The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-10-26
News Summary.
Cleveland, Ohio. is to have million

iu consequence oil tho recent ultran Cns
tane victory iu the chamber Of deput es.
Fraud aud perjury of the most aspraut
character are charged against the cficcis
of New York Third Avenue SAVINGS
Bank.
The CongregationaiiSt says: 1t use 4
10 be said that charity begins at home,
but it is beginning to be felt that it BE-.
gins at Boston"
An overflow Of molten metal at tie
Walsail (Eog.) iron works, Friday, Is b
inst, injured fifteen woi kmeu so sever,
that none of them aie likely to recover.
Fast Day is likely to be abolished n
Scotland on accoun. OF the hard drtk.
ing which chsracturizcs it. The day IS
uow observed chiefly for purposes ofrev-
elry.
Father lmhof Of Richmond, Ind, has
just lived out his huudredth year. 1t is
hoped By his friends he will live .o rack
his carpet-bag next year aud say 10 tbc
public; "Imhof for the Centennial +"
10 ST. Petersburg, Russia, Il society cf
ladies have renounced the wearing Of
silk dresses and every other kind OF ex.
pensive attire, iu order to employ tie
money SO saved in the education Of poor
orphans.
"llenry, why don't you keep outyly
OF cloves in your pocket ~ ssid an Alta.
ny young lady to her escort at the On.
era House recently "you wouldn't then
have to run out after every act, aud
don't see why you are 80 awful fond Of
cloves, anyhow''
There is a village in New Hampshire
which hrs produced twenty.six editors,
and it was u sllusion to this circumstance
that pious old deacon there remarked
Yes. there were twenty-six on 'eu. but
as they We all left town, | reckon the
Lord won't lay it up agin u.s."
President Oiton, of the Western Un.
ion Telegrapb,says that for all tolegrapbic
purposes the English language is from
% to 80 per cent. cheaper than the
French, German, or any other language,
and that the economy of its use has been
thoroughly established.
A singular aud fatal accident occurred
to two coon hunters near Huntingdon.
Tenn, last Wednesday. They had driv.
en- two coons into hollow tree, which
they cut down. In falling it partly
broke off large limb from an adjacent
tree, which few minutes later fell UPON
the hunters, killing them both.
The report that the European powers
had concluded not to Interfere with the
Reputation by Turkey Of half its debt
wasn't altogether correct. Negotiations
arc now iu progress looking to demand
from Turkey OF a gua,aut:e ior The pay.
ment in full Of interest Of the debt alter
Eve years.
Forepaugb's menagerie had hard luck
in New Yolk state. week before last. Ga
Thursday, the girstft, valued ut $1,000,
died at Schenectady, it is supposed trom
the cold weather, aud The next day the
rhinoceros, valued at $40 000 vas so
severely injured by his wagon breaking
through the bridge near Hoffmans Ferry
Il l. Al.
\ shameful piece OF vandalism sas
perpetrated ia the capitol building az
Washington week before last, right un.
der the nose of the large force Of police.
men pald to guard that structure, somo
mi'creaut badly mutiIating Theodore
kauna painting OF "Abrahem Liu.
coln's First Earnings" ca exhibition
there, by cutting Il section out Of it. The
painting was valued at 81 900
Beaten at every point 10 his effort to
get further delay, and forced to answ,r.
ex. Boss Tweed replies to the complaint
in the S6,000,0 900 suit against him that
ne did not combine, agree or copspire
with the late James Watson, as charged,
and gives general denial to all the al.
legations in the complaint. He also re-.
serves his right to his appeal agains, the
last adverse decision iD his case refusing
him stay Of proceedings.
Mr.. Blackwell in the Womans Joar
nal gives the Rev. Messrs. Miuor aud
Vibbe-. sou,e good advice, which II ia to
be hoped they will profit by. 1t is %
follows There is something higher than
Prohibition, more vital than Labor Re.
form, more benefcient than Woman Suf.
fragc. It is the determination to tell
The honest truth. and to disdain lie.
Let us hope that the day is coming when
this spirit will become predominant 10
the political life of America"
The emperor of Brazil has just been
blessed with a grandson. Hsdaughter,
the princess imperial, who is to succeed
him on the throne, was married eleven
years ago to Castor, Count Eu, son
of the duke of Nemours and a grandson
of Louis Philippe Her hopes Of an heir
have been twice before disappointed and
as great anxiety has been felt in Brazil
for an assumed continuance Of the line of
the Brag inzas through princes born on
the Brazilian soil, the news causes great
rejoicing
A female servant in the family of a
gentleman iu the Department of the Ia
terror, Washington. is allowed to make Q
yearly visit to her old home in Richmond
Va. Last summer, when she left, a sub.
stiiute WAS employed, mulatto girl, who
had been quito well educated. She per
formed the duties in a rather irdiael eat
manner When Ihe regular servant re.
turned, sho began her tour of investiga
lion to ascertain how her work had b,ca
had been done, aud was di,gu-tcd at tho
evident want of neatness mauifested eve.
rywhcre. Her indignation fualIy found
vent in the following, to her mistress ::
IN tell you what it is. Miss ----. you
cau't get grammar and clean corners out
of the same nigger !" Which, it true,
offers knot:y problem in reference to