The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-07-13
GENERAL NE us.

The British Parliament has passed
the Canadian copyright bill.
Eighteen students graduated from
Williams College, Wednesday.
Two young ladies were drowned at
Sabatus, Maine, last Saturday, while
bathing.
Several horses In stable at Lancas-
ter, Pa, were made deaf by lightning,
recently.
A tug was run into and sunk near
Norfolk, Va, Monday night. Ten lives
were lost.
trial in Brooklyn, Wednesday, on the
charge of perjury.
Italy will not be represented at our
centennial exposition. She cannot af-
ford the expense,
A fire at Winchester, N. H., early
Tuesday morning, destroyed S25, 900
worth of property.
There are $50 female students in the
faculty of medicine and surgery of the
st. Petersburg university.
Six boys while bathing at Fall River,
Tuesday afternoon, got beyond their
depth and We're drowned.
The Northern Kansas and Northern
Nebraska railways have been consider
ably damaged by recent storms.
The sentence of Lowell, the wife
murderer, of Auburn, Me-, has been
commuted TO imprisonment for life.
A Belfast dispatch advises us of an
enthusiastic reception given the Amer
lean rifle team in that city, Tuesday.
The Carlists in recent engagements
have been beaten, and four provinces
were recently liberated by their flight.
The interviewers are expected to
make life burden to the discharged
jurymen who didn't find a verdict in
the Beecher trial.
The Paris papers say the French
vineyards are in splendid condition,
and such promise of abundance has not
been had since 1910,
The body of an unknown man was
found in the water near Franklin, n.
H., Wednesday, and from its appear
ance foul play is suspected.
There is grocer in Illinois who says
lie would rather have the power to tell
good egg from a bad one than to be
president of the United States.
The printers in Washington are I'M
happy. They don't like the rates es-
tablished by the Columbia Typograph-
ical Union, and say they won't submit.
Bogardus, of the United States, won
easily, Wednesday, in the pigeon shoot
ing match at Hendon, England, killing
thirty-six birds to George Rimmel's
thirty.
The alumf4 of Amherst College have
chos ell Rufus B. Kellogg of Green Bay,
Wis, and the class of 1858. trustee, his
chief rival being Henry d. Hyde, Of
Boston.
New York's pet regiment, the 18th,
has been authorized by the board OF al
dermen 10 build u new armory on Ham
ilton square at q cost not exceeding
$350,000.
A shocking railway disaster occurred
at Rockaway, N. V, on Monday. Two
passenger trains collided, it is said, ow.
ing to the criminal recklessness of the
president of the road.
The University of Pennsylvania is in
luck. In addition to the magnificent
bequest of Mr.. Towne, it has just re-
eeived about 5000, 900 by the will of r
w. Flower, Of Daily, Pa.
The once ia nous clipper ship Flying
Cloud, which made the fastest trip
days. ever recorded, has recently been
hraL af 81 Vnln
In England gentleman was ap
pointed second secretary of the British
Legation at Rome, but upon the dis
covery that lie was Catholic the gov
eminent required him to resign.
"Well, / always make it a rule to tel
my wife everything that happens
"Oh, my dear fellow, that's nothing,
replied a friend, ~ tell my wife lots o
things that never happen at all ~
United States Marshal Newcomb ant
w. V. Wolcott, proprietor of the st
Lonis Journal, are booked for n due
growing out of personal illusions il
cards published in the newspapers.
Four burglars attempted TO rob thu
national bank at Barre, Tuesday night
but were foiled by chronometer lock
One of the robbers was captured Wed
nesday afternoon near Quincy Station
n. II,
The Paris Financial Journal is writ
ten up 10y five editors who send thei
copy from their places of residence. II
the number of June 10 the copy of eacl
editor, respectively was sent from
Paris prison.
The Chicago typographical uniol
aud the newspaper publishers yer.
sensibly left their differences out to al
bitrators for settlement. The decision
is a reduction of three cents in the pric
of composition.
Gold hunters who anticipated a han
vest in The Black Hills region will nc
be so sanguine Of fortune there afte
reading the report of Prof. Janney, tn
geologlst, who was sent by the govern
ment TO examine the region.
Plymouth Church has outdone hel
self. AS substantial proof of the col
fdence felt in Mr.. Beecher's integrity
his people have voted to increase Ia
salary this year to the enormous SUI
of 500, 900, to enable him to meet I'll
expenses of his trial.
AS the Pacinc Mall Steamship con
pany's steamer City OF Toxic left Il
wharf at San Francisco, last week, f
Hong Kong, n salute was fired, and
sailor named Patrick flanagan W,
blown from the mouth of a canno
overheard aud instantly killed.
The hearing In the Central Vernon
railway dispute announced for Tuesds
at Windsor, VT, has been postponed
August /. Meanwhile the Smith pa
ty, In possession Of the road, are yea
ously working TO place the road and !
leased lines on better footing.
A seventeen years old son in Il
family has the hardest work. He com
home two hours after midnight
weary and worn out with playing
billiards and carrying s0arfpin II
size of your fist almost, that II is
mueh as he can do TO get out Of bed
time for dinner.
Because few patriotic Americans
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