The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-03-30
NEW US ITEMS.
A dreadful western punster says the
Brooklyn trial is trial of Like

says she is going to live ten or twelve
years yet.
b. Gratz Brown participated in a
spelling match at st. Louis, the other
day.
1t is thought that ten per cent of the
cattle In Idaho have been killed by cold
and starvation. this season.
The Rev. DR.. Leonard Bacon re-
ceived q present of 81, 600 at a celebra-
ton of his 50th year at New Haven.
The Washington gossips engage Post
master General JEWELS Oldest daugh-
ter to son of William +. Dodge of
New York.
Florida people are beginning to cul-
tivate pine-apples with considerable
success. Over $4,000 were raised, last
year.
A woman has just died in the Tombs
of trichina spiralis, her case being the
only one known in New York city for
years
A law which makes women eligible
to several responsible offices in connec-
ton with the public schools has gone
Into operation in Wisconsin.
The naval station at New Orleans is
to be broken up, only the monitor Can.
onicus remaining there,
Gold has been discovered in paying
quantities at the Notch in the White
Mountains, in what is known as the
"Frankenstein cliff"
The vote for town officers in Lang
don, n. H., was so close that the first
selectman, democrat, who was also
the moderator, voted for himself to pre-
vent tie.
The Columbia college trustees have
appropriated $4,000 for building new
boat-housc, on condition that the alum
nj raise an equal sum, which is nearly
all secured.
The rice-fields in South Carolina and
on the Savannah in Georgia have been
flooded for long time, and the pros
poets of that crop, as well rs other sta
Piles, the coming season, look very du-
bious.
The lasters in Dank's shoe factory at
Pittsfield, n. H., struck for higher wa
yes, Monday morning, and the firm can
I'll afford to spare them, being overrun
with orders, and all the other employees
depending upon the lasters for work.
Coroner Kessler has issued warrants
for the arrest of DR.. Jaynes, assistant
physician on Blackwell's island, and
Mr.. Cunningham, keeper of the 57th
street prison, for criminal negligence
in connection with the death of jacob
b. Stockvis.
The wife of Mr. Nelson, residing OPP
posite Alexandria, Va, in Prince
George county. Md, was brutally out
ragged, Monday night, in the absence
OF her husban by a young colored man
named Simms, who was lynched by
the indignant people.
The big religious revival isn't the on
Nv sensation Louisville, Ky, Is enjoy
ing now. A series of most exciting
cock fights are in progress, and are at
tended by some of the city fathers and
other prominent folk, who are putting
UP piles of money.
A United States judge has decided
that the Spanish grant of pretty large
tract of land near Pensacola, Fla, to
our government was fraudulent, and
If this is true, that town has no right
to the waterfront it has been using all
these years.
A remarkable revival is in progress
in Rev. Mr.. Hepworth's church. Mr.
Marley the English preacher, delivered
sermon in the church, last evening,
and 50 persons, expressed determine
ton to hereafter lead better lives.
Nina Gilia died in Turin unmarried.
She was highly honored as one of the
.,r..tnsf # tl.n II allan Hnuar n
Whether she followed the counsel OF
old Teresa and took care of her heart,
whether the "Ivsuo" tUuh IL with
him into the land of snow, is matter
of uncertainty. Who knows it?
The South Carolina Legislature Tues
day, elected Thomas C.. Damn control
Ter general of the State. Damn is q
northern republican, who was elected
10 the State senate by the conservatives
was chairman of the reform republican
executive committee in the last cam
paign, and is generally respected by
NIL parties in the State. The Legisla.
ture adjourned sine die, on Friday.
The full returns of the New Hamp-
shire legislative results give five mem
bers of the Senate to the republicans
and five to the democrats, with two va
cancies, which will be filled with re
publicans by the House, in which body
the republicans have 100 mem bers anC
the democrats 1S1, a majority of min,
for the former, which will be swellet
TO eleven on joint ballot.
Three little children, Pete, Willie ant
Johnny Nolan, were found, nearly
starved to death, i'm Brooklyn shanty
Wednesday night. Another day o
want, and they would all have beer
dead, The father died week ago, ant
the mother had since been picked III
and sent over to the island for ten day.
without any inquiries being made as t.
whether she left starving family be
hind her.
The mine engineers, firemen ant
pump men in the employ of the Della
ware and Hudson canal company n
Providence, ELEPHANT, and Carbondal,
who struck, Wednesday last, for al
advance of ten per cent, returned t.
work few days later, at the old wages
Those who filled their places wer
greeted with derisive epithets as the,
retired, but apart from This there wa
no disturbance.
After the recent flood in the Tennes
see river had subsidized, the people O
Louisville. Tenn, were greatly aston
ished to see large area of land alon,
the bank completely covered with iltti
man skeletons. The "oldest inhabit
ant" never heard of burying- place il
the vicinity, but there had been an oil
one, which was buried several feet.an
the flood took the earth away. Tn
steamboat men along the stream NJ
presenting human skulls and othe
similar trinkets to their friends in grea
numbers now. In Meigs county som
mounds containing Indian bodies
hatchets, etc, were washed open.
The San Francisco Bulletin says ths
whatever else that city may be deficier
in, there is to be no lack of bankin
capital. Within the past few month
the bank of San Francisco has bee
started, with a capital of 81 ,OOO,0Ot
while the the capital Of the Merchants
Exchange bank has been increase
from 81 900, 900 to $1,000, 900. whic
makes two banks of S., 900 900 each,