The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-11-03
NEWS ITEMS.

The Episcopal Convention, in New
York, took strong grounds ngainst ritualism.
An opera has been composed 10 Wen.
ma on the "Periccs" Of Shakespeare
A. T. Stewards New York residence is
taxed for 100000.
Queen Victoria is engaged on new
work, which will appear carly next year.
Santa Anna has gone back to Mexico
and been kindly received.
The Burgundy vintage is reported to
be good for fine wines, but bad for the lower
grades.
The Mississippi threatens to make its
way. through the illinois bottoms opposite st,
Louis and leave that city without o harbor.
An orchard planted by Daniel Webster
at Marshfcld yields this year 800 Lafrels Of
apples.
A western paper announces the death
Of a lady celebrated for the purity Of her char
acter and complexion"
A Springfield (Mass.) firm have IN.
deitaken contract to supply 20,0Cu pistols for
tho Russian Government
Turnips grow large in Nevada. Among
section sent to a fair at Winncmucca was one
Is inches high aud IL inches in diameter
An expedition to scGaeh for pearls in
the Plcifc sailed from Now York. commanded by
Captain Clark, Of Essex, Mass
A smart man of 60 years completed
the feat. in Philadelphia, Of walking 1000 half
miles in az many half hours.
The fellow captured in India as Mana
7,lib says he is not that great villain, and that
he wa drunk when he assumed the uume Of the
ehei Of the mutncers.
The Toronto (OntJ city council has
honofcd womanhood By clocting Mrs b. Herman
city treasurer 1t was Il close rub though her
majority being but FIVE.
The manufacturing of watches in this
country employees capital of nearly 50 900 900,
tho number Of watches made annually being about
/ 200, 900.
An indianapolis druggist has book.
case made by Henry Ward Beecher, wears nro.
which now docs duty in Iii, cellar as a repository
for fruitcans.
The Capital reports that an old eander
was recently killed in Virginia at the age of nine
ty' Tho namo of tho fortunate boarding house
what drew tho prize is not given
Two chivalrous gentlemen 10 Paris re.
Gently arranged to fight duel as the most salts.
factory way Of determining whether man in a
SNOW was really tattoocd or only painted,
n lady's poraso, which was accident
ally dropped into tho Niagara river. made the
grand leap of the falls and was afterwards picked
mp unframed in the Cave of the Wrds
a lawyer in Illinois recently commit.
ted suicide because old age was creeping over him
and the younger ia,n were taking away biz prac-
| tcc.
They have kissing fairs iu Iowa for the
benefit Of the churches-prce ten cents kiss
But it is not stated who is expected to pay the
money, the lady or the gentleman.
All sorts OF fun is poked at the nomin.
alton Of Aver for Congress In Massachusetts. The
Boston Globe says: "No ballots genuine without
the signature Of J. C. Aver Co"
The people of Paris will soon present
to Queen Victoria an illuminated address, thanking
England for the manifestation of sym pathy at the
conclusion Of tho siege
There is disposition among the Bona.
partists to shortly urge in the Assembly the re.
noval OF the remains Of Napoian III, to French
soil.
The western division Of tho brother.
hood Of locomotive engineers protest against the
proposed reduction of wages as unjust and uncal
led for, and have resolved not to submit to it.
Two Germans, in Pittsbure, Pa, have
been arrested at the instance Of the meat inspec
tor OF the city, who charges them with making
Bologna sausage out Of old horses which they
bought at low prices Of the horse market
1t is proposed to call the infant son o.
the Duke Of Edinburgh tho Prince Of Fcejee in
asmuch az the annexation Of the Feejee Islands t,
I the British Crown was almost Simultaneous witt
his birth.
A liberal Chicago gentleman has car
lied out the dying wishes Of the atc Bishor
Whitehouse of Illinois by paying OF the entir,
debt OF the cathedral in that city and making i
perfectly free.
As an Instance Of the ups and downs O
American life, it Is stated that former Presided
OF tho Salem (Hass.) Common Council was pickle,
up in the streets Of that city few days ago in
starving condition
The Boston Ne,cs considers that Mr.
, Beecher can take up that mortgage if the lectur
season holds out well nj ono thousand dollars
: night This IL what reputation and very extrsor
binary Advertising docs for man.
The Rev. Phillips Brooks has refuset
salary Of $50, 900 year from Philadelphia. sal,
to be the highest salary ever offered to an Episco
pal clergyman in this country and enc Of SIS zoe
from New York. lie loves Boston.
a census lately completed by the loca
authorities in Minnesota gives eco as tn,
present population Of the State and rates the tax
; able value of all property within its borders a
SIT 900, 600, an average of fraction over$393
AT the recent trial OF man in Phil
adelphia for the murder of colored man. vii
liam +. kolgan, who was summoned as Juror
asked to be excused, as he could not convict tn,
defendant Of murder in the first degree, becaus,
he chad suffered from negroes, and had no liking
for them" lie was excused.
A man in tehburgh, Mass developed
a fine strategic talent the other day. He was pay
ing hack fare, when he dropped three bank bill
aud the wind whisked them swiftly away. Ate
unwilling search for an hour, bright idea strucl
him. He folded piece Of paper and dropped i
where the bills fell, followed its light. and wher
it rested there be found also his money.
) Rumors of coming trouble between
Germany and Russia are circulating in the Euro
pean capitals more lively than even. Bismarck
it is said, is determined to demand the restora
tion of the German provinces of Russia Vol
Moltke has already his spies in those provinces
and the proposed organization of the new Land
sturm has been decided upon in view Of these pos
sible events
Information from southwestern Ne
braska shows that thousands Of people there ar,
in starving condition. One informant saw man,
VIM ioi hpehs AaH hpln'Hb " tat out udhel
squash, pumpkin and salt, and others who hat
, lived on baked -four and water cue meal day
for weeks. Fully 5000 people in the state viii
need aid sufficient to keep them from starving
and the cold during the winter,
The Chicago Times gives an eucourag
ing account Of the condition of business affairs il
that city. Some spectators have been crusheS
in the grain corners, but there has not been
single mercantile failure for months. Tho fal
trade in hill departments it unusually good and
more goods have been sold for cash ever before
Money il plenty and goes a.begging for borrow,
ers.
Work on the centennial grounds is pro.
crossing avorably that there is no doubt Of the
completion Of the undertaking at the required
time. The massive foundation of tho Memorial
hall is finished and tws-thirdl Of the granite base
course is eomploted white the interior brick -worh