The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-02-17
NEWS ITEMS.

rian, Is dead.
David Frederick Strau,-. the eminent
German author. Is dead.
Four.6Iths Of the people OF Spain can
neither read nor write
Gen. aud Mrs. Mcclellan are settled
for the winter at Palermo.
There was a $50, 900 FIRE at Waltbam.
Mass, Wednesday.
A $40 600 incendiury fire at North
Providence Tuesday night.
The liquor law il Cumberland county.
Maine, is to be vigorously enforced.
A report is circulated in New York
that the new post Office is unsafe.
Plans for big swudle IN Cincinnati
have been nippcd in the bud.
Miss Smiley, the Quaker evangelist, i,
creating great sensation in Cincinnati.
Tn. uitro-gl cerine factory at For,
Ticonderoga exploded Monday, killing two men,
E,H Derby aud D,rarl are spoken of
as rivals for tho Premiership Of England.
Appearances Indicate that The currency
scheme will succeed.
Cholera and yellow fever are raging in
The gale on the southwest coast of
ireland has been attended by marine disasters
and loss of life.
The Indians, exasperatcd by bad treat.
mont, giving trouble in Nebraska and yicini-
ty.
The Methodist clergy Of New Jersey
out in opposition to the taxation of church
property
Intense excitement exists at Victoria,
British Columbia, relative to tho confederation
que stion.
/ Republicans Of Texas are considering
n plan for the division of the State into two
States.
1t is rumored that James Gordon Ben.
nett has given $4,000 to the poor of New York
city
The trial OF James NJ Lowell for the
murder of his wife was commenced at Lewiston,
Me-. Tuesday.
La the U S. Senate Tuesday bill was
introduced to remove the political disabilities of
the pirate Scmmes.
A fire at 81 Broadway. n. Y, Mon.
day morning destroyed property to the estimated
value ofSl50,00o
Senator Boutwell, introduced an i'm
portant bill Monday to amend the National
Banking Act.
The landed property left by the late
Chang Bunker is valued at $40 600; that of his
brother Eng at $4,000.
In the tax collectors office of Brook.
Ign frauds to the extent of about $500, 900 have
been discovered.
The Opera House at Bethlehem, Pa,
was destroyed by fire Monday night. Fire
crackers the cause. Loss goo, 900.
Prof. Julius Seelye has been called to
tho Professorship of Theology in the Union Theo-
logical Seminary at New York.
William Proctor, Jr., Professor OF
of the College of Pharmacy at Philadelphia, died
suddenly Monday night.
There is a new development in the
Portland Wall~r-Waite affair. The last story.
previously given, is pronounced n canard.
JohD Thompson, private in the Sec
ond Massachusetts, regiment, was found starved
to death in New York, recently.
The Governor OF Iowa recommends
law exemping capital employed in manufacturing
enterprises from taxation.
L.ud-eer Is reported to have recog
uized aud called by name dog. which he had
seen only once, after lapse Of fifteen years.
George A Wilkins. formerly Of Ar.
kansas, was arrested Mt Leomnistcr on Tuesda,
for murder committed in Arkansas many months
ago.
The r present,tiv-s 10 Congress from
the frontier Western States are org MIXING to or
pose tue entire sy,t uf the Indian p-acs Com
mission.
Mrs. Putnam. tho wil ~ Of the gen.
teman killed by Foster, the car-hook murderer
has failed to recover oi the horse railruad CON-
pany.
The women's temperance movement i,
succeeding wonderfully 10 Ohio. Ia one plae.
sixteen out Of tSenty-thrce saloon keepers have
signed the pledge
Sir Walter Crofton, the founder Of III,
Irish prison system, ia expected ia Boston soon
aud will probably nddres, the Legislative Com
nittee ON Prisons.
The inundution Of the Baltic has
caused groat loss Of property mud many lives ar,
supposed TO have been lost along the eastern
: coast Of schleswis liolstcin
Secretary Richardson anticipates tina,
the deficiency at tho end of the present fiscal year
may be reduced to S27 900 600 instead of reach
ing $40, 900 0O0, as he feared
The mystery Of the private drawer oil
Buttrick, former cashier Of tho Waneset Nation
al Bank of Lowell, has been elucidated, much to
the chagrin and disgrace of that ex-oflical
Judge Moore Of Brooklyn recently
told a thief that although he was Obliged to dis.
charge him under the verdict, he would make i,
hot for him if he ever got the opportunity.
The Mayor of Waynesville Ohio. has
, issued an edict against tho woman temperance
movement The ladies determined as he
and will prosecute their reformatory labors.
The Georgia committee to investigate
the Indebtedness of Foster Blodgett to tho State
reports him dcfauter for $4,000 and interest
r making about $4,000.
? Bishop Cheney has been trying tc
found church in t. Louis. but thus far he ha,
more inquirers than adherents. People are dis.
posed to look before thcy leap, and prefer being
spectators to actors.
George Hatch is wanted at Newark
n. j., he having engaged to marry widow Mary
johnson, obtained possession of some iv,
thousand dollars Of her money, since when be hai
not been
A proposed amendment to the New
Jersey constitution is that property of no kline
shall be exempt from taxation, except that If tn,
9 State, counties and municipalities, and buryinl
, grounds not held by stock companies
In seventeen years Sturgeon has re.
? ceived IL, 900 persons into his church. erected
: thirty-six chapels in London, and supplied Thu
, same with ministers trained in college of hi
! own founding.
The attempt to make it appear that
= Hon. Ezra Cornell had Incorporated the pub
lie lands belonging to the 'ornell University hai
been found, after careful estigation, to be en-
i tirely groundess. inv
A new Postal bill was passed by th,
= National House Of Representatives, Tuesday
which doss away with several senseless regula
] tions existing u tho great annoyance of the pub
. lie generally.
More than three hundred natives o
. Vermont, resident in Wore ,, ter, Mass, met Tues
day evening in Washburn Hail. and in mos
. dclig htful manner revived the memories Of theil
G native hills, and formed permanent association
, The Congressional Committee on Edu