The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-07-14
NEWS TIE Ms.

Rochester IN " shipped eight tons
of cherries Mondry night.
San francisco contributes $4,000 10
gold to the Louisiana relief fund.
Rabun county, Ga, has 200 Illicit dis
ileries.
The gold heaters of Philadelphia are
on strike.
George William Curtis will not lecture
next season.
Frauds in the tea trade are reported in
New York.
The wool clip of Michigan will make,
it is estimated, 10000 G0 pounds.
At Cairo, H., on Thursday, quite Il
distinct shock Of earthquake was felt.
Milwaukee talks of putting up three
thousand new buildings this year.
1t requires sixty love letters to infu.
ence a breach Of promise suit jury in Iowa.
Bowdoiu College has decided to mako
the military drill optional with the students.
The Bos,ons defeated the Atlantics on
the Boston grounds, Thursday-l4 to o.
The New York Republican State Con.
vention will be held on the 27th Of August.
The new railroad law in Wisconsin has
been tested and pronounced unreasonable and un-
constitutional.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln landed at
Cherbourg from New York June 90. and went to
Paris.
Victor Hugo appeared at Junin's fun.
eral, but would not follow to the cemetery, be-
cause the funeral was religious.
BY some ones neglect there was no
flag displayed at tue Capitol at Washington on
the Fourth
The Chinese law will not permit Of two
persons of the same surname to be united in mar
riagc
Ii is said that a private investigation
of the Tilton-Beecher scandal is being made by
Plymouth Church.
The greatest wheat crop Kansas evei
knew now waves in golden beauty on the broad
praries of that State.
Madison, Georgia, received 1000 bale,
more of cotton this season than were received las
season.
The license men were defeated 10 the
New Hampshire Legislature Thursday, and tn,
Probibitionists are happy.
a mail car, with an unusually large
mail, was destroyed by FIRE near Petersburg, Va.
Thursday.
Seventy.nine lives were lost in the
wreck CT the ship British Admiral off Kings Is
land Australia.
Chewing gum is SO cheap at Water
| bury CT, that female seminary is 10 be cstab
i lishcd there.
Josh Billings says, there is two thing
] in thia liza for which mr.. ral
that is twins"
The Earl of Salisbury is authority
for the statement that Bismarck ia of Jewish ex
traction.
The St. Louis papers satirize the me-
trop) lis of tho Northwest by spelling its nam'
Shecawgo.
Mr.. Beecher's silence les the i'm
macula,c Theodore. who gives vent to his impa
thence by moralizing on the sin of silence.
1t is alleged that ex Governor Shep
herd of the District of Columbia has instituted
libel suit against the New loik Sun.
1t is alleged that the leading Nov
York railways propose to build telegraph line
over their roads for II new Telegraph Company.
At tho Vermont University this yea
the Sophomore class is led by girl and tn
Freshman class by negro boy, who was q slav
prior to the war
Miss Susan L. Dickinson, sister o
the brilliant Anna, and said to inherit full
share of the talent of the family, is about to ente
the lecture fe Id.
While the girls in a Cincinnati board
ing school were kicking at mark recently on
of the number dislocated her thigh joint in tn
operation.
A Kansas girl wouldn't be marie,
without yellow ribbon around her waist and
} boy rode eight miles to get it while the guest
waited.
, The King of the Sandwich Island
does not get all DO wants. He asked the Legisls
ture to guild him $50, 900 palace and ,0O'
were voted for that object.
!, Gov. Davis Of Minnesota seeks al
from the National Government for the people i
his State who are ut the point Il starvation OWN
to the grasshopper plague
, The securities belonging TO the estat
of deceased millionaire of New York city wer
sold at auction Thursday, amounting to ov'
500, 900.
Said Young America TO his papa =
"Pa, DO you a Britisher 7" Eyes, my son. WI
born in England" well we whipped you, II
, torted the youngster.
Within two months three music hall
In England have been burned. the fire occurrin
in each case on Tuesday, which, as a coincidenc'
is some what singular.
A boy at Rock Falls, ILL.,, in divin
out Of a boat the other day went to the bottoi
} with such force as TO lodge his head in the mu'
where he was afterward found dead
At recent meeting OF II society con
posed of men from the Emerald Isle. a memb,
made the following motion; "Mr President,
move yee's whitewash tho ceiling green in hon'
OF the ovid flag"
A Miss Hattie Saunders Of Whit
Pigeon, Mich, was struck by lightning recent