The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-04-14
NEWS ITEMS.

The building trade IN New York city
is much depressed.
The Agassiz memorial fund now
amounts to SOC, j52.
Five hundred of the natives Of India
have starved to death in lIatcoul
The National Wonens S.niaee Con.
vention will be held in Now York May a.
a compulsory education bill has passed
the New Jersey Senate by u vote Of - to G.
The gross receipts Of the British rail-
roads have more than doubled within fourteen
years.
New York has used more than mil.
lion postal cards per month since they were Grst
issued in May last
A company with a capital of 500 900
has been formed for the manufacture Of peat fuel
near New Haven.
1t has been satisfactorily settled that
the Siamcsc twins were not Baptist., but United
Brethren.
One Of bismarck daughters wants to
marry young C,;holic rcnilonan. but papa
SAYS no.
a boat containing nine fishermen cap.
sized south Of Chicago, wednesday. and seven
were drowned
Three men were killed Tuesday on the
kasion and Amboy Railway by the explosion of
tw" s'ea'f, boilers
The Episcopal church at Worcester.
Niuss, was burned Tuesday evening. Los $50
coo; Insurance $4,000.
Helen Dickens, dauabt,r Ut Charles
Dickens, is attracting iavorhblr attention q,
writer of fiction.
1t Is reported tina. Secretary Richard.
."n h'- secured passage FOR Europe and will sail
about the middle o. May.
Mr.. Low, Minister to China has re.
signcd and it is said will be- succeeded by George
H. Seward, Consul at Shanghai.
y man writing POLITICALLY OF the weather
says Tho backbone Of winter is broken, but its
tail wags yet occasionaliy.
10 Carthage, H., boys under tho age
Of sixteen arc. by city ordinance recently
passed, prohibited from chewing tobacco.
Five inches Of snow fell Thursday
night at Concord, y. H., eight inches Mt Hills
boro. and nino inches at Bristol.
a severe hurricance in New Jersey on
Friday morning, blew down fences, tree, and one
?. dwelling house; damage $4,000.
The American Board of Foreign Mis-.
sions is in debt to tho extent Of So 900 and an
earnest appeal ior aid Is made
II there is one time more than another
when woman should be entirely alone it i.
when full line Of clothes comes down in the mud.
The town 0: Concord, Mass. has voted
To oNpend 5000 in celebrating tho centennial au-
niversaFy Of the Concord dght, April 10, $50.
The Duchess of Edinburgh isn't
handsome, and tie London .nob criticised her Sc
.Ha1 .a..a . 4
Charles Mills, the noted base ball
catcher the hutuals and other base ball clubs
} died Of consumption, Thur-iay, aged 80 years.
| 1t is said that President Grant on
: Wednesday received huihel Of letter. appealing
for veto Of the imitation bill If il passes hoth
Houses.
The cuIogy by Senator Sehurz On TIC
late senator Summer viii be delivered in Music
Hail, Boston, Oh Wcdue Icy af',ruoon. the 18th
} inst.
: lia1en Morse, Of Ilaycrhill Mass,
. formerly resident Of noston. and widely known
as m accomplished ougraver. died 'u Thursday
ogod 81 year.
Boss Tweed's prison apartments are
olabora.ciy fitted up, anil effort being made
to place him on leyc! with other M ycs in that
institution
Brorherly love does not prevail al
t Covington ny. man named iIu,s Irving thor,
has just won verdict OF S27o1 in a suit Tor slam
! der against his own brother.
The French steamer iiuopc, from
llayrc March - for New York was abanione,
the 2d Of April in sinking condition. Al
I tho passengers, 100 in number, wcrc saved.
\ The will OF Mr.. George Merritt, lats
Of .vington, y. y, displse- Of real aad persona
estate to the amount Of ever seven millions, q
which Nh Mcrlitt died POSSESSED.
A relic OF the Inflated steamship At
lantic. in the shape Of passengers ticket
printed in German and English, has been taAei
, from the ~ mach of rrcsctvel .almon At St
john, y. y.
A man in Ottawa, H., recently
plugged a tooth with cotton saturated in crcosot,
to relieve the pangs OF toothache lie allowed i
somehow to drop cut. and swallowing it died o
: the poison.
! Prague Bryant was hung at Pulaski
n Tenn, Friday, FOR killing Alexander steele. two
, years ago. Bryant made full statement th,
gpllows, and sl,d hc did mot regret having kille,
Steele
The Prince OF Wales has great fancy
for visiting good restaurants and during his Tat,
= visit to st. Petersburgh, slipped away from som
state cercmonialS 70 crafty hi taste in thi, re
sqect.
, An English gentleman, Sir G. Fitzger
- aid, Bart, took notion to drive n hanson him
\ self and putting cabby inside, mounted the box
He arrested and fined ''for unlawfully acting
as a driver without license.
! The Chicago Tribune estimates that
getting born costs the people Of the United State.
, SEQ 09j 600 annually; getting married, $3.50,
600 ,O00 getting bnfiei, SlJ,sj9,i5O; total
: Sj43, 93l, iju.
= John W. Goodwin murdered an aged
. man and wife named Haywood in Putnam county
Ohio, Wednesday night Goodwin arrested
and with great difficulty saved from being
Z lynched.
c 1t is stated that Mrs Fanny Crosby
/ who wrote the favoritc hymn, "swcet Hour oi
n Prayer" is living in New York with her hus
band, and is extremely poor, nearly blind, anu
very old.
The Governor of Georgia has leased
. the convict labor of that State for about 5000
j per annum. The conyicts are to be employed il
Z different portions Of the State at mining, rail
. reading and farming.
! A Georgia negro who bet $40 thai
! Gen. Washington commanded the Federal, a
1 Bull Run handed the money over with the rc
r mark, "Nell, dis ycrc hi-t'ry business i al
mixed NJ anyway
Dishop toleuso OF Natal mas written IL
friend in England letter on Spiritualism, il
[ which he says he has nothing as yet to enti
-, tie tho doctrine to any serious attention OF
the pant Of thinking people.
i Passengers to the Pacific by rail break
q fast in the Sicrras with twenty foot Of SNOW
"a around them. -Four hour later thoy find whea
four inches high aud the next day see pear ans
. peach trees in blossom.
. a Philadelphia paper suggest a costly
- joint monument to sumner, Greeley, Chase AN,
Seward. fhe country already has good many
% Suggestions of the kind on hand--incuiug ou'
= i'll uuiuiGlel in honGr of Washington.
: \ correspondent Of the St. Louis Dis
Igiei has been interviewing ,he Mol,c- GA theii
reservation in Indian territory. lie reports tha
- their general condition is sati-Merory. mud thCi
advance in civilization rapid.
: A New York man living on larm il
. Aloha ,vta er,lar.l ~. tho In. llu. ia Iowa