The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-06-23
China is likely 10 have brush with


China is likely to have n brush with
Russia ON account Of some revoted provinces one
OF which the Russian Bear has his paws upon.
A woman accused he. husband of hav.
ing poisoned her. lie protested innocence, ind
demanded that her body be opened on the spot.
Az Sag1enay, Canada, owing to the un.
favorable weather, the crops ruined, the cattle
arc starving to death, and great distress prevails
The Brazilian telegraph cable has been
with Lisbon, Madeira and Cape do Verde Islands.
Turner Brothers, a well.known bank.
ing house in New York, have suspended. Cause,
loaning money to railway enterprises.
Brooklyn has another church investi-
CATION. Row James Bradley Cleaver is charged
with driving fast horses-a tempest in teapot
A railway train running from Orap,
Africa, to Algiers, was lately detained six hours
by locusts. which covered tho tracks in thick
layer
The United States Senate, Wednesday,
passed the bill making the postage on newspapers
and magazines after the first Of January next
four cents per pound.
Indianapolis boasts of versatile di.
vinity student who breaches in English prays in
Armenian, sings in Turkish, and holds his tongue
in eleven other lanuages.
Cast Iron Sinks" is written upon the
sign of Hartford plumber. DWELL, who fbic,
said 1t didn't J" chuckled an inebriatcd man. after
reading it over three times.
A Wisconsin paper suggests that the
Nice rasidopt IF tba al l. L..
offcio Governor of the District of Columbia 1t
is an idea worth considering.
A Minnesota clergyman has sued thir.
ty-fve members Of his church. who refuse to pay
pow-rent because he alluded to them in one of his
sermons as empty heads"
OF the mammoth new bridge across
the Mississippi at st. Louis, the Democrat Of that
city says, it is now clear that its revenues will
make the fortunes of its owners.
The swallow.tail coat is in danger. The
Car danced in frock coat while iniEngland and
the awhammer stands a good chance of being
superseded for dress purposes
One.half of the fruit of Michigan will
have to be picked green and thrown away in order
to save the crop this year. The trees are go full
that otherwise the whole would be ruined
Those Coreans don't propose to keep
hotel for shipwrecked people. That's why they
beheaded eighteen japanese unfortunates who
Mail.
In Dresden during the past year sew.
enteen of the experiments which were made to
transfuse the blood of animals into human sub.
jects when life was almost extinct, proved success
full.
st. Louis aspires to be the largest
stock market in the country; and this with her
growing railway facilities and nearness to the
great pasture fields Of the continent seems likely
Of accomplishment
Cyrus w. Field is confident that San.
Francisco capitalists will invest heavily in his
pet scheme Of grid; & the Pacific with a cable, as
soon as survey is made. The stock required i,
about twenty million dollars.
Corbett. who captured Booth, the as.
sassin of Proficient Lincoln, and got sl2 900 from
grateful country, is admitted to the practice of
law in Illinois. He los; his reward by investing
1t in defective mortgage.
A colored secret organization has been
formed at Quitman, Georgia, the members Of
which are prohibited from aiding, directly or in
directly, in extinguishing fire in the houses of
white people, or in saving the property Of such.
The Emperor of Russia, on leaving
England made the London police a present Of
about $4,000, besides giving to n number of the
chiefs articles of jewelry, such as rings, pins
etc., some OF them worth as much as $1,000 each
The Taunton Gazette says a couple
were married few days ago in that city after a
patient courtship of some thirty years; the par
ties being affanced before the clergyman was born
who united them in the sacred bonds of matrimo.
ny.
OF over 100000 trees planted along
the line of the st. Pal and Pacific Railway Com
pany, less than three per cent. have failed and
the rest doing we'll. The prairie farmers
along the line are following the company's exam
pie.
On dit. that the Queen did not enjoy
the Cars visit The exiled Poles threatened to
assassinate him, and she was mortally afraid they
would. So the Emperor wasn't allowed to go
around and sse the sights, and was got ont of En-.
gland as soon az possible
The monument at Gsherville, n. H..
commemorative Of the brave conduct Of Hannah
Duston, who, assisted by another woman and
boy, in 1897, killed ten Indians who had been
engaged in the massacre at Haverhill, Mass, was
dedicated Wednesday by appropriate exercises.
The Italian government is busily en-
gagged in unearthing the foundations of old Rome.
The Forum RomaHum has been cleaned out down
to the pavement the Via Sacra and the Coliseum
partially so, and the of $40, 900 has been APP
propriated for continuing the excavations.
Somebody has been summing up the
fate of kings and emperors, as follows out of
25iO emperors and kings, over "a nations, 299
were dethroned, Ga abdicatod, 20 committed sui
eide, / went mad 100 died on tho battle field,
I23 were made prisoners, Is were pronounced
martyrs and saints, Isl were assassinated CO
were poisoned, and l0S were sentenced ~ death.
Total, 9c3
The other day an aged couple drove
into Indiana City just as an undertaking firm waI
moving into an old church. which had been pur-
chased for shop. The old gentleman stood up
in his wagon, his mouth and eyes dstended, AS
the men silently carried coffin after cotn into the
church. At last he turned to his awe stricken
half and gasped: "sary. by golly, its the cholo-
ra; let's git" and they gifted.
The erasshopper plague seems to be ex.
tending at the West In Western Iowa, through
out ten or a dozen counties west of Humboldt,
and up the west branch of the DesMoines river
the country is full of them. They have already
eaten the growing crops on the grounds and left
the fields as barren as a board. Many of the
homesteaders, in despair of a crop, have packed
up and are now moving cut of the country
On. Morris LIVER PrLLs-Itis easy enough to
make pill, but to make good one, ah that's