The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-03-10

The temperance crusade 10 Chicago is
a failure.
The Pacific Railway is blocked by
snow in Utah.
Woodruff, Claain and Blood are in
Jail again.
A reduction of 5000 men 10 the army
is probable
Paris delights in an American winter
this year.
The trial Of Doherty for the murder
of Calvin in Wakefield has commenced
The new bridge across the Mississippi
at Quincy. Ill, will be 2lOO feet in length.
The public school.houses in Brooklyn
are represented to DO in a very bad condition.
The Michigan Legislature is in extra
session to consider proposed constitutional re-
forms.
There are ruinors If proposed import.
ant changes in the municipal government OF New
York city.
Rev. W. Balkom. d. d of Lewiston,
Me-, was thrown from his horse Wednesday aud
instantly Killed
Mrs. Gaines has entered another suit
against Caleb Cushingi tails time for libel, and
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Rev. Jacob Knapp, the we'll known
BAPTIST rcyivaist died at Rockf ford, ILL.,, Sunday,
aged n.
a studio building is to be erected for
the convenience OF artists living and lobbying in
/ Washington.
Ben. II. Hill is to be candidate for
Congress in the ninth Georgia district We shall
have them all back by and by.
"huro. Weed opposes the centennial
exhibition, because it perverts II patriotic occa-
sion to pecuniary gain.
Tie Indian appropriation bill reported
to Congress Wednesday appropriates S4,93 ,779
against So ,54l ,4l9 last year.
Southern papers say that insanity
among negroes, which used to be very scarce, is
increasingly frequent since the war.
Where are you going?" asked little
boy of another who lad slipped on an icy pave
ment "uoing to get up the blunt reply.
Dundreary Sothern heard that the
London theatrical fund was Sl395 short, at the
end OF the year, and promptly sont his chock for
the whole.
g. G.. Foster Of Atchison succeeds
Judge Delahay, reformed cut for drunkenness, as
judge of the United Stael district court for Kan
sag.
The destitution in Paterson, n. j.,
continues undated Over 20. 600 persons were
furnished with provisions by the relief committee
last week.
Coyles ropc.walk at Montreal, Can
was burned, Sunday; loss IS 900. boy named
Zephiren Lsbrccho was burned to death in tie
building.
The street-car conductors of Memphis,
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sion, instead of 81 pnr day. Their places were
filled.
A census Of Galveston, Tex, Just com q.
pleted, shows 1880 inhabitants, not including
the floating population,an increase OF ,vVV
in three years.
The Maine Legislature adiourne d
SINE die Wednesday afternoon, after passing ll3
resolves and 3l2 acts, during a session of forty
nino days.
Lieut.. Gov. Campbell of Bengal gives
most narrowing picture of the famine in India.
lie says over 100000 persons are now in a
starving condition.
Rev. Samuel Osgood, D. D., says that
not long before the death of Agassiz, that scholar
declared deep realization OF the Importance of
physical education for women.
Ex-Minister Motley's new work is
rather harshly criticised by the London Press.
The critics think it is the poorest and weakest
all Mr. Motleys literary productions.
A fresh eruption of the Gillian volca.
no has begun. new crater has broken out on
one SIDE, and the river Nuble shows signs of the
lava flowing into its head waters.
Henry Shaw Of St. Louis is about to
convey to the city his magnificent botanical gar
dens and land enouLh adjacent to provide an in
come for their maintenance.
i, the death OF John Pyc, one of the
most famous of English landscape engravers, is
announced, at the age Of 80. His greatest works
were from Turner's paintings
The abuses of the moiety system are
being gradually exposed before the Ways and
} Means Committee at Washin ton. 1t would take
long lime to toll the whole story.
J Ii it is true that Pic Mono said 10
speaking on the subject Of cruelty to animals
that imam owes no duty to the brutes" have
another reason for doubling his infallibiity.
: Three catte-dealers have sued the
Pennsylvania railroad at Pittsburg to recover
Si7 900 for alleged breach of contract Discrim.
nations against Pttsburg shippers is also alleged
, When 4 western member of Congress
recently alluded so feelingly to the "hay-seed in
his hair and the ''oats ia his throat" why didu't
be complete the diagnosis by speaking of the rye
IN ul5 stomach
One Of the distinguished dead of Janu.
! airy was Aim Jah, Prince of Aroot, heir to he
nawabs of the Carnatic. from whose dignities and
revenues, however, no cut of by tue British
lie was ~ years OF age. long life for Hindoo.
Charlestown, Mass, was the scene oil
another shocking tragedy Wednesday night
; Janes Dwight shot William Mclaughlin, and af
terward attempted to take his own life but failed
| n m iybf AiPt lin
) live.
: The lower branch of the Kansas Legis.
laturc has ''sat down" on the dead head system
| by pa sing bill making it a misdemeanor pun.
ishable by fine OF from SlO0 to $1,000, for any
legislator, or any State county town officer I,
accept railroad pass.
L Toledo, D., contemplates with horror
the disbandment of its FIRE department, which ha
Overrun its account S55 900. The council won
I make new appropriation, tho treasurer has nj
money, the mayor won't sign bonds for the de
heiency, and the fremen won't work without pay
Sir Walter Croiton, the founder Of tn,
Irish prison System, is expected to addres
the national prison reform congress at st
= Louis, March -. Iloratio Seymour will ma L,
= the opening address and Rev. Dir. Bellows viii
DO among the other speakers.
4 The New Orleans police are drilled al
r cavalrymen and section mounted, eacl
u night. About one-third are colored and there l
p no partiality because of color; white mel
3 serving under colorcd officers. or the other way
a., according to uerit,
y In Congress, Wednesday. Fernando
!. Wood reported favorably from tho Committee OF
!, Ways and Means the bill fixing the duty on still
u wines imported in casks at two dollars per gallon
J, or two dollars per dozen in quart bottles. Ii
}. said this would add one million Of dollars to TIL
i revenue.
The Milwaukee and Chicago brewer
have made sensation in the Northwest by rails
the price Of beer TO Sl2 per barrel. This viii
h help the praying women. But the Chicag
= Times proposes to relieve tho sufferers by specis
q legislation: |, initiate the currency SO that 5 l.
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