The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-03-03
NEWS ITEMS.

A horrible butchery il reported from
Vera Cruz, Mexico.
A $4,000 fire at Warren, Mass,
Tuesday night
The New Hampshire Democrats are
not happy.
Bradlaugh was defeated il the recent
English elections.
The Ashantees are reported victorious
in recent severe engagements.
An extensive revival Of religion is 10
progress in New York city nud Brooklyn.
Eugeuio is reported to be failing rap.
idly. The Young Prince Imperial is her very
image,
Mckay, the suspected author Of the
New York Stock Exchange forgeres. has been
arrested.
Nne.cent festivals. at which popcorn
and milk are served, are favorite financial devices
with he Wisconsin churches.
Mrs. Gen. Sherman is very much Cd.
posed to round dances, and does not permit her
daughters to indulge in them.
Gen John T Ter. son of ex.President
Tyler, has been licensed a. preacher by Meth
odist Conference in Florida.
A dispatch from Fall River announces
the death on Wednesday of Col. Richard Bowden,
in his seventy ninth year
Captaiu Daniel Stoddard, aged 81.
committed suicide in East Providence, Friday,
during fit of mental alteration.
Mr.. Gerritt Smith has given, free Of
conditions, the sum Of $40 600 to Hamilton Col.
iese. of which he is graduate.
The horse and cattle disease has brok.
en- out in Boxer county, Or, and is spreading cx.
tensifely, with vcry fatal effects
The Boston school board have refused
to reconsider their action relative to the admis-
sion OF the ladies, by a vote Of al to 40
There is a report that there is to he
close investigation into the manner of condu ting
the business Of some Of tho New York insurance
companies.
Mr. VIM. NJ. Evarts has agreed to
furnish a copy of tho portrait by Earle of hi.
grandfather, Roger Sherman, fer a vac ant pan.l
in Independence Hall.
The youngest living English peer is
Lord Germantown. His loriship is one year old.
Sir Arthur Victor Rumbold, Baronet il young
man Of i've years
Tho pruning kuiio at Washington if
applied as is now proposed. will cut of 2i9 clerks
from the Treasury Department and 70 from the
War Department.
A drunken New York policeman last
Wednesday evening fatally shot a lady with
whom he had been on friendly terms Uncon-
trolisble Jealousy the cause.
The Madra Gras procession 10 Mem.
phis is said to bavo been the cause of so much
open intoxcation and licentiousness that all good
citizens hope il will be the last.
Congressman Bufiinton, Cor some I'M.
explained cause discourtcOusiy refused to see the
Boston gentleman who called on him Tuesday at
Washington in relation to tho Colectorship.
Tho remains OF seven bodies of the
victims of the Drummond coliery disaster in
Nova Scotia, last May, have just been recovered
from No. slope.
Jay Gould thinks $4,000 altogether
too much Of fec for settling tho sl0, 900 900
suit Of the Erie Railroad against him and refuses
to hand 1t over to bis lawyers, Smith & Martin,
who clsim it,
A suit has been begun in tho district
court BY the United States to recover $40, 900
from the principal suretiea on the official bond
given by Matthew j. Mexican as United States
paymaster.
A fire n the village Of Balsto. Bur
! l!ngton county, N J., last Monday destroyed 10
dwelling houses; loss $4,000. Balsto is situat-
ed in portion Of the State without railroad or
telegraphic communication.
A biographical dictionary of 1900
pages, just published in England, Is especially
designed to notice distinguished natives Of Great
Britain, and yet does not contain tho name OF
Charles Dickens.
The Boston Grange Wednesday de-
nouncoa the action of the ST. Louis Convention in
reading tho Boston Grange out Of the ordor and
decided to run National Grange on its Gown
hook
The Spanish authorities ut Havana
have issued an order requiring house, owners and
heads Of families to give the names Of all persons
white or black, in their promises, who are liable
to military duty.
/ The brotherhood of locomotive engi.
neers, at their convention in Cleveland Ohio,
Wednesday, by resolution forced their presi-
dent Wilson, to resign, in consequence Of his &C.
ton during tho recent strikes
A female reform dress movement has
been inaugurated in Boston. The first of Sc
ries of lectures on this topic was delivered to an
audience Of ladies in the vestry Of the Arlington
Street Church, Wednesday.
Mr.. Ruskiu says no would like to de.
s.roy New York beyond the chance OF rebuilding
and he thinks the salt all went out of the nation
/
kuskin is evidently Loing to ruin very fast.
The Jacksonville Republican tells a
romantic story Of Waldo lossvm vi Doston, now
in Florida who has fallen heir to over 81 OU0, 00U
worth OF property lett him by a man named Lari
NOR. whom he saved from utter destruction some
twenty years ago.
An ludiaD prince, the Rao Of Clutch,
who had for his private tutor distinguished
| Irish officer, now Lieutenant General, saga.
ciously observed to him, "Why, in such words a
whip, do you write the aspirate after the "
though you sound it befcre it1"
The Woodruff sues the proprie.ors Of
Music Hall, Chicago, for breach Of contract il
contract in forbidding her the use of tho hall
laying tho damages at SIS, 600. BY tho way
Gerald Massey shocked the virtuou, Chicag Uan.
by calling on Victoria and Tennessee.
An Elder Gordon Of Kentucky an
nounces that no has labored shirteen years as
minister Of the Gospel, has baptized over lOOt
persons in the course Of laborious itineracy, ant
has received daring the whole period Of his ser
vice only SlO, contributed by Greasy Creel
Church.
Dir VIM. Henry Smith. reelected NJ
p for Westminster, and Mr.. Disrasli's newly ap
pointed parliamentary Secretary OF the Treasury
commenced life in London as newsbuy, aut
developing his calling into an important bushes
has grown immensely rich, standing well in tn,
way Tor u pserage.
The books OF the Brooklyn tax ofic,
continue TO respond to tho experts examination
with astonishing frauds. There runors tina
the papers preliminary to the arrest Of well
known tax-saio operator have been prepared, il
connection with which extraordinary develop
ments are probable.
: Rev Edward Stuart, Vicar Of
,
inviting n layman, Mr.. kinnaird, 10 preach il
his church on any Sunday he chooses, promising
to show him into the pulpit himself, and to DIT
; fray half tIe expenses of any legal action ensu
ing. lie does this with the consent OF his chur.
waHlsna. lie is certainly plueky shepherd Of
sturdy Cock.
; London's population is three time
greater than that of New York, and its srea hv
times greater yet the expense Of runniug the c.t
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