Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-07-27
NOTE AND COMMENT.

Senator Frye of Maine thinks Congress
will adjourn early in September.
New South Wales has enough of the
Chinese and has passed stringent law
regulating their immigration.
Hon. Levi P. Morton will be one of the
attractions at the New England fair at
Worcester-provided he will go.
The Congregational Yearbook, to be
issued next month, will show that the
denomination has 127 more churches than
a year ago and has gained 2l ,205 in men,
bership.
The farmers of Crawford county, H.,
where chinch bugs abound, have a theory
that the pests can be starved out and so
have agreed to raise no more wheat,
barley or rye for three years.
Rutland is to have a big debate to-
night. when John D. Spellman, the
great, will take the protection side in a
public discussion of the tariff question
with DR.. Leverson of New York, a free
trader.
New York city folks find that of the
37l.6l9 steerage passengers landed at
Castle Garden last year over 10000
staid in the metropolis. Naturally they
howl vigorously for the restriction of
immigration.
The latest reports from the great flood
in Mexico are TO the effect that 2500 lives
were lost, while the railroad through the
district had its track damaged to the ex-
tent of Il million dollars and five million
acres of growing crops were destroyed.
The Senate has finally confirmed the
nomination of Melville w. Fuller of Chi
cago as chief Justice of the supreme
court. He is conceded to be a man of
ability and the charges of disloyalty dur
ing the war seem not to have been
proved.
Chewing toilet paper and candle grease
is the delectable sport into which mem-
bers of the upper classes compel fresh
men to enter at the United States naval
academy. as is shown by an inquiry now
in progress. About the same notions of
what constitutes wit are entertained in
all educational institutions, apparently.
Signs multiply that the Knights of La
Dor have lost their grip as an organiza-
ton and are fast going to pieces; official
returns show that the membership has
dwindled from over 100000 July /, 1856.
to about 100000 on the first of this
month, and the officers complain that
assessments on the members are paid
with reluctance if at all.
Rev. f. P. Roe, whose death at Corn
wall-on-the-HudsOn is announced, was a
prolific writer of mediocre novels. His
first was barriers Burned Away" sug-
gested by the Chicago fire and published
in 1872. He was graduate of Williams
college and the Andover theological SEM
mary, acted as chaplain during the war
and then preached at Highland Falls, n.
Y, till he gave up the ministry in 1874.
1t looks very much as if the general
government would shortly take super
vision of the telegraphs of the country
as it already has of the railroads through
the interstate commerce law. Congress
has lately passed law placing the tele-
graph lines operated by the land-grant
railroads under the control of the inter-
State commerce commission and provid-
ing penalties for disobedience to the COM
missions decisions. II all tclegraphs
were put under similar restraints we
should have a system with the advan-
tages and without the disadvantages of
a government telegraph.