The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-08-24
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John Bright says the story that he Is
writing his memoirs is n mistake.
A mother drowned herself and three
children at Reading Pa, Tuesday.
A lady physician in Philadelphia
enjoys an income of $4,000 per year.
A severe shock of earthquake was
felt at Sehastopol, in the Crimea, on
July 90.
Twenty thousand dollars worth of
struggled goods were seized in New
York, Tuesday.
Edwin Booth was thrown from his
carriage at Coscob, Conn, Monday and
severely injured.
There are fourteen asprans for the
democratic nomination to the governor
ship in Georgia.
Shades of Ben Franklin, forbid ii
There is penalty of s. for flying kite
in Philadelphia,
The hog cholera is raging about
Jacksonville, ILL.,, one man alone hav-
ing lost $1,000 worth.
The German government has placed
certain restrictions ON the collection of
"Peter's pence for the Pope.
Chanfrau, the actor, has given his
wife the cottage they live in at Long
Branch for birthday present
The second trial of Wintermute, the
murderer of Gen. McCook, began last
Thursday, at Nermilion, Dakota.
A Methodist church in Saratoga
county, n. y, have settled a lady
named Kate Nichols as their perma-
nent pastor.
Some New Ioak custom house in
spectors, it is said, can be bribed with
a handful of cigars to let your baggage
go through easy.
A contrivance for remodeling the
nose so as to make an Informed pro-
boscis a shapely organ is advertised in
a London paper.
A London street car conductor was
recently sentenced to three months
hard labor for attempting to defraud
his employers of four cents
At a German settlement near Hunt
ington, Ind, the mud is so deep from
the recent floods that the farmers are
hauling thvii what -. Die Il.
Robert Bonner purchased the famous
trotter, Grafton, last week. from Rich
ard Permission, of Lexington, Ky. He
made n trial mile in Cleveland in .. l51.
Nevada Cinnamon are extensively
practicing the operation of "sweating''
gold coin-that is, filing Off the milling
or raised edges, especially of 50 pieces.
The body of n. $. Grimwood, who
accompanied Donaldson on his last
balloon voyage, was found Monday on
the beach of Lake Michigan, near Stony
creek.
Woodruff has resigned the presiden-
cy of the national association of Spirit.
ualists, and is going to devote herself
especially to "women's social emanc-
PATTON"
Nearly 100000 people have been kill
ed by violence during the past year,
and yet women will stand on the back
of chair TO reach to the top shelf of
the pantry.
About S14 900 has been subscribed for
an educational memorial institute to
John Knox, at Haddington, Scotland,
of which town he is believed to have
| been native.
A couple OF young men were found
in freight car at Detroit, the other
day, who had come through from st.
Thomas, Canada, in thirty-siX hours,
without food or water.
James G.. Giles, postmaster at Pres
colt, Arizona, has absconded, leaving
behind money-orders to the amount of
$500 unaccounted for. \ deputy L,
S. marshal is after him.
Karl Alberg, n Swedc, murdered
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full of advertisements printed to look
like greenbacks, which the Swede
thought great treasure.
The complete returns from Kentucky
show falling OFF in the democratic
vote of about 1000. This indicates good
hard work on the part of the republi-
cans in the Bourbon state
\ coin over 2000 years old has been
discovered at OpatowitZ, bearing the
name of Basileus Lysimachos, one of
Alexander the Greats generals and af-
The times are hard, but the southern
papers are nobly retaining their indie
pendence. Says the Savannah News
"a twenty-five cent melon and dol
lar notice. We can't see il"
A carrier pigeon very much exhaust
of the German ship Duisberg in mid
ocean. Beneath the left wing were
the words, 'Du Siege de Paris"
The people all along the line of the
late tornado in Talbot and Harris
counties, Ga, are in such state of ter
ror that they have dug holes in the
ground for retreat, during storms.
Kentucky boasts of cornstalll bear
ing fifty ears of corn and an immense
amount of silk. The middle ear
is full-sized; the other forty-nine grow
in ranks all around it and are small.
The Union Pacific railroad company
have begun suits in the United States
district conrt at Omaha against nine
counties in that state, to restrain them
from the collection of the taxes of 1874.
The eX-grand duke of Tuscany has
finally given up all hope of ever return
ing to his former dominions, and has
just ordered all his property in Tusca-
ny, amounting TO 81 400, 600 in value to
be sold.
Some thirty English and Irish gem
tlemen have settled in Amelia county,
Va, on estates aggregatng 10000
acres, during the last three years, and
have invested nearly half million dol
lars there.
At Kentucky watering-pla the
! walters glide over the dining-room
! moor on parlor skates, thus obviating
the noise of tramping feet which so
often disturbs the summer guests at
{ meal times.
/, A young man in Lancaster, Ohio
: sent n dollar to firm in New York
who advertised recipe to prevent bad
dreams. He received a small slip of
paper on which was printed, Don't
90 to sleep"
The drainage closets and other sani-
tary requirements in the famous or
phan establishment of George Muller
at Bristol, England, are so bad that ty-
phoid fever is now raging as an cpl
demic among the inmates.
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