The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-03-09
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The business of the Bcrks County Pa.
courts is two years behiudhand
The diocese of Wisconsin votes to con.
firm Bishops Dekoven and Jaggar.
The carnival at Rome was a slim affl If
this year, but Victor Emanuel got his jacket well
busted on The Corso.
A Baltimore chemist, lecturing on
toilet articles says the popular hair restores con-
tain large quantities of lead and zinc.
The English Ambassador to China was
largely instrumental in preventing war between
China-and Japan, on the Formosa question.
A national pilgrimage to Rome to eel.
citrate the jubilee of 1875 is proposed by several
OF the French Catholic bishops.
Confucius said, Let the public schools
be carefully maintained, and above all, let youth
be.instructed early in the duties Of life and form
ed to good morals -
There is a dentist in Oregon who in
order to procure material for his own mastieators
to work on, advertises to give teeth IN exchange
for wheat, pork or potatoes"
A man who had served II years in the
New York state prison at Auburn refused to leave,
the other day, ON the expiration Of his term and
after he had been locked out tried to break ill.,
The wife Of j. &. Clark. of the firm of
Clark Haynes Of Franklin, n. H., machinists,
cut the throat Of her young daughter and then
cut her own, Wednesday afternoon.
The wife Of Henry NJ. Fields, editor
of the Evangelist, who has been i'll for some
months, is now given over by her physicians, and
lies at the point Of death
The lazy school boy who ,pelled An.
H. a. 4. 1.
a student who marked the first of hall doz, n
new shirts John Jones" and the rest do"
The PENNSYLVANIA railroad Wedpes-
day backed out partially from its tariff war with
the Baltimore and Ohio, restoring the old rates
from all points to the West except Baltimore and
Washington.
A citizen Of chattanooga has Just H.
vested in the stock Of II Tennessee railway, pur-
chasing shares which represent par value of
1857 900. lie paid the enormous sum of twenty
five cents for the lot.
A Mrs. Brennan who died in Washing.
ton, D. c., on the 18th Of January, may be said
to have lived a rounded cut life The day cf her
death was the anniversary Of her LiIth and ofher
marriage.
A wealthy aud eccentric woman in
Springfield, :Ill. contributes $500 year to help
support Of one Of the churches there, but cannot
be induced to attend single service, nor will she
allow its pastor 10 enter her house.
Marshal Canrobert, Of France, has a
grave aspect but wsggish spirit At recent
soiree he remarked "fhere is Il great deal Of talk
about stagnation; look at these ladies and tell me
if they do not show that there is great progress in
painting"
Thirty Chicago newsboys were import.
ed int, milwaukee, the other day, to break up
strike of the Milwaukee newsboys against the
Chicago morning papers, and after smart fight
between the gamins, they all went to work aud
sold more papers than ever.
Joshua Bailey, of Cohoes Falls, n. Y,
promised the bulk Of his property to that ono Of
his nephews who should raise the largest family
Of boys. ". ". Bailey. Of Waverley, Iowa. has
just received under his unce's will the sum of
$4,000, 900 which is at the rate of $500 900 for
each of his boys,
All the libel suits against William Il.
Storey Of the Chicago Times among them chat
brought By n. X. fairbank Of the relief c, mmit-
tee, have been stricken from the docket tho lro-
seeuiors having been satisfied by retraetions put
lishod in the Times.