The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-05-12
NEWS ITE MS.

NEWS ITEMS.
A $4,000 FIRE at Lubec Me, Al cnday
morning
Michigan's treasury boasts million
dollars Of surplus.
Additional strikes among the English
miners are reported.
A New York club forbids card.playing
after ~ o'clock at night.
10 Missouri on Tuesday the temper.
nuce were victorious at the polls.
Hieh's lanyard at Louisville, KY, was
burned, Monday night; loss $4,000.
The Mississippi is falling, aud public
confidence in Louisiana is rising.
A serious riot recently occurred at the
French settlement in Shanghae, China.
What word is always pronounced )
wrong even by the best scholars? Wrong
Rev. Dr. Bellows is TO marry in June,
but will not resume his pulpit till autumn.
Sir Garnet Wolseley strobe to the po.
sition of mljor general over the heads Of lGj
Tors.
A man at Poughkeepsie, Wednesday,
walked is miles in three hours and fifteen min
utcs
Births are being announced as "Our
Young Folks for May" in the Turner Falls (Mass
Reporter.
A titled Epglishman, a graduate Of
Cambridge, University, draws beer In Des
Moines saloon.
The town elections in Indiana on
Tuesday resulted in Democratic victory, defeat
ing the temperance reforms
Over 1000 men have been thrown out
of employment at Eroy. n Y by the suspension
Of tho iron words
The be.ro,hal of the Russian Grand
Duke ala limir and the Duches. Of Meck!enhurg
has Lccr niilgated.
Eight buildings at Midland. Mich,
were destroyed by FIRE, Wednesday; loss so 900,
partially insured.
The round. hous- OF the Wabash rail.
road Mt Springfield Il, was burned, "Wednesday
niLht; los. So, 600.
\ tenor 10 Vienna is said to have an
abnormal formation of the vocal organs whereby
he is able to sing two note7 simultaneously.
The Senate passed the bill extending
the time of the railroad land grant to the st.
Paul and Pacific Railroad Company in Minnesota,
Gen. Butler is preparing to make an
extended speech in reply to the report Of the
Committee on Ways and Means in the sanborn
matter.
Gen. Sickles, who has been in London
for some time, has sailed for home John Jay,
American minister to Austria has arrived in ion.
don en- route home.
The saw.mill and undergrad OF Egg.
gcston, lIazleton Co., at Clyde. Mich, was
burned Thursday afternoon; loss $50, 600; in
suIancc $4,000.
The two wings Of the Republicans in
Dakota have united in call for territorial con-
vcntion to nominate delegates and territorial Of
fccrs at Elkpoint, July l6
A western paper says Of the air, in its
relation to man at kisses and blesses him. Blu,
will not obey him." Blobbs says that that de-
scrrtion just suits his wife exactly.
The Newfoundland seal business is un.
PROSPEROUS. The seals are not plenty, and they
arc small. The production of oil will not be
more than one-half the amount Of last year.
The most powerful sermon of the day
was that preached by an Ohio clergyman, which
led n young lady to take out her earrings and
, strip the feathers from her spring bonnet
, j. NJ Barton, who sued the New
, York Central railroad company for $50 600, 70
, the loss of one Of his hands while in the compa
nys employ, after carrying the through al
! the courts, gets $4,000.
Two men, belonging in Edgecomb
Me, Joseph Dickinson and Jason HUFF, wer
} drowned in Wiscasset harbor, Tuesday evening
They wero in two boats loaded with sand, an
the boats sunk.
In Northern Georgia it is possible t,
live very well on very little, judging by currsn
G prices at Gainesville and other places. For in
stance, butter, Is a poe; eggs Zoe per dozen
beef II &C per pound
The Pennsy lvania railroad, by order o
the court, has paid 200 to the trustees of III
Methodist Episcopal church at Camden, y. J.
which building was destroyed 10y fire caused by
spark from one Of their engines.
!, So many individuals have been arrcste,
upon suspicion Of being old Bender the kansa
murderer, that now frem Cape Cod to san Fran
r cisco there is hardly an il-lhvored old man VIII
doesn't feel ticklsh at sight Of police officer.
The town of Bismarck. Minnesota.
the place fer wealthy taxpayers to fee unto.
beats Nahant. AT Bismarck there are no take
}. at all; all the expenses oro paid .Vm nnes an
licenses. IL is rum and rowdyism that runs Ri.
marck
i George Van Velzer, clerk in tn
New York Central and Hudson railroad compa
nys office at the Grand Central depot, and a con
Y panion named Baxter. distracted Sl3, 900 froi
. the safe ana fed, between Saturday evening an
Tuesday morning.
The Yellowstone exploring party hav
been getting into hot water with those troubl,
some Indians, and are in full retreat up the va
, ley with the redskins close upon their heels. On
Of the party has been killed and two wounde,
and several Of the Indians killed
y The insurance case of Snyder again:
the New York Mutual Life Insurance Compan
l. was settled at Philadelphia, Thursday, by ve
@ dict for the plaintiff for 50 800 the amount
- the policies 10000 and S2l, 200 respectively @
; the lives of The widow, Anna Snyder, and the sol
Lewis Snyder, together with one years int
If est.
! A small barn belonging to A. "
Johnson's woodward on High street, Providenc
q was burned Thursday night In the loft wi
= found the charrcd body Of man supposed to
|. Chester C. Cummings, formerly an employee, wi
,e was put up there while drunk early in tine ev
, ming, to sleep it of
:. NJ. ID. Conway is somewhat indignsi
that Darwin should be considered an illustrate
Of his own "missing link, and says that tho phi
D, osopher is a man of most impressive appearance
}. reminding ono who sees him more Of Micha
!, Angeles magnificent bust of Meses. in Rom
u than Of any iulc:icr being
"A Alfred Specr, an editor and one
~ the leading in Passaic, N. j.. was placed
5, trial at Patterson, Tuesday, for manslaughte
y. sometime since house he was building in Pa
sale fell and killed two citizens who were passin
1t is claimed that in the erection of the buildii
ID Spcer departed from the rules Of the architect
y Hon. NJ. p Blackstone, member
the Louisiana Legislature. and Mr.. Leon Va
MGR, old friends had playful struggle on t
stairs of tho Fremen's Hall at Natchitoches
, few days ago. when Vannier. laughing, drew
Us pistol, which went Of shooting his friend throu
,h the head, killing him instantly. He was acqu
al ted on tho ground that the shooting was NO
- dental.
=, The unanimous report Of the Congre
NV sional Committee on Ways and Means relative
u the Sanborn contracts very severely censures
a. Secretary. Assistant Secretary and Solicitor of
e, Treasury for the manner in which they have p,
90 mittel this law TO be administered. While