The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-12-15
NEWS ITEMS.
has $4,000 Protcstants.


Dauels printing house in Lille, the
largest establishment of the kind in France, was
burned Tuesday, loss $4,000
A submerged forest has been discover.
cd in the English river Orwell, which extends
along the bed of the river distance of three
miles.
There are over $4,000 idiots iu this
country who are acknowledged as such. The
mai ority of people will regard these figures as
being low estimate.
AT Montgomery, Ohio, few nights
ago. Mrs. Daniel Logan, woman weighing $50
pounds, accidentally fell out Of bed breaking
her neck. and dying instantly.
The greatest man in Pennsylvania died
in Borke county last week, at weight of four
hundred and fifty pounds. The calf Of his leg
was 20 inches in circumference,
"Ven some man slaps me on de should
er und says, Il vas glad to hear you vas veil,
und den sticks behind my back his finger to his
nose, l hef my opinion of dat Teller"
Rev. DR.. Mackonoche, the ritualistic
preacher, has appealed from the sentence suspend
ing him from the sentence suspending him from
the exercise of his functions for six weeks.
Dr.. Peter Gonsolus, stout old Texan
Of &c years, has had six wives. always marrying
young girl, and is the father of "a children, As
Of whom are living and doing well. So he says
The widely known obituary bard says
"Cease to weep, for tears vain; jamie, dear,
out of pain" If the tears calculated to keep
jamie in pain their ineffcacy is matter for re-
joicing.
The sultan of Turkey has given $780,.
900 for the relief Of the famine-stricken inhab-
tants of Angora. Prospects there are improving
Prices Of provisions have been reduced, and agri-
culture Is revivng.
An Irish American Railway Company
is to be organized IN Stockton, Cal. There may
be something in tho name in this case, but it
would probably require more than ordinary
microscope to find it.
Col. Forney announces that he has Of
fetal information that the British government as
sents to recognize the centennial celebration at
Philadelphia, and has restoved to appoint COM
missoned to the exhibition.
Several governments, including that Of
France, have sent favorable replies, with certain
reservations, to the invitation of the car of
Russia, to take part in an international law con-
ference to be held at st. Petersburg.
Mr.. John Shaw, manager of the South.
eastern railroad has received, through the Austro-
Hungarian ambassador, the order Of tho "Iron
Crown" lately conferred on him by tho emperor
of Austria, for distinguished services,
The poor princeling in whose diminu.
tive veins flows tho blood of Alfred the Great
and Peter the ditto, had to have six sponsors ah
Archbishop, Dean and Royal Chaplain 80 as
sist in comforting upon him his long-tailed name
There is body among the Roman
Catholic clergy known the "oblate fathers"
fellow with no respect for the cloth says that
he has seen priests who are very nearly "spheroid
fathers" The point if the ecclesiastical cD,bon.
point.
A dairy company who was DESTROYS Of
supplying Londoners with pure milk take up five
columns of the Times with a three lined adver-
tisement 405 times repeated. They probably
think that advertising their milk will prove more
profitable than watering it,
A suggestion has been made to the
London school board that public hogger shouid
be employed to correct children who play truant,
but the board was of the opinion that "public
opinion not ripe for that" Ripeness for that
would be decided greenness
In Glenelg, lnverness.shire Scotland,
there has been but one birth in six months, while
marriages rare events, and the registrar notes
the painful fact that "there is scarcely house
in the district in which more than half the mem.
bers Of the family are not old maids
The condition of trade in the northern
countries of England and Scotland is unfavorable
The recent strikes have increased the general de-
preston, especially in the manufacturing districts
In Large proportion of the mining districts the
men have submitted 10 Il reduction of 10 per cen
on their wages.
Only few of the stations for takin.
observations of the transit Of Venus, Tuesday
have been heard from. They successful a
Cairo, Suez and Thebes, the Photographic obser
Al.
At Shanghai, the weather was overcast and tn
sun obscured.
The 22d verse of the Cd chapter o
Genesis in the new Scriptures to Tyndall, Huxley
Spencer and Darwin, says: "Behod the swiites
man caught the most animals, and the swftes
animals got away from the most men; wherefor
the slow animals wero eaten and the slow me
starved to death"
An anonymous letter, understood t.
4 emanate from the premier Of Italy, Signor Ming
hett, refuting Bishop Dupanloup's Charge
against the italian government is published.
denies that the pope is prisonei and declare
that the government Of Victor Emanuel will faith
n fully maintain the papal guarantees.
A Mrs. Oren is State Librarian Of In
I diana, and by law passed last winter il to per
form at the opening Of the Legislative session a
the duties heretofore performed by the rcspectiv
authority to serve processes, arrest Senators,
will be in short High Sheriff Of the Senate.
Four man entered the store Of j. L J
s. Golfer, at Spades Station, Ind, Saturday ever
: ing, and, with drawn revolvers, demanded money
I After obtaining about $50 in cash, two stoo
. guard over the inmates while tho others loade
some wagons with the goods. Two Of the thev,
U were arrested on Sunday, but the others have n,
!. yet been captured.
d An Italian manager being annoyed a
b the inconvenience resulting from the fact thu
n all the female members of his chorus AWAY
" brought one or two old ladie. to rehearsals wit
them, who passed in as their mothers, put a sto
Q to the habit by ordering that no lady engaged
= the theatre should be allowed to bring more tina
y one mother with her at a time.
y The presidents Of the various colore
u societies at Memphis Tenn, have organized
q society called the Knights Brotherhood and MOI
= umental association, the object of which are
discard all political ties and cultivate and mair
, tain permanent peace with the white people
l. the South. Their resolutions severely conden
}. the whites who have used them politically an
shorn them of all Their means
k About n mile from Kingston, Ca, r,
4 Gently a cclored girl on Major Wooey's plant
. ton, Cass Arp by name and / years old stole son
C potatoes and was in ormed on by little two-ye
old negro boy, whom she afterwards drowned
e throwing him into the river. Circumstanc
\ pointing to her as the murderer, she que
toned and confessed the deed. She is now
Z, prison awaiting the disposition Of her pecui
/. case.
George Hunter, one Of the editors I
,f the Scotsman, was found in 18th street, ear
. Sunday morning, insensible from fracture of q
e skull, and taken to his boarding place, whe
}. has since died. lie is said to have been seen
Ie enter house Of bad repute, early Saturday eve
ing, and there is little doubt he was foully mu
b dered. lie accomplished scholar, gra
D. uate Of Aberdeen, and formerly occupied
prominent mercantile position in Toronto
Edward Stewart, formerly Of Live
pool but recently from New Orleans, bought
ID this market a few days ago, outside Of the colt
20 exchange some 800 basis Of cotton, worth s22 90
10 ana shipped the same TO Liverpool lie sold I
al hills of ladinU Ia Duncan Sherman q Co, rccei