The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-02-10
NEWS ITEMS.

stenm n\ machine is OIL the
stocks at Auburn, N. Y.
The printers CT indianapolis are on a
strike for higher wagee.
The public debt was decreased last
month Sl,-i5,2ll.
A shock Of earthquake was distinctly
felt at Father Point Sunday.
The cigar makers strike 10 New York
is virtually ended.
King George OF Greece dislikes every.
thing aud everybody English.
The fire at Memphis Tuesday night
was incendiary. Loss $4,000.
Constantinople has been visited by
another severe confagration.
There are rumors of fresh trouble he.
tween France and Germany.
Minister Bancroft recently appeared Oh
skates at the Thiergarten pond in Berlin
The father of Senator Conkling died
suddenly at Utica, N. Y, Thursday.
The National Grange of the Patrons
Of Husbandry is in session at St. Louis.
Col. Sam. Allen, the great stock raiser
of Texas, uhips 100, 900 head of cattle annually
The Midland Railway strike has ter.
minated, the quarrel having been amcably ad-
justed.
A large plumber of counterfeiters are
in circulation on several of the New York county
banks.
When the name Of John Smith is
called in the Ohio Legislature eight men respond
faye"
Gov Woods of Utah says there 10 no
one in that territory authorized by law to unite
persons in riiage.
A hotel livery stable and sixteen nor.
ses were burned at south Norwalk, fonn., on
sunday loss $4,000.
Articles OF impeachment have been
presented in Congress against Judge Duste,d
vi Alabama
A committee has heen appointed b.,
Congress to moke cl, &c investigation Of affairs
Of the District vi Columbia.
A pair oil X ,lAinazon (uich J twins
are said to weigh, bYth together, three pound.
AN fur ounces
The oranges nre 10 fashion. too. The
Wisconsin state grange is investigating its e1-
secretary's alleged little jobs in st tioncry
R-v. N. +. Co leigh, D. d, former
editor of Zi,n's Herald, of Boston, died at Atlanta
On SUNDAY, OF typuoiI pneumonia.
The Congressional Committee on Elu
carton and Labor will report adversely on tn,
oils to prohibit the importation Of COoic labor
At the great G in Yrddo. J.rsn, il
zee mher, une nici chant iist one hundred thu II.
-aud bales of BLK, valued ut one and n half mil.
lion iollats.
The Snnhorn revenue collection inunir,
appears likely To reflect upon the veracity Of tn,
late James Brooks, in his Credit Mobilicr state
ments.
Kansas has finally elected a United
'tates Senator to succt ed Caldwell-ex-Guverno
James NJ Harvey.
The little State of Delaware has III,
honor Of growing nearly all the peanuts that ar,
grown in the United States. Tho yield is frou
80 to 81 bushels per acre.
a Baptist clergy man says the reason
why the Baptist church is like beavers hut i
because there is but one entrance to it, and tia
is under water.
Fourteen fathers in Quincy H., hav,
signed an agreement not to permit heir dau Oh
tiers to take music lessons until the yoang wolnei
know how to bake bread.
A fireiess locomotive, to be tested i,
New York, is being made in tho Grant Works o
Paterson, New Jersey, and will be completed ii
two or three weeks
The floor of large factory at BURY
Lancashire, England, gave way during politica
meeting Monday. Six people wcro killed AM
many injured
Gen. Butler introduced resolution il
the House Monday, favoring disabled soldiers il
civil Service examinations. The resolution wa
adopted.
In the present t mper of Congress AM
Of public sentiment committees having bills i
reporting them.
Minister Jewell has fine picture gal
lery connected with his residence in St. Peters
burg, and tho Russians arc delighted wit
American art"
The sugar product of the Sandwich
Islands, last year, was "a 900 900 pounds, an in
crease OF eight millions over 1872 while OILY on
million is consumed at hume.
The United States Senate, Thursday
after discussing the proposal to exempt from tn
bankrupt law debtors who do not owe three thou
sand dollars, defeated it by 20 yeas to % nays.
Whether Col. Dick Thompson kille
Iecumseh or no, that savsge's tomahawk is still
own "a by Col Dick, Jr and is to be de posted il
Tue c'il 20 at Georgetown, Ky, "til called for
Henri ocheiort is living in what
described as the healthy and picturesque vale
IL Numoo on the peninsula Of Ducos. lie keel
apart fro other convicts aud desires to RENAL
quiet aud unnUtic,d.
Ii has been discovered that the stnr
o. the Messrs. Harris in New York ba, b c
rubbed from time To time within twu years
ri. .. Ia. :.
have been sold at Boston aud salem at ve,y To-
piices
A bill has been Introduced 10 C,ngres
oallow parties having conveyance deeds naa
curing the wai at the >uuih the cuiside, alton ,
which was Confederate money, t. lesalizv ID
same by means Of stamps.
Nebuchadn zzir is mentioned as III
fret granger, but incorrectly. Eve, who made
equation in the apple business, ana whu bro
up Adam monoriy, WAS the first to patronil
hdsbsndry -Cincinnasi Times.
Louisyille ,oor folks complain thst
Nhilr that city seat $40 900 u f,ver-strick,
Memphis, anu n,aty thousands To Homeless O. i
eis", II has Contributed un'y 81, 900 10 r.live 1t
own starving aud homeless pu,r.
Pouch has cartoon called 9TH Va,
Halt ~ in which the pope, with a Cur i
bishop If " estiuinster; ">orry wevo nothing il
this sizo to fit yuu, DR.. Manning. Al prrsen
so've only got hats Tor uLd rsizeI heads.
The SAT- Francisco Bulletin says Their
are two or three hundred the usand outlaws Ia ii
obtains OF California, who live by robbery all,
vi'l. nee. They coasiunull, make a rait on som
viIla-e ANA I'll 1t Of vaiuabl =. They are quit
esure FROM arrest in their mountain fastuesses.
1t is possible that the selection OF S.
ratoga for the c, llege regatta will break up th
jollege Rowing ssOciation. Many OF the stu
dents object to the betting and the moral sur
rounding that will meet them ut what they cal
THE place Of blachleg and gambling resort"
RAMS Pacha Of the Turkish artiler
died recently at Constantnople at AN advance
age lie was Prussian and his name wa
schwenzaur. Nearly forty years ago he went
Constantinople with the present Field Marsha
Won Moltke, to instruct the Turkish army wit
which ho has since been identified. lie WI
+ highly esteemed by both Turks and Christians.
Suicide fer love IS still IN vogue. Mis-