The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-06-30
NEWS ITEMS.

Mr.. Beecher was sixty years old on
June Path
Congress adjourned sine die at 6
o'clock Tuesday evening.
Colorado cannot come into the Union
this summer.
The annual interest on the debt OF the
city of New Xork is Ss,35O,oo0.
The activity of the Bonapartis,s in
France is causing considerable alarm.
1t is announced that Victoria will
visit Alexander Of Russia next September
The Turkish government is about to
expend s75o,OOo in decorating the Mosque of
Omar at Jerusalem
The License law, recently passed by
the Massachusetts Legislature, was vetoed by
Gov. Talbot, Thursday.
James NJ. Bessom proposes to walk
100 milcs in "a hours, backward, on one of the
tracks Of Boston, for 81 ,00D, July 3.
A firm in Bloomington. H., have be.
gun to print an edition of 1000 900 almanacs for
free distribution, to advertise their business.
Two thousand perambulators were sold
in Salt Lake City last year, which indicates
healthy condition Of the baby market.
Chicago desires it 10 be believed that
its population increased $4,000 last year without
reference to the cemeteries or noted registers.
According to the american Mail Of
Rio Janeiro the first Presbyterian church in Bra
zil was dedicated in that city on the 29th Of
March.
No resident of Kasson, Mimi. has
ever lost dollar by fire. Ergo, Kasson has
had fra hnaa bal
dollar to lose.
That was a cunning woman who re-.
Gently in an English Court, desiring to clear her
husband of the charge of removing the end of her
nose, swore she bit it of herself.
David Martin, only twelve years Of
ape, is under sentence of death in New Hanover
county, North Carolina. for the murder of a small.
Ter boy whom he maliciously drowned.
A farmer named Thomas Q. Cook
laughed so heartily at joke he heard in Battle
Greek, Mich, n few days ago. that he put his
jaw out Of j, int Rather severe joke that.
Theodore Titon has again been stirred
up, ard in turn he stirs up the scandal concern.
ing Henry Ward Beccher, making some damar-
ing statements concerning the pastor Of Plymouth
church.
At Baden, Beaver county, Pa, at
barn raising, about 20 mon at work on a scalold
fell about thirty feet. One man named McPher-
son was killed, aud eleven others seriou.ly in,
jured.
John l.. Osborne was blown to atoms
near Parker City, Pa Friday, by tho explosion
of hundred pounds of nitro-g ycernc which he
was tran, porting in wagon. The horse and
wagon were annihlated.
A letter from Professor A, l. Raw.
son, dated Jerusalem, May %, says that the
American typographical Corps was at Jalla. all
we'll, and just in from their desert journey, from
Suez to Petra, Kerak, Hebron, GAIA, SC.
A game Of chess On an extensive scale
is soon to be played betw,en English and French
players. Notice of every move will be conveye
between Lond m and Paris by telegraph, and
three days will be allowed for each move.
A singular coincidence was noted re.
Gently in a church in Newburyport, Mass. Tic
pastor called for $40 for specific object, aud
when the coll, ctiOn was counted it Was found that
precisely that sum had been contributed
The number Of pilgrims who have Wis.
ited the tomb of Mahomct at Mecca this year is
said to have been l6O 900. and owing to the pre-
cautions adopted by the Egyptian government,
their health has been unusually good.
A correspondent OF the Manchester
uuH0iNH teilmhttt lht Nthl cotton supply OF
Europe in lsC4 ut Z, 45O 900 bales. OF this esti.
mato 2, $50, 900 American, 1900, geo East In
dim, AID 100000 Egyptian ard other kinGs.
1t is alleged in Connecticut that 600
sheep are killed every year by dogs in that State;
that thousands Of acres of aud are going to waste
that mi ght be pgoftably employed in pasturiug
sheep ii the dogs wsro killed or banished.
Luke Chapman, Of ColIinsville, Conn,
has the old lintlock muskct with which Gen.
Putnam killed the wolf IN the den Mt Pomfret.
Prof Hitchcock has tried in vain 10 get it for tho
cabinet at Amherst College and Barnum for his
show.
\ linca descendant in the seventh gen.
Grafton Of John Alden, Who married Priscilla, the
Puritan maiden. "farest of all who came in the
MayAower," died recently at Lebanon, N. II.
His name was Ezra Alden, aud be was aged 81
years.