The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-01-26
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flOusly Ill.
Six more lives are reported lost by
snow slide in Utah.
BY recent suow.slides ia Nevada %
Chinaman wore killed.
a recent fire in Haytien town de-
stroyed eighty houses; loss SlOO.OUO.
The first aud ouly pharmaceutist regis
tered in England is 4 Miss Alice Vickciy.
a cUntumaciUus newspaper correspond.
ent is to BIO rel orted to Congress ior contempt.
A great grandson OF Daniel Deioc has
boon admitted to an asylum for idiots ondon.
A Baltimore girl, worth S45, 600.
wants to marry some young man who has learned
a trade
a California man pounded biz wife.
was fined $50, aud she sold her silk dress to pay
tue fuo.
a newspaper printed IN England has
just b en- started at Berlin. 1t is called the In
tern national Gaz.ne
Stll another English steamer is re-
ported lost. vita 70 lives She phsI between
Cardiff ahd Bombay.
A bass was found frozen into cake Of
ice, at Iowa City, so perfectly as u have t,e APP
pearnnce VI swimming
Eve persons were killed aud GN
woundcd by a boiler explosion in r. nn,iden,
Yorkshire, England, Thursday.
j. a. Pnppe, vi SOuoma. CaliiJruia, i,
raising carp for the San Francisco market. lie
imported the stock flom Europe.
a young man 10 the country announces
that he will give a cromo to the young lady who
Val take him for bcttor or worse.
Toe Delaware river at Philadelphia i.
now frozen oy,i for tho first time in many years
and people walk across to Camden.
The Marquis of Goldman has been ar.
pointed President Of the Spanish Co mmssion for
the United states Ceute nnial Exhibition.
1t is proposed to form a new territor,
out Of the northern half Of Dakota, its name to
be Pembina, with Bismarck for its capital
a duel has recently been fought il
san Francisco suburbs by an ex-rebel officer and
a Northern man who served in the late war.
a series Of tests are being made in
New York to determine the relative value Of
American aud English salt for butter packing
Snce the high hats for ladies' came into
fashion, trapeze performance is the only thin.
that can be seen at a theatre without hindrancc
French bank notes are no longer TO be-
destroyed by burning, but ARC to be torn into
shreds, and Afterwards used Tor making fresh
paper.
A little gI upon her return from It
children'd party, being asked if she had a you'd
time, replied: Yes; but there wasn't inuch b,y,
there
A lady was fatally poisoned in East
baltimore, last week, through the mistake Of
druggist in sending her nrid extract OF belladonna
instead Of SIENNA
a man 10 New Milford, Conn. claim,
to have the idol which King Knlakau,'s ancestors
worshpped, it having been presented TO him by
returned missionary.
The report Of the Board of Enginecr>
appointed to prepare plans Tor the Improvement
II the channel OF tho Mississippi fiy.r has been
submitted to Congress
1t is alleged that the Spanish Consul at
New York was instrumental in Kidnapping Gar.
ela' the man who is supposed to have stolen the
Murilio picture in Spain.
A Western editor asserts that it is "n,.
use trying to publish nonpareil newspaper in Fl
long primer Community" which will be readil,
undelstOod by the initiated.
1t has taken the Circuit Court Of KAN
county, i'll three terms and cost 52yO to tty t.
decide the cwnership Of St. which is iu di.l uic,
and the case isn't decided yet
During the erection of his new churc!
At EImia, y Y Rev. Thomas X. Hcccbe
preached at the Opera House. cha cling one c.nt
admission, and has thereby paid Expenses.
The Bost n Post states, as an interest.
ing fact tu single gentlemen that there are fifty
i'ur widows Of generals, aud two hundred and
seventeen Of c,loneis, on the pension rolls.
1t takes II luug time for little Rhod,
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lots and no ch ,ice yet General burnside main.
tans the load, which he has held from the outset
The Potomac is frozen below Nj. Yer.
non, and navigation is Suspended. The ice har.
vastets are filling their houses md will be able t,
dispense with northern ice, which cost over $500
100, the past summer.
A niser who has just died in France
left hoard Consisting almost wholly of antique
COINS. lie had been robbed several tines, bui
the thieves were detected every time by tue an
cient Character Of the money.
A breach OF promise case vas lately
tried at Liverpool, England, was somewhat re-
narkable from the fact that the partie. conc rneu
had never each other. but he'd corrospondeu
and Contracted marriage by letter.
1t is understood that the Pope's golden
rose will be bestowed this year on Queen Maria.
recent Conversion u the Roman Catholic iaitn
created SO much excitement in the telg ous world.
A little boy 10 Woon socket, X. l., put
his tongue to frosty lamp post on Monday night
and bowie Of hot water and spoon had to be
brought into requisition to release him, and then
II part of tho skin of his tongue wac left on the
post.
The evils of the present method of G.
Letting President and Vice President were die.
cussed in the United Statos Senate on Thursday
when senator Morton presented his plan for
more simple and satisfactory test OF the people,
choice.
Gen. NJ. g. Cobb. Of San Francisco
who was shot by the woman Hannah Smyth. i.
rapidly recovering. The ball. which struck in III,
muscles Of she back, glanced and passed down
along the hip into the thigh. 1t has not yet been
taken cut.
The Republican members OF Wick.
burg Congressional Investigating Committee rep
resent the condition of Affairs in the South as very
serious, and one member of The committee goes :
FAR as to predict another civil war if the ID, mo.
Gratis airs aeieated In the next Presidential cleo
tion.
Senator jones, OF Nevada, recently told
an interviewer that it would not be long before
the Northern provinces at least would belong t.
Lnited states, for Grant, he said warmly avorei
their annexation, land would in all likelihood
inauguratc some policy TO that end before the
close Of his Administration.
In the Bank OF France they have got
brick for which they paid 1000 francs in specie.
II was taken from the ruins Of a burned house.
ana the image aud figures OF note for 1000 Francs
arc burned the su face. transferred by tie heat
from real motto This b lex the bank redeemed
On presentation, as If it were tho note itself
About two hundred Ru sim Meunon
ties arrived ut Bhd-in- Hand. Pa recently, where
they will be quartored until spring. Tho Lam
c ster ErprsSs says; Notwithstanding sunday
was one of the coolest DAYS W. have experienced
in many years these Russians sat out on the d.or
steps and fences. smoking their pipes and discuss
ing the mldness OF the weather
Mr.. Robertson, the British Consul at
Canton. has announced that in connection with
the recent capture Of the steamer Spark and the
murder of the master aud Others on board, nine
teen men have been arrested and eight Of these
have been executed, their heads, together with
that Of another man taken dead. being aiterwa d
exposed as IL warning. Against tho rest Of the
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