The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-12-08
NEWS ITEMS.

The mills at Manchester, N. H., arc to
be run full time.
The Dutch troops have captured seven
forts in Achoon.
During the past month the public debt
decreased Sl23, 427 c.
The Concord IN. H. Savings Bank has
suspended payment.
A Jewish congregation in London in.
tonds to have an iron synagogue
There are two widows in Atlanta aged
respectively fourteen and sixteen.
A new Methodist chapel is to be erect
ed INN cdiately at Wolluston flights,
The Mayor Of Lowell will hereafter
draw salary of $500, instead of $500.
A report is in circulation that the Gar
Of Russia Is insane. 1t is probably canard.
The last act Of Mayor Havemeyer was
to draw a check Of $40 for the sufferers in Alaba.
An indiana father crawled under a
corn crib IND wept when his daughter married an
| astronomer
An old man in Nevada, 20 years of
age was recently sent to Jail for twenty years for
shooting fellow citizen,
|
false estimates Of repairs On the palace of the En-
peror he loses his head
Josh Billings adyertises his lecture
with diagram, in which some of the most i'm
poriaut jokes are located.
The water Of Lske Champlain is so low
that tho Port Henry paper o5mpians of the dust
kicked up by the steamers.
The Republicans of Pennsylvania took
from the Democrats State debt Of $40, 0OO, 900
and have reduced it Cne-lalf.
Let lovers Of wild turkeys take the ad.
vice Of Or. Greedy and g west At Palmyra,
Mo. they scll fr : cents pound.
The planting Of trees around mining
claims is urged in California. They are so handy
to have in lynching neighborhoods.
A young jockey in California, who has
ridden horses in several during the past two
years has be u discovered to be girl
Hogs to the value of three and a
half million of dollars were marketed at Louis
vile, Ky, during the month Of November.
The intelligent dog in Worcester picks
up the crying babies that no finds on the side
walk aud carries them into the nearest house.
The dead lock in the Biddeford INC. J
city government, which has blocked the wheels
Of legislation since last spring, has at last been
broken.
B. 1t Is said the proprietors Of the London
I'mes now cast their own typo, and that tho same
plan j. about to be adopted by all tho London
tailes.
y London dispatch says that Prince
Arthur, while out riding Monday, was thrown
o from lis horse at Norwich and sustained fracture
n of the leg.
J.. 1t is said that owing to defect in the
4 New York city charter, the Chairman of the
- Board of Aldermen may legally oiiicate Mayor
: for two years.
9 There is at least one man at Cloverdale
. Ind, who is not in clover. lie killed his wife
!. and aneighbor on Monday, and the neighbors
proposed to lynch him.
Neither the Republican nor the Demo
>, cratic Congressman, so far as they yet repre-
u sented in Washington, sanction the idea of
e March meeting of the next Congress.
d Needham has within short time made
!. rapid progress in local improvement, and now has
a local newspaper the Needham Chronicle, which
= has already secured reliable support
n A lady of Harrisburgh, Pa, has "iust
:, received the sad intelligence that Sl2j 900 have
been left her by the death of her father in Cali
= fornia, says aiocal paper,
. Gen. Butler, now in Washington, con
firms tho statement that a movement will be made
carly in the coming session to obtain definite ac-
ton on the Civil Rights bill.
). North Carolina Legislators are devils.
Il ing means to pay the State debt. 1t is proposed
to issue new bonds, payable at the expiration OF
q thirty years, bearing six per cent. interest.
s a good many persons who couldn't be
hired for love or money to saw four sticks of wood
twice in two will sit down and write all dav on
the "lamentabe wholesale Obstruction of Amcri-
e can forests"
do you think" asked Mrs. Perper
that little temper is bad thing in a woman
- Certainly not, aam,' replied gallant philoso.
, pher, 1t is good thug and she ought mover to
lose it."
q The ianitor Of an indianapolis medical
college was deeply affected on recognizing his
: brother-in-law on the dissectng table His grief
b. was the moro poignant from the fact that he had
himselfcar the stolen corpse up three flight Of
: stairs.
, l.. S Tobey of Massachusetts, second
officer Of the steamer Wilmington, which plies
between Now Orleans and Baltimore was drowned
On sunday while trying to sa 70 one of the crew ei
n disabled schooner.
:. -vuvvNc Iuir, III England,
tho judge decided that American factories cannot
, produce cheese equal to tho best cheese made in
England, although they successfully compete with
the mcoium qualities
The National Board of Fire Under
writer's, in Wow Of the extra precautions against
fire in Chictso, recommend that tho companies
belonging /, tho Board uso their own discretion
Il. recpening busircss in Chicago.
Al kcene, y, H., mau entered his
I oan house late at night and was mistaken for a
c bur, la'; hi4 sister called for help and Il neigh
p hon ~ "a IN aud SHOT the Innocent man, wao
nalgoN.y escaped death.
\ Sunday school teacher remarked,
you must rccolcct that all AIN telling you
j happened on- thousand gat hundred and seven
:. ty-ioGr years ago Lot miss, how the time do
b dip away, was little Sailie's comment.
g Some San Francisco Minstrels adver.
ise FOR 200 active boys to pick up hooks and eyes
every evening during their peri. rmance, and the
c obo f it is tnpt II number of huys have pestered
Y the :rs asuser for en- Iloymcnt.
I ! Sselo has invented new explosive
T called the 90, CONT which is said to ombody all
the good and none of the bad qualities of every
previously bnGwu explosive, than which it is also
i sid {. BE- more powerful.
B. The GUARD line Of steamships is held
i hy three families the Cunari., the Burns and the
, Maclvers, tic infringement resting with Mr.
Canald, London, MIR. John Burns, Glasgow, and
10 Mr.. Charles Maclver. Liverpool.
IL is stated that the appropriation bills
= except the Sundry Civil, or what is commonly
II known the Omnibus bill, very nearly com
pleted, and will be ready 20 present in the House
TIE first day or week Of the session.
Mr.. James NJ. Bugbcc has completed
- al index to the City documents from 1888! t,
" 1874. previous pamphlet brought the index tt
1850. and this continuation will be welcomed by
all whr have fund the index of the greatest ser
l. vien.
a Is your intended husband in his con
~ Ycr.aiion and carriage a consistent Christian?
- asked clergyman Of young lady who was soou
Is 10 be married. In his conversation no is very