The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-05-04
GENERAL NE WIS.


mand the Tennessee. which is soon 60
ing to the Asiatic station.
Skating Is the most fashionable
at English watering places,
and the skating Kinks are thronged.
The secretary of the treasury has pro-
hibited employees from giving any in
formation relative to vacancies in the
department.
A Petersburg va girl had regular
funeral oyer a pet cat the other day
and made "the old man" act as one of
the pail bearers.
The president has appointed Major
Robert MeFeeley of Gen: Sherldan's
staff commissary general of subsistence,
vice Shiras deceased.
The treasury department has sent a
number of clerks to London with Sill
600, 900 of 5 per cent bonds, being the
last subscription of the syndicate.
The result of Mr.. D, Banks McKen-
zie's visit to Halifax, N. s., is the or
ganization of q Board of Management
to provide an asylum for inebriates in
that city.
A Texas woman has learned to use
the door and haul the hat off the light
ming rod peddler while he is unfasten-
ing the gate.
A person was told that three yards of
cloth, by being wet, would shrink one
quarter of a yard. well, them" he
inquired, 'if you should wet quarter
of yard, would there be any left?'
The Grand Master of Freemasons in
Iowa has decided that dancing in the
lodge-room is inconsistent with the
good of the craft. The Masons in the
State are very much exercised about it,.
There is a monastery in Turkey in
habted by twenty-three monks, who
have not seen woman since infancy,
and one of them tells an interviewer
that he can form no idea what n woman
is like.
A farmer named Edwards, of White
River, Ind, sold on one day last week
50 head of cattle and 60 hogs, all of his
own raising, the cash result being
$3447 .95. That makes agriculture look
pleasant.
Plattsburg proposes to observe Dec
Grafton day this year by appropriating
the money that is usually expended for
flowers, to fund for the assistance OF
the needy widows and children of de-
ceased soldiers.
The Northern Indiana Methodist
Episcopal Conference has ncgatlved the
question of giving women licenses tt
preach, the ground taken being thai
the discipline and usage of the denomi
nation forbid it.
rrl,a Luroo,, of aducntinn collu on al
educational institutions to contribute
for the exposition in Chill, as speedily
us possible, material which will serv,
to give a full idea of the systems of edu
cation I'm this country.
ID. Coughlin and J. NJ. Randall of tn,
Potomac boat club want TO row an.
two members of any organized boa
club in the country, five-mile pair
cared race for a prize valued at not les
than $780, time and place to be agree
upon.
A correspondent wishes to know,
the receivers of the Mechanics Mutua
Fire Insurance Company have in thei
hands "A large surplus to be divide
among the policy holders of the defunc
company, why the distribution is nc
made.
The internal revenue department
going TO sue the bondsmen of ex-Sens
S! an aw Ays4st or deeiehsy 9fhe T1ea
in his accounts as collector of interni
revenue in South Carolina, severe
years ago.
Last year the following, all imported
were consumed in this country: arsenic
l,636,335 pounds; camphor, 7S9,7s
pounds jalap, 1l6, 1853 pounds ipecat
20, 202 pounds nuX vomica, 297, 81
pounds. There was also imported 1899
800 worth of vaccine virus.
A hen-pecked husband is seldor
blessed with troops of friends. Hi
modest stiffness and humility" al
perhaps virtues. but somehow or othe
folks won't rally much around ma
who amt capable of getting up an
raising a row when OCCASION calls fC
il.
There is aid to have been offered b
French dramatic agent a prize
So, 600 and gold medal for the mo.
meritorious drama founded upon til
American Centennial. Victor Hugo
foreman of the jury which is to decid
on the merits Of the plays offered i
competition.
The court of commissioners of ALI
bama claims sustained the demurrer
the counsel for the United States in I'll
case of William T.. Fishcher give
judgment against the United State
The claim was for war risks, and I'll
decision rules out all such claims.
A new cave has been discovered ,
the Ausable Chasm, u short distanC
from the Devils Oven" 1t is said
he about four rods in length, and
height sufficient to walk in. The il
terror is lined with stalactites hangin
like icicles W the roof and sides, Il
specimens of which are curiosity.
A schooner, the George w. Adam
launched few days ago mt Toled
Ohio, Is the largest sailing craft on II
lakes, having 235 feet length of kee
$50 feet deck, 40 feet beam, S feet dept
of hold, IL feet between upper and low,
decks, and IA capacity for $50 900 busl
els of corn. She is a flur-master, al
will cost about 500, 900.
An Indiana blacksmith died Il
other day, whose brain weighed trii
over sixty. one ounces, about the heay
est on record, Cuvier, the French nat
ralists, having been between fifty-nii
and sixty, and Daniel Webster's Il
ounce or two less. The man was
regular giant, every way he weigh,
three hundred and fifteen pounds. al
was sixty inches around the chest.
The London Medical Record publs
es a Mr.. w. b. Woodbury's new id
for "Rogue's Gallery" which is
obtain photographs of the palm of
criminals hand, taken in n stroi
oblique light, 80 as to bring out all Il
markings distinctly. He declares tn
such n photograph would be found
map. never alike in two persons, wher
by Identification would lie sure, no di
guise except actual Disagreement suffi
ing to hide mans peculiar marks.
Two boys offered some German 90
pieces for change in II Paris sho
When required to give a satisfacto
appOunt nj how thev had GONNA hv IN !,