The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-03-07
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The bill for woman suffrage In the
Massachusetts, Legislature was killed
in the Senate, Friday, by vote of Is
to IL.
Gambstta, in a speech at Lyons
promised that the republican deputies
would treat President MacMahon
~ above all party attacks.
Lord Lytton, recently appointed
governor general of India left Wednes-
day afternoon for Naples, where h.
will embark for India, accompanied by
Lady Lytton.
A heavy snow storm is reported neal
Virginia. New. There have been sew
sral snow slides on the mountains IN
the neighborhood of Cisco. One train
is reported wrecked and all telegraph
wires down.
The Turkish authorities have a re.
port from Nukhtar Pasha that the
Hsrzegovinians show signs Of discour-
agement, that many have submitted,
and that the refugees are beginning To
return to their homes
Some fourteen deer were killed by n
hunting party in CRANKY, Canada,
last week. The crust was just thick
enough to sustain the hunters, but not
the deer so this wanton and merciless
slaughter was made.
Turkey is behindhand again with
the interest money due in London on
Its debt. OF the a12O,7 necessary to
meet the interest and drawn bonds
due, to-day, only SAC, 1886 have been TO.
ceived by its financial agents in Lon
don.
Tue Delaware and Hudson canal
company will discharge one-fourth of
their employees at the Green Island
shops. and will reduce the wages of the
rest ten per cenA and increase their
working hours from eight to ten per
day.
Senator Boutwell, testified on Thurs
day before the Alaska investigating
committee of the House, that the lease
of the Seal islands brought in 1926, 900
annually to the government, which
was more than has been given by any
other bidder than the present lessees.
The marriage of Prof. Tyndall to
Miss Louise Claud Hamilton, daugh-
ter Of Lord Hamilton, took place at
Westminster Abbey, March l, among
those present being Thomas Carlyle
and Profs. Huxley and Hooker. The
spontaneously between the pair be-
gan during an ascent of Mont Blanc.
A Mr.. Swinyear, of Franklin, N. Y,
died last month, aged one hundred and
i've years. His widow 10 IN her 101st
year; his oldest child is a woman of so
yearsand the youngest Is about so, and
is a grandfather. Mr.. Swinyear leaves
ten children, Sc grand children, Sc
great-grand children, and So great
great grand children.
The inundations in the eastern prov
tnces OF Germany and Hungary are in
cressing Fifty five Hungarian villa
ges near the border are entirely sub
merged, tho water over some of them
nineteen feet deep Many persons
have been drowned near Posen. The
railroad from Pcsen to Thorn is threat
eued with total destruction.
An engine and freight car on the
Grand Trunk railroad ran through q
canal bridge at Buffalo, N. Y, Wednes-
day evening. David Hardy, the fire.
man, was torn to pieces in the machin-
cry of the locomotive, which continued
to work for five minutes after going
through the bridge and while in the Gu
nal. Three other men on the locomo-
tive escaped uninjured.
Don Carlos has issued an official cir
cular at Paris declaring that he has
not relinquished his claim to the
throne Of Sprin that he was not van
quished, but entered France volunta-
rily; that he gave up his arms neither
to France nor to the Alfonsists, but vol
UNFAIRLY laid them down after heroic
struggle, thus completely reserving the
future, which belongs to him.
Col Gordon, the African explorer, is
reported returning to Cairo, owing to
lack of forces, which have been thinned
lous tribes, and also a want of harmo-
ny between Col. Gordon and the
Egyptian administration for the per-
manent control Of equatorial Egypt.
1t is probable that Egypt will tempo
rarily abandon the control of her equa-
torial possessions,
The fate of the British ship Strath-
more, which sailed from London for
New Zealand. nearly year ago, and
has since been among the missing, is
just learned. The vessel was wrecked
on the Crozet islands, in the south In
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50 passengers and crew, 40 were saved
and the rest drowned. So ne 20 of the
survivors have been landed at Ceylon
by a passing vessel.
The public debt statement, for Janu-
ary, gave under the head of leash in
the Treasury" the amount of coin as
$Y3, SOL 1881 AZ, and many have doubt
less regarded that sum as good begin
ming toward the resumption of specie
payments. But, I'm fact, small por
ton Of the coin in the Treasury is act
ually available for that purpose, There
Is only S1t.553.66 which cannot be
claimed to meet some lawful obliga-
ton.
A graduate of Union College,
prominent business man in North Car
olina, in a recent letter says: II mar
ried in 1853, entered the Confederate
service las every true Southern man
did in 1861, and remained with the
Southern army until near the close of
the war, when / was severely wounded
and retired from the service. We are
glad slavery persisted. We are glad our
cause proved failure. We are glad the
Union was restored and when | speak
this, 1 speak the sentiment of nine
tenths Of the Southern people"
1t is stated that Don Carlos owes
5000 GOO in England, but he has in
herited estates in Hungary worth S40,-
900, 900 from the duke of Modena, and
will lake up his residence there after
going TO England to arrange terms
with his creditors. The French civil
and military agents in the south Of
France and the staff of the southern
railway have been doubled TO meet the
pressure caused by the number of Car
lists requiring internment. All is pro-
ceeding smoothly. The Carlists obey
the orders of the local authorities with
the greatest readiness.
Two young men, while hunting in
the northern part of Maine recently,
got lost and remained in the woods
through one of the coolest nights we
have had this Winter when discov-
ared tha naxt day thew had their COM