The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-04-13
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Il Boston News.
Whole flocks of partridges were fro
zen to death in Pennsylvania during
the past winter.
1t is said to require higher art to con-
vey delicate compliment than to utter
n bitter sarcasm.
A California lemon weighing four
teen ounces was received at Ithaca, N.
Y, the other day.
Gen. Sheridan is back in New Or
leans again, it is to be hoped en- route
to the Mexico-Texas border.
A belle upon being asked her fathers
profession, said he "embalmed pork"
she believed. He was n bacon curer.
Gov. Tilden, of New York, has par
doned James II. Ingersoll, sentenced
to five years imprisonment for forgery
in the second degree.
The immovable property of st.
Petersburg has just been revalued by a
special commission, the result showing
an increased valuation of IS per cent.
since 1916.
Sooner or later justice overtakes the
leader of a brass band. A bridge come
along and struck one on the head the
other day, as he stood on the top of an
Erie freight train.
The noted stallion Goldsmith Alb
dallah," valued at $50, 900, was acct
dentally run into and killed while be-
ing exhibited on the track of the stall
lion show in Paris, KY, recently.
Stephen Consoles was convicted of
bigamy in New York few days since.
Two wives were present. When asked
what he had to say, he looked at his
wives and said, "Send me to prison."
Owing to the dizziness of business one
of the English steamship lines between
New York and Liverpool, it is report
ed, is about to haul off its vessels, and
it is said several other lines will do the
same.
Official mourning for the death of the
late Emperor of China was suspended
few hours on February %, in order to
allow rejoicing over the new accession.
The new Emperor being duly honored,
grief was resumed.
The Russian Minister of the Interior
has submitted to the Council of State a
project to regulate the lotteries, the OBJ
ject of which is gradually to lead to
their extinction. A taste for gambling
is said to be national vice.
IA handsome colored girl" was offer
ed at auction, at Petersburg, Va, the
other day. One dollar and twenty-five
cents was bid, when the Civil Rights
bill was read and the girl was with
drawn. So says the Petersburg News.
The report that the Pope will make
his residence in the United States, If
Rome gets too warm for him, is revived,
and it is said that it was with view to
such possible emergency that Arch
bishop McCloskey was made cardi-
nal.
An English medical student recently
lost his life in football match in Bat
tersea Park, London. He attempted
to stop another player by catching him
by the leg, when they both fell, the de-
ceased underneath, and received fatal
injuries
Paul Boyton, the American inventor
of "a novel rubber life-saving apparatus,
gave so satisfactory an exhibition of his
invention to Queen Victoria, Wednes-
day, in the harbor of Cowes, that she
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set of his life-saving equipments for the
royal yacht.
The Montreal paper placed under the
ban by the Catholic church authorities
of Canada is the Witness, which, in
consequence, good Catholics are sup
posed not to read. Probably the inter-
diction will do the paper more good
than harm, on the principle applying
to forbidden fruit.
The budget about to be presented to
Parliament will give the following ex-
hibit of the finances for the fiscal wear
ending, March 81, 1875; Total revenue
from all sources, ga 1922, 900; excess
over estimate, G636, 900, giving the gov.
eminent, with the reduction Of expens-
es. surplus of 81 1873, 900.
John Erwin, IS years old. of Fishkill
village, near Poughkeepsie, n. Y,
committed suicide because he had been
detected in theft to provide funds for
supplying the demands of Lowell
Mass. man, who had from time to time
demanded money and dry goods from
him as the price of silence in regard to
something he had done.
A Third avenue, New York, horse
railroad conductor says that robbery on
the cars is as brisk as ever, and that, if
conductor defends the passengers, the
managers of the road won't sustain
him. The president of the Third ave
nue. line recently refused to replace a
cap and badge conductor had lost in a
fight with robbers, and the conductor
was soon discharged.
Miguel F. Arcila, an intimate friend
and confidential adviser of President
Gonzales, who has just arrived in this
country, denies the report that q claim
is about to be made by the Dominican
government against the United States,
for injuries sustained during the reten-
ton OF power by eX.President Baez,
when the latter was supported by the
government of this country.
When Isaac Tichenor was governor
OF Vermont, he issued Fast Day pro-
clamation in which he said 1--WE have
abundant cause to lament that we are
not more distinguished for wisdom and
virtue. A spirit of infidelity, of pro
family, of SANDER and defamation per
wade our land. We are in truth CON
strained to acknowledge that we are q
sinful people" Governors don't talk
this way now-ad days.
The recent raid of detectives from
Washington upon the counterfelters IN
Virginia has stirred up large and In
teresting gang, some Of whom have
been In the business for Year, and are
very wealthy. One OF them II John
Corn, Methodist minister, who, when
arrested, said that the Lord knew hs
was Innocent, and would save him
twenty cases of having counterfeit
money have been proved against him
The natural sources of wealth In Den.
mark are agriculture and cattle breed.
ing, and an increasing importation Of
manure and feed shows that these
sources are being industriously worked
There is yearly increasing exporta.
ton, principally TO Great Britain, OF
cattle and pigs, and to the United
States of butter, pork. etc. Railroad
facilities are being increased, the Gov
eminent undertaking the construction
of the lines.
In Brooklyn, on Tuesday afternoon,
Mr. John s. mel n wealthy hakar on.