The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-04-21
NEWS ITEMS.

SG,4j0.GO.
The Legislature of Virginn proposes
to tax marriages
Florida proposes to try her hand at
raising ostriches
The Erie Railway was mortgaged
Thursday for $40 ,OOO, 900.
The man who carries every thing be.
fore him-The waiter
Charleston is busy shipping green peas
and strawberries to New York
The National Democratic headquarters
are to DO removed to Milwaukee.
Archbishop Ledochowski, Of Posen,
Germany, has been dismissed from his See.
How Patrick proposes to get over his
single bessedness-By proposing to Bridge it.
The Democrats trumphed Tuesday in
the municipal election at keenc, n II.
Locomotives set forest fires which did
Sl,OO0,0O0 damage in Now Jersey last year.
Lamps were first lighted in the streets
Of Boston in lT7i--one hundred years ago
A counterfeiter of nickel coin, only II
years Of age, has been arrested in franklin, III.
Galveston is the only town in Texas
Shad arc so plentiful in St. Johns river,
Fla, that the farmers are buying them for ma
nurc.
An explosion in mine at Durkiniied,
Lancashire, England Wednesday. Fifty lives
we're lost
1t is estimated that over O,000 en-
ployees Of the Pennsylvania iron manufacturers
are on a strike.
At Mcars, Mich, church was erected
IN one day short time ago, aud dedicated the
same evening.
A colored man in Augusta, Georgia,
recently made two attempts to commit suicide,
and was fined SO for it,
Since the royal alliance with Russia,
all Russian trophies in England have been re-
moved from the public gaze.
There is n chance for curious reflection
in the fact that diamond recently exhibited in
Boston was worth 5000 barrels of nour.
The charge Of hercsy has been pre-
ierrcd against Prof David Swing, pastor Of the
Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago
The House would not consider reso-
luton Wednesday, looking to the removal Of tho
national capital to some more central point.
Thirteen men were drowned in the
Mississippi, q miles below New Orleans, We'd
nesday, by the capsi2nG Of tow bout
A man named Ross has sued the city
Of Newport Ky, for $50 600, for the death 1T his
son, who was killed in riot in that city.
Council Bluffs, Iowa, assesses ice in
store at 81 per ton, and taxes telegraph lines in
the city SD per mile and 30 cents for each pole
In Cairo, when n member of military
] Ia
that they haven't got any new clothes to 20 to
the funeral in.
The religious sentiment is so active in
New London, Conn, that Il grand ball, for which
extensive arrangement had been made, has beer
given up.
Icelanders are beginning to emgrate tc
this country, and are described as a bright clean
ly, healthy looking class Of people, closely re
sembling the Scotch.
Nevada calls grand gift enterprise
projected there for the purpose Of raising fund
for lunatic asylum the "Insaue Lottery
Something in name, then.
A FIRE at Marbehead, Mass Tuesda,
night, destroyed the dwelling house of Mr.. j
Stewart; his daughter, aged about seventeen
years, was burned to death.
; Cremation, as matter OF economy, i.
u
dertaker in Chicago having figured the expens,
down, thinks he can cremate for - head.
The doctors Of Cleveland, Ohio, hav,
united in public statement that alcohol is rarely
needed as Il medicine and that "the most perlcc
health is compatible with total abstinence"
In Il days the schooner Lizzie Clark
of Gloucester, Mass, made Il trip to the Gran,
Banks, took aboard $3.50 pounds of halibut
worth Si,67G, and got back 10 port all well.
An Iowa railroad employee wrote t.
the supply officer for "sone more of that red oil
not knowing that the color of the lantern glob
had something to do with the shade of light i
threw out.
The French Steamship Company hav,
lost another long steamship, the Amcrique. Sh
founderel at sea near lshant, of the coast q
= Brittany, France. The second officer was tn
only person lost.
: y Lutheran minister in Freedom Wis
, refused to conduct the funeral service Of iarme
belonging to his parish, because the man ha
been granger. lis society promptly requisite
his resignation.
' 1t will be observed that the sudder
d. deaths, which are Of almost daily occurrence @
persons who were in apparent good health ar
. nearly all from among the males flow wou
medical men account for this
3 a. 7. Stewart has fixed the price 70
! board at his Grand Union Hotel, Saratoga, a
, three dollars day for the coming season q
d, course tho landlords of hhc other hotels will b
) compelled to adopt the Same tarin.
Minnie Sherman, the generals eldes
daughter, is announced as engaged to Assstan
, Engineer Thomas W. Fitch of the navy "Mrs
Grundy' Of the Graph'c says the navy draws The
matrimonial prizes at Washington, this season.
-. A bright and bewitching young girl
l in one Of the Troy On. y mills proved to b.
Henry Wallace Of Brooklyn, but not till mum
/, : Der of young men had fallen desperately in Low
with him, when he left for another scene of oper
t ations.
' A party of men have purchased 1900
, acres of land in Wisconsin tor the exclusive pur
pose of raising muskrats. Last year they cap
tured 1000 of the animals and anticipate tax
! of GO0O this year. The skins sell at thirty cent
each
a The powder horn which Abraham Lin
coins father wore when he was killed by the In
g dams is in possession of an old gentleman il
Beechland, Ky. II has carved upon il n snake
c Il square and compass, with the legend, "Libert
9 or Dea h."
r The total gross revenues OF Great Brit
q ain last year, ending March 81, were t7i,335,
600; the total gross expenditures Ai6,4od,Oot
exclusive of the Ashantee war expenses. Est
mated revenue for the current year, 7,99-, 009
= expenses, fI2, j0j 900.
The New York HeraH says: at is
significant circumstance for the reflective that il
4; ilation, which tends deliberately to dishonor tn
victor in the recent war, owes the greater part {
its force to votes from states lying within III
limits Of the late Southern Coniederacy.'
: That the Chinese in Cnliiornia ar