The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-03-23
We us ITEMS.

The Saratoga Railway compact has
been nullilied.
The painters strike in New York
has virtually failed.
The Local option liquor law in Penn
sylvania has been repealed.
There was a serious fire at Atlanta,
Ga, on the 18th ; loss, $50, 900.
1t is stated that the new postal law
will not bc enforced Immediately.
Yedo, Japan was lit with gas for the
first time on the 18th Of December.
The trunk lines from New York to
Chicago have reduced freight rates.
The st. Patrick procession in Boston
on the 18th, was quite brilliant affair.
a patent editorial stove, which only
burns basket of poems day, is out.
The prospects of the fruit crop are
reported better than for years past.
The railways in Minnesota have been
blockadcd by snow since last Monday.
Amherst college will receive from the
estate of the late Samuel WillIston
S2SS 900.
The Fall River operatives returned to
work on the 18th after long volunta-
ry vacation.
A heavy business failure in Lon lon,
with liabilities of two million dollors,
is announced.
James Parton has bought house at
Newburyport, Mass, where he will
have his home.
Rev. Francis Tiffany has declined
the presidency of Santa Barbara Col
lege, California.
Mrs. Elizur Wright died at Mcdford,
on the evening of the 18th, after long
and painful illness.
Seven persons were drowned by the
burning of the steamer Lewis at Ches-
ter, H., last Tuesday.
Mr.: Charles N.Poor, n respected drug
gist of Boston, and known in political
circles, died on the 18th inst.
Some of the colored people in Boston
propose to give General Butler pub
lie reception about the first of April
Somebody says that n million of Ro-
man Catholic children are kept away
from the public schools in this country
A mother asked her little daughter
to do something and the daughters re-
ply was, "a general tiredness pervadcs
me.'
Titian's famous painting, "Danac,"
has been purchased from the Prince
Buoncompagni of Bologna, for CSC, 900
francs. by the Car
The bill before the New York Legis-
lature permitting wives to testify u
gainst their husbands in criminal cases
was killed on the 18th.
Gov. Chamberlain of South Carolina
has vetoed the bill liquidating the
floating debt of The State, and the Leg
islature is wroth thereat.
Experiments are said to show that
While the application of red-hot iron to
human flesh IS cAcruciutiusly painfui,
that of white-hot is not felt.
AT Zinnwald, in Germany, a widow
of 1903 has just married n man of sixty.
One of the brides children aged eighty
was present at the wedding.
The New York Masonic fraternity
are making preparatio for brilliant
display on the occasion of the dedica
ton of the new temple next June.
At Lafayette, Ind, few days ago,
a boy drew his arm back with such
force in order to throw q SNOWFALL that
he snapped the bone of his arm in two.
Des Moines, Iowa, has killed during
the past season 74,0l7 hogs, nearly 10,
600 more than during the previous sea-
son. The average weight has been
257 pounds.
Adam Grimm Of jefferson, Wis, il
one of the largest honey raisers in the
world. His crop for last year was %,
81 pounds, and his apiary consists o
lbs colonies.
The product of lumber in the Sagi
nav lumber districts of Michigan fo
he year 1874 will not exceed, it is es
timated, 2jO, 600, 600 feet, Il very larg,
decrease from the product of 1873,
1t is estimated that the sum of sos.
DOC, 900 is spent annually in this coun
try for repairing fences. This fact ma,
nave some connection with politics bu
we don't care to suggest in what re
spect,
/, covey Of Murray, Hill girls won
pair of bracelets each by getting up
superb dinner, every dish of which wa.
OF their own cooking, while they serv
ed it with inimitable grace. NewYorL
should be proud of them.
1t is estimated, upon replies received
to inquiries addressed to farmers In 10
wa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Ne
braska, that there is still about SO 600,
coo bushels of available supply of wheat
still TO come forward.
Milwaukee boasts an average thick.
ness of thirty feet of ice in its harbol
for distance of 5000 feet, caused by
drift ice pressing under the ice upon
, the surface, while the lake is frozen
, over about twenty miles out.
Kansas in 1874 had 100, s36 acres OF
orchards, 5077 of nurseries and 55lS OF
vineyards. The product of the orchards
in 1873 was l24 937 bushels, and of the
vineyards 22l ,76S pounds of grapes. In
the same year Is, 56l gallons OF wine
were manufactured.
The English Government has final
~ concluded to act in regard to the nu
merous complaints as To the burial pla
ces of British soldiers in the Criniea
and will have the graveyards restored
to decent order. Their future supervis
ion and preservation will also be pro
vided for.
The secretary of war has instructed
Gen. Sherman that the Black Hill.
must be at once cleared of intruder
and kept free of them while the present
treaty exists He intimates, however
that efforts are making to arrange 70,
the eXtinguishment of the Indians ii
tie and for opening the country to set
Element,
a Pittsburg critic remarked that
Miss Soldene's mouth was suggestive
of the Mammoth Cave" and the next
night, when he presented himself for
admittance, the French business man
ager told him: mot at all ger you no
see re Mammoth Cave tonight oonder
any zoorkoomstances We will sell you
no teeSetsn