The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-08-03
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Brigham Young denies that he was
ever married to Ann Eliza.
Messrs. Moody and Sankey are maxi
ing tour in the north of Wales.
1t is proposed to have an information
al regatta at Saratoga this month.
Grants cotton mills, at Glasgow, were
burned Wednesday loss $4,000.
The authorities at Great Falls, n.
H., arrest tramps and send them to the
county farm.
The report of the assassination of
Chief Ross, of the Cherokee Nation, is
discredited.
]. b. Ford & Co., of New York, pub
fishers of the Christian Union, have
failed.
A violent storm passed over Ottawa,
Canada, on Monday, causing the death
of two persons.
Thirty-one mills have been closed at
Dundee, Scotland, and $4,000 persons
are out of employment.
The crops have failed in Portugal
and q famine is imminent The cattle
are dying of hunger,
In Bshopgate street, London, they
have found Roman pavement twelve
feet below the present surface.
The failure of Duncan, Sherman Il
Co, has caused CONSERVATION among
the Americans in Paris.
The crops in some sections of Ohio
have been seriously damaged by heavy
md Drotracted rain storms.
A dry goods clerk at New Haven was
recently detected stealing from his en-
ployers, and committed suicide.
A tornado passed over Switzerland
county, Indiana, OH Tuesday, unroof-
ing buildings and leveling the crops.
The Newburyport coal beavers are
foolish enough to strike for fifty cents
an hour; they are now paid forty five
cents.
The corn In Saratoga county, n. Y,
is attacked by an insect which eats the
long leaves, causing them to drop from
the stalk.
A man has Just been before the mag
istrates in Stafford, England, on charges
of drunkenness, having already APP
peared 172 times.
The Commercial Warehouse Compa
nv of New York has failed. The fail
ure was not caused by Duncan, Sher
man & Co. IS suspension.
Infant mortality attains high rate
in Montreal. Out of population O.
deaths, o" %8htaarefo w were last week q
Nearly q 900 vessels, belonging t.
..ot;o,,.l;t,, 10 4, ,er1
the Bosphorus in 1874. OF these the
greater number were British.
The losses of cattle by the plague il
Hungary, from 1861 to 1873, are shown
by the official report TO be l65, 1872 head
of total value of nine million florins
At Cleveland, Thursday, the hors,
"Grafton" trotted the last half mile il
the third heat in LOCI, and the las
quarter of the first heat in 81 ga.
Kene, N. H., had an extra dose 0
the tramp nuisance, last week, ant
was very much Disguised.
Rev. DIR. Cyrus d. Foss, of New
York, was elected president of tn
Wesleyan University at Middletown
Conn.,, by the trustees, Wednesday.
The Khedive of Egypt has decree'
that hereafter the calendar used b.
Christian nations will be used in tina
country, instead of the Mohammedan
Elmira Mute, of Beverly, Mass, wa
neld in $4,000 bail, Wednesday, on
charge of blackmail, preferred by Rev
w. G. Wells, an Episcopal minister O
that place.
j. B. Ford & Co., of New York
ascribe their failure to the Life o
Christ" which they were publishing
They claim that their assets will ex
ceedtheir liabilities.
Rhode Island enforces the law whicl
limits the number of passengers Of
steamboats,. Wednesday the captain O
the excursion steamer Plymouth Rocl
was fined $500 for evading the law,
Two tramps entered the house of Il
aac Morse, at East Redfeld, Me-, Mon
day, and, seizing Mrs. Morse by tn
throat, choked her till she gave up sac
when they fed and have not yet beel
captured.
Mrs. w. j. Walker, wife of the pro
prietor of the New Hampshire Hous
at Dover. n. H., was robbed of 5000
worth of diamonds, which she left il
her room, Monday. There is no cleV
to the thief.
The government shipping bill, i
place of Mr.. Plimsoll's, which cause
such a sensation in the English Hous
of Commons a few nights since, passe
its first reading Wednesday night ,afte
some opposition.
The Carlsts in Spain have little
anything to commend their cause
the sympathy of the world, A pens
code recently promulgated condemn
to the galleys for life all partIsans {
freedom of worship.
The republicans OF Minnesota in th
platform adopted at the state CONVEX
ton. favor the resumption of speci
payment and oppose the third teri
project. John G. Pillsbury was nom
mated for governor.
1t ID stated that the general conditio
OF Utah is not very prosperous. TIL
mines which were most productive
few years ago have "petered OUT an
no others equally rich have been di
covered.
The three men arrested by the 30
ton detectives, Tuesday evening, O
suspicion of having robbed the VIII
throp national bank, are still in cust1
dy,although nothing has occurred sinC
their arrest to confirm the suspicious
the detectives.
Four counterfeiters have been ares
ed by the secret service officers, wi
have been for some time making al
passing very successful imitation
The trade dollar, as well as five-dolll
gold pieces, silver half dollars and 9th
coin.
The steamship City of Richmond {
her last trip is said to have made Il
swiftest westerly passage ever accor
plished. The voyage from Queen
town to New York was made In eigl
days and forty-sevea minutes, actu
time.
A wretch enticed little boy abo
eight years old from his home at Buck
port, Me-, Saturday evening. and lea