The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1871-06-06

"TnE AMERICAN PUBLISHING CoMpA.
Ny"-As far as we have been able to
learn, the following is a complete list of
the persons composing this Company :
Prof. James II. Lansley.
This firm is better known to the news
papers of the United States as The
dead man found in Poultney'
All letters now addressed to this Com
pany' are by order of the Post Office
Department, sent to the Dead Letter
Office, on the ground, we suppose, that
the 'institution' is regarded as a swinde."
-Rnuand independent.
AMERICAN SUNDAY School WoRKER.-
The June number Of this Magazine, pub
lished by j. w. Nc Intyre, St. Louis,
No., contains its usual variety and value.
1t is designed to be adapted to all sec.
tons and all evangelical denominations,
and consequently is constantly gaining
friends and subscribers, The Lesson
Papers published for the Scholars, will
very greatly add to the interest and
profit Of any School that introduces them.
Specimens on application to the Publisher
The Mobile Register dcvotes an article
to the matters with which Ruloff passed
the waking hours of his last night on
earth, including the "magic square, or
the arrangement of figures in such a way
that the total shall be the same, whether
they are counted horizontally, vertically
or diagonally; and it announces, in
positive way, as its custom is on all occa-
sions and all subjects, that the conditions
obviously require an odd square mum.
ber.' AS the two totals which Ruloff
hit upon were fifteen and thirty -four, the
Registers rule obviously" does not hold
The following is the full ticket nomina.
ted the Ohio Democratic State Conven-
ton: Governor, Col. George W. Nc.
Cook; Lieutenant-Governor S. +. Hunt.
of Hamilton Attorney General, Wal
lace, Of Clark Auditor, j. II. Lockrel
of Adams; Treasurer. DR.. Bruchl, of
Hamilton; Supreme Judge, G. W.
Geddes, Of Richland Member of the
Board of Public Works, Arthur Hughes,
of Cuyahoga.
a fire-damp explosion occurred in the
mine of G. S. Repplicr &Co., at Locust
Run, near Ashland, Penn, yesterday
morning, resulting in the death of Ben
jamin Lowell, and severe injury to four
or others, several of whom are not expect.
cd to live. Another fire.damp explosion
in the Buckley Mines, at NIinersvile,
Penn, yesterday killed Edward Boyle
and Michael Camford, and seriously in
jured another person.
"Now, my friends, having already said
more than intended, it only remains for
me to say how happy am to see the ev-
licences Of prosperity that now surround
you, | rejoice in these evidences of as
siduous, earnest labor in things material,
because there is little in this that for.
eign Government can interfere with"
Thus spoke Jefferson Davis to the people
of Atlanta, Ca, on the 9th of May.
By "foreign Government" did he mean
the Government of the United States.
William r. Scott, one of the two in.
fatuated young lovers who took poison
together in Lawrence, Mass, has until
recently lived in Worcester, having come
thither from Milford, where his parents
reside. The Spy says he is young man
of prepossissng appearance, steady and
industrious in his habits, and strongly
liked by his acquaintance. Loving and
affectionate in disposition, the two were
led to the rash act Of selfpoisoning by
the purest love for and attachment to
each other.
Reports from all parts of Nebraska en-
able the Omaha T'riJune of the 30th ult.
to say that there was never, in the histo.
ny Of the State, a better prospect of an
abundant harvest than now. The small
or grains especially are looking well, and
corrfis "fairly Jumping" during the warm
days Of alternate sunshine and shower
A Southern Democratic paper of some
sagacity thinks that if Northern Demo-
Gratis are going, for the sake of individu.
al Success to indorsc all the radicals have
done, and to come on their platform for
the sake of getting Northern votes, it
might be better for the Southern Demo-
Gratis to make their bargains with the
Radicals themselves, and obtain all the
benefits to be derived therefrom.
Col. George W. MacCooks friends in
Ohio assert that he will be nominated as
candidate for Governor in the Democrat
ic Convention on the first ballot. Since
Vallandigham's "new departure" how
ever, finds much favor Mr., Groesbeck is
more frequently mentioned, and Gen.
Samuel +, Cary is also presented.
A West Virginia man has published
an advertisement in the only paper in his
town which reads "If the lady (?) who
has been using my coal for the past few
) months will please call upon the next
neighbor for her future supply, she will
much obligc, as my stock is about ex-
hausted,
RAILROAD RIor.-S Paul, Mimi.
: June, 3. A serious riot is in progress
/ on the North Pacific Railroad, II miles
east of Bracuara. A number of laborers
struck for higher wages, which being re-
fused they became riotous, Troops
have been sent from Fort Ripley,
| TIE RESULT OF A LIBEL SUIT.-W. G.
Finney, who behaved rather strangely
with a lady friend in Washington, and was
shownup in newspaper, sued the propri.
etor thereof for libel, and the jury found
verdict for the defendant.
The question, Does getting drunk
ever advance ones happiness would
seem to be put to rest by the freshman
who went counting when drunk, and was
asked what pleasure he found in whiskey
"Oh, Biddy, it's a trate intirely two see
two of your swate purity faces instead OF
one.