The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-09-14
News Summary.

The smallest man in America lives
quietly at the West End, Boston he is
20 years old, and two inches shorter
than Tom Thumb.
Gen. Garfield says the Ohio republi.
cans are rowing against wind and FIRE.
Still he hopes they will pull through by a
comfortable majority"
The New London Telegram thinks the
democratic candidate for governor 10
Connecticut, next year, will be gentle.
man oy the name Of lngersol.
The only Scandinavian democratic
paper in Wisconsin has changed owners
and politics, Its late editor was opposed
to Gov. Taylor's denomination.
The custom house officers say that u
clergyman who arrived in the steamer
England offered brlbe to an inspector TO
pass some smuggled goods for him.
The wife Of Garibaldi who recently
died, ~as his second wife, and not the
famous Anita Garibadi, the wife OF his
youth, and the mother Of his brave sons
The citizens oil Georgetown are uumer-
ously signing a petition praying Congress
for the retrocession Of the town to Mary.
land. They have had enough of District
rule.
Any paper can publish the appoint
ments after the coming in ofa new admin
istration, but wha: paper in the world is
large enough to publish half the disap'
voiutuivu,n
A Sd avenue horse car conductor,
named George B. Labacole. is under
arres. for holding passenger agaip>l The
dash board, last week, while confederate
riaed his pockets.
The colored people at Washington are
already sick of the mixed school system,
inaugurated two years ago, and have for.
mally requested the District authorities
to give them separate schools again.
Col. McArdle of the yicksburg Herald
suggest that il each of the CTS oranges
in Mississippi will subscribe six bales of
cotton, the future of Jefferson Davis and
his family can be amply provided for
The public schools of New York re.
opened after the summer vacation. Judge
Gilbert of the supreme court has asked
for mandamus to compel the admission
Of a colored boy to one of the Brooklyn
schools.
The police, Tuesday night, made their
first professional call on Mike Murrays
notorious den 10 Sth street, New York,
and captured twenty gamblers, together
with gambling implements and $500
found in drawer Of gaming table.
The second volume of the Revised
Statutes Of the United States, containing
the laws relating to the post office depart.
ment and post roads, the District of Col
umbia and the public treaties, will be
ready for distribution in few weeks
AT the conclusion of circus perform.
ance in Jackson, Mich. a short time
since. hot.ai balloon was sent up. In
descending. the @ronaut William Doyle,
jumped out when some distance from the
ground, and fell ip mill pond and was
drowned
A grand banquet was given to the
American rifle team, last week, at which
Mayor Wickham presided, and speeches
we're made by Vice. President Wilson and
Gen. Joseph X. Hawley. President
Grant sent letter regretting his inability
to be present.
Assi,tans superintendent John L.
Hinchman, Of the Western Union tele
graph company,is advanced to the general
supcrinteudency of the eastern division
aud Assistant Secretary Abljah R. Brew.
er to The sccretaryship held by the late
George II. Mumtord.
Among the republicans there are al
ways a number Of Jealous, impra acticable
people, who are on the keen scent for an
impossible Utopia in politics, and are
easily led away by any political advent
urer, who has the lungs and brass to
shout "reform," while he makes his har.
vest from the creditors.-N. Y. Comn,e, e
cial Advertiser.
There is a talk that the Tilton law ers
are getting ready to push new trial OF
the suit against Beecher, but the general
impression is that it won't amount to any.
thing, and that the note of issue filed by
ex.Judge Morris in the case is only to
forestall the action of Mr. Beecher's Law
yers, whose intention it was to move for a
new trial in order to relieve their client
One Abbott, postmaster at Laramie
w. T., has just been removed by Post
master general Jewell for receiving a
bribe of 500 monthly from a lottery
dealer named Potter Ito promote care in
the delivery of packages to the latter
Both Potter and Abbott were able to
rally considerable official influence to pre-
vent the removal, but to no purpose, a.
Mr.. Jewell very promptly gave them to
understand.
The SD New York regiment German
with the separate troop cavalry, llth
brigade, battery A. second division, Turn.
er Schnetzen corps and Turner cadet.
made a German Sunday OF it, one day
last week, at Ridgewood, l.. L., where
they had lively shan battle among
! themselves ard half dozen real ones
with outside rowdies during which hall
dozen or more persons on each side
were seriously hurt.
Secretary Fish and Earl Derby have
been having a spicy little correspondence
these hot summer months, over a rather
f important and delicate maritime question
which isn't settled yet, namely, whether
the sale of the American ship Gilbert c
, Trufant, recently transferred while at
r Liverpool to British owners, was legal.
Fish says it wasn't, according to United
States law, Derby says it was, in confor.
nifty with the English admiralty laws, and
E there the matter rests, except that Seere.
> tary Bristow, at Fish's request, has in-