The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-12-22
NEWS TIE Ms.

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cause new features are constantly introduced.
The calaboose at Usage Mission, Kan,
was burned. Saturday night, and two prisoners
persisted.
The colleges of the United States re.
ceivcd gifts and legaces amounting to IS, 23s, l4l
during the year 1873.
a colored barber who died in Pitts.
burg, Penn, the other day, left $500 900, all
gained by shaving of some kind.
1t is now believed that the authorities
will not insist upon forcing negroes into tho up
or girls high school at New Orleans.
The Porter to the Great Seal' the
functionary who operates the great seal of Eng
land-uses four hundred weight Of wax per month.
1t is stated that Secretary Bristow ex.
presses his hearty concurrence in the views pre-
scented by MIR. Dawes in his late speech in the
House.
King Kalakana says the Americans
are a wonderful people, and he has always had tho
most exalted idea of them. Now we ought to
feel happy.
Tom Jones, a negro, was sentenced at
Montgomery, Ala, Tuesday, to be hanged, jan
uary 9th, for tho murder of another negro ia a
quarrel over % cents.
Two Secretaries of the British Legation
at Vienna are soon to marry American ladies.
The Secretaries are brothers, and reputed to be
exceedingly rich"
Capt. John Griffin, of C%ulpepper
county. Va, n veteran of 1912, can still Jump and
crack his heels twice before touching the ground,
though he is 50 years old.
They talk about the reckless extrava.
gancc of the American people, and yet a Chicago
man yorkpd all day To cleop a thraa cant stap,,
so that he could use it again.
Office seekers must be scarce 10 New
Zealand. A recent advertisement, in a local paper
calls for a man to I'll n public office, the salary Of
which is $500 per year in gold.
The great fire in New York which de.
stroyei the Merchants Exchange, etc, when the
loss was estimated at seventeen million, COM
menced on the night Of Dec. lG, 1885.
A Milwaukee woman's bonnet costs
upon an average, about fifteen dollars, but she
has the bill made out for thirty or forty dollars, in
order to show it to the woman next door.
The st. Louis merchants exchange and
board of trade have united in n memorial praying
Congress to grant the aid desired By the Texas
Pacific and Atlantic and Pacific railroads.
A Scotchman so years old was recent.
ly naturalized in Kaysville. Utah. When asked
if he intended to obey the laws, he replied that
ait isna worth while tae dae otherwise moo"
An elevator company at Toledo uses
corn cobs as fuel for their engines instead Of coal,
and find it better. They receive corn in tho ear
and shell it by machinery. Hence the cobs.
The Farmers trading association Of
Ann Arbor, Mich, has failed for $40, 900, and
the accounts of Superintendent q w. HAYS are re-
ported as quite straight. He has resigned.
Professor Bonamy Price, who has been
bordering over the 365 convertible bond bill. il
said to regard Judge Kelley as a lunatic. These
Britishers can never understand American states
men.
Humboldt county. CAL. feels very com
ply, which, according to estimates is large enough
to employ all the present mill capacity for II ,145
years.
A Washington special saws that the
Russian mission is still on the political market
Horace Maynard Of Tennessee is warmly recon-
mcnded for the appointment, but us yet without
great prospect Of success.
A wild boar was killed a few days ago
in the suburbs of Detroit, and n Western newspa-
per says that consequently Michigan is consid
ering the ~propriety of becoming n Territory
again.
The Louisville Courier thinks some Of
the Southern planters are going too far with their
new pet theory Of small farms. An Alabama ma
bob has cut his plantation into patches, not one
of which is bigger than Rhode Island.
A brutal and unprovoked murder was
committed near Montgomery, Ala, Tuesday, by
two negroes who went to the store Of Matthew
Strauss, in the outskirts of the city, awakened
him, and killed him with a coupling-iron.
Belle Plain, Iowa, has the champion
cat. Seeing n crane quietly r%oosting up a tree,
she waited till ~nightfall. Then she pounced upon
the crane. Then the crane flew away with the
cat. still the crane was soon food for kittens.
There is a Representative Wells of
Missouri who earnestly deprecates the mention of
his name for the next Speakership. lie declares
che is not fool enough to expect such honors,"
and he is certainly entitled to the presumption.
An English paper reports that Ameri-
can apples-Baldwins in particular-are now SELL
ing at moderate rates throughout England and
Ireland. They reach the market in excellent
condition, and are sold as cheap as home grown
fruit.
Rapier, the defeated candidate for Con.
gress in the second Alabama district. has served
notice of contest upon MAJ. Williams, the con-
gressman-elect. The allegations of Rapier are
numerous and general, including charges of fraud,
violence, etc.
In addition to the Fairbank libel suit
now pending against Wilbur F. Storey, editor of
the Chicago Times, two others have boen brought
against him by ex-County Commissioner Sam
Ashton and Commissioner Lonergan for calling
them "thieves.'
Mr.. David MacIver. manager of the
Cunnard Line, and now n member of Parliament
for Birkenhead, made an address recently in ia
vor of the volunteer movement. To sum up his
apfptnn ta UNA in favar nf arbitration lint
thought it wise to be ready to fight.
Two bills were introduced into the
North Carolina Senate, Tuesday, to call Il con-
vention for the purpose Of changing the present
state constitution, known as the Candy c%onstitu-
ton. There is little doubt of the passage of the
bills, as public sentiment is in favor of n change.
The Washington correspondent of the
Post says that Democrats as well as Republicans
in Congress are earnestly endeavoring to secure
harmony Of action upon some financial measure be
which with concession on the part Of the contend
ing factions or interests, will be in the main, sat-
i~sfac.ory to all.
The suppression Of the order of the
Sisters Of Charity has been decreed by the Mexi-
can Congress by a vote of ll3 to 57.-The congress
sional committee which had the matter under
consideration have reported in favor of the sub.
scriptiOn of Sl2 900 per mile to the Tehuantepec
railroad company -Tepic has been completely
pacihed, and the authorities reinstated in office,
A freight conductor and three brake.
men ofthe Louisville and Nashville railroad were
arrested at Nashville, Tenn, Monday, for break
ing open freight cars on that road, and abstraeting
goods therefrom. Their mode Of operation was To
remove the hasps from a door, thus not breaking
the seals. then to break open packages, and, af-
ter taking out a portion Of the contents, to nail
then up again.
A recent sensation at Paris was the
discovery that a band of robbers who have been
operating very successfully in tho suburbs were
females disguised in blouse and brooches. They
got along very well until one Of them fell in love
with a young man. She was indiscreet enough to
introduce him to the rest, and they becoming en-
vious and suspicious, there was a fight with
knives which was interrupted by the police, and
the whole crowd were captured.
The Alabama state Senate bias passed a
bill authorizing the governor to appoint two