The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-03-16
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Three colored men are on the grand
jury OF the United States district court
for Maryland at Baltimore.
There died ut Baltimore, last week,
Mary Smith, aged III, and Mrs. Susan
Carr (colored), aged 1906.
The tables of the life insurance socie-
ties show that women's chances of life
are much better than mems.
The $50 stove foundries in the United
States turn out stoves by the million
every year. In 10 they made two mill
lions.
a McNairy county, Tenn. family
was considerably broken up, not long
since, by the marriage on the same day
of the five daughters of its head.
Large flocks of snowbirds are finding
subsistence in Kansas by eating the
eggs of the grasshoppers, which the
frost has thrown out of the ground.
The democrats of the Indiana Legis-
lature have defeated the bill to compel
children to attend school fourteen
weeks during the year.
Artificial down has come to be more
highly priced in Paris than the natur
al down, because it is much lighter. 1t
is made from feathers of any kind.
A fire at Fredricktown, Knox coun-
ty, o.. Sunday night, destroyed an en-
tire block of ostory frame buildings,
with contents loss $50, Geo, insurance
$1,000.
There has been a quiet but steady
sale Of seats for the Edwin Booth nights
at the Boston Theatre, which gives
promise that the eminent tragedian
will prove greater magnet than ever.
Photographs have been obt aimed in
Paris on single plate four feet three
inches in length and three feet four
inches in hight, and attempts are be
ing made to secure pictures even larger
than these.
Six men seized Samuel +. Gage on
the platform of third avenue car in
front of the Aston house, Tuesday night
held his arms, rifled his pockets, and
coolly walked away unmolested.
The story of want of provisions a
mong the Sioux City party among the
Black Hills is explicitly denied by per-
sons just from the hills, who say they
have food enough to last till June.
The depot buildings and freight car
repair shops of the Grand Trunk rail
road at Point ST. Charles, Quebec, were
burned, Tuesday loss $50 900, insur.
ance $50, 900, mostly in American com
panies.
A sixteen year old Chicago Girl nam
ed Tierney stabbed to the heart sew
enteen year old boy named Fisk, Mon.
day night, 10Th, inst, because, as she
alleged, he had seduced her. Such
pluck shouldn't have delayed so long
in coming.
Gov. Garland of Arkansas has ap
pointed Thursday, March 25th, day
of thanksgiving "for many blessings
during the past Il months" not the
least of which he mentions is the adop.
ton of the Poland report in Congress
In the hymn-book of the United
Presbyterian Church in Great Britain
in Montgomery Hail to the Lords
Anointed," the phrase, "the mountain
dew was changed to heavenly dew
mountain dew in Scotland signifylne
glass of whisky.
y convict who had been sentenced te
Sing Sing for five years was married by
the prison chaplain, on his arrival there
few days since, to a young woman
who accompanied him. This is the
irst marriage that ever took place
within the prison walls.
The San Francisco Bulletin says that
the first piece of gold found, which rails
ed such a revolution Oh the Pacific
coast, is still to be seen. It's value is
between four and five dollars. 1t re
sembles piece of spruce gum just out
Of the mouth of school girl.
Persons who contemplate Western
or Southern tour are informed that il
you want to please an Ohio man praise
his cows a Kentuckian, his horses; an
Arkansas man, his shooting Kansas
man, his dogs all Iowa man, his girls
a Wisconsin man, his feet; a Nirginian
his family name and Tennessean
his mule.
The following remarkable advertise
ment lately appeared in the Liverpool
Post of the lady who struck a gentle
man on the head with her umbrella fol
tearing her dress. on Bold street, on
Wednesday last. will send her addres;
to A L., Post Office Carlisle, she vii
hear something that will surprise herr!
They have girl highway robber bu
sixteen years old at Cincinnati. Sh,
recently robbed a little child on Tho
street of her gold earrings. She was
subsequently attacked on the street by
another girl, and her plumber was tax
en- away, but though chased through
the streets for considerable distanc,
by the girl she escaped.