The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1871-08-01

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IF you would not have affection visit
you twice, listen at once to what it teaches.
Chief Justice Thompson of Pcnnsyva-
MIA is spoken of as Democratic candi-
date for President.
Those who know the world will not be
bashfu, and those who know themselves
will never be impudent
Mr.. Hampton, the celebrated acronaut,
who has been the English eagle for more
than thirty years, has just died
A colorcd jury at Brandon, Texas, re-
Gently sentenced another coorcd man to
abe hung by the head until he gets dead"
A recent live stock census of Great
Britain shows Q, 1886 ,052 cattle ola ages
and occupations, 32,7S7,7S3 sheep and
lambs and 3,950,73O pigs.
All accounts from California are very
favorable to the Republicans, as they are
united, while the Democracy are getting
dissatisfied with Gov. Haight.
The Sandwich Islanders are immense.
y pleased with the new postage stamps
introduced into the islands, and buy them
in large quantities to use as charms.
Pomcroy's Democrat says that the pub
lication Of the late message of Mayor
Hall and accompanying reports, single
item only, will cost the city over $780,
900,
The fashions all come from Berlin this
year, and as they are very practical,
sensible people, we may look forward to
styles that are pretty ~ well as comlor-
table.
The horn of a Patagonion OK has been
forwarded to Baltimore. 1t is sixty-fye
inches long, seventeen inches in circum-
ference at the base, and will hold seven
quarts.
Hail storms are a pretty, but expensive
luxury, the last one at Red Oak, l., be-
ing worth 100000 on the debtor side to
the farmers there, within radius Of less
than three miles,
An English Court has decided that
contributions voluntarily sent to news.
paper are like an ordinary letter, and
cease to be the writer's property when
they leave his hands.
Dr. Bliss of Washington has startled
the whole country by statement deduced
from inquiries made that there are one
hundred thousand cases Of cancer annu.
ally in this country, the deaths from
which arc ono hundred per week
The Opelika (Ala.) Locomotire refuses
to hitch on to the New Departure, und
proclaims its platform as follows "Frst,
A cordial, habtual, and eternal distrust
of the General Government. Sccoad, An
ineradicablc, inexpugnable conviction
that these States are, and of right ought
to be, free, sovereign, and independent"
The Ohio county Democrats in Indi-
ana recently adopted three resolutions
condemnatory of the "new departure" OF
which the last and shortest will answer,
viz:
"ReSolrcd, That when we descend so
low as to barter our principles, to partake
of the loaves and fishes, we will be, and
ought to be, damned
Hon. Samuel Wiliston has given $50
600 to Amherst College. The question
Of admitting women as students came up
for discussion before the Corporation and
was referred to committee consisting of
President Stcarns, Henry Ward Beecher.
and Rev VI. Paine of Holden, who will
report in October. 1t is said that two
women have already applied ofadmission.
Thomas Hughes, NJ. P, recently en-.
tertained the Americans in London at
his residence, where they all had very
hearty and happy time. DR.. Palfrey was
historical and Henry Wilson was sena.
torial, but neither of them succeeded in
suppressing the interest of the occasion.
and the company actually laughed when
the latter referred to the treaty as some.
thing that senators were not permitted to
talk about.
LYNCH LAW IN ILLINOIS. Nearly a
thousand persons of Watseka, ILL.,, and
the surrounding country, including men,
women and children, proceeded to the
Jail on Thursday night, July 9th, and
took therefrom Martin Mera, who brutal
y murdered his son, ten years old, and
after giving him twenty minutes to pray,
rope was placed around his neck thrown
over limb of tree, and hundreds Of
ready hands hauled him up and held him
till he was dead.
The leader Of the merciles party was
DR.. Daniel Of Gilmon, and he and his
abettors claim that Mera could only have
been convicted of manslaughter, and for
that reason they were justified in put
ting the arch-fend beyond the reach of
mercy.
A German who had not paid much at.
tcntion to learning English, had horse
stolen from his barn the other night,
whereupon he advertised as follows;
"Von mite, de oder day, ven vas bin
awake in my sleep, hear something vat
links not yust right in my barn, and
yust out shumps to bed and runs NIT de
barn out and ven | vas dare COON, |
seez dat my pig gray iron mare, he vas
ben tied loose and run nit dc stable of
and ever who will him back bring, l yust
so much pay him as vat bin customary
The most singular arms which the Jap.
ancse employ in the battlefield is the war
fan. This is a paper fan of a larger size
than usual, the sheaths Of which are made
Of iron, so that if, fatigued by violent
personal encounter, a warrior sits down
for moment to rest and cool himself,
and is Unexpectedly attacked, he immedi
ately hits his enemy over the head with
his fan. The pattern on the fan is the
national emblem, red sun on the back
ground-but the process of tanning ones
self with an iron fan cannot be cooling
WORTH KNowING.-Few of the unini-
tiated know the significance of wearing