The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-10-27
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imported 1854 900 pounds of tea from Japan.
Cecil Brickland, correspondent in
Spain for the New York Tines, it Is reporteJ has
been murdered by the Spanish Republicans.
Several valuable stores in Montreal
with their contents were burned Monday; loss
aoout s2Oo,oooi nearly covered by insurance.
The Dominion government will ask
Parliament at its next meeting for small rfeut
Tor pensions to tho veterans oflsl2
or the 575 furnace stacks ia the [ nj.
ted states, 2?' arc ont Of blast ut the present
time owing to dnllncss in the iron trade.
Senator Logan is lying seriously i'll at
at Springfield, ILL.,, OF congestion Of the lung. and
ms physicians have fears that he will not recover
The largest cargo of oats that ever left
San Francisco was one of 800 tons that cleared r,,
Australia, n few days ago
According to official statistics Just pub.
lished. there were ,,27j suicides in France In
1872. !"
Somebody has ascertained that il takes
$4,000 house hies Of an average .ize 10 make
pound.
The Detroit Free Press now candidlv
admits that shakespohrc's plays were written by
citizen Of Detroit. y
Berlin ladies wear Partisan fashions.
just az they u'ed 10 DO bofere the war. notwitb.
standing their prote'tation that they never would
A Boston philosopher says that YOU
want 10 look at mems boot hccls to discover their
energy slow. slothful man runs his boots over
at the hocls.
The birth Of the Duchess of El;n.
burgh's baby increases tho number Of Ou,cn Viz.
toria's grandchildren to twentv.six Of whom
twenty three are living
a Missouri man swears no wont my
any taxes on his farm. and he has erected A Tort.
supplied 1t with arms and provisions, and the t,y
collector keeps out Of rifle shot,
One Of the Paris railroad companies
advertise "dead mans train" which is specialIv
reserved for the transport OF funeral parties to one
OF the suburban burial grounds
The Geological gardens of Cincinnati
was recently the recipient Vi n package weighing
10 pounds, containing live specimens Of all but
three kinda of native American snakes
There are 1877 islands of the coast of
Scotland, OF which about lsG are Inhabited.
Many OF them are very small, mere rocks rising
out OF sea, without vegetation Of any kind
Major Henry lIarkins of the United
States army waa shot dead at San Francisco. Sat.
urday, by tho husband of Mrs Maybridee. with
whom Larklns had taken Improper liber,icl.
Jefferson Davis has been rcqnested TO
serve as one Of the board of directors Of the pro
posed steamship line between New Orlean, and
Liverpool, measures for the establishment Of
which are now assuming definite shape.
There was something lovely about them
even in death. 1t was on Kansas prairie. md
they lay siJo by side. Toms thumb in Jacks
Icit eye and Jacks revolver pushed into Toms
right ear They had fit it out
-.
riedly called II coroner to view the dead body Of
man, but on reaching the body and attemptjn, TO
turn 1t over, it ross, lit its pipe. and went on TO
Peabody. He was only drunk
y Chicago clergyman who stated that
science wa pleasant study, to which he directed
the attention of his congregation, was invited IN
come over and put on the gloves with u brother
who knew all about ''scence"
The celebrated Mortified ranch of .
600 acres, in Colasa county, CAL, has been sold
Tor S'o, ooO' The parties selling the ranch pur.
chased 1t two years ago for S2i 900. and have
raised about $4,000 worth Of wheat upon il since
then. '''
The following appears on n tombstone
in Thompson, New Hampshire. "lIere lies the
body OF jonathan Richardson. who never sacri.
iced his reason at the altar of supersttion's God
and who never believed that Jonah swallowed n
whale"
A lunatic from the Hartford, Conn,
Retreat who was taken out to have A tooth drawn
liked the operation so we'll that lie Unlisted unon
having the rest Of his teeth drawn and it took
half dozen policemen to get him back to the asy.
lum.
a largely attended reunion Of anti.
slavery veterans occurred at Newport, Ind, last
week. George W. Julian presided, sojourner
Truth favored the meeting with an. original song
letters were read from Casslus NJ. Clay, Charles
Francis Adams, derrt Smith and others, and the
affair wound up with an old-fashonei love feast
Charles ii. Phelps the cx.assistant
state treasurer of New York, was sentenced Mt
Albany, Wednesday. to an aggregate Of Is We ars
In the state prison the different counts for for
gerry and larceny Of which he has been convicted
An attempt will be made to have a higher court
pa upon exception which have boon takon
Mr.. + K. lioar Of Massachusetts. want.
ed $500 for his services in George W. Bowens
suit against the heirs Of Madame Jumel. The
Rhode Island Jury which heard the case did not
allow Mr.. Hoar cent, the defence being that
nr hoar was not engaged by Bowen. but by
Rowens counsel
Two brothers, Giovanni and Nincenzo
Montaleoni, Neie arrested IN Brooklyn, Tuesday,
Tor the murder of 4 man named Nncenzo Tramon.
tano in Palermo. Sicily. in February 1873. The
Italian police have been hunting ior them ever
since and bad secured tho kingdom Of Italy for
them before they a-eeItained that they had he'd
the country.
At 81 John, y b.. on Friday Catho
lie priest, tho Rev. Mr.. uuilrtte, was arrested for
non-paymeni Of two years school taxes, amount
ing to So Refusing to pay. he was conines in
the parlor Of the Jail until Il Catholic gentleman
paid the amount and Effected his release A large
crowd had congregated about the jail dnring the
priests stay there and an attack upou the build
ing was feared
While deputy from one Of the south.
ern provinces Of Italy was passing through
street in Rome. "A few evenings ago, he was at /
tackOd by man and severely wounded but with /,
the aid Of jewelers. clerk disarmed aud secured
the wo I'D be assassin, who proved to be a man
for whom the deputy had endeavorci 10 procure
employment, but without success. Discouraged
al this, the young bandit then sought the life of
the deputy for no other reason than that he had
failed T. ind him the means 10 increase his for
tune.
The same day that Durnot commenced
h. balloon adventure at Calais, nm ascent was
made at Copenhagen by the aeronaut Livel who
for the sixth time this year. crossed the sound
and landed in sweden lilo Is nu fear of aight-
ing in the sea- and is always provided with a safe
ty apparatus-a sort of canvass cylinder of conf
cal form held to the car by guide-ropc. He
drops this into the sea, when it Hills with water
and is kept down by tho weight Of the liquid. By
throwing out little ballast the balloon rises, bui
is held like captive, few feet above tho sea
and thus remains until it is picked up by pass
ing vessel or drifts ashore.
While train on the Erie railroad was
about three miles from Gonesce, few days ago,
the passengers suddenly startled 10y the
piercing cries 81 a woman. rushed TO her
aud asked the trouble, but she made no answer,
and continued to scream When the train reached
Genesse she was helped into a waiting ROOM and
glass Of brandy administered, whom she revived
somewhat At this juncture another woman
pointed to the head Of the first screamer, uttered
scream herself and fell to the door fsinting On
examination, large striped snake was fonnd
coiled around the chignon Of the woman How 1t
came there was mystery, and ia ouly explained
by the theory that il got into the ear and taken
refuge under the cir-seat
John Fitzgerald a temperance lecturer