The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-01-20

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Vice President Wilson says his health
Is very much improved, but he will not resume
MS place in the Senate at present but will return
to Massachusetts, this week, having abandoned
his proposed trip to Florida
On Wednesday, Mr.. Gushing wrote a
letter to tho President, asking the withdrawal of
his name for Chief Justice. Accordingly, the |
President sent message to the Senate, with
drawing the nomination.
The report Of the postmaster general
to the House, in relation to the recent diamond
seizures at New York shows that the action taken
by Postmaster James of New York city was in |
with the laws of Congress.
Miss Mary Charlton Of Chicago, has |
been elected third assistant clerk of the Illinois
House of Representatives. Her competitors were
all men. She is 90 years of age, "comely in APP
pearance and Of ample form
A man in Evansville, Ind. recently
had the pleasure Of attending the wedding of his
own parents They had been divorced thirty
years but the nu nber of times each had been
married in the interval is not stated.
A farmer from northern Ohio recently
Travelled with his family and all his earthly pos
sessions to Knoxville, Tenn, over COO miles, in
wagon, after the truo old style, and all because
it was to cold up in Ohio.
Catharne Oates of Cornwall, England,
travelled all tho way to Tuolumne county, Cal, to
marry the lover she had not for eight years,
and found him welded to Mexican ranchero's
daughter, and the father Of only five children.
Among gang Of burglars who had
been operating along in Syracuse for some time
and accumulated large amount Of miscellaneous
and valuable property, and who were captured on
Tuesday last, was one llovey, u prominent Sun.
day school and religious worker.
The Pope was lately pleased to see
party of Americans who desired to present some
slight token of their love and esteem for the Holy
Father. Among the "slight tokens" was geld
casket filed with English sovereigns and cross
of solid gold three feet high.
Rev. w. Richardson, from Massachu.
sets, has organized an Independent Church at
IIolbIook, on Long Island, NY. The members
bind themselves to no sect or creed, but propose
to worship God in accordance with the dictates of
their own conscience.
On dit, that young married lady OF
=. l-."te means, Mrs. Josie Z. Burrill, formerly
surprised few days ago at a bequest of SD, 900
from very old and eccentric bachelor uncle, a
resident of Montreal for about forty years
A. johnson of Tennessee, once known
as Travelling President of the United States, now
declares himself in full accord with the GRANGE
movement, and says that the time has arrived
for tho good men of all parties t. associate, and
bring about such reform rs the oxigenccs of the
country require.
Miss Sallio Collins is a woman living
near Moberly, Mo-. who has left her bed but
twice for 80 years, once when frightened from it
by snake, and once when the family moved
She has been in good health and happy during
the time, and her case is unexplained by the ply
sicians
The women's crusade against the wills.
key barrels at Charleston and Wilmington, Ohio.
continues. At Wilmington, all the druggist,
have signed pledge to stop selling Intoxicating
liquors, except for medical purposes. The women
are still holding meetings Business is partially
suspended.
Judge Benjamin g. Franklin, Sam
Houston chief political opponent, has recently
died at Galveston, Texas. He served in the Tex.
an army under Houston, and carried a rifle in the
battle OF San Jacnto. After Texas became United
States property, he distinguished himself in poll
tics and in tho profession Of law.
The debt of New York city, less sink.
ing fund fund, December 81, 1872, was sos ,4G7,-
Isl 93. On tho 3lst Of December, ,S73. less
sinking fund, it was SlOG,37l,953 10, an increase
Of nearly eleven millionf In the debt statement
no mention is made of some ak millions which
the Comptroller Of the State of New York states is
due FROM New York.
The London Times thinks Europe has
not so much TO dread from Franco and Spain as
Republic as she would hay, were tho lourbons
to attain power in the former and the Carlists in
the latter country. 1t also believes that "Spain
has probably 10 thank her accidental form of gov
eminent for fortunate escape from difficulty
with the United States
Daring the small pox excitement at
the Hartford Comm Jail recently, prisoner
named Thomas Burke procured some croton oil
aud got up very specious Of the disease, the
eruptiOns produced by the Gil much resembling
those Of small pox, and was taken to the pet
house, but the jailer blocked his little game just
as he was about to escape by the assistance Of
friends, and he was returned to his cell.
The evidence against Supervisor Haw.
ley and Nenderwerken and SanLorn, of New
York, in the opinion of the assistant district at.
torney, is ample to convict them. The amount
OF their populations is estimated at $500, 900.
Their cases will probably be tried under one in
dictment. The officials at Washington, however,
have the utmost faith in the probity of all three
of the aforementioned officers.
GA Monday, last week. the lifeless
body of John Mecurdy. OF Branch Mills, Maine
was found in the currying shop of Daniel "
Dodge, in Freedom, in whose emp lvy ho had been
tor years. A caroner's inquest WAS holden, and il
appears from the testimony taken that no was
killed by the accidental discharge of gun which
he had placed in a trap set in flight Of stairs to
catch an unknown thief suspected Of stealing
leather from a loft.
John B Thompson, the famous Ken
lucky lawyer and politician, died in Harrodsburg
week before last. He entered the kentucky leg
islature in 1885, when - years old; was three
times sent to the United States House of Repre-
sentatives aud in l,5l entered the senate There
he made his speech on the Cuban question. which
is considered ono of the most witty and brilliant
ever heard in Washington. His strong point at
the bar keen wit, and many stories are told
of his great influence over juries.
The affairs of the National Savings
Bank of Concord, N. H., the treasurer of which,
W. W. Storrs, lately proved a defaulter are now
assuming "A rather queer phase. The bOndsmen
of the treasurer claim that the delalcation was
not in the savings bank, but in the First National
Bank. The two banks are in the same room, aud
it is sail that the savings bank had no till. but
that Il money wa, drop, ed into the till of tho
first national bank and credited on the books Of
the latter bank. If this view is correct, the
Lond-mon claim that il will relcsse them.
10 Smith, 500 of the founder Of the
Mormon church and the leader Of the faction of
that organization that has rebeled against the
authority Of Brigham Young, now living with
his followers at Plano, H., is going to move his
quarters to Nauvoo, H., tho place whence tho
old Mormons fed to Missouri aud thence TO Utah.
This sect are said to be very decent and peaoea-
bic set of people, and most OF the citizens of Nau
WOO will welcome them. smiths followers have
practically abandoned the doctrine Of polygamy
and are intensely hostile toiBrigham Young Smith
will publish paper in the interest OF his sect.
Nauvoo, which once had population Of 10000,