The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-09-07
GENERAL NE WS.
Garibaldi is iii from over work.

A new ministry has been formed in
Turkey.
A heavy failure Is reported from Pat
terson, N. j.
The reports of the lnsurrection In
San Domingo have been exaggerated.
The Lord Mayor of Dublin has just
been especially honored by the Pope.
Westervelt, the suspected kidnapper
of Charlie Ross, Is on trial at Philadel-
phia.
1t IL now said that Robert Dale owen
is steadily improving and will soon be
well.
1t Is now asserted that the bank of
California has a surplus and will re-
sumo.
Lace making, long confined TO Eu-
rope, Is becoming very popular In this
country.
The Catholic magpates in Ireland are
holding a conference on the education
al question.
The latest from the Black Hills is
that the Indians are willing 10 negoti-
ate for tn .ir sale.
A fatal quarrel, growing out of a on
troversy on religion, has occurred in
Cincinnati, o.
Financial matters at Baltimore are
quiet and no troubles have followed the
great failure there.
Two Texans fought a duel in the
dark at Waco, Sunday night, II OF
them being killed.
Squared pine timber is dutiable ac-
cording to the decision of the secretary
of the treasury.
Improper sales of postage stamps are
still being investigated by the post-of-
flee authorities.
Further transfers of gold from New
York 10 San Francisco have been re-
fused by the treasury authorities.
The:Carlists in Spain are discourage
ed. People would be better pleased to
hear that they were disbanded.
The New York post-office was remov-
ed to its new quarters without any per-
ceptible delay of business.
A theatrical war;, suggestive of the
Forrest acready trouble of years ago,
Is in progress in New York.
Gen. Sheridan arrived at Portland,
Oregon, Tuesday evening, and was re-
ceived by the military and citizens.
Four hundred thousand dollars is
the estimated amount of the ultimate
loss on account ofthe Baltimore failure.
President Grant and Gems. Sherman,
Sheridan, Hooker and others will at
fand fbn rprxr Of tIo Cr a,hon1oH 40
union at Utica, N. Y.
A scientific commission, appointed
by Secretary Bristow, is to examine
into a process for making bank note
paper water proof.
Fines and penalties to the amount of
S2l2,000 were entered against distillers
of and dealers in crooked whisky dur
Ing August.
The three rules of treaty of Wash
ington have been approved in Holland
rs a basis for defining the duties of neu-
trail states.
There will be general regret that the
popular publishing firm OF Lee & Shep-
ard of Boston has been obliged to sus-
pend.
1t Is believed by those posted on bus
iness matters that the next ninety days
will determine the question of an early
revival of business.
Owners of coal mines in Nova Scotia
and Cape Breton are to petition the
legislature for n repeal of the royalty
on coal.
DR.. Sidney D.Grant was arraigned at
Hartford, Conn, for perjury, Tuesday,
and committed to lail in default ofSl5,-
900 bonds.
A desperate attempt at assassination
or the highway occurred between
Tyngsboro and Dunstable, Mass, on
Monday afternoon.
The Roman Catholic diocese of Lou
isville, KY, is considerably agitated by
RIGHTEOUSNESS on the part of a priest
who objects to n change of scenery.
A drove of about sixty cattle broke
through a bridge on the Fitchburg rail
road at Cambridge, Tuesday evening.
and fifteen of them were killed out
right.
Whether Mr.. Ralston committed SUI
icide or not will never be known, and
1t Is useless to discuss 1t. That he Is a
great loss to San Francisco is univer-
sally admitted.
The fall term at Dartmouth college
opens next Wednesday, with an enter
Ing class of between eighty and ninety,
while the class in the medical school is
the largest ever admitted.
The Catholic pilgrimage committee
In Germany have not yet consented to
give up the proposed visit to Lourdes,
and the French government is seeking
to have it interdicted by the Pope.
Don Carlos refuses to disband his ar
mics, and Is concentrating his forces at
Guipuzcoa. He calls out all able-bod-
led men between eighteen and fifty
years of age throughout Navarro.
John Lane, New Haven, Conn,
stabbed John Keefe three times in the
side Tuesday night, probably fatally,
because the latter sheltered the formers
son when he was driven from home.
Jefferson Davis has telegraphed his
acceptance of the invitation to attend
the county fairs next week at De Soto
and Fulton, Mo. Extensive prepare
lions are being made to receive him.
Matters in Turkey look more serious
every day. 1t is very probable that all
Nv BlONlhNCo VIII oC III lCOIlll'h pC-
fore long, and 1t Is difficult to see how
Europe is 10 escape a general turmoil,
Work has begun in opening an old
old mine on the Gen. Varnum farm at
Dracut, Mass, which was operated
about two hundred years ago, but indi-
cations are not very favorable for n
successful yield.
John Eagan, a member of a gang of
burglars under the lead of q notorious
New York professional, who have been
committing depredations at Sandwich,
Mass, recently, has been held In 50, 900
for trial, and another Is 10Y in Jail at
Plymouth.
The recent edict of the Spanish gov
eminent forbidding the importation OF
American potatoes into Cuba will cause
serious damage to several shipping
houses at Portland, Me-, which sent