The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-07-25
Items OF Interests


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Men with lots of wind come out best
in the long run. . T
Two buckets Of water sell for
nickel in Burnen, Texas.
Natchez, Miss, is preparing to build
another large cotton factory.
The Emperor of Germany has fire.
quent and threatening fits of fainting.
Conee-growing has proved success
full with some planters III southern
Florida.
As soon as the new born babe comes
into the family its father wants to give
ii a-weigh.
The "audiometcr," an.instrumcnt for
measuring the sense of hearing, is late
scientific invention.
A postmaster, parish judge ana a
| negro we're shot dead at Lake froVf
dence, La, on Thursday.
The Hotel de Willie, Paris, the recon-
struction of which was begun III 1900
is approaching completion'
There are many men whose tongues
might govern multitudes it they could
govern their tongues Prentice.
In California the democrats have
taken up the gubernatorial candiua'c
of the ''lIonorablc Bilks." His name
is Glenn. r'.ft.
II is estimated that American shop
pers spend nearly one hundred miiiioh
dollars every season over the couh'c's
in London.
General Grant is to have the offer OF
the honorary presidency of the lsth
mus of Darien Canal Company, from
M. de Lesseps.
Lice and locusts, are working against
Louisiana's cotton crop; and lice arc
busy in the North Carolinian and Nir-
ginian cOtton-field.
The South is making great deal OF
artificial ice, and the quantity is sand T."
he excellent. Soon the South VIII be
indGpcndcnt of the Norih's winters.
Supplics of women for the Mormon
market continue to arrive form Europe
A large number arrived at New York
on the 0th,-Swedes, English, and
Scotch.
John Davis, colorcd, was hanged
Friday at Smithville, n. C., for the
murder of Henry McDoific, colorcd, in
December last. The condemned man
admitted the killing.
II isa little singular, although no less
true, that one small but well-c"nstrnct-
ed tly will do more toward breaking up
a mans afternoon nap than the outdoor
racket of full brass band. Il Waterloo
Observer.
Hczckiah Dyer, farm laborer, was
found dead Thursday night by the road
side near Leonardstown, Md, with his
skull crushed in. His body was still
warm. Dyer and his brother had a
quarrel that afternoon.
Boston's official dog killer lassos his
victims with the skill of a frontiersman,
having taken lessons of Texas Jack
during the winter subsequently. lie
puts a little white powder on their
tongues, and they die i'll few seconds.
Laborers removing the debris of the
Southern Hotel at st. Louis exhumed
the skeleton of woman in the laundry.
The remains are supposed to be those
of Kate Lawler, one of the servants OF
the house, and have been lying where
found since the night of April IL, 1877,
when the hotel was burned.
A shin on the broad, boisterous and
open ocean needeth no pilot. But II
dare not venture on the placid bosom
of little river, lest it be wrecked by
some hidden rock. Thus it is with
life. IT'S not our open. exposed deeds
that we so much need the still voice OF
the silent monitor, as in the small,
secret. every day acts of our life.
This is the view taken of it by an in
fant of st. Joseph, Mo-: Little freddie
was undergoing the disagrccable opera
ton of having his hair combel by his
mother, and he grumbled at the man
euvre. "Why, Freddie, you ought
not to make such fuss. don't iuss
and cry when my hair is combed."
YES" replied the youthful party,
"but your hair amt hitched 10 yonr
head
While All Sing and Lee Ing, China
men. were walking on the street III
New York on Friday, the former lost
his pocket book, which woman behind
him picked mp and refused to return
All Sing seized the woman and iorcibly
took the book from her. The wolnan's 5
screams attracted crowd, when All
Sing drew knife and made Tor the
nearest person. Some one iii the crowd
| fired "A pistol, and the ball struck the
Chinaman in the left cheek bone. .Boili
| Cinnamon were arrested.
1t is all wrong TO let your church
choir go oil singing in The opera OF
.sPinatore" between SUNDAYS. y
dreadful thing recently happened on
This account at a California funeral.
The pastor, tall, white haired man,
much resembling an admiral, rose in
his pulpit and no sooner finished in a
sing song tone, the remark, ave miss
his presence in his usual haunts," than
the choir sprang TO their feet and shout
ed in return, "And SD do his sisters
and his cousins and his aunts."