The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-01-11
GENERAL NE WS.

WIFI u dtoh''eJ ~ ''@'
preparations.
Archduke Rudolphe, prince imperi-
nj of Austria, will be crowned king OF
Hungary in July.
A Boston firm is said to have paid
$4,000 for the right to sell popcorn on
the Centennial grounds.
Cen. Fitz John Porter has been ap-
pointed and confirmed as commission
er of public works of New York city
North Adams, Mass, sends twenty
one feet of petition, with l, lO0 names,
to the legislature, for the repeal of the
license law.
George Reynolds. cashier of Bur
lington lumber firm, was arrested ut
Montreal, the other day, on the charge
of embezzlement
Lucy Larcom, finding literature not
as profitable to her as it ought to be,
has become instructress of a private
school at Boston.
Concord. n. H., had twenty-five
less marriages, last year, than 1874,
forty less than in 1878, and seventy
less than in 1872.
A citizen of Newport, r. l., has a
well in which the wafer Is covered
with oil. and he has sent some of 1t to
an eminent chemist, with hopes.
A Wisconsin congressman, name
not given, says his republican copstit-
uents are third termers almost to q
man. They regard it as party neces-
sity.
The Postmaster General has ordered
All extension of the postal service on
the Portland Il Ogdensburg railroad,
from the Fabyan House to Lunen-
burg. Vt.
Prof Rasil l.. Gildersleeve of the
University of Virginia, has accepted
the chair of Greek in the John Hop
kins University at Baltimore, at sal
airy of SIS, 900 year.
The Hon. Alexander II. Stephens Is
opposed to the continuance of the two
thirds rule in the Democratic conven-
ton. Mr.. Stephens has slightly i'm
proved in health.
Norwich has had to pay $3.50 in ply
sicians' and officers fees in the case OIL
the murderer Richard Robinson, who
took poison before he was arraigned
for examination.
New Years day at CT man, Conn.,,
was celebrated by playing croquet, In
which ladies Joined in summer sun
hats and shawls or cloaks the ther'
mometer stood at eighty degrees.
An ex-soldier, writing to the Cincin'
natl Commercial, makes novel sug
gestion-that Grant should have five
terms. to "symbolze" the five great
victories he won during the war.
Nearly all the officers, from top tc
bottom. elected by the Ohio Legisla
ture, served in the Union army, ant
most of them were wounded in the
service. The Legislature is Republic
can.
The people of the seaport towns o
Nova Scotia are already planning t.
visit the Centennial Exhibition. IL
one place they propose to charter
steamer and spend week at Philadel
phia.
Ten years ago gentleman importe!
number of the Eastern bob White
quail, and placed them on an islant
near Walla Walla, w. IT,, and nov
they swarm by the thousands. afford
ing excellent hunting.
The trial of LePage at Concord, n
H., began last Tuesday the jury being
then completed. Some new evidence
is to be introduced. LePaPe looks hall
and hearty, and seems little concerned
about the result.
1t is reported that Oakley Hall ha
concluded to give up the stage and re
turn to the law. All his friends hop,
the report will prove true, the ute
failure of his venture now being uni
versally conceded.
Father Ryan, Dubuque, Ia, priest
gave notice Sunday that he woul,
withhold from the parishioners tn
sacraments of penanoe and the holy Gu
charist who persisted in sending thei
children to the public schools.
Mrs. Wiehaus, a German woman o
Lawrence, Mass, recently became tn
mother of five children at one birth
and all are alive and doing well. Sh
had previously given birth to singh
child, twins and triplets, successfully
Governor Hartranft has received
present of mass Of melted and un
melted bullets, found near Uniontowl
in Pennsylvania, and supposed to be
portion of the ammunition Destroyer
after his defeat.
Winter SET in in England Garlic
than usual. In Scotland snow has fall
en- heavily, and travelling over Eng
land is impeded by ice. At Paris it
even colder than In London. In tn
north of Spain the weather is very 81
we're, a colonel in the royal army hay
ing been frozen to death.
The reign of false hair is over, and
is said that Parisians are already a
ranging their own locks either in plai
ed or twisted coils round the head, {
in artistic coils at the back of the necl
We may, therefore, soon hope to 81
the heads of our fair ladies reduced
their natural size and shape.
There Is more rivalry among Il
gun-makers. Herr Krupp, not to
beaten by the English Sl-ton gun, h
proposed to the German governme
to produce a weapon of $50 tons. III
cost ,of dischargiDg the latest Brltis
infant is said to be Gl0 for shell al
Els for powder Herr Krupp's mod
would cost about twice that sum.
Mr.. Henderson, the contractor wi
graded a section of the Monticello Ra
way through the mountain ne
Greenwood lake, n. j., for which
says $50 900 is due him, has put arm
men in the rock cut, and will not I
low the owners of the road to take pC
session to complete the grading un
he is paid. An armed collision
feared.
4 shipment of American beef weig
ing forty-two tons, and intending
reach London the day before Chri
mas, did not arrive at its destinati
until a day after Christmas, but 1t cal
out in perfectly good order and "
sold at Cd. per pound, equal to abe
ID cents in our currency. The 81
leaves large margin of profit to
abfnnarc apI will pr0hahIy naVa