The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-03-17
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King Oscar OF Swedel has invented q
fire escape apparatus.
Serious charges are mad; against the
City Marshal Of Taunton.
There was $50, 900 fire at Fairhayep.
Conn, Thursday night.
The Snow blockade on the Central Pa.
ciac Railroad has been broken.
Canon Kingsley will pass the sun ner
at Colorado Springs, Colorado
Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia is
to make a tour Of the world soon.
The California Legislature has passed
bill admitting wommen to educational Offices
Mr.. Disraeli is to have only twelve
members in his Cabinet. Mr.. Gladstone had II
Sir Edward Thornton, the British Min
istor, will summer on the Hudson again this year
Hon. Parson Browhlow calls Revels q
"high-nosed Niger, without 40 honest kink 10
his wool"
1t is believed that Jaynes will turn
States evidence against his co-participators in
the spoils of office.
A. the Rhode Island State Republican
Convention Thursday, Gov Howard was renom-
mated by reclamation.
A boiler at the City Water Works,
Binghampton, N. Y. exploded Tuesday, killing
one man.
Camilla Urso was severely burned on
the left hand and wrist by the ignition of keroso-
line in Boston Tuesday.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cakes Smith, the vet.
eran authoress, is leading the woman's temper
anee crusade on Long Island
Judge William Strong of the United
states Supreme Court will sail for Europe in June,
accompanied by his family.
NJ. Guizot, now in his eighty ninth
year, is still in coed health and this year intends
to commence his Universal History
The election Of Mr.. Frank Miller as
Mayor of Portsmouth, N. H., secures to that
pleasant city a gentleman Of energy and ability
A spinning mill at Dundee, Scotland
was burned Monday night. Loss SlOO, 900. Seven
hundred people are thrown out of employment.
The Tax Receiver OF Louisville, KY
who died recently under suspicious circumstances
had robbed the city of a large amount of money
The statue Of Edward Bates, ordered
by friends in st. Louis, has arrived in that city
1t was made by Mcdonald, Is in bronze, and cost
$4,000.
Marshal Bazaiue, in his "secusion" al
oainte- Marguerite, only goes out for two hours
in the day, walking in the court belonging to hi,
prison, under the surveillance Of two keepers
The United States Senate Committee
on Finance have agreed upon the general features
of finance bill, and will doubtless be able to 70
port such II measure ut an early day.
The entertainments given BY Lore
l. ottus, the Britis. Ambassador to Russia, 6urins
the recent royal marriage celebration in ST. Pc
tersburgh, are said to havo cost { 10 ,000
In the United States Senate, Tuesday
Senator Morrill, stated that during the Forty
second Congress the Senate had expended sl6i ,
900 in making investigations.
Adolph Rommeus of Louisville, who
had $4,000 insurance on his life, chiefly il
Eastern companies, has died, and suspicious Of
fraud are entertained An investigation is ID
progress
Mr.. Gladstone would have raised Bar
on Lionel dc Rothsehld to peerase, had it no
been for the fact that the oath required to b,
taken by the House of Lords debars any adheren
, Of the jewish faith from taking a seat.
Madame MacMahon recently presided
over a meeting Of the chief editors Of the Par
Pres, held ut tho Palais de Elysee, for the pur
pose Of enlisting their support in favor of public
subscriptions for the poor.
The Duke o. Bedford has had cast
5 colossal bronze statue Of John Bunyan which h,
, will present to the town Of Bedford 1t is to b.
, mounted upon granite pedestal on one OF tn
q recns in that town.
While "a laborer is worthy Of his hire,
it is pleasant to SEQ good done for goods sake
and 50 it is n pleasure 10 learn that MI Moody
who has been engaged iu revival work in Grea
, Britain, has declined gift Of some thousands 0
pounds from converts On the Tyne.
1t was stated at one time that ex
President Fillmore was opposed to tho war. Il
private letter to Il friend who asked a recon-
, mendation from him as doctor in the army h
says: II deem it every mans duty at this tim,
to serve his country as best he can" etc.
A Count Valdez of Paris is said t,
, have been horn at Prague en- the 10th of March
l16G; was manager of Paris theatre in 1898
. wounded ut Austeri;z while an officer in the HUI
: in 1905, and married at the age of 81 il
1850. He is still alive and in good health.
Before the stout English Princes
, Mary became Princess of Teck, her friends trie,
to get up a match between her and Victor EN-
. manuel. He came over to see her, and after tn
interview, exclaimed "Why. that woman woul
81. on the seven hills Of Rome at once"
Sir William Harcourt, q prominen
, English Liberal. has such a waspish temper tina
tho following story of him Six barristers as
frolic agreed to dine together, each to invite tn
, most cantankerous man he knew. Dinner wa
laid for twelve, but only seven sat down, each 0
the six having invited Sir William.
1t ia reported that all the companie
having policies on the life Of Colonel Stillwell o
Indiana, who was shot in fracas few month
ago and whose life was covered by insurance