The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-04-08

Aphfnlng nv mhiet, WHICH he sold
whc6 living tor $500 francs. recently
brought i0o, 900 frsncs. ~ 81
Amilitary Gordon now surrounds 81. /
Petersburg, and. no one ia allowed to1
enter or leave the city. s7s
The Connecticut House passed a hill
declaring cider Intoxicating, and then
defeated a prohibition amendment to
the constitution. ILJls
IL Is officially announcedi that the
of Crown Prince Rudolph of
Austria, and the Princess Stephanje oil
Belgium, is fixed for the 10th Of May. h |
The cold weather and snow of the |
past winter in Montana killed twen- |
ty-five per cent. of the cattle and forty
per cent. of the sheep of the territory.
George Engle, aged eight years,
while playing tag at Hoboken, N. J.,
school, Friday, ran violently against
another boy, sustaining a fatal concus-
sion of the brain. '''i.l' 'aiil1p
The water In Baltimore ia SO bad that
spring water sell for five cents gallon
and isretailed on the street at two cents
for drink. During late rain storm
one farmer saved water enough to sell
for SIG.
| Commander Glass reports from
Sitka that the condition of the natives
of Alaska is improving. Distilleries
have been suppressed, schools estab-
lished and sanitary improvements
made with success. &c..
Since the disappearance of ice from
many of the ponds in Bergen and Pes
sale counties, N. j., il is found that the
fish have all died. 1t is supposed that
the thickness of the ice prevented the
water from being sufficiently oxygenat-
ed. yea ~ O. r.s'f p.7 ll
i The English people cling with such
tenacity to the use of the letter % in such
j words as harbor and favor that the Bank
of England recently refused payment of
IA draft because, in stating that 1t was
in favor Of 30 and so, the drawee had
spelt the word favor without a Il.
[ The prohibitory bill was defeated in
, the lower branch Of the Massachusetts
Legislature on Thursday. The provis-
, lion to submit the bill to a popular vote
. was first defeated by majority Of
three against it, and the bill was then
r rejected, seventy-three ayes 10 ninety
five nays. '-
The pyramid of Pueblo, in Mexico
? is larger than the great pyramid Of
l Cheops, Ia Egypt. The latter covers
only fourteen acres. while the Mexican
J one covers forty acres OF ground, and
was originally 600 feet high. 1t is made
of sundried brick, and is supposed tc
have been built 1000 years ago.
A shrewd villain at Konigsburg
Q Prussia, has been making money by
advertising for feminine correspondent
0 with view to matrimony. and Their
threatening to publish the letters receiv
4 ed by him unless the writer's paid hin
g to refrain. He was arrested at the pos
Q office while taking money thus extortet
4 out of letter.
!. Senator Voorhees, has been selected
I as one of the!orators at the unwilling o
the Farragut statue in Washington
voorhees, is the man who during tn,
: war spoke of Union soldiers as dog
y wearing collars marked GA. Lincoln.
y His selection as eulogist of one Of the
: noblest heroes of the war is an insul
: to every loyal soldier and sailor.
s When Chinaman dies on the home
ward passage from San Francisco I,
J. China his remains are embalmed by hi
! companions in simple but effectiv,
q method. A cash is cut in his neck, 81
b artery opened, and about two gallon
J. of arsenical solution injected into tn,
veins by means of hand pump. Th,
n artery is then tied up and the BODY
placed in box.
a Only one grandson of General Lafay
cite in the direct male line is now living
edmond de Lafayette, younger
q brother of the late Marquis. He is un
q married, and when he dies the nam,
will become extinct. The late Marquis
y Oscar de Lafayette was a sad and soil
tary man. lie made marriage of afiec
ton, but early lost his young wife ant
his child, and he never ceased to mourn
4 them. at
= The utmost precautions were takei
+, against disturbance during the progress
I of the procession which escorted thu
body of the late Car from the Winter
: Palace to its place of sepulture. TIL,
: police ordered most of the houses along
the route to be locked and barred ant
Q the keys to be handed over to them un
D til the cortege had passed. The process
sion itself was guarded on each side b.
. armed troops in single file, who march
ed with 1t over the whole distance.
. The fact that the Beers whipped thu
8 British badly on the very day that tn,
f terms of peace were signed recalls ,
D somewhat similar circumstance at the
3 close of the war OF 1912. The Boeri
D before Potchefstroom were in blissfu
D ignorance of the existence of the armis
ticc, as General Jackson was of thu
Treaty Of Client when he gave Paken
ham Hail Columbia at New Orleans
two weeks after 1t was signed. In III
dramatic ending the war in the Trans
vaal wound up In way consistent
with the theatrical effects that make iii
, three months history, read like chap
ter of romance.