The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-03-02

tor is wont frequently to relieve his gush-
ing feelings by these expressive demon
STATIONS and his example, al least in
this respect, would naturally be initiated
by the generality Of his devoted flock.
Perhaps here is the secret of the astonish-
ing popularity of Plymouth church. The
kissing all around, incucatcd by the pas
tor in practice as well as In precept. must
he highly gratifying to many Of the
members, especially the old maids while
the younger people may learn to give up
the sinful diversion of the round dances
for the superior bliss Of pious kissing
The pews in the church have always sold
at high prices, but very likely the univer.
sal publicity which these peculiar facts
have now attained may render the com.
petition at the next annual vendue more
productive than ever New York Sun
IAN EPISODE OF THE WAR."-Gen.
Quincy A. Gilmore has deemed it worth
his while to correct certain misstatements,
to put it mildly, concerning the naval
assault on Fort Sumpter in September,
1868, made in an article contributed to
the holiday book "LOtos Leaves" by W.
s. Andrews. These statements tended
to show that the general did not act 10
concert with the naval forces in the
assault in question. The general does
not put it mildly, but remarks that the
statements arc "sheer fabrications from
beginning to end" Mr., Andrews,
describing himself as the officer in charge
Of tho signal station at Gen. Gillmore's
head quarters on Morris island, gives a
number of extracts from alleged signal
dispatches exchanged between the general
and Admiral Dahlgren, commanding the
naval forces, in which matters Of etiquette
prevented the army and navy from acting
Jointly. MIR. Andrews further says that
because of the difficulty of signaling,
Gen. Gilmore finally sent him to the
admiral to arrange the details Of attack
verbally, and cites the verbal message he
brought back in return which transact
ton the general pronounces mere fig.
ment of the writer's imagination. Other
details Of Mr. Andrews's story are taken
up and contradicted and to conclude, to
Mr.. Andrews's saying II find no mention
of this assault in the rebellion records or
10 any of the official reports of Gen. Gill
more or Admiral Dahlgren," the general
says that on the contrary the assault and
the correspondence preceding it are
prominently mentioned in his official
report. and detailed report is on flo in
the war department, and the annual re
port Of the secretary of the navy contains
the official reports of Dahlgren and the
subordinate commanders. But why
should Mr.. Andrews have gratuitously
constructed fiction so readily exposed
The closing of protestant schools III
Turkey is wildly described, with its bru.
tality and outrage, in letter from Rev
DR.. Jessup in the Evangelist. Up tc
December Goth, the date Of the letter
the government had closed the schools il
the Nusairiych mountains, forbidden the
opening Of new schools anywhere, and
threatened to close all Protestant schools
In Mount Lebanon, christian pashalc
whose basha is appointed by the christian
powers Of Europe in conjunction with thu
sultan, the government has opened com
mon schools in villages where Protestant
schools have been in operation for ten
twenty, even thirty years, leaving 10 neg
lect villages where there has never beer
a school and has threatened with penal
ties those who send their children to thu
Protestant schools In the Reformed
Presbyterian mission in Latakiah. estab
lished for nineteen years, according I,
testimony taken by the American consu
lar agent, the house OF the American mis-
sionares was broken into and searched b,
Turkish troops. who treated the houses o
all Protestant converts in the place il
like manner, and pillaged them. iearin
the jrwels from the womeD's ears ant
sometimes the garments from their per
sons, beating and pricking them wit
their bayoneis, carrying away the valua
bles found and destroying property wan
tonly. DR.. Jcssup hopes Mr.. Boxer
energetic measures will result in success:
but thinks the only punishment will YER
likely be given to the private soldier
while the officers, who he imagines ha
orders from Constantinople to do thei
worst, seven if openly reprimanded, vii
be secretly applauded."
Mrs. Lo AND HER PHYsIcIAN-Th
colored citizen may acquire the charaC
; teristics of the proud Caucasian, job
Chlnaman may follow the customs @
"Melcan man." but Lo, the poor Indian
sticks to his legends and his ancestrs
ways. This was illustrated, lately il
Washington territory. The wife OF a
Indian chief was sick and she was unde
the care of an Indian doctor, but still tb
illness chung to her; she reflected upo
her case, and after much cogitation, al
rived at what she considered satisfac
tory solution Of tho health problem. Sh
called her husband aside aud confided be
views to the noble red man, who GALE
her fondly his own. She said she ha
thought the matter over, and didn't thin
she'd ever feel any better unless be kiIe
her doctor, Tho squaw was the apple o
the cbieftain's eye, his own sweet Mime
haha.-if that was her nane.--how coul
he refuse her? He went out and invite
the aboriginal physician to confieutis
, interview in the primeval and there draw
ing his trusty tomahawk, he sudden
cleft the professional mans skull, produC
log gap which though not as deep as
well nor wide as barn.door, was enoug
it killed him. And then the lord Q
the forest returned and took his dusk
mate, and straightway she became con
vaIescent. Far be it from us to inmat
that a similar course in civilized commun
} tiles would save some sick people, bu
, that it succeeded in Washington territor
: the Indian agent will swear.-[Chicag
Tribune.