The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-04-07
NEWS ITEMS.

iuat hOHtn
A vile milk swindlc has been un.
earthed in Brooklyn
King Kalakana of Hawaii is an OK.
editor
Sanborn is free, the indictment having
been quashed.
The remains OF DR.. Kirk were buried
at Mount Aubnrn Tuesday
Hartford, CT, has made III new
voters, this season.
Ground has been broken for the new
chapel at Yale College
Over ton and half Of maple sugar
is shipped from Nashua n. H., daily.
A Lebanon, N. H., man has an clean.
dor that has grown 100 feet during the winter.
BARRIERS distilcry at Warehouse Point,
Conn 3, is using up 200 bushels of grain daily.
A large fire occurred ut Mllcrstown,
Pa, Tuesday night. several lives wc q lost,
1t is said that the new Captain Gen.
eral OF Cuba will endcavor to end the ,ballion by
treaty of peace.
Couneciicuts imports for the ear end.
ing October 81 were 8 3G7 ,oSi: exports. silI,-
j31.
William Everett will deliver the poem
before the united literary society Of dartmouth,
next commencement
Prof. Declares of Yale College i. 80 i'll
that he will probably 10 unable IT, resume hi4
dGt.t- next term.
The Masonic block at Appleton. Wis,
vn' burned Thursjay night: loss SIT 900. insur-
ancc 1000.
a firm in llillsboro, y. H.. recently
| filled an order from England fer 500 boxes Of
clohespins in two dnys.
The French steamship Nil on her last
/ voyage fTom Hong Kong to Yokohama was lost
Eighty passengers were drowned.
A Maine man has just received letter
from tho dead-letter Office letter he directed TO
his brother in Monterey, Mexico, in 1865.
Chief Justice Cockburn Of England in
tends to take up his residence in Italy. Of
course he couldn't be persuaded to think of Spain.
Lord Dufferin, Governor General OF
Canada is autocratc in his language and speaks
OF the Dominion government as "my govern
ment"
Ex- Mayor Gilbert Of Troy, n. T.,
has given $1,000 to Union College for the purpose
Of furnishin; the new gyinuasiu. Of that instiiu.
ton
Senator Eamunds OF Vermont. who is
now in Florida, writes that his hoalth is almost
completely restored, and no will return to Wash
ington in few days.
There is series Of piles of pine logs,
1900 900 feet, mud sleepcrs, 5000, three miles
| long, on the banks Of the Carrabossett in Jerusa-
lem township, Maine.
1t seems evident that Jayne, Sanborn
Co. will soon be deprived of the opportunity to
make large fortunes cut Of the governmen, and
un'uspecting merchants.
A little daughter Of Cyrus Page Of
kenduskeag, Me, Is months Old, recently Swal-
lowed shawl pin, nearly three inches in length.
which remained in her stomach ten days.
The New York Herald predicts an.
other panic. The increase of an irredeemable
paper currency will not lessen the chance for n
recurrence of the recent financial crash
The Grand Duke Alexis OF Russia has
sent to the Park of Fruits. near St Louis, 23y
varieties Of grape cuttings. gathered from all
parts Of the Russian Empire.
Great preparations for Summer visitors
have boen made at the Isles OF shoals; 5000 yards
OF macafemirud walks having been laid on star
Island during the winter.
a Hartford, Conn, court has given
Henry Lewis eight years term in the state
PRISON Tor an assault on Mrs. Heaiev OF liuilug-
| ton, with intent to commit rape.
About 100000 tons OF good solid ice
has been stored on the banks Of the kenebec river
ana Its tributaries, the past winter, which is ut
least one-third more than III, usual quantity.
Charlestown, n. H., is going to boz.
row from the State Of New Hampshire one of the
cannon captured at the battle of bennington, to
be used in celebrating the Fourth of July, 1876
In the case Of tho woman Slatterly
who was set on FIRE by John Kelley, at Ottawa
and burned TO death, the coroner's Jury Friday
brought in verdict Of wiliul murder.
The grand jury at Des Mones Ia,
have found eight Indictment. against Isaac
Brandt for cmbelzling some $40 900 whilo deputy
under state Treasurer Rankin.
The striking Philadelphia carpetwcav.
era are preparing to organize cooperative as
| sociatiou and liOn shares have already been sub
scrihed and charter has been applet for.
The Rhode Island election occurred
Wednesday. Governor Howard wa. reelected
| Tho Legislature is strongly Republican. The
| United states Senatorial contest is in doubt
Secretary Richardson was before the
| Congressional Committee on Ways and Means
Tuesday, and expressed his hearty disapproval OF
the present pernicicus contract system OF collect
ing tho revenue.
a ive-mle trotting race at Oakland
Park, San Francisco, Cal, Thursday, was won by
Lady Mac over jerome and Omaha" in Is
minutes, said to he the fastest time on record fol
that kind of raco.
A G ceufcld, n. H., boy deliberatel,
set II hens nest on FIRE, the other day. after al
other means for making her quit sitting hau
fail nd har cf
nUuse were burned.
james Palmer, who was u passenger
conductor upon the Vermont Central kalroud
from lsi1 to 1850, and most Of the time sine.
upon the Michigan Southern kalread died ut
E!khar', Indiana, on the 26th ult.
a strike has occurred at Wood bury,
Ind, in L large cotton factory. Meu, women and
children employed twelve hours per da,
AID very reasonably demand reduction of the
hours of labor
A freshman at Wesleyan thought it
was a disgrace to Methodism that Ben Buffers
analogy should be used as Textbook by the
! seniors lie thinks Butler is not a; all fitted 10
form young mems ideas Of morality
4. 7. Stewards private box at Niblo'r
theatre comprise a suite Of four rooms-a large
parlor dressing room, cloak room, and box, all
richly and elegantly furnished and not surpassed
by anything ol the kind in Europe
John Painter, q Seminole, and John
| REILLY and Isaae Fillmore, full.Lluolcd Choc-
taws, were hanged at Fort Smith, Ark, Friday,
for murders committed in the Indian country.
The first protested that he was innocent to the
last.
Capt. Goondguirst and six OF the crew
OF the Russian bark Jupiter swept over
board during severe storm, February 7th, while
on n voyage from New York to Gibraltar. A re-
turning wave bore two Of the crew back. but the
others were lpsi.
A paper in Louisville, Ky, having
asserted that Mr.. Grundy Of tina; city was intox-
Gated, has been sued for damages to the extent
Of So, 900. And stIll it is probable that the ed-
tor had tho fact from Mrs. Grundy herself who
is widely known a' a gossip.
The 2Sth General Assembly OF Illinois
which finished its second session on Tuesday in
Guiding in all 2O3 days, at u cost to the State OF
$500 800 passed $50 out OF the 2l5S bills intro
duced and appropriated s. ,css $50 for the various
Qxn nf tho Statc Government