The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-04-20
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The Sacramento, Cal, Board of Edu-
cation has decided TO admit Chinese
children to the public schools.
In 1873 the British colonies cost the
home government S9,0S7 1855, Malta
costing most and Canada least.
Paul Boyton performed experiments
in Boulogne harbor, Tuesday, in the
presence of twenty thousand spectators.
The importation of foreign wines
into Germany has grown to five times
what 1t was ten years ago, whilst the
export remains much the same.
Unsuccessful efforts are making to
have the militia withdrawn from Lu-
zerne county, Pa, where they were sent
OH account of the mining troubles.
In the Connecticut town which gave
the largest proportion of votes TO popu-
lation at the last election there was
about one vote to every four and one
fifth of inhabitants.
The London press generally continue
to discuss the attitude of Germany.
The feeling is gaining ground that the
present crisis Will not result in as
serious complications as were first APP
pretended.
Count Minister Washburne out. Ao-
cording to Washington correspondent
he Inns informed his confidential
friends that he has positively with
drawn from the contest for the Presi-
dental nomination."
No seaport in the United States can
show such record of losses by sea as
Gloucester; within the last three
months, seven vessels and ninety men
have been lost, and in forty-five years
three hundr I'd vessels have been cast
away.
A writer in the Spirit of the Times
claims for Geo. NJ. Patchen, the sire of
Godfrey's Patchen, the credit of having
made the fastest two mile time in har-
ness ever made except Flora Temples.
She made 1t in 4509, and Patchen made
it in ASIA.
+. p. Shaw purchased six acres of
land in the Newburyport mining re-
gion, Monday, for $4,000, and New York
fifteen acres, April 1S-each lot bring
ing eight times as much as it would
have done, six months ago.
The st. Louis Republican tells its
old Democratic friends that it is not
they who are beating the Republican
party, but dissatisfied Republicans who
have joined them out of desperation,
and that these recruits will go back
again, unless they find better party
than they left.
During match game of base ball at
Savannah, Ca, recently, two players,
Mccullough and Bailey, were badly
injured. The former had his leg broken
by runner jumping on him, and the
latter had his nose split and eye nearly
put out by a "red hot" ball. The game
was then stopped.
The balance in the Treasury at the
close of business, Tuesday, were: Cur
rency, So 1875, S72.37 special deposit of
legal tenders for the redemption OF
certificates of deposit, SAC, 10 900; coin,
including S23, 427 400 in coin certifi-
Gates, $50, 3S2, 1925. 81 outstanding legal
tenders, 1879, 226, 800.
The exports from Boston, in March
were valued at $4,000, 900, satisfactory
increase over the value during the cor
responding months last year, and still
larger as compared with 1878. For the
first quarter of this year, the value OF
exports was $9,l72.0l0, to IS, $50 500 in
1874, and 1882, 527 in 1878.
In the Paterson, n. j., charter cleo
ton, Tuesday, the Republicans elected
the mayor, four Aldermen, and other
officers Republican Mayor was also
elected in Passaic city. The Trenton
Common Council is Democratic by Il
reduced majority. The Democrats were
generally successful in Morris county.
Mr.. Charles Nordhoh, who is study
A IL.
thinks that a reorganization of parties
there is probable, but that whatever
happens, the negro is safe, for his vote
which can be got only by kind treat
ment-will he sought by the leaders of
both parties, and he who wrongs a
black man will lose votes.
Newspapers are business establish
ments. Each is necessarily the rival of
the others. Each is dependent upon
the goodwill and support of the public
for existence. All it says Is in public
and not in secret. 1t lives and per forms
all its functions in glass house, visible
to everybody. 1t cannot defend a
wrong without an injury to itself. 1t
cannot hire itself out, as the lawyers do,
to defend the guilty or prosecute the
innocent
The gamblers of Illinois have sue
ceeded so well in tampering with a
legislative bill that, as it passed the
lower House, it amends the criminal
code of the State in all that pertains to
gambling by limiting punishment to
cases of fraudulent" gambling, and to
the keeping or renting of houses for
fraudulent" gambling purposes.
The report in the Paris newspaper,
L'UniOn, that the Pope has made to the
Emperor Francis Joseph, through the
Patriarch of Venice, a strong remon-
STRANGE against the oppression of the
Church in Germany, and that the
Emperor had responded deploring the
struggle, and cOunseling prudence, is
pronounced in a London dispatch to be
wholly without foundation.
A Democratic organ in Mississippi is
so much in advance of its party as TO
remark "With too many people the
only idea of immigration is to induce
white people to come to Mississippi to
take the place of negroes as hired
laborers In many cases they are eX.
pected to occupy the same miserable
houses once occupied by negroes, and
to live in the same filthy and shiftless
manner Such immigration is not de.
slrable."
The London Times and Daily News
having recently published certain doc
uments which had been submitted to o
Select Committee of The Rritieh Parlia.
ment on South American bubble loans
motion was introduced, Tuesday
summoning the printers of those iourn
ais to the bar of the House to answer
for breach of privilege. The motion
met with considerable opposition, but
after long debate on the liberty ant
responsibility Of the press, was adopted
The Atlanta Herald warns the Demo
craey of Georgia that in consequence o
bad legislation they have been losing
voters and may be beaten at the mex
election. 1t says: "The race issue hal
died out Of Georgia politics. The mig
ger will hardly be any longer ques