The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-06-01
GENERAL NE us.

P%ocahontas WAS the first American
belle who went to Europe.
The warm rains have insured q boun-
tiful crop of grain in Oregon.
And now they are rigging telegraphs
across the great African deserts.
In Paris there is a very fierce lion
which is made crazy with fear at the
sight of u grasshopper.
A tile drain pipe was lately crushed
in at Hartford by the pressure of root
fbres growing about 1t.
Eleven coons were found inside a
walnut tree at Millersburg, KY, IA lew
days ago, and captured.
The British surveying party in Pales-
tine believe they have discovered the
ave and city of Adullam.
1t is stated hat the quantity of lob
sters takenin the provincial fisheries
amounts to about eight million cans
annually.
The biggest lumber raft ever seen on
the Mississippi river was lowed down
the other day. 1t comprised over
l,000, 900 feet.
The number of persons killed on the
railways of Great Britain last year was
1925, and the number injured 505O.
There were 1870 collisions of trains.
The production of poultry in the
United States is about $50, 600, 900 lbs.
annually, worth S., goo, 900, the product
of eggs yielding a like amount OF
money.
The widow of n porter of the Royal
Palace in Turin, Italy, is said to have
been born in 1870, and Is so well known
that deception in the matter is consid-
cred impossible.
Two literary ladies in Nevada, Misses
Clapp and Babcock, principals of the
Sierra Seminary, have taken a contract
to furnish iron fencing for Capital
square at Carson.
Rochester, n. V. has 10, 152 scholars
registered upon the school rolls, but the
average daily attendance is only 6744.
There must be some juvenile base ball
clubs in that vicinity.
This is the quality of weather that in
duce people to ask themselves; "Where
are we going this summer" If this
il May weather, where will the Their
mometer go to in July?
A Confederate memorial monument
was unveiled at Savannah on Monday.
There was an imposing military and
civic display, and Hon. Julian Hart
ridge delivered an address.
Vegetation progresses very rapiuIy III
the vicinity of Boston; corn and other
vegetables not out of the ground on
Sunday were up six inches high In
Newton Monday afternoon.
All the Indians at Loanville. Nevada,
recently went to Deep Creek, Utah, to
he baptized, the Mormons having as
sured them that this would keep the
snakes from catching them.
Upon the death of her husband the
lady married his brother, and when a
friend saw the portrait of the first hus-
band in the house, he said, as this q
member of your family?" at is my
poor brother-in-law," she said.
The petition against %conventual in.
stitutions, raised in England, is said tc
have borne III 900 signatures and tc
measure about three-quarters of a mile
in length. Forty thousand signatures
were obtained in London alone.
The state of Massachusetts has issued
II circular asking for bids for n loan OF
$750,OO0 is, gold bonds, twenty years
to run, the bids to be received up to l.
o'clock noon, May 81. These bonds are
issued for II Lunatic Hospital loan.
People have been fiocking to Caliror-
mia at the rate of a thousand n day ever
since the first of January, but the Gold
ell State las liz employment FOR them,
and il surprised by the extraordinary
influx, for which there is no apparent
cause,
The international convention Of the
Young Mems Christian Association OF
the United States and British provinces
met in Richmond, Va. Wednesday,
with over 400 delegates in attendance,
representing thirty states, territories
and provinces.
IN digging for coal at Wyandotte,
Kansas, the wOrkmen have struck a
vein of gas which, in its escape, pro-
duces a roaring noise which may be
heard n long distance. 1t is estimated
mable gas escapes from the aperture
daily.
The Pennsylvania state convention
had a quiet and harmonious session OF
ii at Lancaster, Wednesday, re-nomi-
mating Gov. Hartranft by acclamation,
and nominating H. w. Rawle, mayor
of Erie, for state treasurer. The plat
form embraces an anti-third-term
plank.
Are the young ladies of the present
day tit for wives ." asked u lecturer of
his audience ''They are fit for hus-
bands" responded a female voice; but
the trouble is that you men are not fit
for wives !" The applause was great,
and SO was the discontinue of the
lecturer.
The caterpillars are unusually numer-
GUS M active On the apple trees this
year. A little effort before sunrise or
after sunset, willie they are in their
nests, will exterminate them. If they
are neglected now they will soon get
the upper hand, and then farewell to
your apple crop.
Monmouth, Oregon, is n village con-
tanning only forty houses, and yet
boasts of nine organs, three pianos and
n musical instrument not classifed-a
cross between Il piano and a melodeon.
There is also a band of fourteen per-
formers and a number of guitars, vio-
Inns. flutes and so forth.
The fact that on Decoration Day in
the South the graves OF Union soldiers
were honored with those of the Con-
federate dead il II agreeable signifi-
canoe. When the enthusiast eXclaims,
however, that 1.-THE lion has lain down
with the lamb" there is a painful UNI
certainty MS TO which il which.
Egypt's great railway from Cairo TO
khartoum Is progressing rapidly, and
it is proposed 10 extend it westward TO
Darfur. Plans have been prepared for
A railway from Khartoum to the from
tier of Abyssinia, the acquisition Of
which country is regarded as only a
question of time by the Egyptian gov
eminent.
A girl was recently arrested at Linn
erlck, Ireland, for causing the death of
n child consigned to her care. She went
out for a walk with the child, which
was in a perambulator, and, meeting a