The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-10-17
GENERAL NOTES.

The Princess Louise will sail for Eng !
land ON Saturday. She will return 10
canada for the opening of the Dominion1
Parliament. II, -, ''"
Mr.. Davis, The Republican candidate
ior governor OF Maine, lacks $50 votes
OF an election, instead Of the number
given in late issue.
Senator Blaine's family is a law low
ing one; his eldest son is practicipg
law already, and Young Mr.. Emmons
Biaine is attending the Harvard law
school.
II is very clear that sooner Or later
this country has got to have kind of
Indian who won't get mad when white
man steals his land Philadelphia
Times.
Pennsylvania justice was slow in
moving against the Molly Maguircs,
but ii has been merciless. The TWEEN
tieth of the gang has just been hung
since june. 1877, an average of one cv-
cry six weeks, and nearly as many more
are in State prison.
The nominal strength of I,ussia's ar
my is four millions, but she could not
march more than eight hundred thou
sand, and, exclusive of the Cossacks,
not more than two millions are to be
regarded as trained soldiers. The army
is fearfully addicted to drink.
Rich mines are reported in the conn
try of the Utes, and the whites want
them, while an Indian knows mining
raid signifies to them determination.
However rich the mines are, the ma
ton government should protect the In
dams in full possession, or pay equi-
tably, even generously for them.
The late Major Thornburgh is said to
have been one of the best marksmen on
the frontier. lie could break glass balls
with almost uncrring skill; and friend
relates that on once tossing nickel into
the air Thornburgh fired at II, and the
bullet luck the piece of money when
about fifteen feet from the ground.
Mr.. Kelley says, in his Troy speech,
that he thinks the Republican party has
made it clear that Mr.. Tilden attempted
to bride the electoral boards to give HIM
the presidency. Whatever may be his
personal feelings toward MIR. Tilden,
Mr.. Kelly is powerful Democratic
leader, and this is an interesting al
mission.-TN. Y. Tribune.
Mr.. Francis Parkman must prepare
for the sllngs and arrows of outrageous
fortune. The article on woman sui.
, frage in the last number of the Nortl
American Review, is to be answered il
the next number by Col. Higginson
Mrs. Howe, Mrs. Stanton, Mr.. Wendell
|, Phillips and Mrs. Stone-and answered
doubtless, very clcvcrly and spiritedly
, Besides being a stout fighter, Cete.
wayo appears TO be capable of sarcasm
I al never should have fought" he is re
ported as saying, "against such goot
! men as the English, who intended t,
9 take away my country and govern it g,
much better than ! could. They sho
! lis TO make us Christians. l ask par
don for shooting back at them"
E To boom, according to Webster, is t.
. crush with Violence" second, TO "mak
, q hollow sound or roar" Boom,
6 noun, is among other things hollow
: roar" Could any prccisian ask for
n more graphic term to describe the rus
= and hollowness OF political campaign
8 like the cry of the bittern,
4 blooming DER the sedgy shadows,
It as Longlcllow has it?-[Springficld Re
G publican.
J. Connecticut had narrow escape fror
II Pocassct tragedy the other day. On
. Hiram Reynolds, living in q suburb {
u Bridgeport, got the notion into his Graz
u head that he must sacrifice one of hi
l. children, and started for the schoo
II house. knife In hand, TO obey what L
o supposed to be the Divine will. Lucl
&c lily the neighbors stopped him on III
:. way, and lie is now safely lodged in IL
IL state asylum for the insane.
l. Cetewayo, the Zulu King, is rather
At handsome man. He has a SINGULAR
m dignified and stately air, tall, sinew
d. figure, good features, fearless glanc
lie beautiful teeth, head splendidly S,
T. upon his shoulders and a velvet ski
10 His attire is likewise impressive-a 1
II tablecloth of the ordinary red and gree
id pattern. His captivity does not secl
il to affect his spirits; he is perfect
n cheerful, has good appetite; cha
n pleasantly with his wardcns and enjo,
ID his daily walks.
IS The record of the evidence taken
10 DR.. l.. p. Blackburn's trial at Toront
+ Canada, in. 1864, for distributing i
- fected clothing throughout the Mort
e show that two witnesses, both of Sout
i, ern sympathies, testified that DIR. Blac
~ burn plotted to send President Linco
" suit of black clothes, infected Wi
III yellow fever, as present from u
u workingmen of Manchester" The
~ is unfortunately but too much reason
"a believe that this man is now govern,
ie of Kentucky.
Mt The other day, at Cincinnati we
ne ding, the prganist occupied the tin
previous to the advent of the bride al
,y groom by playing yarious voluntarie
r and just before they arrived at Il
m church door he struck into that famili
b. melody with the very familiar refrail
re "Trust her not, she's fooling thee
of with elaborate extemporaneous vari
ch tons. While he was hard at il, h
lc bridal party entered the church, but Il
ry professor, totally oblivious of the fac
ls- kept OH banging away until the brid
d, party was well on its way to tho alta
d. when he jumped into the weddil
1t, march with an emphatic suddennc
he that nearly took the wind ont of 4
Al Lal