inauguration, over the previo
'ra- sixteen months. Our expenses have be
the lessened s50,000,0 900, the debt reduc
this STAG, OOO. 900, and the taxes reduc
by s6O,O00,0 600. All these things, the &
and ator thinks, will commend the Repub