The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-05-26
NEWS ITEMS.

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Chicago had $4,000 IRE Wednesday
evening.
Prof. Swing has Withdrawn from the
Presbyterian church.
The wine crop of the United States is
20 900, 900 gallons
Epitaph for cannibal-"Ono who
loved his fellow men,"
New York has contributed over So.
900 for the Mill River sufferers
Eighty thousand hymns have been
written in the German language.
The classic Rhine is to have a feet OF
gunboats. Bismarck's idea.
The House has passed the bill admit.
ting New Mexico into the Union
Carl Schurz is too unwcll from over.
work to attend to his Senatorial duties
A new French cabinet has been formed,
with NJ. Goulard at the head
There are fifteen bridges across the
Mississippi river at different points.
President Grant approves Of the pro-
posed decoration of the graves of Cunfcderates.
About S,000,000,O00 gallons of lin.
seed oil are used annually in the United States.
Indianapolis, Ind. claims population
Of 100, 000-thc census of 1850 gave her Is, 900.
The scientific party will sail from
Brooklyn June !, to observe tho transit of Venus.
Three American students at Lausanne,
Switzerland, have been drowned in Lake Geneva.
Seven persons were buried by the fall
Of house in Cincinnati, Tuesday night ono
died
The first annual meeting of the Milers'
National Association is to be held at st. Ious,
June 3.
Alamo, Ind, proudly points to George
Fruits, who is Ill years old, and has 100 de-
scondants.
A fire at Central City, Colorado,
Thursday, destroyed half million dollars worth
of property.
a Troy youth who got $1,000 salary
in ball club two years ago, now works in soap
factory at s. per week.
The New Yorker who tried to beat
BENEFITS pedestrian feat fell short of his mark by
nearly six minutes, and lost $3.50.
A big black bug is now the scapegoat
in which Delaware peach growers are endeavor-
ing to hang their sin of extorton.
Philadelphia MAKES more ingram car
peting than all other places in the country put
together. There are 2s0 factories
a thousand crates of straw berries were
from Norfolk were sold in New York Thursday
for from % to 30 cents per quart, wholesale.
The managers of the Centennial Com.
mission confess their inability to make cred.a
Bile exhibition without aid from Congress.
There is a maple tree at Sunapee, n
1...1. I A..
an average of % IL pounds of sugar, every year
, since 1923,
, The forty.three women crusaders who
, were arrested in Cincinnati for obstructing tht
sidewalks were discharged from custody Wednes
day without fine but warned not to repeat the of
fence.
: The Congressional Committee on Way
and Means has adopted two resolutions severed,
, ccnsuring Secretary Richardson, his Assistant
, Sawyer, and Solicitor Banfeld.
: This moral advice is from the San An
, tonic (Texas) Express: 'If our young men do no
wish to fill gamblers grave they should tape
of on robbing stages"
Tea and coffee may be superseded b,
n Brazilian tree, which produces fruit about tn
g size of walnut, whose active principle is denti
cal with that found in tea and coffee.
The Democrats in Connecticut are de
termined to made the most of their victory, an
the newly elected Senator Eaton was indctc
i with another serenade Thursday evening
: The duel between Prince Metternic
K and Count of Montebello took place on Thursda
at Meudon, near Versailles. The Count Wa
U wounded in the arm and disabled.
Adolph Cluss, the engineer, and
member OF the Board Of Public Works of the D
trict of Columbia, has turned States evidenC
against the Board, and makes serious charges
corruption.
A grasshopper plague is threateQed
l. the southwestern part of Minnesota Tho gfSur
& is represented to be literally alive with them, NJ
~ they have already commenced eating the veget
. ton
c Advces from MADEIRA state that tn
" vines are in a satisfactory condition. The Azor
% newspapers deny the existence in those islands
@ a movement in favor Of annexation to the Unit
/. states.
If Henri Rochefort, the Frepchman, wi
= recently escaped with four others from the pen
colony of New Caledonia, arrived at San Franci
l. co Thursday, in the steamer Mikado, from Au
7 trala.
), There is well belonging to aTtratha
II (N. H. man in which water can be dipped
from three towns if the bucket is dropped in il
III ing in the well.
te To add to the troubles of the DO
~ freestone cutters of Boston, whose employees ha
Us been on strike for some weeks the apprentic
+. have struck for nine instead of ten hours, a
have formed an organization.
~ A passenger train on the Syracuse al
u Northern railroad ran into an open drawbridge
Is Browerton, n. Y, Thursday, killing the c
h gineer, Higgins, and Conductor Church, and s
"A verely injuring the fireman and baggage mast
No passe myers were hurt
~ The statue of Gen. Israel Putnam, Il
- revolutionary hero, which is to be set up up
the West Park, Hartford Conn.,, will be put
=, place in few days, and June 18th, the annv
le sary of the battle of Bunker Hill, has been 81
n. hested good day for unwilling it.
to Three years ago three colored m
M bought 200 acre farm in Tennessee for $500,
We be paid in three annual instalments. Their OF
r. capital was five mules, and yet at date they ha
tv paid the whole sum, beside having support
ve themselves and families. They did all the VIC
w themselves
VI Another Anglo. Russian alliance IN;
We rmonial is placed among tho probabilities. I
IN prospective high contracting parties are
he Grand Duke Alexis and Beatrice, young
"a daughter of Queen Victoria. Alexis is about
GU years old and the princess II, The matter is
d. riously discussed in the political world.
''' A party Of forty women crusade
IN. were arrested at Pittsburg, Pa, Thursday aft
of noon, while visiting liquor houses, and brous
:; before Acting Mayor McMasters, and chars
~ with obstructing the sidewalks. They were
he missed with the admonition that repetition
ii, the olense would be punished to the full ext
-. Of the law.
In reply to note from the preside
of the Missouri press association, Henry WI
at Beecher writes; ~ think | am n little IN
,ss proud of being newspaper man than of anyth
700 else. have noticed that people generally pr
Vo- themselves something little one side Fl
ed their regular yoca tons mere than in their IN
- business.
ay Governor Moses, of South Caroli
nd who has gone INFO bankruptcy, presents curl
;, schedule of debts Among the minor cases
" these: $50 600 due on house, $50, 600 due
is Baltimore furniture dealers, Sl5Oo due tail
tba | $4,000 due to restaurant keeper and shoe ma X