The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-11-30
GENERAL NE us.


The German federal council has re-
iected the Prussan proposition for CO.
eroive press laws.
Mr.. Justice Smith of Savannah, In
an elaborate opinion, has decided that
an umbrella Is property.
Anna Starbird Is the name of a
sweet singer In the newly organized
New England Opera Troupe, of Bos-
ton.
The Quakers in Brooklyn have COM
menced O revival under the head of FL
kanah Beard and wife, late missiona-
ries to Benares.
A man is 1860 times es large as a
common honey bee, and yet it Is use
less to try and argue the matter with
bee, -Dctroit Free Press.
The Taunton folks say that from
eight to ten of their letters, most of
them containing money, are stolen at
the Boston post office, every week,
Miss Hulett, the Chicago lawyer,
will not move in divorce case, believ'
ing that any woman who Will marry
man ought to be forced to live with
him.
The latest discovery at Pompeil Is
that of the figure of woman lighting
a fire in the cookstove, while her hus-
band is asleep in bed. Nothing of the
lost arts about that.
A Georgia man says that human sa-
Iva is as fatal 10 poisonous snakes as
their bites are to man, and AYERS that
he has killed rattlesnakes by Just spit
ting in their mouths.
The boiler In James r. Dyes pou-
trette factory on the Hackensaek river
exploded, Saturday night, overthrow
ing the building, killing Michael Dow
ney and injuring Jacob Meyer.
Moody and Sankey had the usual inn
mense audience at their services in
Philadelphia, last week. Among those
present were Bishop Simpson and DR..
McCook, tho former making prayer.
Troops from the British residency of
Perak, on the Malay peninsula have
shelled and captured two stockades at
the village where Mr., Birch, the Brit
lsh representative, was recently MUIR
dered.
The library room of the Wellesley
college has been dedicated, and a
check of 1926 was passed up from the
students to swell the library fund.
There are now 10000 volumes on the
shelves.
In Brooklyn divorce suit, the hus-
band, who was superintendent of u
horse-car line, alleges that his wife Is
employed as "spotter,' and that
through her influence he was turned
out of his berth.
A New Orleans man committed sui
eide, recently, because his wife was in
the habit of marching up and down
the bedroom all night and tapping him
on the head with an iron poker every
time he fell into doze.
4 young woman twenty-five years OF
uge--a hard working girl, daughter of
4 farmer--broke her ribs in lacing her
corset, and is not expected to live. Is
this credible? possible? Even so, it is
true.-[E. S. Custar in the Herald OF
Health.
The smallest job on record has been
unesrthed at Indianapolis. where the
pupils in the infant schools are COM
PEELED to bring blotting-pads of a pre-
scribed size that bear the advertise
ments of certain prescribed Insurance
companies.
Walt Whitman has appeared in
Spanish sombrero, his long, white, By i
ver-gray hair streaming underneath
and, although his step was feeble, his
conversation was as buOyant and gen.
ial az before his recent severe illness,
Mrs. Joyce, the aged mother of the
Missouri whisky ring conspirator, is
living in abject poverty In Chicago.
John ran away from her twenty years
ago, and has never done anything fol
her. though notified by the Chicago
authorities, some time ago, that she
was in great restitution.
There have been some cases ofsevere
punishment in the New Haven public
schools, and the board of education has
voted that such punishment shall moi
be inflicted in more than one case in
days session, and shall never be ad
ministered by subordinate teacher
until the case is reported to the princi
pal.
A fresh party of thirty Chinese boys
arrived at San Francisco, Saturday, (
be educated in this country, and will
start, this week, for the east. Ngar
Ngoh Ling Ling is the commissioner
XII lnh "fr rTfs NSthaai" dentS-- Kwani
Joint commissioner. The latter bring
his wife, and the former his wife ant
daughter.
On the steamer Mikado, which M
rived mt San Francisco, Saturday, wer
Capt. Graves, wife and two children
who were wrecked near Cape Horn
mir ri off OF oh
teen days of suffering in o boat will
Ave seamen by the ship Syren of Bos
ton for Honolulu. A long-boat con
tanning nineteen officers and men iron
the same ship has not been heard c
since the abandonment of the ship.
A sensational paPsr in San Francis
co prints very improbable story the
treaty has been agreed upon betweel
President Lerdo of Mexico and Pres
dent Grant, for the cession of a larg
area Of Mexican territory to the I'm
ted States. on condition that our GO,
eminent will assume the indebtedness
of Mexico to citizens of the Unite
States, and that Grant, Cameron, Blu
Ter and others in their confidence hav
been buying up Mexican claims fc
from fifteen to twenty cents on do
jar.
Conductor Mckinney of the Ne,
York, New Haven and Hartford raj
road at last has a claimant for thi
$1,000 bill which he took, two yeal
ago, from II rough looking passenge
who afterwards disclaimed having gi'
Ell it to him. A Philadelphia woma
has sent him an illiterate letter claim
ing that the money belonged to hs
brother, that he was on drunk, thu
when he got home he claimed that
had been robbed. that he is now deat
and that the money ought to 60 to he
But the conductor thinks the none
is doing we'll enough where 1t is.
Theodore Dean of Taunton, presideI
Of the Bristol county national ban
and also of q savings bank in his ow
city, has got into trouble by chargin
commission for selling q poor oil
mothers property. In 1872 he prom
ised to sell her farm for $2400 he got