The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-02-24
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Fire at Sing Sing Tuesday morning
loss upwards siO0,OOo.
Franklin Is. Evans was hung ut Con.
cord, n. H., tuesday.
The United States steamer Dictate,
has arrived at Key West.
A cotton mill was burned at Leeds.
England on Wednesday; loss So 900
A 100000 fire ia New York cit,
Monday night; rubber factory destroyed.
1t now appears that Gen. K. Il. LIE,
intended to write history Of the rebellion.
The report Of the death Of Gen. Dor.
regaray of spain proves to be false.
DR.. Beeke, the Engli,h traveller, say.
that he has discovered tue true Mou.t 5inai.
A young lady died Of heart disease il
Rcv. Dewitt Talmage's church, Brooklyn, sun-
day night
A bill has been introduced in Congre,.
changing the entire customs revenue coll ctio,
system.
The druggists of New Hampshire hen
secret convention Concord, Tuesday, "a Dit.
cussed the liquor question.
SIR Garaet Wolreley, commander e.
the ashaltce expedition, has been raised to I'll,
lverage.
A. a.. Guthrie, one Of the origina
anti-slaveiy agtatOrs of OLio. died AZ Zautsvill,
| saturday night
Mr. Gladstone has formally rendered
his resi- snation, and Disrscli has been >unlnoned
to Windsor.
Gen. Alexander Won Luders, of tb,
Russian army, who held command in the Cri-
mean, died sunday, aged 81.
The political campaign in New IIsrnI
shire ia waxing warm. The election Is only
short time hence.
Brigham Young's canDoa Factory ha.
turned out ninety-eight pieces Of artillery, and
he has II 100 stand of arms
A man in Lycoming county, Penn.
wears pants So inches in length. Get your tailor
to estimate his hight
While the Philadelphia doctors are
bothcing themselves about the Siamese TWAS
their patients are all getting well.
There was an approach to one of tn
old time fights in the Unitd States Iivuse Thurs
day between two kentucky members.
One OF the gang of masked robber.
near New York was tried Thursday, found guilty
and sentenced to twenty years Imprisonment.
Senior CASTELAR,. in event of q plebes.
cite, will support Marshal Serrano's candidature
Tor the Presidency Of the Republic.
The autopsy Of the Siamesc Twins il
said to show that they could not have been sepa
rated without destroying their lives.
DR.. Miles. Secretary of the America,
Peace Society, was given reception by the So.
ciety, Monday, On his return from Europe.
After loug chase the New York de.
tectives have succeeded in capturing in England
RAYMOND, the rngeader of the railroad stock
forgers.
Three men we're killed, and other
badly injured, Monday, on the Iehigh and Sus-
quehanna Railway. freight train ran into
land slide.
A fossil egg 10 museum at Riga.
Russia, is over seven inches in length and nearly
6 inches in diameter, and is equal in capacity /,
Al hens eggs.
The daughter Of man named Brow,
in Erie county, Penn, died recently, and when
the facts became known to tho father he fell dead
almost Instantly.
The Gar of Russia declares that him.
self, the Emperor of Germany, the Queen of Euy.
land and tho Emperor of Austria would pres,r1.
the peace Of the world.
The Polish Princess Czartoryska has
made over the whole Of her immense fortune ana
vast landed possessions to Roman Catholic con.
vent at Posen.
In Mississippi the Lieutenant Govern.
o., Secretary Of state, Superintendent OF Public
Education and Speaker OF the House vf Repre-
sentatiyes are negroes.
The laborers on the Lowell! and An.
dover railroad are on strike for higher p,y
they complain that ono dollar per uay ouly pay.
their board, leaving no surplus
Queen Vic'oria's hirIhday is to b.
| celebrated at Richmond GU the III of NAV. h,
the british residen Of Virginia, who intuvd L,
make 1t II grand occasion.
A lit OF the tameS Of all,re d,.li,..
quents i, giyon in the 5anburn ,rtrs.t d,cu.
uehts. Sefestuy hicnarisDu cautious .urrrs
against c"ns'derins tne'n all b.nI hde ueluquuGt.
Captain Liuhe, tuu LJrraiu of IN
British war snip Nobc. who proved himself =
worthy Ut honor at tue tiuio OF the Viz ginius NJ
TAI has been promoted to tho rank Of Admiral
1t Is generally conceded ut Washluu.
ton that it tho pending public do. um,n, bil
passes tho House 1t viii prepare the way for tn,
practical restoration ot tue thanking privilege.
The Heating saloon business is having
trial in the West. There is one on Enrlisi
Lake which i 4 source Of much trouble tu til,
settlers in Dewey Township, Laporte county, In.
diana.
"What is heavens best gift to man ?"
asded young lady on Essex street sunday night
smiling swee u On plea 1t looking clerk. "A
Loss' replied the young man, with great pru-
dence-Dant,.ry Ners.
A rogue whom gentleman caught
in the act of stealing pair OF bouts ex II ,,ne,
his conduct by stating his Geiio L. .Lt,i D, city
upon an improved iooting. Iio left thut socel,
upon rather disugreeato footing.
A Catholic priest in Brooklyn repri.
manded some unruly boys at his church Thurs
day anu locked them up, telling them tue,
should stay till night. Several jumped tut Vi
tho wiud""s, three oi whom were fatally hurt
lu New York. Tuesday, the trial OF
John L. Simmons for tho murder of Nicholas W =.
Duryea formulated in verdict Of murder in the
,hird degree, and summons was sentenced to three
years aud six months in states Prison.
A shocking tragedy has been enacted
at Halifax, abont six miles from Bridsewater.
Mass Two bachelor brothers named Sturt.yaut
and a maiden lady nalned Buckley were mul-
dered sunday night Tho murderer is unknown.
A curious development was made 10
tho U. s. House, Monday. 1t was shown that
the adoption OF comma aud the letter IS" gave
an entire different meaning to law and involved
the pay ment of g2,9OU,UUu duties by importers
which atterward had to be refunded to them.
A London literary paper says Of
George Eliot that on her manuscript she tolls ire
mendousiy, working on an average six hours
day, and rarely accomplishing in that tune NOR.
than 800 or 1000 wodrs. Her labors are 40 *.
hausting that she devotes all the remainder OF
the time to recreation and rest.
An idea of the social possibilities in
Washington is given in the statement that thirty.
seven OF the seventy-t"os ssnators arc accompa-
MED by their wives, aud nineteen have their
daughters with them. OF the two hundred and
ninety eight Representatives and Delegates, one
hundred end twenty nine have their wives with
them, and many of the others are accompanied
by daughters and lady friends
The murder trial at Lewiston. Me.
has terminated, and in a manner satisfactory, we
doubt not, to a majority If those who have fol-