The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-12-16
GENERAL VIEWS.

There are 500 oranges In Michigan
and SO, 1875 patrons.
Barbara FrletchIe's house Is slowly
turning into canes,
Llano county, Texas. has q little vol
cano which occasionally mapifests Its
existence.
Congressman Five, Mr., Blaine's sue
cssser, is a little bit of a fellow, and Is
grayhaired.
Senator Burnside, whose bald head is
sensitive to cold, wears a gray chin
chilla skull cop while in the senate
chamber.
The Atlanta Times says an unbroken
stream of emigrants to Texas and Ar
kansas has been for some time flowing
through that city.
Gov. Tilden has appointed John J
Freedman Judge of the superior court
of the city of New York, In place of
the late Claudius L. NOBEL.
William G. Whitney, who has just
teen reappointed corporation counsel
in tho ely of New York for four years,
Is a son Of Gen. James 5. Whitney of
Boston, formerly of New York.
One thousand and fifty-eight white
and five hundred and sixteen colored
persons died In Savannah from yellow
fever during the prevalence of the cpl
demic.
Few of the dwellings in the Phillip.
pine islands, furniture and all included,
weigh over two hundred pounds. And
yet lighthouses are scarce in that re-
gion.
The attendance at the schools in Penn
Yam has been considerably reduced in
consequence of the general alarm o
corning diptheria which prevails in
that village.
The conduct of the actors and actress
ses during the Brooklyn tragedy merits
the highest praise. Let any II who
would assail the dramatic profession
now hide his head in shame.
A Port Jervis paper says that i'm
mense cocks Of owls are going south.
They've probably been attracted thith-
or by the democratic orators statement
that the south Is an owiing wilderness,
A gang of five burglars, who have
been operating In st. Lawrence county
n. Y, for some weeks have been sent
TO prison for terms Of two years to eight
years and six months.
Mrs. Sarah Goodrich, q widow Of
elghty-two, committed suicide, :Satur-
day, at Brooklyn by cutting her throat,
being Insane at the loss of friends by
the disaster.
Capt. Josiah S. Grindle of the ship
st. Mark, convicted Of cruelty to sea
men, causing the death of one man has
been sentenced to the Albany peniten-
tlary for two years.
Boss Tweed's baggage, taken with
tim from Vlgo, Spain, has been sent to
Washington 10 be examined by the at
torney-general, and possibly, also by
Secretary Fish, under the supposition
that 1t contains valuable papers, though
Tweed says there Is nothing but value
less linen in it.
Governor Grover Of Oregon. who has
become conspicuous all at once, Is a ma
tive OF Bethel, Me-, and something
owe fifty years old. He is n graduate
Of B0wdOin college, and has lived In
Oregon since 1850. He has held all
sorts OF territorial and state offices,
and was the first representative of the
state In Congress.
A score or more of recent passengers
from New York to San Francisco by
the Pacific Mail route publish a card in
which they declare that the accommo-
dations on the steamer Salvador, on the
Pacific side, were the worst, the quar-
tiers insufficient and filthy, the food
bad and the service pool, and they warn
everybody no to patronize the line.
A policeman at the centennial, named
Arthur J.. Smith, who had been arrest
ed on charge of petty thefts In the
French department, but was acquitted,
caused the arrest of Capt. Aufrye of
the French commission, last week, for
SANDER In accusing him of the larceny,
but the secretary Of state has ordered
Aufrye's rolease on the ground that he
lie entitled to immunity from arrest Us
a member of the French legation.
Gov. Kellogg, of Louisiana, is about
ifty years old. He is Of medium height,
10 slender and erect, and wears a close
iy buttoned coat. His head is small,
the forehead evenly rounded and slop-
Ing backward with too great rapidity.
His hair Is gray and worn as IL much
time had been employed on 1t with a
brush In front Of a mirror. His nous
tache is gray, heavy, and with pointed
waved ends.
A passenger train on the New York
Central railroad ran into a freight stuck
in the snow at L~ooneyville, near Buff.
alO, Saturday night, and the two en-
gines drawing the express and the
freight engine and two express cars
were wrecked, while the through Chi
cago safe and contents, with the Buffa-
10 safe and contents, were burned q
partially destroyed, Benjamin Wood.
worth OF Utica Eek press messenger, aged
fifty, was burned to death. George W.
Douglas, engineer. and James Vaughan,
fireman, were seriously injured.
Hubert Bancroft, the historian of the
Pacific slope, has q magnificent library
on his subject having devoted his large
Income to II for a dozen years. and col
!ecting his books personally or by
agents in all the great book marts OF
the world. When the crash Of the em'
pire came in Mexlco,a great part of the
imperial books and documents were SO.
cured by him, and various revolutions
have thrown into hls hands original
and unpublished documents of great
value from the archives Of monasterles
and governments in Central America.
Chief Justice Moses, Of South Caro-.
jina,is brother OF Judge Moses who was
Indicted last year, at the instlgation Of
Gov. Chamberlin, and father Of ex'
Gov. Moses to whom Gov. Chamberlir
refused a commission as Judge, a few
months since. He IL a bitter persona
enemy Of Gov. Chamberlain. He ha
two sssociates-one is o black mar IRON
PennsyIyania, said to be a good lawye
and q firm Republican, while the thirt
member of the court 10 a carpet-bagge
from New York, who has for some tim
been regarded as q tool Of Wade Hamp
ton and his associates.