The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-11-02
News Summary.

Ecclesiastical costumes are not allowed
to be wore on the streets in the canton of
Geneva, Switzerland.
The Moody and Sankcy revival meet.
lngs in Brooklyn were opened last week.
The attendance was very large.
The District attorney at Washington
decides that the government is responsible
for the new 1865 bonds of the District.
The barley that took the premium at a
Connecticut fair, two weeks ago, wos dis.
covered to have been swelled by soaking.
Frauds on the Canadian customs ser.
vice have been unearthed in Montreal,
and Government officials have been ar.
rested,
Governor Dlngley is constantly receiv.
ing letters from Maine farmers who have
gone west and desire to get back to
Maine.
The artesian we'll at Fort Wayne, Ind,
is now 5000 feet deep, and the taxpayers
are generally averso to continuing opera.
tions on it.
A sale OF real estate, amounting to 1913
lots, at New York, last week, showed a
depreciation Of from % to 80 per cent.
within three years.
A silver howdah ior the use of the
Prince of Wales is one Of the nonsou>ical
extravagances that individuals vst to
India is to result in.
A handsome youth, being questioned
by rather stylish lady as to his occura-
ton, replied that he was an "adiuster of
movable alphabots." He was simply a
printer.
General Sol Meredith, who died last
week, was the strongest and tallest man
IN Indiana, standing six feet and seven
inches in his stockings, and weighing over
$50 pounds.
A Partisan who occupied high posi-
ton IN the army of defence during the
Frrnco-German war, has invented very
effective apparatus for the stopping imme.
diately of runaway horses.
A eorious break in the new reservoir
OF the Lawrence (Mass.) water works has
been discovered. Had the reservoir been
full serious disaster would probably
have been the result.
A gentleman Of Winona, MINI, who
was just married, handed his wife small
pistol while unpacking a valse and it was
accidentally discharged, the ball entering
his head and killing him.
The house of the poet Cowper. togeth.
er with the little summer house n the
garden where in the warm season the
poet did all his writing, are still standing
the market place at Olney, England.
There are six Eurcpeau kingdoms, rul-
cd by crowned monarcbs, which have each
a smaller population than the state of
New York. These kingdoms are Hol.
land, Portugal. Belgium, Denmark, Ba.
vasia and Greece.
At fail in 8 western town few
days ago a boy was accidentally taken
into the air by getting entapgled in the
ropes Of a balloon The aeronaut tied
him to the horizontal bar and he made
the trip in safety.
The latest rumor Is that the rarK
street church at Boston date Rev, Muir.
rays has given Stephen II. Tying (Epis-
coraliau) OF New York call, and that
committee has gone to personally urge
its acceptance.
A little fellow, only nine years old,
was arrested in England few days ago
for causing the death of a girl eleven
years old. lie struck her in the stomach
with his clenched fist and she dropped
Immediately, dying soon after.
Baltimore proposes to cut tunnel six
miles long, at an estimated cost OF TWEEN.
ty millions Of dollars, for the purpose of
introducing water into the city, from
Gunpowder Greek 1t will be the larg.
est tunnel in this country
The long trial of the Ward will case,
in Detroit, is drawing to a close, The
effort to break the will on the ground
that Capt. Ward was u Spirituaist, and
was governed by spirits in the manage.
ment of affairs, is not likely to prove
successful.
Prof. Swing has been called to the
Iompkins avenue Congregational church,
Brooklyn. He preached there Sunday,
but has not accepted the call, as he is
expected to do. He will certainly stay
In Brooklyn TO deliver series of revival
sermons.
AT Eureka, Nevada, lately, two men
contested for prize of 5000, the winner
to be the one who could lift a fifteen.
pound dumb bell at arms length the
greater number Of times. One mans
strength gave out when he had raised the
weight ll3O times, but the other scored
ll44 without cxhau.ling his strength.
The government Of Prince Edward Is.
land encourages agriculture by the sup.
port OF model farm upon which it keeps
the best OF >tock for breeding purposes.
1t hsa just added TO :he stock two thor.
oughbred stations, oae ;roitipg stallion
and two thoroughbred mares, purchased
in Kentucky. High prices were paid for
the animals.
A wealthy farmer of Lehigh county,
n. y, has a stack Of hay in one Of bis
fields that was placed there twenty years
ago. When the hay was cut aud stack,d
the farmer could not get his price for 4.
and he resolved it might stand where il
was until it would rot, and that il what
it is fast doing, sinking perceptibly lower
each year as il grows older
Mr.. Farwell Of New York made
clean score of seven bulls-eyes, Including
MS sighting shots, at 500 yards at Greed,
moor on Saturday before last, and having
finished his score in advance of his com,
rades continued shootino raoord;n. .,