The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1871-01-24


All persons interesteg in the cause of
Education are invited to attend and par
ticipate in the discussions.
There are "A, 900 doctors in the United
States, or one doctor to 5lS inhabitants.
In 1860 there was one doctor to 81 peo-
pie.
"Not nakedness, nor plated hair, nor
dirt, nor fasting or lying on the earth,
not rubbing with dust, not sitting notion
less can purify mortal who has not over
come desires" says the Buddhist parable.
Baez is about fifty years of age and
possesses one-sixteenth negro and about
the same amount Of Carib Indian blood
in his veins. He is married and has sew
eral daughters who are highly educated.
A medical journal estimates that the
people of the United States pay one hun
dred and twenty-five million dollars year
ly for physicians services and for medi-
cines. They spend good deal more
than that for liquors and other things to
make them sick
There are now II Senate bills upon
the table of the House, many of which
are important aud would be passed if
they could be separated from the 90 Land
Grant bills, with which they are overlaid
and interspersed. A majority of the
house, it is said, re uses to touch the pile
on the table, for fear the land jobbers will
succeed in getting through their schemes.
A Washington special says that Mr..
Sargent Of California will introduce at an
early day an Enabling act for Utah, con-
tanning an anti-polygamy restriction as a
condition Of admission II seems most
likely, however, that all propositions look
ing to the admission as States of Colorado,
New Mexico and Utah will be left to the
next Congress to consider.
A meeting of Southern Republican
Representatives has been held to consider
the proposition now pending for nation
al system of common schools. No con-
clusion was reached other than desire
to ask the Republicans from other sec
tions to support such measures as may be
matured by the Southern men, as neces
sity of the situation there, and one of the
best methods of sustaining the Republi.
can party in that section,
Gov Hayes of Ohio has informed the
Legislature that he has not ordered al
election Of Congressman to fill out thu
brief unexpired term Of Gen. Schenck, be
cause he has thought it would be use
less expenditure oftime, money and labor
The colored men of Georgia are to hole
State Convention in Atlanta Feb. |,
and 3. The call urges the negroes t,
send the most intelligent men in thei
counties as delegates, and to furnish then
with all the documentary information
possible relative to the late election, schoo
organizations, labor movements, admins
tration of justice, emigration feeling, &C
QUESTION of property, and the genera
condition Of the colored people.
The Louisville Courier-J ournal Demo
cratic) is very frank in saying; 1.-The in
strumentality through which Radicalisn
attains place and power is Mind, with ;
little assistance from Money. The grea
instrumentality through which Democrat,
attans the same ends is Ignorance
Wherever Radicalism prevails, Their
Learning lifts her classic head, and from
her ambrosal locks scattcrs intellectual
light and loneliness abroad. Whereve
Democracy obtains foothold, there lg
norance erects her shrines and her affairs
before which her blind and ragged votar
les PROSTATE themselves in the dust an
sing pens in her praise.
Peterborough, N. H., calculates it ha
made three thousand two hundred m,
ninety barrels Of cider this season.
The New Hampshire Missionary Socie
ty is contemplating the employment O
young men from various colleges an,
academies to enter upon missionary worl
in those places now lacking ministrations
There is a dog in Sharon, N. II
that has taken forty-fve coons the pas
fall, and has also killed several that tn
hunters were unable to find. OF these
one weighed twenty-seven pounds, an
six or seven others over twenty pound
each.
A few days since two little children o
James b. Palmer of Durham, N. II
were horribly burned, in the absence @
their mother, who found the girl, fou
years old, with her clothes completed
consumed, and the boy, two years ole
with the back of his clothing burned of
The eldest died in twelve hours, and tn
youngers recovery is in doubt.
A lawyer at Terre Haate lately wei
to an editors Office to cane him. Th
doctors have dug three bullets out Of b
frame and say there is another one the
can't find, which will probably kill hin
The New York Observer Annual ft
1871 is quite large volume and full {
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