The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-05-19
NEWS ITEMS.

Nlhufh.' IN wv ph Ncuntsuhl
Vasquez, the noted California bandit,
las been caught
Boston's subscriptions to the Louisiana
sufferers amounts to Sit,4ll2l
The estimated damage by the Missis.
'ippi overflow is about $50 100000.
Congress is economizing in the sppro.
priations for furnishing the public buildings
Good Templarism in England has in.
creased its membership lao, 900 in two years.
Gossip has it that Tcnnyson thinks
J Joaquin Miller tho greatest Of American poets
Reports are received from Arkansas of
great suffering among the people by reason of the
Mississippi floods.
1t is said that the recent rebellion 10
Japan cost the government over two millions Of
dollars
Gen. Sherman has the Presidents per.
mission to remove the headquarters Of the army
to st. Louis
The first ustallment of the Mennonites
1855 in number, left Baltimore on Wednesday, for
their Western home
The Dartmouth boys have voted to
raise $1,000 to pay the boating debt and to send
the crew to the regatta.
A young New Workers. mania for set.
ting houses on fire, is said to have cost his father
many thousands Of dollars.
The late Rev Thomas Binuey of Lon
don by will forbade the writing Of any memoir of
him by his family or friends
The Prince Of Wales says the whole
royal family Of England have recently been de
voting themselves to music.
The annual meeting of the American
Tract Society and American Home Missionary
Society wore held at New York Wednesday.
A letter from Havana states that
heavy battle. the most important Of the war. was
fought on the goth of April The result Is un.
known in this country.
Stephen Mitchell, wealthy citizen of
Glasgow, Scotland recently bequeatbed $3.50 900
to that city for the foundation and maintenance
Of free public library.
Hon. David A. Wells has been APP
pointed by the French Institute to the vacancy in
the list of foreign associates caused by the death
Of John Stuart Mill.
The stage is 10 China the lowest order
of professions. Play motors share with BARRIERS
the pain Of exclusion from competition at li;era-
ry examinations
Joseph Arch, it is said is working
himself to death in the cause of the British la
boring men. His voice is hollow and his physi
cal weakness painfully evident.
The manuscript Of work on which
| Professor Budsen, the famous German chemist
had been engaged on for four years. recent,
burned to ashes by accident.
Lionel Levy, proprietor Of the Glob'
Theatre, London, has presented to the Duke o
Edinburgh, as a wedding gift, dessert service o
solid gold, worth upwards Of 5000 guneas.
And now Santa Anna, whose obituary
has been written dozen times persists in comm,
to life as an agent Of the Texas Pacific Railroad
and is engaged in buying up mining interests.
The Board of Excise at Whitehall
have resolved to grant no license, in answer to
petition signed by POO citizers. The Saratog
Board Of Excise have n similar petition befor
them.
Mr.. Bass, NJ. p, the great "btte
beah" man, has built church, parsonage, AN
school house. at Burton on Trent, at an outlay
rs, 900, and mado present Of them to the pai
ish.
The Treasury Department has decide
to reduce tho number Of clerks three hundred
Official notice has been given that all clerks VIII
desire to now Voluntarily resign can receive pa
until June 30.
Sir Garnet Wellesley declined the peer
age pressed on him by the Queen, because he hs
fixed his hopes and his success wholly in the mil
tary profession, and will not accept honors gu
side Of it.
At New Orleans the Spanish consu
the chief of police and tvs detectives have bee
held each in 500, 900 ON a charge Of robbery, tru
bills having been returned against them by tn
grand jury.
There was a difference of f13,500
the price of two lots of 5000 tons each of ralrot
1 iron made in England recently, although the co
3 tracts were only six weeks apart. The iron tra
c is exceedingly dull
b The latest advces from spirit lane
are that Charles Sumner was greatly "surpris
u and confused" to find himself placed At "-
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4 The most extensively dressed man
9 ever saw" writes sailor correspondent, "wss
70 African chief. His wives had anointed him wi
IS palm-oil, and then powdered him from head
d foot with gold-dust."
h In the vicinity Of Petersburg. Inc
according to a local paper, it is only forty feet
= the deepest places to the coal vein, and in MAJ
@ places it is near the surface IA to prevent t
\ digging Of wells
q The Jubilee Singers are quarreling
4 London with their agent because their benet
proved failures, which they charge to his negle
- aud they threaten to give a series Of concerts
IT their own account.
Is At his reception OF cardinals, bisho
d and other eccesiastics the Pope WINS severe on t
;, Governments Of Mexico and Guatamela for t
" prosecutions they have allowed to como upon
'e church in those countries.
20 A Western Congressman. who recent
y visited different sections OF the West has return
II to Washington convinced that imitation is
=, popular, and hereafter will expose all schemes
.' expanding the currency.
- A bill declaring homicide in sing
Va combat TO be actual murder, and wounds innici
in a duel as evidence Of an assault with intent
kill, is before the French Assembly, supported
government influence, and is likely to pass
% A bicycle race OF three hundred mill
from Sheffield to Plymouth, England, was ter
u mated recently. the winner doing the whole
We lance in four days and half At the close
nj was tired but not exhausted. His rival broke
"A vehicle on the road and had to withdraw.
m The Rev DR.. Newman Hall lectur
on the 2lst ult in Surgeons Tabernacle, gvi
10 an account of his tour in America. The proce
is of the lecture were devoted to the fund for hui
ing the Lincoln tower at the New Surrey Chap
Only 1900 are needed TO complete this structu
81. Ut tlpntu ANNUAL ultttlup VI tue ~
=, tional Eucampmont of the q. A. X. was held
"a Harrisburg, Pa, Wednesday. Judge Char
e- Deyins, Jr.. Of Massachusetts,, was elected CC
-, mander Chief Col. G. q. Atwood, Secrets
W Of the Board of Trade, was elected member
IL tho Council Of Administration for MaSsaehuse
Is tx. Mayor John l.. Flag, OF Troy,
t.. y, died Monday morning Of last week FROM
se. effects Of an overdose of chloral. lie was i
no yer Of fine talents and represented his city in
- assembly from 1865 TO 1871. His age was
10, thrty-nine lie was graduate Of Harvard
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m. The New York Times says Use
Zen. Sherman with troops to Arkansas, with
structions to restore order, and not to quit
State until we know who Governor, and u
,h- that Governor and the Legislature are prop'
m. obeycl, The President may postpone this ste
but no will have 10 take it, 81 something IKE
III sooner later
ms The whole Of the South aud West
ny not suffering for want of currency, even of
DO best kind A Now York business man writ
- from Galveston, Texas, says; "llere they X
-" not paper money, nor the meaning Of the word
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