The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-06-29
News Summary

The Turks in Asia Minor are falling
back.
The Porte refuses to neutralize the
Suez Canal.
A Chinese loan of 81 800 900 will be
issued in July.
The Bashi-Bazouks have created n
reign of terror in Constantinoplc
Great inefliciency of the commissariat
is troubling the Russians in Roumania.
II. A. Blood sues the Fitchburg
(Iass.) Sentinel for 100000 for libel
The Turkish Assembly has voted an
internal loan of 100000 at 10 per
cent.
The aged songstrcss, Jenny Lind
has hair as white as the filigrec work
of silver.
Servia will maintain armed neutral
ity, allowing Russian troops TO cross
her territory.
a force of 100 striking laborers is
preventing work on the Camden and
Atlantic railroad.
1t is reported that son of ex-Secre-
tary Fish has been appointed minister
to Switzerland.
The Great Western Railroad Company
refuses to divide net receipts with the
Grand Trunk.
The Grand Trunk workshops at Mon
treal have been shut down in prefer
cnce to discharging hands.
Turkish reports say the Russians have
burned n hospital and 800 inmates and
committed gross outragcs in Circassia.
Mr.. Bcecher declines 10 lecture in
California in August and September,
and goes 10 thc White Mountains ms
usual.
The postmastcr-gcncral has written
another letter announcing the non-par-
san character of the postal service.
The commissioner of internal rcye-
nue. has refused an appeal to discontinue
proceedings against illicit distillers and
tobacco manufacturers in North Caro-
lima.
Baldwin. the famous "lucky" mil
lionairc of California, is in trouble. The
father Of an undcr-aged Miss l.innie
Mccormick sues him. Baldwin saws it
is blackmail.
The Pope received the last of the
great pilGrimagcs, a week ago Satur-
day. The Canadian pilgrims separated
into different parties, some going to Ma
pies, others to Genoa.
The oldest legislator is dead lie
was Hon. Robert M. Cutter, member
of the legislative council of Nova
Scotia since 1888, who died at Crews
boro, n. s., few days since. aged 90
years.
Mr.. Townsend's letter to the attor-
ney-general of New York, giving the
history of all the negotiations in connec-
ton with the Tweed case, and the prn-
cipal facts i'll the latter's confession, is
given to the public.
Abiel F. FiGeld, the water register
of Cambridge, Mass, sloped about a
year ago with S2O, 900 of the municipal
funds. Last week he was found keep
ing little candy store in BROOKLYN.
and living under the name of George
Frost.
Colonel 5. 5. Taylor, of Cairo, H.,
has carried in his valise for many wears,
when travelling, rope ladder and a
pair of thick gloves. At the burning
of the Southern Hotel at st. Louis,
where he was guest, the ladder and
gloves saved his life.
AS soon as the publishers of religious
weeklies discontinued soliciting SUBJ
scribers for chromos, and throwing in
their publications as an inducement to
subscribe, the circulation of their papers
fell of fifty per cent. This speaks we'll
for the art taste of American people. -
| (Norristown Herald
Gen. Spinner, in letter to friend in
New York, describes the beautiful re-
treat in Florida where he finds the best
fishing in the world. Quantities OF
bass weighing over thirty pounds each
and shepherds weighing from FIVE to
eight pounds each, can be caught, lie
says, by the boat-load in few hours.
Miss Anne Howells. who is like
her brother, the editor of the Atlantic
Monthly, in being writer, Is soon tc
marry Mr.. Achille Frechette a French
Canadian connected with the govern
ment at Ottawa. Mr.. Frechette for
merly resided in Chicago, working OF
a French paper there before the grea
fire.
Wade Hampton has been married
twice, and is widower. He had thre,
children-two sons and a daughter
His eldest son, Preston Hampton, wa
killed at Gettysburg, and the second
Wade, Jr., lives in Washington county
Miss. His daughter, Margaret, is tn
wife of Colonel John Hascall, of Soutl
Carolina.
Mrs. Postmaster General Key |
another lady of republican simplicit,
and sense. She appears in society ii
exceedingly unostentations attire
wears but few ornaments, and non
that could be caleI an extravaganza
while her dark hair in plainly collie
braids is in keeping with her placid an,
intelligent face.
Miss Jennie Collins, of Boston. tn
/, working girls friends, gives some star
5 ling samples of shop girls wages in tina
a city--twenty-five cents dozen 70
c fancy aprons, two days work, an
twenty cents day on an average &
/ some better kinds of work. Those ar
c figures to dash the exultation over tn
G "bargains" rewarding thrifty shoppin
!, Just now. Think of a bargain ont {