The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-07-20
GENERAL NEVIS.

New York boasts of million inhab-
itants.
Snails are worth cent apiece in
Paris for eating.
The financial condition of New Or
leans is improving.
Brooklyn's valuation is S3,OOO,00O
more than last year.
The population of Rhode Island by
the last census is 25S, 1872.
Three men are to be hung for MUIR
der in Tennessee, August IL.
The Emperor of Germany is the
guest of the Emperor of Austria.
Pacific coast distilers are threatened
with visit from the excise officials.
The Edgar A. Poe monument at Bal
timore will be completed in October.
Reports from Cuba indicate that the
rebels are fighting with renewed activ-
ity.
General Badeau has been appointed
United States Consul General TO Bel
GUM.
A S15, 900 rhinoceros, belonging to a
menagerie. died Mt Bradford, Pa, the
other day.
The experiment of carrying letters
on the street ears is to be tried at Clevc-
land, Ohio.
There is growing Mormon colony,
with n weekly newspaper, at Clarks-
burg, w. Va.
1t IL not right, hut the man with the
least mind has the greatest trouble in
making ii up.
Moody and Sanley held their fare
well meeting in London on Monday
night, last week.
Recent severe rains in Indiana have
seriously damaged the crops and dam
aged bridges and railroads.
The popularity of postal cards is es-
tablished. The sales this year are
1900, 600 more than last.
The freight earnings of the Union
Pacific railway for June were $Sl ,55S
over the same period in 1874.
General Longstreet is endeavoring to
prove that he was not the cause of the
rebels losing the battle of Gettysburg.
A shanty was destroyed by fire at
Lawrence, Mass, early on Wednesday
morning, and two inmates burned to
death.
An exchange asserts that "a barber
and bath tub will do more for the av-
erage Spirtualist than his theory of q
better land"
The imports at st. John, n. b., fol
the year ending June 80, 1875, were
only S642, 725, against Sl,079, o97 the
year before.
Part of hotel at Lynchburg, Va.
tumbled Town early Wednesday morn.
ing, killing two persons and injuring
several others.
Baltimore people are greatly agitated
because pretended British noblemar
has had the bad taste to marry blacl,
woman.
For the past six months i'm the United
States there have been 4477 bushes.
failures, the Liabilities amounting tC
nearly SO, 100000.
1t is alleged that there has been ,
very extensive system of fraud in con
nectiOn with the Chicago custom house
stone contract.
Rev. Sheldon c. Clark, of Grinnell
Iowa, has accepted an engagement t.
preach before the Unitarian society q
Scituate for one year.
The New York wholesale grocers re
port that the distribution of the leadinl
staples to the interior trade has begun
earlier than in previous seasons.
Alabama farmers talk of making tn,
Rs ed s GrHRs 1885, tS promises an
usual yield, and cotton is excellent.
Mrs. Aurora X. DimmocB, of North
ampton, on Wednesday attempted t.
shoot DR.. A. w. Thompson, because IN
refused to keep his promise of marriage
The recent heavy rains in Great Brit
air have proved very destructive t,
life and property. A reservoir burs
at one place and thirteen lives wer
lost.
A daring band of horse thieves Is op
Grating in the Arkansas valley an,
along the Kansas border of the Indiai
Territory. Ten of the gang were re
Gently caught.
A drunken man II day or two sine
fell over the bank on the Canada sid
at Niagara Falls, near the Clifton
House, a distance of 100 feet, and strang
to say, broke no bones.
An accommodating man. Buggs-
"Hello, Tripe, moving?" Triple
eyes" Buggs-"What for? >" Triple
"Well times are little hand, and al
moving to please my landlady."
The Sultan of Zanzibar declines to b
reconciled To his sister, who travelled al
the way 10 London To give him an OF
portunity. lie has thus given disaI
pointing sequel to q very romanti
story.
The clergymen of Brooklyn hav
united i'm sending letter TO Mr.. Beech
er, full of sympathy for him in his II
cent trial, and expressing the utmos
confidence in his innocence of tn
charges preferred.
There is an English paper whic
thinks that in case of war the chi,
against England, could conquer he
without firing shot or landing a so
dier, by simply declining to deal wit
her.
At st. Stephen, N. b., few day
ago, Stephen Mcdonnell, three veal
old, fell in the river and would hay
been drowned hut for the presence ,
mind displayed by his brother Howard
five years old, who ran out upon lo
and grasping the child held him ii
help arrived.
Che "course of true love" does n,