The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-12-01
NEWS ITEMS


Counterfeit money is said to be plenty
in Missouri.
Apples arc worth fifty cents apiece in
Montana.
The Illinois State Peniteutiary now
houses ,30s convict9
William Shakespeare has been elected
to the Delaware Legislature.
An appeal for aid has come to Boston
from Tuscumbia, Alabama.
Thirteen salary grabbcrs have been
elected to tho next Congress
An Iowa man has 1880 bushels of
ouions. They are in tiers.
A frog in tho interior Of a growing
turnip is agitating Salt LIKE City.
The losses by the fire at Albany, Tues.
day night, aggregate Gljl, eco.
The people Of Salem think they were
shocked by an earthquake one day last week.
Virginia sends eight Democrats aud
one Republican to Congress.
The Indian appropriation Will be re.
duced this year n quarter of million dollars.
Sixty.six men named johnson voted in
Red Wing, MINI, on election day.
Rochester. n Y, will have to pay
So 900, 600 for her new water works
The Republicans were victoriou, at tho
city election an Dover, n H., Tuesday.
a $4,000 grist mill and elevator
were burned at Albany, y. y, last night
No liquor can be sold now ia Oregon
On election days. So says the Legislature.
Montana has leased all all it convicts
Cor five years to come at 80 cents per cap. day.
The late Georgia State Fair, among
other curiositcs gloricd in a il-pound catfish.
Rev. Russell Ncvins Of Troy, an cpis.
copalian has gone over to the Roman Catholic
faith.
the Trinity college library, at Dublin,
Irelnnd has lost its manuscript Of 1t. Columkilrs
- Book Of Kills." valued at $4,000.
Indiana has no asylum for her ncura.
bly, insane, and about 700 of that class are con-
fined in her various jails
One hundred and fifty men with nei.
ther shoe to their feet coat their backs,
is a report from the Missouri pententiary.
The central chandelier in the new Par.
is Opera House is to cost $50 600. The building
is found to have bad echoes
Ralph Waldo Emerson will write the
inscription for the Lexington monument aud de-
liver the address at its dedication.
New York liquor dealers are aston
ished at the first conviction in twenty-five years
in that city for violation OF the license law
Seven persons by tho name Of Williams
will strive to catch the Speakers eye in the new
Congress.
The Catholic priests Of Chicago are
l
ton. Chicago needs il.
In 1922 Boston had three semi weekly
newspapers and meny people impro,ised daily
by taking all of them.
A schooner went ashore ut Port Matt
land, Ontario, Monday night. and four Of the
crew were frozen to death.
A young lady says she longs for fingers
like the prongs Of pitchfork, witt diamond
rings enough to fill them to the ends
The loss OF Fitch.Sherm1n wedding in.
ytations is now attributed t, errors Of address,
removal OF parties, and similar causes.
Il is said that Mr. Sharon, owner of
the present Legislature of Nevada and future
Senator has five million year income.
There is man in Poughkecpsie, y
/ \ 1, who has $500. 600 invested in railrond bonds
which do not return cent of income.
A sou of Burton. the renowned come.
dian, has been found at Florence. Italy, in the
person Of IL poverty stricken and sick young ar
| list.
a root Is supposed to be cavortipg
around in the wd- Of Minnesota. 1t blew of Il
school house month ago and no body has seen it
since.
Philadel phians are fleeing the city Of
brothcrly love to escape heavy taxation, and even
the toctories are moving away To Wilmington
aad Chester.
A young lady is colfued at the Monroe
County Insane Asylum y. Y, a charge to the
county for the past three years, whose husband i
worth $4,000.
The New York liquor dealer who was
convicted Of selling without license has been
sentenced to the city prison iur thirty days, and
fined $500.
The Cologne Gazette is building for
itself 800 miles Of telegraph to Berlin, in ordor
to get full and Immediate report, OF parlamenta-
ry proceeding.
The remains Of mastodon whose aw-
bone was eight feet long were unearthci at Tow
err Wis, the other day, and will he sent to the
state Museum
A police justice, the chief Of detectives
and detective of Richmond, Va, are under ar
rest tar swnding countrymen by tho game OF
r banco.
? A foolish young Englishman, on his
way to Colorado to buy land, gambled away S2i,
UOO in Chicago q few DAYS ago
IhoG as Scott says he Intends, through
the Texas Pacific railway, to make big graf
for government gold at the next session Of Con-
gres,.
Three persons were killed and about
100000 worth Of property destroyed in New
Jersey by Mondays tornado.
A woman living near Humboldt, Mo
accidentally shot her daughter dead few day.
ago, while brandishing pistol in the face OF q
nun who had insulted the girl
What next! A lightweight champ.
ion" pugilist wants to fight another brute Of hi,
kind Tor 81 500 to $500, " tor the beGef
OF any New York charitable institution
The tornado in Tuscumbia, Ala, OIL
Monday killed eleven outright, wounded thirty
and rendered three hundred homeless Tho PEE
cuniary loss is estimated at 100000
There are more kid gloves sold in New
York than in any other city in tho world, glove.
to the value of l0,5OO,UOO being annually
bought by dealers in that cit,
A Placer County (Cal.) imam has just
sold this years crop Of grapes from his vineyard
Of about 200 acres for $50, goo, tho purchaser t,
pay tho expense OF picking and freight.
Harvard College will require ali can
didates for admission in July, 1875, to write
short English composition, correct in spelling
, grammar, punctuation, and expires ion,
a big leak has been discovered in the
D Post Ollce Department, Postmastors have beer
guilty Of extensive speculations, and efforts are
being made ~ secure honest returns.
The Knoxville Chronicle says the pro
a., gramme of the Tennessee Democrats Is 10 elect
Gov. j chm c. Brown to the United states Senate
= ''out Of sheer spite t. Andrew Johnson.
The pumpkins of all pumpkins, tn,
rcnl KIM of the pmnnln-. LIZ. L. ON lIl.eA N