The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1871-05-09

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finally having dropped her into a m%ysteri-
Gus vault inhabited by a band of burglars,
she informs her trembling and terror
stricken readers that "Sybil's further ad.
ventures will be related in the sequel to
this work, to be Immediately published
under the title of Tried for her Life"
$50 the poor girl is doomed to rise from
the grave Of the Dubarry's," only to en-
counter new troubles, more dire that she
has yet experienced. We regret it. 1t
seems to us as if she had reached a place
where it is eminently safe and proper to
leave her.
A man in New York gave a woman his
note for $4,000 to marry him. She did so
but he got possession Of the document and
refuses to pay. She has sued to recover,
but it is doubtful if she can.
A villainous looking customer was
found concealed in the residence ofJudge
Bross of Cairo, H., under the Judges
bed a few nights since. The Judge had
several times seotenced the rascal to SER
vice on the chain gang, and he was evil
IDENTIFY seeking revenge.
An lndina schoolmaster lifted a boy by
the ear. That reminded the boy O some-
thing he had in his pocket. 1t was a
knife. which, being of no use in his pocket
he stuck it into the schoolmaster's left
side. The schoolmaster's heart was so
much effected by the cutting reminder
that he At once gave ear to that boy, and
has never lifted any little boys since.
The Chicago TriJune says that it en-
t~ertains no doubt that had Gen. Sherman's
terms with Johnston been carried out, and
the States rcadmitted with their rebel or
CARNATIONS, and on the basis of their
white vote only, slavery would have been
restored, and the elements of disunion be-
tween the South and the North would
have been stronger than ever.
Two sisters in Ohio have taken to
blacksmithing and horse-shoeing as a light
feminine employment. To numerous over
lures of partnership from the SWANS Of
the vicinity they reply, mot forge joe"
preferring to conduct the shooting business
solely for their own behoof. They are
said to shoe a horse lust like a man y
which must be rather uncomfortable for
the horse.
On the first ballot every one of the
twenty-four members of the Grand Jury,
in Chicago, voted against indicting Per.
cy A. Leonard for the killing Of DR.
Scanland, his brother-in-law. All the
witnesses brought before the Coroner's
Jury were examined, and about the sam
evidence was adduccd as at the inquest
The jurors agreed in the opinion thaI
Leonard acted in selC.detensc.
Three little girls who had very care.
fully buried in a garden in Portsmouth
N. H., the dead body of a pet bird, aftel
consultation, sent one of their number in
to the house to inquire "if people didn'
sing at funerals" On being told tina
they did, the messenger ran back, and il
a few minutes the three were seen stand
ing hand in hand around the little noun
gravely singing q" Shoe fly, don't bodde
me-"
The coming political campaign in Obi,
is to be an eventful and important one
Hamilton County will be the chief battle
ground, as, which ever party carries tina
will probably control the Legislature, ant
elect its candidate for Senator in place o
Mr.. Sherman. The Democratic contes
for the nomination for Governor nov
seems to between Ewing and McCook TIN
chances iavoring McCook, with Valland
igham in the background for Senator.
A trapeze, at the ceiling of the Alham
bra Theatre, in San Francisco, gave wa,
, on the evening of April %, while 'Youn
America and Arthur Hernandez wer
8 performing upon it, and the two acrobat
/, fell to the floor. The former escape
without injury. Hernandez struck on tn
| piano in the orchestra, and sprained on
:. Of his ankles and received several sligh
bruises on the body. The accident wa
: caused by n defective splice in one of tn
t ropes.
| A Washington correspondent in HI
"reminiscences Of Provost Paradol, tn
late French Minister to this country
mentions that when Paradol was gradual
. ed at college, his address was on suicid,
which he defended on the grounds bel
g by the ancient Stoics.
The British census enumerators hav
discovered that the most unblushing lial
o are the female cooks. Mistresses an
t maids may be depended on to tell tn
@ truth, but cooks make nothing of return
i ing themselves ten or a dozen years lie,
g than their real age.
A Methodist clergyman was latel
e asked to conclude the exercises of a Sal
r bath school anniversary in New Yor
: city by a few remarks. 1t was alread
It after 8 P. NJ, and the speaker began b
asking the children whether they woul
rather go home or stay and hear HI
i speech. "Those who wish to 60 HON
d say "aye," quoth he, when to his aston
o ishment nearly all of the two hundre
o and fifty children united in a chorus {
G "ayes" easily heard a block away. TIL
d speaker blushed and covered his retrea
with the benediction.
"A sad accident occurred at Mort
Hero on the 9th ult. An old gentl,
= man named James Tassie attempted to 8
!, in a small sail boat from the Court IIous
u to the north end of the island, He ST
n out between the hours of three and fou
=" the wind blowing hard from the south
the time, and shortly after he started il
creased to a gale. He was alone, au
ii when sailing neal the Carrying Place Il
IN boat capsized, and he was drowned. NJ
Or Tassie was a Scotchman who had lived