The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-09-01

blind persons in Tennessee.
Gov. Luke Blackburn of he ,tuckv is
SAID to have worn a cream Dolcreh hat
since his conversion.
Mrs. Garfield has been suffering with
malaria, and Dir. Boynton has been to
Mentor to attend her
The Presby 'erian church in Texas,
according to the crnsus of 1882. f,n,-
up $4,000 members.
1t is estimated that nearly 10000
bushels of yellow flint cora are manu-.
featured into "hullcd corn in Boston
annually.
The number of commandments of The
Episcopal church in Massachusetts is
nearly $4,000, or n gain Of over 80 per
cent. since 1873.
Henry Yard Beecher hasn't hay lever
this year. He didn't find il ont, how
ever, nhiil lac failed 10 sneCZe in seven
languages before breakfast.
McLannan county, Texas, j. ont of
debt, has 81, 59l Ia her treasury, anh
the county tax for the current year j.
"% Car Ii na'M cSHo5H.feSy,,o VII, is
vate cottage At Newport, is very feeble
lie refuses to see any bnt the mot init
mate acqnaintanccs.
A rumor is going the rounds to the
effect that Gen. Robert Toombs of
Georgia will join the Methodist chur IA
and he baptized by Bishop Pierce.
a large gray rat is seen regularly tv.r,
morning walking wire across a street
in Rock Island. The wire lcaa. from Il
,lfy goals Store 10 Il restaurant
house was left standing ripht side
mp in The centre Of corn field by one
Ut the Iowa tornadOes, and nobody in
The neighbnrhnoi knew whose il las.
The first discovery Of gold in Siberia
was made AZ the beginning of the pres
ent century, and the gold annually
taken on of the mines OF that country
is estimated to be worth Sc 600, 900.
a stone weighing 80 tons is being
FURNISHED in Vera Cruz, and is TO serve
Whch' a nFmsr olhSf' is i isaaiNs
to he commenced shortly.
The Rugby colony in Tennessee, in.
stead of being on the wane, is sad to
be growing nicely. a large number al
people from Michigan will cast their
luck with the colonisis this fall.
The United States is fast becoming, il
il has not already ecnme, the first
wool-producing country in the world.
II il is second, il is second only to Aus
tralia, Of which wool is the largest pro-
duct.
Evidently the poultry interest in this
country needs to he promoted, at least
as far as the production OF eggs is con-
cerncd. During the last three months
we imported 1896, 2iG dozen eggs, val
ned at SlG5,55
Beautiful men are so scarce that
women will fight for us. Laura Mer-
win and Della Siilc OF Columbus, Ca,
went 10 war about one of the beautiful
men and clawed aud chawcd each other
almost 10 fragments.
! Philadelphia manufactures annually
! l2,5O0, 900 Of artificial teeth and tons
of tooth powder Allowing 90 teeth to
every person supplied vii ia false grind
ers, il will )e seen that Cps, 0GO people
are supplied from that city alone.
OF those killed by railroad accidents
in Great Britain last year by causes De-
yond their own control, the proportion
was To p ,050,435. The pr0pnrliom OF
the injured was 10 630,35l. The
totals were los passengers Killed and
l.s34 injured. and Of employees 59i
killed and a,ii5 ininrci.
II is said that "Dno" Wilson. WHOSE
matrimonial complications are beinre
the Massachusetts courts, is an inventor.
aud thai the money used bv him WAS
advanced by friends who have faith i'm
The utility of his discovery. His mys.
FERROUS weplih WAS u late sensation, ~
money Is generally o. people who do
not know everything abont their neigh
hors' affairs.
Apropos OF frontier manners Is an
! incident told by the Centnry. NJ
scene is laid at Knrlz,ille. a loo tn,vn
Oh seventeen saloons, one store and our
hole. A New York gentleman oot omt
OF The stage coach, aud entering ono or
ne salonns asked politely for A IitiIe
sherry IN wine glass. The harkeepcr
giafed al him for a moment. then
reached Tor six-shoOier, and pointing
II at The terrified traveller shonied:
NOW, tell YOU, tenderfpoi, Won taLo
whisky. You take il in Tia cum and
yonll like il. The stranger tool; ,he
whisky in the lin cup, asserted tLat il
was the best he ever drank. aud ,nadc
haste to get back TO the coach.