The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-01-05
NEMS ITEMS.

NEws ITEMS.
The harbor Of Kiel is frozen over and
navigation Is suspended
The estimated shipment o. bullion fiom
Utah, the pact year, is s7,000,OOO
Popped corn finds ready sale 10 the
legislative hall, Of South Carolina
The national forces haze defeated the
Carliits in an engagement near Roda Spain. kill
Ing 80.
California claims that the present year
has been the best, financially, which her people
have ever known.
The railroads centering at indianapolis.
Ind, have reduced the wages Of their employees
from to Is per cent.
The late Congressman J. b. Rice, Of
Chicago left property amounting to s5Oo,OOO to
his wife and children.
The Carlist organ, Chartel Real, as.
serts that the wcll-known Spanish statesman Is
partero died on tho 2lst inst.
The silk. robbers bagged SO 900 worth
of silks satins, laces and kid gloves from C. OrT
& Co s store, at Fort Wayne, Ind, Christmas
evening
Alvipza llaywo ID, Of San Francisco,
has sold his Crown Point mining property for
5 ,G0O,OU0, and has given $50, 00U to charitable
institution.
Tons of postal cards without addresses
are destroyed in the Dead Letter Office, because
people write their message first, and then forget
to address tho card
Tramps dug the cellar and quarried all
the stone for the new almshousc at Lancaster, Pa
No Tramp can get anything to eat there without
first doing an hours work.
There is a Connecticut widower who
declares that nothing reminds him Of his poor,
dear wife SO much as to live within earshot of a
saTmill, during busy season.
"Good'by, you old scolding red.headed
heathern" wrote Dubuque man to his wife the
last thing before shielding. She says she'd like
to have got hold Of him for about one York
minute.
A lot Of human skeletons, of all ages
and sexes, were recently found in cleaning out
spring at Modoc, Colorado. 1t Is believed that
party of emigrants murdered by Indians and
thrown in there.
Charles Pierstori, his wife, five daugh-
tiers and one son, of Middleton, Wis., arc In a
critical condition from the effects Of drinking
coffee in which one of the girls had accidentally
put tho seeds of stramonum.
An unknown man rode up to the county
Jail at Lamar Barton county, Mo-, sunday night,
and through window shot and killed Hyronimus.
the murderer of COL Norris, fatally wounded his
accomplicc, Dixon and then escaped.
A Detroit man, who was not used 20
the work, undertook to slaughter hog the other
day. In the struggle knife disappeared. and
incredible as it appears, it was afterwards discoy-
cred that the hog had actually swallowed it,
The weeks Mark Lane Express says
the wheat crop of Great Britain Is above tho aver
age. and eve shall enter tho year 1875 prosper
ously. We have splendid seed time. The con-
tinental markets are quiet, with no change in
prices"
Froude, the historian, has been sent by
the government to South Africa, to inquire into
the circumstances connected with the late Kallir
instruction, and to ascertain "the dispositions of
the two republics toward federation with the
South African colonies"
Seer etary Bris,ow, who is making
brief visit at Cincinnati, on his way two Washing
ton, called in at tho chamber of Commerce, Tues
day, and made brief speech to the members.
favorlng return to specie basis the true foun-
dation Of financial prosperity.
Many persons will be surprised to learo
that Liverpool, England, is not an incorporated
city. 1t is merely tewu, and a movement il
proposed in the direction Of obtaining city chart
er. Manchester and Glasgow, though less impor-
tant places than Liverpool, are cities.
They have Il young lamp lighter 10
Chicago who bids fair to be a rich man. lie not
only receives regular stipend for the public
treasury iOr lighting the lamps, but is also paid
penny night by another youth who is ambiti-
Gus to do the work and fluids his own matches into
the bargain.
1t is suggested that if justice is really
to DO done in Boss Tweeds case tho retired states
man will have 10 be carefully watched. His
money is calculated TO get him out of prison some
how, and if trip to Europe beguh between two
days is the only way to do it the trip will be I'M
dertaken.
a Mrs. Bushnell, living IN Pike county.
Pa, had fierce encounter with a wild deer
which ran and hid from its pursuers near her
house, the other day. She bravely seized the
animal by the horns and held on until its furious
struggles broke the antlers off, and it Ged leaving
them IN her hands
The inmates Of Cook couDty (Ill) Jail
1t Chicago were thrown into terrible pauic, tb1
other evening, by FIRE that had been started in
one Of the cells, and it turned out that Il boy IL
years old had set his bed Oh FIRE, in order to free
himself by being burned to death or running of
in the midst Of the excitement
A North Carolina paper says that two
negro girls, in want of n new bonnet, placed OBJ
structions on the Wilmington and Weldon Rail
road, near Warsaw, the other day, as they say,
'for the purpose Of killing some ladies on the
train that they might secure the bonnets," They
have been tried and sent to Jail.
A mao and wife named Vetter, living
at Cincinnati, while drunk. several nights ago,
lay upon their child three months old, till it was
suaocated, and the body remained in the house
over three days before it discovered by people
outside. aud even then tho parents made no at
tempt to bury it, They have been arre,ted.
The New York Herald makes curl
GUS statement as follows: I'm times Of emergency
Grant always sent sheridan and Naroleon Murat
to the 'front.'" Napoleon Murat is Lame hither-
to unknown to fame in the history of our National
"unpleasantness Has the Herald unearthed q
hero whose name has been kept state secret
Tho Official Gazette publishes Prince
Bismarck's circular note of May l4th, 1872, which
was read in the secret session Of the Won Arnin
trial The note declares that, because Of the de-
claration Of the dogma Of the infalibili.y Of the
pope, it is desirable that the powers should take
steps toward concerted action in view Of the next
papal election.
A SO pound can Of niiro glycerine,
carelessly left by some railroad men in Martin
township. y. y, was exploded, few day since,
by chip from tree which three men were chop
ping striking against the can. Tho men were
blown to atoms, and hole wasrent in tho earth
big enough for n four-horse team stand In with.
out being seen.
On the 23d inst, two Southington
farmers had turkeys In New Haven Conn, weigh.
ing 30}9 pounds each. A Bethlehem man ha,
one that weighs - pounds, and a Griewold farmer
marketed ll6a few days ago, the aggregate
weight of which was 1914 pounds, yielding by
their sale the sum of $3.50 0s. Connecticut ha'
considerable weight on the turkey question.
Tho colorod citizans of Oherliu a .i