The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-01-19
NE us ITEMS.

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IN 'rgauir. ny ytt, though they have BEEN at 1t
Scok
There ore indications that Mr.. w. 8.
Holman will be next nitcd states senator from
.uuiana.
The new Constitution of New York
orbids & nhting extra Compensation u any ofhoor
Or empioye.
A book bas been published called
"llalf.llouis with In.scts," lilo uu.Lor was not
regular tUsiaer.
The gras,brppers Of Nebraska have
taken to skating Tor amusement until another
season vi vegetation comss Ou.
Senator AhIhuny, VI Rhode l.lund, wbu
has been detail led at HON. by sickness started fol
Washington ou Tuesday Afternoon.
Montgomery. Ala. claims centcua
ian. lie is colored, over los years old, and re.
members when Washington was Piesid.nt.
DAWSON, Judd Il Co.. Of Pbiladelphia
have suspended payment with liaLiliti, amount
ing to 500, 600 anu uss,ts lees than SO, ouo.
Nothing recalls to the mind of the mar.
ried the joys Of his single life so wildly as to
lind that tho baby has been eating crackers in
bed.
The Republican Convention at Green.
Geld yesterday nominated Hon. Charles A.
stevens for balance Of Mr.. Crocker's term in Con-
gress.
The State Of New York received nearly
seven-tenths of all tho imposts, and sends abroad
nearly half vt all the exports Of the whole United
States.
1t is said that train will be run
through the Hoosac Tunnel on Saturday, the track
having been already laid from the east end to the
.ntral shaft.
Commodore Vanderbilt denounces the
practice Of clipping horses, and says Mr.. Hersh
ought to 20 for tho q" nhuman fashionsbles" who
arc guilty of it,
MIR. Forney's turn has now come for an
explanation. His Washington correspondent says
he did receive somc Of the Pacific Mail corruption
fund and passed it ovor to Mr.. Forney.
A butcher in London was tried for
sending bad meat to market n short time ago,
aud the charge being proved no was given month
in prison without the option If Emo. Iii punish
ment was meet
Divorces are not SO frequent in Eug.
land as one light suppose. At rough estimate
there are upward Of 1900. 900 married couples in
that country. while the number of divorces IN
1878 wac but 2l5.
Jerusalem would seem to be- AL un
pleasant place for people who don't care to b.
murdered. More than hundred murders have
been committep there within Il year. ADD not ont
Of the murderers has been punished
10 ST.. John n b., the snow drifts Oh
the Carleton side Of the river were so largo OIL
sunday that funeral which was to have occurred
ON that day had to be postponed. it being impos-
sible to get the hearsc through tho streets
Recently at the installation Of pastor
in a Massachusetts, town the proceedings were in
teirupted by several of the members entering n
protest against the act. One of the grounds al.
legged was that the ministers sermons were too
sLUIt.
he London telegraph gives its coun
trymen very bad namJ wncn he rays: THE
most brutal, the most cowerdly, the U st piiiloss
tue most barbaroms dee ds done ia the world art
icing pcrpetrht by tho lower classes If the
Euelsh people"
Hon .johu D. Todd, tho was a memb.
or Of the Massae u It's Senate la 1873, died b
tew days ago at hicago At one time he was
prominent busn, s. man in iiuston, but for TIL
psst ton yours has been Pr.sd. lat Of tho Conway
National BANK in Conway, Mass, in which town
ne resided.
II Is a sad fact, but nevertheless true.
that it is proposed to abolish whole county In
New YORK state, partly because 1t ccnisius les
than 3JOJ inhabitants, tut largely owing to the
amount VI local Corruption which existed. The
taxes Ue ns paid by Nonresident, the supervisors
had no bowl. Of conpas sion.
The debt of the State Of PENNSYLVANIA
IS s24 $3.50 81, with bond. In sinking fund val.
uod at 81 UOo,0JU. by repeating the ,axes Oh
= oss receipts Of railroads net earnings Of indus
trial and 'thtr corpui atai.s and the tax On cattle
aud farming implements the State loses twelve
LudI4cd thousand dollars annual iucotne.
Statistics for niue mouths OF the yeai
1874, the Iast quarter Of the year not being ir
cu ted, show that while in England and Scotland
thero was very marked Increase in the c Jn.ump.
ton Of Intoxicating liquors over the corresponding
period Of tho previous year, there a large de-
crease IN the amount consumed in Ireland.
\ singular case Of death from fright
occurred recently at Lorwick, Scotland. A young
woman who was employed to watch with a sick
woman was found ono morning dead il d chair by
the bed on which lay the corpse of the invalid.
The medical opinion was that the patient having
died 10 the nigh; the shock killed the watcher.
The New Orleans correspondent of the
Now York Times says of Gen. Sheridan: "He
Las acteo and is acting, however, from the honest
conviction that no is right md not few Of the
best Democrats here express the belief that the
United States Marshal and not the Lieutenant
Genera! is to blanc for the occurrence Of tho 4th
inst"
The New Orleans correspondent of the
Chicago Inter Ocean says the Democrats are all
opposed to a new election under Congressional
authority. They want McEuery and Penn install
led in place of Kellogg and Antoine. If there is
not military government or a new election,
trsops mast remain To rrotsst che KelVss admin
istration until 1876
When William NJ. Evarts said, in his
Cooper Institute speech, be thought that If the
lights OF tho blacks were invaded his Democratic
friends would protest against 1t with ns much
earnestness 10 they then protested agans, Federal
interference with State shts. it i. lid that "thr
declaration Was received with u smile Of incrsdu.
lity" Very likely
The New York Times. speaking of the
indignation meeting in that city says 1t has been
Informed that on Saturday John Kelly made ar
engagements for at least two hundred and fifty
men from each Assembly district to be sent t.
Cooper Institute, and from first to last the meet
Ing has been engineered" by the very Democrat
WHO often figured In an uniayorable light before
the public during the war.
Who is Grant that he should seek to
act the part Of master Of tho South Who is
sheridan that he should attempt to crush the
white popie of louisiana 10 il not time that this
tyranny DO broughttO sudden and, fit must be
So bloody end' The time for arguments, for
appeals for rcmonst ance is passed. Barrsadc-
ought ~ be the fashion now. with armed men be-
hind taen .-AllGRfI Atus(D
The Comm. issionels Of Emigration III
New York are insulveLt. The head money taA
Was reduced lrum $40 10 s %, with the ide4
Tat il would oraw immigrants To- that port. Ii
nad 10 et'et whatever. The Legislature last
year was asked 10 Increase tEo tax 70 50 but did
nothing. Now the Commi sions want $500 OGQ
u pay their debts and running expenses, and th
Threatened 70 throw up thcir Uiiice.
Tho controller OF New York give some
Interesting facts in his report which uaght 10 open
the eyes OF the taN-psyers Tho new Capitol at
Albany will cost fur times as much ~ 1t was es-
tinated. At une Institution it viii eost $1,000 for
tue accommodation Of each pa,i, and 1t another
SlOuO tor each patient Ia another, where there
are az patients, $40 500 have been expondei fer
chairs ani sofas fer their ace Jnnvdation.
Mr, g. +. Wingste. in his readable
article, IAN Episode In Municipal Government, -"
published in tho NJrth Amsns0z Rtpielr, states
that tho new Court noase Ia New York civ